You gave your reasons? My bad for not seeing them then. May you @ or post them again? If your reason is that both are blonde and like women then don't even bother tho lmao
Had to get unlazy and switch from mobile to desktop for this, so I'm only stating it once. If you give me one-liner responses back, troll, or take it not seriously at all, we are done and we just agree to disagree and walk off.
I believe Rayleigh to be Zoro and Sanji in one, due to many factors. The first, I will steal from
@Warchief Sanji D Goat as I never noticed, and am now adding it to the list. If Gaban is 2-in1 both Navigator and Helmsman (Jimbei and Nami) then it only gives more support to Rayleigh being both Zoro and Sanji. Thanks for that, Goat.
I guess for starters we'll go with the simple superficial stuff you don't want to hear.
Appearance:
If you take both Zoro and Sanji and overlay them to younger Rayleigh, you get Rayleigh. Blonde and Goatee (Sanji) Scar and facial construction (Zoro). Except not completely, because Zoro's scar is on the opposite eye, the eye that Sanji shows now, while Rayleigh's scar is on the eye that Sanji hides. Oda will not explain to us why he flipped Sanji's hair, he acted like it was a mistake to in joke to get away from the question.
But that's not all. If you look at panels of Rayleigh, in side profile when he yells at Shanks and Buggy, his expressions are more like Sanji's, the way Oda draws his grimaces, glares, and teeth. IN SIDE PROFILE. From the front, he has the smiles, expressions, of Zoro. Mirroring both of them. You may not think this is a big deal, but Oda draws both Zoro and Sanji's expressions just different enough to carry their personalities. They do not have the same grimaces, glares, and teeth style in side view so as to differentiate their designs. But Rayleigh has both.
His clothes, likewise are always both formal and casual, like he's a mix of two styles. A rogue and a Gentleman.
Paneling:
Like Rayleigh carries their expressions in panels. We also pay attention to paneling and symbolism. When Rayleigh is in panels before timeskip, it is most always Sanji and Zoro toegether speaking to him, if not in the same panel, side by side panels. We hardly ever see just one of them speak to him except after timeskip. Even the famous CoC scene has them side by side.
Strengths and Weakness:
I always say Zoro and Sanji compliment each other, speed and strength, strategy and reactionary, wits and bruteforce, etc.
Rayleigh has both. Rayleigh does both martial arts and swordsmanship. Rayleigh is both a planner, and a frontman. Both impulsive, and calculating. Both wits, and bruteforce, well-rounded in speed and strength.
Rayleigh came up with 3D2Y plan. Sanji comes up with most plans and last minute saves. Oh, but you'll say Zoro came up with the X-Mark plan, and yes he did, but it was also surprised amongst the crew that he did. For Rayleigh, it was just accepted that he would come up with such, no surprise. For the 3D2Y plan, Zoro was the last to understand the plan and was called dense by Rayleigh when Luffy asked if they'd get it. However, Rayleigh has had clueless moments as well, once again, showcasing both Sanji's wits, and Zoro's bruteness.
Vices:
Womanzing, Gambling and Drinking, both Sanji and Zoro.
General presence and importance. Luffy is supposed to surpass Roger's crew. He does that by having the best of what Roger had in more than one person. Instead of having one right-hand man he trusted with the world like Roger and Rayleigh, he has his wings in Sanji and Zoro to back him up. Instead of having the genius of just Gaban if he is helmsman and navigator, he instead has Nami and Jimbei being the geniuses of their craft.
