User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Vegapunk: Friend or Foe?/@comment-24850639-20150713184205

Personally, I think he's a pretty stand-up guy that's being forced to work for the World Government. His skills, scientific prowess, and knowledge of something like Devil Fruits make him way too valuable of an asset to be let loose on the world. They want someone with that kind of knowledge and ability to be kept somewhere they can keep their eyes on him, and they only want his inventions to be put to use for the WG's interests. If he made his inventions for the highest bidder, or whoever needed his help, they'd look at him no different than a dangerous pirate.

I base all of this on what we know from Franky's background.

- Tom was never a pirate a day in his life, but the WG was ready to execute him for the simple fact that he made Roger's ship. Perfectly good guy, but persecuted for not choosing to subjugate himself.

- Tom preached to Franky that you must always love your inventions, regardless of their eventual use. The ships/inventions themselves are not evil. I think Vegapunk had a similar personality, and is being blackmailed in some kind of way to stay in line with the WG's plans.

- There are other Shipwrights on the show and people who craft cool stuff, but no one else has been shown so far that is is a straight up inventor like Franky. There's Caesar, who is also DEEPLY connected to Vegapunk. Over the timeskip while everyone else got cool new masters, Franky's new sensei was Dr. Vegapunk and his blueprints. I think the show will play toward some kind of relationsihp between these 2. The same way Luffy ultimatlely longs to see Shanks, Usopp - Yasopp, Brook - Laboon, Zoro - Wano Country, etc. Vegapunk will be the person in Franky's future that really jumps his story forward, and its incredibly essential for him to meet.