the idea of her admiring him. maybe not romantically, but in general? enough to get him something like this, make it, even. . zoro would always be appreciative of food, even when he didn’t express it. he’d gone hungry for years, so to have someone care enough to feed him without prompting? it +
@swirlbrows.bsky.socialnow, this is something she expects zoro to brush off with a grunt of acknowledgement alone.
he’s not like the baratie staff who poked fun at her and teased her when the topic of her frivolous, romantic ideas ever came to light, but sanji just doesn’t expect him to take her seriously. —