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The birdcage is created through the Black Knight, which scales lower than Doflamingo. Whether Doffy has actual control over it later isn't known, and assuming it isn't the nature of the Black Knight to remain a bird cage until the user CAN'T willingly have that clone stay active is beyond headcanon.@SnookB: not quite the argument I'm making. Some of your points don't make sense; the Birdcage isn't being manipulated by a clone that's weaker than Doflamingo. It's being produced by Doflamingo's own Devil Fruit. He doesn't divide off a portion of energy and send it outside of his body to be controlled by something else.
Either A: The Black Knight is the Bird Cage itself, and we have no evidence of Doffy actively holding it up or saying "I'll make it stronger" when the meteorites were getting dragged down. He wasn't even paying attention to it. But that's STILL headanon because Doffy getting KO'd takes the bird cage out.
Or B: The Bird Cage, created from Black Knight, ceases to become the seperate Black Knight and HAS to be held up by Doflamingo, and that was being done without being mentioned ONCE. Which is also headcanon.
The safest assumption, UNTIL further is revealed, is to say the Black Knight/Bird Cage are passive once they're created, because Doffy was far too busy to tend to the bird cage during his fight with Luffy.
I'm not saying you are. I'm saying your comprehensive arguments are easily broken down when you note the consistency of admirals, unlike pirates, actively holding back to not destroy too much.I'm not trying to downplay the characters by only judging them by their worst feats. I'm trying to make a comprehensive judgement using all of the character's showings and see what makes the most consistent sense.
Kizaru was literally TOLD to hold back.
And Fujitora's meteorites?
His 2 strongest meteorites were:
- In a not populated island as far as we know (since th Tontatta were already out of it and Fuji's observation would've NO DOUBT noticed that)
- In the OPEN SEA
- On a threat to a whole kingdom, which he recognizes as such.
Vs his weakest Meteorite on the beach:
- WHERE THERE WERE OTHER MARINES nearby
If you're not willing to say that Fujitora holds back only when circumstances such as unnecessary casualties call for it, then it's definitely downplay. Judging a character's weaker feat because of blatant narrative purposes that are consistent with OTHER characters that share the rank and responsibility, is flat out downplay.