#[ calling from a den den mushi. PSA ]

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PSA. In lieu of the recent SBS information. Spoilers abound.

Having Zoro's family tree having him be distantly related to Kuina changes nothing on the ship of Zoro and Tashigi on this blog.

Reasons being below.

Kuina and Tashigi are different people, having different birthdays, appearance when they were younger, and ages. And no, Tashigi is not a clone. She's older than Kuina by a year.

Oda did not draw Tashigi in any of the recent family tree for the Shimotsukis and the Roronoas.

Tashigi's backstory remains a mystery for the most part, even in the SBS there are slots that only say '???'. There are several theories and stories out there that connects her with either Denjiro / Kyoshiro being related to her since he does look like Kuina's father and yet he doesn't have a last name either like Tashigi does. Or some believe that her father is Mihawk or someone else that is / was affiliated with the marines.

Just because she looked like Kuina to Zoro during the pre-time skip does not factor in anymore because her appearance is totally different. Zoro doesn't even call her Copycat anymore and doesn't run away. Things have changed between them.

We don't even have a last name for Tashigi. Her past probably won't even get brought up in the manga or SBS because she's mostly a side character and unfortunately probably will not get fleshed out as we might hope, as sad as this makes me while typing this.

8 other people founded the village so there could be someone else from Wano that had Tashigi. Or her parents could had been the 15 that died while trying to defeat bandits to save the village. But this is also pure speculation.

Now in case Oda decides in a SBS or the manga to say that Tashigi and Zoro are related, I will drop the ship and bow out gracefully because it would be gross as I don't ship those types at all. But for the time being, this pairing will be still prominent on this blog until further notice.

I understand that some Zoro muns may be now uncomfortable with the ship and that's okay. I totally get where you are coming from. If you don't want to ship this pairing, like in my other posts I am not going to force it on anyone. And I do have tags so you can blacklist it.

I just wanted to say my piece and get it out of my system. I will probably add this to my pinned post as this is important information. Thank you to all that reads this.

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Also worth mentioning, Tashigi is her own person and not Kuina. I really hate those theories that connect the two together ( she was Kuina’s long lost twin sister, somehow Kuina survived and developed amnesia like Sabo, etc ). Like they showed Kuina’s body and the funeral. What more proof do these people want? And the fact the ages would be different by a year or so. Personality, sword-skills, goals besides wanting to be treated as equal, everything is different. They are not the same person. Even Zoro admits that they aren’t the same person and doesn’t really bring up the fact that they look alike anymore unless something triggers that line of thought ( which doesn’t happen that often ).

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I think it’s obvious but uh, this blog ships Tashigi with Zoro and if you don’t want to see that, I have a few tags that you can blacklist. Those are:

zotash for ts;; zotash: tw zoro x tashigi: tw zoro x tashigi for ts;;

Also, I will not force this ship on Zoro muns and actually will send out pre-establish memes to gauge interest. But yeah, I totally ship the pairing. Expect slowburns despite me crying over their interactions throughout the series.

Also, I will not be shipping with any Smokers because he’s more of a father figure / mentor, not to mention the power imbalance. Plus, on her wiki, it states that their relationship is purely professional.

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Speaking of ships on the dash, I’m open to pretty much anything within reason. Although she might be hostile to Law the most but maybe after things cool down it might work itself out. Who knows.

Main ship is definitely Zoro x Tashigi though. I mean come on, it’s a given. Most everything will be a slow burn, unless discussed before hand.

[shibonzakura-a]

I think it’s obvious but uh, this blog ships Tashigi with Zoro and if you don’t want to see that, I have a few tags that you can blacklist. Those are:

zotash for ts;; zotash: tw zoro x tashigi: tw zoro x tashigi for ts;;

Also, I will not force this ship on Zoro muns and actually will send out pre-establish memes to gauge interest. But yeah, I totally ship the pairing. Expect slowburns despite me crying over their interactions throughout the series.

Also, I will not be shipping with any Smokers because he’s more of a father figure / mentor, not to mention the power imbalance. Plus, on her wiki, it states that their relationship is purely professional.

[shibonzakura-a]

Speaking of ships on the dash, I’m open to pretty much anything within reason. Although she might be hostile to Law the most but maybe after things cool down it might work itself out. Who knows.

Main ship is definitely Zoro x Tashigi though. I mean come on, it’s a given. Most everything will be a slow burn, unless discussed before hand.