I'd love to see them be met with hostility by the locals, like they were in Drum- only this time, it's because the locals know who they are. I could see Fishman Island playing out in this manner.
Chapter 500 "Ember of History" Discussion
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I'd love to see them be met with hostility by the locals, like they were in Drum- only this time, it's because the locals know who they are. I could see Fishman Island playing out in this manner.
Yes – or be met with trembling panic, instead of interest or friendship:
having heard the stories and seen the bounties, the population of some quiet, peace-loving backwater island could freak out when they see Sunny approaching. They'd race to their barrows/bomb shelters/tunnels/hide-outs, etc, and refuse to come out, in spite of numerous attempts (both benign and not-so-benign) from Luffy and crew to get them to come out.The Strawhats' goal for the island would be to find some way to win the trust of these shy people -- long enough to get the necessary information/fuel/food/map/trinkets/treasure from them -- before heading off to fight some big battle elsewhere.
It seems that many of the speculative and minute details are all tucked away in the spoiler threads, taking much of the insane joy away from the chapter thread.
Greg – I understand your frustration about spoiler threads. If they didn't contain so much interesting speculation in them, I'd probably avoid them too, since lately they've been spoiling us with 3/4ths of the chapter before mid-week. I think I liked it better when our spoilers were just a few sentences and maybe 4 images at most. When they were like that, the actual chapter was more of a surprise. Also, that kept the spoiler threads from becoming premature chapter threads. When we have 3/4ths of the chapter already revealed in a spoiler thread, people tend to treat it more like a chapter thread, and then don't post anything interesting in the chapter thread. But I'm probably a lone voice regarding limited spoilers: I'm guessing that the average OP fan wants as much as possible revealed as soon as possible.