[avaxbacot]

this blog is going to be my place to yap and rant, i don’t know if i’m good enough to pull an analysis or meta especially with my very limited english, but for now it’s just going to be a place for putting my thoughts and farts since twitter and bluesky are very limited and i realized i like to write a whole essay (aka yapping too much)

[seaskate]

I dont like it when people write Law alinging with Luffy as him looking for a crew to use and dispose of easily for the sake of taking down Doflamingo. For starters, he orginally went into the take down Mingo plan trying to do the entire thing on his own, Luffy was a happy accident to his suicidal plans. And furthermore, the literal moment that he doubted if they were all going to make it out of the plan alive he sent some of the weaker members (with Sanji to protect them) on ahead to Zou, and then turned around and immediately tried to back out of the alliance with Luffy so that Luffy and the rest of the crew would leave too and Law would be the only one to die for his revenge.

He never wanted anyone else to die for the sake of his vengeance, not his own crew and not another crew either. And because of that he could never genuinely see the Straw Hats as "disposable" in the callous way some people write it where he doesnt care if they live or die. Its the whole reason why his original plan to take down Doflamingo was built on having Kiado do it for him, because even if Doflamingo killed him once he realized what was going on, any allies or crewmates of Law's at the time would not be caught in the crossfire if he could help it.

Disposable doesn't look like that. If anything, he was treating himself as the disposable one

[avaxbacot]

I’ve been seeing too many different opinions about God Valley’s flashback especially about Rocks, which is fair of course because he’s the main focus on this flashback. It’s just funny to see how they’re like sides who think he’s just evil and that he’s not evil depending on their biases.

I will just say, a person who had a dream to dominate the world cannot be fully trusted that we didn’t know his true intention, like I’m sorry, Rocks might not be evil by any means, but he still had a really ambitious goal and would do anything to gain it, and most of his crews were consisted of pretty much not-so-good people that he gained from Davy Back Fight. Sure they seemed to get a long before God Valley’s event, but when we reached God Valley, it’s pretty clear most of the crews were ready to leave Rocks for their own advantage.

That’s why when i saw a take like “Rocks pirates actually got along and they’re like a family,” and most of the scene that they seem to have a good “family” dynamic was when Whitebeard was involved most of the time. Whitebeard was established to be a decent guy whose dream to have a family, and actually treated his crew well as family, so yeah of course the scenes in the flashback when he’s involved seem to feel like he treated the Rocks crews like a family, because Whitebeard was just a family guy (lol).

And the most familial dynamic in the crews were obviously just between Linlin and Kaido, they acted pretty much like siblings in this flashback, as a big sister who has annoying little brother, yeah that’s pretty much dynamic they gave and I relate to that very much. So that’s why I found calling a crew as “family” was kind of a reach when you only have like 3 crew members that have the dynamic. Yes not all family was dysfunctional but then again what’s the point calling a non family group as a found family when it will just become very dysfunctional? Just call them friends or coworkers.

Again, we shouldn’t overlook the other crews of Rocks Pirates if we actually wanted to see them work as a whole, because it was indeed matter if you actually had A RAT (Wang Zhi) in your crew even though Rocks might not a bad person per se, like it means that you as a captain couldn’t make all your crew to fully be on your side. And from the last chapter, we saw how the other crews were ready to just leave the crew for their selfish reasons, if you have half of your crew acting like that, you weren’t a good of a captain that you actually treated your crew as a “family”.

From the last chapter, we knew that Rocks getting domi-reversi-ed and started attacking his own crews that’s present—which were the three future Yonkos. Some people debating that these 4 were like characters that were meant to be called “the family” of the crew based on how they reacted to Rocks’ “betrayal”, and again, it’s only scene where Whitebeard was present. I felt like neither Linlin or Kaido even thought Rocks as their family, sure they might be close and respected each other just fine but Linlin kept talking about her “future crew” with her children while she’s still in the Rocks Pirates, it meant that she was also there for her own advantage, it’s like an employee who can’t wait to be the boss of their own. And like Kaido in this flashback was a pretty much naive and mostly tailed Linlin like an annoying little brother, and he also sneaked on her in the end to get a devil fruit, both of them were still pretty much opportunistic by their own, but not as bad as the rest of the Rocks Pirates (maybe, at least from the on screen we got).

I agreed though Rocks’ betrayal cause some damage and effect to Kaido and Linlin with how they acted in the future, but I won’t say Rocks’ betrayal was the one that caused the former Rocks Pirates to create their own family since their previous “family” was full of betrayal, Whitebeard and Linlin had been dreaming to have their own family before joining Rocks I believed, and Kaido might also want to be a big on his own, just as much as other Rocks Pirates.

I don’t think Rocks was evil, he’s far from that, but I personally didn’t really like how some people treated him like he’s a good captain specifically, when he did have a lot of obvious flaws especially being a captain of his crews—which was actually already told so many times that their crews weren’t functioning well as a group in the story itself.

[avaxbacot]

Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul Characters as One Piece fans

Mihawk top 2 believer

Calling anyone who skip skypiea a bitch

Rat Hair Shanks’ PR team

Unironically long ring long land enjoyer

Blackbeard’s stock investor

Only watch OPLA

The Yaoi fanartist

The Admirals biggest glazer

Zosan shipper

Agenda Piece brainrotted

Sanji’s defend attorney

“Damn He just like me fr” when he looks at Doflamingo

“I am not crazy! I know he’s the one with the gorosei! I knew it was that Rat Shanks. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his eye, he got that idiot on his crew Yassop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That Sea Monster! Are you telling me that a man on his level just happens to lose his arm like that? No! He orchestrated it! Shanks! He defecated through a sunroof!”

“what can I say? The One Piece…. is real”

One Pace watcher

The One Piece anime remake target audience

Got ragebaited every time someone called Greenbull a fraud

ZKK truthers (they still believe it somehow)

One Piece episode reactors on youtube

One Piece content creator after making “Who’s Luffy’s Mom???” clickbait slop content

Sandman

”One Piece is not political”

One Piece spoiler manga leaker

the fantranslator

One Piece Film Red hater

Running daily gimmick chopper acc on twitter

[avaxbacot]

I was so bored that I started listing types of fanon Law I’ve encountered during my 2 years as his fan…….. and it’s pretty funny

Will write more details on below

Type 1: The Rich Dom Daddy, obviously a top and alpha, usually this type is found in yaoi or yume when the fans interpreted his character as like super handsome, super hot, rich and all that jazz. In fanart he’s drawn more masculine than his canon counterpart, like hypermasculine, not really my favorite interpretation of him but I appreciate the hot daddy fanarts

Type 2: The opposite of the first one when he’s the bottom omega in relationship, this is like taking his tsundere side and makes him 10 times more shy. I mean I prefer Law as bottom, but I don’t think I like this overly shy twinkatron3000 version of him either

Type 3: This one seems to be almost similar to canon, but it also takes his emo and nerdy side and makes him 10 times miserable, he gives the most beta male energy, and in shipping this type of Law seems to be switch but mostly bottom, personally this is my favorite fanon of him

Type 4: When Law just seems that he finally got his shit together, much cleaner hair, looks mature and collected, gives the professional doctor vibe, sometimes wears glasses because it looks good on him, I usually see this type of fanon Law in his older version or in modern AU where he’s a surgeon without trauma whatsoever

Type 5: The creepy Law, “Law was supposed to be a villain” they said…. without giving any original source, just like when they said “trust me bro Oda’s wife also likes Law the most.” type shit. Usually happened in AU where he just becomes Doflamingo 2.0, or people take his freaky side and make 10 times worse, and I actually like it lol

Type 6: Pre TS Law looks high…… he’s smoking………weed…. nice…

Type 7: Law just has no anger management, he hates the Strawhats, he hates everyone, he doesn’t have any other personality traits besides being tired and angry, he’s just Squidward in funny hat

Type 8: Law’s just that Cool Dude, he masters in aura farming, his reintroduction in Punk Hazard, ugh, cold. I think this is most of male Law fans see Law as a character, like come on he’s just so cool man…. Law is not really a character that got hyped or slandered as much as others, but he’s sure liked because he’s SO COOL for a lot of dudes, have I said that he’s so cool and got that SHIT ON???

Type 9: People start inserting Law as the member of Strawhats because he has better chemistry with them than his own crew, sad truth

Type 10: Law….. Do you mean TraFAILgar D Walking Flaw???? Had a bum ass crew, never won 1v1, his plans always failed, getting carried 90% of the time by Luffy literally and figuratively, and NO COC!!! yeah that’s pretty much how his haters see Law lmao

And there’s obviously more fanon of Law, but that’s what I can think of lol, man I miss him

[etrosgate]

started watching code geass

[bellherald]

Rocinante and Honesty

The entire dynamic of Law and Cora-san both heals me and hurts me, but this is probably the part that pains me the most.

Law only realizing, caring, that Cora-san lied to him, not after he confessed to being a Navy man and had been lying to Law the entire time about it, but after Doflamingo states that he’s killed blood family before and is capable again. Law believing Cora-san’s lie that his brother wouldn’t kill him because they’re family is another detail proving that he was not like Doflamingo. Law couldn’t conceive pulling that trigger on his own family even over such a betrayal, but Doflamingo would pull it twice.

Cora-san is a consummate liar in order to facilitate things going smoothly. A spy who’s able to say and do what it takes. To stay as an executive in the crime family, Corazon was a brutal worker who never spoke a word no matter the circumstances and who ruthlessly assaulted children to “ensure only the best stuck around.” When asked by Law about being in the Navy, he asks if Law hates the Navy first before denying it. Even on the ride to Minion Island with Law’s life tenuously hanging on as he asks again, Cora-san hears the question again and says “of course not!” He wasn’t anymore, he chose Law over the mission a long time ago now. But even then… it wasn’t really the truth. Cora-san gives another lie to Law just before the end to make sure Law got in the box, saying that Doflamingo wouldn’t kill his blood brother. He knew he was lying to Law here.

That's ok, Cora-san was willing to die with this. Rocinante lies all the time.

However, at the very end of the line, Cora-san wanted to make sure that no matter what, no matter the lies he tells to make sure Law made it through this, that Law knew the truth of who he is. Even as he bluffs and spins a tale about how Law is already out of reach, plying the answers of Doflamingo’s goals out in Law’s earshot, Cora-san is confessing to Law. He is a Navy man in the way that mattered, but that he was being entirely honest when he told Law he was free, that Law was long past being doomed as a monster or being chained to his brother’s footsteps. Law got to be what he chose to be. I’m sure Cora-san wanted Law to know his hope and love for him was honest even if he himself was not.

Cora-san just wanted Law to live and be free, but it would be many years until Law fully understood this.

[childofearthandstarryheaven]

But Law didn't live and wasn't free, Law is at the bottom of ocean now, nothing but a stepping stone for Luffy's future victory. Rosinante didn't save Law: the fruit found by Doffy did, Rosi had no idea where it was. And the D destiny path Rosi pointed for Law is ruinous. Anyone who isn't Nika can never claim one piece. Even if Law wasn't eliminated by Blackbeard, Shanks would've taken Law out as well, just like Shanks destroyed Barto and Kidd.

But it probably is perfect karma for Rosinante and Law though. After all, Rosinante is a member of the genocidal, proslavery Marines, and Rosi never showed any remorse about that. World Government policies destroyed Flevance, but instead of seeking justice for Flevance, joining the revolutionaries, or at least preserving Flevance memory and culture, Law merely forgot about Flevance. Law literally never mentioned his real parents, sister, classmates and that lovely nun ever again. Everything was replaced by Corazon agenda, and Law would throw his life away for exotic stuff like Dressrosa and One Piece instead of... you know, anything meaningful for Flevance. Or anything meaningful for the oppressed people around the world in general.

So now both Rosi and Law have met bleak ends, paying the price for being complicit in Marines' war crimes and for believing in a Marine's guidance. Just like James Baldwin once said: 'True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.'

[bellherald]

Mr. Doflamingo, no! Just because they lost doesn't mean they deserve it! Might does not make right!!! "The winner is justice" is not good advice!!

It's extremely interesting to me you have reblogged my post with these points when the main thing I address was Cora-san trying to be honest to Law in his last moments before being executed.

For one, we know that Law and Bepo not only got away from Blackbeard but made it somewhere solid and dry enough that Bepo is now properly bandaged and both are presumably recovering. Bepo reacting to the news about the D. is Oda showing us this. Very unhappy, certainly! Perhaps even regretful of the fact, possibly! But Law is still alive and free.

Rocinante has an entire moment about how saving Law was no longer about the D. and that he was doing it just for Law. He never intended to set Law on this path and very purposely wanted Law to choose his own future going forward. Law could've decided to hide away and become a local doctor and Rocinante would've been just as satisfied because that got to be Law's decision.

This whole narrative of Law being a stepping stone for Luffy doesn't click either because Law is not an opponent that Luffy ever had to overcome but instead the continuous helping hand that Luffy refused to let go of in Dressrosa. Doflamingo was the stepping stone. Luffy took Law's hand in his and dragged him over that stone, ascending the steps together all the way to vanquishing Kaido as Luffy had committed with him to do on that snowy mountain top.

We don't know enough about the One Piece but I agree Nika is likely a key to it. This doesn't mean Law was doomed to failure because he was never an enemy for it, he's not aiming for Pirate King. Robin never feared the fact that Law was there learning the secrets of the world alongside them despite being another pirate captain because all of them trust and care about the other. Law tells her his full name. The only time we hear Trafalgar D. Water Law from him as an adult and its sharing that with the Straw Hat's archaeologist. The D. alone is something not to share lightly, but Water was never shared with any of Law's enemies (Sengoku, Doflamingo). Law told Robin because they're not enemies, no matter what bluster he tries to hide that behind in later parting statements. His own crew doesn't believe him either. The alliance was over, yet Bepo and Chopper were still actively working together for the rumble balls. Poetically, these come back around and are the reason Law is still free. That bond with the Straw Hats saved his life.

Shanks took out Barto and Kid for starting problems with his people and attacking those under his protection. Law would not have done that and the Red Haired Pirates know it was he who saved Luffy at Marineford. Beckman even directly intervened against Kizaru to stop him from shooting the Polar Tang. I doubt they'd randomly be hostile to the crew that everyone knows is allied with the Straw Hats for the past few months. Shanks' entire presence in the show has been putting an end to conflict. Maybe Shanks decides they need to clash over the poneglyphs, but he wouldn't leave the Heart Pirates to a potentially watery grave and destroy their ship over it.

Rocinante does feel remorse over the Marines, he literally apologizes to Law for hiding it because he knew it wasn't a good thing now. He knows they've done wrong and will continue to do wrong by Law. That's why he takes advantage of not just Doflamingo but Sengoku too in order to get the opportunity he needs to get the fruit. It's why he says this.

Rosinante was willing to do what he could in order to save lives. As a part of the Marines he wanted to save Dressrosa and stop his brother's evils. But more than anything, he wanted to save Law and that's what he ultimately chose over being a Marine. Like Bell-mère, Rosinante chose a child over duty—breaking the tie to the Marines in order to safeguard the futures of the children who'd suffered due to the Navy's actions. Even if that means fighting the Navy to do so.

Rocinante even has a line explicitly about righting wrongs before that scene of him rejecting the Navy, showing he does feel guilt over what he's done. Over what's been done to Law.

And Rocinante is a dedicated man who literally dies for this. He dies to make sure Law is cured and given a future to decide what do with on his own. The chance for Law to be what Law wants to be.

Cora-san is the reason Law has a life to live and do what he wants with, so to repay that Law feels he is the one that needs to achieve the goal of bringing down Doflamingo on Rosinante's behalf. It's why he was still asking questions even after it was all over and was so affected by Sengoku's very honest answers. That Rosinante didn't want or need anything from Law other than for him to live as he choses.

That is the reason I ended my analysis on it taking Law years to understand Cora-san's honest wishes for him.

I can understand thinking that Rosinante's rejection of the Marines and recognizing their failings came too late, but I fundamentally and wholeheartedly reject the idea that Law somehow gets any karma related to the Navy/WG over being defeated by Blackbeard.

Law doesn't deserve this fate nor price for any of that! Rosinante was not just a Marine and actively worked against them while he was with Law and forfeited the Navy's mission in order to try and save lives—it's Cora-san, the clumsy savior who cared so much for a stranger, that had given Law a life.

In fact, Law's entire presence on the show has been actively breaking the system or using it to break it even more! He's a literal pirate!! Pre-TS, Law is the reason that Straw Hat Luffy escapes Marineford alive and directly spiting the entire fucking Navy while doing it! Just before this he had then freed a Celestial Dragon's slave in front of the Navy. Law interfered in Marineford because the Navy cut the live feed because they wanted to censor information. Post-TS, Law shares that he thinks the Navy are duplicitous and will fake things to get what they want (and he knows this very well). He even gets mad at Smoker and calls out that Navy man for only accepting the surface level perspective while enabling the Navy's schemes.

Law is using his Warlord status as a weapon against Smoker at the start. The entire point of Law being a Warlord in the first place is to bring down the one Warlord abusing the system unrepentantly while pulling strings for the entire underworld. In fact, this is part of what contributes to the Warlord system as a whole being abolished. Because Law weaponized their own system against them, the World Government, in a very direct manner.

Which is another thing, Law does this for oppressed people too. Dressrosa, Zou, and Wano are all places suffering as a result of the tyranny and abuse Law actively takes a stand against and is allied with the Straw Hats to fight. Law is the one that aimed them at Doflamingo and Kaido in the first place. The citizens of Dressrosa are just as much a factor in Law's actions and why he's got such a convoluted plan to remove Doflamingo from the throne in the first place.

Law is consistently shown saving lives. He's a doctor, that is in fact a core part of his character and something important to him. He fundamentally cares about people because it's part of who he is.

Then there's this concept that Law somehow owes it to Flevance to do more than he already is by chasing down one of the entitled evils of the world, freeing thousands of people, and then deciding to confront the fundamental lies of the false premise their history rests on by unraveling true history and the meaning of the Will of D.? All while being an active enemy of the Navy and World Government by proxy of being the Op-op fruit's user and out of their control in tandem with the fact that Law is a pirate. Why is it that "the holocaust survivor didn't do enough to somehow 'attone' for being the only one who survived" is something to hold against Law here? Flevance literally died because of withheld information and Law's consistently shown he hates the manipulation of information and lies, so why wouldn't his new goal of learning the truth of history and himself be more than fair justice to reclaim what happened? Unraveling the truth of what let this monstrous government which killed his people come into power and learning about "the enemy of the gods" which could stand against them? Of which Law himself is?

Law keeps Flevance close to his heart. His shoulder tattoos (and his chest) seem eerily reminiscent of the same type seen on the miners of his hometown as well.

Then being a doctor, which is so important to Law, being how he can carry on the legacy of both his parents. His parents who worked so hard to save lives even when dying of the same disease as their patients. Law surviving and carrying on that work, refusing to let that part of him be ignored or forgotten, is meaningful.

Every breath that Law takes is a celebration that Flevance is not gone, Flevance lives. When that man eventually dies, it will be a tragedy because then that will have been the last person to have been born in the fantasy of the White Town. Law dying being any form of karma for the suffering his people had gone through because he didn't do enough (somehow?) is objectively wrong.

But perhaps the craziest part of all this to me is that Law's defeat (not death, not end) is actually karma! Not for the World Government or the Navy, who Law's continuously undermined and fought, but because that it was Blackbeard! Law ran into the very Yonko he had allied with and had helped consolidate power on Hachinosu island. To then face defeat at the hands of the evil he had inadvertently fed during the timeskip? That's karma!!

Law was only ever as complicit with the World Government or Navy in order to literally stab them in the back and knew it. He didn't believe in a Marine's guidance, Law cared about stopping Doflamingo and saving the lives of the people Cora-san wanted to all those years ago. Rosinante would probably be happier if Law didn't chase after a vendetta with Doflamingo, as it would've certainly been safer. Rosinante became disillusioned and decided that no matter what, he was sticking with this kid he loved and was ready to fight the Navy that had taken him in after the worst of his life. Rosinante made peace with dying, he just wanted to do right by Law.

Rosinante died stating he was a marine but he was not—he died after committing to go against them. But his end was a triumph because Law got away. His lies about working with the Navy to get Law on a ship and out of reach from Doflamingo worked. And all these years later, Law still remembers his smile when he thinks about him.

And Law? This isn't the end. I look forward to seeing him again. I hope he gets to ruin the World Government and the power they hold, as a treat. I hope he is there when we inevitably learn the truth because he is one of the characters that the truth matters to the most.

[avaxbacot]

i’ve seen some parallel of luffy and law being compared to garp and sengoku, and yeah their interactions and dynamics were pretty similar. you can say sengoku treated rosinante like his son (he said it himself), and even though it doesn’t make him a “grandfather” for law (not that rosinante himself was a “father figure” for law, law referred corazon as his benefactor/savior only, not someone that he looked up as a father), there’s still a connection between law and sengoku through rosinante.

and now i’m thinking “wow sengoku was such a fraud”

i’ve seen garp getting his slander enough and he deserved it, i think sengoku deserved his lashing too because i wasn’t seeing enough, not helping that i’ve been seeing a lot of marine propaganda on twitter lately for some weird reasons (i can understand if people like some marine characters but the tweets sound like actual world government propaganda, i don’t know if it’s a satire or what but yeah some people are actually serious lol)

from the doffy-law-cora flashback, we learned that sengoku found rosinante as a kid and he adopted him, and later rosinante turned into becoming a marine. i’ve seen some takes about how rosinante should be a revolutionary instead, the reason i’ve seen is because he’s the opposite of his brother that obviously loved being a celestial dragon and wanted to gain all that glory back, but in the end of the day rosinante became a marine, an opposite of doflamingo who was a pirate. 

and it got me thinking…. i feel like there’s no scene where rosinante even said or thought that the celestial dragon was in the wrong side of history, he never acknowledged “yeah i was born a celestial dragon and they’re all monsters”, he only ever referred doffy as THE monster specifically, he even said that his parents were kind people (i mean he’s not wrong), and don’t get me wrong, rosinante was a good person (okay hot take here, he’s indeed a good person but he’s not the kindest either, he’s pretty fucked in the head too lol), but the only time he made a reference to his CD root was when he mentioned about the will of D being the enemies of gods, and that’s it—and to note law himself wasn’t aware that the “gods” were meant to be the CD, he just found out doflamingo and rosinante were one 13 years later.

so yeah, rosinante was a marine commander, sengoku claimed that rosinante had a strong sense in justice so then he became a marine, but i mean we didn’t even know the details of it, like in the end rosinante still worked under the government that served the CD, the group he was a part of but then abandoned him. rosinante sure was not like doflamingo and definitely grew up to have compassion to others, but he never explicitly said he was completely against the CD as a whole either, most of his anger towards doflamingo was personal, he was younger than doflamingo that he might understand less about what’s  going on in their childhood, he was just sure that he didn’t want to be like his brother and chose a different path. i can see that he still had a little bias, but i didn’t mean in it in a way that rosinante still thought it was okay to have slave when he grew up, he just believed becoming a marine was the right path because he grew up seeing sengoku as his role model, it never really came through him that the marine was still the institution that worked under the CD.

i am also 100% sure that sengoku was the one who actually convinced rosinante to take a path as a marine like he was because he believed it was the true “justice”, just like how garp did to his son and grandsons. remember that garp, sengoku, and tsuru were the legends of the marine, the three of them were long time friends who had been through so much together and you could see they tried to get their family into the marine: garp tried but he failed, tsuru was confirmed to have a granddaughter who was a marine (maybe her child was also a marine), and sengoku had rosinante as a marine. sengoku taught rosinante his views and as a kid rosinante believed the marine was the justice, why not? sengoku saved him and raised him like a son, it was a noble job, unlike his brother, he would also become one because sengoku made him believe it was the right choice.

then we learned that garp didn’t like the CD, he didn’t even want to be an admiral because if he did he would have to work directly under them. it got me thinking, since garp and sengoku (also tsuru) were friends and it seemed like they actually shared the same views and values, it meant that sengoku didn’t really like the CD either right? like who the hell in their right mind—especially with how prideful they were about the true justice—seeing a slavery in front of their eyes and thought “oh yeah it wasn’t a problem since the ones who did the slavery was the noble i worked for”? be for real. but sengoku actually took the admiral position and then became a fleet admiral, so he did work under the CD directly. we never knew how he actually felt about it, but if he also shared the same values and beliefs as garp, was he not a bit ashamed? he might have conflicted feelings about it too maybe?

ooppss, sorry forget that he never questioned the government wrongdoings lmao.

all those decades working as a marine and even reached the highest position, he never thought to change the system at all, just followed orders that were given, and the conclusion he got before retiring was “yeah i’m tired of this shit, i’m out”. but he….. didn’t completely out, did he? he was still working under the marine as what… some senior inspector general or something like that. if i were him i would be just completely out tbh especially on that age, like there’s no reason for me to still be connected with the marine, and don’t tell me someone as influential as him couldn’t escape the marine because the world government wouldn’t let him, if kuzan could do that i thought it wasn’t a problem, sengoku could definitely retire and be out of the marine for good. did he still think he might have a chance to change it ? he couldn’t even do that as FLEET ADMIRAL. or maybe he just liked still being involved with them? you are near the graveyard just fucking retire old man, go to some nice island in south blue, get a new hobby that is not war crime.

then i remember about rosinante again. rosinante had told sengoku about his mission to cure law’s disease and it made him to stop spying the donquixote family in awhile. we already know what happened next, with the ope ope no mi, doflamingo killed rosinante, and law ran away.

i believed the event of the ope ope no mi was the turning point for rosinante. when law asked him if he was a marine, he lied “I’M NOT A DAMN MARINE” for the reason that we learned later he didn’t want law to hate him. he was also aware that he would be an enemy of everyone if he stole the ope ope no mi, including the marine, the institution he worked for, the institution he once believed was justice. but in the end he chose to betray it for a sick annoying kid he didn’t even get along with, just because he cared about law, and of course rosinante grew to love law. i also believe, at this moment, rosinante finally realized how flawed and unfair the system was, after 6 months trying to find a cure for a sick child, seeing he got rejected and even insulted because the propaganda about the amber lead that was spread by the world government, he genuinely felt hurt for the kid, he’s ready to betray not only doflamingo but also the marine, because he knew both sides had failed law, and he didn’t hesitate to do the right thing after he realized he wasn’t actually on the “right” side as he always thought he was.

but even after that event, sengoku, who seemed to be really sad over his son’s death,  didn’t even do anything regarding that? if he actually cared and loved rosinante, wouldn’t he search for a kid that rosinante tried to save? he was an admiral at that point, he had the power and the connection to do that. but nope, he did nothing. and then i think maybe it was for the best because if sengoku actually found law and raised him, he would also make him a marine, especially with having that ope ope no mi power, there’s no way the world government would let go of law. but still, it just made sengoku look like he didn’t even try to do something as what he valued for.

and don’t get me started with how the hell he couldn’t do anything about doflamingo being a warlord. okay maybe he really couldn’t do anything since all those secrets doffy knew about mary geoise, but really? after all that he still kept working in that corrupt institution without even trying to change a bit of it? rosinante, his son, whom he raised, didn’t even hesitate to leave the marine and indirectly disobeying his dad’s wishes just to do the right thing, but why it was so hard for sengoku to do the same thing? maybe sengoku was right, rosinante indeed had the true justice in him but it wasn’t just about being a damn marine. 

i would give sengoku a credit that he didn’t capture law and let him free, he also told law about how he didn’t need to find a reason why rosinante loved him, i still think it was the most beautiful thing to say and law needed that. but beside that, he’s just as fraudulent as garp, maybe that’s why they are besties. i know i know, these characterization was actually not unrealistic, it is actually very realistic for garp and sengoku, a lot of people in authority thought they did something right or tried to change the system from the inside just to end up doing nothing, and it what makes them interesting as characters. but i will still call them a fraud because i can, this is what agenda piece for right?