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It was Liùsaidh’s turn to be vulnerable with her crush this evening. Of course, my brain didn’t think about it until after the verbal rp, but I shared the concept with Pookie (hi buddy) and based on their thoughts I ended up sharing them with our DM. Twas well-received and our crush was very receptive to Liù sharing her fears entangled with the upcoming missions. Also… he cupped her face and gave her a kiss on the forehead 🥺 Which I think for their relationship (however it ends up) is more fitting than going straight to bed (no shame, she has done that before LMAO). Later, when they got into combat, Liù casted “Guardian of Faith” and DM took the opportunity to describe the guardian as looking “eerily like [crush]”. Big fan, BIG FAN of all this.
i am so in love with Mihawk, it’s not even funny anymore. like wtf i’m going insane
he’s a 43yr old goth, gay swordsman, who wields a sword with a giant (and extra asf) jeweled up cross that’s quite literally almost as big as he himself, wearing possibly one of the most actively homoerotic and goth outfits in all of One Piece —which is saying something— with his goddamn tits out AND a cross necklace that’s actually a small dagger. This mf has pitch black hair, a goatee and dumbass sideburns and moustache he somehow pulls off, golden double-ringed eyes, and a constant resting bitch face (which just means whenever he smirks or actually smiles (OR LAUGHS HHH) it hits 10x harder)
Mr. “i totally have a thing (😏) going on with a Yonko, one of the literal most powerful people in the world, and have the confidence and ability to act dismissive and annoyed by it”, who also randomly accidentally adopted a pastel goth ghost lesbian and an endearingly dumb, jock swordsman gay who just so happens to be the guy who promised to defeat him. they both just show up at the motherfucking castle he lives in his house and he can’t be bothered to kick them out so they just move in and he takes care of and does stuff with them.
He can’t be bothered to show up to meetings for his job for the literal government, and when he does he pretends to be asleep. He naps in his coffin boat —that’s only light source is his weird ass abundance of candles— and if anyone wakes him up he just cuts their fucking ship in half- because he can and how fucking dare they wake him up? he doesn’t actually care about his job for the government and he only took it to get them off his back, and he’s most likely the strongest of all the warlords (AN: excluding Blackbeard cuz i hate him and i like pretending he doesn’t exist :3)
he’s weirdly yet charmingly posh, he makes reading the newspaper look regal, he farms with the murderous monkeys on his island that he tamed, he’s majestic as all fuck, absolutely gorgeous and the goddamn best swordsman in the world
:)
Graves + Shadows Headcanons Part 3 [Part 1] [Part 2] Words: 766
Praise for DAYS. Did Shadow 5-8 get a good shot on the target? Punch in the shoulder at the end of the mission and a bright grin “That’s what I’m talkin’ about, 5-8!”,
“Atta’girl, 6-12, I couldn’t’ve done that better myself.”
“Keep it up, 10-4!” Reaches over and brings them into a side hug and ruffles their hair like a proud dad.
Coming back to Graves having a lot of respect for his soldiers, remember that scene in SWCW where it's like
"We're clones, sir, we're meant to be expendable..." "Not to me."
Yeah that's Graves.
He has kept every set of dog tags that belonged to Shadows that died during missions. They’re kept locked away in a box, safely tucked away.
A lot of Shadows were previously mercenaries, even criminals, but they are good at what they do which is why they get hired in the first place. Not to mention that Graves sees hiring them as a way to give them a second chance at life.
Shepherd has learnt that the way to make Graves do what he wants is by threatening his Shadows. He could very easily dissolve the entire company in a day and expose Graves for technically harbouring wanted criminals.
Yes, Shepherd called him a ‘dog with a bone’, but he’s more like a Dragon with a hoard. His hoard being his soldiers.
Some rando who was visiting the base once snapped at a Shadow, calling them a ‘stupid fucking mercenary’. That was his mistake when Graves had to be restrained by 3 of his own men.
“What the fuck did you just say to them? You’d best walk outta my base before I make you leave in a goddamn body bag!”
As shown above, he goes absolutely feral if someone ever insults any of his soldiers.
“Be quiet, sergeant, your betters are talking.” Said some hoity Commander who hasn’t stepped foot in a battlefield in over a decade. Suddenly, it feels like all the air in the room has been sucked out like a vacuum. All eyes go to Graves as he glares long and hard at the man.
“Apologise. Now.” “What–” “I said: apologise, ‘fore I show you my own version of ‘southern hospitality’.”
Compulsory language lessons. Every Shadow has to know at least 2 languages, English and another language of their choosing. Missions sometimes rely heavily on communication, so fluency in different languages is important.
Graves knows several languages himself, but his pronunciation is downright awful. Sometimes he makes his accent worse because it’s funny watching the horror in people’s eyes when he speaks.
One of his Shadows has a tendency of crawling around in the vents in the base and because he’s not really harming anyone, Graves lets him do as he pleases. Because of the habit, however, and the fact he’s somehow able to go around almost silently through the metal vents, he’s earned an affectionate nickname amongst the Shadows; Roach.
Graves doesn’t get along with family. Don’t get him wrong, he has some semblance of respect for his Momma cause she taught him good manners and other things like how to cut hair and how to cook a hearty meal for 12 people, but she was a narcissistic bitch when it came down to it and he took a lot of pleasure cutting her out of his life the second he was able to.
He never met his father, and doesn’t much care for him, either.
Paid leave/Holidays? Check. Paternity/Maternity leave? Check. Bed ed and board? Check. Medical and dental plan? You know it. Any possible benefit that can come with a job, being a Shadow has.
No matter what they’re doing, if Graves does a run up to them, they will always catch their Commander.
Is the first or last port of call when a fight/argument breaks out. It depends on how out of hand it's gotten in the space of about 15 minutes. Usually people don’t want to interrupt whatever the Commander’s doing and invoke his wrath.
“They started it!” “Well I’m endin’ it!”
Has the type of authority that if he were to suddenly yell at a recruit “Drop it. Now!” Everyone in earshot would absolutely drop whatever they were holding even if the comment wasn’t directed at them.
There’s a Shadow that’s the largest of the entire company– but he is the biggest scaredy cat and coward anyone has ever met, which makes people wonder why he’s even in Shadow Company. The reality is that, despite being a coward, he’s damn intimidating. Perfect for him to shadow hover behind Graves during mission briefs and so forth.
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He'd be the type to say "bruh" regularly
Silly doodles from Tommy’s video today, they’re kinda messy but i really like my Lizzie design she turned out so cute!
here’s some better quality closeups :)