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⌈ Secret Post #516 ⌋

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It feels so overblown that the Heavenly Dragons are ALL that monstruous.

Who said they were? We've only seen a few-- maybe some of them are perfectly nice people who don't keep slaves and use their power and influence to help people.

But if you hand someone a free pass to do whatever they want however they want whenever they want no matter what and tell them they can have the head lopped off of anyone who so much as looks at them funny or less and it is going to go to their head. One way or the other, it's going to go to their head. They will probably grow up an overprivileged, self-indulgent dick who likes to hurt people, and they will probably raise their children to be the same way. It's human nature, and in this case it's been nurtured for generations upon generations.

At any rate, I don't think it's overblown at all. The Tenryuubito are what happens when a kid grows up with everybody kowtowing to them and possessing the absolute surety that no one is ever going to hurt them or talk back. They are born and bred with the ingrained belief that they are invincible, and if no one ever lays a finger on them, how are they to assume otherwise? How are they to assume that morals apply to them, or even really exist as a viable concept? Law doesn't apply to them. Of course they're unbelievably scummy bastards.

/rant

They're portrayal so far as every single one of them being bad people. And of course, I am always open to the possibility, I outright HOPE for somewhere down the line, we'll see one of them being a decent sort. And while all those points are true, I STILL don't really feel them. There's no real logic at work here, I just think that seeing someone send their dogs to pee at them, then shoot them while they were down and have another one just snatch a new wife because he feelsl like it and shoot their husband... it's cake upon cake, a swedish proverb that basically amounts to point out that something is "too much", like how eating a cake mized with another cake just makes you feel bloated, not satisfied.

I suppose that is my main beef with this, really. I feel bloated when I see that much douchebaggery take place in a single chapter. I could accept a lot of other villains being that bad, because... maybe it was because they were terrifying. The Heavenly Dragons, as I call them, aren't terrifying. They're ridiculous, rich little spoilt bastards who have no reason to wield that much power. I can understand people kowtowing to Ener because Ener will go Pikachu on steroids on your ass if you disrespect him, but the kind of power that the Heavenly Dragons are throwing around, it just... doesn't sit with me. I can't agree with it or come to terms with it, I don't know why, I just... can't.

They're ridiculous, rich little spoilt bastards who have no reason to wield that much power.

But that's the entire point of their characters. They're not supposed to be terrifying; they're supposed to be disgusting.

Yeah... maybe that's it. They are disgusting, and they're making the World Goverment look disgusting as well by association.

Now, the World goverment is a whole 'nother discussion in itself, but it is MY opinion that up until Enies Lobby, they were portrayed as a solid organization who, even if they had flaws such as some corrupt officials, at least tried to look out for their nations best interests. By showing us the bombings of Ohara, CP9's EXISTENCE in general and now the slave trading and how the WG protects and covers up the Heavenly Dragons, they seem to be painted as these truly horrible, scuzzy scumballs. But these are the representatives of "order" in the OP world, who have people like Garp, Coby, Hina, Smoker ffs on their side. I suppose that to me, this made the WG look like something that was neither positive or negative, but just a regular goverment doing the best it could to protect it's people. But with each passing arc the WG appears to take on the role of the villain of not just the Strawhats, but the whole damn WORLD, and I suppose I'm not really buying the way we're being sold this image of them... at least not just yet.

Have faith in Oda. It will come together.

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