You can't help someone achieve their goals by getting distance from them or pushing them away.
My brothers all have different goals as well, eh? Different things we want, different dreams. But we're together to help each other get closer to those goals. As far as we can.
And even if one ran away or had to separate for a bit, we wouldn't give up on him for anything or any reason. We'd try to support him from afar and get him to come back, and if he got in trouble, we'd declare war on the whole world to help him if needed. [That's dangerously close to admitting the truth that they didn't in fact, order Ace away like Marco claims even when everyone knows the truth.] His goal would still be ours, and if he died we'd carry on his will. That's what vengeance is half about in the first place. If you're so sure you're going to die, that if they came along, they'd be risking their goals as well... that's how it should be.
Such a thing isn't a light undertaking, and it's not meant to be taken lightly. If you're going to set yourself up to chase something like this you have to be ready to not just lay your life on the line -- and I don't mean risk death, I mean how you'll live in the future -- but that of your nakama too. Goals like this... [Rubs his chin.]
I told you before my brothers are my reason for living, right? Without them I'd be willing to die trying to kill Blackbeard to avenge my father. But because they need me alive I have to be careful, to make sure that I don't kill Blackbeard if it means risking that I'll fail and kill myself in the process. They'd be safer in a world without Blackbeard, but even without him, in greater danger in a world without me. We will get our revenge... [If Marco has any say in it, and he does. At least a little.] But for the sake of the future, not the past. To carry on Pops' will means we have to live as much as we can, seize as much out of life as we can. To carry on Ace's will we'll try to make the New World a better place that his little brother can survive and make it to Pirate King in.
These things...
Shanks gets in my way. He didn't let me kill Akainu. Because if I kept trying, I wouldn't just risk my life, but all my brothers, and I'd be risking my chance in the future to kill Blackbeard.
If you don't want to risk your nakama's goals, their lives, then your timing is off. Become the strongest man in the world if you have to, so that you won't have to worry about risking them, but I don't think you can save them by pushing them away. That's... [Child's thinking, he wants to say. Something Ace tried. He can still see Ace up on the execution stand begging them to turn their backs on him so he wouldn't have to see them get hurt for him, so they wouldn't get hurt. Yelling at Luffy to run away and trying to disown him, anything to save any one of them. Of course it didn't work.] I can only compare our situations, eh? Since mine is all I know, but in my situation, even if Vista or Jozu or one of my brothers decided to hunt down Blackbeard on their own because they couldn't stand the thought of him living while Pops wasn't, I'd go get them back. So we could get him together, so we could fulfill Pops' wishes, so we could bide our time to find a better future. I guess to them it'd seem like I was just trying to get back what we once had, but I know there's no going back. It's their future that concerns me. That's why I want to see it together with them.
I'd love to say "fuck it all" and go it alone. But it's not enough. And no matter how much I'd want it to be myself, alone, my personal vengeance and not risk the others, they'd do it no matter how much I ordered them not to. Because that's who they are, who we are. If one of us is willing to risk our own lives for something, then we all are. Whatever that goal is, whatever the consequences.
You'll do as you will Sasuke, but if your situation is remotely similar, then trying to get them to back off probably won't work like you hope. Even if they don't hunt you down, I guarantee they'll be waiting for you. Nakama are home, they'll always have an open place for you. Vengeance is a grave you have to struggle to fill with the right person. Where will you go when you're done digging?
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You can't help someone achieve their goals by getting distance from them or pushing them away.
My brothers all have different goals as well, eh? Different things we want, different dreams. But we're together to help each other get closer to those goals. As far as we can.
And even if one ran away or had to separate for a bit, we wouldn't give up on him for anything or any reason. We'd try to support him from afar and get him to come back, and if he got in trouble, we'd declare war on the whole world to help him if needed. [That's dangerously close to admitting the truth that they didn't in fact, order Ace away like Marco claims even when everyone knows the truth.] His goal would still be ours, and if he died we'd carry on his will. That's what vengeance is half about in the first place. If you're so sure you're going to die, that if they came along, they'd be risking their goals as well... that's how it should be.
Such a thing isn't a light undertaking, and it's not meant to be taken lightly. If you're going to set yourself up to chase something like this you have to be ready to not just lay your life on the line -- and I don't mean risk death, I mean how you'll live in the future -- but that of your nakama too. Goals like this... [Rubs his chin.]
I told you before my brothers are my reason for living, right? Without them I'd be willing to die trying to kill Blackbeard to avenge my father. But because they need me alive I have to be careful, to make sure that I don't kill Blackbeard if it means risking that I'll fail and kill myself in the process. They'd be safer in a world without Blackbeard, but even without him, in greater danger in a world without me. We will get our revenge... [If Marco has any say in it, and he does. At least a little.] But for the sake of the future, not the past. To carry on Pops' will means we have to live as much as we can, seize as much out of life as we can. To carry on Ace's will we'll try to make the New World a better place that his little brother can survive and make it to Pirate King in.
These things...
Shanks gets in my way. He didn't let me kill Akainu. Because if I kept trying, I wouldn't just risk my life, but all my brothers, and I'd be risking my chance in the future to kill Blackbeard.
If you don't want to risk your nakama's goals, their lives, then your timing is off. Become the strongest man in the world if you have to, so that you won't have to worry about risking them, but I don't think you can save them by pushing them away. That's... [Child's thinking, he wants to say. Something Ace tried. He can still see Ace up on the execution stand begging them to turn their backs on him so he wouldn't have to see them get hurt for him, so they wouldn't get hurt. Yelling at Luffy to run away and trying to disown him, anything to save any one of them. Of course it didn't work.] I can only compare our situations, eh? Since mine is all I know, but in my situation, even if Vista or Jozu or one of my brothers decided to hunt down Blackbeard on their own because they couldn't stand the thought of him living while Pops wasn't, I'd go get them back. So we could get him together, so we could fulfill Pops' wishes, so we could bide our time to find a better future. I guess to them it'd seem like I was just trying to get back what we once had, but I know there's no going back. It's their future that concerns me. That's why I want to see it together with them.
I'd love to say "fuck it all" and go it alone. But it's not enough. And no matter how much I'd want it to be myself, alone, my personal vengeance and not risk the others, they'd do it no matter how much I ordered them not to. Because that's who they are, who we are. If one of us is willing to risk our own lives for something, then we all are. Whatever that goal is, whatever the consequences.
You'll do as you will Sasuke, but if your situation is remotely similar, then trying to get them to back off probably won't work like you hope. Even if they don't hunt you down, I guarantee they'll be waiting for you. Nakama are home, they'll always have an open place for you. Vengeance is a grave you have to struggle to fill with the right person. Where will you go when you're done digging?