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Kobylu Week Day 3 - Angst!
Thinking about queerplatonic Kobylu who don’t let their opposing careers get in between them. Thinking about scribbled letters brought directly to Admiral Koby’s desk, short and enthusiastic often with some extra notes tacked onto the end by another Strawhat (usually Nami giving coded hints to their whereabouts and activities, she claims it’s so she can add to Luffy’s debt and no one dares dispute it). Thinking about shy compliments and awkward tangents read aloud at the dinner table of the Sunny as Luffy shovels food into his mouth, only pausing long enough to let out a contagious laugh at each inside joke.
Thinking about coincidental run-ins with the Marines on what feels like every other island. Thinking about painfully obvious disguises and unfashionable civvies. Thinking about held hands swinging between them as they leave a small restaurant they nearly made bankrupt, loud chatter and more laughter mixed with heartbreakingly casual compliments, the kind that make Koby’s heart stop in his chest just for a moment.
Thinking about no staying the night, no kisses exchanged, no goodbyes. Just I believe in you and not strong enough to catch me yet and a hug so easy and steady it’s like taking a breath.
Thinking about love, in whichever way they want it. Thinking about love that feels like the freedom to wander and the security of being able to return home whenever they want. After all, we don’t love the sun any less for leaving at night
Queerplatonic Kobylu doodles
Hi! Here is my first prompt fulfillment for the @onepiece-fight event.
This story is a rewriting of the moment Koby and Luffy part ways in episode 8 of the One Piece Live Action. Except, in my story, it ends with a kiss.
Warning for One Piece Live Action spoilers
Click here to read it.
this image possessed me and i had to draw it
Coby leaning to the bounty poster on the wall: Oh Luffy, we're really in it now
what training with monkey d garp does to a mf
from this
ASL+U Alice in Borderland AU!!
loads more lore for the AU under the cut!!!!
♠ACE
Ace entered the Borderlands alone, but soon teamed up with Sabo after seeing his skills in ♦ games. He’s aware that Sabo is probably using him for his strength, but he feels confident that he could take him if he tried anything. (Whether this is true remains to be seen.) Quick to anger, Ace has been fired from multiple jobs for insulting customers, but his temper proves its worth in keeping him away from untrustworthy ♥ players. Despite being skilled in many different forms of martial arts, Ace tends to fight dirty, which often catches opponents by surprise in ♠ games. He was arrested several times for suspected arson, and while the claims were never proven, his go-to weapons in the Borderlands include a lighter, and later, a makeshift flamethrower. While initially slow to trust, once he is comfortable around the others he becomes an overprotective and even doting big brother, not that he’d ever admit it.
♦SABO
Sabo entered the borderlands with a few of his co-workers, and was immediately thrown into a ♥ game with only one survivor. (It’s okay, he didn’t really like them anyway.) Initially, he teamed up with Ace to cover for his own weaknesses - while he’s decently fit, many ♠ games require athletics even beyond his level - but he unwillingly began to get attached. Sabo has a special knack for noticing the tricks or loopholes in ♦ and ♥ games, making him an extremely valuable player to work with. An investigative journalist before the Borderlands, he specialized in exposé articles, though many never got published due to companies paying the newspaper to keep quiet. He understands the risks of getting attached to other players, but all the same he can’t stop himself from caring for the others to the point that he’d probably trade his life for theirs, despite being a player who’d usually do anything to survive.
♣LUFFY
Luffy met both Ace and Sabo in a ♣ game that required players to work in groups of three. They tried to ditch him after the game, but were unsuccessful, and eventually decided to keep him around for his skills. While he seems incredibly trusting, Luffy has a keen eye for when someone is actually trustworthy, and survived several ♥ games on his own despite other players trying to take advantage of him. He is incredibly athletic and skilled at ♠ games as well, but his true strength is his ability to bring groups of people together and help them trust each other, even if it’s just for a short time. Luffy’s cheerful attitude despite the situation endears him to Ace and Sabo quickly, and they both find themselves getting attached to him. In the process of this, the two of them also begin to trust each other for real, although they try to deny this at first.
♥UTA
Uta is an incredibly famous idol known for her cheerful, hopeful personality. In reality, she’s merely playing a role she knows the audience loves the most, and she’s actually envious of those types of happy people. (Sometimes, she secretly wishes she was really like them.) In the Borderlands, Uta’s attitude serves her well, as does her fame, and she’s tricked many other players into doing hard work for her. The poker face of her preppy facade is another thing that makes her so skilled at ♥ games, and she’s much smarter than she lets on, playing up her attitude even more in ♦ games to goad opponents into making mistakes. Uta was saved by Luffy in a ♥ game when she was almost killed by a dealer she thought she was controlling, and under the guise of owing him, she travels with ASL for a little while. However, her plans of sacrificing the trio to clear more games are derailed almost immediately by Luffy’s endless optimism.
OTHER PLAYERS
♠KOBY
Koby was initially rather meek, despite having decent physical skills and having taken self-defense lessons for years (in an attempt to stop his bullies). However, after a chance encounter with Luffy, Koby develops his self-confidence and teams up with a group of other players including Helmeppo(♦) and Hibari(♣), realizing his abilities as a skilled ♠ player.
♣LAW
Law is the head surgeon of a prestigious hospital, and he and many of his co-workers were transported to the Borderlands at the same time. They formed a tight-knit team who all trust each other deeply. While Law is good at ♦ and ♥ games, his role as the head of the hospital group and skill at planning and directing the team means his true specialties lie in ♣ games.
♦KIDD
Kidd, despite his rough appearance, is actually an incredibly skilled engineer and one of the smartest ♦ players in the Borderlands. That’s not to say he isn’t also incredibly fit, though most of the fighting is left to his partner Killer(♠). He lost an arm trying to dismantle a piece of game tech, but he built a prosthetic and has continued trying to shut the games down.
♥BONNEY
Bonney, at only 12 years old, is possibly the youngest player still alive in the Borderlands. Unintentionally, because of her age, more cynical players will sometimes sacrifice themselves to keep her alive. She carries this guilt with her, but doesn’t let it affect her worldview - her strong, trusting attitude makes her surprisingly skilled at ♥ games, and she’s no slouch at ♣ either.
♠KOALA
Koala is a karate instructor who mainly stuck to herself after losing her previous group to a particularly brutal ♥ game. She has a particularly strong hatred for the game masters and wants nothing more than to give them a good beating. When Sabo gets separated from his group by the ♠K, she saves him and eventually joins his group when they reunite.
♦DEUCE
Deuce is a medical student who took to hiding his face in an attempt to “re-invent” himself in the Borderlands. His skills as even a trainee doctor are invaluable, and he meets Ace in a ♣ game and eventually joins his group to help with ♦ games. Once he escapes the Borderlands, he plans to write a novel about his experiences, though he doubts anyone would read it.
THE STRAWHATS
I’m sure you’ve noticed that none of the Strawhats are listed here! That’s because Luffy meets them when he is thrust into yet another life-threatening accident after the Borderlands, and is pulled back into another, albeit smaller game. As the only person there who has experience with the games, he manages to keep them alive and the crew becomes close friends once they escape again. (After Ace, Sabo, and Uta beat Luffy half to death for scaring them like that.)
♦: Usopp, Chopper, Robin
♠: Zoro, Sanji, Franky
♣: Vivi, Jinbe
♥: Nami, Brook
If I could I would write all my kobylu headcanons but alas I’m a shitty story writer 🥲
Here’s a thought,
So we all know koby is a shy, anxious guy who stutters when put on the spot but what if underneath all that he’s actually someone who looks hot asf when he’s angry and when he gets serious and stuff. what if he also gets jealous easily but won’t show it cause he does want to seem like an asshole to the person he likes but he will death stare the person his crush is talking to and when they turn around to see why the person their talking to suddenly looks afraid he goes back to looking like the stuttering flushing mess he is
This is just a thought and like something from one of my headcanons
I need me some more kobylu fanfics where they find out they’re reincarnations of Nika and a slave Nika fell in love with when he saved him
then the person Nika saved would also have the same name as Coby
Hey so I know it’s been a while🧍♀️…
BUT I AM IN DESPERATE NEED OF SOME KOBY BEING SHANKS SON (OR DAUGHTER I DON’T CARE WHAT IT IS) FANFICTION LIKE I HAVE AN ADDICTION FOR THAT RIGHT NOW!!!!
LIKE SOMEBODY ANYBODY PLEASE MAKE A FANFIC OF THIS PLEASE I BEG 😭🙏🙏
Day 1 of Kobylu week (I started writing his name with k now)
