Just think about it. most of the old legends never bothered to have kids except Roger and Garp, and they all lived fine thanks to that.
Rayleigh?
Sengoku?
All single.
But when you decide to have a kid as a wanted pirate, and not even bother to hide his identity, then you’re just asking for him to be used as a hostage against you.
Whitebeard took Ace as his son, and he died because of that.
Colon so far had ZERO plot relevance or narrative impact on the story besides “oh wow look he’s the child of Gaban” and that’s it.
Oda is clearly gonna use him as a plot tool to hinder his father (who’s already older and weaker anyway).
All so he could keep the fake tension and stakes with the Holy Knights going. Otherwise, those Hax regen merchants should be getting low diffed one by one vs a top tier.
tl;dr: Gaban is getting hostage diffed soon
Rayleigh?
Sengoku?
All single.
But when you decide to have a kid as a wanted pirate, and not even bother to hide his identity, then you’re just asking for him to be used as a hostage against you.
Whitebeard took Ace as his son, and he died because of that.
Colon so far had ZERO plot relevance or narrative impact on the story besides “oh wow look he’s the child of Gaban” and that’s it.
Oda is clearly gonna use him as a plot tool to hinder his father (who’s already older and weaker anyway).
All so he could keep the fake tension and stakes with the Holy Knights going. Otherwise, those Hax regen merchants should be getting low diffed one by one vs a top tier.
tl;dr: Gaban is getting hostage diffed soon

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