Remember, while this is discontinued, I wanted to provide a headcanon format of what I had originally planned on writing. This way you can see how they connected to Brook's piece. I'll continue to upload them in groupings. This will give everyone a total of 7 groups covering all 31 entries.
Brook's "Rumbar Rumba"
- Brook's piece is actually the only one posted so this is a recap:
- In present day Brook has a broken down slinky that strolled him down memory lane
- He used the slinky in its prime to teach Laboon conducting and musical composition
- Laboon composed the "Rumbar Rumba" which the Rumbar Pirates performed
Monkey D. Luffy
- Wanting to cheer up a seemingly sad ship's musician, his musician that he's wanted since day one of setting off to be a pirate, he decided to give Brook a laugh
- Brook had described a slinky as being like Luffy, a bendy object that stretches and bounces just as Luffy does
- Luffy remembered Brook saying that it was a tightly coiled spring and he remembered fighting Bellamy who had spring legs
- Luffy experiemented with spring legs but that wasn't good enough
- Spring arms—while it makes for a powerful gum gum bazooka, it doesn't make for a good laugh
- Eventually Luffy coils his torso while also coiling legs and arms in different direction
- It definitely made Brook laugh...as the others dodged for cover as parts of Luffy bounced and ricocheted in every possible direction
Nami
- Nami had far more sense than her captain
- There is no way she's letting Luffy slinky himself ever again
- Next time the crew put in to port, she scoured every store on the island until she found a decent toy shop
- She bought one of every kind of slinky they had
- Now everyone on the crew has a slinky of their own
Sanji
- Sanji liked the idea that Luffy had just not the execution of it
- Decides to prepare a feast with Brook as the guest of honor
- Every single dish has either a bouncy quality to it or a stretchy quality to it
- Thanks to Nami's slinky spree, he was able to decorate cakes ad things with slinkies too
- The rumbar jello cake went over extremely well with everyone
Nico Robin
- Being so calm and collected, Robin opted for a less involved approach to cheering Brook up
- First, she had a nice chat with him where she slipped in a few questions to figure out the importance of the slinky
- It was a good thing she did too
- Brook offered to play the melody for her to the best of his memory
- There were some bumps along the way, it's been 5 decades since he's heard it
- Robin being the scholar that she is, set out at the next port to locate either a library or music historian
- She found neither
- Eventually the Strawhats put to port in a city and Robin was able to find a musician's guild with an extensive musical library
- The guild librarian was most useful and the two of them managed to track down a manuscript of the Rumbar Rumba
- After transcribing a copy, Robin was able to present the copy to Brook
- After much crying, Brook put on a performance for the whole crew
- Everyone cried (even Zoro but he'll deny it)
Roronoa Zoro
- Zoro wasn't going to get involved in the slinky festivities
- His areas of expertise have always been training, fighting, napping
- None of those share qualities with a slinky
- Stupid swirly brows on the other hand...
- Zoro took great pleasure in tripping the playboy chef right down the stairs
- Not the same as pushing a slinky down but it still managed to bring a smile to Zoro's face
Tony Tony Chopper
- There is no medicine for a slinky or a grieving heart
- And that is truly frustrating for a doctor
- While patching up Sanji from his "accident" on the stairs he got a different idea
- Asking Brook if he could examine the slinky, he took it carefully into the infirmary
- While everyone else was partaking in shenanigans, Chopper dedicated several hours to cleaning every inch of the slinky himself
- By the end, it was still warped and twisted but it finally shone as though it were brand new and the twists were meant to be there
Usopp
- Chopper sheepishly brought the toy to Usopp after having cleaned it
- He wanted a second opinion on its shininess
- And he needed validation in knowing that he had done something that would make Brook smile
- Usopp was amazed at how clean and shiny the toy was
- A far cry from the dirty, rusty, sad state it had previously been in
- After convincing Chopper to be quiet and leave the slinky with him, Usopp put his scheme into motion
- Brook spent the better part of a week trying to locate his slinky
- Chopper swore up one side and down the other that he had returned the slinky to its rightful owner
- But that Brook must have been so inebriated from the feast and hijinks he just couldn't remember where he himself had placed it
- Chopper isn't known for keeping a straight face very well so he must be telling the truth!
- Chopper hid in the infirmary for that entire week, the secret and lie giving him indigestion
- He trusted Usopp knew what he was doing but why'd he have to make Chopper the accomplice?!
- Usopp finally emerges from his workshop and gather everyone round to admire what the great Captain Usopp has done
- He proudly presented to Brook, a pristine slinky
- Brook thanked him but tried to explain that it just isn't the same as having his slinky
- Usopp's grin couldn't get any wider, but that is his slinky
- Chopper cleaned it for hours and Usopp has been cooped up in his workshop repairing it
- It should be good as new!
- Who knew a skeleton could weep that much?
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Slinktober 2023-Discontinued
FanficSlinktober 2023 was an all-October long writing event focusing on SFW (and safe for minors) One Piece fan fiction. No reader inserts unless specified upon posting, otherwise every single piece is a stand alone work for that character only. The slink...
