I've been a huge fan of your One Piece art, and I've sort of been following you since I first saw your early Doffy family work! I definitely am a big Doffy fan, but I adore the whole family! I really love how much it humanizes him, and makes him feel that much more real. Like, sure he is a sociopathic murderous asshole lol but it's still possible for him to love people. I think, if you look at the people he's accepted into his family, that he can empathize on some level with people who started out at the bottom or were thrown there, and that despite the opposition they've still always fought for themselves. The people he cares about all have a similar "fuck you world" attitude and a ton of tenacity. I think that could be a reason he had such distaste for Bellamy, who apparently had a pretty comfortable life and became a pirate because he was bored. As opposed to Doffy and his family who all became pirates to survive. As he put it himself during his fight with Luffy, he doesn't care at all about the label or role of being a pirate, he just wants to be in the role that lets him first survive, and second cause the most havok & tear down the world around him. As evil and irredeemable as Doffy is, I do think his love for his family is genuine. Which makes the whole part with Rocinante even more heart-breaking. From Rocinante's position Doffy is a pure evil that needs to be curbed and eventually destroyed, but something he could never fully bring himself to do since he's his brother. That said, I think Rocy didn't have much love for his brother by the end, as much as an unwillingness to kill him. I think Doffy's love for his brother was true though, he was his "beloved" younger sibling. He had to look out for him once they were on his own. Doffy's methods and outlook on others who he didn't care about were just far too brutal and inhuman for Rocy to justify it, but Doffy did what he could to protect him. And with his own vicious and anarchic tendencies, he couldn't tolerate betrayal but you can really tell the revelation hurt Doflamingo.



Anyways, sorry for such a long rant lol but the Doffy Pirates and their charismatic leader have become some of my favorite One Piece villains ever! I'm really glad to see you're doing drawing of the Big Mom Pirates now, as I adore the designs Oda's giving them! I look forward to your work in the future, great job!