@brennen.exe:
Everyone but the Boa sisters. I should have said "seems" rather than "obviously", but I was basing it off their reaction to Luffy's stretching ability. Freedom would know what I mean.
A little. Slightly. The reason being […] the same, but only with Haki.
@BeSPEC:
It seems so. I'm hoping Luffy will stop relying heavily on Gear 2nd and 3rd if this is the case. Would love to see Luffy kick Sentoumaru's ass with a revamped Gatling gun. ( wishful thinking )
@igetownd:
The island is full of warriors who traditionally uses Haki, so […] he'll power up to an extent even more than him learning Soru.
Ah! Finally back from lunch, and finally read a translation of the chapter. Thank you cnet.
Haki ("Ambition"): We may need a new definition for this pretty soon.
Let's state the obvious. Oda is definitely shoving this 'haki' in our faces. Who do we know can use it for sure. Shanks. check! Rayleigh. check! Every female on amazon lilly. maybe… let's at least say that they can all recognize it's use. So, can we get it shoved down our throats anymore.
Things to note. 'haki' is something that can be "seen" when it's used. Therefore, is someone gonna teach it to Luffy? hmmm... can you say hell no! Luffy will definitely learn it himself. How? well, if you haven't figured it out, then let me say it. How did Luffy learn soru... ding ding ding, that's right, from seeing Blueno use it over and over b/c he was at his limit fighting Luffy who he thought would be a push over.
Same situation, different ability. No doubt in my mind that Marigold and Sandersonia will be at their limits fighting Luffy, and will have to heavily rely on the use of 'haki'. Hell, I doubt any of the amazons can even attack w/o it. It's probably the essence of fighting for them. It's be a travesty now if Luffy didn't learn to use 'haki' during the impending fight ^_^
What's that you say? revamped gattling? I'm glad you picked one of luffy's most awesome moves, but can you say revamped everything. We all new that after luffy struggled w/ lucci using his new Gear 2nd and Gear 3rd techniques that he'd have to get strong. So, just like Goku learned the Kaio-ken techniques initially, and then left them after gaining his super saiya-jin abilities, Luffy is about to introduce 'haki' into all of his moves. No need for useless transformations. And just in case he needs an even bigger boost, can you say 'haki'-infused Gear 3rd <insert madness="">here.
If you can't tell already, I'm extremely excited and delighted with the foreshadowing this chapter has just painted. I'm glad the chapter turned out to be much more interesting than the spoiler let on.
Now. The business about the Gorgon sisters and how their powers work. So, if it's DF based, then perhaps there is a snake zoan: model {python, anaconda, cobra, etc} and the sisters just got lucky and at the same type of zoan. I'm also betting that they're disguising their DF abilities as the curse of the Gorgon. A bit of true in both.
So, I'm thinking... the sisters defeated the Gorgon monster, got cursed, and something is on their backs. However, it doesn't turn you to stone. while they were out at sea, they got some DFs and decided to use the curse as a cover for the DF abilities... would be pretty crafty and convenient... but only time will tell.
sorry for the long post, just had too much on my mind. ^^</insert>