Zoro Back-of-Blade Mercy Combat-Beat
- Status
- pending
- Seeded
- Ch. 108
- Technique
- chekhov-explicitcombat-grammardialogue-from-living-character
Status: pending · Technique: chekhov-explicit, combat-grammar
The seed
Forward-pattern
- Zoro spares bystander-fakers, non-warriors, and possessed/controlled allies throughout the series using back-of-blade strikes.
- Pre-loads the Zoro-isn’t-actually-bloodthirsty sub-character beat that re-keys at multiple later moments.