Lesbian Roronoa Zoro

Lesbian Roronoa ZoroIn this Japanese name, the surname is Roronoa and the first name is Zoro. is a background character in Sparkle On, Raven: The Life of DrillGirl. She is a student at the School and a member of the Afterschool Blades Club and the 4th Period Pirate Club.
She is a direct facsimile of the character Roronoa Zoro from the series One Piece, with the primary difference being that she has a lesbian pride flag printed on her shirt and uses she/her pronouns. She does not speak.
==Appearance==
===Physique===
Zoro is a young tanned-skinned woman, with short green hair in a mullet. She is of a shorter build compared to her manga counterpart. 
===Attire===
Zora wears light black mascara on her lower eyelashes. She wears an unbuttoned white collared T-shirt with the lesbian pride flag printed on it, a red belt around her waist, and black pants. She is carrying three swords in separate scabbards attached to her belt, the handles of which are colored pink, orange and yellow (corresponding to the lesbian pride flag).
==History==
===In the series===
Zoro is seen exclusively in the episode "What the Heck Happened to you, Berrycream?" as a background character. She is first seen loitering and picking her nose next to her clubmate Bart outside the school. She attended the Cultural Festival, although it is not known whether she was part of any festival activities.
The only other time she is seen is as part of the Afterschool Blades Club with the rest of her clubmates, each of them practicing a sword exercise with a wooden sword and a tree trunk.
Following the episode's release, the episode's director Robbydude has claimed that Zoro got run over by a tractor after her appearance.
===Production===
The conception of the character occured before the episode she would first appear in was pitched, sometime before September 2023, likely based on an in-joke. The one to pitch her was Char (@CHARLLAHAN), who shared a photo with the rest of Production F.C. depicting only a snapshot of unaltered key art for Roronoa Zoro, where he has the lesbian flag pasted over his shirt, and he says "I'm Roronoa Zoro and also a lesbian". It also claimed Zoro to be part of Slash's club. 
Although there are episodes where unaltered real-world photographs are used instead of original drawings, such as the very existence of Gentlemen Broncos Blu-ray, the director Robby (@robbydude) didn't want to break the rule again. Refusing to use One Piece key art, Dev (@okidokidev) drew a concept for the character in the Sparkle On, Raven art style, as well as adding the lesbian flag in the sword scabbards.
Throughout production, Char kept testing Robby's patience by humorously adding the character to shots in the episode without warning, including one shot that was cut from the climax of the episode upon a final executive decision on Robby's part. This also led to delays and crunch within the crew, as they were preparing for an upcoming virtual convention panel. It was decided that Zoro would not appear again in Sparkle On, Raven. In a livestream on October 8, 2023, Robby would explain this story and apologized to Char by the end about the events that transpired.
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==Navigation==
Category:Members of the Afterschool Blades Club
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Category:Members of the 4th Period Pirate Club