xparrot | OP ch.395

Oh bloody hell. Oda's made me cry again. ...not actual bawling, really I need the anime's voices and music to gut me like that, but...close enough. "It's me, I've gotten bigger, but don't you remember me?...you're really my mother, aren't you?"

Nami's story is heartbreaking, but this...and Olvia, we've only seen her for what, like 3 chapters, but you can so feel her pain as she's walking away, because it's all she can do...and then Robin shouts the one thing she shouldn't, the one thing those who love her would do anything to keep the world government from knowing, and you want to scream, even though you empathize with her so entirely that you know exactly why she says it, because she's just a child, after all, and you almost want her to say it, if only because her mother might turn around... That is just classic, classic Oda, one of those moments that is so perfectly constructed in its tragedy that it's breathtaking.

I hesitate to say Robin is my favorite female character of all time, but, damn...she might well be.

...Also, since everyone needs at least one impossible crossover crack from hell OTP - Robin x Kaiba, baby. Blue-eyed ice & fire - superintelligent, super-reserved orphans who went darkside to survive their brutal pasts, redeemed by their carefully hidden depths of love and loyalty.
...No, I have no idea how it would work ~~but man, would it be hot!~~