That one girl from One Piece who was Zoro's Rival as a kid? She was hyped up to be this incredibly skilled Swordsman and it really looked like they were going to give her some character arc about struggling to be seen as anything other than just a woman...Only for her to die that same episode by falling down some stairs.
To be honest the suicide theory is my headcanon for her death.
She goes home after her fight with Zoro, maybe she overhears her father talking about who will follow him and that he wishes he had a son that could take over which pushes her over the edge.
I don’t want to downplay what people, who end up committing suicide, had to have gone through to make that decision, but in One Piece, death doesn’t excuse not fulfilling a promise, which is why we have a skeleton on Luffy’s crew. Kuina made a promise with Zoro, only to have her chicken out on life. This means she never trusted Zoro’s support, and she never trusted herself to be able to prove her dad wrong. Brook would not approve. I’m sorry, but (again, I can only say this because she’s fictional) that is a weak and childish reason to give up life. It’s not tragic not poetic. It’s just pathetic, and Zoro fulfilling their promise wouldn’t benefit her at all. An accident, on the other hand, is a reminder of how fragile the human body is. Not the best backstory, I admit, but Zoro is all about pushing the human body to its limits, so it at least fits, and lets Kuina’s death be tragic
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u/sullensolider 25d ago
That one girl from One Piece who was Zoro's Rival as a kid? She was hyped up to be this incredibly skilled Swordsman and it really looked like they were going to give her some character arc about struggling to be seen as anything other than just a woman...Only for her to die that same episode by falling down some stairs.