We're his children. I was spoiled enough to be with him the longest. He didn't even become an emperor until later years. He was recognized the world over as the strongest man in the world, but he always said it was because he had to protect us. So we all protected him right back.
He didn't find most of us as children, but he took us in as his own because we were all outcasts of the world: monsters, okama, what have you.
Ace is the baby of the family, and he didn't come to us until he was 17. But he's our firestarter. We're very proud of him. He set the world ablaze and changed an era.
We had sixteen hundred directly in the crew before I wound up here. And sixteen divisions of one hundred each. Ace was the second division commander, Thatch led fourth, Namur leads the 8th division, and I led the first and some additional jobs. [Because Marco's basically first mate.]
But Pops also adopted a lot of our allies. [Normally Marco wouldn't explain this much, but he's over the top giddy from Spring and so extra forthcoming with words for once. And this is an important facet of the Whitebeard alliance for canon reasons.] Whitey Bay, Doma, Squardo, the Decalvan Brothers, Jinbei, and several thousand others. So long as they wanted to call him Pops, and wanted him to be their old man, he'd look after them. It was his dream, and it made him happy, so it made us all happy too!
And the more of us there were, the more we all looked after each other. That's how he made sure we'll never be alone even if we wanted to. Someone like Namur or my other brothers will always be sent to come get me and vice versa.
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We're his children. I was spoiled enough to be with him the longest. He didn't even become an emperor until later years. He was recognized the world over as the strongest man in the world, but he always said it was because he had to protect us. So we all protected him right back.
He didn't find most of us as children, but he took us in as his own because we were all outcasts of the world: monsters, okama, what have you.
Ace is the baby of the family, and he didn't come to us until he was 17. But he's our firestarter. We're very proud of him. He set the world ablaze and changed an era.
We had sixteen hundred directly in the crew before I wound up here. And sixteen divisions of one hundred each. Ace was the second division commander, Thatch led fourth, Namur leads the 8th division, and I led the first and some additional jobs. [Because Marco's basically first mate.]
But Pops also adopted a lot of our allies. [Normally Marco wouldn't explain this much, but he's over the top giddy from Spring and so extra forthcoming with words for once. And this is an important facet of the Whitebeard alliance for canon reasons.] Whitey Bay, Doma, Squardo, the Decalvan Brothers, Jinbei, and several thousand others. So long as they wanted to call him Pops, and wanted him to be their old man, he'd look after them. It was his dream, and it made him happy, so it made us all happy too!
And the more of us there were, the more we all looked after each other. That's how he made sure we'll never be alone even if we wanted to. Someone like Namur or my other brothers will always be sent to come get me and vice versa.