Also, Vander Decken using his fruit to literally throw people into the castle as an invasion tactic is some seriously inventive shit.
Posts made by Sanek
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RE: Chapter 614, "What's Done is Done"
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RE: Chapter 614, "What's Done is Done"
What's great about this chapter to me is it seems to really have set up what the scenario for this arc is. Now we have most of the Straw Hats in the castle or headed that way, with Luffy heading on a rendezvous with Jinbei.
It seems like this could possibly end up being a "siege" arc with the Straw Hats on the defensive in the castle against the attacks of Hodi Jones and Vander Decken. We've never really had one like that, have we? We've had arcs where the Straw Hats are the ones doing the sieging but never where they had to stay in one spot and defend it, I don't think. Ah, I suppose the Baratie arc was kind of like that though but there weren't nearly as many elements at play there.
However it ends up it's becoming hard to contain my excitement. Oda's got a whole ton of stuff he's got to juggle and I'm eager to see how it all goes down.
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RE: Do Buggy and Shanks know about Raftel and One Piece?
This ties into my theory that Shanks has full knowledge of One Piece and has been simply waiting for Luffy to come to get it. When Whitebeard spoke of Roger waiting for a specific kind of man to Blackbeard, I thought that Shanks could be the inheritor of Roger's will in that regard. Roger couldn't directly accomplish his dream (the destruction of the world government, or whatever it may end up being) due to his illness so he sparked the Great Pirate Age to try and lead someone like himself to take over the task after his death. I think Shanks can't do it because he isn't a "D" and whatever it is might require that. So he set out on the seas in search of the "D" who would be able to carry out Roger's final will. This might have been where he first confronted Blackbeard and got that scar.
Eventually, he found Luffy and, secure in the knowledge that he found the main Roger was waiting for, returned to the New World to wait for him and make sure things wouldn't be stacked too far against him with the other Four Emperors and such. Maybe even acting as a guardian to Raftel, trying to prevent other pirate crews from getting to it or uncovering the secret behind it.
So for me, I believe that Shanks and Buggy do have full knowledge of it. But whatever it is isn't that valuable monetarily for Buggy to be interested in and Shanks himself is either incapable or feels unworthy of using it and is waiting for Luffy to show up.
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RE: The Unofficial "Who's Getting An Eyepatch?" Predictions
I’ve actually thought about this a lot before I came across this thread. In my mind it can only be Luffy. Specifically, Luffy as the Pirate King. What better way to show him become the ultimate pirate than for him to don the most stereotypical and powerful piece of pirate imagery? As for how he would lose his eye, it would have to be right before he found One Piece so it’d be in his supposed battle with Blackbeard at Raftel. No doubt from the same attack that scarred Shanks so long ago.
To go even further, there’s an allusion to make with all of this. Oda loves Vikings and is probably familiar with the Norse myth of how Odin gave up an eye to drink from the well of wisdom. Well, what sort of hidden wisdom or knowledge exists in the world of One Piece? The poneglyphs. In discovering the Rio Ponelgyph on Raftel, Luffy will lose an eye. It won’t be anything too literary and deep but One Piece is full of quick, little nods and references like that to stories and culture.
Now for my really absurd theory: One Piece itself is an eye patch.