Hey, I'm having a bad time trying to sleep, and so I thought something that may help with the root issue of why I struggle to sleep is to talk about One Piece, and I have decided, I will talk about why I love Yamato
Before I go into the main reasons, I would like to ask you to please look into this with my perspective, that is, of someone who for the large majority of their life has been abused and mistreated physically and mentally by their family and the people around them, as that does heavily influence I think my perspective on Yamato
I just realised this, but if there is any one conqueror aspect I would give to Yamato, like Zoro's conqueror's haki being brought by his desire to become the world's strongest swordsman, it is faith/hope, but I would say faith is hope
Yamato's faith and hope
A little child, inspired by Oden, by his sacrifice, and the future promise of the people being saved, was still afraid of being in a dark room
But her father left her there, and not just in the darkness she feared, he also had her chained up, a little child, chained by her dad, and left to starve
And for her faith and hope, she was rewarded with food and a partial freedom by the Wano samurai,
She then trained for 20 years, assuming that she was 8 years old when Oden passed away, I don't remember if that was the case, and despite not being able to leave Wano, she refused to submit to her dad's evil offers, she refused to become a dictator over Wano as shogun, and her faith was again rewarded with her meeting with Ace, even though she suffered a lot later because of it, due to Ace's mistake of following his pride
Look at the frustratrion and doubt and hesitancy in her eyes, in both of these situations, as if she doubts her hope is really being rewarded by meeting Ace, as if she is frustratred with him having a firey attitude and pushing back to her first conversation attempts with him, and as if she hesitates about her identity when she is called Kaido's daughter
I think you can see all three of them appear as you look at those three expressions, the first is the doubt, the second is the doubt and the frustratrion, and the third expression ^ shows all three
"
Ace: FORGET ABOUT THE CUFFS...WHY DO YOU LET HIM CHAIN YOUR HEART TOO?!
Yamato: WHAT?!!
"
And, her faith and hope really was rewarded
Yamato's pure happiness at being able to hear of the possibilities of living freely and her experiencing the beginings of the reward of her hopeful faith
Again, please remember, this is a person who has been hit, abused, starved, chained, by her dad, and inspired by his enemy to live a life opposied to his authoritarian ways, and help the people live free, for 20 years
A living nightmare day to day, for 20 years, and she kept being hopeful and having faith for the future
And thank God she did, because if she didn't, the raid on Onigashima would not have suceeded and the dawn of the world would not come
I have made a post before saying that Yamato's fight with Kaido is beautiful, personally for me, every single point of that fight beat for beat word for word I and many people have experienced in our struggles with abuse
https://worstgen.alwaysdata.net/forum/threads/yamatos-fight-is-so-beautiful.60326/
Colouring by RaphaelDslt on imgur
https://www.deviantart.com/raphaeldslt/art/Kaido-vs-Yamato-ONE-PIECE-1024-891162470
And fortunately she is helping train Momonosuke and Wano's samurai so that the country's forces will be strong enough to defend from other pirates and from the world governement, after which she will hopefully join the crew
And so in my opinion, Yamato is amazingly incredible and a very good example of overcoming darkness using hope and walking by faith,
Before I go into the main reasons, I would like to ask you to please look into this with my perspective, that is, of someone who for the large majority of their life has been abused and mistreated physically and mentally by their family and the people around them, as that does heavily influence I think my perspective on Yamato
I just realised this, but if there is any one conqueror aspect I would give to Yamato, like Zoro's conqueror's haki being brought by his desire to become the world's strongest swordsman, it is faith/hope, but I would say faith is hope
Yamato's faith and hope
A little child, inspired by Oden, by his sacrifice, and the future promise of the people being saved, was still afraid of being in a dark room
But her father left her there, and not just in the darkness she feared, he also had her chained up, a little child, chained by her dad, and left to starve
And for her faith and hope, she was rewarded with food and a partial freedom by the Wano samurai,
She then trained for 20 years, assuming that she was 8 years old when Oden passed away, I don't remember if that was the case, and despite not being able to leave Wano, she refused to submit to her dad's evil offers, she refused to become a dictator over Wano as shogun, and her faith was again rewarded with her meeting with Ace, even though she suffered a lot later because of it, due to Ace's mistake of following his pride
Look at the frustratrion and doubt and hesitancy in her eyes, in both of these situations, as if she doubts her hope is really being rewarded by meeting Ace, as if she is frustratred with him having a firey attitude and pushing back to her first conversation attempts with him, and as if she hesitates about her identity when she is called Kaido's daughter
I think you can see all three of them appear as you look at those three expressions, the first is the doubt, the second is the doubt and the frustratrion, and the third expression ^ shows all three
"
Ace: FORGET ABOUT THE CUFFS...WHY DO YOU LET HIM CHAIN YOUR HEART TOO?!
Yamato: WHAT?!!
"
And, her faith and hope really was rewarded
Yamato's pure happiness at being able to hear of the possibilities of living freely and her experiencing the beginings of the reward of her hopeful faith
Again, please remember, this is a person who has been hit, abused, starved, chained, by her dad, and inspired by his enemy to live a life opposied to his authoritarian ways, and help the people live free, for 20 years
A living nightmare day to day, for 20 years, and she kept being hopeful and having faith for the future
And thank God she did, because if she didn't, the raid on Onigashima would not have suceeded and the dawn of the world would not come
I have made a post before saying that Yamato's fight with Kaido is beautiful, personally for me, every single point of that fight beat for beat word for word I and many people have experienced in our struggles with abuse
https://worstgen.alwaysdata.net/forum/threads/yamatos-fight-is-so-beautiful.60326/
Colouring by RaphaelDslt on imgur
https://www.deviantart.com/raphaeldslt/art/Kaido-vs-Yamato-ONE-PIECE-1024-891162470
And fortunately she is helping train Momonosuke and Wano's samurai so that the country's forces will be strong enough to defend from other pirates and from the world governement, after which she will hopefully join the crew
And so in my opinion, Yamato is amazingly incredible and a very good example of overcoming darkness using hope and walking by faith,
