ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
WB was present in Marineford, yet Akainu was clearly concerned with killing Dragons Son

Regardless if you think its a personal connection or not, in the story oda connected him to dragon, otherwise he would not forced it that much

also post-ts they occupy the same role narratively, sitting and doing nothing


Hell in egghead they even failed to stop Kuma page for page lmao
WB was a walking dead man. Akainu was not interested one bit in a relic from the past who came to MF to die. This is why after shaving off half his head he dug an underground tunnel to get to the two people that mattered.

He was hellbent on two things. Kill Roger's seed, and kill Dragon's seed. He was focused on the future.
 
WB was a walking dead man. Akainu was not interested one bit in a relic from the past. This is why after shaving off half his head he dug an underground tunnel to get to the two people that mattered.

He was hellbent on two things. Kill Roger's seed, and kill Dragon's seed. He was focused on the future.
Did he refered to ace as rogers son or ace?
There you have your answer
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
Did he refered to ace as rogers son or ace?
There you have your answer
Ace was not a rookie pirate he was well established. Akainu referring to Luffy by his father is a reference to him being too weak for the Marineford war. It's a sign of disrespect, he was not even worthy of being called by his own name. You will not see Akainu refer to Luffy like this post timeskip. He's been calling him Strawhat.
 
Ace was not a rookie pirate he was well established. Akainu referring to Luffy by his father is a reference to him being too weak for the Marineford war. It's a sign of disrespect, he was not even worthy of being called by his own name. You will not see Akainu refer to Luffy like this post timeskip. He's been calling him Strawhat.
But you just argued he was laser focused on Ace and Luffy only cause they are the future, whats Ace being a weakling that does even lose to pre-ts bb matter?
I dont know you can interpret it this way, for me its clear that oda conencting dragon narrativly to akainu, the strucutre i already mentioned it post-ts supports that aswell
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
@kekaro I'm not saying there can't be a connection between Dragon and Akainh. Just that Marineford is a weak connection at best. It can easily just be Akainu naturally referring to Luffy as Dragon's son for the reasons I stated.

Could there be something more? Maybe...does there have to be? Absolutely not.
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
But you just argued he was laser focused on Ace and Luffy only cause they are the future, whats Ace being a weakling that does even lose to pre-ts bb matter?
I dont know you can interpret it this way, for me its clear that oda conencting dragon narrativly to akainu, the strucutre i already mentioned it post-ts supports that aswell
Nope you missed the point. Ace was not seen as a wet behind the ears weakling. He was a quite respected commander of the WBP. Akainu was nipping the future potentials in the bud, does not mean they were in the same exact stage of their careers.

Luffy was supposed to be portrayed as a toddler in the MF war. This was intentional. Oda wants to show his readers that Luffy wasn't ready for this stage. Akainu not even referring to him by his name was intentional disrespect. He was not worthy of it yet.
 
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