Uhh... Zoro Worrying And/or Thinking About His Captain's Safety Pre-TS Era???

One piece characters + taking bullets for each other

Thinking about how sometimes people wonder why zoro's not a captain himself..

And how once zoro even jokingly said that he'd become the new captain if luffy wasn't strong enough...

But then i remembered zoro's words after luffy recovered from his fight with foxy, "if i left this ship i'd have no point in being a pirate anymore" he said.

But you know what's left unsaid? "If you're not my captain anymore i'd have no point in being a pirate anymore"

In thriller bark kuma only asked for luffy's head. Only his captain's head. But zoro would rather die than lose his captain. Throwing away his ambition (shared ambition with kuina mind you), his precious swords, and his life... for luffy.

And OF COURSE thinking about that 'moment' with kaido.

Like idk but can we talk about zoro's undying loyalty to his captain? He is strong enough to lead, to become a captain himself, but he can't just walk away from luffy... that boy saved his life, and their dreams are now intertwined.

He will do anything for his captain and i know that in fics sometimes people highlight(?) on his 'obedience', but that, to a certain degree is true, because he loves to please his captain and follow his orders, i mean.. just take a look at his conversation in wano with marco.

Like ughh he is so ill, i am so ILL, and you ask me why i can't imagine zoro being with anyone else other than his beloved captain? I mean just look at him???

Reminder that they are like almost if not equally strong? especially during pre-ts era

力 = power/strength

Like literally everything about zoro screams dominance but god he just loves his captain so muchh, that it's okay to obediently listen to luffy's orders. He will follow that rubber man anywhere, that's his compass, that's his captain, his (future) KING, i will shut up-

Luffy is so comfortable with Zoro that it's normal for him to be stepping on Zoro's knee so he could see better.

And Zoro doesn't even mind being stepped on as long as you're Luffy lol

so I've been thinking about that post where someone calls zoro luffy's dog mid fight. I need to see that happen in canon. there's no way it hasn't been said before. I can already picture zoro's big grin as he says the gayest thing a man can say in shonen.

I call this the Zoro's necessities trio:

1, Swords

2, Tits out

3, Captain in the form of Sun God as his halo reflecting his light on him:

In conclusion: I'm printing this out and I'm framing it and I'm throwing this everywhere to indoctrinate people goodbye

Finding your horizon

“they were about to kiss but suddenly got interrupted” aah look

He makes me so feral i cant

You're in the wind

I'm in the water

Nobody's son

nobody's daughter

Watching the chemtrails over the country club