rewatching Zou and thinking about how the Heart Pirates really wanted to meet Luffy but Law had almost immediately asked Luffy to talk in private and the Heart Pirates were all like "not cool captain come on” and giving thumbs down to him.
i know this is a stretch but
Luffy and Law weren’t together for maybe a couple hours, maybe a day at most???? and Law is already stealing Luffy away like they didn’t just an arc and filler together lmao. Law’s crew just wanted to meet his boyfriend😭 and hang out with him, the last time they saw Luffy, he was like half dead you know? this is good blackmail material for them though, Law being all clingy is adorable as hell.
I will never stop thinking about luffy who likes to seek out zoro for literally anything? (But my favorite is when it comes to all the mundane things)
And this is very apparent throughout the whole op i think..
I just love in thriller bark arc how luffy notices his first mate leaving the ship, and then he calls out for zoro from the ship and asks "where are you going?", cause he genuinely wants to know...
Or how luffy reaches out to talk to zoro after he regains consciousness, but even during his time unconscious.
One of my favorite small moments from sabaody arc is when luffy seeks out zoro just to show off his new mermaid friend (camie!), like he didn't have to, but he just likes to share things (news, his excitement, et cetera) with his first mate!!
And of course in return to sabaody just before the fishman arc, we are shown luffy asking his first mate (and only him) about where he was sent to (Maybe he asked the others too, we can't really know for sure... but oda only showed us luffy asking zoro)
Them standing side by side while talking about the things that luffy usually gives little to no shit about... (reminder that small talk or talking about things in or from the past is not really his thing)
I just think that's neat:)?
And last but not least, thinking about how luffy sometimes focuses on his first mate first before anyone else...
e.g. when luffy realizes that he still has his crew after losing ace, and in the flashback (anime version) zoro's the first person shown.
and next is how he sometimes uses ゾロ たち = zoro-tachi when talking about the others (i've talked about this one before, here)
idk how some people can still think nami is straight when there's a female presenting dog person exists right there giving her kisses and wearing her clothes while nami herself is being treated like a princess
i just realized something. zepo (from pedro’s flashback with big mom) was definitely bepo’s older brother, who bepo originally left zou to search for. when bepo returned to zou with the heart pirates, he learned that his brother had died (although he had already decided to stay with law). law reaches zou and reunites with bepo and the hearts, and they all go on to fight kaido and big mom with the strawhats. law teams up with kidd to defeat big mom.
law literally killed the woman who murdered bepo’s brother. hell fucking yeah
i finally reached wano! and the zolu reunion is just as good as all those manga panels i read before i even got to it for myself alksdjs
plus i have a small comparison i want to point out with the ending of the zou arc - to see how luffy and zoro were all smiles even when going separate ways for a while:
with most of the other strawhats (except robin and franky lol) being so freaked out by how luffy chose to get from the elephant of zou, falling down, basically. but luffy and zoro were just smiling at each other!
"see you in wano!!!" "you bet!!"
(and robin just waving and smiling is so cute too!)
and then you have the wano reunion, with luffy trying to guess who that person in distance might be,
until luffy hearing more of the conversation and putting it together that it's really zoro! (plus blushing!)
and the fact that they're again smiling so brightly at each other is just beautiful! <33 (i missed zoro in the past arc so much..finally at last, they're once again together. i will have to watch the anime version too)
I'm not sure which one of them is saying the 'it's been forever!' bc the verily hints more that it was zoro saying that, but either way it's so funny bc it was like a month max, right? maybe less,. so the fact that they were missing each other so much!! it just warms my heart so much <33
I dunno if y'all saw @sen-ya human version of Bepo (please check it out if you haven't), but talking to them about it got me thinking of human Pedro, and y'all I think I messed up big he just kinda looks like Sanji...oops...well...here you go I guess XD