What did Luffy say?

[Ivotas]

Bumping this thread again after thinking a bit more about the revelations of chapter 1,060 as I would like to ask a question to you guys. For this question I would hope you guys could bear with me and just go with the premise I will describe below. You don't have to agree with the premise. But I'm curious what possible answers you guys could come up with if you would go with it, as I myself lack the creativity to think of anything else than what you'll read below.

The Premise:
I believe that Oda chose to omit introducing Luffy's actual dream as early as chapter 1 because it would completely change the readers expectations on a new series that's just about to start. I'll use the only example I can think of to explain this. Let's say Luffy's dream is to go to the moon/to outer space. If you introduce this as Luffy's dream in chapter 1 then the readers would immediately have a completely different set of expecations from this story. They might think that the combination between a pirate adventure in something that resembles colonial times and space travel would be an interesting premise. They might think that space travel will play a much bigger role. No matter how they feel, going to space (or to the moon) will be a integral part of approaching the story.

So if Oda tells the story as he told it in reality, then he would risk alienating a couple of fans (or many) along the road as they would feel that the promise of space travel never ever reflects in the actual story. So to avoid that Oda could have done two things: 1) include more aspects about space travel and thus create a completely different world form the one we know or 2) write the story as we come to know it and keep space travel a secret until it's proper time to reveal it.

So to summerize, the premise is something Oda had to keep a secret for the sake of moving the expectations in the direction he desires. Which leaves me what I want to ask you guys.

The Question:
What other possible scenarios besides space travel could be a dream that you wouldn't want to reveal in chapter 1 to temper expectations? I can just think of space travel so I'm curious to hear your guys' takes.

For the record, within this premise I don't think a big party or making everyone a pirate works as I don't think this would have changed the trajectory of expectations much if that was revealed in chapter 1. So what else is there?

[electricmastro]

Ah, well Luffy is trying to find and set-up his own country of course.

[Ivotas]

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

Ah, well Luffy is trying to find and set-up his own country of course.

Well that certainly fits the bill. Would even have a sneaky wink in the Sabo flashback.

[electricmastro]

@Ivotas said in What did Luffy say?:

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

Ah, well Luffy is trying to find and set-up his own country of course.

Well that certainly fits the bill. Would even have a sneaky wink in the Sabo flashback.

Yeah, with Luffy shaping things, I'm sure he'd get pretty far in getting more and more people to be free to eat anytime they want, perhaps finding more countries in the process.

[Ivotas]

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

@Ivotas said in What did Luffy say?:

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

Ah, well Luffy is trying to find and set-up his own country of course.

Well that certainly fits the bill. Would even have a sneaky wink in the Sabo flashback.

Yeah, with Luffy shaping things, I'm sure he'd get pretty far in getting more and more people to be free to eat anytime they want, perhaps finding more countries in the process.

This would definitely cover the ground of foreshadowing a ridiculous concept early. The only thing I wonder about is if the crew would react like this if it was actually creating a country. Because if you get the biggest treasure in the world starting your own little country doesn't necessarily strike me as something where you'd say "is that even possible?" or "Chopper, you should check Luffy's head"

Don't get me wrong. It's a good idea. I just wonder if the crew's reaction wouldn't be blown way out of proportion for this idea.

[electricmastro]

@Ivotas said in What did Luffy say?:

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

@Ivotas said in What did Luffy say?:

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

Ah, well Luffy is trying to find and set-up his own country of course.

Well that certainly fits the bill. Would even have a sneaky wink in the Sabo flashback.

Yeah, with Luffy shaping things, I'm sure he'd get pretty far in getting more and more people to be free to eat anytime they want, perhaps finding more countries in the process.

This would definitely cover the ground of foreshadowing a ridiculous concept early. The only thing I wonder about is if the crew would react like this if it was actually creating a country. Because if you get the biggest treasure in the world starting your own little country doesn't necessarily strike me as something where you'd say "is that even possible?" or "Chopper, you should check Luffy's head"

Don't get me wrong. It's a good idea. I just wonder if the crew's reaction wouldn't be blown way out of proportion for this idea.

Well, Luffy doesn’t exactly give the impression of being a “country-starter” to begin with.

[Ivotas]

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

@Ivotas said in What did Luffy say?:

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

@Ivotas said in What did Luffy say?:

@electricmastro said in What did Luffy say?:

Ah, well Luffy is trying to find and set-up his own country of course.

Well that certainly fits the bill. Would even have a sneaky wink in the Sabo flashback.

Yeah, with Luffy shaping things, I'm sure he'd get pretty far in getting more and more people to be free to eat anytime they want, perhaps finding more countries in the process.

This would definitely cover the ground of foreshadowing a ridiculous concept early. The only thing I wonder about is if the crew would react like this if it was actually creating a country. Because if you get the biggest treasure in the world starting your own little country doesn't necessarily strike me as something where you'd say "is that even possible?" or "Chopper, you should check Luffy's head"

Don't get me wrong. It's a good idea. I just wonder if the crew's reaction wouldn't be blown way out of proportion for this idea.

Well, Luffy doesn’t exactly give the impression of being a “country-starter” to begin with.

Absolutely. But that's more along the line of "can YOU do it?" rather than "is that even possible?".

[Alfiere]

As i said elsewhere, I'm sure we're not really supposed to guess what it is, rather to be surprised. So it will probably be something completely out of left field explained by flashbacks we'll see after it's been revealed.

But for the sake of playing the speculation game:
it' something really outlandish, most people would just laugh at it believing it's a joke or a naive utopia
being pirate king is essential for it being even remotely possible
it's something really childish, seeing how the only one who instantly bought into it is chopper, who has the mind of a toddler
those who know Luffy well find it to be something perfectly coherent with his personality and MO.

Considering all this, I would expect something alog the lines of:

Convince everyone on the planet to become a pirate
The entire world population will be my pirate crew
I'll use the One Piece to buy food for a worldwide party
I'll make 1 billion friends

Basically, something to do with the entire world and freedom, high concept but still specific enough to be pursued as an however irrealistic goal.

But again, what i really believe is it will be something more akin to "I want to find Big Whoop, the other great teasure of fairy tales everybody knows of but was never mentioned before to the audience for shock value".