[Marco didn't care if Nami hated him. Well, he did care, but not so personally. Hell, if anything, the masochist in him wouldn't mind that, because seeing her passions stirred so strongly was a good thing. Just as how sometimes he really liked arguing with Robin when his own temper got the better of him. And they had disagreed before, hadn't they?]
[So then why?]
[Because it was all of piracy? The whole world viewed them as monsters, and always had. But no, it was more than that.]
[She was part of the select few Marco had come to see as the future. Reluctantly, but when had he given into that point of view? Oh yes, Whitebeard's era was truly dead and over if Marco let it be, but there were things even he couldn't fight.]
She's the future of piracy.
[His voice is quiet. He loathes this. Loathes that they are setting up to take his place, that there is a place to be taken, that he is a falling star and it's all just signs of the end of the era, the end of everything that mattered to Marco.]
And if she thinks that's all piracy is about, then we've truly failed.
Pops asked me and my brothers to carry on into the new era, to live, to survive, because without us, it doesn't mean much. He died to protect us, and our burden is to live with that.
More than anything, I'd like to kill all those who ruin what it means to be a pirate, but if I could... [He shakes his head.] No, rather, I could, but the cost would be breaking my father's wish.
I don't just want to be different from those I despise, I suppose I want others to see them for the scum they are as well. And if I am viewed as just the same, then all perspective is lost.
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[Marco didn't care if Nami hated him. Well, he did care, but not so personally. Hell, if anything, the masochist in him wouldn't mind that, because seeing her passions stirred so strongly was a good thing. Just as how sometimes he really liked arguing with Robin when his own temper got the better of him. And they had disagreed before, hadn't they?]
[So then why?]
[Because it was all of piracy? The whole world viewed them as monsters, and always had. But no, it was more than that.]
[She was part of the select few Marco had come to see as the future. Reluctantly, but when had he given into that point of view? Oh yes, Whitebeard's era was truly dead and over if Marco let it be, but there were things even he couldn't fight.]
She's the future of piracy.
[His voice is quiet. He loathes this. Loathes that they are setting up to take his place, that there is a place to be taken, that he is a falling star and it's all just signs of the end of the era, the end of everything that mattered to Marco.]
And if she thinks that's all piracy is about, then we've truly failed.
Pops asked me and my brothers to carry on into the new era, to live, to survive, because without us, it doesn't mean much. He died to protect us, and our burden is to live with that.
More than anything, I'd like to kill all those who ruin what it means to be a pirate, but if I could... [He shakes his head.] No, rather, I could, but the cost would be breaking my father's wish.
I don't just want to be different from those I despise, I suppose I want others to see them for the scum they are as well. And if I am viewed as just the same, then all perspective is lost.