I may be reading into this too much, but theres something about captain john that's really bugging me. Looking at the japanese raw, at one time during the latest chapter Buggy refers to Captain john by calling him C. John. Like this:
The furiganas on the side read "キャプテン" (Kyaputen) which is how japanese say the english word "Captain". The strange thing is: Japanese have their own word for "Captain", which is 船長 (Senchou) so its pretty clear this is some kind of nickname And/Or surname. Now lets think about it: who else had the nickname "Captain" in One Piece? Who else if not our beloved Eustass Kidd? And I checked, it was written "キャプテン" in his case too! This is already pretty strange for two characters to have the same nickname, but that "C." thing? That's even stranger.
As far as I recall, there are other characters that follow the same name pattern.
Well the first obvious is example is all the D.'s:
where the furigana on the side of the D. is ディ , which reads "Dee" and thus is just a pronunciation for the letter D. (I'll get to that tomorrow in my follow up to this post (its 5 am here))
while the other is
X. Drake, with the furigana spelling ディエス which is "Dies".
You notice the pattern repeating?
[Katakana]
[Roman Letter]・[Name]
I've never seen a naming pattern like this in any other manga so I dont think its common either… cohincidence? Who knows...
Also, Keep in mind that I've started paying attention to japanese one piece raws from around vol. 45, so its very possible somebody else in the first 44 volumes had a similar name pattern... but that's where I need the help of somebody that has read the whole manga in japanese from the beginning. (Greg?)
I know it seems I'm grasping at straws here, but I think that since we know for a fact that a D. family exists, there may be other such families in the world of One Piece, maybe formed in ancient times. For now we have 5 D.'s, 2 C.'s and a X.
There may be more! For more of my thoughts on this, I'll post a follow-up to this post tomorrow.
I hope its not too out there as a theory :happy:
And I'd like to know if there where some other characters with that name pattern that I dont know about.