When I Tell You I SCREECHED…vigilante Dropping Truth Bombs And Beating The Living Shit Out Of A Gang

I am so fucking shook. I don't know what to do with myself. I just read chapter 1044 of One Piece and 😭. What the fuck am I supposed to do? What do I do with this information? I'm happy, but shocked at the same time. Oh my god. This chapter is ridiculous. It's incredible and I feel like crying. I wish I could talk to someone about this because I don't know if I can take all of this information by myself. Help 😭💀🏃.

James would say any publicity is good publicity 😎

you better not be cunty simon petrikov when i get home

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last christmas man me a sand but the very next day man car door hook hand

Who is Yamato?

Okay so maybe you have heard of One Piece trending, or mentions of "Yamato's Trans!" or "Yamato confirmed on Pride month!" and blah blah, and maybe are confused. Or maybe you have heard nothing. so anyways, who is Yamato?

Bear in mind that, being the series as big as it is, I am going to skip A LOT of background information and will mention spoilers and all that stuff. some of it will be things already covered by the anime, and some stuff from the manga, alright?

Here is Yamato.

He is the son of the main villain of the Wano arc "Kaido King of the Beasts." (and an important ally to the heroes.)

You will notice I said He. that is because Yamato is a man. And that is based on the fact that he was first described as Kaido's son. First introduced himself as "kaido's Son". has specifically dreamed of modelling his life after an important male character called "kozuki Oden" and, whenever characters who know of him talk of him, they use male pronouns.

As a result, as you can (sadly) predict, this has created a lot of inflamatory discussions in the One Piece fandom (to put it in charitable terms). With some people reffering to Yamato as trans, while the other half claims this is the west imposing a reading and that it is either a translation issue (some even claiming the translator is changing it when the original japanese does not reffer to him as male, though from what I heard of the original this claim is dubious at best.) or that he is supposed to "grow" out of "wanting to be Oden".

I am not going to discuss the topic of trans issues in general and wont even attempt to pretend I know anything about queer and/or trans issues in japan (tho I can tell you that any claims that "LGBT+ issues is a western only issue" is bull) and I am not even here to tell you wether Yamato is a good example of a transmale character. I am here to tell you that the main source material (the manga) has so far consistently reffered to Yamato as male, with the only exception being very specific situation. Meanwhile, the biggest evidence against Yamato being Trans so far has come from minor side material that, in the great hierarchy of things, probably had no input from the author Eiichiro Oda.

That is great and good, but then why are people saying "Yamato trans confirmed"? because of this scene in Chapter #1052 (yes, you read the number correctly. And Yamato was only introduced relatively recently)

When offered a bath, Yamato very clearly rejected Nami's offer on the basis that "there are no mixed baths" (IE, "well, as a man I cant bath in the women bathroom but thanks for the offer") while Okiku accepts (Kiku is a whole other post, but she is also trans, tho the discussion there was wether she was a crossdresser or trans and I will leave it at that)

And that is followed by (CW Nudity)

Yamato bathes with the men while Okiku bathes with the women.

Why does this confirm it? Because a lot of the ammunition against Yamato being Trans was "it's a bad translation" or that "Yamato will stop being a man when the arc finishes". And now we have something that MOST DEFINITELY CANNOT POSSIBLY BE A MISTRANSLATION because we have HALF A GODDAMN PAGE with Yamato VERY CLEARLY BATHING WITH THE MEN and VERY CLEARLY FEELING MOST COMFORTABLE IN THE MEN BATH.

Do with this info what you will.

Playing Spiritfarer for the first time and, still emotional about Atul and Giovanni, I legit cried tears of joy about Stanley’s existence on my ship

every single one of the 11 supernovas are queer

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thank you so much for getting back to me, the Noibat is adorable, i love it!! if you want to and have time then by all means, i’d love Noivern too!

also, yeah, my pfp is Yamato (i’m so happy people are finally giving my favourite character love and recognition<3)! i love meeting other One Piece fans in the wild and it sounds like you’re enjoying it so far which is awesome

Alabasta is an awesome arc and if you ever do decide to make OP fanart, i’ll be hyped to see it and i’m sure it’ll be great :))

hey there, i just came across your art and it’s adorable!! if you’re into it and still doing requests, do you think you’d mind drawing Noibat and/or Noivern?? they’re two of my favourite Pokémon and don’t get nearly enough love <33 again love your art, keep it up!

🖤 Noibat 🖤

Howdy! Sorry it took me so long to answer your ask, but I also love the Noibat line! I'm a huge sucker for bats : D I'll draw Noivern too and I could tag ya if you like ^×^

Also your profile pic is Yamato right? I havent gotten to his part in One Piece yet but I'm VERY excited to get to his character!

( I've only just gotten to episode 180 and I'm hoping to do some one piece fanart at some point )