User blog comment:StephenBrown30/No manga week!/@comment-24850639-20170220205112

1.) There's all kinds of blogs that I've been meaning to write, but I never actually feel up to doing it. So mostly I just try to contribute to the wiki in other ways I that are actually helpful, like updating stub pages or character sections that haven't been visited in a while. I comment on what blogs I usually can as well, even the ones where I know I'll prob end up being 1 of like 3 people who reply altogether.

2.) Crocodile. Good god I can't stand his laugh, but he's the only person Luffy's beaten so far that I've actually come to respect more since their defeat. He's one of the people I would have most definitely expected to come to resent Luffy, but instead his character has grown tremendously. He lost everything he worked all that time to build in Alabasta to him, and hasn't shown any semblance of a grudge, even saving Ace. Sure Luffy played a critical role in his escape from Impel Down, but even before the rescue his interactions with Luffy weren't of a bitter man plotting some kind of revenge. I've never once heard Croc complain about all he lost with Alabasta and Baroque Works, he just dusted himself off and started over. He showed a lot of humility as a villain, rather than being an overprivileged sociopath with a God complex.