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The guy is growing on me. Let me in 
I really respect his attitude last chapter and his actions, he's genuinely a hero but he has shown himself to be in past chapters too tbf ofc. I guess he really is more of a pacifist, strategic/chessmaster type after all, more defensive and cautious. He's a perfect contrast to Garp in many ways.
Yeah absolutely! Completely agree with that. I'm not sure how to explain it/why but I agree that Dragon is a much more enjoyable version too.
I've really grown to dislike Koby due to his recent attitude and such. The fact we know far more about Dragon than even Koby doesn't help lmao.
Aye, Dragon has become a lot more fascinating lately, Oda is sort of compensating for Dragon's inactivity and reluctance now. His present day attitude makes a lot more sense now, the guy must be immensely traumatised by the God's Valley incident and almost dying there.
When he met Vegapunk on Ohara, he was mentioned to be with a freedom fighters organisation before starting the RA and I wonder who was involved with that and why it fell apart and such. Why he felt the need to start up the RA instead. Also the whole mystery of Luffy's mother too.
Dragon has the potential to be one of the most best written characters and maybe even fathers too (extremely low bar on the latter there ofc) in OP and anime and I've never been more excited to learn more about him than I am now. I remember thinking he was the coolest damn bastard when he saved Luffy from Smoker at Loguetown and also him saving the people of Goa too. Also the theories of him making that lightning strike the gallows where Buggy was about to kill Luffy.
I suspect there's gonna be a twist in Blackbeard attacking Baltigo too, maybe he knows Dragon saved Shanks and Shamrock back on GV from Shanks himself or some other way somehow (although I have no idea how he'd find out otherwise) but I think an interaction between Dragon and Blackbeard would be so fascinating, as both can be seen as "freedom fighters" and showcase sides of rebellion/anarchy and such? "Rational/structured liberation vs total freedom/anarchy"? Something like that? Order/discipline vs extremism?
Some bonus stuff I also did whilst soundboarding with AI and trying to format my ideas better, to express them more cohesively and such:
Also that moment Shaka/Vegapunk contacting Dragon and telling him he's gonna "die soon" has lived rent free in my head for such a long time now. It really added a ton of depth to both characters even though Dragon was all "..." for the absolute majority of the time, but it shows he's more of a thinker, a philosopher, strategist and he was processing what Shaka said and didn't want to just give empty air so to speak, platitudes and false promises.
For what's it worth, I like Dragon's apparent humility, I am strongly drawn to humble characters who have open flaws and are aware of them ideally and Dragon gives those vibes at least. He knows he's made mistakes, he has regrets, his speech before Maffey almost killed him spoke volumes of his true character and there's the infamous timeless saying that people reveal their true characters in dire times or on the verge of death even and that's exactly what he did there. Dragon is a good man, he is noble, virtuous, self sacrificing and I've been way too hard on him in the past. I'm not gonna slander him anymore, he has my respect a lot more now and his character is growing on me a lot again.
He's such a "realistically" written character in such a chaotic, unhinged, tonally extreme series that is absolutely batshit weird too and thus he brings that sort of grounded touch we desperately need, that sort of humanity as you said @Jackteo , a simple, ordinary person trying to survive and save others against terrifying, unstoppable titans of unimaginable strengths, bloodlust, greed, durability, destructive power, immorality (not to be confused with immortality but immortality does apply to the holy knights and gorosei especially somewhat ofc) etc.
I really wanna see Dragon interact with both Garling and Saturn in this flashback ideally somehow, but especially Garp most of all. Garp is so vainglorious, he's like All Might without the humility or closer to Endeavour or something?
Dragon's character in a nutshell lol:
You know to think of it....we still need Akainu's flashback and to learn why he hates Dragon so much, to the point of trying to kill Luffy and single him out....
Dragon's time in the Marines can't be up yet? There must be more?
Also I find it interesting that a slave hunt ended when Garling reported his findings about God's Valley to the Gorosei, where was that slave hunt and thus who do we know was involved with it and potentially a victim of it?
Akainu apparently joined the Marines at 23, which is 32 years before current time in the story. So Dragon has PLENTY of years left in the Marines yet?
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I've really grown to dislike Koby due to his recent attitude and such. The fact we know far more about Dragon than even Koby doesn't help lmao.
Aye, Dragon has become a lot more fascinating lately, Oda is sort of compensating for Dragon's inactivity and reluctance now. His present day attitude makes a lot more sense now, the guy must be immensely traumatised by the God's Valley incident and almost dying there.
When he met Vegapunk on Ohara, he was mentioned to be with a freedom fighters organisation before starting the RA and I wonder who was involved with that and why it fell apart and such. Why he felt the need to start up the RA instead. Also the whole mystery of Luffy's mother too.
Dragon has the potential to be one of the most best written characters and maybe even fathers too (extremely low bar on the latter there ofc) in OP and anime and I've never been more excited to learn more about him than I am now. I remember thinking he was the coolest damn bastard when he saved Luffy from Smoker at Loguetown and also him saving the people of Goa too. Also the theories of him making that lightning strike the gallows where Buggy was about to kill Luffy.
I suspect there's gonna be a twist in Blackbeard attacking Baltigo too, maybe he knows Dragon saved Shanks and Shamrock back on GV from Shanks himself or some other way somehow (although I have no idea how he'd find out otherwise) but I think an interaction between Dragon and Blackbeard would be so fascinating, as both can be seen as "freedom fighters" and showcase sides of rebellion/anarchy and such? "Rational/structured liberation vs total freedom/anarchy"? Something like that? Order/discipline vs extremism?
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Some bonus stuff I also did whilst soundboarding with AI and trying to format my ideas better, to express them more cohesively and such:
Also that moment Shaka/Vegapunk contacting Dragon and telling him he's gonna "die soon" has lived rent free in my head for such a long time now. It really added a ton of depth to both characters even though Dragon was all "..." for the absolute majority of the time, but it shows he's more of a thinker, a philosopher, strategist and he was processing what Shaka said and didn't want to just give empty air so to speak, platitudes and false promises.
For what's it worth, I like Dragon's apparent humility, I am strongly drawn to humble characters who have open flaws and are aware of them ideally and Dragon gives those vibes at least. He knows he's made mistakes, he has regrets, his speech before Maffey almost killed him spoke volumes of his true character and there's the infamous timeless saying that people reveal their true characters in dire times or on the verge of death even and that's exactly what he did there. Dragon is a good man, he is noble, virtuous, self sacrificing and I've been way too hard on him in the past. I'm not gonna slander him anymore, he has my respect a lot more now and his character is growing on me a lot again.
He's such a "realistically" written character in such a chaotic, unhinged, tonally extreme series that is absolutely batshit weird too and thus he brings that sort of grounded touch we desperately need, that sort of humanity as you said @Jackteo , a simple, ordinary person trying to survive and save others against terrifying, unstoppable titans of unimaginable strengths, bloodlust, greed, durability, destructive power, immorality (not to be confused with immortality but immortality does apply to the holy knights and gorosei especially somewhat ofc) etc.
I really wanna see Dragon interact with both Garling and Saturn in this flashback ideally somehow, but especially Garp most of all. Garp is so vainglorious, he's like All Might without the humility or closer to Endeavour or something?
Dragon's character in a nutshell lol:
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You know to think of it....we still need Akainu's flashback and to learn why he hates Dragon so much, to the point of trying to kill Luffy and single him out....
Dragon's time in the Marines can't be up yet? There must be more?
Also I find it interesting that a slave hunt ended when Garling reported his findings about God's Valley to the Gorosei, where was that slave hunt and thus who do we know was involved with it and potentially a victim of it?
Akainu apparently joined the Marines at 23, which is 32 years before current time in the story. So Dragon has PLENTY of years left in the Marines yet?
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You guys might enjoy reading through this too:
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