#Knitting needles are kinda like tiny swords

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I feel like Zoro's three sword style and facility with counting would be a very transferable skillset when it comes to making socks.

So now I headcanon that whenever he's got downtime not training or napping or bickering with Sanji, Zoro settles in to make socks for the crew.

The first pair he ever makes is actually for Nami. They are a little too big in that way that is actually perfectly slouchy and comfortable, and she secretly adores them and wears them on chilly nights while map making.

...I think he probably learned knitting from Perona, actually? So maybe he has socks for the whole crew when he gets back to Sabaody. Except Luffy, and Frankie, who obviously wouldn't wear them. And Brook, whose sizing he couldn't figure out (what would you even measure??). Those three get scarves.

He honestly tried to still make socks for Chopper, but... Well. There were obvious challenges to making socks for something furry and with hooves. He wound up making leg warmers. They have little snowflakes on them.

Usopp's socks are basic, with a bold horizontal stripe pattern in goldenrod yellow, reminiscent of the color of Sogeking's mask. Perona INSISTS on making some cute little felted sheep bobbles to go with them because the socks are Not Cute, but Zoro is too embarrassed to attach them. They become a bag charm. Zoro specifically tells him it's from Perona and smirks when he goes pale.

Robin's socks are better fitted, and slightly more elegant than Nami's, since he started on them so much later in his learning process. They have a whimsical floral motif, and are made from a yarn Perona picked out for her. It is quite possibly the softest thing Zoro has ever touched, and the socks feel like clouds when they're finished.

The real challenge turns out to be making socks for the cook. Sanji is fussy about his clothes, and Zoro knows how hard he is on his feet. He ends up making a very basic pair of suit socks in a deep, rich blue so dark it's nearly black... It takes him three times as long to make them as any other pair he's made, because he keeps starting over.

In fact, he's still working on them on the boat back to Sabaody. He finishes just in time, and Perona steals them away and wraps them up like everyone else's gifts before he can start over again. The first time Zoro sees Sanji light his own foot on fire, he winces and reconsiders whether he should even give them to him. But in the end he does anyway.

(Of course he also made socks for Perona and Mihawk. You think Perona taught him to knit for no reason? Hers are THIGH HIGHS, for fuck's sake! They took FOREVER.)

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If you could write up a disney-esque story of yourself as a borrower, how would it go? (1, bc I love Disney turned gt stories, & 2, describe lots!! What's your starting point, your helper animal, what's the weird thing that shouldn't talk that does? Your Knight in Shining Armor? Who's the bad guy? Give me the stuffs)

OK SO

Starting point: probably me ditching my family if I’m being completely honest, kick off the flick with the “runs away from family and problems” trope al la Rapunzel. I’m definitely a wandering type, so I think it’d be a plot would find me on my adventures rather than me specifically setting out for something. I have no clue what the plot would be rip

Helper animal: probably my bunny Pluto?? she’s so big and sweet I could ride her like a horse nd she’d be my big animal buddy I’m lov her. maybe in story she could be like. a pet I never could rlly keep due to being so small and living in a packed house, so when I head out I’d be able to finally keep her around

Weird thing that shouldn’t talk but does: my go-to weapon as a tiny is a knitting needle, and I think it’d be really cool to have the whole ~talking possessed sword~ trope with it. it’d probably be something I’d find along the way rather than starting out with :0

Knight in Shining Armor: my gf! she’s not into g/t but she once said she’d be a size-shifter, so she’d probably be some kinda mage or magical person, and she’d definitely be the ‘hey maybe being reckless isn’t a good idea” to my “I immediately rush in” type

Bad guy: I mean with my answers already I have a magic sword thing, and a mage gf, so maybe?? some kinda magic person doing ~dark things~. they’d definitely be normal sized tho, bc the idea of a climatic battle of me 2 inches tall fighting a tol person, with a bunch of dynamic angles and perspectives, that sounds rad as hell omg :0

this was such a fun question omg thank you