@TheCrystalShip:
This is a good theory, but instead of it being the Tree of the Snake, it should represent the tree in the Garden of Eden which bore fruit.
Because, you know, DFs grow from it. Or wait… DEVIL'S fruit. Maybe it SHOULD be the Serpent's Tree. This is getting all kinds of meta.
Yeah, it serves all the parallels: A "forbidden" fruit that seduces the eater (with great powers).
Once it gets eaten the eater is "doomed", cause he can't swim anymore in a world which is covered with lets say 80% water at the least.
And yet we already heard of a tree of Adam and a tree of Eve.
It only depends on time until we'll hear of a Serpent's tree.
Though this doesn't have to mean that there is only one tree of DFs.
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@Pipio:
Love the idea, but I'd like to see something more unique than a logia, maybe a strange abilities para, maybe the ability to turn objects to metal or a circuits man.
Though I like the theory of Kaidou being a dwarf, it can't be, cause Kaidou is Franky's dad (IMO). And if Kaidou was a dwarf, Moria would have stomped on him with his gigantic flatfeet.
A few months ago I wanted to draw/write a lil fanfic bout how Moria lost his crewmates to Kaidou. I wanted to use the info we have yet and put in some of my thoughts.
I had also a similar idea of Kaidou's ability that turns living things into cyborganic/mecha stuff. In the end of TB Moria said that if his crewmates have been dead in the first place, he wouldn't have lost them (to Kaidou?).
BTW I still have sketches of how Moria's former crewmates might have looked like. I'll maybe post them in the next time.
Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to draw the fanfic, but maybe I'll write a short summary of what I imagined so far. I am sure once Kaidou is introduced, we'll get to know how Moria lost his nakamas.