For the Lulz.
I have decided that I will not consider Ace to be truly, completely, irrevocably dead until there is a party and he is not in attendance.
I just can't tell if this makes me delusional, or cynical after the Pell thing (I was happy he survived! I just... stopped believing people actually died in One Piece. Except in flashbacks.), or just really really hopeful. O_o
I used to laugh at the fans who insisted "So-and-so is not dead! He's just... hiding. Under the table.... On his aunt's farm in New Zealand."
So. In the interests of doing this thoroughly:
-Ace isn't dead, he's just having a long-delayed fit of narcolepsy.
-His Vivre Card isn't gone, it's just really really small!
-He's only mostly dead.
-That wasn't blood on Luffy's hands, it was tomato juice.
-Ace didn't die, Whitebeard didn't get half his face burned off, and Luffy didn't fail: all of Impel Down and Marinford was just a shroom-induced hallucination. Luffy's still on Kuja.
Finally: I am mourning a mustache.
Oda, I would like my sanity back now. Thank you. jk, it's totally yours, only - make things gleeful again, okay?
Oh what the hell. I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES *CLAPS*