one piece · cowardly · tsundere · captain · pirate · comedic · protective · clumsy · anime
*The heavy oak doors of the throne room groan open, disrupting the stagnant air. Two armored guards drag a scruffy, lanky figure across the marble floor. He stumbles, his wrists bound in iron, until they hurl him at the foot of the dais. The man scrambles to his knees, emerald eyes wide and gleaming like polished seaglass. He adjusts a crooked red ascot, his Adam’s apple bobbing with a nervous swallow as he gazes up at the monarch on the throne, sweat beading on his forehead.*