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HERE WE GO GUYS!

SORRY FOR THE WAIT!

FISHMAN DON'T PLAY! BUT THESE BACKSTORIES ARE INTERESTING!

ONE MORE COMING RIGHT UP! <3

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Mike G. M.

You called the queen "A brat with big dreams": isn't that also the perfect description for Luffy too?~ Having characters like Arlong just seething with hate for humans is to have him stand in contrast with the much more common mindset of the locals that the Queen drunkenly yelled at for being cowards. The basic mindset of Fishman as a 'minority race' (I hate having to use those words in this political climate, but it's accurate) is that because humans are the "superior" race, is to just go "we don't want to fight back, we just accept that we're going to be second clas citizens and are just content to stay in out literal bubble". However with Arlong and Tiger, that fear morphed over into hatred. In Tiger case he hated them so much he wouldn't even allow them to save his life, and with Arlong his mindset basically became "Why should I treat you as the superior race when "we're" the ones that deserve to be treated as the superior race?" It's the same concept where both groups are reacting to humans placing themselves above Fishmen, just getting reacted to in two different ways. Which incidentally also brings up the whole point about how they could hate humans when Whitebeard is around. Without going into as much detail as I'd like (since the show itself is going to touch on this idea more anyway): Whitebeard being "one of the good ones" isn't going to make a difference to most people because it's proof that humans are the ones in charge. As I said; Arlong, Tiger, Jinbe in his youth; the fishmen that have an actual *hatred* for humans are themselves a small group: most fishman "hate" because they know they are seen as the inferior race when compared to the humans.. So having Whitebeard flex his power to save them? If anything; that just confirms their fear, because it implicitly says "Humans are so far above us; that we need another human to do the fighting on our behalf". It might give them peace (relatively speaking) and it does show that not all humans hate them, but it doesn't change the core concept of the fact the fear and/or hate the most of the Fishman have towards humanity stems from the fact that Fishman feel like they are powerless when faced with the actions and decisions of humans. It's why Tiger became the living legend that he was; he was the first Fishman in memory to do something powerful enough to make humans take notice by actually stopping them doing what they wanted.

g27

Fishmen hated humans because humans were bad to them. Arlong said “See what happens when you show mercy to them?!” He hated humans. Only Hordy Jones had a superiority complex, where instead of hating them because they were violated by humans, he sees fishmen as the superior beings. Other fishmen were just assaulted and enslaved by humans so it wasn’t a superiority complex for them, it was a violation.

g27

20:50 Rear Admiral Strawberry wrapped his hair like it was broken lol.

Mike G. M.

This kind of implies though that Arlong didn’t have a superiority complex though? Cause we know thats also not the case. While theres no way to know if his belief that humans were inherently inferior made his hated for there actions worse, or if it was their actions that manifested into him believing they’re lesser species: both things can be true at the same time.

g27

How come I stopped getting notifications on comments? I literally just stumbled upon this by luck lol. You’re actually right, did the story not touch on this later on? I always assumed Hordy was the first to start preaching human inferiority, compared to just hate. But even though, that means the other 5 million fishmen and mermaids don’t have a superiority complex, it’s mostly the case of hate because of violation. So why didn’t they notice that Whitebeard is a human that cared for them?