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Speedrunning getting kicked off the council

Gonna try not to be all over the place.

As mentioned in the first post, Apollo is a jack of all trades.

Many believe he's a far-distant fighter because he's an archer. Yes, he's an archer. The archer. However, from what I'm seeing, I'd say he's an all-rounder.

For those who don't know, an all-rounder, aka all-around, is a person, particularly in fighting and sports, skilled in many areas. They're pretty versatile and have many features/skills.

As stated, Apollo fights not only from a distance but also up close.

He's skilled in pankration, which is a mix of boxing and wrestling in ancient Greece. He was so good that he defeated Ares in boxing and tied Hercules in tug-of-war at the Olympic Games. The god's the real deal. I mean, Ares is known for battle and combat. You'd expect the god of fighting and brutality to win. But nope! Golden boy takes the cake.

A savage king named Phorbas was a skilled boxer. He targeted travelers and pilgrims who wanted to visit the Oracle of Delphi. Apollo heard of this and challenged him to a boxing match to free the road for travelers and pilgrims. The king accepted.

This ended horribly.

Yes, the king was brutal and very skilled, but Apollo destroyed him to the point of killing him.

And it makes sense because Apollo's supposedly the god of boxing. According to myths, the Pythian Games were held every four years in Apollo's honor after Apollo killed Python. At first, the god committed a crime according to the laws of Mt. Olympus. So Zeus purified Apollo, and Apollo participated in the Pythian Games at Delphi. From then on, the games were held in Apollo's honor.

Anyways, Apollo invented boxing. Hermes invented wrestling. Apollo is quite good at wrestling, but he's even better at boxing.

I'm surprised no one has talked or written about these things.

Anyway, what does this have to do with the post?

To show close combat is definitely not an issue for Apollo.

Archery is his domain and specialty, but if you were to take away his archery skills, he'll still be dangerous in combat, even without weapons. Although it's only said he's a god in boxing, I'm certain he can expand his range. He's adaptable, and since he's the god of knowledge, too, he can expand his knowledge and expertise into other combat sports.

Hell, why stop at boxing? Karate, Taekwondo, MMA, Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Sambo, kickboxing, and wrestling. He'll be good at all of those, but boxing he'll be best at.

Don't get me started on sword fighting. That's for another post.

So, the idea that he wouldn't win a fistfight is easily refutable. I say he's one god you shouldn't want to provoke or box with, but the PJO series doesn't show that. The books would rather you believe he's a Playboy dumb archer who's only good at archery and will freeze up on a mortal, and UGHHHH I HATE THIS SO MUCH!!!! 😒

GOSH, I HATE HOW RICK WROTE HIM! Archery isn't his only method of combat. He's literally a beast on the battlefield and a great warrior. Plus, the Apollo cabin can inherit these traits, not just the Ares cabin, but that's another post for another day too.

Point of post: Apollo got hands and isn't afraid to use them. Don't catch them if you want to live.

Sooooooooo if we're talking about sparring, I believe he'd be a great sparring buddy, trainer, or coach.

And let's add some perpollo to the mix (cause why not??) Percy and Apollo sparring or Apollo teaching Percy some boxing moves? OR OR! They box each other?! They become a boxing couple!!!!! Goodness, that sounds exciting and HAWTTTT.

I can imagine Percy is stunned by how good Apollo is at boxing and martial arts.

Percy: Whoa, dude?! I thought you only did archery?

Apollo: Darling, who do you think defeated Ares in boxing?

Percy: YOU BEAT ARES IN WHAT?!

Ares, nose twitches: Fucking show-off.

I just know Percy finds that hot, and I don't blame him. ☺️👌

Okay. That's all I've got for now. Comment below if you want to add anything. If I get something wrong, let me know in the comments.

"The world government is behind the Navy"

Oda confirms you cannot separate the Marines from the WG because the Marines exists because & for the WG!

DUH!

I'm not sure why a very loud group in this fandom thinks the fucking military is its own independent group separate from the government. The entire point of a formal military is to be armed forces for the governmental body which creates it!

BTW these corrupt cops were literally buying drugs from the gangs they're literally hunting down. Oda is making the real-world parallels extremely loud rn asdfghjkl 💀

Anyone who thinks this interaction is inappropriate either 1) has never been around kids before or 2) needs to go to therapy to unpack deep seeded issues because nothing about this scene was sinister.

Kids don't understand the difference between romantic & platonic love. She's literally only 7 years old! She's a BABY!

When a child that young says they want to "marry you", it just means they really like you & want to be friends with you & hang out with you forever. They don't know that marriage is more than best friendism.

So Brook playing along & "rejecting" her is just about humoring a child. Her father getting "jealous" is about his daughter preferring the company of another adult rather than himself. HE wants to be her best friend.

Guys. Let's be fr rn. Please.

Bert: Bert and I

Ernie: Bert and I, we've been best friends forever, but we're also something else too!

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Though the latter images of Law and Luffy are related to the answer of a different D. question, it does raise a good point that not everyone might catch about how Luffy and Law's dynamic works.

Luffy calls Law "Torao" but not because he doesn't actually know his name.

In fact, Luffy knows the full thing! That's where the nickname came from in the first place—the fact that Luffy can't pronounce Trafalgar for the life of him. Torao (or Traffy, for English) is as close as Luffy can get to Trafalgar.

So it's a bit weird to think about how Luffy doesn't call him Law. Luffy clearly loves the guy! He willingly agreed to a shady alliance where he didn't know details of the plan or what it would entail because Luffy liked the guy who was asking him for a hand. Luffy, when first spotting Law after two years, introduces him to his crew like this:

To be named the same as a crewmember that the crew just helped and saved an island for last arc is a bold play by Oda showing us exactly what Luffy was headed towards, considering the standoffish fellow captain nakama. Hell, the official translation makes it clear that Luffy thinks of Law as one of his people by going the extra step and clarifying to English speakers that Law is closer to crew than not now, even if he verbally disagrees.

So why wouldn't he call Law his name? He cares enough to know it! That is the standard Oda himself has set for if Luffy will call them by name! Luffy has put in the effort of caring and remembering Law's name, so it isn't that.

It is because Law doesn't.

Law maintains that distance and only addresses Luffy with "Mugiwara-ya" rather than his name. Not only is it not Luffy's first name, but Law keeps the ambiguous -ya honorific attached.

So Luffy returns that, respecting one of Law's boundaries in his own way by keeping the nickname of his surname. Both of them address the other as peers rather than close companions. It's a bit of a mess, since Law stringently attaches -ya to keep that distance and Luffy has mangled Trafalgar into "Torao", but it works despite being unorthodox. Both of them are ok with that.

Meanwhile, Luffy has said that way back on Arlong Park:

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Essentially the entirely of the order and the republic are trying to rebuild. The Jedi Order and Clones themselves are becoming more independent and kinda separated themselves from the republic as they focus on recovering their dead and having to recover in a post galaxy spanning war. Anakin has sorta left to focus on his children and support his wife who has to deal with a political ramifications. He still visits every other month when possible but hasn’t been able to be on offfical Jedi duties. Ashoka has also been away from the order for a while, She and some other Jedi/Clones are focusing on relief efforts for planets affected heavily during the war. Obi Wan hasn’t left the temple at all as he is dealing with a shit ton of paper work, duties as the High general, and as a member of the concil, he doesn’t get many breaks as he could. The three do talk over comms a lot but in person meetings have become a novelty.

Anyway, some time later when things have finally slowed down enough, Obi Wan decides to put in a request to take on a padawan. He sees a lot of his friends and colleagues stretched thin, while he has his own experience raising two padawans. So he figures his is the best candidate to take up teaching the next generation again in a Jedi Order still trying to recover.

The issue occurs when it comes to who is assigned as his padawan, as Obi Wan never specified any particular initiate. And between the mountains of paperwork other council members are dealing with, 5 different members approve his request all separately. They each assign him a padawan learner as they did not communicate at all and were just happy their fellow council member seemed to try to take a step forward with himself.

Either way, Obi Wan now has fucking 5 Padawan due to some oversights(some of which include Reeva and Galen Marek, idk about the other 3 yet). No one beyond Obi Wan realizes this for awhile. It’s not until 5 months in when Mace literally finds Obi Wan trying to pry off one of his padawan’s from biting another’s arm off. He should know, he’s the one that approved the ankle biter of a padawan to be trained by Kenobi csuse he figured Obi Wan had the best experience with it.

This can be Luke's Jedi if you want it to be more canon, but I'm also thinking of something like Cal on Tanalorr with refugees from the Hidden Path, many of whom are Force sensitive children he's likely been helping to train. Maybe there's also other Jedi survivors there, like Quinlan. Maybe there's former Inquisitors like Reva and Barriss. Maybe people like Ferus Olin find their way there eventually, too.

And the ghosts don't just help train up new Force sensitive kids, but they can provide healing and guidance for traumatized survivors of Order 66 and the Jedi Purge.

Just think of Yoda being able to play around with the younglings again.

Think of Obi-Wan being able to see Reva again and tell her how proud he is of how far she's come. Or being able to see Quinlan in person again and thank him for indirectly helping him feel happy for the first time in ten years.

Think of Qui-Gon passing on his wisdom to people like Ezra and Kata who obviously consider themselves Jedi but will never have memories of the Jedi ORDER as it once was.

One of the quiet background realities of the Star Wars galaxy is that it is spectacularly bad at labor. Not just “late-stage capitalism” bad, but structurally, culturally, and institutionally allergic to the idea that workers should have enforceable protections. You’ve got child soldiers, child labor, debt slavery, corporate fiefdoms, and a Republic that can field a galaxy-spanning bureaucracy but somehow never gets around to standardizing “maybe don’t enslave people.” The Empire of course doesn’t fix this; it industrializes it.

So in that environment, formal labor law is either nonexistent, unenforced, or actively hostile. Which means if you’re operating in a sector where the state either can’t or won’t protect you, you get a classic historical pattern: workers build their own rules.

Enter the gray economies.

Groups like the Smugglers' Alliance (Legends) and the Bounty Hunters' Guild (new canon) look, at first glance, like professional associations for criminals. But if you squint at them through a labor history lens, they start to look a lot like early, proto-union structures — especially the kinds you see in maritime or extralegal industries on Earth.

Think pirate codes (yes actual ones, Pirates of the Caribbean didn't make that up). Think matelotage agreements. Think dockworker brotherhoods that predate formal unions.

Because what do these groups actually do?

They:

set norms for compensation and contracts

regulate competition to prevent destructive undercutting

provide a framework for dispute resolution

establish reputational systems (“you don’t honor contracts, you don’t get work”)

That’s industry self-governance in the absence of law.

Take bounty hunting. Without something like the Bounty Hunters' Guild, the field collapses into chaos: clients don’t pay; hunters underbid each other into oblivion; jobs get duplicated, interfered with, or sabotaged. And nobody trusts anybody!

The Guild steps in and says: here are the rules of engagement. Here’s how claims work. Here’s how you get paid. Here’s what happens if you break contract.

That’s basically a union crossed with a licensing board and a regulatory agency, just without any moral pretense.

Same with the Smugglers' Alliance. Smuggling is inherently risky, decentralized, and dependent on trust networks. If everyone is constantly betraying everyone else, the whole system stops functioning. So instead, you hash out agreed-upon routes and territories, informal protections against betrayal, mechanisms for information sharing, and consequences for breaking the code

Again: not altruism. Stability.

And the reason this emerges specifically in gray/illegal sectors is because they have to. The Core Worlds might pretend they have laws, but those laws don’t meaningfully protect the people actually doing dangerous, itinerant, high-risk work. So the margins of the galaxy — where enforcement is weakest and risk is highest — become the places where labor organization evolves first.

Which is very historically grounded.

On Earth, some of the earliest labor protections didn’t come from governments; they came from workers in dangerous, decentralized industries—sailors, pirates, miners—who literally wrote their own rules because no one else was going to save them.

Pirate codes, for example, often included:

compensation for injury

shared distribution of loot

limits on captain authority

Which is … shockingly progressive compared to a lot of contemporary working conditions (cough Amazon cough).

So in the galaxy far, far away, you end up with this ironic inversion:

The “legitimate” systems — Republic, Empire, megacorporations — are exploitative, inconsistent, or indifferent.

The “illegitimate” systems — smugglers, bounty hunters — are the ones building functional labor frameworks, because they need to survive.

And that feeds back into why the galaxy feels so unstable overall. There’s no universal baseline of rights. Everything is hyper-local, network-dependent, and contingent on whether you’re inside a system that has rules you can rely on.

If you’re a clone trooper? You are literally property.

If you’re a factory worker on a corporate world? Your protections are whatever your employer feels like offering.

But if you’re a smuggler or a bounty hunter?

You might actually have clearer expectations about your pay, your risks, and your recourse — because your “union” is the only thing standing between you and total chaos.

So yeah: the Smugglers’ Alliance and the Bounty Hunters’ Guild aren’t just flavor. They’re a glimpse of what labor organization looks like in a galaxy where the state has fundamentally failed to provide it.