someone asked me what it is luffy sees in law, and, well: what luffy sees in other people is invariably exactly what’s actually there, isn’t it, and so in law what he sees isn’t just violence and cruelty but a good heart and kind hands, and someone who keeps taking the time to care for other people when no one would do the same for him, someone who no amount of pain was enough to chase the healer out of
(luffy doesn’t think about it in those terms, of course. he just thinks there’s something really amazing in law’s hands when he’s taking someone’s pain away; there’s a lot of things luffy can do, but he’s never been able to do that)