I Feel Like We Don't Talk Enough About This Particular Scene??? Like How Zoro's Resting Stoic(?) Face

You're a little blind when you focus on someone you love.

Zoro:

Luffy:

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A very little detail about luffy that just came to mind (probably not important but pls excuse my tunnel vision when it comes to zolu), but zoro literally was the first strawhats that luffy shedded his tears for???

Mihawk vs Zoro. You can even see his tears falling from both eyes. From the left eye (1st pic) and right eye (2nd pic).

And not only that but i think it happened twice?

You can see rayleigh stopping kizaru from hurting zoro. Then if you look at the bottom panel, after seeing rayleigh you can spot the little snot from luffy's nose and a single tear from his left eye. Luffy was very relieved to see rayleigh, but more importantly, he was very relieved because rayleigh had just saved zoro from kizaru's attack.

Now the more i think about it, those two moments (when luffy cried(?) for zoro) were never really a grandiose one with all the big tears and ugly sobbing. But well, if you think about it, that kind of thing wouldn't be possible(?) not really... cuz at the time when those two situations occurred, zoro was in incredible danger AND with powerful foe/s around. Luffy didn't have the time to properly process his emotions. Like heck after mihawk slashed zoro, luffy even tried to attack mihawk. And with the sabaody arc one, the situation was even more chaotic..

So honestly? Im just thinking about how zoro probably was the first person outside of luffy's family and all of his loved ones from foosha village (imma include shanks and his crew just bcs) that ever made him cry. I'm talking about the 'you are important to me, i care about you, and i don't want you getting hurt/dead' kind of tears, and ughh, idk let me just excuse myself and weep for a bit

That being said, if im not wrong i think zoro and usopp are the only two strawhats who ever made their captain cry twice. (Luffy cried after the battle with usopp (usopp leaving the crew) and after usopp rejoining the crew)

That’s his boyfriend, your honor.

AM I THE LAST PERSON TO REALIZE THAT EVEN THEIR BANDAGES ARE IN THE SAME PLACE?!?!?! MEANING THAT TAKING ON LUFFY’S PAIN GAVE HIM QUITE LITERAL WOUNDS AND POSSIBLY SCARS? MEANING THAT ZORO QUITE LITERALLY CARRIES HIS CAPTAIN’S SCARS WITH HIM?!?!?! IM FREAKING OUT ITS SO GAY SIENDHAOAMZGYSWLMSHDHDK

One Piece ep. 260 || "Even a monster like him isn't the leader of the group?"

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