Part Two Of My Secret Santa Gift! The Main Prompt For This Was "Unrequited Zolu" But There's A Couple

How did I not share this here yet?

gotta love that the anime added some frames when the strawhats were escaping from the marines at the end of enies lobby, and very injured luffy still wanting to help and fight

and they just use him to repel the incoming attack, same as in the manga asdksffd

monster trio being idiots again (affectionate) ✌️

sorry for hitting you with my car (my bad)

“I’m kinda glad I hit you with my car.”

“I’d do it again, I think. No. I definitely would,” Luffy continues after several minutes have already passed. He’s still facing the TV, eyes focused on the flashing scenes, but he steals a quick side glance. “Y’know, if it meant I got to meet you.”

A modern ZoLu fic in which Luffy takes “I’d hit that” entirely too literally. (It was an accident, really, even if he’d probably do it again.)

Read on Ao3. 🖤

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So I actually have a little idea about that ⚔️👒🗡️ ot3 (EGGHEAD ARC SPOILERS)

Seraphim!Zoro was the first human clone prototype Vegapunk did but he was just, dumped in some cell like a prisoner for any random testing. Until the marines attacked egghead and his cell was opened and he saw Luffy and Zoro fighting alongside one another. Seeing Luffy, he felt something stir within him. something familiar and pleasant. Excitement and delight. So when Zoro and Luffy defeated Lucci and they has a short respite, that's when 'Prototype' popped up and started to follow Luffy like a lost puppy and everyone got spooked for a minute thinking its one of the warlord pacifistas but Luffy saw he looks like Zoro. 'Prototype' is what Seraphim!Zoro was called by the vegapunk crew. Zoro's dna was used and his fighting data back at east blue was also used. Vegapunk tried to imbue him with an artificial devil fruit but his DNA keeps strongly rejecting it. So 'Prototype' is considered a failure by vegapunk but still uses him as a test subject. 'Prototype' was still being given updates in battle memory as they follow Zoro's improvement as a pirate and as time passes. Not to mention, Moria once lent a helping had to vegapunk who also studied and analyzed every move the Ryuma zombie made and fed that info to 'prototype' so his skills are also a no joke. Not to mention,

the Seraphim!Mihawk trains with Seraphim!Zoro. Which was only one of the reasons they kept prototype around.

Vega punk also made an imitation of Shusui that 'prototype' uses.

So prototype is very much like a quiet puppy. Feral when in battle but keeps to himself and is calm when not in battle. another reason Vegapunk deemed him a failure for not being aggressive like the successful new pacifista seraphims.

Vegapunk told Luffy not to worry about 'prototype' and that he's a failure and he will get rid of him but Luffy got mad and almost punched the vegapunk that said it. Luffy then saying, " DON'T TREAT HIM LIKE SOME ITEM. THAT'S ZORO'S CLONE. " covering 'prototype' protectively.

Vegapunk not really having a care for his failed experiemnts, just, told luffy he can have him.

So seraphim!zoro joins the crew. His name being give to him by Zoro - after Luffy's endless coercion LOL- Shiro. since his hair is white. The crew even scolding him to think of a proper name, that shiro makes it sound like Zoro is just naming a dog. But luffy likes it so they go with that.

Once Shiro joins joins the crew, Shiro eventually develops his personality to be closer to Zoro although, more quiet and stoic than Zoro.

Shiro also has sense of direction, but only because vegapunk made sure the seraphim intellect is high to create detailed tactics for war and battle.

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happy ten years, trans bugs!

How do you draw clothing folds?

uhm it’s a bit hard to explain with only words but i did some sketches and notes? i hope these help

(basically i just do lots of zigzags that go with the flow of the fold direction, then the rest is just me scribbling away haha)

no notes version under cut

asl bros doodles sketches and scribbles from the past few days. for the soul

love them

Do you have any fanfiction recommendations for Luffy x zoro?? I've been in and out of the Fandom for like 5 years and im kinda craving some good fanfiction!!:)

- bear

I am unfortunately a bad person to ask for fic recs bc my tried and true method will always be sorting by kudos so anyone who has suggestions drop them in the notes BUT here r some off the top of my head I like

our shores of starlights ; luffy doesn't find the demon pirate hunter at shell town, he finds a sword -- zoro is a spirit trapped in wado. I love long slow burns and I love MILD au's that follow canon, so at 45k this is one of my go tos

I'll take this piece of you ; opla specific fic

zoro the green moss monster ; 5 + fic about zoro being jealous. jealous!zoro is one of my faves so I pretty much HAD to include it

yah, I don't know about that waiter ; another jealous zoro fic tee hee except this is opla specific

got all my attention fixed on you ; I like this one bc not only does it feature asexual luffy BUT it also has the "I bite u bc I like u" trope which I'm a big fan of for him n zoro

observe when I am dead ; I love angst w a happy ending. this is a LOT of angst w a happy ending.

I will leave u with these for now! maybe I will add more later, plus check the notes ppl might will drop some of their faves as well <3