#i am kinda sorry for all of it ewim

[neonshi]

Zoro/Southbird lore

Hello @pwnyta and friends, it is time for a little story about a skunk, a bug, Roronoa Zoro, and a bird that only faces south.

It’s been so long and tumblr’s search function is faulty so I can’t find the original post that started things but I’ll tell the backstory and then link to some of the fun related posts that I can find. Under a read more ‘cause length and stuff 

So over seven years ago now, Ewim was doing an ask game of “send me a character and I’ll say my five least favorite ships for that character” I was having a good time sending Ewim a bunch of random One Piece characters getting more weird and obscure as time went by. (I also sent like, Amazon, and Sengoku’s goat) But one character I sent was Southbird. To which Ewim responded along the lines of “I don’t like southbird/northbird. And I don’t know for the rest of them however Zoro/southbird is totally my southbird OTP”

To which I thought “WUT? ...Go on... I need more information on this”

So now I was curious about this “Southbird OTP” that had been mentioned. 

So the next time Ewim did an ask game that said “send me a ship and I’ll tell you XYZ about them” I sent in Zoro/Southbird. Ewim was all “What the fuck” and tried to answer whatever the ask game was, but was exasperated and couldn’t handle it, gave up in the middle, and it was hilarious. 

Since it was so funny I decided to send in zoro/southbird again for the next ship ask game, and the next one, and the next one. Ewim’s exasperated and confused reactions got funnier every time. At this point it was mostly just me being amused by it. It didn’t seem like anyone else really paid much attention to these asks. But Ewim had had enough.

So, in what later was said to be an attempt to freak me out, Ewim drew THIS:

And HOLY SHIT this is when it really started. I remember scrolling through when suddenly this hit me in the face. I literally screamed, my family was not happy. hahaha 

But now Zoro/southbird was on prominent display for all of Ewim’s fans and followers to see. And everyone loved it. It was funny and ridiculous and so many more people hopped on the zorobird band wagon. And Ewim suffered. Soon I no longer needed to send in zoro/southbird asks because everyone else was dumping them in Ewim’s inbox. At some point I actually sat back for a while because there was enough already without me adding in more. Honestly not a single anon was me, I never hid when I talked about this disaster I made hahaha 

Ewim got so frustrated with the surge of zorobird love, that the handy dandy ponify got pulled out to change “southbird” into “my ass” whenever Ewim would read it. Making for some pretty funny sounding posts. It was great.

From this point it continued on for a while and slowly died down but never fully went away. It has stayed as a continuous joke that just pops up now and again in the Ewim fandom.

It was a wild ride and some fun times.

Some post links:

Ewim’s beautiful drawing and start of the end

A zorobird ask I sent This is a later one I sent but it summarizes Ewim’s general reactions and also features the “my ass” word change.

Sleeping beauty zoro with southbird

Zoro with baby southbirds

silly little fanfic (SFW)

Ewim wanting to kill me lol