[Introduction] What is loyalty?
Well, to me it seemed like an all-around odd human made concept that has people separate
into groups due to who or what they align with, and that causes all types of splits
between people from things like gangs to brand loyalty.
But that’s on some fake third eye type of stuff because, yeah everything we do is or
relates to a construct of some sort.
I always thought the loyalty to part 5 was an interesting thing to take note on because
it would dictate things like who is the enemy and what is truly good and evil here, but
what is it directly?
Loyalty (in Wikipedia) is a devotion and faithfulness to a nation, cause, philosophy, country, group,
or person.
In our case it’s Passione.
Now this isn’t about how people find themselves in Passione, but how they keep their stance
in the group.
[The Loyalty in Passione] Now I’ve recently replayed Metal Gear Solid
3: Snake Eater, and it inspired this video.
Though not directly, but I had thought of the relationships of the group because of
it.
When it comes to the entirety of Passione, this mob isn’t as connected due to the distance
from everyone and the boss.
Everyone’s loyalty tracks back to the boss, but there’s more a chance of people devoting
themselves to their remote group or their leader/capo.
Everyone else more so falls in line, like soldiers, and if they don’t?
Then they’re dealt with because there’s no future for traitors (or that’s what we’re
told to believe until we became the traitors).
Though the biggest issue with this loyalty isn’t on who it stands with, but more so
what’s the reasoning of the defecting, and that’s trust.
[Trust] In my video going over the Black Sabbath arc
and its Godfather influences, I had gone over how big of a factor trust is.
“You can respect someone without trusting them, which is why he does trust the aspect
of respect, because that can go at anytime.
Respect comes in many forms and comes with many reasons as to why its given, be it age,
skill, or anything.
Trust is a personal tie, an indicator and a reason as to why you can be fine with the
relationship and the person you trust.
Respect is a thing given to position, skill, thing along that line, but trust is a completely
different area.
Trust correlates to your own perspective, your own judgement and connects to your beliefs.
You can respect someone around the same position as you or higher, but you don’t have to
trust them at all.
” The early interpretation on trust that had mixed it’s takes from the Godfather
was something to be internalized when going about the rest of the part.
Especially when it comes down to the respect area of the gang.
Most members fall in line as soldiers because it’s their duty and they respect the position
of their higher-ups.
When it comes down into loyalty though, unless Passione has given that person a reason as
to why they should trust them, the relationship isn’t strong enough to keep people from
diverging.
This goes down into what people believe on what’s truly important to them.
If the gang is providing them money, to some that’s enough because money answers majority
of their own personal problems.
Though when it comes to other areas of Passione like La Squadra and Bruno’s group, they
stand for different reasons.
And since what they stand for wasn’t received or even disrespected and lied to, then they
have all reason to defect.
So, Polpo was right about how important trust truly is because it’s the base of all our
relationships in this part and even further from that.
So, with this understanding, let’s use an example to further the point.
[La Squadra’s Loyalty] When it comes to La Squadra, they weren’t
going to truly prosper when it came to being in Passione.
They were an elite team and they weren’t compensated nearly as much as they should’ve
been.
Their potential was underutilized it and they knew it.
Because think about it here, people are always underutilized when it comes to normal jobs.
What La Squadra was doing was not a normal job or legal, can you imagine going to that
extent just for you to still end up being undercut.
Plus, working in Passione puts your life on the line, and being in an execution team only
magnifies that.
Between the Boss and La Squadra, this relationship was strictly business, especially since that’s
how the Boss normally went about running Passione.
The way that the Boss had built Passione, it makes sense that he took precautions for
the chance of traitors because the way he ran it, he gave more reason as to why you
should defect.
If the only thing that La Squadra is asking for is being kept from them, what’s to keep
them inside of the group?
Then there was the Sorbet and Gelato ordeal, but I personally can’t blame them for investigating
the Boss because when it comes down to this type of business it’s either La Squadra
or him, but with what he did, that sent a strong enough message to push them to go ahead
and defect from Passione.
Something to take notice of though, they don’t split up when they defect.
When they leave Passione, they’re still a team.
The reason for it is because of the shared goal they have, and that shared goal creates
a strong dynamic between the members to where they depend on each other to get to their
goal.
Even if members are being picked off one by one, the goal is still intact, and what helps
is that those that are lost are now fuel for the remaining members.
You can see the strength of the loyalty between all members in the team here.
[Unità Speciale’s Loyalty] My next example is the Boss’ elite guards,
known as “Unità Speciale”.
This is what I was talking about when I was on the whole “soldiers falling in line”
area.
When it comes to the Boss’ guards, I can’t necessarily call the first three members we
see evil, at least not entirely.
Let’s take Squalo and Tiziano, right?
From what we know, these two are just doing their job.
While it being their job doesn’t just remove them from being bad, I more so see them in
the light we saw Bruno in originally.
Squalo had seen the resolve that drove Narancia and was genuinely puzzled as to how someone
can be this motivated, especially when they’re facing against the threat that Passione can
be.
Now would Squalo and Tiziano be about converting over and joining if they had taken a different
approach?
Maybe there was something that the Boss wasn’t providing that they could’ve been the reason
they turned into traitors later on.
I’m not one to say, but that’s just me believing in a chance for those two.
The rest of the guards are something else.
I have not too much reason to believe that the guards mentioned are doing what they’re
doing for any other reason besides that it’s their job.
So, their stance on loyalty at the moment is as strong as any other member in Passione
until the Boss gives a reason otherwise, but as we had seen earlier, if you have potential,
you have a chance of being undercut.
[Bruno’s Group] Now our last example is Bruno’s sub-division
of Passione.
When it came to the group, the conversion from in the gang to traitors was fairly easy
because majority of the members had loyalty to Bruno or their own beliefs more than their
loyalty to Passione.
That’s because Bruno’s genuine feelings towards each of the member and his resolve
for a better future was something that everyone could get behind.
That’s on the group, but what about Bruno in specific.
Well, the strain that his loyalty had gone through is ridiculous.
Let me chart this out.
The whole reason Bruno even joined was for protection from the drug dealers that shot
his dad, but whole reason that was even happening was because the Boss was moving that weight
to begin with.
So, then he meets Giorno right, and the plan is to find out who the boss is, so they try
to capitalize off of the boss’ orders on bringing his daughter to him.
But the whole reason why he wanted them to bring his daughter to him is so that they
could never find his past or who he is, by killing her!
It’s ridiculous!
Especially with how close Bruno holds family.
His loyalty was in his core beliefs, and the boss went against every major thing he believed
in.
There was no relationship from the get-go, being a traitor was the only option left.
Same goes for La Squadra.
Because in that scenario, it’s either you’re a traitor to what you’re already against,
or you remain in the group, and you become a traitor to yourself.
Who are you loyal to in the end of it all?
[Side Note] Side note, when it came to finding out the
boss’ identity, I think this whole ordeal was massively interesting.
Because how I see it, La Squadra wasn’t necessarily wrong for trying to get Trish
to find the Boss, it’s just that their reasoning is a bit too shaky for anything of unity to
happen between them and Bruno’s group.
The boss wanted Trish sent to him so that he could cover his tracks, and then use Bruno’s
group as a defense squad for Trish.
La Squadra had wanted to use Trish to find out who the Boss was, and Bruno’s group
killed nearly all of them.
But then Bruno’s group uses Trish to find out who the Boss is anyways.
So, to me it’s like, man, if they found out the Boss’ plan a lot earlier and had
a talk with La Squadra they could’ve joined together to beat the Boss in the end of it.
Though there’s the saying that “people are only as loyal as their last meal”.
So, if they were to join together, history shows that La Squadra could potentially want
more and that would’ve ended up in our two groups fighting anyways.
Or, La Squadra could potentially want full control of Passione instead of Bruno’s group
getting it, so that would cause a power war.
This all coming to my head because I had a few comments “couldn’t have La Squadra
and Bruno’s group join together”, and it came down to “probably not.
” We know where both groups have their loyalty at, and they just don’t align when it comes
down
to it.
[Conclusion]