i was 11 when I read op and zoro, tied to a post for a week because he saved a little girl from a bunch of dogs, made luffy pick up two (incorrectly made) onigiri that had been stamped into the ground and feed them to him so the girl wouldn’t be sad about him not eating the onigiri she’d made for him. first character that ever made me go ‘this dumb motherfucker, i love him’ but he was definitely not the last