The blood-taboo and Fisher Tiger’s martyrdom power both the New Fish-Man Pirates’ ideology and the arc’s eventual argument for coexistence. The “dialogue-from-dead-character” technique (a recounted death reframed mid-arc) recasts the Sun-Pirates-founder’s @0521 sacrifice as the root of the present-day fish-man/human hatred cycle. Payoff (the cycle’s resolution / the coexistence argument) is forward of this window — seed kept pending. See Slavery, Fish-Men.