not a fan of this potentially because it sounds exactly like the ~centrist: let's hear both sides out~ type of person who turns a blind eye to the evils of the government but you also have a fun spin on it that this person also is the one who creates the weapons of mass destruction that the government uses like yeah you created the people melter machine of course you'd say you aren't qualified to judge who's good or evil. but the people who have the people melter machine used on them don't get that luxury.
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i dont have anywhere else to go with this but i think seraphim (or otherwise) clone of luffy is interesting if you imagine it was an attempt to get a viable version of the nika fruit working-- not even ordered by the WG they'd want nothing to do with it but bc vegapunk has like 0 ethics about these things and i think it would occur to him to try and make a viable vessel with juuuuuuust enough personality to synergize with a mythic zoan.
anyway it doesnt work s-monkey just has the literal rubber paramecia fruit. has to consciously decide to active it too vs luffy Always being rubber. just genuinely the inferior version.
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one piece chapter 1095 spoilers
holy fuck ODA COOKED HARD THIS TIME HE BETTER CALM DOWN
this chapter, more lore is revealed. We have infos about Kuma, the CDs, Garling and there revos. Let's go:
-the chapter starts with Saturn saying that Bonney's stab didn't harm him. He removes the sword out of his chest and glares at Bonney, making her and Sanji fall back (unclear if it's conquerors haki or not)
-Kizaru is laying on the ground, he seems to be injured. Saturn is VERY disappointed in him this time
-Saturn tries to stomp on Luffy but Franky extends his hand and saves him in time. so instead he goes after Bonney who yells at him that he killed her father
-okay fellas, THIS IS WHERE IT GETS REAL GOOD! We see a young Kuma and Bonney, he is talking to her about Nika and sings the rythm of them drums of liberation to her and they start dancing 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
-fast forward 47 YEAR before that, someone leaked the infos about Kuma's blood test that he belongs to a very special race called the Buccaneers, his mother ends up getting killed in the process
-So basically, the Buccaneers are a race of people who have committed a TERRIBLE CRIME by world government standards (and knowing how the world government works, we know that would be some cringe ass cope crime against the whiny CDs but we have yet to find out what it is)
-We see a child Kuma and his father, his father sings the drums of liberation rythm to him and they start dancing to it, but then some guard shoots Kuma's father because he was "too loud", killing him as well
-the tennryubito were holding a "hunger game" styled competition where they bring members of every race the deem "problematic" and force them to fight each other to the death. And surprise surprise, they force a child Kuma to partake.
-the death match takes place on an inhabited island called "god valley" that is unaffiliated with the world government and is doomed to have it's whole population wiped off along the troublesome prisoners because they had the audacity to name their island a name containing the word "god"
-the king of the island tries to defend his island but Garling Figarland (who looks like a younger shanks but with a cresent shaped hair) kills him (we see lots of tennryubito swooning over him as well)
-the news that a child buccaneer (AKA Kuma) was trying to escape and was captured spread around, and we see Kuma being dragged back. Two kids approach him who are then revealed to be Ivankov and a girl eating meat called Ginny/Jinny, they comment that his size is HUGE (which is a special trait among the Buccaneers having giants like traits) and tell him that they will work together to survive
-Saturn is present as well on god valley, he looks like a boomer just like always does
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so did anyone notice that other than the hancock pacifista, the boy pacifista looks like kid Mihawk… he even has a sword…
the marines are literally making artificial child soldiers crossed with lunarian dna now that’s so fucked
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After over a year, I am caught up on One Piece once more and let me tell you. I'm Insane.
The amount of mysteries and story told in those 40 or so chapters I missed is insane.
As someone who's favorite arc has been Skypiea and one of my favorite aspects of the series is just the world and its history as a whole, this is legitimately everything.
Oda's incredible storytelling and ability to maintain such a consistent story this whole time is so admirable honestly. The amount of call backs and full circle moments is incredible.
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When ch 1044 and 1045 were released and all the chaos was unleashed, I remember having a very obvious question
"How come the power of human human no mi: model Nika is connected to rubber?"
How is a gomu gomu fruit's awakening the power to turn imagination into reality?
I mean... This awakening grants the user freedom, not just of spirit but freedom of how to use power too. Luffy's ability to manipulate reality while in gear 5 seems to show that.
So??? Why rubber? Why does the fruit give the user a rubber-like body? What does that have to do with anything?
I was totally not re reading Skypiea when I noticed this.
Of course it's white they're in a cloud sky instead of a water ocean, but it's the fact that they use "pure white". White would've been enough to get the point across, right?
Guess where else have we seen that exact expression!? Oda's drafts of Gear 5!!
And the chapter after that? Guess what?!
We learn island clouds in Skypiea bounce just like rubber.
There's no need for Oda to make them bounce, but they do! Exactly like when Luffy turns the environment around him to rubber due to the awakening.
Let's not forget that Skypiea is where we first hear about the "Sun God" and we see Luffy's sirouette resembling the "Sun God Nika" transformation.
So would it be insane to think whatever Luffy has going on during his gear 5 is clouds?!! More specifically island clouds just like the ones found in sky islands.
Think about it.
Rubber was unknown to the people in Skypiea, and sea clouds/island clouds don't survive in the blue sea under natural conditions. Most likely 99% of the blue sea population has no idea what an island cloud is or what their properties are.
For all intents and purposes rubber was the best description blue sea people could give to the power of the fruit. If the fruit hasn't awaken in 800 years, it means no one has seen that transformation (which clearly is not just a “rubber fruit” awakening) EVER?! since the end of the void history gap. You would have no way of knowing. You would just think it’s rubber.
Now what does clouds have to do with the Sun God?
Well other than "they're in the sky" I'm not sure 😂 but someone that dreams a lot is said "to have their head in the clouds". The same way imagination and thoughts in manga are depicted with a floating cloud above the character's head.
It seems to be a perfect physical and symbolic representation of dreams! That's the theme of skypiea and the true pinnacle of piracy - dreams and freedom. It’s what the whole story is about!
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