It's not that serious

I’d like to think this is him dealing with Boa even tho I didn’t put him in the right shirt

neil punching the shit out of riko and wymack having to drag him off

neil repeatedly wanting to hit someone but not allowing himself because he was trying to stay low profile

neil getting back from evermore, realising riko tattooed him, and immediately attempting to carve the tattoo off his face with a knife

neil fantasising about stomping andrews face in at columbia

neil being experienced with guns

neil specifically liking exy because its aggressive and violent

neil grabbing the racket at thanksgiving with the intention of using it as a weapon, then asking for it back after

NEIL IS UNHINGED A VIOLENT

Like

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THING HE SURVIVE ALL THIS YEARS!!!????

By being NICE!!?????

Really???

Stop portrayed him like an innocent and submissive flower

GOD DAMNIT

i miss julian SO much and fear for his reaction to dru being kidnapped and ty leaving the scholomance to go off on this dangerous mission with the first heir 😭 our man is going to be STRESSED thinking he’s lost 3/4 of his kids, will we hear from him and emma in TLKOF and see his reaction to finding out what dru and ty are up to? (i wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to burn down the world to get dru back he’s THE julian blackthorn)

thank you and so so insanely excited to read the book, less than 6 months left!!!

Poor Julian! Yes, it's true Dru and Ty are older than they were last time we saw them with Julian, but I think Julian will continue to wish to protect them. I think he will wish to protect them on into their adulthood, and when he is ninety-six and Dru is ninety-two or whatever, he will continue to regard her as his baby sister, and Ty as his baby brother. (Who is ninety-three.)

My poor Jules Can't take another lost

He will always be their father figure

I just want the blackthorn family together again

Every single day

But what if the character that's mischaracterized is your favorite character and the ship you ship with your favorite character creates a dynamic that feels off and wrong?

Enter Sanji and Zosan, the Inevitable Disappointment of Mischaracterization

First of all, how is Sanji interpreted by most of the Sanji fandom and Zosan fandom within the One Piece fandom? It can be dumbed down to this: Traumatized Twink Blonde who Cooks. This is a rough estimate to how most Sanji fans summarize him, but of course Sanji is more than that, of course everybody knows. Except, most of them get it wrong.

The ship Zosan is a broad term because it has a variety of ways to interpret the ship, but most notably people either see Sanji as flustered and Zoro as a stoic or see Sanji as a romantic and Zoro as shy. Majority people fall into the first category. Why? Because people choose to misinterpret both characters in order to ship them.

So now let's go back to the previous point, people misinterpret Sanji. How so? Because of his physique, that stupid his tiny waist that gets Sanji fans on their knees and drooling, and because of his 2 sad backstories, which brings tears to Sanji fans eyes and make us empathetic or sympathetic to him, including me. However, it's the backstories where it makes Sanji fans have the instinct to protect a fictional grown man. There is also this desire to make sure Sanji is loved since Sanji has been deprived of love from his dad and brothers. Luckily, Sanji is cared by the straw hat pirates, so there's nothing to worry about, right? Nah. We got gay ships, such as Zosan.

Ok, so how do people misinterpret Zosan? Well for starters, Zosan relies heavily based off of appearances, their role on the straw hat pirates, and how strong they are.

Let's start with their respective roles and strength. Zoro is seen training everyday with absurdly heavy weights because he's a swordsman who needs to train while Sanji is just cooking dishes in the kitchen, how hard could cooking be? It can be a labor intensive task because Sanji has to feed his crew mates plus himself, but Luffy's insatiable appetite makes the task harder for any average chef, so of course Sanji is the only one that can feed Luffy because of his exceptional skills. Cooking takes a lot more strength than it looks because you need the arm strength to carry heavy pans with food inside and some cooking appliances can be heavy too. Plus Sanji trains with his legs, which isn't something chefs need, well Sanji needs it because he doesn't want to use his hands in combat.

Ok, moving on to outward appearances. Zoro has scars on his chest and over his left eye (when thinking about it from his pov), which makes Zoro look more intimidating and he also looks buff and carries 3 swords. This makes Zoro admirable and feared by people within the One Piece world, but not to the One Piece fandom, but I digress. Sanji wears suits and ties and always present in a clean manner, but in addition to that, his suit makes Sanji's waist, arms, and legs look like a stick figure.

All these factors culminate to create Zosan. Where due to Zoro's stoicism and strength, he is seen as the top while Sanji is more of a bottom due to of his physical appearance and his sad backstory where oh no, he needs to be loved and cherished by Zoro.

So if not Zosan, what else is there? As mentioned a while ago, there is a good portion of people who see Sanji as a romantic and Zoro as shy. This alternative perspective is popularly known as Sanzo (SZ), which is the dynamic I personally ship, but even with my bias, it's a lot better than Zosan.

While I may not go over every single piece of evidence for Sanzo, you're just gonna have to trust me. It's all in their personalities. Zoro's stoic nature and his introverted nature can be safely interpreted as being shy and not knowing how to express his feelings. While Sanji, due to his emotional trauma from his 2 backstories, he not only cares about ladies because they were the only nice people in his life, but also because it is a way for him to cope. By being a romantic. Cooking is a sign of love, it is a love language for Sanji and he finds comfort in expressing that love. It is when he is in the zone and when Sanji is most happy, not when Sanji is being taken cared by others. He is blatantly the most service top coded character, while Zoro is just a little shy person who has a hard time expressing his feelings and instead hides it, maybe most likely to not be weak and feel vulnerable.

Now on that note, Sanji's legs are toned, buff, and jacked asf and nobody seems to bring that up. He carried a wedding cake with the cart with one leg while skywalking on wci! Also remember that leg muscles are the biggest muscles in the human body, so if anybody says that Sanji is a twig, use this to help ig. Because of his leg muscles, Sanji can make the sex he has with Zoro 10000000x better. It isn't Zoro's main priority to train his legs, while Sanji fights with his legs.

so uh this next portion in parentheses is just me venting, you can skip if you wanna

(You Zosan shipper think so highly of yourselves and your ships, and yet don't you see what you're doing to Sanji and Zoro?! How you reduce him to a loveable twink blonde that needs to be protected at all costs and cherished and loved because he has 2 sad backstories?! HUH?! IS THIS HOW YOU WANNA REPRESENT US SANJI FANS?!)

But at last, at the end of the day, we all know that Sanzosan will most likely become canon because I highly doubt Oda even ships them, at most they're probably best friends and drinking partners who see each other every week lol. But one can fantasize what freaky stuff Sanji and Zoro get to. :D

I'm so tired of this "dinamic" in gay relationships