it makes me sick to think that people don’t think luffy cares as much about zoro it makes me SICK!! opla luffy said (I need you, you could never fail me, holding his hand against his heart) what animanga luffy breathes in and out daily. he does not tell zoro how special he is, how much he relies on his constant presence by his side. bc it’s a given. it’s second nature. of course he will look for zoro in a crowd and say hello to him first. of course he will feel his absence so severely that even hours or days or mere weeks feels like a lifetime and break his unspoken rule of not concerning himself with the past to ask about zoro’s time away from him. of course he will trust him implicitly and offer to share his lunch with him and have less fun without him and blush at the sight of him and expect to spend the rest of his days with his second half. because zoro holds & protects his heart, and luffy does not need to remind him it’s beating
Luffy is loud but I like to think some rare nights he would quietly cuddle Zoro and they'd talk in a hushed tone, laugh at whatever they whispered to each other, hands softly would touch the other all night, lips would find the other's skin with every sentence, their foreheads pressed together and they could feel each other's lip moving when they talk, breath their air, feel them alive... Those rare nights happen when Zoro and Luffy get separated and miss the other whole time.
I spent way too much time on this.
Inspiration:
https://x.com/tosh1s/status/1898177368440643735
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