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decided to make a seperate blog for actual posts. main is reposts

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i just realised that there’s a small lighthouse/tower on the top of the baratie in the LA which makes it easier to see at night along with the other lights which. is such a nice addition?? because ofc zeff would want hungry sailors to find their way to the baratie during both night and day

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man thinking once again of what an aro dream one piece is. what if *i* want to be able to travel the seas with my friends, where we all love and care for each other immensely and the only romance we’re having is the Romance of Adventure.

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ohhhh em gee ive finally begun wano and holy shit. it is So Good. not that i expected anything less but agahskdkfhxofkjcc i have so many thoughts and feelings

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thinking of that scene where marco was crying next to cat viper. this man has lost so fucking much.

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never gonna stop w my aro luffy and zoro agenda

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hmm thinking abt how the giants are the only characters in one piece who we do not see explicitly experience racism, and that is probably only because they are the most useful to marines in terms of military might

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holy shit i just realised that the scars on Lucci’s back are in the shape of the symbol of the world government

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i feel as though we dont talk enough abt this scene in punk hazard. This is why Zoro is seen as the unnoficial first mate: he is always reminding luffy of his responsibility as captain during important moments. He did it during water 7/ennies lobby, and he does it here too. Zoro saying this is the *only* reason why Luffy survives the fight with Monet. otherwise, he wouldve died. And (if im remembering correctly) Sanji in this scene is literally talking abt how harsh Zoro is on himself. He smiles so much less post time skip than he does pre, and u can see him shouldering the responsibility that hes placed on himself as one of the strongest on the crew. I think a good video that talks abt this somewhat is MelonTees’ video called “Zoro and the anxiety of strength” (or smthing like that). Agh i just love Zoro and i love this scene.

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so. i just finished WCI and i have THOUGHTS. theres literally no one here to listen to them but man. i just needed to get them OUT. bcs i feel this is something ive seen no one talk abt/do an analysis of so. here i am. anywho, see, in whole cake island, with the reveal of big moms backstory, we learn smthing kinda huge?? Like, it’s not surprising given everything we know of the world government, but the *implications* of it are. What we learn, right, is that big mom grew up in this orphanage run by mother caramel, but then we also learn that mother caramel is a *child trafficker* planning on *selling the children to the world government* to be used as marines. The marines use CHILD SOLDIERS along w whoever else they recruit w their propaganda. They literally say that the best thing abt using orphans is that they create great CP agents since they don’t have any past to be traced back to.

So it begs the question, how many of the cipher pol agents we’ve seen are children who’ve been trafficked from ppl like mother caramel? Or any of the marines for that matter. When she’s bargaining w the world government representative and talking to them abt how she isn’t scamming them bcs linlin really is that naturally strong as a six year old and has the potential to even become an *admiral* it’s like?? Ur telling me these trafficked children could be at any rank and position in the marines currently?? Knowing this completely recontextualises some of ennies lobby/water seven. Like, Rob Lucci could’ve been one of these orphans turned child soldier?? Like in his flashback we see him at 13 years old, already working as a cipher pol agent and killing people.

He could’ve been groomed to be the perfect weapon for the government just like we saw mother caramel attempting to do w big mom, but *worse* since in his case, it actually succeeded. Like. Just how many of them are child soldiers man. It’s so. And then what makes this even more interesting is taking this and comparing it with the revolutionary army.

The revolutionaries are a huge organisation working to take down the world government, w their whole thing being to liberate oppressed people. They’re the main thing directly opposing the world government in universe, and while a lot of people also oppose the world government (read: luffy and everything he does) theyre the only ones who’s whole goal and existence is for it. And also the only ones who like selflessly pursue it. They’re a nice foil to the world government, but what oda does that is great is that he shows that they’re not perfect either. Sabo, for example, we see him being picked up by them as a child.

While at first he seems like the exception, not the rule, bcs Iva and some of the others protest his joining since he’s a child, we see later in the training scene that there are a bunch of other children being trained there too, and koala only joins a few years after sabo, also as a child. There is this implication that the RA *also* uses child soldiers which is so. Interesting to think abt. I feel like a fair amount of them are slaves and stuff they’ve liberated too, if we’re going off of koala, before joining. (Tbf tho, she was liberated by fisher tiger and joined like a year or so after returning home but still). I like that while we’re shown time and time again the fault of the world government, the RA is not exempt from being morally gray, and I think it’s interesting to compare Rob Lucci and Sabo, two people who could be seen as child soldiers, and who are extremely powerful in general but also in their respective organisations, and wonder. How much of this has been indoctrination, and how much of this is free thought?