Eee, I'm glad you enjoyed it so much! I've always wanted to write about Mihawk's refusal to duel with Shanks after the accident, always assumed Ben would take it harder than Shanks would. And with Oda's recent (okay, a bit more than a year ago) haki revelations, I could finally write this without feeling like I was making Ben too OOC as the probability of haki for all the crewmembers of the 4 emperors has gotten quite large and we have the parallels between Roger's, Shanks' and Luffy's crew to support it as well. But Ben being Ben, I wanted that careful, steady quality he has to come out as well.
As for Zoro, that is EXACTLY what I meant. I have trouble believing Oda would have Zoro kill Mihawk when they have their penultimate duel but I could easily see some sort of writerly urge to inflict similar damage on him as had happened to Shanks and then there would be no reason at all for them not to fight once more.
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Date: 2011-09-28 12:38 am (UTC)As for Zoro, that is EXACTLY what I meant. I have trouble believing Oda would have Zoro kill Mihawk when they have their penultimate duel but I could easily see some sort of writerly urge to inflict similar damage on him as had happened to Shanks and then there would be no reason at all for them not to fight once more.