Delicate Dreams (One Piece x gn!reader)

New Life, New Me, I guess...

Story headcanons

- The reason why [Name] can talk to people from the One Piece world freely but can only see their parents once a month would be due to their actual soul. Their soul was created in the One Piece world and is therefore connected to that world so if they were to die, they would be reborn into a new body in that same world. Because that connection is so strong, they can easily enter other people's dreams in the world of One Piece. Seeing their adoptive parents is much harder because they are not connected to that world, but instead have a parental connection with their adoptive parents. While they can use that connection to pull themselves into their parent's dream, the connection is weak. They have to wait for that connection to grow strong enough to be able to visit their parents or else they risk breaking the connection. 

- When [Name] first met Mihawk when dream jumping, he actually did try to kill them because he thought they were an enemy. They survive though... Barely.  Now whenever [Name] visits him, they usually have tea and chat.

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I sat up and held back another scream as I saw the rest of my body. 

"Ok [Name]! This is ok! Your body just looks different than before. Yeah, it's still you. It's OK! This is fine!"

It was, in fact, not fine.

Instead of my normal (s/c) skin, I had what looked like to be a dark grey exoskeleton. Taping the side of my leg only confirmed my thoughts when I felt a hard-like cover instead of normal squishy skin. When looking at where all the joints are, a weird glowing blue substance could be seen. 

"Is that support to be my blood?" I honestly didn't know anymore, I was just so confused and scared. I didn't even know if I could walk anymore since my legs were entirely different. 

The only thing I was really glad about was that I at least was wearing a plain T-shirt and shorts. 

But that one fact didn't help with how I was feeling. Now with the pain gone from my system, everything started to dawn on me. All of my emotions that were pushed to the back of my mind suddenly came forward and I became so overwhelmed. 

I didn't know what to do so I did the only thing I could. I rolled over onto my side and cried. Which turned into full-on sobbing and wailing. 

I cried over the fact I couldn't go back to the place I called home anymore.

I cried over the fact I couldn't truly see my Mom or Mama anymore.

I cried over how I could never go back to living a normal life.

 I cried over the fact I had no idea where I was. 

I cried over how scared and alone I felt.

There were a lot of things I cried about.

By the time I had finally run out of tears and had calmed down, It was already nighttime. I sat up again and looked at the night sky. Despite everything that happened, I couldn't refuse the fact that the stars looked beautiful. I could see them in all their glory without light pollution, and while looking at those stars, I finally came to a conclusion. 

I shouldn't be sitting here and crying, that would be going against what my mother's taught me. And like hell am I going to let what they taught me go to waste. Life is hard sometimes but you have to make do with what you got. 

"First thing first, I gotta learn how to walk with these new legs." I thought to myself as I made my first attempt at trying to stand. And it went...