That's what I mean. Most rookies I see come into the New World die in their first year. Or their first five. Then the first ten.
You've grown up, but without getting discouraged and forced to give up. If anything you're ... [Wiser, he wants to say. Stronger. Instead he says neither, leaving it to the imagination.] I liked you already, keep in mind. So to see this growth? Hardship might have shaped it, but you forged it.
People who can do that; really genuinely bring themselves to change things about themselves that aren't working for them, are rarer than people who use the King's Haki.
[It's where a lot of his disrespect to Gecko Moria or Crocodile, or yes, Rockstar, comes in. Watching rookies continually get crushed through their own naive "this is how the world should be, why is it kicking me down" and then watching them become like Moria or Crocodile; it gets wearisome. Almost no one is as stubborn as Ace, but Marco's biggest like of Ace wasn't that he was stubborn, it was that in spite of that, he still recognized when he needed to make a change for the better. For his dreams, for his happiness. And the one thing the New World proves time and and time again is that most people can't do that.]
Sometime when you're less mad at me, we should share drinks and you can tell me all about it, eh?
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You've grown up, but without getting discouraged and forced to give up. If anything you're ... [Wiser, he wants to say. Stronger. Instead he says neither, leaving it to the imagination.] I liked you already, keep in mind. So to see this growth? Hardship might have shaped it, but you forged it.
People who can do that; really genuinely bring themselves to change things about themselves that aren't working for them, are rarer than people who use the King's Haki.
[It's where a lot of his disrespect to Gecko Moria or Crocodile, or yes, Rockstar, comes in. Watching rookies continually get crushed through their own naive "this is how the world should be, why is it kicking me down" and then watching them become like Moria or Crocodile; it gets wearisome. Almost no one is as stubborn as Ace, but Marco's biggest like of Ace wasn't that he was stubborn, it was that in spite of that, he still recognized when he needed to make a change for the better. For his dreams, for his happiness. And the one thing the New World proves time and and time again is that most people can't do that.]
Sometime when you're less mad at me, we should share drinks and you can tell me all about it, eh?