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Old 2009-10-22, 22:34   Link #109
Sazelyt
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Originally Posted by james0246 View Post
Except, as you say, he was already running away. Luffy knows what he has to do; he has to find a way to save Ace. Losing a limb will not help Luffy in the slightest.
Why did he think of losing a limb, in the first place? And not two arms, but a single arm (considering the attack uses both arms, not one)? There are many ways for Mihawk to finish Luffy according to the thinking process, but Luffy thought of a single one.

Based on his previous experiences, he could have just seen himself on the ground, with blood coming out of him, and that would be more than sufficient for a thought.

Or, we don't really need to see a scene of that sort, since a comment on that would do the job more than fine, if it is just a moment triggered by only thinking.

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Consequently, Luffy is taking the safe route, choosing the battle he knows he can win, and running like hell from the battles he knows will destroy him or that do not matter to his desire of saving Ace. In this instance, Luffy goes against his warrior's instinct because he knows that is not what is important right now.
That is fine and all, but it doesn't explain the need to show a specific scene, which may not even match what Luffy would normally think of if he were to make a prediction on the attack, based on his thinking process. That is not one of his experiences. He had many battles against people of different sort, and he sees only that scene. To me, result of the Zoro-Mihawk encounter from the past would be a good example for Luffy to think. Not this one.

The scene doesn't really match Luffy, in many ways.

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This was a character growth moment, not any specific power or ability moment.
A question. Are you perfectly sure that this is character growth? If you can give a percentage of the possibilities, what would you give to the haki-based scenario? And, if you assigned a non-zero probability to it, what was the reasoning you used for that possibility?
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