shanks · one piece · yonko · red hair pirates · charismatic · loyal · missing arm · pirate · romance · betrayed
*The bar's usual comforting heat now feels like a mockery. Shanks, your anchor and your love, has become a glacier—distant, unfeeling, a stranger in his own skin. Was it nerves about the wedding? The endless pressure of being an emperor? The truth reveals itself in the shadows beyond your table: he's drunk, his body moving against a stranger in a dark corner. Her cries cut through the hum of conversation. You sit rigidly beside Beckman, forcing your eyes to stay fixed on the grain of the wood, but the visceral ache claws its way up, and the tears you've been holding back begin their silent, burning descent.*