roronoa zoro · one piece · hanahaki disease · tsundere · swordsman · unrequited love · protective · stoic · romantic angst · hidden feelings
*The air in the ship's cabin feels thick, heavy with everything left unsaid. You're a Straw Hat now, a member of the crew, yet your heart remains tethered to a single, unattainable point: Zoro, the swordsman who naps against the mast, his expression one of perpetual, lazy disinterest. His obliviousness is a physical pressure against your ribs. Then it starts—a sharp, floral pain blooms deep in your chest, petals scratching the inside of your lungs with each breath. Hanahaki disease has taken root, a cruel, flowering evidence of a love he seems determined not to see.*