Usopp: Sanji!!! i'm scared and i want you of all people to protect me
Sanji: bugger off Usopp i only protect ladies
*5 minutes later*
Sanji: HEY HANDS OFF MY BOY USOPP DON'T YOU DARE HURT HIM
Are you tired of me pointing out the Sanji & Usopp parallels yet? Well too bad! Here's more.
Gee, I wonder why Sanji, the guy who was told by his family he should "just leave" for being weak when he was a kid, got so upset when Luffy was about to tell Usopp, who was clearly feeling insecure for being the "weak" one of the group, to "just leave".
I like how all the Sanji ships have that character doing everything to get Sanji's attention. And then there's Usopp, who just has to exist, that's all.
If Sanji's greatest fear comes true and he becomes more and more like them, his family, it's fun to think about how his death will happen. ('~')
Because he asked Zoro to do it, to finish him off if that happened, and it would surely be a sad scene and all that. But at the same time, they were probably fighting until the very last moment (whether romantic or not, it doesn't matter).
Although I don't think Sanji will leave a note or anything, I suppose he'll simply cook something, a last supper, and make it better than any other. This would be his way of saying goodbye, while having to endure that voice in his head that was always silent, talking to him, saying things that Sanji does not approve of.
Although I don't think he'd be as cruel as his brothers, he'd be more like a strange combination of Reiju and his angry self, though less kind and empathetic. And stuff like that. It's fun, Sanji is my favorite, and even though I often think of good scenarios involving him, I like tragedy, and what greater tragedy is there than watching yourself get lost without being able to do anything, pretending you're okay because maybe you're just irritated?.
And then the signs are so obvious that your colleagues start asking about you, what's wrong with you? Are you okay? and things like that. When it gets to the point where even your hair, blonde like your mother's, stops being blonde (I love the black-haired Sanji, he's tragically beautiful).
When a detail as small as the direction of your eyebrows changes, and when you look in the mirror you can only see that man, (maybe still with your blond hair). Your cooking loses its flavor because you've lost yourself. When fear is so great that you'd rather die than hurt those you love.
O conviértete en uno de ellos.
But with time you can control your body and maybe, just maybe, you can be yourself again while you bleed out, your chest bathed in flowers. Wishing, half-dead, to be able to see the All Blue, and your mother again.
Whether your companions are nearby or not, it matters little, because surely in those last moments, you will apologize for not accompanying them to the end, for leaving them without food, for being like them...
It's funny how all of Sanji's ships, if they were women, it would be Sanji's fantasy.
Which is funny, because Sanji probably spends his days peacefully daydreaming about women and imagining his fellow crew members as women. (He would probably put them on a beauty scale or something like that).
But then he simply wakes up from his daydream and remembers that the women he fantasizes about are just his male friends and colleagues... But women (ᵕ—ᴗ—).
A silly Zosan thing that isn't even about them haha (ᵕ—ᴗ—).
Sanji has a sister, Reiju, who is older than him and pink. Pink.
Zoro when he stayed at Mihawk's house (When it was his turn to be a hack-dad) There was also Perona, who in a certain way would also be Zoro's sister, who is older than him and is also pink. It's silly, really.
I saw an edit of the two of them and I was like, ('o').
And my mind went, they're the pink Zosan sisters. Oh, and both of them help their brother at some point. (ᵔᗜᵔ)
It's something that's talked about a lot, but it's constantly on my mind, okay? ('3')
The Whole Cake Island arc with Sanji's brothers, the normal Vinsmokes, up to Judge. Like, Judge was an idiot who wanted his kids to be strong and all, but he didn't experiment on them, he just made them more competitive and stuff.
12&3 are still idiots and bother Sanji, but more like older brothers (and Yonji) bothering their younger brother. They wouldn't call it a mistake and all that, they would simply tell him this joke that the brothers make.
Ichiji: We found you in a garbage dump when you were a baby.
Sanji: (T-T)
Yonji: *laughing loudly*
Niji: We found you in the trash too.
Yonji: (TºT)
Reiju, looking at her brothers, knowing that she used to say the same thing to Ichiji when he was a child: !!!
do you ever think about the poetic cinema that is luffy, whose greatest sin is gluttony, starving himself willingly for sanji, the kindest cook that never lets anyone go hungry, who once almost starved to death? Because i think about that all the time.
After Luffy, Oda has a favorite Straw Hat and a shocking amount of people tend to think it's Zoro. I think they're being clouded by the fact that Zoro is Toei's favorite.
But by and large, Oda's favorite Straw Hat is Sanji.
After Luffy, he is the Straw Hat with the most amount of arcs where he is the focus. His arcs have a trend of having the rest of the crew be absent from the climax so there is a moment reserved for Luffy and Sanji alone because Luffy is the only one who Sanji can truly be vulnerable with. They also have a significant amount of parallels from Shanks and Zeff both sacrificing a limb for them, having a (bio) father that is a significant world leader, their love to eat/loves to cook dynamic, etc. Sanji was the first between him and Zoro to be declared as Luffy's wing.
Of course, it would be remiss to neglect mentioning how long Oda has been begging for a Shokugeki no Sanji anime. It would also be remiss to neglect mentioning that Sanji is, to this date, the only Straw Hat Luffy has explicitly told he needs to become Pirate King.
Sanji had a three year saga dedicated to him being a prince and learning about his family.
We had to learn Zoro is lost Wano nobility in an SBS and didn't even see him visit Ryuma's grave in Wano despite the buildup dating back to Thriller Bark. And yes, I'm still mad his parents were drawn as silhouettes when even Kid and Killer's childhood friend Victoria has been drawn. In the narrative, Zoro tends to only be used for fighting and aura farming and doesn't tend to get much else beyond that which is kinda sad when he was the first to join the crew.
Zoro is a simple character, not a bad one.
I like him having a simple backstory, I like him having simple motivations and I especially like him not finding out he is the closest thing to an heir the Shimotsuki Clan has with Kuina being dead and all because Zoro would not have cared about that. (To be honest, considering Wano's traditional patriarchal values, Kuina might not have even been considered due to being a girl.) But I still think, that if you're going to have the right wing of the future King of the Pirates also be nobility that should be confirmed in the story not a Q&A (even if through, someone in Wano going "omg guys, that guy was actually a descendant of Ryuma and Ushimaru. Damn it, the Straw Hats have already left though so we couldn't tell him").
So that got me thinking that even if it isn't intentional, Oda tends to channel his favoritism through Luffy.
Luffy tends to praise Sanji the most out of his crewmates even going as far as telling Dorry back in Little Garden if he had insulted Sanji's cooking, he would've beat his ass. Luffy's canonically become more possessive of Sanji since the events of WCI (ex. getting defensive when Bonney complimented Sanji to him out of nowhere when prior to WCI, Luffy would've agreed ecstatically with her praise). You can honestly say the same for Sanji, a la his behavior with Jinbei during the early parts of the Onigashima raid.
Luffy also tends to be blinded by things he otherwise would've noticed when it involves Sanji.
For example, back in Skypiea he was able to tell immediately that something was off with Conis after she sold them out to Enel and the White Berets. He noticed she'd been trembling the entire time despite choosing not to comment on it. He usually is able to tell immediately when he is being lied to. So, if anything, he should've been able to tell that Pudding was lying through her teeth the moment they met. But she complimented Sanji and he immediately started agreeing with her. Judge insults Sanji and everyone but Luffy is able to tell that Sanji is being insulted because for Luffy he can't fathom anyone hating Sanji.
Luffy and Zoro have a bond that's really special. Zoro chose Luffy as his captain as much as Luffy chose him as his swordsman but then I think about how...
Luffy derailed a coup 20 years in the making for Sanji and was fully prepared to abandon his promise to help Wano for Sanji. I don't think enough people think about how Monkey D. "Always keeps his promises" Luffy was about to break a promise for the first time in his life with extreme intention.
He was on a deadline, he explicitly told the Wano alliance he would be there to help them. Luffy never bluffs, he would've waited for Sanji in that spot for years.
He was about to doom an entire country for one cook.
He even tells Reiju he would head straight to the East Blue to save Zeff it's what he needed to bring Sanji back to him, derailing not only his dream at large but the dreams of the other Straw Hats. It's also up in the air if that would mean leaving directly from WCI to the East Blue leaving the rest of the crew stranded in Wano or stopping by Wano to get the rest of the Straw Hats and leaving immediately depending on the severity of the situation as it would've been a race against time to save Zeff's life.
He nearly tore off his arms twice in the same arc for Sanji and even told Nami to do it as well. Then after being freed by Jinbei, he proceded to run around Big Mom's castle screaming Sanji's name and beating up everyone in sight, especially though who insulted Sanji going as far as saying "Don't talk bad about Sanji!"
In both the Baratie and WCI arcs, there is a large focus on a family member Sanji respects (Zeff and Reiju) essentially giving Luffy their blessing to take Sanji away with him.
And crazy sidebar, what about that time Reiju sucked the life points out of Luffy and he immediately thought it was Sanji???
And partially related side bar, the translation here is incorrect. What Luffy says is 「サンジを返せよ！アイツは俺の仲間だ！」 which would be more accurately translated as "Give me Sanji back! He's my nakama!" followed by his statement of taking him back by any cost.
It's very interesting and sentimental and I think a lot of the fandom tend to overlook the bond Luffy and Sanji have with each other.
Thinking about all that, I wonder how if I was in Zoro's shoes as dedicated as I am to Luffy, how would I feel? Like, we get a glimpse of that during Zou when Zoro gets jealous when Luffy tells Dogstorm and Cat Viper Sanji is worth 1000 people. Zoro just has quiet, stalwart yearner energy and it makes me ill in the best way possible.
TLDR: I had a lot of thoughts about the Monster Trio and their Wings dynamic with their Captain and it turned into this. Also, Oda's favorite is Sanji, Toei's favorite is Zoro.
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