Oh Yeah Time To Solve Some Mysteries

Sora, for the @vinsmokeartcollab !

i absolutely adore your young sanji au!! If you don't mind, could you write more about him? Like, how did the other crews that know him react to his actual age? Or even some random interactions between the straw hats after finding out!

I'M TRYING TO BE ALIVE AGAIN I PROMISE I AM SO SORRY

Young!Sanji!!! Ahh, lovely boy, precious and soft and absolutely hating everyone find out how old he actually is. He feels no one takes him seriously after they find out. They always falter and stumble and it just...doesn't feel good to him?

I feel like Law finding out would full on make him trip and face plant into the ground because Robin probably mentions it off handedly but knowingly. She knows Sanji doesn't like Law calling him Stealth Black and this seems to be the quickest way for her to stop it. Sanji is walking ahead of them to a tea house somewhere while they're in Wano. Like she specifically phrases it in a way to show how cruel Judge is and when Law full stumbles it makes Sanji look and ask what's wrong. Law is stumbling up onto his feet and is confused and asks Sanji if he's really /seventeen/ and Sanji says he is with a shrug. Law knows he's not the youngest on the crew but understands because of his love of the Sora comics that they were closer to the truth than he had realized, even after the raid suit. Germa was far worse than he knew to even its own children. When they're sat and drinking tea, Law can't help but ask why he is physically not seventeen. Sanji just goes 'ahaha, that's Germa for you' and Law is reeling that the cook is also a child on the crew. Law doesn't really change how he acts with the cook though, he doesn't see his age, only his accomplishments which are numerable even if he was twenty one, he just admires the guy more now.

Sanji is not pleased at how people keep trying to baby him after finding out how old he is and how his family is, the rescue team is especially bad. Chopper keeps asking for more and more check ups on him and Sanji is trying to just deal with it, Zoro seems to be holding back during their spars when he doesn't have to be, when they're out at a bar he keeps stealing Sanji's drinks even though he's not even buzzed yet and Zoro hates wine. Zoro, for the life of him he doesn't want to view the cook differently, but finding out about the experiments and how young Sanji was when he went through everything that led him to Zeff makes him softer. He fucking hates it but he feels like he needs to give the cook an actual chance at being a child that was denied to him. Even if he didn't get a chance he and the other kids at the dojo did play as well as train, especially when they were younger, before he left and he plays with Luffy and Chopper all the time. So when he assists Robin and Nami with the cook and making the guy take breaks. He's started doing the dishes fully on his own and shoving the cook out of the kitchen after meals.

I feel like when Zeff found out his kid wasn't ten, his kid is six and looks ten. Zeff frowns deeply at the boy who acts like a ten year old in a lot of ways, most ways, a fucked up and traumatized one albeit, but he's still ten. Except he's not and Sanji's age really shows when people flirt or try to take him to their ships for activities more fitting for an adult or teenager. Except he's not one of those, he's twelve when someone first propositions him and Zeff loses it at the customer and talks to Sanji about what they're doing, what people want from him and that he gets to decide if he wants to or not. Because Sanji is physically four years older than he actually is and Zeff wants to kill the fucking bastard that did this to the kid. Zeff knows his kid is younger than he looks but he treats the boy like how he holds himself, he's smart, impulsive, thinks he owes his life to Zeff when he doesn't. Goddammit Zeff wants him to act like a damn kid but the kid doesn't want to! Kid feels like he can't because the kid needs to be useful so on the rare nights the Baratie is closed Zeff and the others will take the kid out to the upper deck or the top of the restaurant and teach him the constellations and if the kid falls asleep it's all the better.

The kid will never act his real age, but he has people to make sure he's taken care of. That's more than enough for Sanji.

An informational comic I drew last year for my Comics 2 class, reposting it to my new account (had to jump ship from the old one unfortunately) with some minor grammar changes and learned my lesson in adding watermarks! Happy early pride :)

youd have to pry genderqueer sanji from my cold dead hands

sanji coming back after the timeskip and everyones like this guy didnt change that much smh and then, without a word, Sanji's wearing skirts or makeup or heels.

The outfits get switched up too, sometimes its the usual suit but with some small heels and pretty pink lipstick, or it's his flats in a skirt (100% takes like, a few tries to find a skirt that works with Sanji's fighting style, first one was too tight and the next would ride up as he kicked its like a whole ORDEAL)

anyways no one asks about it because they all Get it, yknow? but it drives (it can be whoever you ship Sanji with but it's Zoro) Zoro fucking mad. Not because he thinks its weird or anything but it's what makes it click that "man, I'm in love with the shitty cook" and it think thats hilarious. Zoro is just chilling one day and then boom, Sanji in a pencil skirt and the mans DONE FOR. WHAT do you mean the cook is hot??? shitty curly brow pervy cook? well whos thr perv now Zoro

Usopp: I'm not carrying Robin, i could drown!!!

Zoro with Luffy:

I'm not dead I swear I am here!!

This time with Zosan Au with Sanji being All Blue himself the protector of all seas

zoro doodle !

This is so funny to me. Reducing them down to their simplest attributes. Turning them into symbols.

I tried my best lolol 😭 Also egghead outfits because why not?

Written for the Zosan Secret Santa 2019 Gift Exchange.

Hi @elalmadelmar, I’m your secret santa! 

Your prompt was “Soulmate AU”, so I wrote just that! I had a great time planning out this fic, and it was really fun to write - not like anything I’m used to doing. I ended up projecting myself onto a lot of these characters, and it was an interesting journey.

That being said, many apologies for the delay. Please enjoy! 

Special thanks to @dailyzosan and @kenbunshokus for hosting.