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Halfway Broken - Marineford Battle Poll!
🕑 Added 2025-07-16 19:50:38 +0000 UTCAlright, ladies, gents, and others! I mentioned this poll in the comments of the latest Halfway Broken release. What this is about is the events of the Whitebeard vs Marine battle at Marineford. Specifically, whether or not you want me to actually write a perspective or two showing the battle!
Now, first let me be clear. We will get an overview of what happened during the battle either way. Vivi and Robin were keeping an eye on events, as well as actively recording the battle via either a Vision Dial or Snail Projector (one or the other should be able to record video, I'm just not sure which fits better). We'll get a crew reaction/summary of events from the Strawhat crew regardless of which options is chosen.
What this poll is about, therefore, is if you guy and gals want me to take the time to show POVs that actively cover the battle itself. It would, most likely, be done from a combination of Ace and Robin's points of view. Ace in the actual battle itself, Robin watching the events from a more zoomed-out battlefield perspective via the Marine Den Den Mushi feed. I might, if I wrote the battle, also show snippets of the Marine side via Garp or Sengoku. Though that's more iffy.
The alternative, of course, is to stick with the Strawhat crew and watch it with them in the aftermath. Which would be more of a 'highlights of what happened and reactions to it' sort of experience. This has the advantage of keeping the focus on them, which is mostly what I've done so far, barring a few reaction chapters from the Marine perspective.
Essentially, it really comes down to two things. The first being if it's important to everyone to see the battle while it's actively taking place and how it changed from canon. The second being, how fast you want to get on with the reactions and aftermath. If I write out the battle, it's likely to consume most or all of the August update. With us probably only getting the battle itself, plus the Strawhat escape from the Archipelago and maybe their reactions to everything. That's sort of the tradeoff here, and why I want everyone's input. I'm not sure which way you all would rather have it. An active POV of the battle, or a highlight reel from the Strawhat crew perspective, with reactions to events by said crew during/afterward...
Comments
Novus Peregrine
A chance, yes. Not a surety, but a chance of seeing the aftermath from his perspective at least. As for Garp, he wasn't sent to the Sky Islands, he was told to find and send a CREW that could survive the High West entrance to investigate the claims about Shiki. There's no way he would send Garp himself away right before the Whitebeard confrontation.
Camille Favre
A highlight of the battle from the Strawhats' perspective along with a very brief Marine reaction (+ an even briefer Whitebeard & Ace reaction) in the aftermath would easily be enough. I've read the Marineford arc enough times that extending the story to go through it all might be boring so the highlights only would be great. Delaying the continuation of the story would be a shame, especially since I'm more interested in what comes next for the Strawhats.
BPellet
If we vote on just getting the highlight reel is there still a chance of getting a small Ace perspective? Also I thought that Garp was currently in the sky islands investigating whatever Shiki is up to, was there enough passage of time for him to have made it back for the war?
