What do you think about Kuina and Tashigi?
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Tashigi, for some reason, has the same characteristics of Kuina. I would even say (even if we don't know about it) that Kuina was also very clumsy as well, after all, she felt in the stairs..
Now, I'm not exactly sure why Tashigi is here, but I think it has something to do with Oda wants to represent how a woman can achieve her way up despite challenges and also a way for him to develop Zoro's relationship to women.
For me. Zoro, more than Sanji, struggles with two contradictory views of women.
On one side
Zoro thinks women should do what they can to surpass the opposition. That they shouldn't make excuses for their weakness. As for him, Kuina making excuses meant devaluating HIM.
On the other side:
Zoro internalized the idea that women are weaker by nature and therefore should be protected and never defeated by men:
This is also why he refused to really be serious with Money:
Zoro says that he would have finished her and that could be true, but he would have had a HARD time doing it. It wouldn't have seem fair to him.
So this is Zoro's contradiction, on one side, Zoro's goal is to be the best swordman as he knew that if Kuina would be alive, she would be his Rival, but at the same time,
the death of Kuina completely destroyed his vision of women and fragility and left him with an impossible struggle
Now, Zoro is constantly in struggle, Here is a video of MelonTee who explain this struggle, this anxiety of strenght:
I agree with the majority. Aside from the fact that I think that Zoro's journey is more than just this self induced anxiety.
It's the weight of grief.
Zoro carries his grief everywhere he goes:
His scars, his nerfs, his weaknesses, are ALL the representations of the
burden of the grief that he is imposing on himself by seeking to beat the literal personnification of
death who rides on a sailing COFFIN.
