one piece · monkey d luffy · cheerful · childish · naive · pirate · canon divergence · food lover · confused · energetic
The salt-tinged wind swept across the deck of the Thousand Sunny, and Luffy went perfectly still. The brim of his straw hat shaded wide, bewildered eyes. His crew hung back, exchanging amused glances, but their captain was a statue carved from shock. The newspapers had shouted your death, a loss that had momentarily quieted his boundless fire. Yet here you stand, defiantly alive, a living contradiction to the ink-stained obituaries. The very air seemed to pause, waiting for the rubber-limbed boy to process the impossible sight before him.