Okay. I've had a few conversations with people about this recently.
In the zoro flashback we meet kuina.
Someone who appears to be a superior warrior to zoro at the same age zoro himself being stronger than grown ups already.
Kuina during the flashback states that she will be doomed to become weaker as she grows older as she was born a woman.
She then makes a promise with zoro that one of them should become the greatest swordsperson.
And next we hear is that she is dead from falling down the stairs.
After which zoro asks for her sword and tries to fulfill their dream
I am convinced she is dead as koshiro still visits her grave when we see him in the coverstory some people are not as convinced.
Okay here is my question I've always interpreted it the situation as kuina giving up and committing suicide as she had passed on the torch to someone else having given up on tbeing able to acheive the dream herself.
It seems very unused for a death to be accidental especially in one piece where are so few deaths and all are mysterious or attributable to someone or both.
The fact that she was so superior to zoro in the flashback would suggest that she would be able to easily survive an accident of hat scale. Hence suicide seems to be the conclusion I have reached.
Or at least zoro suspects that she did this and choses to honor her as the warrior he thought she was.
And that is why zoro is angry when confronted by the same logic from taishigi in loguetown.
Also it would make for an interesting meeting with yamato who has taken a different solution to the same issue that his childhood friend did not.
Other things that are interesting is that oda himself says that luffy let's opponents live as living with broken dreams is worse than dying. Which I find quite interesting in the context of the tale of kuina.
In the zoro flashback we meet kuina.
Someone who appears to be a superior warrior to zoro at the same age zoro himself being stronger than grown ups already.
Kuina during the flashback states that she will be doomed to become weaker as she grows older as she was born a woman.
She then makes a promise with zoro that one of them should become the greatest swordsperson.
And next we hear is that she is dead from falling down the stairs.
After which zoro asks for her sword and tries to fulfill their dream
I am convinced she is dead as koshiro still visits her grave when we see him in the coverstory some people are not as convinced.
Okay here is my question I've always interpreted it the situation as kuina giving up and committing suicide as she had passed on the torch to someone else having given up on tbeing able to acheive the dream herself.
It seems very unused for a death to be accidental especially in one piece where are so few deaths and all are mysterious or attributable to someone or both.
The fact that she was so superior to zoro in the flashback would suggest that she would be able to easily survive an accident of hat scale. Hence suicide seems to be the conclusion I have reached.
Or at least zoro suspects that she did this and choses to honor her as the warrior he thought she was.
And that is why zoro is angry when confronted by the same logic from taishigi in loguetown.
Also it would make for an interesting meeting with yamato who has taken a different solution to the same issue that his childhood friend did not.
Other things that are interesting is that oda himself says that luffy let's opponents live as living with broken dreams is worse than dying. Which I find quite interesting in the context of the tale of kuina.
