Tiny!Ace & Tinier!Luffy the 8th!
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eiliemTitle: Brother of the Year
Characters: Tiny!Ace, Tinier!Luffy, Dadan, Garp
Pairings: Luffy/beetle, Ace/older-brother-complex
Rating: G
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naye & shayera
Wrote this fornaye after I traumatized her with horrible, evil angsty fic of DOOM.
Edit: just fixed up a few things ^^ Also I have the best betas in the world! &hearts
Brother of the Year
The first time Luffy comes crying to him, Ace doesn’t know what to do.
Luffy. Crying. And, well, he’s not bawling but – Ace has seen him fall down stairs and get his hand stuck in door jams and accidentally wade into briar patches (and nearly drown, oh god) without so much as a whimper.
And now he’s sniffling and looking...spooked. Spooked is a strange and unnatural look on Luffy.
So Ace pats him on the back a little and murmurs something reassuring – and Luffy is too spooked to even tell him what’s wrong – and gives him a tissue to wipe his nose. He waits until Luffy calms down a bit, sticky hands unclenching a bit from Ace’s shirt, breathing evening out, and leaves him with the beetle he’d caught and carefully hidden away for instances in which Luffy-bribing was required.
Then he goes straight to Dadan and Gramps and freaks out.
“He’s crying and I don’t know what’s wrong and he’s scared and Luffy is never scared of anything!”
Dadan waits until Ace stops hyperventilating and goes and checks up on Luffy, whose beetle-induced glee can now be heard resonating throughout the house. Gramps, half-way out the door to catch the ship that will take him to whatever it is Gramps does when he isn't visiting them, gives him that Look he always does when Ace does something different or unexpected in training. Then he grins at Ace and thumps him affectionately on the head - take care of your brother - and leaves.
Ace doesn’t know what Dadan says to Luffy, or if Luffy says anything, but his little brother is back to his normal, fearless, stupid – Luffy those are not for eating! – self and Ace doesn’t know what to think, but maybe it’s just more Luffy weirdness.
The next time Luffy comes crying to him, he’s at least a little prepared.
He decides to try a hug this time. Hugs are comforting, right? Even if the way Luffy clings to him makes Ace think the world is ending.
It works, at least – his little brother calms down much faster this time, starts laughing at the new beetle Ace was raising in his drawer all the sooner.
He doesn’t run to Dadan this time. Luffy had come to Ace, after all, and he thinks there’s probably nothing their guardian – or grandfather, here for another visit – could do for Luffy that Ace can’t. So he stays and watches Luffy play with the beetle and then helps him wash up when the beetle sprays nasty stuff all over Luffy’s hands before flying off. Oops.
The third time Luffy comes crying to him, late one afternoon when Ace is sticky and sweaty and generally gross from training with Gramps, Ace has a plan.
It’s not the best plan, because it doesn’t involve Luffy not crying in the first place, but it’s a good plan.
Ace bundles the two of them into his bed and rocks Luffy a bit, like he only distantly remembers Dadan and Gramps having done for him, before he even had a little brother. And then he asks Luffy to tell him a story about Shanks.
Luffy lights up like a firework, tears and fears forgotten, happy happy happy to talk about his hero.
Ace wins at life.
Or at least that’s what he thinks until the day Luffy doesn’t come crying to him.
Gramps is over for a visit again, and training. And this time, he’s going to train Ace and Luffy together!
Ace likes the training, even if it’s scary sometimes and hard and hurts a bit. It’s fun, in a way, and challenging.
But Luffy is fidgety and distracted and not paying attention – because there are birds singing and insects flying around and life happening and Luffy is so easily sidetracked.
Gramps, predictably, looses patience when he turns from Ace to see Luffy crouched down and poking, fascinated, at something on the ground. “Luffy, pay attention to your grandpa when he’s teaching you things!” And smacks him upside the head.
Luffy yelps and cowers a bit and Ace knows that look!
It’s the look that says “hide me” and “I’m scared” and it should not be on Luffy’s face!
Gramps has no right to scare Ace’s little brother.
“Don’t hit Luffy again you shitty old man!!”
There’s a moment of stillness, Luffy too shocked to keep crying; Gramps stunned into silence.
And then he throws his head back and laughs.
“Bwahahahaha! HahahahaHA!”
Ace gets a thump of his own for his pains – and it’s definitely harder than it needed to be, but he thinks there might be some pride behind that. It makes him glow a bit, inside – once it gets past his anger and thoughts of don’t-hurt-my-brother-or-I’ll-kick-your-ass, at least.
The way Luffy looks at him after that, though, as if Ace is the strongest person in the world – after Grandpa and Shanks – makes him feel like he might actually be as strong as Luffy thinks he is. Like he can actually protect Luffy from anything because he’s the big brother. Like, yeah, this poorly-made bundle of hyperactivity and recklessness is his dammit, and nobody gets to mess with him. Makes the lump on his head more than worth it.
Even if Luffy takes to ducking behind Ace whenever Gramps visits after that.
~~
It's fluff! Fluffy fluff! Hurray &hearts
Characters: Tiny!Ace, Tinier!Luffy, Dadan, Garp
Pairings: Luffy/beetle, Ace/older-brother-complex
Rating: G
Beta:
naye & shayeraWrote this for
naye after I traumatized her with horrible, evil angsty fic of DOOM.Edit: just fixed up a few things ^^ Also I have the best betas in the world! &hearts
Brother of the Year
The first time Luffy comes crying to him, Ace doesn’t know what to do.
Luffy. Crying. And, well, he’s not bawling but – Ace has seen him fall down stairs and get his hand stuck in door jams and accidentally wade into briar patches (and nearly drown, oh god) without so much as a whimper.
And now he’s sniffling and looking...spooked. Spooked is a strange and unnatural look on Luffy.
So Ace pats him on the back a little and murmurs something reassuring – and Luffy is too spooked to even tell him what’s wrong – and gives him a tissue to wipe his nose. He waits until Luffy calms down a bit, sticky hands unclenching a bit from Ace’s shirt, breathing evening out, and leaves him with the beetle he’d caught and carefully hidden away for instances in which Luffy-bribing was required.
Then he goes straight to Dadan and Gramps and freaks out.
“He’s crying and I don’t know what’s wrong and he’s scared and Luffy is never scared of anything!”
Dadan waits until Ace stops hyperventilating and goes and checks up on Luffy, whose beetle-induced glee can now be heard resonating throughout the house. Gramps, half-way out the door to catch the ship that will take him to whatever it is Gramps does when he isn't visiting them, gives him that Look he always does when Ace does something different or unexpected in training. Then he grins at Ace and thumps him affectionately on the head - take care of your brother - and leaves.
Ace doesn’t know what Dadan says to Luffy, or if Luffy says anything, but his little brother is back to his normal, fearless, stupid – Luffy those are not for eating! – self and Ace doesn’t know what to think, but maybe it’s just more Luffy weirdness.
The next time Luffy comes crying to him, he’s at least a little prepared.
He decides to try a hug this time. Hugs are comforting, right? Even if the way Luffy clings to him makes Ace think the world is ending.
It works, at least – his little brother calms down much faster this time, starts laughing at the new beetle Ace was raising in his drawer all the sooner.
He doesn’t run to Dadan this time. Luffy had come to Ace, after all, and he thinks there’s probably nothing their guardian – or grandfather, here for another visit – could do for Luffy that Ace can’t. So he stays and watches Luffy play with the beetle and then helps him wash up when the beetle sprays nasty stuff all over Luffy’s hands before flying off. Oops.
The third time Luffy comes crying to him, late one afternoon when Ace is sticky and sweaty and generally gross from training with Gramps, Ace has a plan.
It’s not the best plan, because it doesn’t involve Luffy not crying in the first place, but it’s a good plan.
Ace bundles the two of them into his bed and rocks Luffy a bit, like he only distantly remembers Dadan and Gramps having done for him, before he even had a little brother. And then he asks Luffy to tell him a story about Shanks.
Luffy lights up like a firework, tears and fears forgotten, happy happy happy to talk about his hero.
Ace wins at life.
Or at least that’s what he thinks until the day Luffy doesn’t come crying to him.
Gramps is over for a visit again, and training. And this time, he’s going to train Ace and Luffy together!
Ace likes the training, even if it’s scary sometimes and hard and hurts a bit. It’s fun, in a way, and challenging.
But Luffy is fidgety and distracted and not paying attention – because there are birds singing and insects flying around and life happening and Luffy is so easily sidetracked.
Gramps, predictably, looses patience when he turns from Ace to see Luffy crouched down and poking, fascinated, at something on the ground. “Luffy, pay attention to your grandpa when he’s teaching you things!” And smacks him upside the head.
Luffy yelps and cowers a bit and Ace knows that look!
It’s the look that says “hide me” and “I’m scared” and it should not be on Luffy’s face!
Gramps has no right to scare Ace’s little brother.
“Don’t hit Luffy again you shitty old man!!”
There’s a moment of stillness, Luffy too shocked to keep crying; Gramps stunned into silence.
And then he throws his head back and laughs.
“Bwahahahaha! HahahahaHA!”
Ace gets a thump of his own for his pains – and it’s definitely harder than it needed to be, but he thinks there might be some pride behind that. It makes him glow a bit, inside – once it gets past his anger and thoughts of don’t-hurt-my-brother-or-I’ll-kick-your-ass, at least.
The way Luffy looks at him after that, though, as if Ace is the strongest person in the world – after Grandpa and Shanks – makes him feel like he might actually be as strong as Luffy thinks he is. Like he can actually protect Luffy from anything because he’s the big brother. Like, yeah, this poorly-made bundle of hyperactivity and recklessness is his dammit, and nobody gets to mess with him. Makes the lump on his head more than worth it.
Even if Luffy takes to ducking behind Ace whenever Gramps visits after that.
~~
It's fluff! Fluffy fluff! Hurray &hearts
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Date: 2009-09-04 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 10:09 pm (UTC)brother fluff - it owns my heart &hearts
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:11 pm (UTC)Poor Luffy, and Ace does win at life! ^___^
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Date: 2009-09-05 02:09 am (UTC)They both do. &hearts They win at life so hard! XD
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 07:24 pm (UTC)The last paragraph. All of it, but the last paragraph, and, oh, Ace. It describes their relationship so perfectly, and Ace sees Luffy for who he is and he still loves him with all his heart.
*snuggles down in happy fluffy*
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Date: 2009-09-05 02:08 am (UTC)and, oh, Ace.
That is pretty much my perpetual state of mind. ^^
It ping-pongs between "oh, Ace - owww ;_;" and "oh, Ace - *squeeee*"
and sometimes there is some "Mmmmm, Ace" XP
*snuggles down in happy fluffy*
yay! *joins you and squees over the brother love &hearts*
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Date: 2009-09-04 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 10:05 pm (UTC)Glad you liked!
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Date: 2009-09-04 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 10:08 pm (UTC)protective!Ace and ditzy!Luffy are so squishible!
THEY ARE! AND I LOVE ODA LIKE CRAZY FOR GIVING THEM TO US!!! &hearts
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Date: 2009-09-04 10:03 pm (UTC)I do so much adore the D brothers. How Luffy goes to Ace before anyone else. And especially Ace's big brother complex (his freakout over not knowing what to do was just so much *hearts*)
kudos to you for not giving Dadan a gender btw
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Date: 2009-09-04 10:57 pm (UTC)It was a wonderful flashback, wasn't it &hearts
I see you were likewise inspired ^^ (I am working on the beta right now)
And especially Ace's big brother complex (his freakout over not knowing what to do was just so much *hearts*)
Given his reaction when Luffy crashed Impel Down "he never does anything but make me worry about him" I'm assuming that Ace had many, many Luffy-related freak-outs over the years ^^
the language parts of my brain are going "Dadan -> Dada -> male"; but the rest of me thinks it would be awesome if the person who raised Ace & Luffy was a woman ^^
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Date: 2009-09-05 11:16 am (UTC)Yes, yes it was. I don't know what I'm praying for more in the next chapter, brotherly love flashbacks or them yelling at each other while a war's being fought all around them
I'm assuming that Ace had many, many Luffy-related freak-outs over the years
Oh, no doubt. It's Luffy. Heck one of the first things Ace says to the Strawhats is "when a guy has a little brother who's a bit on the slow side, it makes him worry"
It won't be the Marines who kill Ace...its gonna be a Luffy-induced heart attack. ^^
I'm leaning towards Dadan being male for that reason too but if their caretaker's actually female I'd be totally
scaredin awe of her for being able to handle TWO D's.no subject
Date: 2009-09-05 03:18 am (UTC)(baka.)
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Date: 2009-09-05 03:36 am (UTC)Aren't they lovely together? CANNOT WAIT FOR NEXT CHAPTER! LUFFY GO!!!
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Date: 2009-09-05 06:38 am (UTC)Sorry for reading it late~~ T.T
Loves~~<3
Now I wanna cry so ace will comfort me! :D
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Date: 2009-09-05 06:41 am (UTC)You were busy, drawing awesome doujinshi of awesomeness! XD
Now I wanna cry so ace will comfort me! :D
Me too! XD
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Date: 2009-09-06 02:18 am (UTC)Big brother Ace is so.... OMG<3 I looo~~ove your brotherl ficlets like MADNESS.
And Luffy henceforth hiding behind Ace from Garp... pfffffft... hilarious. xD
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Date: 2009-09-08 06:45 pm (UTC)Big brother Ace is so....
XXDDDDD Isn't he wonderful!?! *loves the brothers*
...every time you use that icon I spend, like, 5 minutes just...staring at it *is mesmerized*
too much<3
Date: 2009-09-08 10:49 am (UTC)Isn't Ace just so fun to write about? I love it <3 I especially like your style of writing. It's really effective and just makes the situation all the more cute.
Not sure if there's really a reason to Luffy being so sad (scared even), but I just had a feeling that whenever Garp came to take Ace training, Luffy would be the cutest little thing ever and just be depressed about not seeing his brother for a few hours - heck, days even, knowing Garp. Maybe that's why he's so happy when he finally gets to go <3
Also, love how you threw a canon line in. Just makes the drabble all the more...idk, pleasing.
Re: too much<3
Date: 2009-09-08 06:34 pm (UTC)Not sure if there's really a reason to Luffy being so sad (scared even)
^^; ah, I tried to hint a bit that Luffy had had an Encounter with the Fists of Love before running off to be comforted by his big brother
Also, love how you threw a canon line in.
That scene was too cute not to fic &hearts