Key Takeaways
- Corazon & Law’s mentor relationship is a fan favorite in One Piece despite the brief appearance of their characters.
- Corazon’s sacrifice for Law & giving him Op-Op Fruit is a heart-wrenching moment ingrained in fans’ minds.
- The dynamic between Corazon & Law includes heartwarming moments, but also the darker side of revenge & loss.
Through well-developed characters and amazingly crafted worlds, One Piece constantly surprises fans with the sheer quality of dynamics between characters. From brothers to mentors to lovers, the relationships between characters are what make the One Piece world feel so real and fleshed out. In fact, some of these character dynamics have stuck with fans throughout the series, no matter how brief the appearance.
One of these dynamics is the one between Corazon and Law. Despite only appearing in a few chapters and episodes in the story of One Piece, this duo has become one of the favorites among fans. In fact, this dynamic may be the best mentor relationship in the series, showing off both good and bad sides of inherited will and sacrifice.
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One Piece: The Saga Of Rosinante And Law
An Unforgettable Story
As a child, Law was a shell of what he is in the modern story. Nowadays, Law is an Emperor-level threat to the world of One Piece before he was a child on the brink of death from a horrible disease called Amber Lead Syndrome. This unfortunate circumstance led him to become entangled with Donquixote Doflamingo and his family, eventually leading him to meet Corazon.
I’ll die with a smile, because if you ever think of me in the future, I want you to remember me smiling. – Corazon
Corazon, aka Donquixote Rosinante, was the younger brother of Doffy himself, and a secret undercover Marine planted within the Donquixote Pirates, after some time away from his brother. Here, undercover, Corazon acted as a fool, pretending to be clumsy and rude to fulfill his role as a spy. However, after meeting Law and failing to keep him away from the pirate group, he set out to help him in any way possible. Eventually, this led to Corazon stealing One Piece’s Op-Op Fruit and giving it to Law to cure his disease. This led to his cover being blown and his death at the hands of Doffy.
Corazon’s And Law’s Characters Make An Interesting Pair
Stoicism Meets Goofiness
Although their time together in the story was brief, the dynamic between Corazon and Law in One Piece was an instant classic among fans. Between the goofy, yet cool agent Corazon and the stoic, yet young Law, the mentor-mentee relationship that developed between the two was one of the sweetest moments in One Piece. Corazon imparts various lessons to Law and gives him the will to keep fighting into the modern era, a complete turnaround from Law’s childhood.
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On top of this, Corazon choosing to die for Law and giving him One Piece’s Op-Op Fruit is one of the most heart-wrenching moments in the entire series. The build-up to the moment and the final line that Corazon delivers to Law will be ingrained in the minds of fans until the end of the One Piece series. This moment accents that it is the difference between the two characters that makes the relationship so special, with Corazon giving the usually emotionless Law one more big goofy smile before he dies, so he can always remember him smiling.
The Darker Side Of Corazon And Law’s Dynamic
The Darkness Of Revenge
However, what makes this mentor-mentee relationship especially unique is the messier elements of Corazon and his dynamic with his brother. Corazon, despite wanting to take his brother down and truly believing he’s evil, couldn’t bring himself to do it. Soon after his death, the popular One Piece character, Law, became completely obsessed with trying to finish what Corazon started. This isn’t what Corazon wanted. Instead, Corazon wanted Law to be free. Despite this, his death trapped Law in a cycle of revenge that took Luffy to break out of.
Don’t try to find a reason for somebody’s love. – Sengoku
In the end, the dynamic between Law and Corazon in One Piece is one of the best because it includes all the elements a relationship should have. It has heartwarming, clean moments, but also the darker side of revenge and loss. The short moments between One Piece’s Law and Corazon were enough to expertly develop and build such a lovable relationship that fans are still waiting to see what Law will do with his inherited will from Corazon at the end of the series. Until then, fans will have to remember the moments that led to one of One PIece’s most popular characters.
