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I love Doffy so much but I doubt that he’ll be able to get a redemption arc-first of all he’s hurt Law too much which makes me think he won’t be allowed a redemption arc
also I think that unlike a character like Crocodile who will give up when beaten, I think Doflamingo’s need for power and wrathful need to cause chaos and destruction isn’t something that can be beaten out of him I think that as long as Doflamingo is free and has an inch of life left in him that he’ll try to be king of dressrosa. Doflamingo also has political power that will keep him out of prison even if he gets beaten which makes me afraid that Doflamingo might even die at the end of this arc because it’s not like he will be sent to Impel Down.
The only way out I can think of for Doflamingo is that his crew will save him and help him escape being killed by Kaidou. That would be an explanation as to why Oda has built up Doflamingo’s relationship with his crew so much aside from just the purpose of fleshing out his character.
But even then it’s hard to imagine where it would go from there- I don’t think Doflamingo is the type to like start a cafe with his crew members in a cover story arc. As long as Doflamingo is alive I think he’ll be seeking protection from the WG by using the secret he has that grants him power over them? The only other possible solution I could think of would be something like what’s happening with Moria where his crew has saved him and he’s hiding now probably still doing evil shit but on the down low

to be honest I've been dissapointed with the Doflamingo vs. Luffy fight.

I was expecting something more like an epic show down like with Luffy vs. Crocodile but the closest thing this fight reminds me of is Luffy vs. Blueno (who wasn't even the main antagonist of his arc)

i may be reading too much into things (you can never read too much into things in one piece)
but could part of the reason why Luffy calls Trafalgar Law “torao” be that it sounds like “toreador” ….?
they are in grand line Spain after all….

i may be reading too much into things (you can never read too much into things in one piece)
but could part of the reason why Luffy calls Trafalgar Law “torao” be that it sounds like “toreador” ….?
they are in grand line Spain after all….

yeah! Sanji x Baby5 is so cool. But Sanji x Violet too??? It's weird it felt like two female characters got introduced which were really compatible with Sanji but now…. I mean we haven't seen Sanji in so long it would be unrealistic to expect him to be getting interactions with these charas.....

prediction for how dressrosa arc will end:

I love the jojo pose

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I thought I should make my selfie debut on here with the Lady Croc drunken closet cosplay I did tonight

hm….

"my name's captain ugly but I think I'm actually pretty cute"

I remember when we thought Trafalgar Law was actually Gin's reappearance in the manga under a new name just because they both have dark eye circles. capslock community on livejournal was saying he's the heart pirates as a tribute to his love for Sanji.

someone say lesbian nami….?


'I thought I saw a puddy cat?' dammit i've been compromised! abort mission! abort mission!

hmmm I've got a general meta post about the dressrosa arc and it's sort of "themes" and Doflamingo and the Doflamingo family.

I think there's a heavy theme of 'corruption' and almost biblical 'fall from grace' themes in this arc that I think are really interesting. I'm putting it under a cut because it's kind of long
but I'd love responses or added comments?

! ok so would people agree that one of the themes of this one piece arc is like… corruption? (like in a corruption of the ‘soul’ or individual rather than like systematic corruption i mean)
! I feel like it’s really significant that even though Doflamingo could have had anyone in his crew in the flashbacks you see that he has a kind of inordinate number of literal children that he’s allowed into his inner circle.
! this arc more than most others we’ve gotten a lot of backstory for the villains (like senor pink and baby 5 in addition to doflamingo)
doflamingo took law who’s just a sickly, weak, kid with no special powers, into his crew and promised to groom him to be his right hand man in 10 years for no other reason than because he had a look in his eye of someone filled with hatred of the world who’d experienced deep suffering.
! and that’s true of doflamingo too. doflamingo was raised in extreme privilege and thinking he was a god and could hurt other people but I think his main drive is from the suffering he experienced not from the privilege of his early life? (i’m not sure about this tbh) that made him hateful and ruthless
! but I think part of the take away message from law’s whole flashback is that doflamingo, law, and corazon all have had great tragedy in their early childhood but they all grew up to be very different people. Doflamingo and Corazon had the same things happen to them but Corazon unlike Doflamingo is deeply compassionate and has a strong sense of justice.
! and Law is somewhere inbetween. Doflamingo brought him into his crew because he thought Law could grow up to be like himself. But Corazon saved him in part because he wanted to save Law from that corruption. So Law grew up to be from the reader’s perspective a protagonist, on the same side as the heroes, but he’s also a person whose motivation is revenge.
! and then i feel like baby 5 is also an interesting person to look at to understand the context of doflamingo and how he chooses his crew? She has a very strong devil fruit power but she was also just a little girl who as we see in flashbacks had to be saved by doflamingo in fights because she couldn’t control her power well enough. but she’s also traumatized and has abandonment issues- so is part of why she is an appealing member to doflamingo because he can rely on loyalty from her because of that?
! It’s really hard to tell how much if at all Doflamingo genuinely cares about his crew and how much he’s just manipulating them to serve his own purposes
! I also think this arc is about ‘falls from grace’. Flevance was a white city that seemed blessed and then great tragedy ravaged it. I think Doflamingo becomes focused on it and Law (we see him falling asleep with a book about Flevance on his face and he also scolds his associate for not knowing that it’s not contagious which he knows even though most doctors don’t seem to know it) is because he subconsciously or consciously realizes that the city mirrors his own fall from grace to being a child who is a ‘god’ and then having everything turned on him. Doflamingo out of all the one piece villains has the most sort of Paradise Lost lucifer quality to him- he’s literally a ‘descendant of god’ that’s been forced out of heaven and is now trying to rule ‘hell’.

hi! I know I had an account on this website a long time ago but I can't remember what my username or anything was and I may have deleted my account. But I decided to make a new account and start posting again!

I've been really obsessed with One Piece for like over 10 years, I'm 21, female, college student, my favorite characters are Crocodile and Sanji (but I like all of the characters!)

Glad to be on this site and excited to start posting!