Buggy absolutely gaslights himself into thinking that a favor from Marco is worth the possible trouble he could get himself in. It’s absolutely not worth it and Whitebeard will try to surprise adopt him but he has to go back because Richie would make an awful captain.

Bonus 80 points if Whitebeard only remember Buggy because of Shanks and Buggy yells very disrespectfully at him. And then everyone whose never met Buggy is like 😦🫢🫣 and Whitebeard is just “some things never change”