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i think there should be more consideration and discussion of zosopp but like not in a romantic sense necessarily but moreso in a they both see each other as a cool, little bug they captured in a jar kind of way. zoro is always fascinated by usopp’s chronically high level of neurosis and usopp treats zoro like his own personal action figure and wields him at others as an intimidation tactic. zoro is charmed by usopp’s “noble heart” and is the first to invite usopp onto the ship and usopp looks to him for comfort. whenever zoro is doing something especially weird usopp is watching him in gross fascination. zoro telling those kids that he and luffy and nami are usopp was hysterical. usopp would have loved that. i think there’s an under-explored dynamic here… where are the fics where Usopp is sitting on the deck near zoro and rambling nonsensically while zoro chimes in once every 4 minutes with his opinions on things. where are the zoro teasing usopp by lying to him about silly things for no reason? where are the fics about zoro and usopp talking about the fact that usopp was almost certainly the one that first haphazardly stitched zoro’s chest back together after his fight with mihawk?? remember when zoro was looking for usopp’s approval in the dinosaur contest on little garden? me too! let’s see some more of that. i just feel like it’s fun when they play together.