Portgas.... [What? Deserves to be in Luceti? A sort of half-prison, half-freedom where he can be with his family and friends again, but not engage in piracy? A half-life better than none.]
In your world you're free and there isn't the World Government. There's the sort of international ICPO Zenigata works for, but from what I can understand about the politics of your world, the countries hold each other at bay from going too extreme. The World Government doesn't have that. You and Zenigata can team up to fight worse enemies, but the best I can do with Straw Hat right now is simply choose to hold off arresting him so I can get proof and he can help his friends. And that was very temporary.
It's not that we have a common enemy here. Portgas should probably thank the Malnosso for letting him be alive, and I just don't care about them. [Where Straw Hat goes, he'll hold him in check. To catch him, or whatever's necessary.] It's that the things which would make us enemies do not matter here. The World Government can't put a bounty on a dead man, and I wouldn't bother even if they did. In our world he was still a threat. [Half of the reasons for Ace's execution don't sit well with him. It's not a crime to be born, it should never be for anyone. But Ace was still a Whitebeard Commander, the Captain of the Spade pirates and had actual crimes to his name as well. Just as Whitebeard and the other pirates do.] In our world I can't let Straw Hat find One Piece because it's very likely to break the world, and certainly turn it into upheaval along the way. There is no One Piece here. No reason to catch Straw Hat or stop him from protecting Luceti. So no reason to stop A-- Portgas from protecting Straw Hat.
That's why it's complicated. Simply lacking reasons to be enemies other than history is hardly enough to make us friends either. [Well, it's stranger with Ace because he has reasons to be friends with him, it's just that the reasons they should not be are in the middle, so by removing them it still seems like moving backwards, or betraying something.]
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Portgas.... [What? Deserves to be in Luceti? A sort of half-prison, half-freedom where he can be with his family and friends again, but not engage in piracy? A half-life better than none.]
In your world you're free and there isn't the World Government. There's the sort of international ICPO Zenigata works for, but from what I can understand about the politics of your world, the countries hold each other at bay from going too extreme. The World Government doesn't have that. You and Zenigata can team up to fight worse enemies, but the best I can do with Straw Hat right now is simply choose to hold off arresting him so I can get proof and he can help his friends. And that was very temporary.
It's not that we have a common enemy here. Portgas should probably thank the Malnosso for letting him be alive, and I just don't care about them. [Where Straw Hat goes, he'll hold him in check. To catch him, or whatever's necessary.] It's that the things which would make us enemies do not matter here. The World Government can't put a bounty on a dead man, and I wouldn't bother even if they did. In our world he was still a threat. [Half of the reasons for Ace's execution don't sit well with him. It's not a crime to be born, it should never be for anyone. But Ace was still a Whitebeard Commander, the Captain of the Spade pirates and had actual crimes to his name as well. Just as Whitebeard and the other pirates do.] In our world I can't let Straw Hat find One Piece because it's very likely to break the world, and certainly turn it into upheaval along the way. There is no One Piece here. No reason to catch Straw Hat or stop him from protecting Luceti. So no reason to stop A-- Portgas from protecting Straw Hat.
That's why it's complicated. Simply lacking reasons to be enemies other than history is hardly enough to make us friends either. [Well, it's stranger with Ace because he has reasons to be friends with him, it's just that the reasons they should not be are in the middle, so by removing them it still seems like moving backwards, or betraying something.]