#I'm partial to the manga version for obvious familiarity reasons

[franeridan]

thinking about how the live action had zoro be unsure about luffy as his captain until luffy showed he wouldn't stand in the way of his dream and only then had him explicitly declare his devotion to luffy, unconditional and everlasting and projected on a vowed on future together, vs how in the manga zoro accepts luffy as his captain since the beginning with the condition that luffy never gets in his way and how, despite zoro having shown over and over and over again that he's ready to die for luffy at any given moment, he's never explicitly promised he'll stand with luffy until the end unconditionally because, by all means, he's still holding luffy on trial. the conditions are still there. in water seven he explicitly says that if luffy stops acting like a worthy captain he's leaving, the only reason why zoro is so devoted to luffy in the manga is that at any given moment luffy is acting in a way that makes him worthy of that devotion in that specific present moment