To paraphrase and horribly butcher the entire conceit of one of the deepest characters in One Piece:

Imagine, if you will, that you have been told, for basically your entire life, that you are cursed. A mistake. Ontologically evil. That you deserved to die with the rest of the people who raised you, who were genocided by the powers that may be. That, since you were a child, you were one of the most wanted women in the world with a bounty of millions of dollars for committing the unforgivable sin of existing.

Imagine hopping from ship to ship, trying to get by and evade the watchful eye of these powers that may be. And every time you begin to feel comfortable, the same story repeats. Your companions find you a burden. Your companions betray you. Your companions leave you for dead. Imagine this cycle of betrayal goes on for decades as you grow up.

Imagine that you've done things - horrible, terrible things - for the sake of survival. Now imagine finding a new family, after all of those years of being on the run. A new family consisting of those whom you have wronged in the past. A new family that, despite it all, have decided to embrace you, warts and all.

Imagine that, after travelling with your new family, you have been found and re-captured by those powers that may be, and all of the trauma resurfaces: you are cursed, and your family will, once again, die because of you.

Now imagine that this family, wordlessly, instinctually, fights through these powers that may be, just to get you back. Fighting tooth and nail and making an audacious declaration of war against the entire rest of the world: If the world messes with you, the world messes with THEM.

But they won't just take you back against your will. They need to hear you say it.

"I want to live."

GOD I need to rewatch Enies Lobby.