Just got back.@brennen.exe:
You know what, I apologize. I didn't trace your posts all the way back so I didn't see that quote, and therefore didn't realize you were quoting chapter 560. Since Stephen wasn't translating those chapters, I had to double-check by searching for forum, and ironically enough 560 is the only chapter of CNET's missing from the translation thread. On top of that, Aohige_AP didn't translate that chapter either. Anyway, you should know you cannot trust OM scans… but I was still wrong in correcting you, so to clear matters up, I found the portion you were quoting:
Smoker: I hope you're aware what will happen to you if it gets out you've been obstructing the Marine forces!
Hancock: No matter what I may do, I will be forgiven!!
No biggie I was mostly trying to aim that at Zik ;P.
@brennen.exe:
Smoker doesn't trust any pirates (Oda wrote his opinion on the Warlords in to the story), hates the upper management and even cusses them out over the phone-snails, doesn't follow orders himself, and still only rebuked her for her actions. I don't think he'd rat her out, and I don't think they'd care or listen to a guy like him if he did. Sentoumaru was whining. WHINING. He was like, "what the hell, man!?" At worst he'd be like, "that damn woman messed up a ton of these things!!" You think their response to that would be to go to war with her nation? Over something so trivial? The last action you listed I don't count, because we all know she is a government-hating, man-hating pirate. Momonga had his crew petrified already and barely batted an eye. Big freakin deal.
Firstly Smoker is still a marine when it comes down to it, he only ignores orders that go against his sense of justice, he's not some disobedient man-child who when commanded to do anything says "Pfft… hell with that". With that said there's no reason to believe that Smoker would not report Hancock considering that there's no conflict of justice between the higher ups at work here, he notably hates pirates and owes Hancock nothing, and because she attacked him and told him "No matter what I'll be forgiven". And there is nothing to indicate that they wouldn't listen to him in this situation especially when her betrayal has another corroborating it and when it was done to aid Luffy of all people, in a time that appears to be when they're cracking down on useless Shichibukai. The one instance of the higher ups not listening to Smoker had to do with Luffy defeating Crocodile, no way could they go with his story for obvious reasons however this doesn't suggest that they never pay him any mind.
As for Sentomaru again, why wouldn't he report her, you say that he was whining and at most would dismiss it as "Oh that crazy woman!" but I have to ask why? And she was destroying Pacifista's that he's in command of, why would he also choose to say or do nothing about it? And what are the chances of both these guys choosing to say or do nothing?
@brennen.exe:
Why does it make any sense at all to ignore Oda's proxies Rayleigh, Garp, Shakky, Hancock, and Nyon, ignore the lack of any real setup for AL to be attacked, and ignore the established behavior Warlords, and especially Hancock, in regards to following orders and being trustworthy… for unnecessary and recycled conflict?
1. Not every situation in which a character states something is Oda speaking an unwavering fact through them, characters can only make 100% statements on things within their character knowledge, Rayleigh's statement was based on the scenario that Shakky proposed in which Hancock only hides Luffy away on the island, he doesn't nor could he know that she openly attacked Smoker to save Luffy while admitting her love for him. His statement was a natural statement based off his understanding of the situation and was meant to reassure the characters around him that even though Shakky figured out Hancock's situation, the marines would have no way of drawing that conclusion, but little did he know that she told Smoker. Garp also only made a statement based off what he knew at the time, but also it was said by Chopper that the details of the war were still being worked out which could easily include Hancock's actions. Get my point? Infallible in story statements are done by the narrator.
2. I'm not going to argue build up with you when we've known the consequences of Hancock betraying the marines since her intro so the potential for disaster is something that should've been planted in our heads the moment she began risking her title to aid Luffy.
3. As for recycled, you can't say how the fight would go; though I doubt it would be a full blown war like the war of the highest, nor can you say it would be unnecessary especially when Oda went out of his way to show her being called on her actions twice.
