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zolu is maybe one of the easiest ships i've ever liked. they're dating, except when they're not, they're best friends even when they're kissing and they're still captain and first mate when they aren't. they hold hands, they hug. they have sex. they don't.
Luffy can hold Zoro's katanas and Zoro can hold Luffy's strawhat and no one bats an eye. one says "You're so cool!" and the other says "You're strong" and it's just another way to say "I see you, this is why I follow you/this is why I trust you". it's not seeing each other for a long time and still knowing how the other's steps sound like against wood and sand. the captain runs and the first mate follows. it's always "Zoro and the others" and "Where's Luffy?"
if they're just friends, if they're something more, if they don't have a label for it, at its core, it's just about how they get each other. they understand how the other's mind works. however you view them, it doesn't erase they fact that they love each other in a way they don't love other people.
Roronoa "If I can't protect my captain, if I don't have Luffy by my side as a king of pirates when I achieve my dreams, then my ambition means nothing" Zoro.
Sometimes Luffy would throw himself over Zoro and sit on his lap while Zoro drinks his sake and asks some but when Zoro extends it Luffy would shake his head and with a big smile tap on Zoro's lips and then they would kiss sloppy Infront of everyone while they curse them.
Drunk Zoro would cup Luffy's face and caress the scar under his eyes with his thumb, look at Luffy with awe and when Luffy turns to him with his smile Zoro would lean and kiss his eyes and cheek, murmur over his skin (you're so beautiful Luffy, my captain, my king) while Luffy would hug him and laugh because he loves when Zoro is like this. (He calls him Catoro)
all the strawhats probably have a similar piece of paper
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I gotta say I'm obsessed with what Luffy does to the typical "sunshine" character trope, in that he's an exception to the usual portrayal but perhaps the most true to it of anyone. He's not "sunshine" as in pure niceness and sweetness and innocence. He's sunshine as in The Sun.
He's joy and light and warmth, illuminating all the beauty of the world, but he's also powerful enough to kill and blind and burn. He's an everyday annoyance. He's the strongest force of nature that exists. His happiness shines bright for miles. So does his rage. You could look at him wrong and be screwed up for life. You never want to live without him.
I can't get over this.
Easily one of my favorite things about Zoro and Luffy (not necessarily in a shipping context, though *I* enjoy them in a shipping context) is the way they seem so different on a surface level - this whimsical sunshine boy captain and his big, stoic, serious right hand man - but when you actually get to know them, they’re pretty much two halves of the same weird goddamn idiot
Specifically, I love that whenever Luffy is doing / saying something totally absurd, there’s a not insignificant chance that we’re about to cut to Zoro, whether he’s two steps away or halfway across the island, doing the exact same unhinged shit, and it’s so goddamn funny every time???
A bit of a coincidence that on the year I draw them finally kissing, it’s after I finally find love, isn’t it lowkey kinda cute?
