#whitebeard

There are things more valuable than treasure.

Since I drew baby Croc in Whitebeard's mitten I feel I also had to try and figure out just how tiny he might be in WB's palm.

Bonus~

Whitebeard pirates reader !

Reader is under Marco's division

Imagine minding your own business and that little piece of shit comes and picks you up throwing you around his shoulder and smacking your butt you glare at him demanding he should put you down but he just says nah your good here the embarrassing part is that the whole crew saw it.

And he always gets a beating from Marco everytime he does that i mean what commander would allow that

Mostly when you and ace are alone he likes it when you sit on his lap or when your out on a mission and your tired he carries you on his back you always ask if your not to heavy for him and he just shrugs ans says your light weight he also likes embarrassing you just to get a reaction from you.

This speech is rightfully regarded as one of the most important in the series, and I do think it's important that Doflamingo is the one who says it. Out of everyone in the manga he's had the most diverse life experience. He’s seen how malleable concepts like justice are and knows how easy it is to manipulate a narrative. History is, after all, written by the winners.

What's important in the larger context of the chapter, though, is we see the start of that narrative in action. Two pages ago Akainu was extrajudicially killing a frightened soldier while hinting at a grander plan to take out Whitebeard through deceit and trickery. With the power of retrospect we know that the marines planned on cutting the livestream, using the lack of transparency in order to trick the general populous. This of course doesn't work, but the intent was there. The World Government was perfectly content with using ignoble means to achieve their so-called noble goal, but were willing to lie about it in order to maintain face.

Secondly, I think it's quite important that in this last panel of Doffy's speech...there are no named characters whatsoever. The winners decide what Justice is, but their definition affects ordinary people in life-changing ways.

Even a character like Whitebeard, who tries to protect his sons and offers chances to flee to those who no longer have the stomach to fight, isn't exempt. Earlier this chapter he was ordering his sons to use the body of one of their siblings as a glorified bridge. While we understand and sympathize with his reasoning, there's no getting around the fact that he started a war for the sake of one person. He has sixteen divisions and forty-three allied pirate crews rallied to his cause, and thousands die because of his decision. What makes Ace's life more valuable than any of these nobodies that history will inevitably forget?