❞ I always knew the world moves on
I just didn't know it would go without me. ❞

WORKING FOR THE KNIFE ✸ MITSKI

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━━━ ❝ It's just that I fell in love with a war
Nobody told me it ended ❞

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❝ I always thought the choice was mine
And I was right, but I just chose wrong ❝

WORKING FOR THE KNIFE ✸ MITSKI

# 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒆 / 𝑪𝒐𝒑 𝒄𝒂𝒓
𝑶𝑵𝑬 𝑷𝑰𝑬𝑪𝑬 𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑭𝑨𝑵𝑭𝑰𝑪
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LOCATION:
Somewhere in the East Blue

MONKEY D. LUFFY: (It's quiet for a while between the three of them.) "What about you Anya?" (He asks simply. Turning to her for a moment.)

ANYA JEONG: (She stares at him in confusion. She hadn't been paying attention to what him and Koby were talking about.) "What about me?" (She mutters in confusion.)

(She looks up at the night sky slightly. The tiny boat they escaped Alvida on is small but managed to fit the three of them somehow.)

MONKEY D. LUFFY: (He just smiles at her like it's nothing. She's not sure what she's done to even deserve a smile from him.) "What are you gonna do one you get out of here?" (His smile is bright and attentive in a way no one's ever smiled at her before. She doesn't know if she likes it.)

(She's never thought about it before. Now that she failed to kill Alvida, she's not sure what she's supposed to do now. All that work for nothing?)

ANYA JEONG: (She's quiet for a second. For the first time in a long time. She doesn't know what to do next.) "I don't know." (She admitted lowly. She didn't manage to kill Alvida, what's she supposed to do now? If she can't kill one measly pirate what's to say about anyone else?)

(Her dream was to be a storyteller, but all she was doing was killing people. Did she really want that to be her ending? Anya's not sure.)

MONKEY D. LUFFY: (He just smiled at her.) "You should join my crew!" (He didn't seem to care that earlier she practically admitted to wanting to commit murder. Koby didn't seem to care either. Any normal person would have thought she was crazy.)

(But being a pirate? Could Anya really do that?)

ANYA JEONG: (She stares at him in confusion.) "Your... crew?" (She mutters in confusion, narrowing an eyebrow at him.)

(She clears her throat.) "But—" (He interrupts her before she can say anything else.)

MONKEY D. LUFFY: (He nods at her enthusiastically, grinning.) "Yeah! you could be a pirate."

ANYA JEONG: (Her face scrunches up in confusion. She's quiet for a second.) "But...why?" (She mutters, clearly lost at where his thinking was at.) "What would I even be useful for?"

MONKEY D. LUFFY: (He just grins at her.) "You want to be a storyteller, right? Every good pirate needs a storyteller." (He just smiled at her, like just her existence was with smiling for. No one's ever smiled at her like that.)

(Even if she said no she was sure he'd just smile and say it was okay But for the first time in a long time, Anya felt.. hope.)

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WORKING FOR THE KNIFE ✸ ONE PIECE
Because dreaming costs money
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Anya Jeong was born with tragedy in her veins, buried deep into her skin with the promise that things will get better.  Her dreams have never been hers. It got easier for her to pretend to be something she wasn't, because that's all that she was good at. She was good at following orders and carrying them out because that's what she had to do. For almost her entire life she's been battling to become a walking second place medal.

She's not even sure how many people she's been forced to kill by now. But it's all worth it for her mother. Her mother, the elusive Kyoko Jeong. Also known as the East Blue's most dangerous assassin. And Anya always did what her mother wanted her to do. No matter what it was, she'd do it. Because what else did she have if not her mother's love?

Anya wasn't allowed to have any dreams. She was the daughter of an assassin, and that was that. GARDEN was the assassin organization her mother ran, brutal and bloody killers paid to kill whomever and whoever they wanted. Anya did what she was told. Help kill even though she never wanted to. All for her mother's love. But no matter how good you are, you can always be replaced.

It all changed when one night her mother found her letters. The letters she had written to whoever her father might be. She never intended on sending them, only keeping them to keep her own peace of mind. Anya didn't grow up with a father. She wasn't even sure if she and her siblings had the same one. But all of that didn't matter to her mother. Who was angry. angry that she had continued writing. Even though her mother had told her that her writing, her storytelling, was useless.

That the thing she loved most in this world didn't have any meaning. Her mother told her that she didn't get to have dreams, but not anymore. That day her mother kicked her out. She say her older sister smirking on her way out, like she had planned for this. She had never hated her sister anymore than she had then. She decides to put all of her anger into doing the exact opposite of what her mother worked for.

Killing the people who did bad things. Never once did they ever need to kill someone corrupt, or evil, but Anya was angry. Anya was done, if no one in this world would love her, she wouldn't love anyone in this world either! She'd kill without emotion. Leave all emotion and feeling behind. Become the cold, unfeeling killing machine her mother wanted. And spite her mother by wasting it. And that's what she intended to do.

She'd become a storyteller if it was the last thing she did.

# 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒆 / 𝑪𝒐𝒑 𝒄𝒂𝒓
𝑶𝑵𝑬 𝑷𝑰𝑬𝑪𝑬 𝑳𝑰𝑽𝑬 𝑨𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 𝑭𝑨𝑵𝑭𝑰𝑪
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LOCATION:
Captain Alvida's ship
Somewhere in the East Blue ❙ ✶

ANYA JEONG: (It's nighttime on Captain Alvida's ship and neither of them can sleep. She can see Koby lying his head down on the wooden planks down on the deck. From the looks of it, it is a very uncomfortable sleeping position.)

(But on Alvida's ship, they took what they could get. Anya found her patience weighing thin lately.) "What are you gonna do when we get out of here?" (She muttered aloud suddenly, out of pure curiosity.)

KOBY: (He laughs nervously.) "What? Oh, I don't know." (He shakes his head solemnly. But she doesn't believe him. That look in his eyes says otherwise. He can feel her intense gaze as she just stares at him. He swallows nervously.)

"Why are you looking at me like that?" (He muttered nervously. Looking a little panicked. She can't help but notice how pretty he looks in this light.)

ANYA JEONG: (She tilts her head off to the side nonchalantly.) "Like what?" (She mutters, playing like she's lost.) "Looking at you like that?" (She repeats again.)

(Koby just stares at her nervously.)

KOBY: (He sighs softly.) "Okay, fine. You got me. I.. I wanna be a marine." (He mutters softly, loud enough that she could hear him. After he said that he sounded like he immediately regretted it.)

(His eyes widened slightly in panic, like he didn't mean to admit it at first.) "Uhh- ignore that! It's stupid I know—" (Before he could defend himself she stopped him.)

ANYA JEONG: (She just stared at him for a second, then she started laughing.) "That's not stupid." (She reassures him with a rare smile.) "I actually think it's admirable." (She muttered.)

KOBY: (He stared at her in disbelief.) "R-Really?" (He sounded surprised, like no one ever told him he wasn't weird for having a dream like that. She had a dream too. But her mother didn't believe in them.)

(Anya never wanted anyone else to ever feel like her mother made her feel. He looked confused like he expected her laughter as scrutiny.)

ANYA JEONG: (She nodded.) "Yeah. You'll be one of the good ones, won't you?" (The way he smiled after she said that told her anything else that she needed to know. She didn't need anything else to know that he was genuine.)

(She thinks the world needs more good people like Koby.)

❪ ⩇⩇ ◖ ♡︎ᵎᵎ ❫ —— INTRODUCTING!

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ANYA JEONG ✸ ELIZABETH YU
The Vengeful Storyteller

( xviii, she/her, biroace, aries )
The Storyteller / #COP CAR

MONKEY D. LUFFY ✸ IÑAKI GUDOY
The Wannabe Pirate

( xvii, he/him, unlabeled, taurus )
The Pirate / #SEVEN

KOBY ✸ MORGAN DAVIES
The Good Marine

( xvii, he/him, pansexual, taurus )
The Marine / #BOYS DON'T CRY

Act One, My Sails Are Set!
Monkey D. Luffy ✸ IÑAKI GUDOY
Koby ✸ MORGAN DAVIES
Roronoa Zoro ✸ MACKENYU MAEDA
Nami ✸ EMILY RUDD
Vinsmoke Sanji ✸ TAZ SKYLER
Usopp Montblanc ✸ JACOB GIBSON
Kyoko Jeong ✸ KAREN FUKUHARA
Callum Jeong ✸ DALLAS LIU
Junko Jeong ✸ YUYU KITAMURA
"Red-Haired" Shanks  ✸ PETER GADIOT
Buggy ✸ JEFF WARD
Kaya ✸ CELESTE LOOTS
Monkey D. Garp ✸ VINCENT REGAN
Monkey D. Amy ✸ XOCHITL GOMEZ
Alvida ✸ ILIA ISORELÝS PAULIN
Helmeppo ✸ AIDAN SCOTT
Zeff ✸ CRAIG FAIRBRASS
Nojiko ✸ CHIOMA UMEALA

Act Two, Crime and Punishment!
to be updated!

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❝ I start the day lying and end with the truth
That I'm dying for the knife. ❝

WORKING FOR THE KNIFE ✸ MITSKI

█ ⠀⠀⠀ AUTHOR'S NOTE . . .
RAAH, hello. This fic was written as a tribute to my opla hyperfixation. I started rewatching it and got inspired to write this fic. I'm actually really excited abt it. I'm so happy there are more seasons coming out but I pray I can finish s1 of this fic before they happen. Filming takes a while so we have a while! This fic is gonna be a wild ride. I fear Anya is a Mikasa Ackerman, Mukuro Ikusaba and somehow Reyna Ramírez-Arellano variant all rolled up into one.

They could never make me hate you Anya Jeong <3 She's named after Anya from spyxfamily if you couldn't already tell. It's going to be lovely to write her. Shes such an angry and observant character compared to the ones I usually write. She's very frustrated and stubborn which is something I'm really excited to write, along with her dynamics with the other strawhats. You'll see how she gets involved soon trust 😉

Continue reading and you'll see what I mean!

Anya after pulling two guys: 😊
i forgive her dw, this technically isn't a love triangle but I find it funny anyways.

Me writing poly fics for my ocs is a canon event now i fear ☠️ i'm bi i can't make choices so this is real to me now hehe

█ ⠀⠀⠀ WARNINGS . . . ⠀⠀⠀
Implied abuse, alcohol, Death, panic attacks, anxiety, self sabotage, depression, graphic descriptions of violence, injury. Mommy issues, murder, angst.

Please be warned if any of these trigger you!

█⠀⠀⠀ DISCLAIMERS . . . ⠀⠀⠀
I do not own One piece! It was created by the lovely Eiichiro Oda and I don't claim to own any of his original characters or his work. I just own Anya and her character, and any other characters I may create to flesh out her backstory. The netflix show was written and stylized for Netflix by Matt Owens and Steven Maeda so I don't own the plot either.

█⠀⠀⠀ DEDICATIONS . . .
tIger3yes dawnwinerys iheartmiles Br3adb0tter TheHoundThatBegs annabethsflwrs -Mionesgranger crynom_ H41RINGTONS