Day 4: Past and Present

(Luffy thinks about the past, a lot, when he's alone)

(I'm borrowing the riddle, from rboooks' day 3 submission check it out – here (check out the post on tumblr for the link I'm not messing FFwith anymore today) it's fucking amazing, because I don't know the original translation of ace's "if gold

Roger had a son" question)

(This happens during the two year timeskip, that's why Luffy thinks Sabo is dead, forgive me!~)

Luffy thinks a lot about the past when he's alone. Seeing as he's been left on an uninhabited island, he has a lot of free time between fighting the native wildlife, sleeping, and eating. He thought about the future quite a bit, but for the time being,
/while he was allowed to, he dwelled on the past. Reveled in the emotions he let himself feel when he thought of the past that made him into the person he was.

As much as he adores Ace, Luffy prefers to think about the times when Sabo was still there. While Ace was nicer after the blonde died, he was a lot happier when Sabo was still alive. Apparently, Sabo have been Ace's first friend. The first person to answer
/Ace's famous riddle "Where do the sins of the parents fall upon death?" correctly

Technically, Luffy was the second to get it correct; even though Ace's exact line of questioning had changed to "Would you be sad if I died?" Luffy would have been sad, even though Ace had hated him at the time, Ace had been a constant that he, as a small
/child abandoned to a place he didn't want to be, had desperately needed.

Luffy had liked Sabo, he had enjoyed the blonde's happy disposition. He had liked the way Sabo teased him gently over his rubber powers, taking note that Luffy hadn't really wanted them in the first place, even though he had been thrilled to have them
/after he had gotten used to his Devil Fruit abilities.

The young Raven, had definitely been thrilled to find someone who listened to him properly, that didn't make fun of him the way Ace did. He had been even more surprised when the blonde took his shitty opinions into account, listening to them through before
/dismissing them.

Luffy liked to think that Sabo would have been super proud of the way Ace grew as a person after the blonde's untimely murder, yes Luffy saw the blonde's death as a murder, there was no other way around it, this corrupted world had murdered both of
/his older brothers.

Luffy could be startlingly dark when he thought about the past. He was making plans to take down both Blackbeard, the Whitebeard traitor had captured and then profited off his older brother, and Akainu, seeing as the Red Dog had been the one to murder
/Ace in his search of 'Absolute Justice'.

Luffy shook his head and sighed, he was thinking about Sabo, not revenge. Think about Sabo, Luffy likedto think that Sabo would be happy with Ace's development as a person. Ace had managed to turn himself around, by the time he left to become a

pirate. He had manners, and knew how to use them to the surprise of Dadan and the bandits. But what had changed the most, was that Ace was much more willing to let people in.

Even though he had lost a brother, Ace had gained a lot of things from the emotional trauma. Luffy on the other hand, had learned a lot from the experience. He learned that he needed to get stronger and stronger and stronger. He needed to be able to protect
/the people he cared about. He had failed himself,not to mention Ace, and the other Whitebeard Pirates when Ace fell by Akainu's hand.

Luffy shook his head again, he didn't want to think about the vice Admiral, thinking about the bastard made him think of Ace in his final moments, tears welling up with a sad smile curling his lips "Thank you for loving me."

'Why wouldn't I love you?!' Luffy thought, 'You're my older brother and you're an amazing person!' Ace had been one of the most loyal men in the world, after accepting Whitebeard's mark he had done everything the man had asked him.

But that was all in the past now, both Sabo and Ace weredead. He had mourned his losses. He would stand up and walk in the present, and he would run towards tomorrow. He had a dream to chase after all.