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to start sanji saying “i’ll feel better when you’re out of bed” was a sucker punch because nami is right; she’s much better, not feverish anymore, sat up, awake and talking and eating but you know who else did that? sora. sora who sat up and beamed every time sanji entered the room, who ate his awful meals with the biggest smile, who found the strength to hold him and hug him, sora who did all that and who got worse anyway, who died anyway, no matter how well she seemed on the days sanji visited, who put on a brave face whenever he was there. it's no wonder sanji is still worried and freaked out seeing nami bedbound even when she's feeling better.

secondly, i’m completely floored by the fact that what sanji said was so specific to the animanga down to exactly what food he brings sora. just another reason why i love this show so much: they attention to detail and love for the source material that is so evident in every single scene.

thirdly, there's one little moment that's sticking with me a lot and it's after luffy barges in to tell them that vivi's there, when it cuts back to sanji wiping the tears off his face. there's a split second where his expression shifts to one of almost confusion, brows furrowed and a look in his eyes that to me looks like sanji himself is shocked at what he just said, at how much he just said because it's certainly more than he's ever told anyone before.

speaking of what he said this dialogue was so fantastically written. sanji obviously focuses on telling nami how’d he cook for his mother but it’s sandwiched between two main points: that his mother was sick and that she died. and to me it’s very much a case of not saying the quiet part out loud which is that he’s so worried about nami because he lost his mother in the exact same way. i think that if he actually said that, actually said that he was so scared seeing nami that sick because of his mother he’d break down completely because he is still so worried so it was easier to talk about learning to cook for sora to make her feel better because yes, that will make him emotional and will make him cry but it’s somehow easier to talk about and reopen that old wound than it is to face the fact that they almost lost nami and how terrified that made him, especially because he doesn’t think they’re fully out of the woods yet, won’t until she’s back on her feet.

sanji quoting sora is so precious to me. i love is the accent sanji puts on when he says it that was so cute. him saying she called him her little prince is also a fantastic line because to nami (and people who don’t know the full story) it’s a run of the mill endearment said by a parent to their child. only he knows she meant it literally: he really was her little prince.

finally because i know it’s probably going to come up: i don’t fully agree with the idea that sanji would never have told anyone that much about his past, for two main reasons. the first is because of what it is he's telling her and the fact he's only talking - very vaguely - about sora. it's all very quote unquote non-incriminating information, nothing about judge or his brothers or germa , just his mother was sick and died. as sad as it is to think about deceased parents is not something out of the ordinary for this crew and sanji telling someone about his own mother passing wouldn't raise any eyebrows, not the way any mention of germa would. obviously a big thing in zou is nami, brook and chopper asking each other "what do we actually know about sanji?" as they realise they know nothing about his past before zeff at all but i think even with one person (nami) having the knowledge that his mother is dead that mystery is still there: what age was he, where did this happen, was his father in the picture, did he have any siblings or was it just him, there are still so many unanswered questions there. sora is very much the tip of the ice-burg and so i'm really not bothered by his taking about it*. the second reason is that it's very clear why he's telling her all this and it's because he's trying to communicate to nami why he’s so worried about her and why he’s continuing to worry, even when she’s on the mend, which i talked about above.

i have more to say about them in the drum episodes but i’m gonna make a separate post about that because this is already very long