When it was revealed Garp teamed up with Roger to defeat Xebec, most of the community assumed there must have been some secret behind GV. That Rocks must have been so evil, so dangerous, that it actually warranted Garp and Roger teaming up to fight a greater evil. After all, Garp and Roger are the good guys… right?
I think Oda subverted our expectations. From the looks of it Rocks, while brutal, is hardly more evil than any other pirate. At the end of the day, he didn’t go to GV to get an ancient weapon or execute some dastardly scheme. He went to defend his family.
There is legitimately nothing Oda could reasonably write that would make Rocks the villain of GV. While he was going to protect his family, the CDs were literally doing a genocide.
So why did Garp team up with Roger to fight Rocks? The answer is very simple. The CDs ordered him to. He was a marine and couldn’t disobey direct orders from a Gorosei or HK. The CDs clearly wanted Rocks gone. When he showed up in GV, Saturn probably took the opportunity to have him erased. He ordered Garp to focus on Rocks, instead of Roger.
It’s also possible the CDs threatened Dragon somehow to force Garp’s hand. But regardless, there was no noble reason for Garp to fight Rocks. He did it under CD orders, furthering their genocide of GV.
Even the idea of Rocks getting Domi reversi’d doesn’t really make sense because the CDs were happy that Garp killed him. Which makes no sense if Rocks was a pawn of Imu.
Ultimately I think it makes a lot of sense why Garp doesn’t like to talk about God Valley. His entire reputation is based off a lie. Garp wasn’t the hero of God Valley. Rocks was.
Garp was the man that killed God Valley’s defender and condemned the Davy clan to death.
I think Garp will eventually tell Koby about what he did and warn Koby not to make the same mistake he did. So when Koby is inevitably ordered to fight Luffy while the CDs are doing a genocide, Koby will do what Garp couldn’t in God Valley and stand up to the CDs.
I think Oda subverted our expectations. From the looks of it Rocks, while brutal, is hardly more evil than any other pirate. At the end of the day, he didn’t go to GV to get an ancient weapon or execute some dastardly scheme. He went to defend his family.
There is legitimately nothing Oda could reasonably write that would make Rocks the villain of GV. While he was going to protect his family, the CDs were literally doing a genocide.
So why did Garp team up with Roger to fight Rocks? The answer is very simple. The CDs ordered him to. He was a marine and couldn’t disobey direct orders from a Gorosei or HK. The CDs clearly wanted Rocks gone. When he showed up in GV, Saturn probably took the opportunity to have him erased. He ordered Garp to focus on Rocks, instead of Roger.
It’s also possible the CDs threatened Dragon somehow to force Garp’s hand. But regardless, there was no noble reason for Garp to fight Rocks. He did it under CD orders, furthering their genocide of GV.
Even the idea of Rocks getting Domi reversi’d doesn’t really make sense because the CDs were happy that Garp killed him. Which makes no sense if Rocks was a pawn of Imu.
Ultimately I think it makes a lot of sense why Garp doesn’t like to talk about God Valley. His entire reputation is based off a lie. Garp wasn’t the hero of God Valley. Rocks was.
Garp was the man that killed God Valley’s defender and condemned the Davy clan to death.
I think Garp will eventually tell Koby about what he did and warn Koby not to make the same mistake he did. So when Koby is inevitably ordered to fight Luffy while the CDs are doing a genocide, Koby will do what Garp couldn’t in God Valley and stand up to the CDs.
