#roronoa kuina

[beachbeibi]

I've been meaning to make a decent drawing of Zosan's second kid but all I have to offer are sketches and the sillies, introducing baby Sora

[lemon-lime-behavior]

Choo choo I boarded the fankids train

[majubengel]

Goth Family sticker set ⚔️🦅👻

[bitterly-almond]

more Kuina lived AU with some slight changes

it feels like every time i draw her she gets bigger. i still want zoro to have wado as a symbol of their promise so i gave kuina the nidai to go with zoro's sandai :))

[amazingeurus]

sister

[silkentine]

Wha--?! Silk finally finished her fem Zoro design after (checks notes) literally 6 months since she made the canvas in procreate?

I'll break down design thoughts and share some fun bonus pics under the cut:

I LOVE long hair on Zoro, I think that was the first change I wanted to implement. Zoro in canon actually has a really interesting relationship with gender dynamics which (if for some reason you're reading this and you haven't watched One Piece) can seem out of left field for the "dumb brute" character. His rivalry with and reverence for Kuina suggests he doesn't adhere to the idea that women are weaker than men. Later on, however, during his confrontation with Monet and Tashigi during Punk Hazard, his hesitation to slash her down reveals that he's subconsciously over-protective of women because he thinks they're inherently weaker. I actually don't have any problem with this character trait, I think it makes him feel more real as a person and he obviously gets shit-talked enough about it in the story itself. But how did I want to reflect these beliefs if Zoro had been born a woman? Easy: internalized misogyny and applying value to herself via her appearance.

My version of Zoro grew up wanting to fight with swords but her only chance of entering the dojo was to work under the proprietress, Lady Shimotsuki to maintain the property, cook meals for the male students, and eventually be a good wife to the current heir, Kuina. She learns that, to get what she wants, she must be the ideal woman, even if she stays up all night training swordsmanship with Kuina when she isn't supposed to. He treats her love for swordplay seriously and treats her like an equal, which sparks a bond between them and eventually leads to Zoro's goal of becoming the world's greatest swordsman after his sudden, accidental death.

After years of intense training (now that Lady Shimotsuki admits that she'll need a new heir and Zoro is the closest thing she has) Zoro's finally old enough to leave and begin her journey. She starts letting go of the idea that she has to look pulled together to be taken seriously because she can just kill anyone who looks down on her. Her clothing falls into disrepair, she wears outfits that help her move in combat, and she starts tossing her hair up into messy, knotted buns under her bandana. Even so, she keeps her hair long like rolling hills of grass. (At least during pre-timeskip. She lops off her hair to prove to Mihawk that she's serious about being trained.)

I've put her in a thin sweater that she stitches (poorly) back together after her first interaction with Mihawk. (I kept one sleeve because I was inspired by the santoryuu Nami that Oda drew that one time.) I also wanted to girl-ify the ubiquitous haramaki so I picked leg warmers for her because I think they're sufficiently "dated" enough to be kinda analogous with his old man belly warmer. I also love gyaru fashion, sue me.

Here is a screenshot of her as a blonde:

And here is a sketch of her post-timeskip where she's fully embraced her butch nature:

Hubba hubba, am I right?

Check out my tag "girl piece original design" to see more of my genderbending art! Next post, I'll put all my East Blue Crew designs together! I can't believe it's taken this long but I AM SO HAPPPPPYYYYY

[sailing-ever-west]

Thinking a lot about Zoro as someone who was never abused as far as we know but has never really known gentleness, either. He doesn't appear to have had any parents to speak of from a pretty young age, or at least they weren't present enough to mention in the story. He shows up to the dojo alone and dirty, and the only clean clothes we ever see him in as a kid are his training gi. Koushirou probably took care of him to an extent as one of his students and seemed to like him, but it was still a somewhat distant and hierarchical relationship. He was a sensei, not a parent.

Zoro didn't have any friends among the other students until Kuina, and their relationship (while strong) consisted entirely of yelling and hitting each other with sticks, and then she died. From then on it's assumed he just kept training, and then went off and became a bounty hunter where he had the occasional friend but everyone was a potential enemy. He's never had anyone there to be close and comfort him. He just deals.

So I can understand why it was so life-altering to have Luffy meet him and immediately want to be friends forever, to support his dream and help free him and give him affection without holding back, to stay by his side through thick and thin. It was a totally foreign experience to be simply wanted as a person. I just think Zoro really needed to be shown that love, man, and we don't talk about it enough.

[lostuzumaki]

Luffy reincarnated to past AU

Part 4

Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 ...

Bonus:

Makino had a great time photographing them

[beanghostprincess]

"Kuina's death is ridiculous" yes! That's the point! You do realize that falling down the stairs is a way of showing Zoro how fragile human lives are, right? You are aware that the point of Kuina's character is the unfairness of the world towards women in comparison to the privileges men have, like living in itself and fulfilling their dreams, right? You know that Kuina's death is "ridiculous and dumb" because it's meant to show that even the strongest person Zoro knew could die from something so little, right? You understand that the value Zoro gives to life is fucking immense, right? Right?? You realize Zoro can't seek revenge because nobody took her away from him and now the only thing he can do is become the world's greatest swordsman to avenge her death, right? You get that Zoro's character is an atheist because he doesn't believe in anyone and he can only rely on himself when it comes to Kuina's sudden death, right? You are aware that sometimes people die in the simplest of ways and that doesn't make them weak because death doesn't discriminate, right? You know that all of these things are what make Zoro's character so interesting and important, right? Right??? You know, right?

Well, of course you fucking don't because if you knew you wouldn't be saying her death is ridiculous <3

[forged-in-kaoss]

No matter what happens, don't have hate for this era you were born in. Never forget the strength to be able to smile at any time. If you survive, a lot of fun things will happen!

[kitsuzoro]

[beachbeibi]

SHE LOVES HER DADS VERY MUCH BUT SHE COULDN’T LET THIS OPPORTUNITY PASS

Based on that one modern family scene

[celexdraw]

Part 13!

Other parts: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

[oxygenisachoice]

☀️

[bitterly-almond]

AU: Kuina lived and her father was supportive of her ambition. He sent her to Wano to learn the way of the swords so they meet again when Zoro arrived at Wano.

I just rlly wanted to design a giant Kuina after seeing how big Kiku is :)))

[eyes-like-alexandrite]

what if i killed myself