

ONE PIECE WORLD SEEKER THE LOST SWORDSMAN SKIN
Ambiguously Brown: Zoro has had a rich brown skin tone his entire life, so unlike Robin, who was just tan, his actual pigmentation is a little less than the lily-white Nami/Sanji have.It constantly pisses the hell out of Sanji. It even factors in otherwise trivial things such as their Badass Baritone voices (with Zoro sounding the deepest of the two). Always Someone Better: A Running Gag shared between him and Sanji - whatever Sanji does, Zoro does better.When training under Mihawk, he was horrified when his teacher told him he couldn't have a drop of alcohol to drink until he managed to infuse his sword with so much Armament Haki it turned the blade completely black. The Alcoholic: If he's not fighting, he's either training, sleeping, or drinking.After defeating the Humandrills when he was separated from his crew, he begs Mihawk to teach him to get stronger for his crew's sake.First, he begs Kuma to take his head instead of Luffy's when he defeated the Straw Hat Crew in Thriller Bark.Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Does this two times.

In a strange twist of events, Zoro is eventually trained by Mihawk to become a stronger swordsman to protect his crew. Zoro took this early defeat to heart, swearing an oath then and there that he would never lose a fight until the day that he duel Mihawk again and defeat him. Mihawk, however, holds back just enough to leave Zoro alive, and in a truly epic speech tells Zoro to travel the world, grow stronger, and challenge him again when he's ready. He actually meets up with Mihawk fairly early in the story, but fails to land a single hit and nearly gets bisected by Mihawk, leaving a serious wound on his chest that heals into a scar that remains with Zoro for the rest of the series. Unlike Luffy, however, he needs only to defeat Dracule "Hawk Eyes" Mihawk, the current greatest swordsman in the world, to do so. Similar to Luffy's goal, Zoro wishes to become the greatest swordsman in the world as a promise to his childhood rival Kuina, whom he wanted to win against but never could because she died in an accident. Zoro and Sanji are also considered to be "the Wings of the Pirate King" by Nico Robin. Alongside Luffy and Sanji, Zoro is considered by the fandom as one of the Monster Trio (怪物三人組, Kaibutsu San-ningumi) of the Straw Hats. Luffy's Number Two, sometimes acting as a voice of authority when the crew's future must be decided, and regularly happens to battle The Dragon of the current Big Bad the crew are fighting, which is an occasion to hone his swordsmanship.

Often wears a green bandanna on his forearm that he ties around his head when he gets dangerous. Zoro mostly drinks and sleeps in his spare time (when he's not training his ass off), but becomes a real demon in battle that can defeat five hundred Mooks in two seconds. After the time skip, he manages to master Observation and Armament Haki as well. Recruited as a mildly notorious bounty hunter in the East Blue (hence his "Pirate Hunter" moniker), he grows into a monstruously powerful man who doesn't even need a Devil Fruit ability, using a unique Santoryu sword style (literally "Three Sword Style") in battle, wielding a sword in each hand along with one in the mouth. Roronoa Zoro is the hard-drinking nineteen/ twenty-one-year-old swordsman and unofficial first mate of the Straw Hat Pirates. "I am going to be the world's greatest swordsman! (.) Whether a hero or a villain, everyone's going to know my name!"
