He at some point takes no shit, but then Ida’s pussy ruins him and he loses any ability to think outside of “Ida wants me to make peace with the country everyone has warned me against.”
@Incecticyder covers it perfectly in the next post. But Ida didn't say "Harald, become a faggot and damn your nation to be used and abused by evil oligarcs", she just said "I've coexisted with humans, they were nice to me and are terrified of you for legitimate reasons, maybe rollback the raiding". Harald is the one obsessed with world recognition when mending relations with the 5 neighboring islands would have been more than enough. Specially with how long lived giants are that can mend relations for multiple human generations.
You really seem to think that Harald acting like a "YN" was him being "cool" and strong. He was not. Ida was right that he should not go around raiding people. At no point do we see her tell him to befriend the WG. She just told him to not be an asshole. She even told him to "choose better friends" when Harald said that he wanted to ally with the WG (which she also said in regards to Rocks too). She clearly did not trust the WG, where did you get that she did?
Ida has been shown to be INCREDIBLY hands off and to not hold grudges. She is seen like a pariah in a chunk of Elbaf society yet she holds no grudges and respects how to the standard Elbafan she's a sort of pretender seducing the king. If anything, her being so hands off is what lets Harald cook himself into insanity. Ida just said be nicer to humans, mutual friendship is possible, not grovel and let your ass get pounded by them.
Wasn't it established that it was because of Brook's "Soul King" persona from the timeskip?
Brook and Gunko know each other from when Brook was a royal guard in his kingdom. Not clear on the hows and whys, but that's what I remember reading.
There was also a flashback from when Brook was in the Navy.
Royal guard in his nations army, as far as I'm aware Brook has never been part of the navy. He was more like Kyros.
I think some people let the whole world government = globalists joke infect their view of the story. From the perspective of most of the people in the OP world the WG are the good guys or at worst a flawed system that is still better than any alternative.
Fair point, we do see behind the curtain, but Harald after fucking god valley still went all in, even if he didn't have the full picture. That should have been his "what the hell am I doing" moment and instead he doubled, tripled and cuadrupled down because he was too much of a FAGGOT to accept the reality that he enabled his friend's death for nothing. I sympathize with Loki, I understand what Ida meant, but Harald just loses me more and more each chapter. I'm waiting for realization to hit him like a bag of bricks once domi reversi happens. I guess his whole deal is to personify "good intentions pave the way to hell" but that I get it doesn't mean I won't despise him for it.
On a separate topic. I understand the value on paper of Elbaf giants, but in practice I've seen enough monsters in OP to know that half the admirals could solo Elbaf. When you have such obscenely powerful individuals running around, I have a hard time believing that elbafans are the be all and end all of military might. Ignoring King's people seem to be extint, those fuckers seem a LOT more dangerous to me.
