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onepiece_300Title: Subtle Influence.
Media: Fic
Spoiler(s): Only if you can seriously claim you don’t know these characters
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 296
Prompt: fix you
Character(s): Shanks, Mihawk
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She wasn’t the first woman to challenge him but she was the first who could hold her own.
She was also the first challenger that dragged him out for drinks afterwards and pulled him into the middle of raucous party leaving the greatest swordsman in the world incredibly confused.
It was a situation he was unfamiliar with.
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It was with some mortification that he realised the red headed woman was his best friend. When had that happened?
But when she slung her arm across his shoulder and toasted once more he decided that he didn’t mind so much.
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The first time he saw her without her arm she had shrugged apologetically and said she didn’t think she could spar with him right now.
He levelled her with a sharp look. “Tell me.”
She did.
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He was angry at her carelessness. He would have dismissed it as maternal instinct but Shanks was the type to throw herself into the jaws of the beast for a loved one.
It was slightly subtle but he could see from her movements, she had gotten more serious. She was determined to be standing at the top when Luffy came to see her and finally going to stop holding back
He still reprimanded her for her carelessness.
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She was wearing his hat claiming that she missed her hat and needed to remind herself of the joys of a nice hat.
The Yonkou paused and looked at him.
“You’ve changed,” she murmured “You’re warmer than you used to be.”
He stared at her flatly.
“You’ve become more serious about your responsibilities.”
“Ah, Mihawk. You’re clearly an excellent influence.”
“And you’re a bad one.”
Shanks grinned sideways. “Bonds between people and all that. It helps us grow, right?”
Mihawk smiled.
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A/N: I am so sorry, I really am but I’m on a gender bendering kick right now which anyone who follows my journal or ff.net could tell you. XD
Pretty looses interpretation of the prompt so I feel the need for justification. The idea is simply that their friendship/relationship/whatever your little shipper minds want it to be helps them both to grow. She gets him to loosen up and care for others a bit more and he reminds her that certain things need a bit of seriousness. :D Yeah, I’m pushing it but I still had fun.
I’m sure someone will do this prompt better (because I was unable to write the Merry fic I wanted to. :C )
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Date: 2010-04-04 08:37 pm (UTC)It's so adorable! Thanks!
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Date: 2010-04-04 08:58 pm (UTC)Shanks is so awesome that he improves everything he appears in. (curiously Luffy also does this...)
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Date: 2010-04-10 04:09 pm (UTC)Nice. ^^
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Date: 2010-04-10 04:21 pm (UTC)Take it from someone who ships everything, it's a hell of a lot of fun. XD
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Date: 2010-06-10 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-10 09:20 am (UTC)