The New World -- that's the name of my home ocean -- it's always been a really rough place.
But my father created a lot of peace. Or at least kept it. Samba Island, Foodvalten, Fishman Island... all those places relied on Pops for protection. Without him, other pirates will try to take over.
[Shakes his head.] We don't even have our home ship anymore.
The war we lost Pops in was just the start and it's getting worse. [Closes phoenix eyes briefly and focuses on sipping his tea through the straw. Normally he'd switch to phoenix to cut some of the tension, but one of the downsides to sticking around like this. Of course it doesn't scratch the surface of Marco's deepest concerns. Blackbeard knew the ins and outs of the islands at least as well as Marco, and Marco never pretended not to like Teach did. And if it came to giving an island to Blackbeard or letting him destroy it, Marco would let him have it. In a truly messed up way, letting Blackbeard have some of the islands would be better for them than some of the other pirates who'd go after them. And that certainly rankled him.]
Back home just staying alive is going to be hard. [To take Shanks up on the offer, to split the divisions into pieces, to hide the ones he could, or try to keep everyone together and go into guerrilla warfare and bide their time getting stronger until they could stop Blackbeard and the others... whatever choice Marco does, he knows it'll be very rough.]
It's the end of Whitebeard's Era and the start of a new one. A dark one right now.
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But my father created a lot of peace. Or at least kept it. Samba Island, Foodvalten, Fishman Island... all those places relied on Pops for protection. Without him, other pirates will try to take over.
[Shakes his head.] We don't even have our home ship anymore.
The war we lost Pops in was just the start and it's getting worse. [Closes phoenix eyes briefly and focuses on sipping his tea through the straw. Normally he'd switch to phoenix to cut some of the tension, but one of the downsides to sticking around like this. Of course it doesn't scratch the surface of Marco's deepest concerns. Blackbeard knew the ins and outs of the islands at least as well as Marco, and Marco never pretended not to like Teach did. And if it came to giving an island to Blackbeard or letting him destroy it, Marco would let him have it. In a truly messed up way, letting Blackbeard have some of the islands would be better for them than some of the other pirates who'd go after them. And that certainly rankled him.]
Back home just staying alive is going to be hard. [To take Shanks up on the offer, to split the divisions into pieces, to hide the ones he could, or try to keep everyone together and go into guerrilla warfare and bide their time getting stronger until they could stop Blackbeard and the others... whatever choice Marco does, he knows it'll be very rough.]
It's the end of Whitebeard's Era and the start of a new one. A dark one right now.