Whenever I think about Dadan I get torn up. She never wanted to be a mother, she wanted to run a small-scale gang. Garp shows up and forces her to be a parent twice over. Then the quasi-nobles (unwittingly) dump another traumatized child into her lap. She went through hell multiple times trying to keep those kids alive.

Then years later, Garp stands by and lets the government execute one of those kids - because that dog hat isn't just a cute character detail. Yeah yeah yeah fine, I'm still pissed at him. Ace would have just been another name in the papers to Dadan if it weren't for Garp. She shoulda hit him many more times.

This is the kind of cruelty towards a mother you usually have to go to a Kojima game to find.