Blue Nitro is invincible, except for evolutionary plot hax toriko who makes all the animal kings piss their nests.

Seems like everyone agrees that the story feels rushed now…

@mary:

they arent passed down in families, nor same.

his will in ace? maybe you could say more motivation to protect others but red hawk attack??

The red hawk was the name fire attack Luffy used against Hody. It was an attack he made in remembrance of Ace.

As for the Will of D and CoC, all the people with the family name D. are obviously linked to the will of D so it has some basis in the family name, and when Luffy's CoC became known during the war, it was said to be obvious considering his bloodline (or just considering the fact that he's dragon's son). It was never implied (and I have never implied) that CoC and the Will of D are the same, but they do seem to be similar in that they have some basis in being passed down in families.

@Monkey:

You know, there are things I nitpick.
But not understanding a huge theme in the series that Oda has manifested into a superpower doesn't strike me as a nitpick.

No they don't. They concern completely different meanings of the word will.
One is will like willpower, the other is will like "a thing left behind for others". I bet if we were in Japan we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

Inherited will is a will that's been left behind after death and we've seen Ace's will in Luffy e.g. Red hawk attack. The main reason the whitebeard pirates tried so hard to save Luffy was to preserve Ace's will. I'm sure its become apart of what drives his CoC. All these things are connected.

@Monkey:

You don't have to care about me, but understanding what Haki is is something you should probably get around to doing.

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So you don't study history huh.

It might help to notice how many super awesome kings and such people had moronic sons who ruined their inherited kingdoms.

I said "probably", it's not a certain thing but it happens often enough that people make quotes about it. It seems you have a love for nitpicking but you can try to calm down a bit since I haven't really mentioned anything of import just yet.

Comparing CoC and the Will of D is nothing special since both seem to concern "will" and have been said to be passed down in families (the D. in all their middle names obviously means something). That's really all you need to decide to compare the two. Nothing there implies a lack of knowledge of haki.

I think Burgess being in the tournament might be a troll by Oda. It's entirely possible that the tournament gets interrupted and Burgess completes his mission to obtain the fruit while the strawhats choose to save the people in the factory. A conflict of interest between the fruit and the well-being of other people could force Luffy to make the right choice and abandon the fruit

@D.aelthasaar:

Not exactly.
If your father is a big man, you have a natural push to become at least as good as your father or become better, like in Ace's case.
Though some don't have that push at all, or, like Hermeppo, they initially fail at conveying the strength necessary to become a better man.
Or having a repressive father can take you out of the ambition road at all.
It's more normal and life like than you think, but it's psychologic and not genetic

That's what "like father, like son" means lol. Son imitates the father subconcsiously, sometimes without thinking.

@Monkey:

You don't understand Haki at all.

I've noticed that you're naturally callous and sarcastic so im not going to take that to heart

@MiyamotoMusashi:

Like Hiroy pretty much already said, i definitely agree, Oda wants to convey that believing in yourself, your dreams and thus developing a superior willpower is something that will make you strong and he has shown that countless times in the manga but i don´t think CoC, from what we know so far, falls literally under that message.

It's probably just that if your father has it, you're more likely to have it too. Like Father, like son

It's the concept of "Inherited Will". All of the Strawhats have inherited will from someone. Luffy = Shanks, Zoro = Kuina, Nami = Belmere, Sanji = Sef the Red Leg, Ussop = Yassop, Chopper = Hilruk, Robin = the archaeologists/her mother, Brooke = his crew/laboon, and Franky = Tom/Tom's workers. Like Dragon and Roger have said, inherited will, the dreams of the people, and the change of an age are the most important things in one piece.