I was watching someone’s video and they were discussing how Rocks is a bad person. It made me think of how I said he’s not the evil person he’s painted as. I think they made some really good points.
Rocks is a very charismatic guy who also knows the truth of the world. He daringly entered Maregoise and even met Imu face to face and wasn’t scared of them. As a matter of fact, Rocks even threatened Imu.
The world government is bad. They are evil. They’re much worse to us the readers and watchers but because Rocks stood up to them, kept trying to warn Harald about the government, and cares about his family, to the audience, to me, he didn’t seem like this evil person he’s painted out to be.
Then, I get hit with the facts. He stabbed a child, doesn’t matter that that child was a giant, they’re still a child. Rocks destroyed cities, Rocks has murdered people.
None of these things show a good person.
They explained how it’s very easy to get caught up in the charismatic character who stands up/ is against the far worse character/ entities who are the antagonist/s. At the end of the day, Rocks is a pirate, and pirates aren’t for the most part, good people. There are pirates that don’t go around destroying cities, villages etc, like the Strawhats, The Whitebeard pirates, the Red Haired Pirates, Brook’s old pirate crew. That’s only maybe a handful of pirate crews. I like Rocks. I like his character a lot. He’s a family man, someone who would rather die than bow to Imu, wanted his friend to see how corrupt the government is but he’s also someone who has no problem destroying cities-where innocent people live- hurting his friend’s child, has people like Big Mom, Kaido, Shiki on his crew and we know these are people who have no problem doing terrible things to people. Ida even said she would’ve warned Harald not to make a friend like Rocks.
It makes sense Ida didn’t like him around Harald. When Ida and Harald met their beliefs clashed. Being around Ida and her teaching him to treat others with respect, allowed Harald to see where she was coming from and he started to change for the better. So, of course she wouldn’t like someone like Rocks who not only hurt Loki but reminds her of the old Harald.
It reminds me of something Itachi said. That people live based of perspectives, that each of us lives by our individual knowledge and our awareness, all of that is what we call reality.
Also what Doflamingo said about good and evil concerning marines and pirates.
Yes, the marines have and do, do terrible, disgusting things. The world government and celestial dragons are sick creatures. It makes me think of Punk Hazard when the G-5 marines put up that barrier and started shouting pirates evil, marines good. It would anger most of us because we’ve just watched how the supposed evil pirates saved children’s lives from Ceaser. Ceaser who was backed by Doflamingo who was backed by the world government and marines due to the warlord system. The warlord system didn’t do any good to most civilians and on three separate occasions, we’re seeing a pirate group save these kingdoms from the warlords ruling them.
However, I could understand why the G-5 marines and Smoker felt the way they did about pirates. Most pirate crews are not the Strawhats. What they normally face are “pirates who do pirate shit.” Setting villages on fire, stealing from people, murdering civilians, kidnapping. Here they are, cleaning up pirates’ mess. Saving people from those pirates. It’s what they’re used to. It’s why they firmly believe pirates are bad, and I can’t blame them.
Both sides have good reason to believe the other is evil. The marine and world government looks worse in our eyes because they proclaim in they’re good, righteous, upstanding people. They’re hypocrites. However, there’s many marines who do care about the people, who help.
Then there are pirates who have protected people where the marines haven’t.
Some people’s reality is facing tragedy by the hands of their supposed saviours, and others receive salvation at the hands of their supposed oppressors.
Point of it all when it comes to Rocks is that. We see that he met Imu was unafraid, he warned Harald about the world government, he cared for and protected his family (I mean it’s what he’s supposed to do anyway). However, for those in the OP world, he’s a murderer, he’s killed loved ones. A lot or most of us see Rocks the same way Loki does, but to many civilians, he’s evil, dirty pirate.
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