User blog comment:WhitzellBlood/Blackbeard's Possible Power Boost After the Two Year Skip/@comment-3242083-20101208031229

Nice post, but i think he mastered the two fruits by now. However, i don't get why he wanted the tremor-tremor fruit that badly...it does not much for him. The yami yami no mi already granted him super-destructive-kamehameha powers :S, so why don't get a fruit that would nullify his weakness (not having a real logia defense)? There were plenty of great options at marinefold for that matter.

Also i don't think he is a coward, not wanting to fight akainu is just reasonable...especially since he has to eat every hit because of the fake logia yami yami no mi. I wouldnt want to get hit by a monstrous lava fist as well!