Friendly Neighborhood Unknowable Horror

This is always a very good brainrot. There are a lot of shitty doctors I've met in reality and I'd have loved my own personal Cora to beat their asses to a pulp. One in particular that would have caused me to possibly die back in 2009 if my brother hadn't had spare antibiotics to give me. Long story.

ANYWAY I have a very persistent headcanon with dear sweet bb Cora that I haven't been able to ever shake.

He spent the majority of his formative years, after dealing with severe childhood trauma, surrounded by Marines and training as one. Became a commander in his early twenties. Spent several more years masquerading as being mute and emotionally disturbed, with his one and only goal being to save his older brother from his own darkness, all while attempting to scare away children from falling under Doffy's twisted influence. The only person he ever told even PART OF the truth to outside the Marines was Law.

He would have only been around twenty-six when he died, and I........I just.........don't feel like there was much time for romance at any point in that history. Or even really a meaningless fling or even a one-night-stand at any point (again, he was a COMMANDER by his early 20s, something tells me he didn't have any free time at ALL).

The fact that this beautiful, sweet, clumsy, traumatized, loyal, devoted man probably died a virgin who never knew real love after the deaths of his parents makes me want to fcking SCREAM.

Which is exactly why I decided (with assistance from an anon ask I will be forever grateful for) that he is alive and well and perfectly fine and part of Cross Guild now. This is the new and improved canon that he rightly deserves.

I completely get wanting him to blow your back out, he's giant and gorgeous and could seduce anyone with that awkward clumsiness.

But like personally. I just wanna cuddle him and reassure him that what happened with Doffy and his parents is in no way his fault, and that he deserves nothing but love and peace and kindness.

Hair's still a bit messy, but shadows and highlights are almost done save for the ponytail and a little blending.

I may try to wrap this one up tonight, but I'm already exhausted. Past couple days have been rough. I've had a borderline migraine for almost five days straight, and it's finally starting to go away, but it's siphoning my energy with it. Wanted to accomplish at least something today, so I'm glad I got this much done.

Once more, this is from an au born via asks, where Cora is perfectly safe and alive and somehow ended up in Cross Guild (pretty sure Croc brought him in for the sole sake of spiting Doflamingo) and he and Buggy trade hair and make-up tips everyone lived happily ever after.

My poor unintentional human torch bb 😭🥰

He needs someone to just follow him around with a fire extinguisher 24/7

And I humbly accept this job

Shading is kind of a mess right now but I'll fix it once I start blending. This progress has been fueled primarily by burning rage and desperation to take my mind off of real life.

And it worked a little, and progress is progress, so I'm not complaining.

Last night I did half the hair shading on the wrong layer and had to delete it because I'm a dum dum.

My pretty pastel bb♥️

I uh was just thinking which someone should probably stop me from doing immediately

About how like

Pandas are the most adorable cuddly clumsy-ass creature in the whole world and uh—

My hand slipped and I will not accept responsibility for this—

Started adding a little rough shading to my Cora, but I need to get some sleep probably.

I've managed a finished fic chapter and a headcanon over the course of the day as well, so I guess I've done alright.

Can't say whether I will or won't end up typing out another dumb headcanon at five in the morning, which seems to be prime-headcanon-hour for me for some reason.

Just me trying to convince my brain to sleep and brain going "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BLORBOS"

Brain does as brain pleases because brain is rotten.

As such, if you have brainrot, feel encouraged to leave it in the askbox. It will be both in good company and massively appreciated, and it also makes my present stressy-depressy issues a great deal easier to manage.

Love you all ♥️♥️

Color test between computer and phone. Satisfied enough to say I've got a base pallette. Might brighten the base hair color a bit but not sure yet. Might be aiming for more muted tones.

Eyes are a problem. I want them light brown with reddish undertones but they came out primarily red. That will be fixed...later. I'm calling it a wrap for now before I accidentally end up staying up all night.

I always forget how much I love drawing fluffy hair until I'm actually drawing fluffy hair.

And line-art for my very-much-alive-and-well Cora-san, who has grown out his hair and now has a feather boa instead of a cowl, is essentially finished.

Which means I'll probably edit ten thousand more times amid the whole rendering process but anyway

I don't know what happened exactly but

I was listening to my edm playlist working on my very much still alive and well Cora-san, but a sad song came on and my presently unstable emotional state said "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE."

So I changed it to David Bowie, and his cowl turned into a feather boa.

I don't make the rules.

Also, since I have started this drawing, all while in the process of working on it, I have:

I will survive this, I swear.

No I did not forget to give him his cigarette I was just working up the will to draw his hand

Line-art basically finished except for cleaning up, more hair detail, a lot of black color-fill, and ear detail because I don't know if I'm giving him an earring yet or not.

Kind of speed-ran the rest of this because I was racing against my oven-timer to see how much I could get done.

But this is essentially my Cross Guild AU Cora-san bb (thank you random anon for putting the thought in my head and cursing me to never be able to consider any other possibility), where he lives happily ever after and MAY NO ONE EVER HURT HIM AGAIN OR I WILL FCKING THROW HANDS—

Update link thingy

My Cora-san survived and is very content and happy and grew out his beautiful fluffy hair and has a ponytail now

This is canon now and I will not be accepting any arguments

I, um.

I oops'd, guys.

I have been utterly and hopelessly seduced by the clumsy awkwardness of the wittle Donquixote brother.

Idc if he's already ded in canon, I will delulu-AU my Cora-san back to life if it's the LAST THING I EVER FCKIN DO

He is my bb now, and I will ensure he always has smokes, and that his tea is always a reasonable temperature, and that there always be a fire extinguisher nearby in case he sets himself on fire.

HE DESERVES THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD HOW DARE DOFLAMINGO

HOW ABSOLUTE FUCKING DARE ODA

I am stealing him. He is mine now and I will keep him safe.

Anyway yes, new blorbo unlocked, I had a feeling this would happen but not to this degree, I am not okay

It may take some time and a lot of manga-rereading and trial-and-error before I'm one hundred percent comfortable actually writing him, but he has officially joined the other blorbos and my OCs in the rent-free pirate-ship-shaped apartment in my head, where Doffy will remain locked in the brig until he agrees to go to therapy and fcking apologize.

That's it, that's the post, you may all return to your (ir)regularly-(un)scheduled brainrot, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk and I'm sorry you all had to endure that nonsense.

I haven't quite gotten to Rosinante in the manga yet, but I'm very much looking forward to it, since the general concensus is he's a clumsy lil cinnamon roll with goth clown make-up and that's one of my favorite flavors of cinnamon roll.

I do already knows what happened to him because I can't keep my stupid nose out of spoilers so at least I'm somewhat emotionally prepared.

I'm certain he would make a fine addition to Cross Guild. Like poor Buggy needs all the help he can get defending himself against his big mean grumpy former warlord coworkers.

Plus when they're all fighting and causing a ruckus and you're just trying to sit down and read a damn book he could use his Devil Fruit ability to put you in a peaceful little soundproof bubble.

Yes definitely a perfect addition, he's to be resurrected and hired immediately.

Not to mention how butthurt Doffy would be about it which is really just a bonus