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Title: Once and future by aroberuka
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 802
Character/Pairing: Dadan, Makino
Dadan & Makino
Summary: The girl was seven now, the same age Luffy had been when Garp had dropped him on their lap, and just as wild too.
“Think we’ll make a pirate out of this one as well?” Makino asked."
Why I Rec This Fic: I had to Google Dadan because i never got that far in the anime/manga but I love her and i ship her and Makino like hell now (long standing inside jokes! Raising a family (of choice) together! What more can you ask for?)

Title: can be mortal by bluewalk
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 967
Character/Pairing: Sanji, Gin
Summary: "spitting blood and purpose"
Why I Rec This Fic: I trust this persons Sanji. And I love this angst.
Podfic by HermesWormes (wildFandoms) here (5:46)

Title: amphitrite by razbliuto
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 1166
Character/Pairing: Gol D. Roger/Portgas D. Rouge
Summary: "Captain Rouge, she says, but you may call me Captain. — RougeRoger, doomed from the beginning."
Why I Rec This Fic: i know nothing bout this people but this makes me fall in love with them a bit

Finding Rouge is the next hardest thing, after One Piece. She flies with the ocean breeze from one island to the next, and he imagines he can hear her distant laughter carried by the waves. For the first time in his life, Roger curses the all-encompassing vastness of the sea.

Rayleigh buries his face in his hands when the Oro Jackson diverts course, once again. Mate, he advises, marry her or walk the plank.

Title:triskelion by razbliuto
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 4959
Character/Pairing: Boa Hancock, Boa Marigold, Boa Sandersonia
Silvers Rayleigh, Shakky (One Piece), Elder Nyon
Summary: "Sink your fangs in, sister, and don't let go. — The Boa Sisters, still breathing despite all odds."
setting: pre-canon, the journey from mariejois to amazon lily.
Warning: slavery; violence; disorderd eating; aftermath of traumatic expierinces, non explicit reference to non con; drowning; passive death wish
Why I Rec This Fic: The writing style is beautiful, and I adore the very non canon handling of female character agency (also beauty) because let´s face it canon is horrible with it. The story has a dark background (see warnings) but with a lovely focus on healing (something i love deeply).

Her legs ache with every step. Her knees creak, her breath burns in her throat. There is a heavy collar on her neck that she will carry for the rest of her life. It will sink her to the bottom of the sea. I am a Kuja, she thinks, all of fourteen. A Kuja. A Kuja. A Kuja.
Her feet sink into the warm mud. The sun is bright and hard, and the long dewy grass feels like home.
Her teeth grind. Her bones pop and snap, and it hurts. It hurts, and Hancock's chin digs into her collarbone and here's Sandersonia's days-old breath against her ear. Her sisters have been with her, more than the eastern stars, more than memories.
Marigold takes another step forward. She imagines her arms growing larger—her hands as big as mountains, her chest wide and barrel-shaped, her legs sturdier than Adam Wood. She carries her sisters, one on each shoulder. Her stomach is fat and joyful, and her mangled dirty hair is thick and ripples like glistening ocean waves.
The collar is not a steel anchor, sinking her into the ocean depths. She can carry it with her, as she carries her sisters, and takes one step after the other, huffing and puffing like a pair of bellows. Her cheeks are red as strawberries, lacquer incense pots, Fisher Tiger's crimson scales and the ring of freedom! freedom! freedom! shaking down the pitiless stars.
 

Doflamingo is amicable with the people he likes. That’s clear enough when he’s around family. They’ll tease him and he never snaps back, not really. A few weeks a year, he fucks off to do some ‘Shichibukai’ business and always brings back gifts.
The next time Violet lunges at him with a knife as they’ve failed to get dressed for the third time in his chambers, he grabs her by the wrist and deftly slides on heavy golden bangles.
“Your passion knows no bounds, does it?” he laughs, snarling grin wide. Violet struggles, beating his chest with her fist. Doflamingo twirls her around and dips her. “Dance for me, Viola.”
He says her name like Monet said it. Like something secret, something that only the two of them know about.

Title: gift by dutchydoescoke
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 223
Character/Pairing: Nami/Nefertari Vivi
Summary: "Nami keeps her parting gift from Vivi in her bedside table. When she’s alone, moments that are few and far-between these days, she’ll take it out and look at it, watch the needle steadily pointing behind them."

Title: mark your northern point by me by authenticaussie
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2980
Character/Pairing: Nami/Nefertari Vivi
Summary: "Nami suddenly finds herself in the company of the one person in the Blues that she’d never wanted to meet.Marines, pirates, celestial dragons; all fine.
The thought of her soulmate? Nami would’ve cut off her legs just to prove that her knees didn’t shake at the thought."

On her wedding night, Vivi cuts off all of her hair, every inch of her mother's blue. She tears off her white dress and rips it between her fingers. She imagines a thousand different ways to kill Crocodile before sleep finally overcomes her, and in those fleeting moments before slumber, she glimpses a flash of lightning. Rain in the desert.

But that is only real in her dreams.

Title: to want again by hexagonal
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 5508
Character/Pairing: Nami, Nefertari Vivi
Nami/Nefertari Vivi
Summary: "Nami is a thief and a pirate and a money-starved harpy. She should be ready to grab her scraps and run, but – it’s fine. It’s fine. It’s fine." Nami is a sex repulsed lesbian
Warnings: Internalized bullshit about sex
Why I Rec This Fic: The writing style is nice, the relationship between Nami and Vivi is beautiful – but most of all loved the handling of the sex-stuff, the doubts and love and consent.

Vivi brushes a thumb along the strip of skin between Nami's shirt and shorts, and whispers, "Can I?"
Nami shivers at the contact and hopes that Vivi mistakes it for excitement. "Sure," she says. She's terrified.
Instead of continuing and magically curing Nami of all of her brokenness like she needs to happen, Vivi draws away on the bed, concern evident in the way she furrows her brow.

Title: Thanks for not dying before I met you by taizi
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 922
Character/Pairing: Monkey D. Luffy, Sanji
Monkey D. Luffy&Sanji
Summary: "Hey Luffy, how'd you get that scar on your face, anyway?"
(In which Luffy talks about his brothers, and Sanji doesn't make promises.)
Why I Rec This Fic: It´s sweet and sad and just hits me right in my feels.

Title: After By VickyVicarious
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 1234
Character/Pairing: Strawhat Pirates
Summary: Future Fic: “Not a single Mugiwara hid or regretted or was dragged away to prison. And not a single person questioned them that right.“
Why I Rec This Fic: People becoming legends! Live going on in bitter-sweetness.

Title: Bar fight by Lonicera Japonica
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 1287
Character/Pairing: Strawhat Pirates
Summary: "A guy hits on Nami in a bar, and the Strawhat boys take action to defend her honor. And to get some peace and quiet so they can finish their drinks."
Why I Rec This Fic: The character voices are done great, and the casualness of it all won me over from when i first read it, years ago and still now.

Usopp's sense of propriety and honor overtook his survival instincts long enough to get him out of his chair, and Nami's frantic gaze (a cross between pleading and I-will-kick-your-ass-six-ways-from-Sunday-if-you-don't-do-something) hauled him the rest of the way over to the bar.

Title: permanence by trell (qunlat)
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 1540
Character/Pairing: Sanji, Nico Robin
Strawhats
Summary: "No one walks away from a lightning strike unmarked." (Post-Skypiea Arc)
Warnings: Disfigurement, Permanent Injury
Why I Rec This Fic: Permanent scars! Female characters with scars! Supportive Strawhats of cause!

Robin is there when he wakes up, and he sees instantly that what Chopper said was true: a splash of disfiguring, risen marks criss-cross her face, all stemming from a spot etched like a star onto her forehead. Branches run down her neck and shoulders from it, the skin twisted.
“Robin,” Sanji says, horrified at what this means, at the hit she must have taken.
Her expression is as calm as ever, a placid lake hiding serpents in dark water. She smiles at him, faint, just a lifting at the edges of her mouth—marked too, her lips ruined, no longer shapely but pockmarked and burned. She says, “We match.

Title: can you come down with us by bluewalk
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 1815
Character/Pairing: its tagged Monkey D. Luffy/Nami but it can be as easily read as Monkey D. Luffy&Nami
Summary: pre-Sabaody, Luffy helps Nami when she is sad.
Why I Rec This Fic: Soft handling of comunication, and handling of emotion; real great character voice (specialy nailed Luffy and his different way to think). 

Title: Gifts you've been robbed of by Amazaria
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2175
Character/Pairing: Brook
Brook & Strawhat Pirates, Brook & Rumbar Pirates
Summary: "It takes Brook maybe two minutes to lose his crew, and about fifty-two years to let them go.
It takes him fifty years to find a new crew, and about two months to lose them.
(or: in which Brook misses his crewmates and finally says his goodbyes to some persistent ghosts.)"
Warnings: implied/referenced canonical minor character death
Why I Rec This Fic: I am extremly unhappy with Brook in canon, and I havent even watched any episodes with him in it – but this is a great angsty but healing fic about the things this character deals with.

Title: 50 Sentences by thewordweaves
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2219
Character/Pairing: Ussop, Strawhats

Blur: In the dark of the night, curled in his bunk, Usopp clutches at the hair falling into his face and pushes the heels of his hands into his eyes and tries to pretend that Banchina's face is not becoming but a blur in his memory.

Change: After a while, Usopp notices that Luffy doesn't actually change--it's the world that changes around him.

Hide: If there was one thing Usopp was better at than everybody else, it was hiding; if asked, he could call himself Master Usopp of the Art of Retreating-Fu, with a minor in Bullshit and a side specialty in Screeching, Screaming and Other Loud Exclamations.

Title: They'll call me king, they'll call me rider by anonymousAlchemist
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2455
Character/Pairing: Strawhats
Summary: Setting AU: Mad Max (Fury Road): "They call it the Grand Line because it stretches out long and wide and endless, across plain and desert and rocky mountain, across canyon and through valley. It’s grand, it’s a line, it’s the Grand Line. They say it ends at Raftel, they say Raftel is a new Eden, the last lifeboat untouched by the ravages that the rest of the world suffers. They say Raftel has the key to saving humanity, the One Piece."
Why I Rec This Fic: The world of Mad Max really fits them and it makes me want to have more of that crossover.

The first thing anyone notices about Robin when she takes her jacket off is the tattoos. Her arms, her back, her stomach, are all covered in tiny text. She’s a History Woman, too young to be one but carrying their markings anyway.
[...]
The History men and women know who killed the world, and they die for it.
A carefully planned raid on the building by those who wish to erase all memory of the age that passed, those who are powerful in the age that has come and are afraid of upsets to the status quo, are afraid of the old technologies written in the libraries. (Their names are not said except in whispers. The euphemism, the World Government, as if there is enough of a world left to be governed).
Robin is the only survivor. She is sent into the night by her caretakers on a lone motorbike, crying as she speeds into the darkness, carrying the few texts she was able to carry.
Ohara burns behind her.

Title: archeologist's sociology by trell (qunlat)
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2607
Character/Pairing: Nico Robin, Sanji
Summary: "Robin and Sanji are alike."
Warnings: Internalized Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Homophobia

“He had a gorgeous smile, and I loved seeing him work with his hands. He was a terrible cook,” a laugh, “but I pretended he wasn’t, and that should’ve clued me in, but it took me two months and a dream about kissing him to realize that I wanted to, and then I freaked out and didn’t talk to him for weeks. The old geezer fired him soon after that for botching so many meals, and we didn’t see each other again.”
“I’m sorry to hear that,” Robin says, and she is. Every story she’s ever heard about people like themselves seems to go like this, circles of self-hatred and unfulfilled dreams, almost no one happy at the end.

Title: Thoughts in the Dead of Night by Sarcasticles
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2702
Character/Pairing: Nico Robin, Nami
Nami & Nico Robin
Summary: "While Robin sleeps, Nami wonders"
Why I rec this fic: As the author notes in the tags there should be more fics about this two interacting and this is a sweet fic about getting to know eachother and taking time to recover which the canon likes to gloss over a bit.

Title: Merryship 50 By Lonicera Japonica
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2809
Character/Pairing: Strawhats (Usopp, Monkey D. Luffy, Lorrendor Zorro, Sanji, Nami)
Summary: “Fifty sentences of piratical polyamory. [Merryship and other intercrew pairings]“

Soft
Parts of them are soft; Nami´s skin, Ussop´s lips, Sanji´s laughter, Luffy´s hands, Zorro´s eyes when he watches them all.

Telephone
"Zorro, Nami wants me to tell you that you have to turn left at the dock and keep going straight, and Luffy wants me to tell you to stop somewhere and buy him some fried cicken, and Sanji says - this is only Sanji I have nothing to do with it - that you´re an idiot, and don´t get too badly lost, and we have to go now because Nami is getting upset I love you bye."

Hair
Nami knows perfectly well that Sanji loves her hair, because he tells her that at least once a day, and she thinks Zorro would die laughing forever if he knew that Sanji liked his hair too; she can tell by the way he runs his fingers through it and because he loves everything about all of them anyway.

Title: Taking Turns With the Washing Up by TiamatsChild
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 3254
Character/Pairing: Strawhats (including Vivi)
Summary: "Everybody helps with the washing up except the cook. That’s the way it works."
Why I Rec This Fic: Its a really sweet strawhat-bonding fic, about a very mundane activity on their ship and the great importance and care they give that.

Nami was as careful as Usopp, but she wasn’t as quick. Nami took her time. Sometimes it struck Sanji that Nami handled dishes the way a young child handled dishes, as if she expected them to be the wrong size for her hands, as if they might be heavier than she could handle. Sanji had seen the weight Nami could carry. She was not going to drop a dish.
“You don’t have to,” he told her every time it was her turn. “I could take a turn too. Nami’s time is valuable!”
“It’s good to do dishes,” Nami said when she was in a good mood. “It rests my eyes from my charts.”
Of course, when she was tired, she closed her eyes and said, “Sanji,” in that special tone of hers that promised violence and penury if she didn’t get what she wanted this moment with no further argument. Sanji respected that tone, belonging as it did to Nami. Nami was a magnificent woman who could follow every one of that tone’s promises down to their bitter bankruptcy filled ends.

Title: The Trouble with Eastern by teaandtumblr
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 3877
Character/Pairing: Strawhats, Trafalgar D Law, Eustass Kid
Summary: What would happen if everyone on the Grand Line really did speak different languages
Why I Rec This Fic: Cool world building idea, with nice little strawhat bickering.

Two days Sanji had been on this ship and already a fight had broken out. He was busy cooking in the kitchen but he could hear the squabbling clear enough. It seemed to be an argument mainly between Luffy and Nami but Usopp was getting a word in every so often, which only seemed to annoy Luffy more. The cook was getting ready to separate them all when,
“Oi Sanji, come out here!!!”
Luffy’s voice was deafening, Sanji rolling his eyes, drying his hands on his tea towel as he stepped out onto the deck. “What’s up Luffy?”
Sanji found himself suddenly with Luffy’s shoe thrust in his face. “What is this?” Luffy demanding, shaking said shoe.
Before Sanji could answer, Nami was shaking their captain. “I’m telling you, flip-flop is the sound it makes. It’s not what it’s called!”

Title: finding islands in the flood by nevermordor
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 6804
Character/Pairing: Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro
Monkey D. Luffy, Roronoa Zoro, Strawhat pirates
Summary: "Navigation's never been his strong suit, but Zoro finds his way to Luffy nevertheless."
Why I Rec This Fic: Everyones character is nailed perfectly, and their love and care for eachother is very sweet. Its very funny and the main conflict is handled well.

The things that Zoro knows about himself are few but simple: he’s strong, he’s fast, he likes to eat, he likes to drink, and he’s pretty damn good at fucking shit up. Sometimes he’s too good at that last one. Sometimes he reacts on instinct in the middle of a fight and manages to cut the other guy real bad, but also accidentally trips Sanji in the process. Or sometimes he forgets to listen when Robin's still in the middle of explaining strategy, and instead blazes right past her.
Sometimes he fucks shit up even when he's not really trying. Sometimes he cracks jokes with Usopp over breakfast and it's only an hour later, when Usopp isn't quite meeting his gaze, that Zoro realizes that he might have been kind of a dick to him. Or sometimes Nami won't talk to him and he has to spend most of the day wracking his brain, retracing his words, trying to figure out what he said, what he did wrong.
The other thing that he knows about himself is that he has to learn to be more careful. It's fun to brawl and to fight and to argue. It's just that there are some things that require him to stop and actually think; things that require care, that would be all too easy for him to break.

Title: gathers no moss by bluewalk
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 10754
Character/Pairing: Sanji, Gin, Strawhats, Red-Leg Zeff
Summary: Future Fic (Ruffy is pirate king the strawhats seperated) Sanji (and Gin) growth and healing.
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the writing style and the way it makes me want to see Sanji grow healthy, happy and all (Gin too but that is even in canon because i am weak). It made me cry a lot but its a story about growing and healing, and the love feels very warm. There are wonderful world building details. Gin learning to read - makes me happy/cry a lot too (also solving cross word puzzles always makes me feel happy)

Then and now, Sanji had wanted to say, I would live the rest of my life for you. I would count out all my days like coins to place in your palm and still it would not be enough for what I’ve taken from you, for all the possibilities like universes without end that even together amount to less than your singular sacrifice. But if you ask, I would stay, I would stay, I would learn to want to stay.
Zeff wouldn’t ask. Still looks at Sanji now like he is something unbelievable. Like Sanji is something good.
Both times, Sanji had said, with sincerity enough to blister, but still only, “Thank you,” what else did he have to give, for every day since that first day, for letting me grow, for letting me go, for seeing the good in me worth every life-drop of All Blue.

Title: Lorenor Zorro, Rettungsschwimmer von S_ACD
Fandom: One Piece
Word count: 2449
Character/Pairing: Lorrendor Zorro, Monkey D. Luffy
Nami, Nico di Robin, Chopper, Ussop, Sanji,
Summary: "Die Sache war nur...okay,er hatte Blut erwartet.Unerschütterliche Loyalität, brutale Schlachten, gefährliche Abenteuer. Seltsame Vögel und abgedrehte Typen mit Weltherrschaftskomplex.Teufelsfrüchte, Explosionen, Afros und Schiffe, die meterhoch in die Luft geschleudert wurden. Und Männer,die auf einem Fahrrad von einer Insel zur nächsten kurvten – klar, warum nicht?
Womit er nicht gerechnet hatte,war die Zehntelsekunde Hektik,die ihn immer überkam, wenn irgendwo Wasser spritze und er Ruffy nicht in seinem unmittelbaren Blickfeld hatte."
Why I Rec This Fic: Eine der ersten Fanfiction die ich je gelesen habe, oder zumindest eine der ersten die ich je gelesen habe an die ich mich heute noch erinnern kann und die beim nachlesen zum zusammenstellen der Rec Liste immer noch amüsant und süß ist (im Rahmen des character-passenden Kitsch-meters (denke ich)).

Er bekam Ruffy nach dreißig langen Sekunden zu fassen;nach dreißig elendslangen Sekunden, in denen er vom Konstrukteur der Brücke über Mihawk Falkenauge bis hin zum Erfinder von Zuckerwatte alles verfluchte, was ihm in den Sinn kam, und manches davon gleich zweimal. Ruffy hustete, nachdem Zorro seinen Kopf gepackt und an den Haaren nach oben gezerrt hatte und es war das beste Geräusch, das er den ganzen Tag lang gehört hatte.Vielleicht sogar die ganze Woche lang.