<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=279531.msg13762308#msg13762308">Quote from: kingmaster1 on 18-12-2017, 18:03:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">*gasps horrifiedly and clutches a plushie of Robin* You bite your tongue, sir! &gt;&lt;<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Wholehearted agreement!!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=279531.msg13762312#msg13762312">Quote from: Batman4560 on 18-12-2017, 18:06:23</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">She's a fine character but I feel like she has the most unneeded role on the crew and could easily be replaced by someone more important who reads the Glyphs as a side thing.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Robin's weakness is that they already ran her character arc.  (Which was amazing!!!)  Sort of like how lately Zoro is just, y'know.. a cardboard I-like-swords Man.  The characterization dropped, the back-story and side characters have been largely resolved, and the motivations are either too distant or buried under Luffy's.<br/><br/>Luffy's goal isn't actually, I think, to become the Pirate King.  It's to have a fucking blast while doing it.  Raleigh already offered to tell them what the One Piece was, and presumably could have told them how to get to it.  Luffy almost went berserk when Usopp was like 'Ooo, nifty!'  Luffy screamed "I don't want to go on a boring voyage like that."  That's also why he's willing to go so far to get to Sanji in the current arc.  They're his family.  Because of that, Luffy's goal is always vibrant, always in your face.  Pirate King is where they're going.  But how he gets there is what's really important.<br/><br/>Zoro's motive is, uhh..  swords.  He wants to swing swords better than anyone.  And you can forgive the characterization as he grows progressively more silent-yojimbo, if it means he's using it to get closer to that mastery.  But the motive is ultimately nebulous, because the journey is introspective and goal has no fixed destination.  He's already able to slice 40-ton rock men in half, so how much farther does he have to go?<br/><br/>Robin's the same way.  Before, you really felt her motive, because it wasn't just "I want the secret of the poneglyphs."  It was revenge.  It was a way to cope with Ohara's destruction, and a life-line to keep her going as she was hunted all over the earth for being the Devil Child.  When she gave in, and was ripped back to the surface by Luffy, you really felt her getting a second lease on life.  It really made sense, for one of the villains of the Alabasta Arc, to suddenly appear on Luffy's Ship and be like "I'm with you guys, now."  It was awesome!  But that was years and years of publications ago, back when she wore a corset and a cowboy hat.  Now she's Posh Spice: the bookish, dark-haired lady who wants to read poneglyphs, and incidentally can trivialize most of the series by just snapping everyone's spine all at once.  She needs something to add to her character.<br/><br/>But I love her to death, even so.  Her backstory was the turning point for me as a One Piece Fan.  That moment when I realized that this guy actually had some deep as hell shit woven into this tale of rubber pirates and base-ball playing moles!