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Step 4: The Swords. Finished Yubashiri. 2 down. One to go.

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Sanji merch is so good whenever they let that girl smile … please return his big beautiful grin to me please <////3

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been seeing a lot of people talking about how weird jax was in the recent tadc episode, and i wanted to share my thoughts about it

to me, this whole episode was about masking, both in a literal sense and an emotional sense, and what happens when people can't mask anymore. it was mostly focused on gangle, and how she's trying to keep herself together and happy despite not feeling that way, but i also think this theme spread to the other characters as well.

there are a handful of characters that i think mask, or hide themselves more than the others. starting off with zooble, who hides in their room because they don't feel comfortable with themself, being forced to interact with the others and do the adventure.

then, ragatha, who tries so hard to make others like her and saying what she thinks they want to hear, ends up drugged or drunk or whatever which takes away her filter and causes her to say what she really thinks.

finally, jax, who i think values control, which is almost impossible to get in a place where your whole life is controlled by someone else. so he acts a certain way and he does what he can to get whatever amount of control that he can over a situation to prove that the digital circus doesn't have full power over him. sometimes i think he acts like a jerk as a way to control what others hate about him, instead of them hating him for things he can't control. some form of coping mechanism or smth, but i don't think we know enough about jax to say that for sure. he might just be a jerk for the fun of it.

but he loses that control in this episode. gangle, the one person he has the most power over out of the group, now has power over him and when he pushed back against that, she sent him to the training room where he was physically restrained and forced to watch the training video. that's why i think he was so off this episode. because his way of coping with being stuck in the circus wasn't working and there was nothing he could do about it

but hey, that's just a theory

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WHERE IS ALL OF THE ZOSOPP CONTENT??? fine I guess I’ll do it myself… and also what if I killed both of them…

@squidling2005 and I are lowkey ILL about ZoSopp and it’s such an underrated paring—platonically or otherwise. I haven’t drawn them together much weirdly enough, so here’s this!!

Methinks that if the rest of the crew was already dead, and Zoro and Usopp were bleeding out, they’d sit and wait with each other to die together.

Closeup + reference below the cut :]

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Save me ZoLu save me…

Better quality/individuals under cut!

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If you hang out in my streams and collect channel points, you can trade them in for a super quick sketch of mine!

I have drawn several bloody Zoros for @calysto1395 before, and this is the newest installment.

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the verticals vs the horizontals is tomorrow

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nobody understands how much i love yubashiri, not even me sometimes. it's my favorite sword in all of one piece, and it's never talked about

i know that moment in loguetown was focused on kitetsu because it was an important moment for zoro and really showed how much he believes in fate and luck, but that scene reminds me that yubashiri has so much weight to it, i think.

yubashiri was a family heirloom, and when zoro leaves the shop, tashigi asks the shopkeeper why he gave away such an important treasure, and he says "what's wrong with a man entrusting another man with his dreams?"

whether zoro knows it or not, yubashiri holds a promise and a dream similar to wado, but not as heavy or personal. we don't know what the shopkeepers dream was, but he knew he wouldn't be able to reach it and instead gave it to zoro in the form of yubashiri.

i know this isn't that important in the long run, and we don't really know anything about the shopkeeper, but zoro has this theme with promises and carrying the weight of others dreams with him. he strives to be the best and will do anything to reach the top, but he'll also do the same for people he loves and respects.

even if he doesn't know or care what yubashiri means to the shopkeeper, yubashiris history seems to fit well with zoro, and i think that's what's important. it continues this theme of dreams and promises and trust, things that are vital for zoros character. they compliment each other

and then it died in two seconds because of some random guy that we've never heard of and we'll never see again 😭😭😭

i'm really happy zoro laid it to rest in thriller bark, but the way yubashiri died made it feel unimportant and tossed aside and i'm really upset about it

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i've been very productive

may delete this later idk

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Roronoa Zoro

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never change zoro

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"So PTSD, huh?"

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ଘ(੭ˊ꒳ˋ)੭✧ for @heartwyrm

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if you want to get better at drawing then you need to get obsessed with a freaky little character and draw them a billion times

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join the sanuso nation coward

i wasn't sure if you wanted your cringy irl to join

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stop reblogging references to the fanfiction, it's mean /silly /nm

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Just these two together make me cry. If you're in a mood for getting your heart broken read this.