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Many passerines have what ornithologists call a “sensitive period” during the first few weeks of their life, where they are primed for vocal development and learn their own species song via observation of, most often, the father. If you didn’t care about the ethical concerns, you could kidnap and drop a hatchling in an echo chamber, feed it ground up worm pellets and clean up its excrement from routinely sterilized projections in the walls, build it a nest from PETE hair bristles and aluminum foil. With nothing to pluck its neurons beyond the sound of its own wails, it never learns to correctly sing. If it was lucky, it may attempt a delicate, babbling sub-song it picked up from its father, or even struggle through the plastic skeleton of an entire motif, but it would never sound 100% right. Not to its conspecific bird, and not to itself.
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Serizawa struggles with the expectations surrounding being a “man” and an “adult” and all the baggage that comes from not being able to satisfy those expectations. Reigen shares those struggles, but via a separate journey.
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01 Jul 2025
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For a while, this is as close as they get to any sort of argument: Zoro growling at him like a rabid dog, deadlocked into a staring contest that Mihawk, for the first time, might actually lose.
Perona finally breaks the silence. "Urgh! I've had it with you--emotionally constipated sword freaks!" she fumes with a petulant stomp of her cherry boots. "Fine! If you two won’t talk about it, then I’ll do it for you!" She extends her hands. "Negative Hollow!"
Twin translucent specters erupt from her palms. Mihawk effortlessly swats away the pest -- but Zoro, only halfway to his mastery of haki and ambushed from his freshly-carved blind spot, is not quite so fortunate.
Zoro crumples to his hands and knees. “I don't deserve to have you as my father.”
Perona gasps. Zoro petrifies, and Mihawk thinks, distantly, that this is what it would feel like to take a sword to the chest.
“As your what?”
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It takes hurting both of the children living with Mihawk to make him realize that they're his.
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30 Jun 2025
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The Woes of Dracule Mihawk by lampalot7 for Senna_Abroad (Senna_B)
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
25 Aug 2023
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There were few things in life that Dracule Mihawk regretted. Bringing Monkey D. Luffy's first bounty poster to Red-Haired Shanks, and thus irrevocably introducing him as an acceptable conversation topic between them, was one such regret.
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30 Jun 2025
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Teru doesn't know where to start when it comes to being ordinary. He doesn't know how to tackle the loneliness, either. Maybe it's here to stay.
Maybe it's not.
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30 Jun 2025
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Teruki Hanazawa is twelve years old when he realizes that his parents won't come home.
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