Right, my father was the world's strongest. Just before he died, someone insisted that this era would go down in history as his.
As for pirates... Many are just that, murderers and thieves and nothing more, but not all of them are like that. After Gol D. Roger reached the end of the Grand Line, he inspired a new generation of pirates. He was called the Pirate King and at his execution someone asked where they could find his treasure so he told them to go looking for it; One Piece. The general assumption is that he left it at Raftel, at the end of the Grand Line since no one else has been there. Millions of pirates flood the Grand Line every year looking for his treasure, or just trying to get famous or do some damage along the way.
We've always had a lot of pirates in my world since it's nearly all ocean, but it got a lot more drastic after Roger.
Although most pirates are scum, not all of them are. Some are just dreamers who hate the idea of abiding by the world government's laws. Most of them are just looking for some way to get rich quickly however, so the slave trade became a huge problem again. My Pops wanted to put a stop to that so he took Fishman Island and several others under his protection. That way anyone who wanted to pick a fight had to go through him, through us, my family, to do it. That's why I always really loved and admired him, eh? He was the strongest man in the world, the only one to hold his own against Gol D. Roger, but all he ever wanted was a family and to protect people he loved. That's why I hope this Era does get named after him.
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Right, my father was the world's strongest. Just before he died, someone insisted that this era would go down in history as his.
As for pirates... Many are just that, murderers and thieves and nothing more, but not all of them are like that. After Gol D. Roger reached the end of the Grand Line, he inspired a new generation of pirates. He was called the Pirate King and at his execution someone asked where they could find his treasure so he told them to go looking for it; One Piece. The general assumption is that he left it at Raftel, at the end of the Grand Line since no one else has been there. Millions of pirates flood the Grand Line every year looking for his treasure, or just trying to get famous or do some damage along the way.
We've always had a lot of pirates in my world since it's nearly all ocean, but it got a lot more drastic after Roger.
Although most pirates are scum, not all of them are. Some are just dreamers who hate the idea of abiding by the world government's laws. Most of them are just looking for some way to get rich quickly however, so the slave trade became a huge problem again. My Pops wanted to put a stop to that so he took Fishman Island and several others under his protection. That way anyone who wanted to pick a fight had to go through him, through us, my family, to do it. That's why I always really loved and admired him, eh? He was the strongest man in the world, the only one to hold his own against Gol D. Roger, but all he ever wanted was a family and to protect people he loved. That's why I hope this Era does get named after him.
[Well, that and for Ace's sake.]