Roronoa Zoro

**Roronoa Zoro** is the first mate of the Straw Hat Pirates.

A strong bounty hunter feared throughout the East Blue, he is recruited by Monkey D. Luffy to join his newly formed pirate crew. He seeks to fulfill the promise he made with his late childhood friend and rival Kuina of becoming the world's greatest swordsman by finding and defeating the title's current holder.

He is one of the two deuteragonists of Season 1 of One Piece (along with Nami).

## Appearance

**Roronoa Zoro** is a muscular man of average height with lightly tanned skin and short green hair. He always carries his three swords along with him, bundled up with a green haramaki over his right hip, allowing him to easily draw them with his left hand. Of the three swords he has on his person, he's always seen carrying the Wado Ichimonji, while his other two swords are regular not-named blades. He has three identical gold earrings on his left earlobe. Zoro normally keeps a black bandana tied around his left bicep and ties it around his head when he is fighting seriously against an opponent. Zoro usually wears the same clothes or type of clothes, specifically his haramaki, black trousers and black boots, while changing tops. As stated during Episode 3, he likes to wear black.

### Season 1

During the Romance Dawn Arc & Orange Town Arc, Zoro wears black trousers tucked inside black boots, a plain white top similar to a kimono and his green haramaki.

During the Syrup Village Arc, he wears a dark blue shirt with big white EABHADH symbol in front of his shirt and black trousers tucked inside black boots.

During the Baratie Arc, Zoro wears a blue shirt with a red haramaki over his hips and the same black trousers tucked inside black boots as 2 earlier arcs.

During the Arlong Park arc, he wore a navy-blue shirt decorated with light blue whirlpools, with bandages visible under it, covering his scar from Mihawk's fight.

## Personality

Zoro is serious, stern and mostly quiet. He's arrogant and can be quite full of himself because of his confidence in his skills, leading him to fight against an opponent way stronger than him despite Nami telling him so. In the same way, he's has a lot of pride and wouldn't cheat or retreat from a fight. He values honour, the swordsmen's code and loyalty the most. The greatest shame he could face would be a wound in the back, as it would show he was not *facing* his enemy.

From a few scenes, it's also shown he's not fond of/used to physical touch and avoids it or takes it awkwardly. He's not a great talker, specially about feelings, but is quick on the draw to answer. Though he does care for his friends and shows great loyalty towards Luffy. The more he gets to know them, the more open he is.

He likes to fight as much with his talking than his swords. His sense of humour is peculiar, as he cuts Helmeppo's hair as a punishment for taking his sword Wado Ichimonji, indicating it would be a fate much worse than death. He smiles and laughs when Helmeppo shows back with his new haircut and Luffy notices it. He also makes fun of Nami and Sanji when the latter instantly tries to flirt with the navigator at the Baratie. He has a tendency of giving people he dislikes disrespectful nicknames, such as 'haircut' for Helmeppo or 'waiter' for Sanji.

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## History

### Past

Zoro was born in the East Blue, at Shimotsuki Village. He was training to be the greatest swordsman at the village's dojo and was one of the best students. Though he could never beat Kuina, the sensei's daughter. One day -by the time he was 12-, after getting defeated by her again during training sessions, he gets upset, even more when Kuina tries to tell him what to improve to get better.

After that, he developped his now famous three-swords style, with Wado Ichimonji in his mouth and two regular katanas in his hands.

### Bounty Hunter

As some point, Zoro left Shimotsuki Village and became a bounty hunter, to the point of being infamous within the whole East Blue. He's then known as "Pirate Hunter" or "The Demon".

A few years ago, he chased Cabaji and his brother through Goa Kingdom for weeks before killing the latter and taking his head off to get his bounty.

At the beginning of the show's story, Zoro has been followed by an individual up to Sixis Island, where he waits for them to come out. Zoro lights up two candles, one for Kuina and the other for the soon-to-be-dead individual following him. The latter reveals themself to be Mr. 7, a mercenary from Baroque Works. The organisation wants to recruit Zoro, offering him more power and wealth than he could ever have by now, in exchange of his skills as a bounty hunter. Zoro refuses and Mr 7 gets upset, telling it's a great honour to be asked to join Baroque Works and that the only alternative is death. They fight and Zoro kills Mr 7 by slicing him in half at the waist.

### Shellstown

Then Zoro joins the Shellstown's Marine base to get Mr 7's bounty, meeting Helmeppo at the bar and humiliating him and his soldiers by fighting without drawing his swords after Helmeppo disrespect Rika, the barmaid's daughter. The little girl had made onigiris and wanted Zoro to eat them but then she bumped into Helmeppo and dropped the plate. The Marine scolded Rika and threatened her before stomping on the onigiris. After Zoro defeated the Marines and Helmeppo, the latter begged for his life, saying his father was rich and could pay him. But his father being the Marine base's commander Morgan, he actually owed Zoro Mr 7's bounty already.

Morgan is impressed by Zoro's little show in the bar and wants him to join the Marine. He tricks him, when he sees Zoro is refusing, by giving him only two choices : joining the Marine or being hunged without food or water for seven days as a payback for injuring his men. Zoro chooses the cross, upsetting Morgan.

### Orange Town

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## Trivia

* Zoro loves rice balls (onigiri) and alcohol - mainly beer.
* He was the only one to use the swear word "fuck" in Season 1, cursing at Buggy when he left at Arlong Park.
* He has no sense of direction and gets lost easily.
	+ When Nami ordered the counter-attack against Garp, Zoro asked which way was hard port and Nami's answer didn't seem to help him much as he was still looking confused.
	+ During Episode 4, when coming out of the well, Kaya's house was in sight and he was looking to reach it, but went the opposite way and found Luffy with Koby and Helmeppo instead.

## Manga Differences

* Zoro gets hunged to the Marines' cross because he killed Helmeppo's wolf-dog who was attacking Rika, and the little girl feed him onigiri despite the threats of helping him, as he was then considered a criminal. This was greatly changed in the LA but some elements stayed : the cross, Helmeppo and Rika's onigiris for Zoro.
* In the manga, Luffy traps Zoro into joining his crew by freeing him from his cross and only giving him back his swords if he joins. Zoro joins happily when he sees the only alternative he has is death, and calls Luffy 'captain' right away.
* Zoro is not called "first-mate" in the manga despite clearly having this role.
* Zoro uses attack names with great puns on food names and hinduist mythology mostly in the manga, when in the LA he doesn't use attack names and seems taken aback by Luffy and Sanji using them.
* He battles against Mr. 7 at Sixis Island during his first appearance, a combat which is *mentionned only* in the manga.

## References

1. ↑ Season 1, Episode 4, 50:44, Luffy hugs Nami and Zoro.
2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 2, 23:10, Cabaji tells how Zoro hunted him and his brother and killed the latter.