"Maybe there is a beast -- maybe it's only us."

Alabasta

Skypia

Foxy Pirates

Zoro being protective and stressed out — a story in 3 screenshots

- Zoro drawing his sword and stepping closer to deflect more bullets after Vivi was shot:

- Zoro looking at Nami and wanting to join the climb to Drum Castle

- Zoro staring out the window, hating it to have stayed back, unable to help and not knowing what is going on:

Nami doubting her navigation skills and Zoro standing right behind her (framing her during this shot) and reblying to her "I am so out of my element" with "Out of our element is when this crew does its best work" and then looking at her. And she smiles just enough to let us know she appreciated him saying that.

Zoro basically asking her to let him handle / trust him with the "we are stuck inside a whale"-situation, because in his head it's either her or him, who can handle it. No questions asked.

Zoro not knowing what "uvula" means and concluding that it must be a "girl whale" then ... why is he like that?!☠️😭

The "Giant muscles" and "Not not a compliment" moment. That was flirting, right? Right?

Nami telling him to be careful in Whiskey Peak and him giving her his promise.

Nami trying to brush off the colour on his leg and he starts to giggle and admitting that he is ticklish, omg. He wasn't himself but he was also endearingly cute, not gonna lie.

So far I am quite pleased that they continued with their relationship the way they portrayed it in season 1. It is a much more mature take than in the manga (I've never been a big fan of Nami's blackmail tactics, for example) and for me it works.