Sanji Prince Charming Self-Naming

Status: confirmed · Technique: fairy-tale-overlay · character-grammar-formalization

The seed

Why this matters

First on-page Sanji self-naming with a princess-coded honorific. Sanji’s protect-the-women register, established at Baratie (cf. “Food Equals Mercy”, “Cant Stand To See A Man Drown”), hardens into a self-styled fairy-tale epithet. The prince charming register prefigures the Vinsmoke-prince royal-blood reveal — Sanji jokingly claims a royal title that turns out to be his literal birthright. The fairy-tale overlay (the princess Vivi needs a prince; Sanji volunteers) is structurally load-bearing for the arc-couple register.