The “rides Out For Luffy And Onboard With Literally Anything He Wants To Do” Trio:

I don't care what people say but luffy and zoro definitely have something going on. Whether or not its just loyalty is totally up to the viewer but you cannot deny their bond is unbreakable.

Mr.5 :

Luffy :

Mr. 5 :

Zoro :

NOOOOOO MY BABIEEESSSSSS AAAAAAAA

Dropping a brick on the post below

hee hee

Firefighter!Luffy and Policeman!Zoro like this

Zoro being the only one who can get Luffy to understand something (Yet again).

& the best part of that reimagining is it's in Zoro's head (THIS IS AROUND WHEN IN REALITY HE SAID HE'LL FOLLOW LUFFY TO HELL....) & those are what he fondly reminisces himself doing (the focus on their big big grins & wording, the focus on Luffy reflecting in his pupil like in this pic below: https://www.tumblr.com/latinokokonoi/744933133295796224/hmm?source=share,

THE SCENE ALSO WENT FROM GRAY MONOCHROME TO BRIGHT & COLORFUL... & oh Zoro- the way you romanticize your first meeting with Luffy...)

for context here is the scene in question

but you’re so right because zoro did romanticize the FUCK out of his first meeting with luffy. this is specifically a flashback from zoro’s perspective …….

and how does he remember it? luffy’s smile, luffy holding his swords, luffy being all he can see, smirking while calling himself “your pirate”, and luffy brightening his world

talk about a “seeing colorwhen u meet ur soulmate” kinda love at first sight moment

Enies lobby (again??)

IDK but thinking about how after luffy managed to defeat rob lucci, zoro responded with "got me scared for a moment" my god, zoro was scared of losing his captain, im not okay? I get that he'd die for luffy, but i still can't handle this?!

I can't help but to think of alabasta, when sanji explicitly stated that zoro was feeling scared for luffy (that luffy might lose), and then zoro got genuinely offended "ME...? SCARED...!? SAY THAT AGAIN...."

But then look at him in enies lobby? He openly admitted to himself about how for a moment he felt scared FOR his captain, and im just?!@#$% character development indeed

OK SO, enies lobby. After zoro expressed his relief, unfortunately not long after that it turned out that luffy was unable to move his entire body (at that particular moment), AND poor zoro... he was literally panicking and losing his marbles, even at that time robin was more composed compared to zoro (the same zoro who didn't cry for merry btw, even robin shedded a tear)

Zoro is a very calm person but when it comes to luffy facing real danger, he will most definitely lose his mind???

Legitimately can't stop thinking about how often zoro loses his shit over luffy (and probably from the very start.. orange town most likely)

Zoro. One of the most emotionally composed, level-headed person out of all the strawhats. But when it comes to luffy? Suddenly he is losing all composure. He is Roronoa 'im all beaten up but gotta save luffy from drowning in arlong park', 'i cant stop worrying about the luffy vs crocodile fight', 'how dare you hurt my captain?! I will CUT you', 'LUFFY CANT MOVE HIS BODY AT ALL, AND IM GENUINELY FREAKING OUT', 'nothing happened in thriller bark', 'im still pretty much battered, but luffy you cant do that you idiot, let me do it for you' Zoro

AND those things above are just a few examples from the top of my head? and all of them are only from pre-TS era??

His captain is both his strength and weakness (and the rest of the crew too, no doubt! but like most importantly, his captain.) And ughh, i need to chill a little bit

are you really an ao3 user if you've never read a >50k fanfic that is incredibly fucking good, much much better than any original work out there, with eloquent writing so deep and poetic that you have to pause after every few sentences, process it and scream into a muffled pillow?

bonus if you're supposed to be studying for something or other but decided to read just one more chapter, and finished the whole thing :')

I have loved ZoLu since time immemorial, in this live action series they have only further fueled my great love for this ship! They fully grasped the meaning of their relationship!