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every-chopper · 7 months

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#One Piece #Tony Tony Chopper #Ch: 181 #Arc: Alabasta #with: zoro #with: nami #with: sanji #with: usopp #heavy point

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every-monkey-d-luffy · 4 months

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We are now entering Flat Fuck Friday

#One Piece #Monkey D. Luffy #Ch: 203 #Arc: Alabasta

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kaizokuou-ni-naru · 3 months

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I've been curious about why luffy didn't fight bellamy when he mocked them for believing the sky islands exist. in particular, in comparison to alabasta, where usopp fought the mole lady for laughing at luffy's dream of becoming the pirate king. why did luffy not fight, while usopp fought? is it because:

you should fight when your friend is being mocked, but not when you yourself are being mocked?

being the pirate king is a serious dream and should be defended, while going to sky islands is just for fun and doesn't need to be defended?

luffy and usopp just have different values and make their choices differently?

thanks for the answer! sorry it's been explained before, it's hard to search since it's a long question

i think it comes down to the significant differences between luffy and usopp as characters, honestly. because they are very different people at very different stages of self-actualization, what growth and maturity look like for both of them are different.

luffy in jaya is emulating shanks in the first chapter. shanks in the first chapter, as we know, vastly outclasses the bandits who are mocking him. he could have slammed them all with haoushoku and been done with it. likewise, luffy is way stronger than bellamy and his guys. if he were to actually engage in this fight, he would win, and he knows he would win. this represents character development for luffy from when we saw him as a kid in romance dawn- he now has the level of maturity and self-assurance necessary to not be baited into a stupid and unnecessary fight that he would easily win anyways. i think it's notable that jaya comes just after alabasta, where luffy experiences several direct lessons on what it means to be a leader and have responsibility, mostly from vivi.

even though these two scenes- luffy in jaya and usopp in alabasta- take place relatively close together, luffy is a way more self-realized person at that point than usopp. usopp in alabasta doesn't have anywhere near the level of self-assurance that luffy has. he's not confident enough to fight for his own dreams and ambitions, really. he's not really at a point yet where he can believe in himself- but he can believe in luffy, and luffy's dream, because luffy has that effect on people. and usopp is in an actual difficult fight; the fight with miss merry christmas and mr. 4 is a serious challenge for him and he takes a lot of very hard hits during it. the stakes for him are much higher, and he has a tendency to cut and run when in danger that luffy completely lacks. for usopp in this situation the question of whether to fight or not isn't 'will he fight or walk away', it's 'will he fight or run away.' and that's a different thing.

and he doesn't run. he stays and fights and wins. and that represents growth for him in the same way that luffy not fighting in jaya represents growth for him!

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goodonepiecescreenshots · 2 years

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