Questions & Mysteries Is Akainu really a part of SWORD?!
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He could have stopped all of it in Impel Down by low diffing everybody there and setting Ace free.
Dude is a legend, he could have lived the rest of his life in whatever village, nobody would have had the balls to do a thing against him.
The marines knows where Professor Rayleigh is and they don't do shit because it would cause them too much casualties. The same would apply for Garp.
But yeah it wasn't his balls, he just put his duty before his family this time. And I'm pretty sure he wouldn't do it twice. If Luffy was captured, I actually believe he would try to save him.
Dude is a legend, he could have lived the rest of his life in whatever village, nobody would have had the balls to do a thing against him.
The marines knows where Professor Rayleigh is and they don't do shit because it would cause them too much casualties. The same would apply for Garp.
But yeah it wasn't his balls, he just put his duty before his family this time. And I'm pretty sure he wouldn't do it twice. If Luffy was captured, I actually believe he would try to save him.
He was probably a member of Sword 20+ years ago when he was first enlisted into the Marines. He was probably the leader of Sword way back then, then rose to the Rank of Vice Admiral, then Admiral, and now is the Fleet Admiral. Once he gained those ranks, someone else took over as the Leader of Sword, and then after that X-Drake took over.
My guess is that since Swords seems to be more so a covert organization within the Marines that they tend to use strong lower rank Marines to make up it's members. Anyone holding a Rank of Vice Admiral or higher would be much too well known to be able to pull off any kind of covert ops. Drake himself was probably starting to get too well known, which is why he had to act like he quit the Marines in order to pull off his final mission as it's Captain.
I really hope not...it would provide a modicum of redemption for Sakazuki after we watched him enforce the total destruction of Ohara AND fist Ace to death, and despite his clashes with the Gorosei, he doesn’t seem like the “infiltrate the organization to revolutionize it from the inside” type of guy for the reasons above and several others. Would like to learn more about SWORD and its members, and it’s not gonna upset me if he ends up being part of it, but I really hope this isn’t like the Denj-shiro spoiler from that other opening...
Again, both the things he did aren't wrong at all imo. Destruction of Ohara was indeed important from his perspective as they could've unleashed weapons that could potentially destroy the world. It was just cruel from our perspective because we felt for Robin. Also, executing Ace was nothing wrong as from his perspective, he was just a bad and powerful pirate. The only real 'bad' thing he did, in my opinion, was trying to kill Coby. However, I definitely don't want him to be redeemed at all because we're viewing the story from Luffy's perspective and it will definitely not feel right for his brother's killer to be redeemed like that. Though yes, I would like to have him be a grey character and not just pure evil (from our perspective) because of his Absolute Justice.
Of course, both acts were morally wrong because of our own biases and whose perspective we get while reading the series. For precisely that reason, we aren’t supposed to root for him to be redeemed, but like you said, gray characters are more interesting than black and white...it would take a lot of balls from Oda to challenge his audience to accept a guy who murdered the protagonist’s sworn brother as someone who IS fighting for reform in a similar way, but adding that complexity would be in line with the first half of the series which felt less goofy overall.
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At this point: I am somewhat convinced that the Ancient Kingdom is evil and if Luffy uncovers One Piece, he will bring upon the destruction of the world as we know it.
So, if we are shown that indeed Oharan Scholars were working to uncover something that would destroy the world, may be the readers will be less angry with Akainu.
Personally, I have not faulted him at all for killing Ace and beating WB to half-death. I have however didn't like him killing his own underlings for desertion (however I acknowledge that even in real world, desertion is a very serious offense) and I absolutely cannot justify him wiping out Ohara.
But the more complex he becomes, the more likable he will be to me. Akainu has a lot of potential to be a really complex and gray character.
So, if we are shown that indeed Oharan Scholars were working to uncover something that would destroy the world, may be the readers will be less angry with Akainu.
Personally, I have not faulted him at all for killing Ace and beating WB to half-death. I have however didn't like him killing his own underlings for desertion (however I acknowledge that even in real world, desertion is a very serious offense) and I absolutely cannot justify him wiping out Ohara.
But the more complex he becomes, the more likable he will be to me. Akainu has a lot of potential to be a really complex and gray character.
And beside, Akainu's personality doesn't go along with the SWORD to be honest
