The Captain's Dilemma
Ch.1 The Navigator's Plan
AN: Another new story! Boy I really got to update the stories I haven't touched in awhile...
I want to hear your guys preferences, do you guys prefer quantity or quality? What I mean by that is, do you guys want me to post as soon as possible, or do you guys want me to take my time with each chapter? I mean I can go either way, though I like to post as soon as possible, so a LuNa story shows up in the updated list XP
Anyways...Enjoy!
Inspirational music: Sia - Alive
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"Luffy's nakama!" Bartolomeo cried aloud once he caught sight of the other Strawhats. Through teary eyes he could discern the other Strawhats, mingling with the group he had become acquainted with. Unfortunately, seeing all of the Strawhats at once, he fainted with tears silently running down his face.
"Who's that shitty bastard?" Sanji asked while pointing his cigarette towards the crying mess on the ground.
"Oh! He is a friend of ours!" Luffy exclaimed as he began taking backward steps away from his nakama. "Come on guys! Come check out the new bounties! Shishishishi!" Luffy laughed as he waved towards his nakama to follow him. One by one, each of the Strawhats that had been separated entered the glorified room projecting the bounties. All except the two most incompatible people of the crew.
"Move out the way dartboard!" Zoro yelled as he attempted to force his way inside the door frame.
"What? My bounty didn't go up at all!" Chopper complained as he frowned at his new wanted poster.
"Ladies first!" Sanji replied as he began shoving the swordsman through the door. With the green haired man's pride on the line, Zoro pushed against him.
"Chopper you're just going to have to try even harder next time" Luffy advised while looking down at the reindeer with a slight frown.
"Then go first!" Zoro sheathed as he successfully got a foot behind the cook. With a great shove, Zoro forced the blond through the door, onto the wooden floor.
"Yohohohoho! They used my concert poster!" Brook exclaimed, as he marveled his current bounty.
"Why you shitty bastard...!" Sanji started as he looked back up, though all he found was a vacant door.
"Another bounty?" Nami complained when she saw her poster. "Well at least my new bounty is cute" she mused as she looked over the rest of them.
"Oi ero cook" Zoro called out in front of him.
Sanji's head turned towards his antagonist, "What do you want shitty bastard?" Sanji asked as he got to his feet, dusting the dirt of his dress pants.
"Look here" Zoro advised, as he pointed towards two different bounties. When Sanji finally got a better look at what he was pointing towards, his jaw dropped. Though his dumbfounded state was eclipsed by a fiery rage.
"HOW THE HELL!" Sanji erupted as he turned towards the sniper lying about one of his many fables. "Why the hell is your bounty higher than mine!" Sanji demanded as his eyes set ablaze with hate and jealously.
Usopp frantically put his hands up, trying to reason with the satanic figure looming over him, "Hold up! Hold up! Maybe it was a m-"
"It's because you're weak" Zoro interjected causing the hellish creature to stop suddenly.
Pulling his foot away from Usopp's tempting face, Sanji turned towards the bored swordsman. "With that logic you must be a pretty princess Marimo" Sanji reasoned with a smirk.
Zoro held his grin despite the insult, "I don't know curly brow, you're the only one who might be a princess" he suggested while pointing to his poster. With a scowl Sanji stepped up closer to the paper, swatting his finger away. Once his eyes focused on the paper, he stared at the wording in disbelief.
"Only alive?" Sanji read aloud as his features turned white as the truth became revealed.
"So you are a princess!" Zoro mocked as he broke into a large smile, something he rarely did since Sanji joined the crew.
"Shut the hell up moss head!" Sanji retaliated while briefly spinning towards the satisfied swordsman. Though his anger quickly became secondary as he turned back towards the poster. Ripping it off the wall he traced his fingers over the words 'only alive'. He kept reading the line over and over again, each time his face grew more pale. With a unexpected fury, Sanji began ripping apart the paper. Within seconds, the poster pieces drifted to the ground as though it had never existed at all.
"Do you know why it only says wanted alive Sanji?" Luffy asked while approaching the still figure.
Nodding in agreement Usopp added, "Yeah we talked about it coming over here! Do you have something going on with Big Mo-"
"No you shitty bastard!" Sanji sheathed while turning back towards the terrified sniper. Taking a deep sigh, he took a smoke out of his front pocket. "It's a long story…" Sanji started, while lighting one of his cigarettes.
"Boring" Zoro yawned as he leaned back in his chair. Putting his hands behind his head he looked lazily over towards the irritated cook. "Please tell your story...princess Sanji" Zoro ended as he closed his eyes.
Glaring at the napping figure he continued, "since the shitty moss baby is asleep, I guess now is a good time to talk about it."
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"What?" the whole crew exclaimed except for a sleeping swordsman and a hungry captain.
The navigator had belli signs in her eyes, as she made her way over towards Sanji. "How much money does your family have?" she asked warmly.
Briefly looking over the swooning cook's shoulder, she could discern that the young captain momentarily stopped eating. Though he quickly resumed his assault on all the food that was available.
"Nami-swan!" Sanji mused over and over again, Nami barely noticing that he had stopped his antics. "Unfortunately I don't have any money" he admitted as he looked away. "I gave it all up" Sanji recalled as he took a puff of his cigarette.
"Your family is bound to have a lot of money!" Nami reasoned as the shape of belli returned in her eyes. "Maybe if you go back to them y-" she started. Stopping when she heard her captain bellow aloud.
"Let's go to Wano Country!" Luffy demanded as he squeezed his way out of his seat. "Nami get us there!" he ordered as he waddled his way towards the door.
"I am glad Luffy-senpai ate all our food!" Bartholomo cheered as tears of joy came to his eyes.
"I think it's best if we drop it" Sanji suggested, as he followed the lead of the plump shaped boy.
Nami silently watched, as Sanji kicked Luffy's round body through the door accompanied by a laughing swordsman. 'Today's the day of the plan' Nami remembered as she took a deep breath to calm herself. With quiet steps she followed the boisterous crew back onto their ship. When lunch was finally called and everyone was settled down to eat, Nami made her move.
'BOOM!' the sound of someones fist against the wooden table resonated.
Everyone stopped what they were doing, watching the navigator get out of her seat. Though her interruption didn't stop Luffy, as he continued to indulge in the splendor before him. "Alright everyone I have an announcement to make!" Nami proclaimed as she made her way towards the head of the table.
"What is it Nami-swan?" Sanji asked with heart's in his eyes. Ignoring his comment, she stopped directly behind the head of the table, whom Luffy was obliviously eating away.
"I am going to become a mother" Nami announced confidently. Everyone's jaws dropped simultaneously except for the observant raven haired women, and the hollow leg captain.
Zoro was the first to recover, immediately giving her a look of disgust. "Ahh so you were being a harlot. Go figure" Zoro scuffed as he reclined in his chair.
"DON'T TALK TO NAMI-SWAN LIKE THAT!" Sanji erupted as he lunged forward with a fiery kick. The immense attack was only an inch away from his face, only to be fended off by an unsheathed sword.
"You can't have a baby on a ship! It would be super dangerous sis!" Frankie reasoned.
"A kid in the new world?" Usopp cried aloud, picturing all the dangers and perils they would soon face.
"You can have a baby as long as I get to see your panties! Yohohohoho!" Brook cheered, only to get decked in the skull by the furious cook.
"Wait! Don't you need to have a male to make a baby?" Chopper interjected, which caused the huge commotion to briefly die down.
"You are right Chopper!" Nami replied sweetly with a large grin.
Sanji erupted into his swooning dance as he begged, "Pick me Nami-sw-...!"
"That's why I am choosing Luffy to be the father" she announced, while resting her hands on his shoulders. The whole room broke into a tremendous silence, as all eyes watched the Strawhat captain. Luffy's eyes immediately bulged, as they became filled with something he had never experienced before. Slowly placing the piece of meat back on the table, he tried turning his body to go. Though he felt the strong grip she had on his shoulders, preventing him from leaving. 'I am dead' he figured as the foreign feeling finally took over.
"You have no choice in the matter" Nami whispered softly into his ear. He tensed up even more as he tried to hold himself still. He shot pleading looks to his nakama, who just stared wide eyed at him in return. "You have something that I want…" she informed him while seductively biting the side of his ear.
Not being able to hold it back any longer, he fled with his life. With lightning speed he was out of her grip yelling, "never!" all the while frantically throwing his hands up in terror.
"What the fuck…" Zoro mouthed, still trying comprehend what had just occurred.
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AN: I just wanted to say something that may or may not make your day. So a couple of days ago I went on google to see which One Piece pairings were the most popular. Do you know which one was the most popular? Consistently across the board it is LuNa...by a landslide. Curious I set up an experiment testing to see which pairings were constantly popular. I lined up the most popular pairings of Luffy and Nami (excluding Yaoi). I set up several different trials, and recorded the scores based on how constantly they came up. The trial orders as followed: 1. male female, 2. female male 3. male x female 4. malexfemale (I left out several others: female x male and femalexmale, and the pairings abbreviations, ex. LuNa). The results were...staggering.
1. For the first test - male female - the most consistently popular pairing was Luffy and Nami at 1,620,000 results, next was Law and Nami at 1,160,000 and third was Zoro and Nami at about 1,000,000. Other popular pairings fell shy of the 1,000,000 range (for the most popular pairings), so it can be assumed that on average pairings are within the 900,000-1,000,000 range . The LuNa pairing is roughly 460,000 results over the next highest pairing, and about 620,000 results away from the mean (est based off of top of range). For Nami's main pairing, Luffy makes up about 30.7% of all pairings. Excluding Law because that one doesn't make any sense, out of: Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Ussop, Luffy makes up about 38% of the pairings to come up. For Luffy's main pairings, Nami makes up about 46.4% of the pairings. An interesting note to say is that Hancock only comes up roughly 16.3% of the time.
2. For the second test - female male - the most consistent pairing was once again Luffy Nami at 1,750,000 results, the next closest was Zoro and Nami at 1,380,000 and third was Sanji and Nami at 1,290,000. Other pairings (female male) were consistently slightly higher than the male female input in most causes. The LuNa pairing is about 370,000 results higher than the next most popular pairing. For Nami's main pairing, Luffy makes up about 26.1% of all pairings. Excluding Law once again, Nami's pairings involving Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Ussop, Luffy makes up about 32.4% of all pairings that come up. For Luffy's main pairings, Nami makes up about 48.7% of all pairings. Interesting note, Hancock only shows up 14.4% of the time.
3. For the third test - male x female - the highest results were Luffy and Nami at 910,000 results, surprisingly Luffy and Robin come in second with 776,000 and third being Law and Nami at 750,000. Unlike the other test, most popular pairings stayed within the 500,000 range. The LuNa pairing is about 410,000 results above the mean. For Nami's main pairings, Luffy came up about 30% of the time. Excluding Law, Luffy makes up about 38.6% of all pairings. For Luffy's main pairings Nami comes up about 33.3% of the time. Hancock comes up much more significantly this time at about 21.9%
4. Lastly for the fourth test - malexfemale - Luffy and Nami once again come out in first with about 252,000 results, Sanji and Nami have about 150,000 and in third zoro and nami have roughly 100,000 results. Interestingly enough, some pairings such as Luffy/Vivi, Law/Nami, Luffy/Hancock, and Luffy/Robin drop off significantly in this test. This may be a direct result of a lack of literature (fanfictions) being produced by these pairings. As a result the mean of the pairings is much lower (compared to the outliers) of the other test. The LuNa pairing sits at about 200,000 above the mean. For Nami's pairings, Luffy comes up about 47.7% of the time. Excluding Law would hardly make any difference as only 5,340 results show up. For Luffy's main pairings Nami shows up at a dominating 73.8% of the time. Hancock comes in at a much smaller percent at about 14.3%
If Yaoi were to be considered in this test, many of the pairings would become obsolete (ex. zoro/nami, sanji/nami etc). The only pairing to stay on top of these pairings consistently are the Luffy and Nami pairing. Except in the case of male x female, in which luffy and zoro tops it. Another key factor that must be taken into account is the fact that many results are omitted. For example for this year LuNa has created 410,000 results (male female); however, following this strictly, that means that the other 1,230,000 results would have been made for the past 15 years or so. Those numbers simply do not add up, that means that there is much more content than what these web searches provide. This means that for the pairings that have been around for awhile, their results are skewed as many of their searches are emitted. For example you will probably not run into a website from 2003 talking about LuNa, you are more likely to visit a page within the past 5 years, which is what google purposely does.
Results of the experiment. Taking the tests in the experiment into account, the pairing involving Luffy and Nami have the most results at 4,532,000 this eclipses the next most consistent pairing by nearly 1.5 million results (excluding Yaoi). With popular pairings with Nami, Luffy makes up nearly 30% of all pairings. Without Law, Luffy makes up about 36.4%. With these values, we can safely predict that Nami's most predominant straight pairing is with Luffy. With that being said, we can also predict that 1/3rd of all pairing content involving Nami will include Luffy in it. Popular pairings with Luffy (excluding Yaoi), Nami appears 43.3% of the time. Hancock on the other hand only takes up 16.3% of all total results (from the test). With this knowledge we can predict that Luffy's most dominant straight pairing will be with Nami. We can also predict that roughly 2/5ths of all straight content involving Luffy will have Nami.
Conclusion...WE HAVE BEEN DUPED! Many of us have been led to believe that the pairings of LuffyxNami, and LuffyxHancock were a tight competition. However, after undergoing several test I can safely conclude that this is simply not the case. The overwhelming results point towards Luffy and Nami having a substantial lead over the Luffy and Hancock pairing. These results have been put under the table for one reason I have pointed towards for a long time...propagation and intimidation.
I will first cite fanfiction and my fourth test results. On fanfiction there are a total of about 2,200 stories involving Luffy and Nami. This coincides with my fourth test with 252,000 results (malexfemale). Seeing as LuNa is the most written straight pairing in One Piece on fanfiction (not including Yaoi). In contrast LuHan has a total of 216 stories on fanfiction, and only 48,700 results (malexfemale). With this knowledge in mind I can safely back up my theory.
Because LuHan shippers do not write stories, they instead congregate on Youtube and other forums to spread their ideology.
This is why it appears that there is a huge backing for LuHan, but in reality they have very little support relative to other pairings. If you have ever been on a YouTube amv for a LuNa pairing (which I am assuming you have) you are bound to see either a ZoNa, a LuHan, or a SanNa shipper talking about their pairing on a LuNa video -_- This is because they have to resort to heckling other pairings (usually smaller pairings attack LuNa to garnish support). This also explains why Hancock videos on YouTube have so many views. Why? Because this is how they intimidate other pairings. By congregating on the same videos over and over again (most pairings other than LuNa have very few videos), it appears that their pairings have a lot of more support than they actually do. They also add to this, by congesting forums to seem like their pairing is the most popular.
For example surveys. These are biased as they usually 1. require an account 2. they are self reports, meaning anyone can take said poll if they want to. These polls are ultimately bad indicators because they are not random, and people can easily redo said survey by refreshing the page, or making a new account. LuHan shippers are infamous for this, as they propagate their beliefs wherever they can. I guarantee you if they had a random survey of all One Piece watchers, and it was a choice between Nami and Hancock for Luffy's Queen, Nami would destroy Hancock in the polls.
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:O WOW! Sorry for such a long AN! Almost 1,500 words! I thought I would make this short, but I got so into it I got carried away haha. If you read all that, do you agree with my findings and my theory? Or maybe you're like wtf…*skip*. I am contemplating whether or not to delete this, because it is such a massive AN! Then again I feel like these findings shouldn't be wasted. And it's 6am...Anyways see yeah!