User blog comment:Eustass el kid/The Real Doflamingo/@comment-5640399-20130424002233/@comment-95.105.212.107-20130424191718

I realy dont think that he wants to be the pirate king. He definately seeks power and control but i dont think that the status of the pirate king would suit his business. The pirate king unlike the yonko is activly hunted by the marines the cipherpoles and the goverment. It would be problematich for him to conduct his bussines when under the radar.

About his crew well i would call it more respect than love. Luffy, WB loved and love thier crews. Risking everything just to save one crew mate, even going so far that they would risk evrything for them. Now ok luffy and WB crew are probably the extreme but who would order their one crew mate as loyal as monet to just kill her self off. She technicaly wasnt dying and there was absolutly no proof that the blast radious could reach the SH + it could have reached CC and evrything would be over. I think he respects them, he trusts them and he doesnt kill them off like Kuro did. But still i think that if it came down to it he would sacrifice even his little sister baby 5 to survive.