I think I'll take a crack at it on the weekend. It hopefully won't be as bedlamly at work as it was this week. *KNOCK ON WOOD*
I think Oda's going to have to publish at least a novel to satisfy fan demand for all the various tidbits that go into his wonderfully cracktastic world he's cooked up. Because he won't stop being pestered till he does.
But if nothing else, more backstory on the boys is needed. I'm a little hopeful for Zoro getting a little more background, given his cameo in the Sabo flashback arc and since I think he got shrifted the most backstorywise of the Strawhats.
*nod* Well not clearly developed, but be it love romantic, familial, or a solid friendship/rivalry, something was certainly cementing fast and hard. If there wasn't, I don't believe that Zoro would have strove to fufill his promise and achieve their dream with quite the same tenacity and drive.
I can see how the time thing would work against such a view, but I also think of what they shared. A practical obsession with each other over who would be the best. I'm running back to Sabo, Ace, and Luffy and the nakama themselves. I don't think the brothers got too much time together before the Sabo incident, and looking at the One Piece timeline (sketchy at best, I know) the nakama haven't been sailing very long either. It's what they've gone through and experienced together that have built the bonds they share.
And no, I'm not trying to convince you either. ^^ This is good to sort out the mess in my own head about why I think what about this and that.
Oh, Koushiro's very distant, I agree (and a rather unsettling Stepford Smiler to boot), and I suspect in his own way possessing the same brand of tact and bluntness as Zoro. More of an enigma now that we know of his connections to the Revolutionaries (perhaps this is why he's the only Strawhat living mentor/parent to not meet Luffy? Cause everyone else still kicking, from Zeff, to Kureha, to Gen - has) and you know, I'd like to know more about him too.
Nami is fierce, and yes, she pwns all (except when Robin's on her game), and Sanji's both sigh worthy failtastic and kinda adorable how he goes about worshipping her and submitting to every bit of manipulation and use from her with hearts and a Nami-swan. But. Relationships just don't work like that. Not the stable healthy ones. I don't think Nami would be happy for one. I don't see her wanting a doormat for a partner (and she needs someone to tell her no from time to time and stick to their guns), and as much as she loves to be waited on and get her way, a relationship all about her would be horribly onesided. And she wouldn't like that. Yet I don't think she'd stop using and manipulating Sanji (and of course he'd let her), and that would open up vulnerability to a whole world of new world of hurt. And underneath all the hearts and Nami-swans, he might start feeling resentful. But he'd take it.
And that's a recipe for disaster.
So am I. Hamon is one of my absolute favorites. Not only good, plotty, IC goodness but juicy, detailed worldbuilding goodness too. Sitting down to her writing was sitting down to filet mignon in comparison to the usual fast food fic fare. (Oh lord, the cooking references are popping up like mad now. Sanji really is on the brain.)
I know. I'm particularly looking forward to the next chapter of 'The Nature of Things.' That collaboration between Sinisterbug and herself is really something else.
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We already have a Strawhat reindeer. How 'bout some teal deer? ~_^
Date: 2010-07-31 06:33 am (UTC)I think Oda's going to have to publish at least a novel to satisfy fan demand for all the various tidbits that go into his wonderfully cracktastic world he's cooked up. Because he won't stop being pestered till he does.
But if nothing else, more backstory on the boys is needed. I'm a little hopeful for Zoro getting a little more background, given his cameo in the Sabo flashback arc and since I think he got shrifted the most backstorywise of the Strawhats.
*nod* Well not clearly developed, but be it love romantic, familial, or a solid friendship/rivalry, something was certainly cementing fast and hard. If there wasn't, I don't believe that Zoro would have strove to fufill his promise and achieve their dream with quite the same tenacity and drive.
I can see how the time thing would work against such a view, but I also think of what they shared. A practical obsession with each other over who would be the best. I'm running back to Sabo, Ace, and Luffy and the nakama themselves. I don't think the brothers got too much time together before the Sabo incident, and looking at the One Piece timeline (sketchy at best, I know) the nakama haven't been sailing very long either. It's what they've gone through and experienced together that have built the bonds they share.
And no, I'm not trying to convince you either. ^^ This is good to sort out the mess in my own head about why I think what about this and that.
Oh, Koushiro's very distant, I agree (and a rather unsettling Stepford Smiler to boot), and I suspect in his own way possessing the same brand of tact and bluntness as Zoro. More of an enigma now that we know of his connections to the Revolutionaries (perhaps this is why he's the only Strawhat living mentor/parent to not meet Luffy? Cause everyone else still kicking, from Zeff, to Kureha, to Gen - has) and you know, I'd like to know more about him too.
Nami is fierce, and yes, she pwns all (except when Robin's on her game), and Sanji's both sigh worthy failtastic and kinda adorable how he goes about worshipping her and submitting to every bit of manipulation and use from her with hearts and a Nami-swan. But. Relationships just don't work like that. Not the stable healthy ones. I don't think Nami would be happy for one. I don't see her wanting a doormat for a partner (and she needs someone to tell her no from time to time and stick to their guns), and as much as she loves to be waited on and get her way, a relationship all about her would be horribly onesided. And she wouldn't like that. Yet I don't think she'd stop using and manipulating Sanji (and of course he'd let her), and that would open up vulnerability to a whole world of new world of hurt. And underneath all the hearts and Nami-swans, he might start feeling resentful. But he'd take it.
And that's a recipe for disaster.
So am I. Hamon is one of my absolute favorites. Not only good, plotty, IC goodness but juicy, detailed worldbuilding goodness too. Sitting down to her writing was sitting down to filet mignon in comparison to the usual fast food fic fare. (Oh lord, the cooking references are popping up like mad now. Sanji really is on the brain.)
I know. I'm particularly looking forward to the next chapter of 'The Nature of Things.' That collaboration between Sinisterbug and herself is really something else.