yohohoho and such

as we know, zoro can’t stand that she looks like kuina while being a weak crybaby: she vindicates kuina’s fears that women can’t be strong warriors. being so condescending towards her is a way for him to assert that she is not kuina (because kuina was so much stronger than him)

law is trickier because he is a douche to everyone & has no particular connection to tashigi. but the words he tells tashigi also happen to be the philosophy of doflamingo, the man he hates most in the entire world.

why would he think the same way as the man who caused him so much pain? law is obsessed by revenge against doflamingo for killing corazon. in doflamingo’s own words, cora was a weak person; he didn’t get to choose how he died. the injustice of it fuelled everything law undertook for the second half of his life

so why is law parroting that philosophy? maybe because fighting against a clumsy, emotional marine reminded him of the person he lost, and why he lost him

someone who also happened to be a weakling fighting for a desperate cause, who cried for sick children abandoned by the world

tashigi is a character of her own with her own goals, but others keep seeing their dead loved ones in her: she reminds zoro and nami of their best friend and mother respectively.

and luffy shouts, "next time you do something like that, warn me!"

and it's mostly a joke

except for how, also, it's not a joke

because a lot of people would just say "wow, what the fuck, don't do stuff like that!" a lot of people would say, "hey, promise me you're not going to fling yourself spine-first into any more jagged rocks!"

but luffy gets it. he would never ask that of his friends. he knows that, sometimes, you gotta do a stupid thing. sometimes, you gotta do the stupidest thing you can think of, and get really badly hurt, because you gotta protect your friends. luffy doesn't expect other people to live by rules he doesn't hold himself to, and he would never agree to stop doing reckless, dangerous, self-sacrificing shit to save the people he cares about - so he won't ask it of anyone else.

but, like - you gotta let your friends know

you gotta warn him, first

you can pull the sacrifice play, but only when you've given him the heads-up so he can pull your ass out of the fire, afterwards

fuckin ASKING FOR HELP is maybe the #2 most important Luffy Life Lesson!!!

(#1 is Follow Your Dreams)

and his friends are all so bad at it! he just keeps having to say this over and over, in different ways, because each of them needs to hear it, but they all need it in a different way - but it's the accompaniment to almost every major arc. ask for help. ASK for HELP.

yo ho ho ho yo hoho hoooo

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because i adore how he has this way of answering any ringing snail call, and with each new situation it feels it's escalating in importance of who is on the other side of the call! it's hilarious!

ch. 549, to navy, post impel down on way to marineford

ch. 651, to big mom, post fishman island

(look at that zoro grinning in the background at a typical luffy shenanigan, love that)

ch. 655, getting SOS from punk hazard, from later on we know it was kinemon

ch. 700, to doflamingo lmaoo

ch. 751, with robin, still in dressrosa getting in contact with his crew, it's just funny how that's always his opening line

ch. 1090, with the fricking gorosei while on egghead (aksjsdj this one rlly made me laugh)

+bonus, different tactics of other strawhats picking up the snail calls: