#like. knowing oda’s story preferences? i wouldn’t be surprised if mihawk had a sibling who was taken hostage by the marines and it went bad

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

The same anon! I don’t mean powerscalers! I hate them so much. I meant normal fans who theorise about emotions too, they’re just more… traditional? and not there for shipping. Ughhh it’s hard to give thema name, so I just decided to put “typical” and not powerscaler? You know those good Reddit posts?

“he would’ve found a way to get away from the marines without taking crocodile up on his offer” this is the part I’m not sure about because I’m worried Oda did it mostly because he wants mihawk in zoro fight so he needs to make him stick around.

And the other part I don’t read Mihawk as wanting to be just left alone, he read to me as someone who wants specific type of a person? You know. Someone who can make him have some fun? Like he is loner and I can’t imagine him in a typical crew but he does seek out a lot of people constantly? Like he’s introvert but not complete “LEAVE ME ALL ALONE”? Never got that vibe from him… he’s just bored with most people or don’t think of them as worthy

(the previous ask)

sorry for misunderstanding, anon! i don’t really go to reddit for fandom stuff, so i’m not at all familiar with that type of fan or the way they talk about mihawk.

as to your second paragraph: i’m not really interested in bringing oda’s motivations into this. one piece is a series where i don’t care about the doylist perspective very much, i want to dig into character motivations for their own sake, and not dismiss it as “well, the endgame is approaching, so mihawk has to appear on screen a few times, that way when he and zoro get their big fight it isn’t coming out of nowhere.” that may be true, but i find it takes the fun out of things to reduce side characters to props in service to the protagonists’ story.

and re: your third paragraph: yeah, IMO boredom more than dislike is the right way to think about it. he’s kind of like the great monk on the mountaintop, for years and years everyone who approached him was after the same thing (a fight to prove they’re stronger than him), who wouldn’t get bored by that eventually? especially when none of them are stronger, not even close, and none seem to have any potential to get close. (until…)

it seems to me that, if mihawk ever had close relationships before he was The Greatest Swordsman (other than rivals and witnesses to those rivalries), either those people died or their bond died. i’ve been assuming that someone close to mihawk was killed by the marines because of him, leading him to both keep his distance from ppl and acquire his marine-killer title in revenge—but i acknowledge that’s fully a headcanon. it makes sense to me, but it’s just a theory, and it’ll stay that way unless (until?) we get detailed mihawk backstory in canon.