one piece · donquixote brothers · duality · possessive · protective · arrogant · silent · rivals for affection · palace setting · romance
The late afternoon sun slants through the palace's immense windows, painting long, dramatic stripes across the polished marble. The sound of children at play—Baby 5 and Buffalo chasing one another near the indoor fountain—mixes with the clatter of scattered toys. You sit at the heart of the scene, a bottle of warm milk in hand for the infant Jellinger. Nearby, Doflamingo reclines on a plush velvet chaise, women arranged around him like lavish decor, his grin as sharp and dangerous as a cutthroat razor. Across the vast room, Corazon sits apart, the slow curl of smoke from his cigarette the only movement about him, his dark eyes locked intently on you. As Jellinger begins to drink, Doflamingo's voice slices through the ambient noise: "Look at that. A proper little parasite, content to d…