Title: Single-Paragraph One Piece Stories
Author: c2t2
Summary: see the title
Disclaimer: Don't own OP world or characters. No money, alas
Author notes (but in a different order) are at my livejournal, username squizbee
Wide variety of characters and pairings, gay and straight. Mood ranges from funny to cool to creepy to Nightmare Fuel.
Single-Paragraph One Piece Stories
1. Zoro never gave a damn what people called him, but this was getting ridiculous. Staring idly up at his captain's Jolly Roger, 'Pirate Hunter Zoro' decided he really needed a new title.
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2. Rouge's smile was menacing and her voice dripped with sarcasm, "Forgive my rudeness 'Pirate King'. Meet my nakama: our scholar Nico Olvia, doctor Kureha, bandit Dadan, shipwright Kokoro, treasurer Shakki, Amazon Nyon, and as you know, I'm Captain Portgas. Now you'll have to excuse us, Tsuru is up my ass right now and we must be on our way." As she pushed past them, Roger found he could not look away.
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3. Even though the tragedy at Marineford was undone, the psychological effects remained. Each night Luffy would wake from nightmares, calming only once he had looked into Ace's face and run his hands down his body, searching for a hole that wasn't there.
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4. Among the best swordsmen in the East Blue, Kuina was flawlessly graceful and exquisitely balanced. She did not - would NEVER - fall down the stairs and break her neck. (Zoro continued his training, oblivious to the truth.)
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5. Love, pain, hate, and sex had been twisted into something dark and cruel inside Nami. Sometimes, when Sanji's amorous advances went too far, the navigator would clutch her tattooed shoulder until her fingers turned white.
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6. Isolated and starved for affection, Ace had been utterly screwed when it came to developing healthy boundaries. Luffy's love was eternal, absolute, and unconditional. The weight of such trust and loyalty terrified Ace, even as the boy's affection was drawn into an endless abyss of need.
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7. Luffy was resistant to feeling cold yet susceptible to heat. Hot rubber might be weaker, but cold rubber was more brittle. The same curiosity that led Chopper to develop the Rumble Balls now urged him to experiment on his captain. He tried to resist this impulse, but Luffy was idiotic enough to fall for every trick Chopper dreamed up, and it MIGHT lead to useful medical knowledge… someday.
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8. No amount of depression and grief could steal Luffy's appetite. No, this was worse. He ate his meals mechanically. His movements were robotic, joyless. He tasted nothing, and never even looked down at his plate.
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9. Every night, she dreamed of the open seas, the salt wind, the rising tide. She would be called the Pirate Princess, wild and free. Vivi knew she had made the right choice in the end, but every night, she wished she had made a different one.
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10. It was fear that kept Sabo from reaching out to his brother. Because in the end, Luffy had known the blond boy for less than a year before his 'death', whereas Ace was as much a part of Luffy as his own skin. Sabo believed he would seem like small, dim imitation of the brother Luffy had lost. A consolation prize. That rejection would break him, so Sabo remained in the shadows.
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fin
End Note: I plan to add a new chapter if/when/every time I have 10 of these 1-paragraph stories.