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every time tobio smiles happily in the msby vs adlers match because of shoyo ~ 🧶

1. let's start with this iconic handshake here, their gazes are so intense and i will never get over shoyo's sneaky finger curling around tobio's wrist-

2. having an inner monologue about hinata shoyo... okay...

3. HE WAS SUPER EXCITED YEAHHHHH

4. he's been waiting for shoyo for so many years and never doubt he would catch up to him 🥹

5. smiling upon realizing that his partner is still flying even higher

6. teasing is also his love language

7. life-changing moment, he found his person

8. teasing is also his love language - part 2.

9. tobio keeps aiming his serves at shoyo the whole time and grins every time he digs the ball, i know what you are kageyama tobio

10. he always looks back at shoyo with a smile

11. tobio loves shoyo's hunger

12. kageyama tobio's beautiful smiles - oil on canvas

13. his reaction to shoyo's FLAWLESS left-hand spike

14. boy who is going to be okay

15. "let's get married" is between the lines

16. they were insane for this

17. tobio lost but was still smiling

18. he always knew shoyo would make it to the top

soooo, the final smile score is: 18 times!!!!! yayyyy i think this boy has never smiled as much as he did on the day of this match, this is the power of hinata shoyo in kageyama tobio's life!!! anywayyy, thanks for reading this far aksdjsakdksadjk

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so i know a lot of people mark the little garden pissing contest as the start of zosan for them (and for good reason!), but i wanna talk for a minute about why, in retrospect, i think that arlong park is really where it all begins.

the thing that fascinates me about arlong park is that at this point, zoro and sanji really don’t know each other at all. like yeah, sanji saw zoro fight and get sliced open by mihawk so he’s got a vague grasp on him, but zoro hasn’t really seen sanji fight at all (he wasn’t there when sanji beat up fullbody), so he only knows him as the waiter they had at the baratie. i’m not even sure zoro’s fully aware that sanji is the crew’s new cook when the straw hats reunite at cocoyashi.

and up until they fight the arlong pirates, the only real interactions zoro and sanji have had have been neutral at best and kind of antagonistic at worst. there’s the brief conversation between them at the baratie, and then arguing about nami, where they’re clearly of two different mindsets. apart from the fact that they’re both part of the crew, there’s really not a whole lot you could say they have in common at this point.

but as soon as luffy is in danger? they sync up immediately, and their coordination is damn near seamless. they’re both instantly on the same page about what to do and how to do it and they both act fast to see it done. i think sanji is maybe a little more aware of zoro than the other way around simply because sanji knows the true extent of zoro’s injuries from mihawk, but even that’s an example of good teamwork. sanji is there to compensate where zoro is lacking. it’s why he jumps in the water to save luffy even though he must know that’s a dangerous idea when facing a fish-man opponent. because sanji understands that if he doesn’t, zoro will—and zoro’s in no state to be trying to fight underwater. sanji might be at a disadvantage, but at least he’s not actively hurt.

and like. i think this is a really significant moment for both of them, because neither of them is really used to that kind of teamwork. it’s clear from the baratie arc that sanji didn’t exactly get along with the other cooks there, and while zoro did team up with johnny and yosaku for a while, it’s also evident that neither of them is on his level in terms of fighting ability.

even in the other fights we’ve seen at this point where luffy is involved, zoro and sanji didn’t have the same kind of coordination with him as they do with each other at arlong park. zoro takes on cabaji and the meowban brothers largely alone while luffy deals with buggy and captain kuro. there’s sort of a group effort to fight pearl at the baratie, but then sanji fights gin while luffy takes on don krieg alone. we also see that zoro’s good at directing others from how he handles usopp and nami at syrup village, but again, the biggest moment of true coordination there is when zoro cuts down the tree branch blocking usopp’s short at django. otherwise, he’s mostly mitigating the damage that would otherwise have been aimed at them.

that’s not the same as fighting side by side with someone and then facing off together against an enemy ten times tougher than the ones you just beat the way sanji and zoro do with arlong and his officers. that kind of cooperation takes an inherent level of trust in the other person to both stay by your side and to watch your back.

these are two young, brash, reckless boys who don’t know each other and have barely spoken expect to argue; and yet despite that, they come to trust each other implicitly in the span of a single fight. you can see that from these two panels; zoro says he won’t last more than 30 seconds against arlong, trusting that that will be enough time for sanji to free luffy. sanji says that’s plenty, trusting that zoro will be able to hold arlong off for that long, even though he understands that arlong is in completely different weight class than his officers.

and the thing is? it is. even as injured as he is, zoro manages to keep arlong busy enough to sanji to smash the rock keeping luffy’s feet trapped, and from there he’s able to take over the fight. the plan works because they both trusted each other to do their part and they both came through. and yeah, they were doing it for luffy’s sake and not each other’s, but honestly i think that’s a huge reason why zosan works so well. they both understand that at the end of the day, luffy comes first. and there’s not a whole lot of people either of them would trust to both understand that and be able to see it through—but they trust each other. and that trust is really the foundation of their whole relationship.

it’s such a small thing in the grand scheme of one piece, but for me the 30 seconds/that’s plenty moment is right up there with thriller bark and the death pact in terms of importance when it comes to zosan, because it’s the first time we really see them operating as the wings of the pirate king. and it’s beautiful.

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The worst pick up lines known to man but you can’t hear a word

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Man I'd be insane abt zoro if i were sanji

What do you mean zoro ate gross squashed food from the ground made by a little girl and told her it was delicious?

Just like how sanji would cook terrible fodo that he would end up dropping on the ground for his mother and she would tell him it was delicious.

What do you mean zoro immediately began to slice through his legs in order to save his friends and people he just met?

Just like zeff cut his leg off so that sanji could survive.

What do you mean sanji and zoro use taunts and bicker as their form of communication?

Just how zeff and sanji communicate through tough love?

What do you mean that zoro has three earrings and three swords when sanji's name means three?

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it's me and the four people on ao3 who understand my favorite character in the exact same way against the world

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sanji doodles

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DOWN BOY!

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he'd pass the 'are you gay test' with flying colours

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Embarrassed myself a few days ago and since then I've been periodically going like this

Ignore the part where he gets naked that's not part of it.

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i fr manifested this in a maladaptive daydream in 2019. GOD BLESS

KRBK CANON, I ANNOUNCE KRBK CANON!!!

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zoro learns how to post thirst traps

then he gets a gym buddy

(these drawings have a 1 year gap)

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Redraw of this absolutely metal shot from arlong park:

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how does he do that

based on this tweet

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Kuroken Telephone 📞