i'm so pleased you liked it so much!! :')) you're most welcome & thank you for the enthusiastic commentary (the prompt is just the most awful thought but it's so easy to imagine the ripple effect, god, especially since i feel very strongly about luffy being the ~hand of history and the will of the universe, the meta-narratives of one piece and how every timeline would tend to push all these people together is my favorite thing to think about. a timeline that breaks because somehow luffy is not longer in it is, naturally, just as interesting to consider)