How come you can believe Bariete could play phony in a battle but not them?
Dont twist my stance, I do think it's possible they are traitors(although I think it less likely than Bariete). My argument was, if you think they are possible traitors, than Bariete should be on your list. However, you seem as though you are arguing that there is no reason to suspect Bariete, which I cant agree with at all.
Limited fighting against grunts isn't breaking any double agents roles. Its not like they played a hugely decisive role as far as we saw or anything.
I agree, and neither did Bariete and his bell, so using your logic here he could have done that and not broken his double agent role. The role of the bell was insignificant, because Jack wasn't planning on sneaking in and killing the minks in their sleep, but rather he asked them first to give him Raizo.
A fair amount of Minks were shown not poisoned. And also not tortured. Remember the Squirrel Mink?
It was said I think that ones deep in the woods and on the edges didn't get poisoned, and it was literally shown to be the case that the edges of Zou weren't in the toxic cloud.
Bariete is a watchman who is constantly shown on the edges of Zou, of course he wasn't poisoned. And why would he even have been tortured when only a few Minks were shown tortured. Most had been left to die on the ground where they had fallen.
Agreed, there were minks that hid within the fortress, but how many of those were named, prominent characters? Of the characters we should focus on, the only two with no hint of being poisoned are Carrot and Bariete. The squirrel was being chased by the remaining Kaido pirates, which removes the majority of the suspicion surrounding her IMO. The fact that Bariete was a watchman should have no relevance on whether he was poisoned. He should not have been performing his duties while Jack trashed the place.
Aside from him ringing the Raid Bell under duress and fear. This is also a dumb question, because only someone already convinced he's guilty would be saying this. You're supposed to be providing proof of guilt, not the other way around.
Correction, only someone certain that there will be a traitorous Mink would use this as evidence of a traitor. I am not as baised as you want me to be…
Jack's troops were still on the island and terrorizing the Minks who were un-poisoned able to move, again Sanji's group's first Mink encounter is the Squirrel Mink running for her life from the Jack troops. Basically you're expecting that Bariete should have been on guard duty on the island when the Minks didn't have control of the island and were fugitives on their own turf. It doesn't make any sense.
Actually, I am saying that Bariete, as one of the major Mink characters, who was shown to be mostly unhurt from Jacks assault should have been present like every other major suspect(except perhaps Carrot) in helping the remaining minks survive after their near death experience. Its Odd that Oda decided to not include him..
As someone who spends ridiculous amounts of time making overly complex and substance lite theory posts I'm not sure I understand your issue with length and added challenge.
Because I stay on topic, while you broaden the scope of the argument to the point that it's impossible(or very nearly) to respond back to you xD
None of those are suspicious at all. That much is proven.
It is not suspicious for a watchman to be watching.
It is not suspicious for one person not be worrying, when no one is shown worrying.
And a bit of light harmless sneakery does not indicate a completely corrupt and amoral depraved person lol.
In fact its almost as if the whole meaning of suspicious revolves around something standing out! And objectively speaking none of those things stand out!
Given the relatively subjective nature of what might or might not be suspicious, I'll just disagree here. But if you really want to I could explain (probably again) why exactly these things arouse my suspicions.
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@Monkey:
Its from a guy whose main method of theory building is playing six degrees of separation to get something related to ninjas.
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List of Racism Shown Toward Minks:
How can we see this specific situation when the race has hidden themselves on the back of an elephant that cant be found easily for 1000 years???
My response to this is… See: Fishmen
See: Reason for Totlands existance
See: Dwarves history with the Donquixote family