#Sabaody Archipelago Arc

[biscuitboba]

Uhh... zoro worrying and/or thinking about his captain's safety pre-TS era???

Orange town

Arlong park

Reverse mountain

Alabasta

Jaya

Water 7

Enies lobby

Thriller bark

Sabaody archipelago

Post war

[mokneydloaf]

one piece episode 386

[sancastarcs]

this arc is so fucking funny why sanji beat up a guy and changed his entire bone structure 😭😭😭😭

[brave-symphonia]

If I'm remembering correctly, it's been stated this took Nami 8 years of robbing pirates to earn this much money, and it's been said to be an amount of money that seems almost impossible to raise over her life.

So, 100 million berries is seen as an obscene amount of money, and it got me thinking of the Sabaody auction.

Like, they have twice this amount by then, twice what's seen as impossible to raise.

And they still get helplessly outbid so easily, the amount of money the Celestial Dragons have, that they can just waste on something so horrible and something they willingly will cast aside after just a few days, it's horrible to see.

Like, the Celestial Dragons are clearly meant to represent billionaires, and I feel like this really shows it when you compare that.

Once again, five times what is seen as a massive amount of money for someone to conceivably raise, that's seen as money they can just throw away on something the Dragons see as something to just be thrown away.

Couple that with the fact that this thing they'll throw away is a living being, the Celestial Dragons are honestly just horrible all around, I would be surprised if I met someone who sided with them.

I know this is far ahead of Arlong Park, but I worried I wouldn't really come back to it later on, so I had to get it out now.

[sanjis-moulinrouge]

the level of anxiety of my man to smoke three cigarettes at the same time

[just1more-fangirl]

Bonney: Are you mad? You knowingly endanger a member of the celestial dragons? Zoro: He knowingly endangers himself.

[brainyxbat]

Venus' outfit for the Sabaody arc!

[thewitchness]

Void, I swear I've never wanted to see a man dead as much as That Dragon. That pink haired chick might have saved Zoro's hide but damn was it anticlimactic.

[mysteriouslypinkconnoisseur]

Oh boy oh boy it gets worse

Oda: Here’s a silly little arc featuring a guy who looks STRIKINGLY like Sanji’s bounty poster to start the new arc! :)

Also Oda: Let me introduce you to the most privileged class in the World Government: the Celestial Dragons. They’re the residents of the “Holy City” who are the descendants of the founding kings of the World Government. Because of their blood as descendants, they aren’t held to the same standard as you and I. They can get away with actual murder in the street in front of people and they will not be punished! Because of who their ancestors were!

Also Also Oda: Slavery/human trafficking is a vile system that turns lives into commodities. It is not a passive system, and is viscerally traumatic for the victims. Even if it is considered taboo, as long as the government turns a blind eye, it will continue.

Oda: Here’s my new character! He’s a cyborg (but only on the front) who is fueled by cola that he stores in a fridge in his stomach!

Also Oda: Indiscriminate violence against a population for the actions of a few is not justice, no matter what the actions of the few entail. A ruling government built on colonialism and violence has a vested interest in rewriting the historical narrative and will do anything to protect their own version of events. This includes atrocities against citizens, including their own, if it furthers their narrative. They will demonize the survivors and victims to make them seem like villains and terrorists, and lie to the world at large. It is our job to listen to the survivors, and make sure their stories are not forgotten or distorted.

[monthlymanga]

One Piece moments in my gallery that left me devastated

Some are understandable others might not be to y'all

Seeing Chopper in this state - ch.143

Tom's speech about loving your creations, bc at the very least if you don't love the things you make, who will? - ch.356

When Merry spoke her final words - ch.430

Brook regaining his will to live - ch.489

The beginning of their separation - ch. 512

Bon Clay in impel down - ch.536

Whitebeard and his fatherly love - ch.563

Whitebeard and Ace - ch.573

Universally agreed most devastating scene - ch. 574

The abducted kids from Punk Hazard - ch.688

[biscuitboba]

No but zoro and his self sacrificing tendency for luffy is very SICKENING cuz-

In arlong park despite being heavily wounded, roronoa zoro's number one priority will always be about luffy. Saving/protecting luffy. Even after hearing from sanji that luffy was at least somewhat 'still alive/fine' but zoro really said "huh, wdym by half-fine??"

Zoro think about yourself first, for once? Im so serious??

Or remember in sabaody arc right after thriller bark arc when zoro hadn't fully recovered from his injuries?

And then when they caught sanji in a metal net and tried to drown him, luffy being luffy his first instinct of course was to go after sanji. But then, despite (still) being injured, zoro really said "you can't you idiot, you will drown. I will save him in your place instead despite my currently very unwell condition"

I also don't think seawater is good for your wounds SIRR??

Im skipping to post TS era, but in wano arc when luffy and zoro fought against kaido-

(need to stop using this panel but maybe not)

Kaido was trying to kill his unconscious captain. At that point zoro was already badly beaten. Like really really bad. But zoro being zoro with his 30+ broken bones really said "okay traffy listen, i may or may not die from this next move that i'm about to perform, but hey, whatever it takes to protect my captain right?, i'll leave the rest to you"

Like yeah, luffy will always be his number one priority even before himself wbk, but i just think that he is insane about his captain and maybe you gotta chill just a lil bit zoro??

But tbh, if i were him i'd risk it all for luffy too so who am i to judge??

[mokneydloaf]

[sancastarcs]

I love how protective east blue crew was over nami when they saw hatchi again 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[lowqualityonepiece]

more chopper appreciation

[alazystranger]

zoro really went hmm noise and chaos? sounds like my soulmate is back

that moment when you realize the wait for your husband to come back from the war is finally over:

the way he's staring intensely at that grove like he can feel his luffy senses tingling after 2 years always gets me lol

[sanjis-moulinrouge]

I adore this face, you know there's no turning back