Special Behind the Scenes:
Hello, one and all, and welcome to my first ever "Special Behind the Scenes" Corner!
Also known as my "SBS Corner"!
Ah, it looks like we already have a member of the audience ready with questions!
Yes, go ahead, totally anonymous and not-at-all suspicious audience member, who is absolutely and definitely not just TheWisePhoenix in disguise!
Q: Are you taking questions?
A: No, I am not. At least, not at this point lol. Right now, this is just a special extra chapter to express what went into making the fanfiction, such as where the idea originally came from, and to address any potential inconsistencies and give some extra background lore and stuff. Good times for all, really. (Or maybe just for me, lol.)
Anyways, let's get started!
Not-Sanada, are you ready?!
Not-Sanada (and Not-Santa): "Yes!"
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Not-Sanada: "Now then, how did this story get started, where did the idea come from?"
ThePhoenixWriter: "In fact, I was actually thinking up what kind of overpowered devil fruit a mary sue wish-fulfillment character would have, and just what kind of devil fruit it would be. Then, I realized that a lot of those descriptions would fit a poop-poop fruit as well, and realized how hilariously misleading it could be described as, and the idea just kind of worked itself back from there.
Not-Sanada: "I see, I see..."
ThePhoenixWriter: "Yep! In fact, there was originally meant to be a scene with Brooke commenting that it was always considered a cursed fruit even back in his time, but it was cut because I couldn't find a good place to fit it in, so I just rewrote that part for later."
Not-Sanada: "Fascinating... Any other cut scenes?"
ThePhoenixWriter: "Well, not a cut scene per say, but I did want to share a bit of tidbit on the Admiral's title and his background after the readers got through the first chapter. I didn't want to reveal his title too early since it could spoil the surprise, but here it is!"
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The Backstory
Admiral Chazaru (Brown Monkey)
Given the title "Brown Monkey", because, well, he's obviously brown when he transforms.
And monkey, because, well, you know how monkeys are lol.
Admiral Chazaru was originally an ordinary meek and mild-mannered man, but after consuming his devil fruit, he became the bane of all pirates everywhere (as well as the bane of all women and children).
After eating his devil fruit, he developed an extremely noxious odor around his body, especially within the first 10 meters, so nobody would approach him, and as a result, he quickly became isolated and ostracized from his fellow marines. He became very lonely as a result.
He made a have to shower himself at least 10 times a day at one point, but to no effect.
He was always excited when a new rookie marine would challenge him to a duel, but always disappointed when they backed off, even when he swore that he would not use his devil fruit powers.
The only one who would approach him was the mild-mannered lunch lady (Ms. Egao) at the marine cafeteria, who would wear nose-plugs to approach him and give him a genuine smile as she served him his meal.
She was ambushed by pirates on a vacation to her home island in the West Blue very early into his career as an Admiral, and her body was never found, and she was presumed dead.
Admiral Chazaru developed a grudge against pirates after that incident, and swore to envelop every pirate in his natural element after that incident. During his time as an Admiral, he would go visit her grave every year on the anniversary of her death, requesting an extended break from headquarters to do so. (Headquarters was more than happy to oblige, of course. Just to get him away for a while.)
After a few decades of service, he retired to Ms. Egao's home island in the West Blue, using his saved up funds from his time in the marines to order a nice house built in her memory. (The shape of the house actually looks like her face, at his specific building instructions.)
He still stays in that house even to this day, and has been staying there even during the course of Luffy's adventures.
The neighborhood kids will often egg his house and cover it in toilet paper, and mockingly call him "the poop man", but he will chase them away angrily.
He often cries himself to sleep, not overtly showing it, but actually hurt by the kids' mockery.
Poor mister Chazaru.
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Extras - Extra explanations (because I'm tired of writing dialogue lol)
So, here I'm going to explain some of the jokes if you don't get it:
So, the "serious WB" in the preface is actually meant to mislead the reader into thinking that it's a serious "WhiteBeard" type of story, especially with how it starts out so seriously.
But in reality, the WB = Warai-Banashi (Japanese term for a funny story, literally translated as "laugh story" or "laugh tale"), it's a seriously (funny) "laugh tale" in other words, lol.
The term "black stain" was used, because, well, poop. lol
Some might say that the term "vicious bloodhound" and "destructive" are misleading, and yes they are.
But in this case, "vicious bloodhound" isn't actually referring to his personality, it's just an analogy that the Five Elder Stars are using to explain why they don't want Admiral Chazaru or such a terrible fruit power being out of their own hands and out of their own control. Also dogs, because stray dogs poop a lot everywhere lol.
It's also not "destructive" in the most literal sense, but rather in a one-on-one sense, it's probably the most (mentally) destructive devil fruit power (to use against your opponent).
Admiral Chazaru is not literally "untouchable" - but he's as intangible as other logias are, and let's be real, no body wants to touch him or soil their weapons by touching him, even if they had haki. That's why he's considered "untouchable" even by the most powerful people in the New World lol.
Shiryuu doesn't want the admiral recruited to the Blackbeard pirates, ...for obvious reasons. Teach, though, being Teach, well, ...lol
Newborns - by instinct know to avoid him, because they poop lol
It's "not worthy of comparison" - because it's the unko unko no mi
The whole punchline is basically all based on misdirection, first by a serious-sounding comparison to Rocks and Kaidou, then a description of Admiral Chazaru's reputation and description of "fearsomeness".
The collapsing to is meant to make readers recall Shanks and Shank's immense conqueror's haki and the comments and descriptions of how several very powerful characters felt about him, and the misleading (though not inaccurate) description of the fruit, comparing the fruit to actually powerful devil fruits is all part of the trick. But actually, people are just collapsing because of the extremely noxious odor and are avoiding him because he's a poop man, lol.
I mean, let's be real here, even Kaidou wouldn't want to go near the poop man. He wouldn't even want to hit him with his kanabo and dirty his precious kanabo or its spikes either. Once a young Kaidou saw that he was surrounded without an escape route, and he saw Admiral Chazaru and realized what Admiral Chazaru's power was, he just immediately surrendered with no fight lol
Kaidou would later go on to comment on the incident: "It just wasn't worth it." (No "WORORORORORO", just a completely solemn and sullen face, as he admitted that.)
If you've only read it once, I suggest re-read to see things with a new perspective in mind after the twist, just to see it again from a new perspective. Garp's comment, though, lol.
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The Joy-Boy (Jayabaya) thing is just a joke on my part, but makes me wonder if real laugh tale might also just be based on a misunderstanding or a misdirection (a flipping of seriousness or expectations, or just a simple silly misunderstanding that lead to an apocalyptic world war in One Piece world). It would explain why Roger laughed. Maybe kind of a stretch? But It's certainly possible.
This fanfiction actually started off from a second-person perspective (and traces of this can still be seen in the description) and I actually was tempted to write in second person several times, but I ultimately decided against it, because too much of the narration was without second-person, and it might've be kind of weird to just address the reader directly in-between long periods of narrating without second person, so I ultimately decided to just make the whole thing third-person narration.
Maybe I might post a second person version later as a third chapter, and put up a poll on my account to see which version people like better?