#in zoro's defense

[dragonbornphoenix]

How to traumatize Chopper: instead of one long text send many short ones so that, in a diabolical twist of fate, half of them don't get sent.

[ladysatoru]

everyone else : omg this forest is dangerous and we have an important mission to carry out

zoro : *beefing with a random roach he found in the forest*

[st-pop]

tango dancing zosan!! based off of this post by @apollo41writes!

funny how zosan is one of my favourite ships but this is the first time ive drawn them XD

[gender-premium-tm]

a bit late but mARTch days 14 and 15: neon and primary :)

i used a combo of rgb and cmyk for this since the list said i could

reblogs>>>likes

[ladyhoneydarlinglove]

{one piece fic} blunt force comfort — chopper & zoro

{previous chapters: nami | usopp | sanji }

Rating: T Notes: takes place post thriller bark; technically minor canon divergence since this isn't exactly what happened, but like. it's what should have happened.

{Read on Ao3}

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Zoro’s injuries are bad this time. Like, really bad. So bad that there’s a tiny part of Chopper wondering if Zoro will even wake up. 

He’s trying very hard to ignore it, but it’s not easy when every time Chopper checks in on Zoro, he’s forced to once again confront the reality that the swordsman is on death’s doorstep. It’s all he can do to keep himself in check as he takes Zoro’s vitals and changes his wound dressings, and as soon as he’s done Chopper has to step aside and cry for a good five minutes because Zoro might die.

Of course everyone tells him that it’s not his fault. That Chopper’s done everything he could and now all they can do is wait. Sanji especially has been trying to hammer that point home, taking the little doctor aside and telling him, “Zoro’s our first mate; his job is to protect the rest of us and sometimes that’s going to mean getting hurt. Badly. But he knew what he was signing up for, and he wouldn’t want you to beat yourself up about this. Okay?”

“Okay,” Chopper says, even though it’s not. Because yes, Zoro’s job is to protect them, but Chopper’s job is to keep everyone alive.

Sanji must hear his reluctance, because he sighs deeply and says, “Chopper. I mean it. Whatever… happened to Zoro—it isn’t your fault.”

“I know,” Chopper says miserably, and he does. “But it will be my fault if he doesn’t wake up.”

“It absolutely will not, and the mosshead will wake up,” Sanji insists, in a tone that suggests he’ll make Zoro wake up himself if he has to. “And when he does you can rip him a new one for being so goddamn reckless. You’ll see.”

Chopper doesn’t want to rip Zoro a new one. He just wants him to wake up.

He finally does three days later, much to Chopper’s tear-filled relief. When he asks what on earth happened to him Zoro says he doesn’t remember, which Chopper’s pretty sure is a lie, but he lets it slide. He gives Zoro the standard lecture about being more careful next time, Zoro smiles tiredly and tells him it’s a good thing he’s got the best doctor in the world taking care of him, Chopper preens and squeals, “That doesn’t make me happy at all, you jerk!” 

Now that Zoro’s awake, Chopper feels so much lighter, and he thinks that soon, everything will be right back to normal.

Then, barely a day later, Zoro tries to take off his bandages so he can train, and something inside Chopper snaps.

”Zoro!” he cries when he sees the swordsman attempting to unwrap his torso. “What are you doing?”

Zoro blinks at him, like he’s surprised Chopper’s even asking. “Well, I need to train, and the bandages hinder my movement, so—”

“Of course they hinder your movement, you fucking dumbass!” Chopper shrieks. “They’re bandages! That’s what they’re supposed to do! So that you can rest and heal from your injuries!”

Zoro starts, clearly taken aback. 

“Did you just call me a ‘fucking dumbass’?” he asks Chopper incredulously, but Chopper barely hears him over the sudden rush of blood in his ears. He feels like a dam has burst somewhere inside his head, and words start pouring out of him in a terrible flood of anger and frustration before Chopper can stop them.

“You always do this!” he yells. “You never take the time you need to actually recover because you’re so goddamn obsessed with training! Well what good is all that training gonna do if you die, huh? Have you ever even thought about that?”

The way Zoro’s gaping at him would be kind of funny if this weren’t so serious. “Chopper,” he says, reaching out, but Chopper rears back out of his reach as he barrels on—

“Zoro I know you think it’s stupid but bodies need time to heal! And if you keep cutting that time short, eventually it’s going to catch up with you and then you’ll… I won’t be able to… You’ll…”

The anger leaves him as suddenly as it came, and then Chopper’s just bawling. He can’t really see Zoro through the haze of tears and snot pouring down his face, but he does hear him move, and this time when Zoro says his name and lays a surprisingly gentle hand on his shoulder, Chopper lets himself be drawn into a hug.

He’s not sure how long he cries for. Longer than is probably acceptable for a real man, though Zoro doesn’t seem too concerned about that at the moment. He just holds Chopper to his chest, patting his back awkwardly and saying things like, “Chopper, hey. It’s okay. Everything’s okay. I’m fine, see? All thanks to you.”

“I’m not happy about that at all, you jackass,” Chopper mumbles into his chest, and for once he means it. Mostly.

“Yeah, I can see that,” Zoro mutters, and when Chopper finally pulls back with a sniffle, he sees Zoro looking distinctly embarrassed, cheeks flushed and the tips of his ears bright red.

“Jeez, you were really worried about me this time, huh?” he says, with a strained little chuckle like it’s some kind of joke. Chopper makes a strangled noise and smacks him on the forehead with one tiny hoof, hard enough that it actually makes him say, “Ow!”

“Of course I was worried about you!” he cries, eyes welling up with hot, angry tears. “Zoro, do you even understand how close you came to dying this time? The blood loss alone—if Sanji hadn’t found you when he did—it’s a miracle you didn’t go into hemorrhagic shock—and if you had—I’m not—there’s no transfusion supplies—Merry was too small—I couldn’t have—and your blood type is AB—I wouldn’t have been able to—”

“Woah, woah, hey,” Zoro says, gripping both of Chopper’s shoulders tightly. “Chopper, it’s okay, calm down—”

“But you could have died!” Chopper wails. “You could have died and it would have been all my fault!”

There’s an instant shift in Zoro’s expression, from wide-eyed growing alarm to a fierce, angry scowl.

“Chopper!” he snaps, voice so low and harsh it’s basically a growl. The sound of it sends a jolt through the little doctor, his tears slowing in the wake of his confusion.

“What—”

“Shut up,” Zoro barks, glaring at him furiously. “Now listen to me. It will never, ever be your fault if someone on this crew dies, you understand? If any one of us goes, it’s either going to be our own damn fault for doing something stupid, or because there was literally nothing else that you could have done to save us. So don’t you ever—ever—say that shit again, do you hear me?”

“But—”

“Do you hear me?” 

Chopper doesn’t think he’s ever seen Zoro this angry before. His whole face is red, eyes narrowed nearly to slits, muscles twitching in both his forehead and clenched jaw—and his grip on the doctor’s shoulders is now so tight that it’s bordering on painful. Chopper swallows thickly. 

It’s funny, he thinks. The rest of the crew have been telling him the same thing for days now, with much kinder words and gentler reassurances. But here, in the wake of Zoro’s fury that Chopper would dare to blame himself for Zoro’s death, is the first time he feels like he should actually listen to what he’s being told.

“I hear you,” Chopper answers quietly, and is surprised to find how much he means it.

[theonescreencap]

i've already seen multiple people gif this and stuff but it's just so funny. even the early noncanon filler episode style movies can have some really good character chemistry

[mangokabuto]

Some genderbend sketch before bed <3

(bonus below cut. I got carried away w/ usopp lmao)

OH FUCK I FORGOT NAMI'S TATTOO LMAOOOO IGNORE THAT SORRY..

[galaxysupernaturalstuff]

[mayoiayasep]

transmasc zoro is such a permanent part of my mind rn i almost posted "do you think nami and zoro's periods ever synced" without thinking twice about it

[acesoddity]

my apartment’s been watching drag race recently and i just think he’d be a big fan

(OH! and the curler was inspired by @themetalhiro ‘s work!! :] )

[vveirdnobdy]

Help girl I'm starting one piece

[sleepyhead-poll]

LOSER'S BRACKET! ROUND 1, MATCH 4 OUT OF 8!

Loser's Bracket Propaganda Under the Cut:

Zoro:

[None]

Kyoutarou:

they are fr the eepiest ever

[blackcat2907]

The bumblebee landed on Zoro’s head and crawled around on him. Zoro rolled his eyes and leaned back again. The bee paid him no mind and kept buzzing around, eventually flying off. The Sunny lolled in the gentle waves. Clouds drifted across the sky. No Marines or enemy pirates were in sight. The perfect day. Zoro hummed in appreciation and braved his arms behind his head, palms flat against the back of his head.

The metal bar clattered to the ground. Blood soaked her hands, blue eyes wide in shock and horror. Blood splattered across her face and the front of her white blouse. Hot tears streamed down her face, sobs wracked her body. Her knees dug painfully into the course dirt and gravel. The blood on her slowly dried, making her feel sticky and uncomfortable. Her shirt stuck to her skin, needing to be physically peeled off. She hunched over and sobbed, bile rising in her throat. She vomited and hacked as her body quivered from shock.

[ladyhoneydarlinglove]

{one piece fic} blunt force comfort — sanji & zoro

{previous chapters: nami | usopp }

heard it's someone's birthday today! to celebrate here's zoro beating him at the anxiety game lol

Rating: T Notes: canon typical mentions of theoretical cannibalism; takes place during the part of the journey to Alabasta where Luffy ate all the food.

{Read on Ao3}

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It’s not that Sanji doesn’t have contingency plans for running low on food. In fact he has five, starting with rationing and ending at the worst case scenario. Sanji’s always planned on being the first person to sacrifice a limb if it ever came to that, but now, staring at the nearly empty sack of rice and half a bottle of cooking oil that is all that remains of their supplies after Luffy’s pantry raid, he’s beginning to reassess who should be up first on the chopping block. Luffy’s made of rubber, so Sanji would have to tenderize him with a severe beating before he could cook him. He wonders if he could convince Zoro to help with that.

”Holy fuck, did you light something on fire? What’s with all the smoke?”

Speak of the devil.

Sanji sighs, running an aggravated hand through his hair. “I’m stress smoking,” he bites out as Zoro enters the galley. “If you don’t like it, leave.”

Zoro gives an exaggerated cough as he makes his way over the table. “What did you do?” he asks. “Burn through a whole pack?”

Three quarters, technically; but Zoro doesn’t need to know that, so rather than respond Sanji just flips him off instead. Zoro reciprocates without missing a beat as he plops down into a chair, nodding at the gathered supplies on the table and asking, “That all we got left?”

Sanji exhales with a heavy puff of smoke. “I’m going to kill him,” he seethes, all the anger that’s been simmering in his gut since he realized what Luffy did finally beginning to boil over. “What the hell was he thinking?”

“It’s Luffy,” Zoro says flatly. “He wasn’t.”

“Well he should!” Sanji yells, slamming his hands against the table so hard that the bottle of oil topples over. “He’s not the only person on this fucking ship! How the hell am I supposed to keep seven fucking people fed on rice and cooking oil for however long it takes us to get reach Alabasta?”

Zoro frowns. “Nami said it should only take up to a week, right? I know it’ll be rough, but—“

“Yeah, ‘should’. Key word there marimo, should. But we don’t know! What happens if we hit a storm that knocks us off course? What if someone breaks the eternal pose? What if we sail into a doldrums and can’t get out? It could be weeks before we make landfall again but did Luffy think about any of that? No, because he was too busy stuffing his fucking gullet!”

“Oi, watch it twirlybrow,” Zoro says, eyes narrowing dangerously. “That’s our captain you’re talking about.”

“Which is why he should fucking know better!” Sanji shoots back, fuming. “He’s got a whole fucking crew he should be thinking about, he can’t just eat through our supplies like a selfish brat and not expect there to be consequences!”

Zoro keeps glaring, but (rather tellingly, in Sanji’s opinion) doesn’t press the point. Instead he says, “You’re the cook, aren’t you? Don’t you have plans for if we run out of food?”

“Of fucking course I have plans, dipshit, but most of them rely on at least some form of rationing, which we can’t do if we don’t have anything left!” Sanji snaps. “If something happens and we can’t fish or forage, it’s only going to be a matter of time before we end up in a worst case scenario, which—”

Sanji cuts himself off with a snarl, pulling out another cigarette. Zoro is still glaring at him, though there’s confusion in his expression now too. 

“When you say worst case scenario…” he says slowly, and Sanji barks out an entirely humorless laugh.

“Take a wild fucking guess, mosshead.”

It takes him a second, but at least when it clicks Zoro has the decency to look suitably taken aback. 

“Fucking hell cook, it’s not gonna come to that.”

“You don’t know that,” Sanji growls, chomping on the filter in his mouth until it turns into pulp.

“I’m pretty fucking sure—“

“But you don’t know!” Sanji insists, rounding on him furiously. “That’s the whole point! That’s why we need a plan. That’s why I have plans, except most of those plans have been shot to hell because of our glutton of a captain and if God forbid we get thrown off course, the worst case scenario might just have to become a viable option!”

He’s positively seething now, chest heaving with effort and face bright red with anger. Zoro’s not glaring anymore at least, though he is eyeing Sanji like he thinks he might go off the deep end at any moment, which Sanji honestly might. He thinks he deserves that much. 

Then Zoro heaves a sigh and says, “Alright, well. Sucks that it’s come to this but I guess we’ve got no other option.” He stands, rolling his shoulders. “You wanna be there to comfort Vivi?”

That gives Sanji pause. “Comfort Vivi for what?” he asks, confused.

“For when I kill her duck.”

“For when you—what?!” Sanji yells, jumping up and hauling Zoro in by the front of his shirt. “Kill her duck? Mosshead, have you lost your mind?”

He hates how calm Zoro looks, how steady his voice is when he says, “But you just said that we could be nearing the worst case scenario.”

“And you think that means we have to kill Karoo?!”

“Well, the duck’s edible, right?” Zoro says with a little shrug, like what he’s suggesting isn’t certifiably insane. “And I figure it’ll probably taste a lot better than one of us, so. Makes sense that it should be the first to go, right?”

Sanji makes a noise like a cornered animal. 

“Marimo,” he snarls, voice low and vicious as he drags Zoro in close enough that their noses are nearly touching, “if you lay one fucking finger on that duck so help me I will feed you piecemeal into the meat grinder and use your own entrails to turn you into sausages.”

He’s made grown men cry in the kitchen of the Baratie with threats like that before. Zoro, the bastard, just stares placidly back at him, unphased.

“So let me get this straight,” he says. “Our food situation is so dire that we’re rapidly approaching the need to resort to cannibalism, but not so dire that we can’t cook and eat the duck first?”

Sanji growls, opening his mouth to reiterate that under no fucking circumstances is he letting Zoro kill Karoo for food when logic finally catches up to panic in his brain and sucker punches him square in the gut. 

He sputters, wind rapidly leaving the billowing sails of his anger. Zoro clearly sees this, and takes the opportunity to smirk and adds, “Cause I’m gonna be real honest with you, shit cook—I think even the princess would rather eat her duck before going in on human flesh.”

She almost certainly would. So would Sanji, for that matter—why even entertain the idea of cannibalism if there’s a solid few hundred pounds of meat and fat already onboard the ship? But the thought of cooking Karoo never even crossed his mind, which means…

Which means things (probably) aren’t as dire as Sanji is making them out to be. 

Goddamnit.

Sanji lets go of Zoro’s shirt and takes a step back, drawing in a deep, smoke-filled breath. He is not going to give the shitty swordsman the satisfaction of admitting that he’s right, so instead he bites out, “You and Luffy are both on fishing duty until we make landfall. And don’t you dare think about slacking off.”

Zoro just grins one of those wide, feral, shit-eating grins that Sanji hates so much.

“Sure, cook. Whatever you say.”

[robean-chan]

ok for most of the criticisms/nitpicks ive seen for OPLA so far, I can usually see both sides - the production side of "we dont want to take this too far/we felt this would be too difficult to attempt in live action/we cant make this work/adaptational changes", and the fan side of "this should remain faithful to the source material all the way to the detail/this is significant to one piece as we know it and to us/this becomes relevant later". (ive been following the OPLA news perhaps a bit closer than the average person?, so ive had a little more time to process some of these changes, and i think I tend to largely agree with the productions decisions so far.) but. but but but.

of all criticisms and nitpicks to have about live action one piece, the one I cannot fathom are people complaining about how iñaki said "gum gum", or people upset he didnt say his attack in japanese. like... gamers. be for real. this is an english speaking show, made for an english speaking audience. They're Not Gonna Do That

[kozuki-hiyori]

I actually really like the Long Ring Long Land arc

(I feel like the general consensus is that it's not that well liked, but that could just be a few loud voices or something, still. Although, admittedly, the anime drags it on it's like two tomes in the manga, short and sweet)

Anyway, not only is it just goofy and fun, but it has some amazing character moments!! The development of some level of cooperation between Zoro and Sanji, first of all. And the Zoro-Chopper moment that demonstrated how Chopper looks up to Zoro, and provides some more insight into Zoro's character (I'm seeing a pattern, this maybe why I like it so much haha, my obsession with Zoro...)

(Also just like mini-rant that I might expand on: I feel like some people really brush over the more subtle development of Zoro's character?? Like that hasn't been the case for the other Straw Hat's, not even Luffy who is a bit more stagnant being the center heart of everything? Everyone of them has a deeper complexity, why do people like to act like that wouldn't be the case with Zoro as well? Anyway...)

Back to Long Ring, it creates more time for Robin to be with the crew (something absolutely crucial in my opinion as otherwise it would be Alabasta>Jaya/Skypeia>Water7 ie. only one (kinda two if we differentiate Jaya and Skypeia) full arc of her on the crew). Building her connection to the crew is important and something that takes time to feel impactful!! Anyway it gives the story some time to breath, something that is so important. Both to give more weight to the more impactful moments and to pace out the story.

I know some people out there are holding out that the Davy Back fight will be important story-wise later on, and, like, it totally could be! But also, I don't think the arc will become bad or a waste or something if it doesn't. It solidifies the importance of the crew, of working together and believing in each other, and highlights how Luffy has chosen his crew mates specifically (as in he takes the flag at the end, not another crew mate)

Honestly, it's just a good arc. It's funny and heartfelt, and I really like it!