User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 946: Luffy's Next Big Step/@comment-2600:1702:3C50:A6E0:2CB4:46A7:C3CA:6F9C-20190621123500/@comment-2600:1702:3C50:A6E0:E097:1AB8:F:491-20190623024849

Orochi might have power, but he is clearly more used to using it to intimidate people who are helpless rather then use in real combat. An example would be his usage of a sword. While he is clearly able to use it to some extent, his style is amateurish, unrefined, sloppy. Same with his devil fruit, he acts as one who expects others to cower before him and not fight back. His elites are there to make up for his weaknesses and to deal with anyone who is able to or willing to fight against him. Children are usually innocent as a rule, their environment and the world around them tends to help determine how they will react to life. Mother Caramel seemed to act in the way that she did to ensure that the children especially Big Mom would continue to listen to her. This would likely help later in establishing their loyalty to the marines when she would hand the children over. She probably thought that the marines would reign in any...unruly or inconvenient actions or traits thus ensuring that their problems were not hers. She did indeed understand the Big Mom was naturally good-intentioned, but while she did forgive Big Mom, she rarely seemed to desire to teach the child right from wrong. Her problem was that she thought that what the children did after they left her protection was not her problem. Strusen saw Big Mom as an opportunity and encouraged her worst traits for his own amusement. He actively worked to encourage her flaws. Big Mom does the same things, she either encourages and rewards bad behaviors among her children or she chooses to ignore the fact that they are bullied, discriminated against, or suffering similar things. The end result is that her children often become cruel, sadistic, or have some issues of some kind.