You literally cannot read a story if you think Rocks was a "villain" and not an antihero. He's basically "what if blackbeard was luffy". Whole flashback was him fighting for noble reasons like friendship and family and robbing corrupt institutions that stole from the poor. He's pirate robin hood...
They didn't break out of his control, they embraced instincts for violence and just turned towards each other + their duel. They're still domi reversid.
Rocks himself broke out of Imu's control more, because he was in demon form still talking and fighting against the WG for a minute.
dory and brogy killed each other off the rip with no haki and rocks was fighting for his life and was killed by the strongest pirate and the strongest marine going all out in a combined ACoC attack. he probably just came back more hurt because of that.
the only real inconsistency so far is why...
i think it's actually very likely that he had the full concept down from chapter 1. the ONLY inconsistency in the depiction of haki is the absence of Armament Hardening before pre-timeskip. this can be handwaved by saying "armament hardening is just one technique, and you happened to not see it"...
that panel seems very obvious in retrospect to have been about haki. crocodile's face is in panic, as if he's going this kid with a low bounty in paradise has good armament?? he learns it's water on the next page and laughs, he's relieved. If he always thought it was water he wouldn't have...
luffy says they have haki. franky just has haki.
he suplexes a random guy in wano and there are black sparks. he picks up caribou in fishman island. he probably has haki.
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red king is a vice admiral. all vice admirals are required to know haki
similarly, i dont think Shamrock's sword has the Cerberus fruit. That's just actually possessed by a demon. None of the "Demon" forms of the Gorosei or Cerebus got "devil fruit" titles, they just got the demon names.
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