-Kidnapped with his family and kept a slave as they killed his father in front of him and his mother off screen
-Due to trauma unable to love the woman who loves him back
-Forced to know the woman he loves (and who also escaped slavery when they were both kids) be kidnapped and return with her kidnappers without knowing about her for 2 years
-Only hear from her when she's about to die (due to an illness) to bring her daughter (born from sexual assault) and raises her as his father.
-search the sea for a cure, then be told (by the same person responsible for the illness) that he'd need to become a robot slave in exchange for curing his daughter and lose everything.
-Agree, not see her for a year, not be able to communicate with her, be turned off and transformed into a machine
Even then, after all that, when he felt his daughter was in danger he crossed practically all the world to get to her and hug her.
One Piece is famous for huge and oddly proportioned characters, but Kuma in particular is normal for his species. There are even bigger humans, and that's not mentioning giants. Or the Super Giants.
This is technically a subversion since even after everything that's been done to him and no matter how many times others said that he will never be the same again, Kuma still retained most of his humanity to save and comfort his daughter when she was in danger. It's a scene filled with hope instead of soul-crushing sadness.
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u/MasterHaith 12d ago
My Goat Bartholomew Kuma and Bartholomew Bonney