Vivi Reason With Rebel Leader Diplomacy Doctrine

Status: pending · Technique: diplomacy-doctrine-install · register-clash-pre-load · princess-of-the-people-coding

The seed

Why this matters

Diplomacy-doctrine install: the princess will NOT solve the civil war by violence. The saga’s structural axis canonized: Vivi (talk-not-fight register) vs Luffy (kick-his-butt register). The register-clash defines the Strawhat-princess relationship for the saga.

Princess-of-the-people coding: Vivi articulates her concern for the people of Alabasta (who have suffered) — not abstractly the kingdom or the throne. The princess-of-the-people register is pre-loaded here.

Register-clash pre-load: pre-loads the Vivi-Luffy tension that defines the saga (Vivi’s please don’t fight register vs Luffy’s kick his butt register; the what are we doing here? tension that recurs across the saga’s middle chapters).

Cross-links

• Vivi
• Luffy
• Baroque Works
• Vivi Million-People Stakes Senseless War Articulation (precursor — Ch. 0130)
• Forward: rebel-leader meeting