Rocks was manipulated by someone else - One Piece

 

I believe that rocks D xebec was manipulated into becoming a villainous person and the person pulling his strings was.....Shiki.

My argument is this, based off of other theories I written I think rocks was once a good person and was friends with roger and garp. For full context I will provide the theories in the comment section but for here I will briefly state I believe rocks crew up on dawn island along with garp, as teenagers they left to sail around as pirates and met roger and Shiki who are all from the east blue. The four of them became friends and went on their own adventure but Shiki wanted power but he knew he couldn’t do it alone and saw how among all of them rocks had the most potential.

over time he quickly manipulated rocks into seeking more power for himself eventually garp and roger who did not want this tried to reason with rocks but Shiki won in the end and something terrible happened 55 years ago which made roger leave to start his own pirate crew and garp to join the marines.

we know Shiki tried to convince roger to join in his plans and this was a common discussion they had which roger always rejected

it’s also be said that buggy is the poor mans rocks

the cross guild is even a similar concept a bunch of other pirate crews coming together to challenge the WG.

so its interesting that buggy is set up as the leader only so he can be used as a scapegoa by the real leaders.

mihawk is the whitebeard of this crew, he’s the calm one and the strongest one.

mihawk isn’t in it for power or glory he just wants a comfortable life and crocodile was able to convince him he can give him that by destroying the world government.

whitebeard only had 2 goals, he wanted a family of his own but he also wanted to protect his home, he would save up and give his money to the ppl of sphinx island so they could afford the fee to join the WG and get protection and resources, perhaps he agreed to join rocks in order to gain resources to support his home before he could go off to do his real dream of gathering the unwanted kids of the world so he could have his own family.

crocodile is the Shiki.

besides Shiki having swords for legs and crocodile having a hook for a hand both have a similar goal.

crocodile wanted to find the pluton so he could take over the world and build his own nation with him on top.

shiki was also after the ancient weapons she he could take over the world.

shiki hated Morden day pirates who are only after money.

he wanted to tear down the WG and create a era where pirates ruled.

now I’m not saying rocks himself was an idiot like buggy, he was definitely a threat and was a big part of this but he was only a part and no the real culprit, rocks was originally an agreement between rocks Shiki and whitebeard and shiki was the man who set it all up.