April is the Cruelest Month 2026
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It is, Shamrock will admit, a not insignificant concern to realize he recognizes the island they’ve been directed to visit in the search for Lord Imu’s missing offspring.
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- Part 1 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
- Part 5 of hunger in my blood
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and away the wind howls (and Howls, and Howls) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
02 Apr 2026
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And what would mon cherie like for her bedtime story tonight, hm? A tale about the Sunshine Captain? The Tangerine Fairy or the Moss Knight?
Fish Wizard!
Tch, I should have known. Alright, budge up, let’s get comfortable here. Now then. A long, looong time ago, there was a fearsome pirate known as Red-Leg, who fought with his feet, and could smash an enemy ship clean in half with one kick! Now he was a mean old man, who thought he’d be fighting until the day he died, searching for his dream-
The All Blue!
Are you telling this story or am I?
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- Part 3 of Alt Fate Sea Sirens AU
- Part 2 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
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all is said and done (you've wound up, a skeleton) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
04 Apr 2026
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Banchina will be the first to admit, Mister Weaver-of-Fate’s labyrinth of tunnels give her the goosebumps.
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- Part 4 of Alt Fate Sea Sirens AU
- Part 3 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
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there's not enough rope (To Tie Me Down) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
05 Apr 2026
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The trip passes in a haze of pain and delirium.
At times, Sora is aware of her little girl sitting close by, playing with her hair, something Reiju hasn’t done since Judge’s modifications began in earnest the year before. Every so often, there are arms holding her down as she thrashes, gasping, crying out, begging for faceless doctors to leave her children alone. Once, and only once, does Sora drift into vague awareness of her hand being held in cold, cold fingers, a voice whispering “I’ll save them. I swear. I’m going to save all of you.”
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At the very least, Shanks still being unconscious means his Voice is quiet, hardly more than a faint whisper to catch anyone’s attention. It means he isn’t trying to help, nevermind the fact he can hardly put one foot in front of the other right now, let alone move with the speed and precision it will take to successfully slip out of the Holy Land. Shamrock has been in training to become a Knight of God, to become Father’s right hand, practically all twelve years his life - a handful of paltry swordsmanship and haki lessons from uncouth pirates can hardly measure up to that, no matter what inane statements Shanks will insist upon saying out loud at the least opportune times.
This is for your own good
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“If this is an attempt to attract your errant twin’s attention, I will not tolerate such foolhardiness.” Efforts to retrieve the second Figarland son ceased years ago, when Shanks himself briefly attacked Saint Garling in defense of some other whelp the Roger Pirates kept aboard their ship. Shamrock has never been given all the details, but suffice to say, his brother suitably frustrated their father to the point that the man grows cold and furious any time his renegade child is mentioned.
Which means that this discussion has moved from unstable ground to the narrowest sliver of already-cracked ice.
But.
(In the deepest corner of his heart, Shamrock has never wanted anything besides the chance to bring his brother home.)
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vintage misery (think it looked better on me) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
15 Apr 2026
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Zeff knows his boy.
Always knew there was more to his backstory than just the Orbit, too, even if Sanji clammed up tighter than any shellfish in the sea rather than drop a single hint.
Glaring up into a face he knows, bearing an utterly indifferent expression, being worn by some musclehead with green slicked-back hair and a fancy shiny outfit, Zeff is pretty sure he’s about to get hit with a whole lot more than any mere hint.
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There is, certainly, a physical resemblance - all the stronger for someone who encountered Gol in the days before carefully groomed facial hair became his defining feature. For all that the boy is hunched forward, covered in filth and mottled bruising, grey eyes remain sharp, wary, glancing around the assembled crowd before settling on Garling himself. Correctly identifying him as the greatest power in the room, no doubt.
Any lingering doubt as to the pirate’s parentage vanishes when he opens his mouth. “Well you aren’t a marine. They don’t let folks have hair that weird.”
Horrified silence descends across the hall, swift as a guillotine.
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“But that would be so boring,” Roger laughs, ducking Garp’s punch and swinging upwards with the hilt of his sword, clipping Garp on his chin hard enough to knock him back a few steps. “But hey, enough with the usual recruitment speech, I owe you some congratulations!”
“For what,” Garp spits back, taking a moment to rub at his jaw before jumping back into the fight.
“Heard you’re a dad now!”
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- Part 2 of Brothers of Gold
- Part 9 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
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footsteps of another (learn things you never knew) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
17 Apr 2026
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“Her own,” Ace snaps, glaring at Zeff even as he helps the eggplant up onto the bench as well, Nojiko busy setting down the canvas sack full of treasure. “Her name’s Oro. And you’d better be nice to her while you’re onboard.”
Zeff’s too tired to bristle at a feisty little radish taking that tone with him, but he does raise a single judgemental eyebrow. Before he can take the brat to task or say I’m always nice towards a lady, though, another young voice laughs. From a door across the room, two more kids appear: another girl with blue hair, a few shades darker than Nojiko’s while her skin’s a fair bit lighter, and slumped against her a pale boy with blond curls and linen bandages wrapped around his chest. “Ace, you’re telling someone else to be polite?”
Heh. Brat’s face turns just as bright red as his shirt. “Shut up, Sabo.”
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- Part 4 of All Aboard Oro AU
- Part 10 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
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everything you have (and what's left after that, too) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
18 Apr 2026
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He takes in the gossip. The hushed whispers and idle speculation. A handful of matching descriptions and eager accounts of days gone by. Several months now, the rumors have been circulating, and there finally feels like enough of something tangible to act upon.
“So- wait, we aren’t just going to find the Pirate King’s ship and claim it?”
“Of course not. Whatever powerful modifications and weaponry that vessel must carry, we need to be smart about this. Hence, a raid or two, so that we have some proper tribute to offer it.”
His Black Cat officers share baffled looks. “Treasure...?”
“No,” Kuro hums, claws tapping against his desk, against the fifteen year old newspaper article with a photograph of the Oro Jackson in all its terrifying splendor splashed across the page. “Children.”
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- Part 11 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
- Part 5 of All Aboard Oro AU
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run fast for your father (fast for your mother) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
20 Apr 2026
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At first, Sanji is too focused on plating an order to pay attention to someone getting loud and pissy in the dining room. The old geezer stomps out, grumbling, and that’s generally a sign that everything will be just fine within a few minutes.
Instead, right as he finishes with the last line of artfully arranged sauce, Sanji jumps at the sound of a BANG.
(Everybody and their best friend has written a de-aged Sanji fic. But what about de-aged Zeff?)
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- Part 12 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
- Part 71 of Help, I've fallen into One Piece hell and can't get back out
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thought I was prepared (If I Cross the Line) by Triscribe
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
20 Apr 2026
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Call it any number of things, fate, luck, sheer fucking coincidence, but he’s in the right place at the right time to catch someone hollering about Gold Roger’s son being put up for sale.
Even if it’s all a pack of lies, no kid deserves the fate that’s coming from being a look-alike with Roger. Shanks finds his feet moving of their own accord, the whole world narrowing to just this thin, insipid man, beaming from ear to ear as he talks about an auction for a child.
“What,” Shanks drawls in his best ‘Saint Fearsome Figarland’ voice, “Is this nonsense?”
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- Part 13 of April is the Cruelest Month 2026
- Part 72 of Help, I've fallen into One Piece hell and can't get back out