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One Piece Mermaid AU!
Ace has a nice hat.
＊Genderbend warning, fem!Luffy
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the world if they made the ace novels into the next op movie…
some uncoloured, facing the left, ¾ facial position op sketches 👍
I honestly find it kind of funny that when you read the novels for Ace we find out that Deuce left home because of having bad grades in medical school and instead was wanting to be a writer by adventuring out to sea. Yet in some twist of fate he ends up being a doctor anyway
Honestly I have mixed feelings about this.
Because it is both funny but also sad and sweet at the same time.
He was a medical school drop out. He left his family, his past, his name, even his face behind because of the disappointment his family had in him and his dream. I’m sure he has a lot of hurt feelings tied to the field of medicine. Especially if his family were doctors, they don’t seem to be the kindest people to him.
I’m sure he left because he felt he could never measure up. He could never match them in skill. Never live up to the expectations and never be excepted for dreaming something different.
So he leaves it all behind to chase his dream.
And almost immediately dies.
If Ace hadn’t arrived of Sixis could Duece have found a way off?
But that doesn’t matter because Ace comes. And sure it’s a rough start but in the end Deuce leaves with the person who will change his life (whether you see them as romantic or not Ace changed his life forever) even giving Masked Deuce his new name. And he gives him the opportunity to chase his dream. To seek adventure and write his novel. And Deuce has to be so excited
But being a pirate is dangerous. People get hurt. And suddenly Deuce is in a position where instead of knowing the least about Medicine he knows the most. And that has to be terrifying for him. He’s a medical school DROP OUT he shouldn’t be trusted the patients! And yet here Ace is trusting him with his life and the life of their crew.
It has to be equal parts touching and terrifying to have that trust. Trust he feels like he can’t live up to. His family never would have believed in him like this, and yet they were also right not to do so. (In his point of veiw) a drop out should have patients.
Yet when they join the Whitebeards he is put under Marco in the medical division. If he was truly a failure as a medic they would have moved him. So either his skills improved with the Spades to the point where he only needed some guidance from the Whitebeards or he was never truly a failure he felt he was in the first place. And maybe he just needed a different environment to learn in. Maybe the Whitebeards were better at teaching then his previous school. But either way there has to be so much resentment and self doubt in that field.
But also he left being a doctor behind to be an author. It’s his dream. Yet he puts it on the back burner for Ace. For their crew(s). I’m sure he still writes but that’s not his title on the boat. Imagine if Zoro’s goal was to be the world’s greatest swords man but he was known as the watchman because of how much time he spent in the crows nest. If that’s the only way the crew referred to him. How enemy’s saw him. Not the swordsman of his dreams but the job he did for the crew. It’s hard to sacrifice for the people around you. Especially with something that Deuce must have trauma with.
It’s so fascinating and I wish more people would dig into him. He’s a great doctor. But his history with it and his conflicting dream make him fascinating to me.
I was re-reading the Ace Novel and these lines are actually insane??? The people who haven't read the novels truly are missing out...
Sorry if the text is small, Deuce talks a lot and I didn’t not feel like (read: was to lazy to) drawing any more panels
Deuce: Ace- do you think it’s a devil fruit?
Ace: I dunno, lemme check-
Deuce: How?
Ace: *drowns*
the history book on the shelf
acey-deucey!
still thinking abt the fact that both one piece and twisted wonderland have a pair of characters named ace and deuce… twst au where everything is exactly the same except ace+deuce are the one piece characters. yuu is suffering™️
actually I'm still not done with this crossover
I imagine Deuce has to physically wrestle Ace into wearing a shirt most days lol
even more random eyecatcher-style icons!
free to use with permission + credit!
(alt versions under the cut)
a whole bunch more of these guys :3
(individual characters under the cut)
the world if they made the ace novels into the next op movie…
an AU of @orange-artist's ASL god AU where Deuce is also a god b/c I'm rotating him in my mind at all times
some notes about him under the cut: (this idea has consumed my brain)
His hair changes color based on the sky near him when in god form, it's usually just "sky blue" in human form
When he gets especially emotional it sometimes affects the sky around him
He's the god of loyalty/devotion due to his role "supporting" the other celestial gods
However, he's closest to Astrus as he was essentially "born" from the spaces between the stars
He's basically the patron god of first mates - when the Roger Pirates landed on Raftel, he was drawn the most to Raleigh
He's also the god of storytelling (because of canon Deuce's dream to write a book)
Some of his powers include telekinesis-like spatial manipulation and controlling clouds (ex. the different types on Sky Islands)
His and Ace's first meeting went like: "Oh man, sailing around like a human is way harder than it looks, I can't believe I'm already shipwrecked" -> "There's another person trapped here? I'd better help I guess" -> *gets closer and makes eye contact* "IT'S YOU!?" for both of them
considering doing a deuce cosplay… maybe someday….