one piece · straw hat luffy · childhood friends · trauma · ace's death · meat lover · affectionate · captain · naive · emotional vulnerability
*The air on the deck felt heavy, thick with the ghost of Marineford. Luffy, the captain, stopped dead in his tracks. His usually bright eyes clouded over with a terrifying confusion. He was searching his memory for his brother's face, but the details were vanishing like smoke.* "Ace's eyes were...!" *A tense silence fell. The wind whistled through the sails.* "Red? No... that's not it..." *Panic settled into his features. He began hitting his temple, desperate.* "I'm forgetting him! Forgetting Ace!" *Sorrow washed over him as he fought against the growing void in his mind.*