Evil Aside, The Vinsmokes Are So Fucking Cool 😭

I will NEVER get over this official art of Kid

All of the jewelry??

The cunty nails???? He should have those all the time I stg. Gouge my eyes out, Queen ✨

As someone that loves ATLA and is recently getting back into the fandom and has also been spending alot of time in the One Piece fandom as off late

Luffy and Aang have a very similar energy that I enjoy. They are just both so precious oh my god 😭. They are so different but they have very similar narrative functions in how they inspire the people around them to embrace silliness and childlike joy.

But also I love the way they move their powers are fun and they love using them. They are constantly using it's ungrained in the way they move Aang loves airbending he's never not jumping around with it and Luffy loves being rubber

Which makes their differences all the more exciting and seeing how that same scale of personality

they both deal with inherited will Aang more literally and directly that Luffy (as of yet) and they interact with that differently. Aang's inherited will is a weight on his shoulders a burden he has to bear while Luffy's is a pleasant surprise to those around, and the source of his desire for freedom. And this comes through in how they interact with the ultimate version of their powers the literal embodiment of these inherited wills. The avatar state and gear 5

The avatar state for Aang represents a destiny he is still to young to bear, it is unpredictable, overwhelming, uncontrollable, it is something to be feared and worried about, it represents a loss of control for him and he struggles to reconcile that kind of destructive power with himself and his values. It scares him, and That’s why it remains lost to him for much of the series till he makes it his own.

Meanwhile for Luffy Gear 5 represents freedom, he is literally being freed from the constraints of reality. It is the culmination of everything he’s ever been. It’s everything we love about luffy turned up to a 100. Gear 5 is silly, goofy, cartoonish, unserious, fun loving, filled with laughter, insanely power and lowkey a little scary. Even tho Luffy is technically transforming into another person (or god) but god it is still him it is everything that has ever embodied him. And Luffy loves to be in it he has so much because as he said it’s him at his freest.

Aang and Luffy have very different character philosophies, priorities and move through the world differently. Aang is very much concern about the people in the general sense while Luffy is very much focused on helping his friends which then spirals to helping the general population, it just so happens that he is very good at making friends

But at their core they are just both fun loving little boys refusing to let their tragedies define them as they and their rag tag group of walking disasters rove the world like criminals, freeing the people from oppression.

thinking about newly dating kidlaw where law is tentative with physical affection at first but after the first few times kid loops an arm around him during movie nights or presses an embarrassed, too-hard kiss to his cheek before leaving for work, law deems it safe to get bold.

he starts craning up for a peck when kid drops his lunch off, stuffs a hand into kid’s back pocket to firmly grip his assets when he walks kid back home from work, even starts nuzzling him and brushing past him without any other word or acknowledgment— like a cat. on one night, two minutes into a lame action movie, law plops himself down into kid’s lap instead of the well-loved couch cushion next to him.

the sudden, violent weight makes kid jolt, landing a little too close to… precious things. he grabs for law, trying to shove him aside so he can reposition and ease his weight away with a “what the fuck,” but law simply fights back, twisting around to push him.

and they wrestle like that for a bit, nipping at each other and snarling and grunting without any real bite. a hand shoving at kid’s shoulder, elbow jabbing into law’s side, tumbling pillows, spilled popcorn. eventually they wind up lying down, law flat on kid’s chest.

“be careful,” kid grumbles lowly, narrowing his eyes at him. his mussed black hair and disheveled clothes are too attractive, but kid’s too appalled to say anything. “since when were you this fucking annoying?”

law simply levels him with an unimpressed yet overwhelmingly fond look. “when have we ever been careful with each other?”

and kid can’t help but bark out a laugh, smothering an exasperated grin into the crook of law’s neck as he roots him to his body by the waist.

Ok so let’s talk about a fairly well known OP Theory,

Is Kid a Vegapunk Satellite?

(I like to believe he is but I’m only 70% sure if this theory)

Now let’s talk (possible) history

So I believe Vegapunk made Kid to express all his anger so it wouldn’t blind HIS work. So after he made him, he left him somewhere far far away from Egghead (like in the South Blue)

Why would Vegapunk choose to leave his anger satellite on a scrap heap, no government protection island? Because the constant stress of possible danger and rude islanders is a perfect place for Anger to fester and stress to build. (An unnecessary evil from Vegapunk) but Anger can’t build and fester on a technical paradise.

Vegapunk probably never planned that Kid would ever even leave his island, nonetheless the South Blue itself to enter the Grand Line. When he first read about Kid’s atrocities, he was probably having a visceral reaction (not to the violence, Kid’s the anger part of the brain) but to the fact that he was making headway into the Grandline and became a Supernova.

What Vegapunk didn’t know while Anger can blind you, spite is also a pretty big motivator for angry people. He didn’t understand the idea that his satellite he made to seethe on an island somewhere would have goals and aspirations (like claiming the One Piece).

Now let’s move onto my other point, the number 7 on the Damned Punk

(Not to mention this is an actual Railgun, as in a FUTURE GUN)

Now why, why would Kid put a 07 there? There was no reason to add a 07 and yet he did, as if it was a type of instinct to put it on a creation he was proud of. Kinda like the Satellites

(Who also share the same Number system as Kid, 0 than a number.)

And while we’re on the topic of the other satellites, let’s draw some comparisons between Shaka and Killer’s mask.

It’s (somewhat) safe to assume Kid might’ve designed Killer’s mask as it seems to fit almost perfectly on him and shows none of his face (the exact specifications that Killer would probably want). It’s smooth and rounded kinda like Shaka’s and that beard sticking out almost resembles Shaka’s lower mask.

Now this point doesn’t have much meaning but it is interesting how similar they are.

Now you may ask “what about child kid, we’ve seen him and he was already on the island?” Well whose to say Vegapunk didn’t drop him off on that island even younger?

(Look he’s even holding a wrench and a toy robot he probably built himself.)

Childhood is also a person’s most impressionable time, so placing him in a negative environment at a young age was crucial to making him a bitter and angry so the others don’t feel that. (Seriously it’s unnecessarily cruel)

Now let’s talk about another point, Kid’s Face

Look at his face it’s got a sort of Perma-Malice to it, wouldn’t you agree? Like his face was made to feel every bad emotion of a person. Now let’s take a look at his smile, clearly scary and kinda unnerving, as if he’s not supposed to smile. Now let’s compare that smile to the grimace on the right, it looks almost perfect, as if that’s how his face should look. I’m fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Kid smile while he wasn’t being malicious in some way.

It’s like the only reason he smiles is to piss off his enemies and look smug, meanwhile that grimace is a fairly common face that we’ve seen many a time whether pissed off or sad. It’d make sense for the Satellite of Anger to have a face more inclined to make a resting bitch face.

Anyways I think if Kid had made it to Egghead, the Satellites would be very tense around him. Kinda like how you’d tense up if you don’t want someone to figure out a secret but they’re on the tip of figuring it out. Like “please, please just leave. Don’t make eye contact with us”.

Also Kid looks vaguely like Lilith, what with the both of them having kinda defined chins. Kid’s chin is more square than Lilith’s but that smile is almost a dead ringer

(And you got to admit they look vaguely like siblings for some reason.)

Last point I have here is his devil fruit, we know Kid got it at a fairly young age and that’s why he’s so adept at using it but we also can assume that Kid did a bunch of experimentation with it. Seeing what he could and couldn’t do and all his limitations, just like a scientist would.

It got to the point where Kid was 100% confident in the idea that he could make his Punk Rotten

A giant robot made of magnetized metal (kinda like the fake sea kings of the Vegapunks). Kid was so confident in his abilities to make this thing because he’s tested himself multiple times and trained himself to the peak of his devil fruit.

(Idk I like this theory and I think I’d be cool with it if it were true.)

While I do like some of the points you make, I can't say I really like this theory at all to be honest. It seems too coincidental and there's a fair amount of holes in it, the biggest of which being that the satellites were only conceptualized and created during the timeskip. Plus why would a perfectionist like Vegapunk pull a Star Wars and release a number 7 satellite decades before 1-6 were made? If we're talking about Kid representing spite, Atlas already covers that because a lot of her job is griping about her frustrations about not having enough resources to patent inventions and then take out those frustrations through violence. As for Kid not smiling in a way that doesn't look malicious, there's plenty of other characters who do that too, Doflamingo and Blackbeard being some of the most prominent.

You can also count Kaido in that, barring his goofy drunk expressions.

But the real reason why I'm not a fan of Kid being a Vegapunk is that a big part of his appeal lies in how he doesn't have some secret past. He's not related to anyone famous, he didn't have a mythical Devil Fruit or a warlord being an influential figure in his childhood. He was just a scrappy kid with a knack for robotics on some scrap island in the middle of nowhere who fought hard and viciously for everything he had and got to the top by his own merits. Vegapunk is far from the only genius in the One Piece world, Franky was an engineering prodigy long before he ever looked at Vegapunk's blueprints in Baltigo.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the South Blue had a reputation for being home to a lot of technicians and shipwrights.

One of my favorite details about Kid is how his nose is always scrunched. That man is snarling at all times he's so feral.

Current status

the grip kid would have on society if he actually had canines

I head a sudden itch to draw a bunch of Law and Sanji pics... Gladly I have number of ref pictures with couples saved on Pinterest...

Guess this is how my studies attempt look like.

I could not possibly pass by this one.

the pinterest ref https://pin.it/1vsbT49ap

I tried to find the source of the pin but failed. :(

Haha... I always forget to sign my works :) this one too.

They're all I think about