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I never seem to fall for the characters I think I'm going to fall for
The library had a bunch of early One Piece volumes (through Alabasta) and then basically everything post-timeskip, so I've now read the entire Punk Hazard arc.
And ...
A CHARACTER HAPPENED.
But probably not the one you think.
I know Law is a lot of my flist's favorite, and I really love Law, but not in the same "GLOM!" way that I latched onto, say, Iceburg in Water 7. He's a lot of fun! His interactions with the Straw Hat crew (and desperate, failed attempts to keep his dignity) are delightful. I can see why he's a lot of people's favorite character.
.... but I went and fell head over heels for Smoker instead. >_>
I've always really liked him, from his first appearance way back when I was watching the anime the first time. And I've always had a thing for "friendly enemy" type characters -- the ones who are committed to their own side of a conflict, but keep helping out the main characters anyway. Smoker and Tashigi also kinda push my Roy/Riza buttons -- badass boss + female lieutenant/right-hand-woman.
Anyway, yeah. Then Punk Hazard happened and I fell hard.
AND I TOTALLY THOUGHT DOFLAMINGO KILLED HIM IN CHAPTER 698.
Ever since [spoiler redacted]'s death, it's made the possibility of major character deaths a thing that could actually happen, and -- I dunno, in retrospect it seems unlikely that he'd actually go down without getting a fight sequence, but that one panel where there's just blood and everyone screaming ... it's just, the way it was set up, coming on the heels of the entire truce and him helping the Straw Hats, and then everyone leaving and thinking everything is fine, and Smoker refusing to tell Doflamingo where they are, not to mention there's no one around (that we knew of at that point) who was capable of fighting Doflamingo ... it really had "heroic sacrifice" written all over it.
YAY FOR AOKIJI THOUGH. \o/
So yeah, the mermaid arc was a slog for me, but Punk Hazard was incredible fun. ALL THE BODYSWAP STUFF. EVERYTHING WITH THE BODYSWAP. Poor Nami! (A+ people-wrangling skills, though, sending Sanji off with Zoro so he'll be too distracted to perv on her!) Smoker leaving Tashigi's shirt unbuttoned and Tashigi buttoning his coat all the way up to her chin! Franky losing control of Chopper's powers! WHAT A BUNCH OF ENORMOUS DORKS. XD
And now that I've read Punk Hazard, next up is Dressrosa! I actually might be caught up to current events at some point in the near future.
(Though I still haven't read the whole part of the story between Enies Lobby and Impel Down. The library didn't have it, but the volumes that they did have picked up right at the point I stopped reading before, which was shortly after the timeskip. I'll go back and get to it at some point, but right now I'm more interested in getting caught up with the new stuff, since I'd already read the Impel Down/Marineford stuff the last time I fell back into it.)
And ...
A CHARACTER HAPPENED.
But probably not the one you think.
I know Law is a lot of my flist's favorite, and I really love Law, but not in the same "GLOM!" way that I latched onto, say, Iceburg in Water 7. He's a lot of fun! His interactions with the Straw Hat crew (and desperate, failed attempts to keep his dignity) are delightful. I can see why he's a lot of people's favorite character.
.... but I went and fell head over heels for Smoker instead. >_>
I've always really liked him, from his first appearance way back when I was watching the anime the first time. And I've always had a thing for "friendly enemy" type characters -- the ones who are committed to their own side of a conflict, but keep helping out the main characters anyway. Smoker and Tashigi also kinda push my Roy/Riza buttons -- badass boss + female lieutenant/right-hand-woman.
Anyway, yeah. Then Punk Hazard happened and I fell hard.
AND I TOTALLY THOUGHT DOFLAMINGO KILLED HIM IN CHAPTER 698.
Ever since [spoiler redacted]'s death, it's made the possibility of major character deaths a thing that could actually happen, and -- I dunno, in retrospect it seems unlikely that he'd actually go down without getting a fight sequence, but that one panel where there's just blood and everyone screaming ... it's just, the way it was set up, coming on the heels of the entire truce and him helping the Straw Hats, and then everyone leaving and thinking everything is fine, and Smoker refusing to tell Doflamingo where they are, not to mention there's no one around (that we knew of at that point) who was capable of fighting Doflamingo ... it really had "heroic sacrifice" written all over it.
YAY FOR AOKIJI THOUGH. \o/
So yeah, the mermaid arc was a slog for me, but Punk Hazard was incredible fun. ALL THE BODYSWAP STUFF. EVERYTHING WITH THE BODYSWAP. Poor Nami! (A+ people-wrangling skills, though, sending Sanji off with Zoro so he'll be too distracted to perv on her!) Smoker leaving Tashigi's shirt unbuttoned and Tashigi buttoning his coat all the way up to her chin! Franky losing control of Chopper's powers! WHAT A BUNCH OF ENORMOUS DORKS. XD
And now that I've read Punk Hazard, next up is Dressrosa! I actually might be caught up to current events at some point in the near future.
(Though I still haven't read the whole part of the story between Enies Lobby and Impel Down. The library didn't have it, but the volumes that they did have picked up right at the point I stopped reading before, which was shortly after the timeskip. I'll go back and get to it at some point, but right now I'm more interested in getting caught up with the new stuff, since I'd already read the Impel Down/Marineford stuff the last time I fell back into it.)