At Work And I Just Saw That Someone Lives On TRAFALGAR ROAD. Guess Its Time To Move!!

at work and I just saw that someone lives on TRAFALGAR ROAD. guess it’s time to move!!

I drew a thing

Writing some fic prompts, I thought about one where Corazon lives, but decides to hide. And Law goes to live his life as a pirate, but entrusts Cora with a closed box that he tells Cora not to open, just take care of it.

Cora agrees and lives his life as normal, just receiving visits from Law, until the day Law takes Doffy down.

He returns to Cora, requesting him to open the box. Because he has nothing to fear anymore.

That's when Cora finds Law had left his heart by Cora's side.

So real for that. I love this book with all my heart and soul (just started the setting sun tday)

I hated this book.

I mean that in positive way. The book is an excellent journey into spiraling madness but there is no neutral 3rd party distance and objectivity. Dazai pulls you into his own personal hell for you to live it with him.

It is an uncomfortable experience.

I found myself deeply empathizing with the protag, Oba who in the midst of alienation and inability to connect with/relate to family puts on a mask to make himself more palatable to others and is utterly consumed by it. Eventually he cannot discern a self outside of the mask and loses his sense of agency.

His behavior is vile and possibly evil but also deeply tragic as all his choices are attempts to escape his despair. I felt like i was to hate him but its difficult because Oba and his trainwreck of an existence is so relatable. In many ways i found Dazai reflecting my own anxieties and self loathing back at me. Relatable enough to be more annoyed at Oba for dragging down others than I was sad for his suffering or angry at a world that generates such alienation.

Like I said, it is an uncomfortable experience.

Ultimately this a book about social death. It is about man who is drowning in misery that you cannot save because he will drag you to death along with him

op dumps again (don’t get bored i have a lot—especially law)

got the shipping meme from twt

It makes me laugh a bit when casual One Piece fans complain about how weak Law's crew is because if you hyperfixated on his character even a little bit you'd know they're that way by design.

He most likely purposefully recruited sensible people with no ego issues to compel them to show off & put themselves in danger. Why do you think Luffy & the strawhats stress him out so much? His ship is a submarine so they can avoid running into other pirates & marines for as long as possible. They're all medics which historically do not train to be on the front lines of battles. He didn't even let them get involved in his dangerous revenge plot despite them begging to join him. He literally opted to outsource the labor by forming an alliance instead of putting his crew in danger. Then he proceeded to send them into hiding should something go wrong and Doffy went after them in retaliation.

Law doesn't want his crew to fight! He wants them to sit back and let him do all the heavy lifting and just provide support. He can't and won't lose anyone else if he can fucking help it! The Heart Pirates are not there to give him physical strength y'all!! They exist for the sole purpose of companionship & emotional support!!!

They're basically hired friends. Which makes what happened to them in egghead all the more tragic. Law couldn't stop his life being spared by loved ones yet again. I just know he isn't even the least bit ok right now.