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>>498200 Glad you agree, Anonymous. <3
Usopp is #2 to Luffy, but nobody ever gives him enough love, so...
First, and obviously, Usopp is an all-around great guy and someone I would really want to be my friend. He's the most multitalented member of the crew -- everyone else is a one- or two-trick pony, but Usopp can tell great stories, lie, invent, snipe, repair, draw, and sculpt. He's a natural entertainer. Plus, he's the one guy with a girl waiting back home. Even beyond all that...
I think that Usopp is one of Oda's favorite characters, if not somewhat his author avatar, because he's the one character dealing with very normal, human issues in the context of a wild, over-the-top fantasy. I wondered from early on how he would keep up with everyone else on the crew being some kind of superhuman. When it turned out that his perceived failure as a pirate (for all his skills, he sucked at fighting) was tormenting him, he tried to prove himself by beating Luffy, which he nearly did.
Because Usopp is the goddamn Batman, and what he lacks in physical power, he makes up for in ingenuity and preparation. He accepts his part as a non-frontline-combatant as a sidenote in Enies Lobby. Brilliant god damn writing. <3
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