Love the crack idea that Luffy's next goal after becoming Pirate King is to get married. He's never mentioned anything about it before. Nobody has any idea about. Including the person he has in mind. And it works for any ship
If Gojo, Shoko and Geto had adopted Tsumiki and Megumi
I try to be chill and normal (multishipping) but zoro is so damn jealous & devoted over luffy it’s hard bc whenever imagine zoro in another pairing all I can think is ‘this has potential but will ultimately fail/be angsty bc zoro will canonically put luffy first’ or when I try to say “luffy has two hands!!!” I immediately hear “and zoro’s holding them both” in the back of my head. bro has three swords and he is NOT afraid to use them
cannot stand the rhetoric that’s like “zoro cares more for luffy than luffy cares for him, zoro is more devoted” BRO first off r u watching? is quiet part is very loud (luffy offering to share his food w zoro, luffy asking zoro about his time during the time skip, luffy blushing when he sees zoro, luffy saying hi to zoro & recognizing him from the glint of his hair, luffy telling him how much he misses him when they go days/weeks w/o each other, tears coming to luffy’s eyes when rayleigh saved zoro) bc while there’s been no grand gesture like “nothing happened” it’s a bunch of tiny, as natural as breathing gestures. but also it’s wild work to think luffy WOULDNT do a grand if given the chance. he’d stretch his hand into the night sky and pluck out a star if he thought it’d make zoro laugh
I bet Zoro has a thing for Luffy’s bad boy side. Oh, don’t get me wrong — he loves everything about Luffy, and he loves that Luffy is adorable and unserious most of the time. But when Luffy is being his anarchist self, challenging the Warlords or, oh dear god, the Five Elders directly, I bet Zoro gets ALL hot and bothered and can’t wait to get him alone. When he finally does, you know that man is dropping to his damn knees for his captain.
Luffy being clingy to Zoro is basically expected of him. In my mind, Zoro had the same change in his attitude towards that clinginess as he did for Luffy’s shenanigans. Pre time-skip he’s flustered/annoyed and post time-skip he just accepts it. Knowing this I love the idea of Zoro becoming even slightly more clingy post time-skip, and Luffy becoming a flustered mess instead.
WHY has no one talked about these panels. fuck it its 12 am (at the time of me "finishing" (<- not even close) writing this, its nearly 2 am) im going to talk about them
ahem.
before i get to the Main Point i wanna discuss chils tendency to spiral into his thoughts
like, sure, yeah, he's a reasonable guy. real logical-- but he tends to rush through so many possibilities and in this scene even berates himself for his tiny mistake. every thought in this scene goes so fast to me here, just "snap snap snap, call for help, no thatll attract too much attention- wait is there a switch? crap its too far away- nevermind lets just wait for marcille- but can i trust her with that?? god im so stupid, am i just gonna be trapped here until morning???" and it takes a moment for him to stabilise and snap out of it
like... he even has a little pep talk about it
i guess you could take this as him merely being a quick thinker? but i highly doubt it -- look at this fucking guy.
anyways. hes always got to be eased out of it one way or another, whether that be complainerism (self-explanatory), strategising with another person (that way all the insecure thoughts get pushed to the back in favour of working together), reassuring himself (discussed above) or...
you. could.
distract him.
place a brick wall in front of that zooming train of thought and watch it crash and burn :)
he doesnt even respond in that first pic, by the way. in fact, he doesnt say anything for another 3 (and a bit) pages, and by then the topic has been safely switched (granted those three pages are just marcille and laios making the familiars, but i feel it still stands that there was no response at all, not even visually)
secondly, in that other instance -- see how his eyes go wide as saucers when contact is made? and how they turn into pinpricks once he looks back**? god. and. like.
oh. fuck. ive gottta continue this in a reblog since ive reached the picture limit on mobile -- i am not even a THIRD of a way through all my thoughts on this- we didnt even get to my footnote!! sit tight everyone :)
Luffy and Zoro arguing reminds me of bickering between old married couples.
Here's Luffy scolding his husband again for being such an ingrate. Zoro haven't you learned from Whiskey Peak?
And also, come on Luffy, listen to your man 🙄
This is like calling your husband, but he doesn't hear you because he's too focused on watching his favorite sports game.
Branch and Floyd having such a small amount of screen time together is criminal