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the sea is lovely, dark and deep. by novks (thychesters)
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
01 Mar 2025
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“What’s wrong with you, Zoro?” Luffy asks, stopping him in his tracks and pinning him in place with a simple look. There’s nothing else to it—not anger, no annoyance, just a tilt to his head and that tiny line forming between his brows as the corners of his mouth dip.
He’s already seen their deaths too many times, thought about them all more than he ever thought he would.
It was never supposed to go like this.
I’m sorry I failed and watched you die and I can do nothing to stop it, he cannot say. I know the weight of you in my arms, know what it’s like to cling to all of you and lose you, and I have lost you and will continue to. I can’t stop it, I will stop it. I can’t lose you again, it should be me—“I’m fine.”
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nautical dawn. by novks (thychesters) for toxinspired
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
28 Dec 2024
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“Chopper will be fine,” Luffy tells them, and even if Nami believes it because Luffy does, because Luffy has never lied, because he has steered them all over the place but never off course, there’s still a rock solidifying in her gut. Chopper never gets sick.
Zoro makes it out to be like it’s his job to watch the crew, as if it isn’t up to all of them to keep an eye out for one another, to step in when someone falters even just a little. Isn’t that her fault?
Luffy shifts closer and for a second that guilt alleviates, and Chopper is resting and Robin is looking after him, and they will be at the next island before they know it and they will find a doctor and Chopper will be fine. Because he has to be—because Luffy said so, and their captain has never lied to them before.
“You were sick too,” Luffy whispers.
the sun will set and the sun will rise. they just have to get through the night first.
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He wants to reach out and touch him—his arm, or his hand, something solid, something that tells him Zoro’s still here and tells Zoro he isn’t alone. But there’s barely a part of his body that isn’t bandaged, and with what exposed skin there is he isn’t sure if a simple touch would hurt him even more.
Now he sits beside him, and he is not a patient man, but he will wait for Zoro.
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“Do you think you can bench press me?” Luffy asks, interrupting him in the middle of a crunch, and Zoro pauses and says, “yeah, sure.”
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for the sea is vast and in your ignorance you know nothing of its depth.
Sometimes Zoro still finds himself looking for a moment too long, his touch lingering and something in him wants before it is stifled.
He wants to reach out with touches that are platonic but with meanings that aren’t. He wants to pinch the back of his elbow with affection, not annoyance, and his stomach churns when he can’t make sense of the thought and tries his damndest not to.
Nothing changes except for everything.
Zoro will pull, and will twist, and will pry and will split himself apart to protect his crew. There are a great many things Zoro would promise Luffy without any hesitation, any number of vows he would make in a single breath. But this cannot, and will not, be one of them.
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that is that and this is this by kurgaya for novks (thychesters)
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
29 Dec 2024
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“No-one would be that stupid,” Zoro says.
Fuck. Why’s his captain gotta be that stupid?
[Remix fic. Moments from Romance Dawn to Sabaody Archipelago]
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29 Dec 2024
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“You shouldn’t play favourites.” “Everyone’s my favourite; Zoro’s my swordsman.”
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“You spoke, didn’t you?” he asks, convinced that he had heard somebody calling him into consciousness. The sword says nothing, but Luffy gets the impression that it wants to say more – if it could, or if he could hear it, and he frowns, turning back to the front door.
[At Shells Town, Luffy does not meet Roronoa Zoro. Instead, he acquires a sword]
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Bookmarked by novks (thychesters)
22 Jul 2024
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In the beginning, Luffy does not know how to read.
In the grand scheme of things, this does not matter.Series
- Part 1 of things to remember when lost at sea
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08 May 2023