Hey guys i'm rereading one piece right now and something came to my mind again that didnt quite fit in the timeline.
because it looks like between arlong park and little garden must have been 3 months at least, which just sounds wrong in comparision to the other intervals.
the thing is, that back in drum arc dalton told the strawhats, that blackbeard and his men wrecked havoc there "a few months ago", so it was maybe even before luffy set out to sail.
which i would find really cool by the way, the first step that induced the era changing war on marineford has already happened by the time one piece (or to be more precise luffys journey) started!
anyways,
judging by ace' reaction in the flashback of thatchs death he started pursuing teach right after he killed him and fled. which means by the start of the series ace already left whitebeards ship.
so now you would think, that between the time luffy got his first bounty and dalton telling them about blackbeards attack, it couldnt have been more than one maybe two weeks, right?
as the strawhats leave drum, luffys wanted poster is shown to dalton with the comment, that some guy (ace) visited around a week ago and asked them about blackbeard and luffy. so we could guess that drum happend at least one week after logue town, which would still be plausible.
but here's the thing.
there was another time when ace showed somebody luffys poster. that was whitebeard.
now if blackbeards raid was a few months ago and he already had his crew then, thatchs murder must have happend even an earlier time and ace too must've left for his journey at that time.
which would on the other hand mean the order of events was:
- luffy got his bounty
- ace showed the wanted poster to whitebeard while everything was still fine on the ship
- thatch found the yami yami no mi and was murdered
- blackbeard pirates were founded and attacked drum
then a few months passed and finally
- luffy and co set foot on drum island.
but where would those months fit? when the strawhats got the newspaper with luffys wanted poster they already where in sight of loguetown. so that leaves us only with whiskey peak to little garden.
do you think its a mistake on odas part? or can somebody find a better explanation, something i overlooked maybe?