#i fucking love zoro

[radio-ghost-cooks]

liveblogging my one piece binge: ep 3

spoilers for one piece episode 3 below

not related to the anime but i nearly got virus'd this time thank fuck i'm good at closing windows amirite

hey wait i just noticed why does Usopp's egg make a lazer beam noise

oh right. for those of you rejoining us: imminent death.

*casually* you're a fucking hellspawn. yeah sure i'll fight alongside you. gimme my swords.

oh finally the Devil Fruits lore. i already knew this bit so i'm pretty proud of myself

man the enemies give these guys a long time to monologue. i like the touch of the clouds passing overhead

YEAAAAAAAH WE GOT ZORO!!!

Luffy was like personally offended by the no-name comment

why does Zoro stand so cuntily (not like i'm complaining)

HE'S ALREADY CALLING LUFFY HIS CAPTAIN I FUCKING LOVE THESE TWO

i'd make the "i don't cook for no man" joke but i'm literally a foodservice worker. anyway can you tell i'm attached to Zoro already

OH OKAY SO GIRLIE IS SEARCHING FOR SMTH

okay i gotta ask. who is cutting her hair bc those sides are two totally different lengths (still pretty tho)

WAIT ITS THAT CLOWN DUDE ALREADY????

ZORO'S SPLASHSCREEN LET'S FUCKIN GO

sorry i'm yelling a lot but i just love all of these goobers sm already

"so how many shipmates do you have aside from me?" hehe. about that.

"i think Luffy-san was born without the ability to think things through!"

real talk snorting liquids out of ur nose hurts like fire and i'm impressed by Coby's ability to scream immediately after snarfing orange juice out of his nose (really hoping snarfing is a made up word)

"it's the most dangerous place in the world!" Luffy: "that sign won't stop me because i can't read!"

Luffy: solving problems with fistfights since 2012

YOU GO COBY!!!! GET YOUR DREAMS BOY!!!!!!!!

welp time to add another excitable anime protag to the "i'm doing it for my father" list /pos

[winchester101]

Misc. mer Zoros

Top left - seahorse

Top right - sea dragon

Bottom left - tiger shark

Bottom right - black tip reef shark

[purpleneutrino]

"Let's celebrate coming back from hell and not losing our minds."

on twitter

[hellouniversehowareyou]

love when the straw hats bitch about their captain

[beanghostprincess]

how can somebody watch one piece and not think they're in a poly relationship

[wtfforged]

made it to enies lobby with my friend:)

this is a redraw. heres the original screenshot!

[marchessa]

Bickering idiots.

One Piece (2023) S1E8

[astrozure]

night

[alevens]

zolu is maybe one of the easiest ships i've ever liked. they're dating, except when they're not, they're best friends even when they're kissing and they're still captain and first mate when they aren't. they hold hands, they hug. they have sex. they don't.

Luffy can hold Zoro's katanas and Zoro can hold Luffy's strawhat and no one bats an eye. one says "You're so cool!" and the other says "You're strong" and it's just another way to say "I see you, this is why I follow you/this is why I trust you". it's not seeing each other for a long time and still knowing how the other's steps sound like against wood and sand. the captain runs and the first mate follows. it's always "Zoro and the others" and "Where's Luffy?"

if they're just friends, if they're something more, if they don't have a label for it, at its core, it's just about how they get each other. they understand how the other's mind works. however you view them, it doesn't erase they fact that they love each other in a way they don't love other people.

[inoreuct]

thinking about zoro being the crew's main protector.

it’s quite literally his role amongst the straw hats; luffy's captain, usopp's their sniper, sanji cooks, nami navigates, chopper's their doctor, franky's their shipwright, jinbei's their helmsman and brook's their musician but zoro? zoro's their swordsman. zoro’s their guardian. his job is to be the first line of defense and protect everybody else so they can focus on doing their own thing and sure, none of them really need protecting— but they don't have to worry about defending themselves, either, because whoever they can't or don't want to handle zoro will finish up (if he hasn't gotten to them first).

like imagine a bunch of idiots cornering one of the crew (bad idea.) and picking nami because she's the woman without a devil fruit, as opposed to robin (BAD idea.). they've got her surrounded in the dead end of an alleyway and have somehow neutralised her clima-tact and she’s not worried, she’s not.

but against twelve men and with her weapon essentially now just a regular staff, she might be panicking. just a little. she’s gotten a couple of them good enough that they’re down for the count before a chain wrapped around her ankle trips her. it pulls at enough memories, faded but never forgotten, to bring up a sickening wave of fear and anger— and nami decides that she’s had enough of the bullshit.

she takes a deep breath and screams. “ZORO!”

the silence afterwards is deafening. the wind shifts, gently lifting the pieces of hair stuck to her sweaty face, and the men laugh uneasily. one of them yanks hard on the chain and she spits at him, heels scrabbling against the dusty ground even as he starts reeling her in like a fish on a hook. “he can’t hear you, little missy,” he snickers, grin widening the longer nobody shows up.

it’s still on his face when his head slides right off his neck.

blood sprays right before his body crumples like a doll. it takes a second for the others to realise and then the screaming starts— none of them get any farther than three steps before zoro’s cutting them down, swift swings of his sword and almost surgically precise slices rendering them incapacitated if not plain dead.

“sorry i’m late, witch.” the swordsman’s breathing hard, gore dripping off his blades even as he arcs one down and snaps the chain off nami’s leg with a growl. “did they hurt you?”

“no. no, i’m fine,” nami breathes, her smile quivering just a little— not because she’s shaken, no. because she’s pissed.

zoro’s voice is gruff as always, but his hands are careful if not outright gentle as he kneels to inspect her ankle before pulling her to her feet. “stay close,” he mutters, making sure that she’s nodded before cutting them a path through the fray. they bump into chopper next, and the doctor’s out cold over zoro’s shoulder in his regular form by the time sanji joins them to guard their flank. nami’s taken to just using her clima-tact as a bat for now, and it’s admittedly efficient.

she knew zoro would come. he always does. for all that they bicker and snip at each other, zoro has always protected his crew— even when said crew was just three people on what could barely be called a boat. he’d fought for her at arlong park and he fights for her now, his sword slicing over her head at an enemy she can’t see as she ducks low to jam her staff into another’s stomach.

they’ve moved closer to their ship when they find jinbei, then robin, then usopp, then brook and franky, and then zoro’s yelling luff, time to go! and their captain’s launching them all back onto the Sunny with a gleeful cackle that makes nami wheeze a laugh as they land in a mildly painful pile of limbs. somebody’s elbow digs into her ribs and she’s pretty sure that’s sanji’s bony kneecap pressed into her lower back. the swordsman swears as he sets about trying to pry them all apart and luffy seems to be actively fighting him, based on how his cursing’s getting more and more colourful.

behind them, their enemies burn, sliced to pieces. they debrief in the galley and zoro refuses to come away from the door until nami drags him by the ear and sanji threatens to personally shove dessert down his throat. they both know it’s because zoro’s still guarding them from a threat that doesn’t exist anymore.

they know he pretends not to care as much as he does. they know he keeps his words blunt and his swords sharp, but zoro lets luffy hang off him, unfazed, and makes a marginal effort to stick to nami’s budget even when he’s getting booze, and he eats his dessert. every last bit. he lets usopp fire moving targets to slice through so they can both practice. he keeps collateral damage when sparring with sanji to a minimum. he stitches whoever needs it up himself when chopper’s a little too tired.

and when his crew calls, he answers.

(now with a part from nami’s pov!)

[kimekan]

kny au where hashira zoro loses the love of his life in a demon ambush... and finds him again, also in a demon ambush.

[mitskikissme]

Felt like drawing them

[diamondsheep]

Happy Birthday to the Best Cook Ever 💛💛💛

[lulushishii]

Found my Apple Pencil, take another Zolu doodle because I’m obsessed

[beanghostprincess]

Zoro and Sanji are each other's confidants because despite constantly saying they can't stand each other, they trust the other the most when it comes to stuff they know for sure the rest of the crew won't like. They're each other's "nothing happened" moments. Sanji knows about Thriller Bark. Zoro knows about Wano. Sanji knows about all the burden Zoro has to carry. Zoro literally has Sanji's life on his hands. They trust each other with the things they can't tell their captain. They're his wings so they have to rely on each other to keep the crew from falling. There's just something about the unspoken trust and bond these two have that makes me go insane.

[oh-warizoro]

Perfect take on Zoro. Perfectly executed by Mackenyu.

The way EVERYONE is trying to have him work for them. Mr 7, I'm here with an invitation. Captain Morgan, Join the marines or you'll die tied to a cross.

Luffy, sets him free, doesn't force him to join, let's him go, let's Zoro decide where he wants to be;

And Zoro finds out that place is by Luffy's side. Ain't that beautiful?