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yourotherleft) wrote2016-02-08 10:39 pm
yourotherleft) wrote2016-02-08 10:39 pm
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PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND GESTURE
1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy?
Zoro tends to square himself. He stands at his full height and moves with deliberation. Or, well, normally. This is an odd question for anyone who doesn't slouch or do something unusual with their body.
2. How much physical space do they use, active and at rest?
Exactly as much as he needs to?
3. How do they position themselves in a group? Do they like to be the center of attention, or do they hang back at the edges of a crowd?
Situationally dependent. Where he stands in a melee is very different from where he stands in a party and both are different from where he would be on a crowded street.
4. What is their size and build? How does it influence how they use their body, if it does?
Zoro is just shy of 6 feet tall, broad-shouldered, muscled through the neck, chest, arms, torso, and legs, but not excessively so. Ripped, but not a body-builder.
5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why?
He prefers comfortable, casual clothes. While he always wears his haramaki and the three clip-on earrings on his left earlobe, and the bandanna tied around his left arm, the rest can vary. Zoro prefers green and black and doesn't mind wearing a pirate's death's-head emblem on his clothes but he has also been known to wear shirts of any color and even camouflage pants. Basically he'll wear whatever Nami buys and shoves in his locker. Mostly he wears t-shirts, hoodies, or any loose, casual button-down that he can leave unbuttoned. And he really does prefer to wear anything with buttons or zippers open, to expose his chest.
6. What are they like in motion--in different environments, and in different activities? What causes the differences between these?
This is a dumb question.
7. How do they physically engage with other people, inanimate objects, and their environment? What causes the differences between these?
Also mostly dumb. The only thing worth saying is that Zoro isn't touchy-feely with people.
8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell?
His body language does change around his crew, suggesting that he's more at ease with them than strangers. Naturally. He's more inclined to pat shoulders, squish Luffy's hat onto his head, etc. Except the girls, he pretty much doesn't really touch the girls unless he's catching them from a fall.
9. How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions?
The same way everyone does?
10. What energizes and drains them most?
Fights. This is kind of dumb.
11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use?
Zoro's speech patterns are extremely informal, suggesting that he is impolite and casual. He never uses polite form, only plain form, and elides vowels like Japanese street slang (suge instead of sugoi). He uses ore to refer to himself. It's not that he has an accent so much as he's casual and arrogant like a street thug or a rural boy.
12. How are they bodily expressive? How do they use nonverbal cues such as their posture, stance, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, and hands?
All. The. Time. He doesn't talk with his hands but his face is extremely expressive, his eyebrows and lips arching and twisting to express himself beyond what his words might say. He also tends to close himself off with folded arms when he doesn't want to emote.
DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT
1. How do they greet the world--what is their typical attitude towards life? How does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be expressed?
Zoro is...well, this is dumb. That's too much to cover in one question and it doesn't all connect.
2. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?
Cares about: crew, Luffy, dreams, swordsmanship. Loyalty to Luffy and his crew. His moral codes are few - he isn't expressly interested in being a good guy, he will kill and steal without a second thought, but he isn't antagonistic or cruel. It's more about who he would steal from or why he would kill versus not. He doesn't have any belief system, he's an atheist, and only cares about becoming the world's strongest swordsman (above his captain's goal and his crewmates' dreams). He doesn't usually express things unless the topic comes up, he just bulldozes through life doing things or not doing things at his own whim. The only words he uses are necessary declarations of Luffy's future as the Pirate King. His swordsman's codes are also limited, he doesn't practice bushido and the only thing that matters is not having a scar on his back. He also wills himself to be the protector of the crew, and acts so as to uphold that role. He has given himself up for dead in order to be a pirate, the meaning of sailing under the black flag. He does believe in most pirate codes of honor, obeying the captain's authority and taking pirate traditions seriously.
3. What kind of inner life do they have--rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives?
Zoro thinks a lot more than people expect but he doesn't really daydream, philosophize, or anything. He considers and wonders but that's about it. No doubt, no fear. He tells no one what he's thinking unless it's crucial to the actions of the moment.
4. Do they dream? What are those dreams like?
He does but he can't remember them. It's mostly just mundane regurgitation of his day to day experiences.
5. Are they more shaped by nature or nurture--who they are, or what has happened to them? How have these shaped who they've become as a person?
Nurture if only because we don't know what his nature is. We don't know who his parents are or what about him is genetic and ingrained. So we can only assume that everything he is, down to personality quirks, are influenced at least a little by his upbringing. Including his tendency to be a loner, his dream, etc.
6. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why?
Were something to happen to Luffy, it would derail Zoro from his goals. He would still want to be the world's greatest swordsman, but he would take a different path to get there, likely leaving the crew and forging on by himself - but he might not make it by that path. If he were to get any more blows to his physical abilities, such as losing a limb, it might take him away from his dream and he would have to fight himself to not lose hope, find a new dream, etc. On the path he's already on, he is likely to continue to grow to love and care for his crewmates and value friendship to the point where he wouldn't want to be alone for long periods ever again. The only thing I don't want to see is him creating or fostering any animosity with any of his crewmates for any reason, everything else is golden.
CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS
1. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?
I'm not even answering this because duh.
2. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships?
Zoro has very few impersonal relationships. To him, there's crew, and then there's not crew. Allies get lumped in with crew - Law, Jimbei, Vivi. Of course, his core Straw Hat crew are the people he's closest to - his family - but he treats Law and similar people with the respect and amiability of crew in general. The "friend of my friend is my friend" mentality. Anyone firmly in the not-crew camp is just an acquaintance. He doesn't think about them once they're gone from his life, he has no trouble turning and walking away and never seeing them again.
Among the crew, he does have a slightly different manner around each of them. Luffy he trusts, respects, and defers to but will still smack upside the head or yell at when he's being dumb. It's not quite best friend territory but it's something between brother, authority figure, and comrade. Nami, he accepts and respects to a point but also easily gets irritated with and doesn't seem to be too close to. He cares but isn't as friendly with her as the guys. Usopp he treats as an inferior (thanks to his cowardice) but also a friend, not quite the same brotherly sense as he has with Luffy. Sanji has the most complicated relationship: on the surface they fight and push each other's buttons, but on a deeper level they respect each other, agree with one another on serious issues, back one another up in battle, and use the squabbling as a way to keep from admitting to their genuine friendship. While not quite a brother yet, Zoro is probably closer to Sanji than anyone else except Luffy - they're the same age, same height, and have similar personalities and strength levels. Sanji is an equal when no one else is. Chopper, he treats like a kouhai - sort of younger-brothery but not really, he's not as close as that. He respects Chopper's intelligence and doesn't treat him like a baby but does recognize that compared to most of the crew, he's a bit naive and needs a role model. Robin he respects deeply and is on better terms with than Nami, but again, he keeps the girls a bit less close than the guys. She's older anyway, and more intelligent and shrewd, so he has an easy working relationship with her as a crucial component of the crew. He's warmer toward her than Nami but still not on the same fuzzy terms as Luffy. He doesn't know Franky or Brook as well as the others, they haven't been through the same life-changing events to cement them together, and both are older than him with greater experience as pirates and thugs, so he basically takes their behavior as it comes, reacting mostly on the surface. He still needs to build a real bond with both of them but he does care for them as crewmates. He saw Vivi as crew so even though they're far apart and don't affect one another day to day, he would feel toward her he way he does toward Usopp, Nami, or Chopper.
So in terms of closest-to-most-distant, it goes Luffy, Sanji, Robin, Nami/Usopp/Chopper, Franky, Brook.
Outside the crew, seriously, he doesn't have a closer relationship with anyone - not Smoker or Tashigi, not Mihawk or Perona, not even his sensei Koshiro. He appreciates what they've done for him (if anything) but finds it easy to walk away from them and not think on them most days. He has gratitude and respect but isn't close enough to them to ever miss them or want to see them.
3. What kind of relationships do they tend to intentionally seek out versus actually cultivate? What kind of social contact do they prefer, and why?
Zoro doesn't intentionally seek out anyone. He is, or was, a loner, so all the relationships he has are built by accident and circumstance. He also doesn't do much to cultivate them on his end, they just happen organically due to proximity and chemistry. He'd be fine if nobody bothered him but he doesn't push away his crewmates who want to befriend him. Outside the crew, he makes no effort to get close to people.
4. How do people respond to them, and why might these responses differ?
Most strangers are either scared of him or, if they witness his lack of direction, think he's kind of dumb. It depends on what behavior of his they witness. Marines and other antagonists are more likely to consider him a threat than most civilians. Allies might see more unique sides of his personality but it takes someone truly close to crew level, like Law or Vivi, to see him as a well-rounded person vs. just the Pirate Hunter.
5. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a social situation difficult?
Indifferent? I don't know what this means. He rolls with the punches, I don't think he'd find anything difficult except perhaps anyone out-and-out flirting with him, throwing themselves at him. And even then he'd mostly just be weirded out and back off.
6. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their "persona" from their "true self", and what causes that difference?
There is no difference.
7. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?
Despite his loner-ness, Zoro does need others, though he won't admit it. He's gotten used to the crew being around so being apart from them makes him a tiny bit lonely. He also has weaknesses they make up for. But he doesn't need anything besides companionship. He doesn't need feels, he doesn't need love, he doesn't need anything besides hearing and feeling their presence around him, knowing he can trust and rely upon them.
8. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in how they handle them, if it does?
How is this not redundant from above?
ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES
1. What do they strongly like and dislike, in any category? Why?
He loves booze and swords. I've rambled about his booze preferences in the past. Loves meat and rice, and onigiri. The only thing he strongly dislikes is chocolate.
2. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to accomplish it? Why?
Just his dream and the dreams of his crew.
3. What kind of activities, interests, and hobbies do they have? What significance and impact do these have in their lives, both positive and negative?
He likes to work out and train, and fish. And drink. Fishing is a relatively new hobby, he didn't used to be so into it but now he enjoys it. Maybe it's the only way to get some quiet thinking time in. Working out and training are what he does out of necessity to maintain and increase his strength level in his single-minded need to become the strongest.
4. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much?
He is as active as he needs to be and sleeps when he wants to. He doesn't really ever get overstimulated, if noise or parties are too much he just wanders off. He does get bored if there's not enough to fight, though, and then he'll just go looking for one. Or explore.
5. Is there anything that counts as a "dealbreaker" for them, positively or negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins their day? Why?
Zoro rolls with the punches. You'd have to have one of his crewmates by the throat in imminent danger of dying to ruin his day. He deals.
6. Do they have any "props" that are a significant part of their life, identity, activities, or self-presentation somehow? What are they, how are they used, and why are they so significant? How would these props' absence impact them, how would they compensate, and why?
I'm not going to go into depth about his swords, that's been covered elsewhere. Also his bandanna.
THINKING AND LEARNING
1. How do they learn about the world--what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things?
None of the above. Zoro takes things as they come. If someone relates information to him, he files it away for later. He contemplates on his own time. He is observant but doesn't organize or reason much. He doesn't really read for information, besides the newspaper. Everything is experience and sensation alone.
2. How do they understand the world--what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?
He gets it jut fine. He's learned plenty about the way the world works (government, politics, law) and doesn't really let it affect him day to day. It has nothing to do with thought processes.
3. How and why do they internalize knowledge? What effect has that had on them?
He just does. These questions are terrible.
4. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this?
Zoro actually relies on instinct to a great degree. His experiences thus far have taught him that his instincts are usually right. But he does think and consider things, and will suss out his options before arriving at a conclusion.
5. Have they had any special education or training that colors their means of learning about or understanding the world? Conversely, do they lack some kind of education considered essential in their world? What kind of impact has this addition or lack had on them?
No and no. His world doesn't require education of any kind, people fall into roles that fit the education they do have or seek out.
6. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought processes? What, and why?
Nope.
7. What sort of questions or thoughts recur in their lives, either specifically or as a theme? Why are these never answered, or answered permanently to their satisfaction?
None.
8. What do they wonder about? What sparks their curiosity and imagination, and why? How is this expressed, if it is?
If he sees something new in the Grand Line that he's never experienced before, he is curious about it. New sword techniques and weapons, stronger fighters, especially. But he also can be curious about new fish (do they taste good?), strange cultures who behave out of the ordinary toward him or his crew, potential threats and dangers. Mostly, though, he doesn't stop to puzzle it out, he observes, files away valuable info and discards the rest, and then moves on with his actions as a result.
1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy?
Zoro tends to square himself. He stands at his full height and moves with deliberation. Or, well, normally. This is an odd question for anyone who doesn't slouch or do something unusual with their body.
2. How much physical space do they use, active and at rest?
Exactly as much as he needs to?
3. How do they position themselves in a group? Do they like to be the center of attention, or do they hang back at the edges of a crowd?
Situationally dependent. Where he stands in a melee is very different from where he stands in a party and both are different from where he would be on a crowded street.
4. What is their size and build? How does it influence how they use their body, if it does?
Zoro is just shy of 6 feet tall, broad-shouldered, muscled through the neck, chest, arms, torso, and legs, but not excessively so. Ripped, but not a body-builder.
5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why?
He prefers comfortable, casual clothes. While he always wears his haramaki and the three clip-on earrings on his left earlobe, and the bandanna tied around his left arm, the rest can vary. Zoro prefers green and black and doesn't mind wearing a pirate's death's-head emblem on his clothes but he has also been known to wear shirts of any color and even camouflage pants. Basically he'll wear whatever Nami buys and shoves in his locker. Mostly he wears t-shirts, hoodies, or any loose, casual button-down that he can leave unbuttoned. And he really does prefer to wear anything with buttons or zippers open, to expose his chest.
6. What are they like in motion--in different environments, and in different activities? What causes the differences between these?
This is a dumb question.
7. How do they physically engage with other people, inanimate objects, and their environment? What causes the differences between these?
Also mostly dumb. The only thing worth saying is that Zoro isn't touchy-feely with people.
8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell?
His body language does change around his crew, suggesting that he's more at ease with them than strangers. Naturally. He's more inclined to pat shoulders, squish Luffy's hat onto his head, etc. Except the girls, he pretty much doesn't really touch the girls unless he's catching them from a fall.
9. How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions?
The same way everyone does?
10. What energizes and drains them most?
Fights. This is kind of dumb.
11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use?
Zoro's speech patterns are extremely informal, suggesting that he is impolite and casual. He never uses polite form, only plain form, and elides vowels like Japanese street slang (suge instead of sugoi). He uses ore to refer to himself. It's not that he has an accent so much as he's casual and arrogant like a street thug or a rural boy.
12. How are they bodily expressive? How do they use nonverbal cues such as their posture, stance, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, and hands?
All. The. Time. He doesn't talk with his hands but his face is extremely expressive, his eyebrows and lips arching and twisting to express himself beyond what his words might say. He also tends to close himself off with folded arms when he doesn't want to emote.
DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT
1. How do they greet the world--what is their typical attitude towards life? How does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be expressed?
Zoro is...well, this is dumb. That's too much to cover in one question and it doesn't all connect.
2. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?
Cares about: crew, Luffy, dreams, swordsmanship. Loyalty to Luffy and his crew. His moral codes are few - he isn't expressly interested in being a good guy, he will kill and steal without a second thought, but he isn't antagonistic or cruel. It's more about who he would steal from or why he would kill versus not. He doesn't have any belief system, he's an atheist, and only cares about becoming the world's strongest swordsman (above his captain's goal and his crewmates' dreams). He doesn't usually express things unless the topic comes up, he just bulldozes through life doing things or not doing things at his own whim. The only words he uses are necessary declarations of Luffy's future as the Pirate King. His swordsman's codes are also limited, he doesn't practice bushido and the only thing that matters is not having a scar on his back. He also wills himself to be the protector of the crew, and acts so as to uphold that role. He has given himself up for dead in order to be a pirate, the meaning of sailing under the black flag. He does believe in most pirate codes of honor, obeying the captain's authority and taking pirate traditions seriously.
3. What kind of inner life do they have--rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives?
Zoro thinks a lot more than people expect but he doesn't really daydream, philosophize, or anything. He considers and wonders but that's about it. No doubt, no fear. He tells no one what he's thinking unless it's crucial to the actions of the moment.
4. Do they dream? What are those dreams like?
He does but he can't remember them. It's mostly just mundane regurgitation of his day to day experiences.
5. Are they more shaped by nature or nurture--who they are, or what has happened to them? How have these shaped who they've become as a person?
Nurture if only because we don't know what his nature is. We don't know who his parents are or what about him is genetic and ingrained. So we can only assume that everything he is, down to personality quirks, are influenced at least a little by his upbringing. Including his tendency to be a loner, his dream, etc.
6. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why?
Were something to happen to Luffy, it would derail Zoro from his goals. He would still want to be the world's greatest swordsman, but he would take a different path to get there, likely leaving the crew and forging on by himself - but he might not make it by that path. If he were to get any more blows to his physical abilities, such as losing a limb, it might take him away from his dream and he would have to fight himself to not lose hope, find a new dream, etc. On the path he's already on, he is likely to continue to grow to love and care for his crewmates and value friendship to the point where he wouldn't want to be alone for long periods ever again. The only thing I don't want to see is him creating or fostering any animosity with any of his crewmates for any reason, everything else is golden.
CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS
1. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?
I'm not even answering this because duh.
2. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships?
Zoro has very few impersonal relationships. To him, there's crew, and then there's not crew. Allies get lumped in with crew - Law, Jimbei, Vivi. Of course, his core Straw Hat crew are the people he's closest to - his family - but he treats Law and similar people with the respect and amiability of crew in general. The "friend of my friend is my friend" mentality. Anyone firmly in the not-crew camp is just an acquaintance. He doesn't think about them once they're gone from his life, he has no trouble turning and walking away and never seeing them again.
Among the crew, he does have a slightly different manner around each of them. Luffy he trusts, respects, and defers to but will still smack upside the head or yell at when he's being dumb. It's not quite best friend territory but it's something between brother, authority figure, and comrade. Nami, he accepts and respects to a point but also easily gets irritated with and doesn't seem to be too close to. He cares but isn't as friendly with her as the guys. Usopp he treats as an inferior (thanks to his cowardice) but also a friend, not quite the same brotherly sense as he has with Luffy. Sanji has the most complicated relationship: on the surface they fight and push each other's buttons, but on a deeper level they respect each other, agree with one another on serious issues, back one another up in battle, and use the squabbling as a way to keep from admitting to their genuine friendship. While not quite a brother yet, Zoro is probably closer to Sanji than anyone else except Luffy - they're the same age, same height, and have similar personalities and strength levels. Sanji is an equal when no one else is. Chopper, he treats like a kouhai - sort of younger-brothery but not really, he's not as close as that. He respects Chopper's intelligence and doesn't treat him like a baby but does recognize that compared to most of the crew, he's a bit naive and needs a role model. Robin he respects deeply and is on better terms with than Nami, but again, he keeps the girls a bit less close than the guys. She's older anyway, and more intelligent and shrewd, so he has an easy working relationship with her as a crucial component of the crew. He's warmer toward her than Nami but still not on the same fuzzy terms as Luffy. He doesn't know Franky or Brook as well as the others, they haven't been through the same life-changing events to cement them together, and both are older than him with greater experience as pirates and thugs, so he basically takes their behavior as it comes, reacting mostly on the surface. He still needs to build a real bond with both of them but he does care for them as crewmates. He saw Vivi as crew so even though they're far apart and don't affect one another day to day, he would feel toward her he way he does toward Usopp, Nami, or Chopper.
So in terms of closest-to-most-distant, it goes Luffy, Sanji, Robin, Nami/Usopp/Chopper, Franky, Brook.
Outside the crew, seriously, he doesn't have a closer relationship with anyone - not Smoker or Tashigi, not Mihawk or Perona, not even his sensei Koshiro. He appreciates what they've done for him (if anything) but finds it easy to walk away from them and not think on them most days. He has gratitude and respect but isn't close enough to them to ever miss them or want to see them.
3. What kind of relationships do they tend to intentionally seek out versus actually cultivate? What kind of social contact do they prefer, and why?
Zoro doesn't intentionally seek out anyone. He is, or was, a loner, so all the relationships he has are built by accident and circumstance. He also doesn't do much to cultivate them on his end, they just happen organically due to proximity and chemistry. He'd be fine if nobody bothered him but he doesn't push away his crewmates who want to befriend him. Outside the crew, he makes no effort to get close to people.
4. How do people respond to them, and why might these responses differ?
Most strangers are either scared of him or, if they witness his lack of direction, think he's kind of dumb. It depends on what behavior of his they witness. Marines and other antagonists are more likely to consider him a threat than most civilians. Allies might see more unique sides of his personality but it takes someone truly close to crew level, like Law or Vivi, to see him as a well-rounded person vs. just the Pirate Hunter.
5. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a social situation difficult?
Indifferent? I don't know what this means. He rolls with the punches, I don't think he'd find anything difficult except perhaps anyone out-and-out flirting with him, throwing themselves at him. And even then he'd mostly just be weirded out and back off.
6. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their "persona" from their "true self", and what causes that difference?
There is no difference.
7. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?
Despite his loner-ness, Zoro does need others, though he won't admit it. He's gotten used to the crew being around so being apart from them makes him a tiny bit lonely. He also has weaknesses they make up for. But he doesn't need anything besides companionship. He doesn't need feels, he doesn't need love, he doesn't need anything besides hearing and feeling their presence around him, knowing he can trust and rely upon them.
8. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in how they handle them, if it does?
How is this not redundant from above?
ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES
1. What do they strongly like and dislike, in any category? Why?
He loves booze and swords. I've rambled about his booze preferences in the past. Loves meat and rice, and onigiri. The only thing he strongly dislikes is chocolate.
2. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to accomplish it? Why?
Just his dream and the dreams of his crew.
3. What kind of activities, interests, and hobbies do they have? What significance and impact do these have in their lives, both positive and negative?
He likes to work out and train, and fish. And drink. Fishing is a relatively new hobby, he didn't used to be so into it but now he enjoys it. Maybe it's the only way to get some quiet thinking time in. Working out and training are what he does out of necessity to maintain and increase his strength level in his single-minded need to become the strongest.
4. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much?
He is as active as he needs to be and sleeps when he wants to. He doesn't really ever get overstimulated, if noise or parties are too much he just wanders off. He does get bored if there's not enough to fight, though, and then he'll just go looking for one. Or explore.
5. Is there anything that counts as a "dealbreaker" for them, positively or negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins their day? Why?
Zoro rolls with the punches. You'd have to have one of his crewmates by the throat in imminent danger of dying to ruin his day. He deals.
6. Do they have any "props" that are a significant part of their life, identity, activities, or self-presentation somehow? What are they, how are they used, and why are they so significant? How would these props' absence impact them, how would they compensate, and why?
I'm not going to go into depth about his swords, that's been covered elsewhere. Also his bandanna.
THINKING AND LEARNING
1. How do they learn about the world--what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things?
None of the above. Zoro takes things as they come. If someone relates information to him, he files it away for later. He contemplates on his own time. He is observant but doesn't organize or reason much. He doesn't really read for information, besides the newspaper. Everything is experience and sensation alone.
2. How do they understand the world--what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?
He gets it jut fine. He's learned plenty about the way the world works (government, politics, law) and doesn't really let it affect him day to day. It has nothing to do with thought processes.
3. How and why do they internalize knowledge? What effect has that had on them?
He just does. These questions are terrible.
4. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this?
Zoro actually relies on instinct to a great degree. His experiences thus far have taught him that his instincts are usually right. But he does think and consider things, and will suss out his options before arriving at a conclusion.
5. Have they had any special education or training that colors their means of learning about or understanding the world? Conversely, do they lack some kind of education considered essential in their world? What kind of impact has this addition or lack had on them?
No and no. His world doesn't require education of any kind, people fall into roles that fit the education they do have or seek out.
6. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought processes? What, and why?
Nope.
7. What sort of questions or thoughts recur in their lives, either specifically or as a theme? Why are these never answered, or answered permanently to their satisfaction?
None.
8. What do they wonder about? What sparks their curiosity and imagination, and why? How is this expressed, if it is?
If he sees something new in the Grand Line that he's never experienced before, he is curious about it. New sword techniques and weapons, stronger fighters, especially. But he also can be curious about new fish (do they taste good?), strange cultures who behave out of the ordinary toward him or his crew, potential threats and dangers. Mostly, though, he doesn't stop to puzzle it out, he observes, files away valuable info and discards the rest, and then moves on with his actions as a result.