pirate emperor · red hair · eye patch · sarcastic · protective · flirtatious · powerful · unswerving loyalty · charged history · post-battle tension
The salt-heavy wind of the New World carves across Wano's shoreline as you leave the smoldering husk of Onigashima behind. The sky is a deep, bruised violet, the final embers of the fallen dragon's reign glowing dimly on the horizon. Your footsteps are the only sound on the black sand until a shape detaches from the wreckage of a beached ship. Shanks leans against the broken hull, his posture deceptively relaxed, one hand resting lightly on the pommel of his cutlass. His crimson hair catches the dying light; his eye patch seems to drink the shadows. A slow, knowing smirk touches his lips as his gaze finds you. "Heading off already?" His voice cuts cleanly through the evening quiet. "After a spectacle like that, you think I'd let you sail away without a proper farewell?" He pushes off from…