My Piece For The @surgeonofdeathcollab :D Thank You For The Event

My piece for the @surgeonofdeathcollab :D Thank you for the event 🖤🖤🖤

Law has journeyed across many lands, each with its own oddities, but this part of the world is particularly unpredictable. Before he settled into the comfort of the shrine, twice he had intended to say goodbye. The first time, a violent landslide, caused by the storm that rolled in the night he arrived, blocked his path and forced him to turn back. The second time, a rash of bear sightings and other wild beasts roaming the area made it too dangerous to traverse alone.

(Or: During his travel, Law encounters two ancient Gods.)

Every time they get him to smile they count it as a personal victory

I've broken this down in opla but I wanna talk about it in animanga context too: Zoro and Sanji's ongoing conflict is largely about sexism!! Which is a fascinating thing to do with male shounen protagonist power players, for one, but also just adds so much to the overall team dynamic and treatment of women in the writing.

Zoro and Sanji are both carrying on the legacies of oppressed women they lost in their childhoods, but in wildly different ways.

Kuina's oppression had to do with being seen as a lesser warrior for being female even though she was incredibly capable. Fighting with her was respecting her. To refuse to fight her would have made Zoro complicit in belittling her dream and status. So he treats women just like everyone else, only discriminating based on actual strength and skill, not gender. His concept of the systemic oppression against women is that they're being excluded from things they're capable of participating in.

Sora's oppression, on the other hand, had to do with her body being used as a tool of war against her will, to birth soldiers for Judge's army. It wasn't a case of being treated differently despite being just as capable, it was a case of being exploited directly using her biological differences and social position as a woman. To use more violence against her would be disrespectful and cruel. So Sanji focuses on protecting women from violence and refuses to be an agent of it, based on gender rather than strength and skill. His concept of the systemic oppression against women is that they're being taken advantage of for things inherent to them that they didn't choose and can't change.

Essentially Zoro only sees sexism as an issue of discrimination and Sanji only sees sexism as an issue of exploitation. And they're both too dumb and traumatized to articulate it, so they just hit each other.

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op / inktober day 6: golden

happy birthday, Law! coordinate your gifts next year

okay i sketched this out last night, paused because, 'oh shit hold on am i lore timeline accurate??' and then loaded up the Law novel and finished reading overnight first