Garp And Compliance

Garp and Compliance

I do think Garp is a very complicated man with very complicated motivations and actions. He is the definition of lawful chaotic. And I do genuinely believe that he joined the marines cause he wanted to do good in the world and that was how he saw how. But I also believe he is a great example of how the willful compliance of the few "good" help maintain the power of a bad system and how that is a part of the problem. does it matter if there are a few good men if the entire system is bad?

But I also do believe that he wanted his kids to drink the marine cool aid like him to keep them safe, Ace particularly. Like I do genuinely believe that.

Like listen they have the "D" just by being alive they are a threat to the world government and it will always want them dead and those they love dead by association. Hell even Sengoku tells Garp that he would have been executed long ago for the crimes of his family if he wasnt so valuable as the Hero of the Marines, anf it's played off like a joke but given everything we know about the marines and the world government it was very much a real threat.

But they haven't because Garp is valuable, he doesn't follow order, his family are all some of the most dangerous criminals in the world and he acts entirely too much like a pirate himself never mind that he and his lineage bare the ultimate sin of having a "D" in their name. But he gets to live, he is safe because he is valuable. And so by that logic if those kids get into the marines, if they complied and become strong, indispensable, invaluable. Then maybe that will keep them safe, maybe it will keep even Ace safe, a boy who committed the gravest only crime against the marines by being born the son of a man the government killed 22 years ago.

And if they are safe then maybe Garp doesn't have to confront the tyranny he swore to protect.

Something about the first time Mihawk swings a sword it’s as a means to protect himself and escape

And everytime after that it’s because it makes him feel strong and he never wants to feel weak again.

People don't change, Wolverine.

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established mishanks… guy utterly obsessed with his wife x beautiful elegant goth girl wifey

I don't know, this is very Nobara Kugasaki staring her death and yuuji in the face and saying tell them not to forget; it wasn't so bad. No matter how she died she doesn't regret her life. She doesn't regret letting Yuuji pull up a chair and take a seat in her life

I do think it’s funny and adorable that Mihawk and Zoro have such similar epithets that are even more similar in Japanese.

But it is infinitely more hilarious because while Zoro was hunting Pirates to collect their bounty and fund his journey, Mihawk was seemly hunting marines for the sport of it, because; eh why not 🤷.