#chapter 551

Thoughts:

- Fpos/cs: “Fat Usopp” that’s… that’s exactly what we get, yes

- Ace’s parentage is now known to the whole world and everyone is LOSING THEIR SHIT

- “It still exists! The bloodline of the Pirate King!” …ok? Who cares about BLOODLINE, that’s ONE GENERATION

(me: ‘ignores title of my last recap’)

No, I really think you need more than father and son to create that feeling of glamour we give important families. Either ridiculously long family tree or a LOT of kids will suffice for a “bloodline’ to make sense but this here doesn’t really count in my book

- but yeah, Ace being Roger’s son is a BIG THING. Do they expect Ace to be a Pirate King too? I mean, it was just a title. AND we still don’t know what Roger actually DID that made him so cool. He didn’t even told anyone what’s on the end of Grand Line goddammit. Was he disrupting WG’s work like Luffy does?

- at Marineford, everyone is like “holy shit” but in a very quiet way

- “He isn’t Luffy’s… brother by blood?” no, Hancock, he isn’t. Smoker and Mihawk are singled out and I don’t know why

- “His son was alive all this time! It’s incredible! Everybody associated with Roger was executed!” shut up, Moria. This continues to be horrible. Why? Because Roger’s crewmembers we know are all fine: Rayleigh, Crocus, Shanks, even Buggy. What Moria means is that everyone too weak to fight WG was executed. Their association with Roger was probably brief at best. This is disgusting

- “I thought his father must be Dragon too, since he’s Luffy’s brother!” “So did I! What’s going on here? They aren’t really brothers?” Coby and Helmeppo are confused. I love the gossiping :D I should be more curious about Ace and Luffy’s brotherhood but I’m fully expecting a big flashback that will Explain Everything at some point

- GARP FLASHBACK EVERYONE QUIET

- …

- so Roger and Garp were friends? Or enemies who respected each other. And Garp really didn’t want an innocent child to suffer. I can deal with that

- …I can’t deal with that

- Garp DID help her!!! (Ace’s mother Rouge)

- “If you’re a girl, I’ll name you Anne. If you’re a boy…” poor woman

- “You’re going to raise them, Dadan.” I heard that name before! Looks like Garp took Ace to his friend to raise him after Rouge’s death

- mini Luffy!!!

- end of flashback

- …ok, Garp probably didn’t raise Ace in the same way he didn’t raise Luffy but at least he kept him safe for 17 years. Then Ace went to the sea and, well, Ace’s an adult now. It’s his business to become a pirate or to be captured and/or killed. Garp still could have done something but still. Innocent child was protected. Not-so-innocent adult should live in a better world but that’s what you get when you have a totalitarian government looming over everything

- the point is, Garp gets a “There was an Attempt” Gold Star for his troubles and I’ll continue to like him very much. He got depths to him I don’t associate with Monkey name (maybe I should)

- Sengoku is still speaking

- “We weren’t the only ones who learned the truth. Whitebeard took you, a son of his former rival, aboard his ship… so that he could raise you to be the next Pirate King!” I LOVE THE DRAMA HERE

- “No! I joined Pops to help him become the King Of Pirates!” “You’re the only one who believes that.” Oh shit

- “Don’t you know why we were never able to touch you? Because Whitebeard was protecting you!” OH SHIT ACE’S FACE

- while I believe everything Sengoku says is true, I wonder where and how did he learnt all of that. Cipher Pol is that good?

- “But you had to be stopped. In time your abilities would eventually allow you to lead a new generation of pirates on a reign of terror! For this reason, your execution today is necessary!” what abilities, his fire power is great but not exactly stronger than other powers we saw. Or did Roger had a superpower he passed on to his son? Maybe the hearing voices thing? …Why am I thinking of Ohara?

- “Even if it means an all-out war with Whitebeard!!!” …I both understand and I don’t. This is the most honest reasoning on starting a war I ever saw. But honestly, WG wants to hide things that much they start a (World) War?

- what?

- The Gates of Justice are opening! On their own! (???)

- It’s Luffy!!!

- AGHDJHDHGS BUGGY

- no but seriously, who opened it

- !!!!!!

- It’s a pirate fleet! It must be Whitebeard!!!

- “… …You guys are here too?” I’m sorry, too? Does Ace knows something? Or did he not expect Whitebeard to come? He knows about Luffy? What

- Warlords are excited. This will a FIGHT

- Admirals collectively woke up from their naps

- …underwater?

- YES, UNDERWATER!!! Whitebeard’s ships are in the harbor!

- Ga ha ha ha… How long has it been, Sengoku?”

- THERE HE IS! WHITEBEARD!

“I’m coming, Ace!” “POPS!”