They Ended Up Both Crying

They ended up both crying

Sadly I'm stuck at work, and I say sadly bc I'm picturing and really want to write some fic about Shanks stumbling into a de-aged Mihawk and, of course, taking him to the rhp for the time being until they figure out how to solve the situation, bc he's not going to leave a kid in need, and he's not going to leave Mihawk. And mainly I want to write it bc I can imagine Mihawk being the absolute, worst menace to ever grace the rhp with his presence. Did you think that Luffy was a handful to deal with? Wait until the rhp have to turn the red force upside down bc they're not sure if Mihawk has been kidnapped by the marines / another crew / whatever threat or if he's just having a sulk in some random part of the ship bc Shanks didn't have time to 'duel' him (he didn't read well that Mihawk wanted attention) and now Mihawk is 110% convinced that he hates him.

(This could be very sad, very easily bc I imagine that Mihawk had a very crappy childhood with some trauma sprinkled on top of it, but it'd be interesting, Shanks having to figure out how to deal with kid! Mihawk when he knows like. Two details of Mihawk's childhood and just has vague suspicions about why he doesn't talk more about it, even with him)

And also bc I imagine kid! Mihawk being the type of kid that is very happy to be treated like an adult? Like, he doesn't have any idea of what's going on besides the fact that Shanks has said that they're going to help him, but Shanks gives him a map to (colour with crayons) 'plot the course of the ship' and he's glowing.

God the ways in which I just want Mihawk to go absolutely feral have been previously unknown to man. Like I need my man with hair slicked in sweat eyes deranged pupils dilated all the way to that first ring I need him so deranged he’s not even screaming words just something deep and guttural that you know once he gets out he’ll leave a trail of bodies and a Red Sea in just wake.

Ohhhhh very Chuck Shurely.

Like the Winchesters ind him and at first it’s like it this it? Is this the almighty god? A bored, vain and broken man? How human, how disappointing.

Throughout the series they are just as dissapointed in him as he is in the world maybe it would have just been better if he stayed lost.

The Seraphim & The Concept of Self

I wonder who picked the Seraphim's outfits cause at first glance when you only look at S-Hawk and S-Snake it feels like there's a standard uniform. then you see the whole group and there's definitely some individuality going on; like S-Bear just wearing a mini kuma outfit, S-Shark with the gi, my man Moria got a little suspender situation going on over there. S-mingo wearing a whole ass hawain shirt. So there's definitely some variety though they all incorporate white in some way. And I wonder if maybe they got some input into what they wore one of the only acts of "free will" they were allowed was choosing whether they wore shorts or long pants which is as adorable as it is sad.

Because think about the implications that they are dressed to the taste of their adult counterparts, right down to how doffy and mihawk like to open their shirts (except for S-Snake which thank god) but yeah what if it wasn't an allowance of free will but a test to see just how deep DNA ran. If it could influence something as simple as choice of clothing, just another fact for Vega punk to marvel at.

Or maybe the clothes were chosen by one of the Vega punks (I can imagine Shaka doing it) or one of the other various lab assistants. And it's just another way to get them to embody the warlords, to reinforce who they were cloned to be, impressing on them that they are not their own people, their lives are not their own. They are already predetermined; from what powers they get, to what weapons they use, even down to what clothes they wear. Everything reinforces that they are not people, just "better" "stronger" versions of someone else.

Either way, and It might have not have been purposely meant that way because I'm pretty sure Vega punk doesn't really register them as human (which is weird cause he treats stussy very humanly and a whole other can of worms seeing as they seem to be aware and possess a personality to some capacity) it's another way of dehumanizing them, reducing them to the people they are meant to become. They have no "free will" no illusion of choice; they have a predetermined destiny, a pre-determined order, there was never any room for choice even down to the shirts on their back.

I am very down with the idea that whenever Shanks comes to Visit him on Kuriagina Mihawk uses him like hired muscle

He works him like a dog, Shanks hasn’t even set two feet on the island and Mihawk has handed him a list of all the furniture that needs moving, the light bulbs (he has like 30 chandeliers) that need changing, the rooms that need repainting. Living in the ruins of a castle of a dead kingdom takes work. Could Mihawk do it? No he has a garden to take care off.🙄

Just the idea that Mihawk started a renovation project on his castle while Zoro was there as part of his “training” and Shanks shows up and really Shanks you’re just gonna stand there while the kid does all that heavy lifting Mihawk says as he sips his glass of wine.

Shanks of course is happy to do it. Benn, who he recruits cause there’s just somethings a one armed man shouldn’t do on his own, is of course disgruntled that he has once again been dragged into their weird foreplay.

Perona of course goes “I’m just a girl” 🥺. And of course when Mihawk is unmoved by this She huff and sets to tricking Zoro to do her share of the tasks as well.

She then proceeds to become the most heinous, unethical, inhumane work site manager to ever exist. All while wearing a glittery construction vest and bedazzled hard hat