thinking about zoro on night watch and he sees luffy in one of his rare moments of calm (that have been more frequent since they reunited) sitting on sunny's lion head bathed in the moon's white light. radiant as if the sun never set at all. and when luffy turns and smiles his way, his breath catches in his throat.
so zoro calling luffy ‘king of the pirates’ after his defeat to mihawk is not only the first time someone canonically reaffirmed luffy’s dream in one piece, indirectly saying he will achieve it, but also the first person to ever call him pirate king.
zoro being the first crew mate and the first person to call luffy by king of the pirates… these intrinsically intertwined pirates, i swear. they instantly believed in each other, trusted each other wholeheartedly. unlike to others where luffy is the future king of the pirates, that never mattered to zoro because luffy already *is* to him.
it doesn’t matter how long, where the road takes them. luffy is the king of the pirates to zoro, he was addressing the king of the pirates, and he was talking to luffy.
I spent way too much time on this.
Inspiration:
https://x.com/tosh1s/status/1898177368440643735
Luffy cant stay still for very long. He could easily move zoro off of him himself (Nami definitely can not move zoro) but he doesn't want to wake zoro up
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