Elihinata's Topics (2007)

The entire family was always HUGELY dependent upon the Lombardi family, because Lombardi is a meritocracy. The previous Emperor never intended to hand over the crown to the current Emperor, because he knew he was weak and foolish (and the previous Emperor died because of that).

Of course, the "real" Lombardi know that the royal family is weakening, they just don't want to take their place as monarch. But they also don't want vipers like Angenas to take it, so they continue to advise the royal family to keep the kingdom secure. And in return, Lombardi has royal permission to ignore rank and not bow or cater to the royal family.

The previous emperor was right then ╮(￣▽￣)╭ except when he allied himself with the Angela’s, that caught me off guard. Was he also jealous of the Lombardis?

Yeah, because the Lombardis were super outstanding. He warned the current Emperor to keep an eye on the Lombardis, because they can basically take the kingdom whenever they want, which is why he basically grew Angenas like he did--they weren't anything special until he removed the Browns and put Angenas in their place.

The Emperors don't want to be puppet rulers, so they HAVE to lower Lombardi, but if anything goes wrong, Lombardi is who they go running to first. ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Oh, I see! Makes sense... theyre entitled psychos ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ so glad Perez wasnt raised by them ^^' thank you so much for explaining all of this to me, friend! <3 you're so kind, thank you :')

Purrr tell them

real bc I was enjoying the story up until this part bc ????? why would a relative be a threat

Tell me about （￣へ￣）I litterally had to look it up if marrying your cousin is legal because it just a common trope and it is in Japan
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its legal to be in relationship with your relative f. ex cousin as long as its not a parent or sibilings. not only in japan, though it is morally wrong its still legal.

omg your right Σ( ￣□￣||) it ban where I am but I didn't realize other parts also legalized it. I was close minded (￣∇￣")

No, for real ^^’ like that’s as close as you can get to “my brother from another mother” lol literally ew?

You know Japan is messed up when incest is legal but gay marriage isn’t u,u

Help, yeah that mess up ( ´_ゝ`)

i wish it was banned everywhere because its not healthy especially if those want to have kids

legal age for mariage in japan is 18 for both male and female but for women there is also 16 with parental consent and thats not only in japan, unfortunately. it is wrong but unfortunately legal like marriage between cousins

I think probably for him he can do more good being a marine than being a pirate? Most pirates are actually bad, also why he doesn't want to be an admiral to not be an actual lapdog to the Elders and Celestial Dragons.

Sure, but on a counterpoint he could just be a good pirate like Luffy lol there's no rules to being a criminal, yet he is obligated to defend evil as a marine

Well he doesn't want to be a pirate lol, he wants to be a marine. Garp never wanted to be a pirate because his identity and pride were tied to being a marine. His goal was always to uphold his own sense of justice inside the system, even if he didn’t always agree with the world government.

I think Garp believed he could still protect people and maintain peace by working within the marines. By staying, he could influence younger marines like Koby (I think he will become a very influential figure in the marines in the future (๑•ㅂ•)و✧) and pass down his version of true justice instead of abandoning the institution entirely.

Like instead of quitting and doing another thing, you change the system itself even though little by little. The marines wouldn't change unless it starts from the inside, not from outside forces.

His sense is justice seems to be broken, if it depends on defending slavers and murderers (￣∇￣") hopefully the Koby thing plays out and the marines wake up and turn against their masters