#and Garp is stated to be one of the pillars preserving peace not unlike how Whitebeard also did | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

zeravmeta · 1 year ago

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we give garp a lot of (rightly deserved) shit but unironically like 90% of the criticisms towards him i see not only ignore the wider worldbuilding context of one piece but also don't acknowledge how sengoku is like the worst friend ever

#like in the world of OP its fully acknowledged and present that most pirates are like Kidd (ie violent against normal citizens)#and Garp is stated to be one of the pillars preserving peace not unlike how Whitebeard also did #but even then theres like 4 moments in marineford off the top of my head where garp WAS gonna betray the Marines #and it was Sengoku holding him back snd trapping him each time #and even beyond all this one of the themes behind marineford is that they all chose their paths and have to live with the consequences #luffy and ace chose their paths knowing full well it would make garp their enemy and garp had his hands tied entirely at marineford #and even then garp let luffy pass him!! garp could have easily stopped luffy and didn't. like he did choose them in the end as well #anyways garp does absolutely deserve a sock in the jaw because he strikes me as someone who wanted to change the system from the inside #but he failed. and like for all that koby and smoker are 'good' marines theres also not nearly the same amount of criticism towards them for #yknow. working for the marines knowing full well theyre a horrible organization #in any case i want to punch garp and strangle sengoku. oh ace is too evil to leave alive but law is perfectly ok huh sengoku????#one piece #zerav meta #garp

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