The narrative plays an important role in the expansion of the community. Let's take the example of the Admiral Agenda.
Much of the Admiral Agenda relied on two narrative ideas within the community:
Of course, when Big Mom and Kaido were about to join forces, we saw the flaw in that narrative: the Marines panicked. Akainu was like, "Oh no, Fujitora, the legends were all true, the Rocks legends," Green Bull was afraid of Kaido, Shanks treated Green Bull in such a humiliating way that it’s hard to argue that "They are relative" anymore.
This narrative doesn't take into account that, as the Yonkou fight among themselves, their net military force actually cancels out quite a bit. Or that characters like Garp and Sengoku also exist on the Marines' side.
But as the plot unfolded, characters like Imu were revealed along with the Gorosei, who turned out to be immortal conquerors, all being warrior gods and having awakened fruits (or perhaps simply being demons), and being able to wield ancient weapons, and having the holy knights on their side, all 5 Gorosei overshadowed Kizaru in the arc that was apparently supposed to be his. Oda threw him in the trash without a second thought, once again proving that an Admiral was not equivalent to a Yonkou.
The narrative importance that the community attributed to the Admirals diminished even further. They aren't even the villains of the EoS anymore, they never were, that speculation that "Oh no, when Luffy goes to take down the world government, the ones who will protect the old non-fighting politicians will be the Admirals."
This form of narrative scaling allowed the Admiral Agenda to get away with claiming feats over a 70-year-old man with cancer who could barely use Haki properly, whom they had to weaken further by deceiving their own teammate to stab him, or even beating commanders who were either mortally wounded or emotionally disturbed and distracted when they didn't defeat a single healthy commander.
But as the plot unfolds, the Admirals find themselves increasingly without any narrative support in the story. Now all they have is “maybe the Admirals will rebel,” ignoring that the Admirals would be brutally murdered if they did so by the true villains of the EoS, since the key to defeating the Gorosei may eventually end up being the Acoc that no admiral possesses, it is no coincidence that Oda has been holding back Luffy and his use of Acoc.
Not to mention the humiliations they've suffered since Wano ended in terms of actual feats, it’s brutal.
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Much of the Admiral Agenda relied on two narrative ideas within the community:
- The Marines and the Shichibukai exist in balance with the Yonkou. Not just one Yonkou, but all four based on what Garp said. This means that the Admirals, along with all the Shichibukai, need to be able to balance the net military force that the four Yonkou can exert.
Of course, when Big Mom and Kaido were about to join forces, we saw the flaw in that narrative: the Marines panicked. Akainu was like, "Oh no, Fujitora, the legends were all true, the Rocks legends," Green Bull was afraid of Kaido, Shanks treated Green Bull in such a humiliating way that it’s hard to argue that "They are relative" anymore.
This narrative doesn't take into account that, as the Yonkou fight among themselves, their net military force actually cancels out quite a bit. Or that characters like Garp and Sengoku also exist on the Marines' side.
- The World Government is the great evil of the End of Series (EoS). Since the Marines are the combat arm of the world government and the Admirals are the strongest Marines, this would mean that anything you scale to EoS Luffy must be able to differentiate extremely from the fleet admiral of the time and that they don't have any other secret fighters.
But as the plot unfolded, characters like Imu were revealed along with the Gorosei, who turned out to be immortal conquerors, all being warrior gods and having awakened fruits (or perhaps simply being demons), and being able to wield ancient weapons, and having the holy knights on their side, all 5 Gorosei overshadowed Kizaru in the arc that was apparently supposed to be his. Oda threw him in the trash without a second thought, once again proving that an Admiral was not equivalent to a Yonkou.
The narrative importance that the community attributed to the Admirals diminished even further. They aren't even the villains of the EoS anymore, they never were, that speculation that "Oh no, when Luffy goes to take down the world government, the ones who will protect the old non-fighting politicians will be the Admirals."
This form of narrative scaling allowed the Admiral Agenda to get away with claiming feats over a 70-year-old man with cancer who could barely use Haki properly, whom they had to weaken further by deceiving their own teammate to stab him, or even beating commanders who were either mortally wounded or emotionally disturbed and distracted when they didn't defeat a single healthy commander.
But as the plot unfolds, the Admirals find themselves increasingly without any narrative support in the story. Now all they have is “maybe the Admirals will rebel,” ignoring that the Admirals would be brutally murdered if they did so by the true villains of the EoS, since the key to defeating the Gorosei may eventually end up being the Acoc that no admiral possesses, it is no coincidence that Oda has been holding back Luffy and his use of Acoc.
Not to mention the humiliations they've suffered since Wano ended in terms of actual feats, it’s brutal.
@comrade @Hanzo hattori @MonsterKaido @nik87 @Fleet Leader Fenaker @Erkan12 etc...
