User blog comment:Stone Roger/Make your own way in one piece/@comment-3097081-20110614162542

When it comes to their philosophy, temperament, outlook on life and piracy and general personality, character, etc., I would pick Luffy, Shanks and Shirohige as pirates I'd model myself after if I were a real pirate. They all became pirates for adventure and nakama, not for power.

When it comes to strength and fighting style I'd pick Shanks, Rayleigh, Zoro, Luffy and Sanji. The first three are strong overall but they specialise in swordplay, although I think Zoro is the only one that's a pure swordsman, I think Shanks and Rayleigh can fight unarmed as well. I chose Luffy and Sanji because they fight unarmed.

I didn't take devil fruit into account because the question was "which TYPE OF CHARACTER would you choose if the pirate era EXISTED", to me the emphasis is on the types of character, and on what can exist in real life.

So to sum up, I'd be adventurous and harmless like the Straw Hats and the Red-Haired Pirates, since they don't pillage, plunder and murder. And I'd want to be a strong fighter, with and without a blade. Being skilled with a gun wouldn't hurt either, since pirates in the real world did carry guns.