Smokeebee's Comments Terrorizing Them

Smokeebee's comments terrorizing them

Because that’s what hope is.

Nika is hope, freedom, imagination, ect. He helps people only when they ask he doesn’t use the white knight or savior trope and neither does hope. Hope fights alongside others on the battlefield, it is a aid for morale, hope is not something that saves you. Hope is something you use to help you believe you can truely succeed in your endeavors. Once you accept that hope then you can have a fighting chance.

Like in fishman island he is giving them a choice to believe, just like the choice to have hope.

In Arlong park he waits for Nami to ask for help because you have to want and have hope for something to happen.

In wano he is more so fighting alongside the people, just like hope.

Nika is the sun god, shining bright in the sky, the only other thing I can’t think of to shine that bright is the concept of hope when you have none.

Luffy not wanting to be viewed as a hero is actually so important to me. Because while the first reasoning we get for this is him not wanting to share his food

We also learn later on that Luffy also doesn't want to be viewed as a savior, nor does he ever want to present himself as such. He doesn't want to be placed on a pedestal or (ironically) be deified by the people he helps.

At the end of Fishman island, he was fully ready to leave without fanfare because he did not want to be treated by the people in that way, and only agrees to stay because he is promised food. The same thing happens at the end of Wano, where he refuses to take any credit for the downfall of Kaido and instead simply enjoys the festival with everyone else.

I cannot overstate how much I love this decision for Luffy as a character. It is incredibly common for stories like Fishman Island and Wano to have the main character swoop in and save the oppressed people, with said character being to sole person to rally them and "teach" them how to fight back. We don't get that with Luffy.

In Fishman Island, he tells the people that its up to them to decide whether or not he is their friend or foe instead of swooping in playing the role of the hero. In Wano, he understands to importance of who begins the fight with Kaido, and stands back to let the Red Scabbards (Wano natives) get the first major hit on Kaido

Even in the prison when Luffy gives his speech, he is asking the people to let him help, to have faith that they and their country can be free again, to fight for the freedom that had been cruelly stripped away from them. And even then, it is Momo and members of the Red Scabbards that fully restore the Udon prisoners faith.

Hell, we even see this all the way back in Arlong Park, where Luffy waits to take action until Nami asks him for help. He doesn't come in guns blazing and save her like some sort of white knight, but instead waits for Nami's go ahead, placing the power in her hand.

It's just such a refreshing way of seeing a protagonist in this type of story be portrayed. To have him understand the importance of the people he fight's side by side with, and not place himself as the fixer of all problems, but rather as an aid to these people (often times an aid that they explicitly asked for). It actively rejects the white savior/white knight trope(s) and allows for the people native to the island to have agency in these large battles instead of being sidelined. It is their lives and stories that are centered as being the most important in these moments, and Luffy is simply there to help them.

When you’re so tired to the point even you’re ahogé isn’t pointing the right direction

It’s a little guy✨

I have been forced to do this for history so suffer as you see this image

I have to use an image from the app for the bear. The image was capybara who's teeth I had to redraw because I CANT draw animals.

Color wheel challenge Day 4: dark blue 🔵

I don't have the name for this character yet.

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