For the Lulz.

[eiliem]

I have decided that I will not consider Ace to be truly, completely, irrevocably dead until there is a party and he is not in attendance.

I just can't tell if this makes me delusional, or cynical after the Pell thing (I was happy he survived! I just... stopped believing people actually died in One Piece. Except in flashbacks.), or just really really hopeful. O_o

I used to laugh at the fans who insisted "So-and-so is not dead! He's just... hiding. Under the table.... On his aunt's farm in New Zealand."


So. In the interests of doing this thoroughly:

-Ace isn't dead, he's just having a long-delayed fit of narcolepsy.

-His Vivre Card isn't gone, it's just really really small!

-He's only mostly dead.

-That wasn't blood on Luffy's hands, it was tomato juice.

-Ace didn't die, Whitebeard didn't get half his face burned off, and Luffy didn't fail: all of Impel Down and Marinford was just a shroom-induced hallucination. Luffy's still on Kuja.



Finally: I am mourning a mustache.

Oda, I would like my sanity back now. Thank you. jk, it's totally yours, only - make things gleeful again, okay?


Oh what the hell. I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES *CLAPS*

Comments

[shayera.livejournal.com]

I was browsing a Japanese fangirl blog, where she had written a lot of thought-out reasons why Ace shouldn't be really dead, and this one struck me, because I hadn't considered it before...

The title of chapter 574 is "The death of Portgas D Ace".
What is the last thing we hear in that chapter? It's the flashback to Rouge, saying "His name is Gol D Ace."

...looking at it that way, it almost seems like the death of Portgas D Ace isn't necessarily the death of Gol D Ace, because Portgas isn't his real name! (I'm not sure if I'm picturing something like naye's fic or something completely different, but. Food for thought! :D)

[shayera.livejournal.com]

Thinking about it some more, I made it into a post. Because I like the idea so much. ^_^

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

-He's only mostly dead.

-That wasn't blood on Luffy's hands, it was tomato juice.

xDDDDD
Miracle Max! It´s for a noble and worthy cause, I swear!
(You made me laugh about Ace´ death. Even though I´m past denial. Wow.)

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

&hearts

MIRACLE MAX! \o/ Come fix Ace please?

I'm glad I made you laugh! &hearts I am... so deep in denial. So very, very deep o.O Not quite tomato-juice deep, or shroom deep. But I laugh at myself anyways because, ahaha, denial. I am in it. :P

[whensdayaddams.livejournal.com]

you are one of the most amusing people i've had the honor of reading, i actually human again after this acetastrophe

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Thank you. :) I'm glad you enjoyed the crack. Laughing cures all and whatnot.

And - ahaha, "acetastrophe"... that is... a very accurate description. :(

Although Odatastrophy might work too >_< *shakes fist*

He will make it better! He will.

Eventually.

[ukiiukii.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that I really want ANY of these to happen? Honestly I'm hoping for the mushroom-hallucination option.



Also: I think it'll be hard to find a One Piece fan that isn't mourning that moustache. God knows I am.

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

XP

I, honestly, when the raw came out and I saw people were freaking out, I thought, oh... the Vivre Card will disappear and make it look like Ace is dead but there will be Vigour Hormones or... something. Oda is just messing with us.

But then there was the Thank you for loving me and Ace smiled and I went o___o wait, what?! He. Did he. Just. Kill Ace?

And now I'm somewhere in-between. That was... it was a beautiful death scene (except for, you know, the death part) but I just... really don't want to believe that's it, you know? Complete failure after everything? Luffy has never sacrificed so much before, so many people made so many sacrifices! For them all to just fail after all that... something in my gut is just, refusing ^^;

So I laugh at myself. And put off trying to convince myself that this is really really it until things are better. Because they will be. Eventually.

*hugs*

[naye]

Long-delayed fit of narcolepsy YES. And that's what he felt coming on! And it fooled his vivre card too (it's still around but REALLY TINY) and all he needs is to hibernate for a while and he'll be FINE.

Yes.

Because the alternative is unthinkable. (I have been a member of Clan Denial since the DAWN OF FANDOM. Or at least for 14 years, and I have the e-mail tagline to prove it. XD)

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

Bwah - I like your theory XD

I... I'm really struggling with myself. I usually hate the "bringing characters back from the dead" trope ^^; (aha - this is why I will never be able to read Dragonball. Ever) But I just. Can't accept that this is it. That after all this Luffy is going to fail utterly. And also I am not finished with Ace's character! I still have questions! And also he needs to have ridiculous mad adventures with his brother. So.

So I do not know what to think. Except that once Oda is through torturing us he will make things better. *clings to this*

(Ooo? For which character/fandom did you first join Clan Denial?)

[wispyhollow.livejournal.com]

OFFICIALLY, WE HAVE ALL JUST LOST IT FROM THE RESULTANT GRIEF ;-;

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

Clearly.

Except I was in denial before I even read the chapter (the title? Did not buy it. Am still not buying it) And I've never really got out of denial. Except for once in the middle of the night when I got up and wrote an angsty drabble for the chaos thread.

I was back in by morning.

[arcielfreeder.livejournal.com]

I'm with you in believing Ace is not dead!!!! We're in denial!!! I also read shayera's comment. That could be!

Ace is just... resting and yeah! Narcolepsy like you said! But not dead! he can't right? The vivre card is the size of a microscopic thing but it hasn't disappeared yet, no? Just...

*crosses fingers and still believes event though new chapters are coming in...*

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

*CLIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGS*

I don't even know what I'm thinking anymore. I... ;_____;

*rereads resolution not to believe he's dead till things are better* Right. Okay. He's not dead. Nope. Not. Dead.

Not dead not dead not dead not dead not dead

*clings*

Not dead? Not dead. Right. eeevil heartbreaking icon. Eeeevil. ;_; &hearts

[arcielfreeder.livejournal.com]

Ironically, even though Ace is there sleeping eternally on that floor. There's still a part of me that is until now-- denying that he's dead. Sigh.

Yes. This icon is pretty evil. ;____;

[ah-18.livejournal.com]

Maybe he's dead *stab in the heart* but will return *it's raining sakura flowers*! Hope has grown now since reading more theories about Ace's possible revival after chapter 578.

I seriously have lost it since chapter 574. Ah, who needs sanity. >___>

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

:D

He's dead... we're just... refusing to believe that it'll be permanent.

Because Oda can't possibly be that cruel.

Sanity is greatly overestimated. And kind of a lost cause if you're reading One Piece. Alas, poor sanity, I knew it Horatio.

...yeah, you won't find anyone sane in these parts. Glory in the SHROOMS OF LAUGHTER AND MADNESS! \o/