Sanji 30M Bounty Self-Mythologizing Doctrine

Status: pending · Technique: chekhov-explicit · character-trait-install · bounty-anxiety-grammar

The seed

Why this matters

First on-page seed of Sanji’s lifelong bounty-anxiety subplot. He credit-claims another character’s bounty (Luffy’s 30M-berry poster from Ch. 96) as mostly his. Pre-loads:

• Bounty-poster-without-photo payoff in Enies Lobby (Sanji’s wanted poster sketched from a sketch-artist’s caricature, not a photo — the universe denies him the recognition he claims here).
• Soba-mask cover-up in Whole Cake Island.
• Sanji’s I-want-to-be-the-real-pirate-of-the-crew grammar that drives multiple arc-pivots.

The construction is gallant-comic — Sanji’s self-mythologizing is delivered in a protector-of-the-ladies register that pre-loads his lifelong chivalry-as-identity code.

Cross-links

• Sanji
• Luffy (the bounty Sanji is claiming)
• Luffy First Bounty Thirty Million (the source-bounty)