User blog comment:UndeadHero/9/30/XX12 - WHO INSPIRES YOU?/@comment-3387274-20120930191541

ok... dificult one. I'll have to say quite a few

out of the Straw-hats: Brook again. All of them have dealt with tragedy in a way that's inspiring, but all of the others had something big to focus on or to support them (like Nami trying to save her village). Brook not only saw his entire crew die unhapily, leaving him stranded, but then held on for fifty years after that, with nothing but said tragic past to live on. And why? Just in case he had even the slightest chance of fulfilling his promise to Laboon, even though he knew that his odds were tiny and there wasn't much he could do to improve them.

Out of the WG:

Smoker, Saul, Sengoku, and Hanibal.

And others:

Vivi: really would do anything for her country. Luffy's speach right before he fought Crocodile the first time says it all

Shirashoi: exactly the same as Vivi, but also carried a horrible secret for years and lived as a virtual prisoner for the sake of her race.

Fisher Tiger. His actions are impressive enough at first glance, but then when you look closer you notice that in carrying them out he had to face up to his own traumatic memories, and put aside his own prejudices, on top of everything else that is hard about what he did.