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It drives me nuts how Luffy’s refusal to show grief for Merry or acknowledge Merry’s importance is a big part of what sets Usopp off during the argument, only for Luffy later to pretty much do the same thing to Usopp at the end of the arc when he acts like he’s fine leaving him behind.

Like. What was learned there. Way to prove Usopp right

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Usopp is a coward. He's scared of really strong bad guys, like anyone with common sense would be. But more than anything, he's got a strong heart. A really strong heart. 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭

He's the last to give up on any member of their crew. Even if he's not strong, he always wants to go back for them. He was the first to shout that it was a lie when Crocodile said that Luffy was dead. Even now, panicking over Robin, he risked getting up close to Aoki just to snatch her away.

Those are the things I and Luffy see that power scalers cannot see. 🥹❤️ Usopp is frightened all the time. He's had to be the bigger person in every situation since he was little boy because his father wasn't there.

Reassuring his mother that his father would definitely come back for them, that he wouldn’t leave them there to die. Forcing a smile on his face every day. He did the same to boost up Kaya. And when Pirates attacked his little village he stood tall, powerless but tall. His intention was not to die but to protect, just a few seconds longer. To give the village a few seconds more of peace and happiness.

Someone said Usopp is the only member of the crew that did not have an adopted parental figure, he's been taking care of others his whole life, so he has no one to tell him that he's always been the brave strong warrior that he dreams to become. I'm not crying, you are. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

(He's also really smart. There's situations that they only got out of because of Usopp's quick thinking.)

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VIII. Strength

This card also didn’t change much but I wanted Usopp in a bit more active pose. So now he is looking down at his plant-creation. As someone who is scared of everything as well, Usopp is one of the bravest character to me and I couldn’t think of any better character for the Strength card.

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The way Usopp has always called himself Captain Usopp since he was a kid, has been called Captain Usopp by Piiman, Tamanegi and Ninji for years, and yet when he met Luffy and he was proposed to join the Strawhats, he didn't even consider it for a moment, he just agreed on the spot.

I mean yeah maybe that's a tiny thing but I love this about his personality (this humility ? I don't know). Sure he had asked if he could be the captain at first and had drawn his jolly roger for fun and still refer to himself as captain usopp cause HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN, but he just really renounced to be the captain of his own crew.

He was one to have dreamed, to have imagined being a pirate and a captain since he could talk, like Luffy. And yeah maybe those were "only dreams" but they mattered so much to him. And when he finally decided to live his life as a pirate, he decided to not live it how he had imagined it to be. I don't know how to say it but it's like Luffy joining another crew instead of doing his own (an Ace joing White Beard kind of thing but not really the same). And that hits hard (for me), how he treasured these three people so quickly that he renounces being a captain, without giving it much thoughts, without focusing on what maybe he had always wanted, just because he wants to hang out with those guys. This is terribly explained but yeah that's the idea.

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I think Love Bug by GFRIEND is so Sanuso coded, it reminds me of their fun and silly dynamic

And the lyrics being:

"In my quiet heart My dark heart, Buzz over to me And knock on the door

Flap your wings harder So my heart rings more Tell me your story"

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usopp not wanting to leave sanji behind again after zou. what if i died.

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Hear the Silence Shouting (The Words I Couldn't Say) (7063 words) by room_of_mirrors Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga) Relationships: Tony Tony Chopper & Usopp, Sanji & Usopp (One Piece), Nami & Usopp (One Piece), Sogeking & Usopp (One Piece) Additional Tags: Tony Tony Chopper-centric, POV Tony Tony Chopper, Usopp-centric (One Piece), Post-Water 7 Arc (One Piece), Usopp Deserved Better

Summary:

Chopper had been trying to deal with those disturbing thoughts — about the sniper leaving the crew for good and never returning — for a long time now. He had been trying to repress them, to stop them from flooding his weary mind; but they had taken over every time. Usopp was back now and yet the thoughts hadn't stopped. The reindeer could still feel inside him that same poisonous rage he had felt after the quarrel, inexorably consuming him, infecting every one of his feelings. And that rage wasn't directed at the sniper.

or

As soon as the marines' fleet and that despicable island had disappeared beyond the horizon, Sanji had dragged Chopper and Usopp to the infirmary of the Thousand Sunny and left them there. Usopp had then let the reindeer take care of his injuries. Before, those moments spent in the small infirmary of the Merry had always been full of talk, stories and laughs. Now, there was only silence to fill the gigantic void.

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I know people looooove to insinuate that Zoro doesn’t like Usopp because of Water 7, but I am coming to Zoro’s defense on this (not how you think!). Usopp and Luffy were both acting and reacting based on very heightened emotions. Usopp was utilizing a very common tactic— hurt before you get hurt. Not his best moment, but I think it’s understandable under the circumstances. Luffy, because he’s stubborn and also a little bratty, then countered with a classic baby brother tactic— when they go low, you go lower. The problem with this is that they aren’t just playing in the backyard. People have left their homes and families to follow Luffy. They’re fugitives. The government wants them dead. In normal circumstances, they’d fight and ignore each other and make up. But they can’t do that in this situation because it’s not a game. Zoro was trying to get the two of them to see that. Luffy may be silly. He may be lighthearted and carefree, but he is the captain on their very real pirate crew. There is no time for petty strife. If you quit, you have to mean it. If you remove someone, you also have to mean it. By the time their fight comes around, both Luffy and Usopp already regret their choices and want to just move on, but Zoro forces BOTH of them to face this discomfort and play through it so that they both understand the weight of their choices.

THAT BEING SAID!!!!!!!!! It’s not like Zoro was like “and FUCK that Longnose”… he was the first one of the Romance Dawn trio to ask Usopp to join them. He knows Usopp’s got a big heart. He knows what Usopp brings to the table, even if Usopp doesn’t. He was LIVID when he saw what Franky had done to Usopp!!! But he’s also been around. He’s a famous bounty hunter. For quite a while he was the most famous person on the crew. He’s probably seen tons of crews and watched their dynamics and understands that hierarchy exists for a reason. If you’re following someone without conviction, you’re risking your life every day for someone who can’t stand on his own morals. They can’t afford to do that. And it seems like in these ‘Zoro Hates Usopp’ arguments, they very often leave out the fact that Zoro told Luffy that if he didn’t stand by his choices, he’d leave the crew, too. He was just telling them to stand on the business they’d put out into the world, which I think is a perfectly fair stance to have. We all know that Zoro takes the words he says and the words others say very seriously. This is an extension of that. But it doesn’t mean he hates Usopp or Luffy. He just recognized that if they’re all allowed to hop on and off the crew, and if they’re not able to articulate their feelings without being mutinous, they were doomed to fail.

(I’m going to pause here to acknowledge that Zoro treated Sogeking in the same way that he’s always treated Usopp. They cut up together and he still takes care of him in his own weird way and he trusts him as a crew member. Think about how he treated Robin when he wasn’t sure about her. He didn’t do that here!! It was like “old times”. He still viewed him as a member of the crew.)

And THEN!! AND THEN!!!!! When Sanji tells everyone that he overheard Usopp’s rehearsals and that he intends to come back to the crew, Zoro still says that Usopp needs to apologize to their captain. Because he’s. You know. The captain. Mutiny is a serious action. You can’t just not acknowledge it. It needs to be faced. And Zoro is all hardass about it like “if the first thing he says isn’t an apology we’re leaving him” and then what does he do? He pretends he can’t hear him not apologizing. Usopp goes on for a while, and he pretends he can’t hear anything. And then as soon as Usopp apologizes, he smiles!!! Because he knows it means Usopp is coming home!!!!!!

And I know. I can already hear it. “Well, why didn’t he just not insist on that stuff???” Because the crew needed to figure out that behaving that way had the potential to cost them in ways that are uncomfortable! Yes, we don’t see Luffy doing the same. But I think it’s important to note that they are a crew and there’s essentially only one actual assigned role and that’s Luffy’s role as captain. Even if his decision is stupid they need to follow it. That’s the choice they’ve made. And they can be kind of loosey goosey in every regard except that one. Because if his final say means nothing, that could have catastrophic consequences for everyone. Plus, as readers, we get to see Luffy’s discomfort and remorse plenty. He weeps and tells Zoro that accepting the duel is hard and he hates it and Zoro basically tells him he has to lie in the bed he’s made for himself or he isn’t fit to be captain. And Luffy clearly felt very uncomfortable with the fact that his knee jerk reaction may have cost him his bestie/brother/playmate. He couldn’t even smile convincingly about the prospect of leaving Usopp behind. He felt a level of regret that I’m not sure we see him feel again. I think Zoro put them through their paces pretty equally. Zoro saw Luffy regret his choice and forced him to stand by it, which is his job as a captain. And he insisted that Usopp apologize for his choice, which is his job as a crew member.

Zoro’s intent wasn’t to take sides. He wasn’t operating under the belief that the captain is the only one that can be right. He was trying to get all of them to understand that exploding, quitting, and coming back without acknowledging the source of strife is not a sustainable method of communication for a crew. If they can’t hash it out and own their mistakes or mean what they say, they can’t fully trust each other. And they need a captain with a clear vision. There’s no room for wavering unless they’re ready to lose their lives.

And Usopp comes back and he’s still clinging to Zoro and climbing on him and using him as a shield, so I think they’re just fine.

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would you ever draw usopp and nami? i love your usopp and your nami and i love their their dynamic so i think that would be cool :^)

why yes!!!! their dynamic is one of my favorites

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popular opinion is that usopp is, in fact, the bravest strawhat. but also think about sanji admiring usopp bc of that.

usopp is always, always afraid, always scared, but he still charges in with the crew (both willingly and unwillingly sometimes). I can imagine sanji thinking "how does he do it?" bc for all his life sanji has run away from the things that frightened him instead of standing his ground and fighting his way out (or so he thinks anyway)

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one piece moments that changed my life

like "haha he doesnt know sogeking is usopp very funny haha heehee" but from luffy's perspective this is someone who isn't usopp but is usopp's friend. and he immediately trusts THIS to someone he just met, on the merit that this is usopp's friend

and i love that usopp gets to be the one to do this. so much just happened to him but he is deadly serious and at least in This Moment, completely fearless! that's beautiful

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After months of gathering moments from the entirety of the anime so far, here's a compilation of Almost* Every Single Sanji & Usopp moment!

*Some very few scenes that were underwhelming didn't make the cut, but most of 'em did.

A few scenes are filler not found originally in the manga, but those have been marked as such. Enjoy!

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Sketchbook page of our fav sharpshooter hehe 🎯

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Water 7 was like specifically engineered to hit on every single sensitive spot Usopp has and honestly he almost under-reacted with how nuts the circumstances were for the moment that he snapped:

1. They just came off a fight where Aokiji knocked them around like it was nothing, where he had this realization:

So he’s going in already feeling super inadequate, more than he usually does (which is a lot already).

2. Relatedly, up to this point fixing the Merry was his job because they didn’t have a shipwright yet. Her being unfixable probably felt, to him, like a personal failing because he was the one in charge of fixing her

3. The Merry was most like another crew member to him because he’s the one who worked on her most, AND he was the only one who saw her klabautermann at this point

4. The big elephant in the room here is that Kaya was the one who gave them Merry. So, you know, he’s attached to her most for this reason too

5. There’s also the fact that this probably hit on the very specific trauma of his mother’s death, because she also got sick enough that everyone deemed her unsavable.

6. On top of all that, it also hit on his trauma regarding his dad and abandonment: he doesn’t want to repeat that and feel like he abandoned a crew member who needed him.

7. Speaking of abandonment, seeing a situation where, in his mind, the crew leaves someone behind who is now deemed useless probably touched on a lot of his own fears about his place on his crew and own perceived usefulness

8. He had also just been brutally beaten twice on the same day and is pretty badly injured, compounding both feelings of usefulness and aligning him with the merry in his mind in terms of physical state.

9. He had also just lost the money they needed to fix the Merry, again compounding the feeling that he was useless AND he was responsible for the Merry not being fixable

10. He woke up to the crew, who had already processed the news, telling him about it AND that a decision had been made, which made him feel like it was a him vs them thing

There’s probably more I think but yes, it is completely unsurprising that he fell apart so spectacularly

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Thinking about Usopp during Thriller Bark

Just saw a post about his depression especially with it being right after Enis Lobby and Water 7. His depression was so bad that Perona's ghosts didn't affect him.

I don't blame him. He fought against one of his best friends, got mugged and beaten to a pulp by someone he now considers his friend and crewmate, lost the Merry, the only thing he had from his home, a gift from Kayla, his best friend, and they were almost betrayed by one of their crewmates who had been with them for a long time at that point.

And no one seemed to notice nor care. Yes, they resolved their issues at Water 7. Usopp apologized for attacking Luffy. They made up. But that doesn't take away those feelings.

That feeling of helplessness after all that happened. The feeling that maybe you don't belong in the crew because you had to put on a whole persona just to go help your friend who you thought betrayed you but was actually being forced to do things against her will.

And after all of that, you end up at this mysterious island, get separated from the rest of your crew, meet this weird girl with weird ghost things, and find out that you're so fucked up that the ghosts who who make you feel fucked up have no effect on you. And she's the only one who asks what's up with you.

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calling this miraculous sogesoba au because i need a valid explanation as to why they don't recognize eachother out of costume 😭

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omg sogeking... you're so cool and handsome