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Viktor's Zoo MK 2: Progress Log - Entry 3

The first animals enter the zoo!

We're starting with swans right up front so we can get up and running with a smaller enclosure and less expensive animals

Here's the first swan @zoomvie and the second is Sky ( named by @kageyamas-tiktok )

And they just had 5 babies!!! The oldest is named Isha (also by @kageyamas-tiktok)

tfw ur lover turns into an evil power ranger 😩😳

grown man pouts unconsciously

More of the AU where Crocodile found out who Luffy was during Alabasta. (Here is the first comic!)

I received this ask:

"I saw your post about your Crocodile reacting to canon Crocodile’s antics and was wondering what you see the follow-up being? like would canon Crocodile hunt down canon Dragon and give him a beatdown for leaving their baby with Garp? And/or would he try to be involved in Luffy’s life as a parent?"

I was talking to Salasana (who wrote an epic Crocodad fic~) about this on bluesky, who suggested that Crocodile would probably abandon Alabasta and "disband" Baroque Works (to later reform it into Cross Guild.) But since he never actually got defeated by Luffy, he doesn't have a lot of faith in his son's abilities to not die like an idiot. So he tries to get him to go back home with no success. The dialogue in this is by Salasana too ;3 I do think he'd try to have a relationship with Luffy, it's just off to a rocky and weird start *lol*

And yes, he would try to find Dragon and once he does...? Who knows what will happen! Hihihi.

I love that Zoro checks out Sanji whenever he can

I mean, if I was in Zoro’s shoes, there would be no way I could not resist smacking that

Two stars, falling together across the Arcane

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Old men jayvik, once again

my dear friend requested that i color him

Self-indulgent but mandatory "What if the strawhats were Italian" because it has been plaguing my mind for months.

I'm putting some context (and also some headcanons) for each drawing under the cut for anyone interested in better understanding what is going on, so expect a lot of yapping 😭

I think I will draw more Italian strawhats shenanigans in the future (I'm sorry for sidelining you like that Jinbe...), we'll see...

1. Italy is divided into 20 regions, and I associated the 10 strawhats to 10 of those regions. The regions I chose have been mainly picked on instinct based on whatever felt right to me, so I wouldn't look too hard into it 😭

2. Tortellini are a type of stuffed pasta specifically from the Emilia-Romagna region (where I see Robin coming from) and even more specifically from the Bologna and Modena provinces; while fiorentina is typically from Florence (Tuscany) and Luffy would eat at least 10 of them a day if he could

3. Alberto Angela is a paleontologist and history and science communicator, and he runs some TV programs that mainly focus on history and science. He's well-spoken, he's educated, developing a little crush for him is basically a canon event, he's the IT Italian man if you ask me. Robin is watching Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta, which is also the TV program that introduced me to him when I was like 9 😌

4. Table football is quite common in Italy (all my life I've called it biliardino, but apparently its name is calciobalilla? whatever 😭). I don't really have a lot to say about this one, actually. I just think that a Zoro and Sanji team up would be unmatched (just like in animanga). Like 10-1 (AT BEST) kind of unmatched. If they receive a goal (which was definitely a fluke) they're going to mercilessly trash talk each other into scoring the most diabolically aggressive goal ever witnessed in the history of mankind (Chopper is scared of them) (Luffy thinks it's kinda funny) (Nami decided they won't play at the same time until they learn to chill out).

5. Paolo Fox is a famous astrologer in Italy and basically there used to be this Sunday TV program (Mezzogiorno in famiglia, they discontinued it some years ago but it's the show that Nami and Zoro are watching), where he was called in every week as a guest to rank the signs from 12th to 1st based on the luck, love, money etc. they were going to get during the following week. And whether you believed in astrology or not, you were still going to eat that shit up regardless because you just wanted to know where your sign was going to be placed.

6. Easter eggs in Italy are this big chocolate egg that contains a "surprise", which can be toys or various trinkets (bracelets, keychains, that kind of stuff). When Easter is coming, the supermarkets have full aisles of Easter eggs because there are multiple brands and multiple themes (for example, the ones specifically targeted towards children could be One Piece/Pokemon/Winx etc. themed, containing a surprise that is related to them). I like to think that Chopper would be so excited about the chocolate that he would eat it all without even looking at the surprise 😭 (it's lying somewhere on the ground, a forgotten soldier amidst the raging battle)

7. Neapolitan songs can go pretty hard when you don't have someone in your ear telling you how corny and cringe they are. Franky has a whole arsenal. If during a conversation he hears a word that reminds him of one of his songs, he will start singing it. Brook joins him whenever he hears him, and if he doesn't know the actual words to the song, he will still string together some notes with his guitar. Luffy and Usopp will join at a certain point, while the other strawhats enjoy the little show. If Franky is singing and Robin appears in his line of sight, he will switch to a romantic song and start serenading her. When this happens, Sanji joins too (not because he's trying to woo Robin, but because he will never miss a chance to serenade a woman 😌).

8. I just know Brook has en entire repertoire of love songs that he sings whenever Zoro and Sanji are fighting. In this case he is singing "Bello e impossibile" by Gianna Nannini, whose chorus goes something like "handsome, handsome and impossibile, with black eyes and your Middle Eastern taste" and then again "handsome, handsome and invincible, with black eyes and a kissable mouth/a mouth to be kissed" (it sounds more poetic in Italian I'm sorry 😭). They get mad and flustered every time. It doesn't matter if they are still dancing around each other or are already together. Brook has the time of his life.

Hey man. Lets watch nosferatu together. Can you hold my hand if I get scared?

I was rewatching Dressrosa and I really feel like Law was robbed of a good cry and a hug at the end.

And since Oda won’t give that to me I just had to do it myself!