Something Something Drunk On A Rhythm By Gothic Tropic Is A Zolu Song

So I’m planning on making a one piece vampire dnd-ish AU and I need help.

The vampire part is a bit complicated but the gist of it is, you have three types of vampires, devils, damned and donors. Devils are those born from two vampires, Donors are also born from two vampires, but their blood can turn others into vampires. Regular vampire strengths and weaknesses for them. Damned are the ones who turn into vampires by drinking blood and get various powers( this Au’s version of devil fruit users). Damned aren’t affected by the sun.

I say dnd-ish cause I really like all the concept with the classes so I’m using those, but not the whole world lore. Aside from a few google searches I don’t know much about the different classes.

I want to give all the straw hats classes to help with the lore of the Au. So far this is what I got:

Usopp: Archer-Ranger, but he still uses his sling shot, I chose this for obvious reasons.

Nami: elementalist, from what I understand they usually have one max two types of elements, but because of Nami’s weather related abilities in the anime I’m thinking of just letting her have 4 elements but be more of a glass canon.

Robin: sorcerer(?) who specializes in rune magic, gonna combine rune with poneglyph lore. I think her devil fruit power works well with rune magic.

My biggest problem is with the close range combat types, I’m just overwhelmed with the options. I’ll give a brief description for each crew member.

Luffy is obviously a damned, but he doesn’t regularly drink blood like other vampires. Instead he eats copious amounts of food.

Zoro an ex-mercenary, also known as Vampire hunter Zoro. He just hunted vampires because they were the jobs with the biggest pay. He isn’t affiliated to any group.

Sanji is the escaped prince of the germa kingdom. The germa family are descendants of dragons and after many experiments ichiji, Niji and Yonji can all turn into dragons, Sanji is the only one who doesn’t have this power but he still has increased durability, fire resistance and strength.

Jimbei is a sea monster from Sabaody lagoon

Brook won’t be a vampire he’ll just be some type of undead creature. I like the idea that he turned into an undead by accident.

Chopper will be a reverse weredeer so he turns into a human on the full moon. Because he turned part vampire as a reindeer, when he turns into a human he loses all his power. All his transformations are a result of the vampire blood, he was just born as a reverse weredeer.

Franky i have no idea, he’s just Franky, but with a steampunk aesthetic, he adds gears and pipes just to make stuff look cooler but they’re completely unnecessary.

If any of y’all are still reading I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!

French Sanji is already a gem of a headcannon, now imagine that paired with French Canadian Chopper.

Someone: compliments Chopper

Chopper blushing: Tabarnac t’a pas besoin d’dire ça espèce de cul.

Straw hats: all turn to Sanji because he’s supposed to speak French

Sanji: I have no idea what he just said.

Happy birthday to bbg Sanji who deserves as much love as he gives.

The other day my friend tried to start a super deep conversation with me, but she was having trouble verbalizing her thoughts. So my dumb ass though it was like a complete the sentence thing.

Her: Is your desire to win… as big as…

Me: An elephant?

I don’t know what the shape thing is called but it’s shapy and I love it

Does anybody else have the one ship where it’s like yeah I ship A and B, I also ship B and C, I don’t ship A and C, but I do ship A and C if we’re talking about shipping A, B plus C. That’s Zosanlu for me. A, B, C respectively, Zoro, Luffy and Sanji.

Based on an image I found of Van Halen. First time I try to do something like this proud of the result tho.

In a perfect world, Bon clay and Brook would meet, become an unstoppable chaotic duo, then become bitter enemies because one ships zosan and the other zolu.

Looking at this art made me think :

Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Brook - gryffindor

Robin, Franky, - ravenclaw

Sanji, Chopper, Jinbei - hufflepuff

Nami - slytherin

Fight me

Im a sucker for an out there Au, and by out there I mean an Au where you can barely recognize the setting of the original work.

So until I figure out how to properly link fanfics from ao3 on here, voici 2 poor summaries of “out there” Zolu Aus I love (or read the tags they do a much better job then me) :

The first, Deadhouse by YamatosSenpai

Zombie Au 10/10, been a minute since I’ve read it, but it just good okay. I don’t care about the zombie shows, but this made me care about the zombies. It actually made me worry about who was gonna make it or not, and I maybe cried a few times. Slow burn, cause that’s how I like it. Also featuring some Frobin and Nami x Usopp. Now, I don’t ship Nami and Usopp, BUT this fic did every single ship and character dynamic so well it just felt wrong not to root for them.

And the second, Adventures as a Space Pirate: Origin by DivineSleep_24

Space pirate Au, nuff said.

I do have to mention that they’re both really long. DeadHouse has 221,486 words with 67 chapters. Adventures as a space pirate is a trilogy. I’m on chapter 18 of 23 of the first book that has 153,806 words. They both have a sort of mystery aspect to them and do a great job of keeping you intrigued while exploring the worlds they’re set in.

Just go read them they’re good