@Jewelry_Bonney:
I'm with you on being very interested to learn more about Dragon. There is going to have to be something quirky about him to have family like he has. I think the meeting of Luffy and Dragon will definitely come after the timeskip and somehow Robin will help propel that in some way, even if its just her getting back to the others.
Yup, you're right about it coming after the time skip, for obvious reasons related to the fact that we think a time skip is happening to begin with. For some reason I wasn't thinking clearly about that when I posted (door bell, phone ringing same time sorta thing where you rush to post, lol)
Yeah, if Dragon isn't quirky in some way, as all D's appear to be, I will feel a tad let down, I must say. I wish I had soem sort of idea what the quirk will be, but knowing Oda, he will wait until the most comic moment to reveal it, and it will slay us all.
And the revolutionaries themselves. I'm very interested to see if we'll learn more about their inner operations. We are gonna get to meet all the leaders, with of course the distinct possibility that one of them may be Sabo himself (Freedom, is this mention of Sabo allowed, since it's directly related to the current chapter? Hope so, but sorry if it's not…), although that does seem a bit too obvious for Oda, in some ways. If Sabo is indeed a revo, it makes me wonder if he will come taggin' along with Dragon the way the much altered Coby did with Garp. That'd be a funny mirror, but it seems like it'd be too much for one momentous moment to have the great meeting of father and son and the reuiniting of the brothers at the same time, so I doubt it…
So only a day or two until wwe see Zoro and the possible reveal of the message itself, with presumedly confirmation of the length of the skip and stuff. I hope we see more of Luffy, but there's also the whole Shakky/TS question left hanging the chapter before this, too...