User blog comment:Wariwariparty/Who's gonna fight Blackbeard?/@comment-78.134.14.18-20200508205934/@comment-108.83.222.210-20200514154311

Thank you for the compliment. As a rule, I like to keep discussions as civil as possible. In instances where such a thing is not possible, I do my best to politely excuse myself. Sadly, there are not always instances where conversation and discussion can remain polite so I am happy when I come across places where they do so. It is a bit unfortunate that there are not more places where these kinds of conversation can occur. The closest I have come to these are discussions and conversations on YouTube and the conversations there can turn ugly at the turn of a hat.

As far as King is concerned, I could see him fighting either Luffy or Zoro depending on how Oda wants to play this. A repeat performance can be entertaining if the author knows how to play it correctly. Nice Reference to Oda's other work by the way. That would indeed make sense. As for Orochi, I agree that I enjoy both villains with complex backstories that make audiences sympathize with them and those who cannot create sympathy regardless of their reasons. As a rule I can feel sympathy for a variety of people even if I acknowledge that they need to be stopped. I can for instance feel sympathy for the circumstances that made Big Mom who she is and acknowledge that she was as much an innocent (we can debate how much or even the semantics of the word) child as anyone else once was even if her current self needs to be stopped for a number of reasons. Thank again, I tend to feel sympathy for children I suppose with few exceptions. Gecko Moriah is another one whom I can feel some sympathy for. He clearly did care about the crew he originally lost and it seems that he wanted a replaceable army of tools so that he would not become emotionally invested in them and experience that loss again. He even seems to care for his current living crew to some extent as seen when he went to retrieve Absalom. Generally, I like villains who elicit sympathy because they make me think, they provide an emotional (usually) contrast to the protagonist, or some other similar reaction. Villains who cannot gain my sympathy I enjoy because it makes their inevitable defeat even sweeter. So Orochi can continue being the kind of person he is, it will only make it more enjoyable when his actions finally catch up to him. I have experienced this before with certain villains usually bullies and cowards and I always enjoy seeing the people that they hurt managed to stand up to them and fight back. Then again, I really don't like bullies so that could be a part of it.