On my walk home from the cafe I was thinking about Sanji (as one does) and how every influence in his life for 19 years screamed at him to hunker down, stay silent, and never appear weak.
As much as I love Zeff and know he loved Sanji, it's clear he has such a straight-laced and unflinching view of masculinity and what it means to be a man. The environment on the Baratie was an extension of that.
It was a machismo world where affection was hidden behind kicks to the head and insults. The kind of environment where cutting your hand or something gets a response of "what? You call that an injury? Don't cry over nothing". Where outright kindness has to be dragged out of people, and then immediately covered up with a half-baked insult.
Throw into that environmemt a little boy who is desperate to prove he's not the failure he was told he was, and out pops a man who wears his heart on his sleeve for "acceptable manly emotions" but who hides real emotions behind anger, and hides pain (physical or emotional) altogether so as not to seem weak.
Tack onto that the idea that the only surefire way to show love is through self sacrifice (his mom + Zeff), then of course Sanji will be all sorts of jacked up.
We see throughout the series how Sanji is so unwilling to be vulnerable or to even admit he's feeling hurt at all. Plaster a smile on, make some comment about loving women, and voila! He's the man's man everyone expects. No need to worry about him. After all: he's strong.
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Spoke: "It's so sad that you don't see what is happening right now."
Wemmbu: "What?"
Spoke: "It's..."
Spoke: "Like..."
Spoke: "It's honestly embarassing how you've been entertaining this for this long."
Wemmbu: "Embrassing on your part."
Spoke: "I mean look at you, man..."
Wemmbu: "You don't have a stasis, you're about to die, bruh."
Spoke: "Like, the fact you take everything at face--"
Spoke: "I mean, it's sad how you take everything at face value, like, you just assumed me being here would make sense."
Wemmbu: "I'm not saying it makes sense, I'm saying it doesn't matter 'cause you're dead."
Spoke: "And that's your problem, bro."
Spoke: "You understand this will eventually lead to... your death, right? It may not be here but..."
Spoke: [chuckle] "It's definitely..."
Spoke: "I don't think you understand that you've already lost."
Wemmbu: "Okay, yeah, yap it up, buddy."
Spoke: "Every second that you spend here is one more second to me."
Spoke: "Where did my fire res go-- oh, it's my totems."
Wemmbu: "Yap it up, buddy."
Spoke: "Doesn't matter, Wemmbu. It doesn't matter."
Spoke: "I can sit here and continuously eat."
Spoke: "I'm not gonna outdo this."
Wemmbu: [laughs]
Spoke: "I don't think you understand, Wemmbu."
Spoke: "Just keep going, man."
Wemmbu: "Uh-- y'know, I popped you once, I'm gonna pop you... a-again."
Wemmbu: "And..."
Spoke: "Keep going."
Wemmbu: "Yeah, okay..."
Wemmbu: "Oh, we can play this game. I break all your armor..."
(overlapping) Spoke: "Keep going, Wemmbu."
(overlapping) Wemmbu: "And you--" [unintelligible] "--long enough."
Spoke: "Oh, you almost got me, Wemmbu."
Wemmbu: "So, like... you gonna get bored of this anytime soon or, like..."
Spoke: "Doesn't even matter, Wemmbu."
Wemmbu: "You're the..."
Wemmbu: "You're the totem monster."
Spoke: "Doesn't even matter, just keep going. Keep going, you're almost there, you almost got all my totems!"
Spoke: "You really shouldn't have placed that enderchest, I won't lie."
Spoke: "Alright, well..." [shoots lots of arrows]
Wemmbu: "Got your boots."
Spoke: "Try to find me, man, try to find me. Try to find me, man." [stasis's away]
Wemmbu: "Aw-- oh."
Wemmbu: "Alright, well, I don't really have a choice."
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