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The "Luffy's fruit is a Zoan" reveal/retcon was extremely controversial when 1044 was first released; do you think Oda did a good job foreshadowing it?
yes!! it addresses a lot of idle questions i had about luffy's powers for quite some time (while also raising a ton more, of course, but that's the nature of one piece).
(all of my thoughts here and on gear 5 in general owe some credit to @grainjew, who has been my main discussion partner on this topic)
luffy's fruit has always been, from what we've seen, kind of weird for a paramecia? obviously since the categorization of 'paramecia' is sort of a grab bag and a lot less well-defined than logias or zoans, that's kind of a hard claim to make, but generally speaking, most of the paramecia users we see throughout the series do not have their powers always on. (the strongest counter-example i could think of to this trend is brook, and even that is one i think you can argue.) luffy's power is way more passive, in the sense that he doesn't have to activate it- it's just there, always. even seastone and seawater do not make luffy not rubber, they just sap his energy and stop him from stretching himself, as we see as early as arlong park.
that is weird! what we see of most other paramecias is that they have to use their powers intentionally, even when those powers do involve transforming their body in some way, like with mr. 1 or alvida. there's a whole plot in dressrosa about knocking a specific paramecia user unconscious so she'll lose her grip on her power and it'll disappear. luffy will stretch when he is asleep, when he is underwater, and without knowing he's doing it. he's always rubber.
so luffy is weird for a paramecia, though not completely unprecedented. his power has always seemed to me to be... almost logia adjacent, in the sense that he's made from a specific material and all his powers are based on being that material, but that doesn't quite track either. aside from the fact that the thing he's composed of is tangible and, again, he can't turn it off, he clearly has access to a greater level of complexity in his transformations than logias do (whose devil fruit powers seem to be basically a binary system).
which actually leads me to compare him to chopper, who is the zoan we know the best, and who, conveniently, also ate a version of the hito hito no mi.
i think the way luffy and chopper interact with their powers is actually very similar. much like luffy, chopper was fundamentally altered by his consumption of a devil fruit in a way he cannot return from. he can still look like a normal reindeer, but he can never actually be one, because the most important trait his devil fruit gave him was human sentience. and he would still have that if you put him in seastone, he just wouldn't be able to transform. similarly, luffy had his body fundamentally altered by his fruit in a manner he does not seem to be capable of even temporarily reversing. he can't make himself not rubber any more than chopper can return himself to being a normal reindeer.
like chopper, luffy's power progression has been based around finding new ways to transform his body and force it into new and more powerful forms. his gears are roughly comparable to chopper's points. that is zoan stuff! chopper is the main other person we see interact with his fruit in that specific way. so, yeah, i actually do think it does make sense for luffy's power to have actually always been a zoan. at the very least, it makes more sense than him being a paramecia, to me.
however, having said that, i also don't think it's as straightforward as luffy just being a zoan instead of a paramecia. we see that the awakening of his fruit definitely has both paramecia and zoan qualities, since he's transforming both himself and the environment around him, as well as other people. (the wiki puts this down to him being a mythical zoan but i just don't think that's true. kaidou is also a mythical zoan and he is completely baffled by what he's seeing.)
i made a bunch of jokes in discord about luffy being devil fruit nonbinary while i was reading this chapter- there's three genders and you have to pick one, and you can't just go switching it up, etc- and i do think that what luffy's fruit indicates is that the sorting system of devil fruits itself is imperfect. outliers do exist that don't fit cleanly between the lines- which we already knew! just look at katakuri.
#i have a lot more thoughts on the thematic resonance and plot significance of g5#which i WILL get to also. but thats outside the scope of this ask#jonny answers#one piece#not japanese#luffy#gear 5#opmeta#character meta
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Protocol is actually just us Magnus Archives fans rapidly descending into s2-Jon-levels of paranoia. Granted, just like s2 Jon, we have reason to be paranoid, but it's still hilarious to see us all collectively scaling the walls of our enclosure while frothing at the mouth over our theories.
Jonny and Alex are playing us like a cheap harmonica and I'm so here for it
#magpod#tmagp#the magnus protocol#jonny sims when i catch you jonny-#i need ANSWERS#also what the fuck#celia ripley#what do you know celia#chester and norris#an email from Jon you say?#now would that be#jonathan sims#or like#just a different Jon and we're gonna have a 5-michaels-situation in tmagp#much to consider#ames is fine and totally not vibrating at the speed of light#attention ali
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no thoughts head empty just
#cant stop thinking about it#i will be going insane for the next month#like wtf#the return of [click] is so important to me#[click] my beloved#but like seriously wtf did i listen to this morning#i need answers#jonny and alex will pay for their crimes for putting the hiatus here#jonathan sims and alexander j newall when i get you#the magnus protocol#the magnus protocol spoilers#tmagp#tmagp spoilers#tmagp 10
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This is the question we all need answered..
Does Jonny bite?
Do you want the canonical answer or the answer we all know in our hearts to be true?
While there are instances in canon of other things (octokittens) biting Jonny, there is no evidence of his biting someone (at least, not while they're still alive-- he does eat people). In fact, the crew claims that they, collectively, don't bite, even if "other forms of assault are fair game." Of course, they may be lying, as they do about most things.
However, I think we all know instinctively that that man is a biter.
#mod miralines#the mechanisms#jonny d'ville#this was a very fun question to answer anon thank you#I reread every single blog post and most of the fictions jonny appears in to confirm this#tbf not having evidence he does doesn't mean we have evidence he doesn't
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follow up from my previous ask. your Jonny has completely infested my brain I am rotating him over a campfire I have been sitting like a fool thinking about Himb for the past hour and a half I hate him I want to dissect him I want to wrap him up in a lil blanket. 👁️👍. conclusion I am thrilled
Thats so so sweet... My condolences on the Jonny brain worm tho. Here's a quick doodle to make it worse
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I'm obsessed with your art you're my favorite person in Mechanisms Tumblr and I just thought you should know. The amount of serotonin my brain produces when I see your drawings is through the roof.
AW THANK YOU SO MUCH?????
please have some more 🤲🏻 the punishment for shooting a few too many holes into the Aurora (and fellow crew mates) while fighting
#the mechanisms#jonny d'ville#gunpowder tim#were they fighting or flirting 🤔 is there a difference#also ty again i think abt this message constantly i almost didnt want 2 answer when i finally got to it#bc seeing it in my inbox cheers me up so much 😩#my art#asks
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JONNY DVILLE IN YOUR ART STYLE?? I AM IN LOVE. I AM ABSOLUTELY SMITTEN
Thank you!!!
I too love Jonny "trying to steal yo partner" D'Ville. Like absolute wild card of a man and we love him and all his chaotic energy.
#the mechs#the mechanisms au#the mechanisms#somewhere else (in space) au#jonny d'ville#ask the candle#candle answers
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CANARIES, NIGHT SHIFT AND THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL (tma/tmagp/arg spoilers)
Along with everyone else in the fandom, I'm also going FERAL after these new ep so excuse this RANT (this is my way of coping with the brain worms, enjoy ;).
Statement begins.
So what's special about the RedCanary story?
Well, apart from it being a direct reference to the original Magnus Institute (at least the one in this new universe), it's also incredibly fascinating as a narrative tool.
For those who are unaware of their history, miners used to employ canaries in cages while they worked as safety systems. The bird's complexion made them specially sensible to gas leaks which killed them instantly. When a canary stoped singing in the middle of the shift, the workers knew that toxic gas was leaking and had enough time to get out of the mines alive before it got to them.
Now why is that relavant to us? Well, the theme of canaries in cages inside mines could be easily applied to the og tma characters. All of them were contained in cages (that is the Magnus Institute) and placed close enough to danger (in their case the paranormal) that only they were aware of its existence while the rest of humanity remained ignorant. That is until the events of the apocalypse when the gas metaphorically leaks everywhere and all humanity is doomed.
However, this proximity to the fears ALWAYS results in the death of the canaries that stayed inside the mines (no i will never get over my blorbos being killed). Everyone involved with the institution dies EXCEPT from Melanie, Georgie and Basira. That is, the only three canaries that actively escaped their cages before the toxic gas got to them.
Therefore, the use of this metaphor at the start of the ep (especially from none other than the voice of Jon Sims, the character who has walked down the path of learning about the entities) is a warning to Sam against investigating the paranormal.
The statement is encountered by Sam because he, above all other characters, is the one who is most likely to end up like Jon and the others. The species of Red Canaries is human breed, therefore Sam being a result of experimentation within The Magnus Institute means he was RAISED to be a canary. Thus, there is an inherent irony on the warning, for it is what PUSHES him to develop an interest on the statements and leads him closer to his tragic destiny.
Another proof that links canaries and the workers at O.I.A.R. is the nature of their habitat. I haven't seen a lot of people talking about it, but there are multiple references in the first and second ep of them working the nightshift. Now, why would a filing job be carried out exclusively at night? (THERE ARE SO MANY REFERENCES TO IT BEING A NIGHTSHIFT I AM NOT KIDDING)
This one is specially interesting because it's the first thing we hear in the podcast. Also Teddy metaphorically being the canary that leaves the mines and the darkness to escape into the outside world and the sun.
Multiple references to it being just the FIRST night of an eternity of nights. (cosmic horror much?)
In any case, there is a parallel between darkness of night and the darkness inside the mines. (or even the entity of the dark, one of the oldest alongside the hunt and the end). I see what you're doing Jonny Sims....
SO YEAH IN CONCLUSION
canaries = characters close to danger (AWARE OF THE ENTITIES)
the miners = the rest of humanity (UNAWARE OF THE ENTITIES)
cages = The Magnus institute/O.I.A.R (TRAPS the canaries)
the fears = toxic gas (HARMS the canaries and miners)
darkness in the mines = the night shift
Statement ends.
*stands in front of a white board with red string linking everything, and the dark scribbled in black marker in the center* I HOPED YOU ENJOYED THIS RANT *tries to fix my disheveled hair that i messed up during the presentation* I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT TMA AND TMAGP Please feel free to discuss in the comments, I NEED THEORIES, I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS WITH SOMEONE!!!
#is it longer than i planned?#yes#it's jonny's sims fault for giving me the brain worms#this hyperfixation's got a bit of a KICK to it ngl#i don't need sleep i need answers#WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN#whenever i rant i need u to imagine me barging into your room with a whiteboard and gesticulating to you violently like an annoying entity#tma#tma spoilers#tmagp#tmagp spoilers#theory#discussion#i am going insane#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol
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It’s so cool you’re doing mechs doodles! can you do Jonny?? Any kind of Jonny - I just want to see my boy having a good time. Altho if a more specific prompt helps: the more feral, the better!
fun and violence! and more violence! and looking absolutely fabulous!
#🫀#💥#cw gun#the mechanisms#the mechs#the mechanisms art#jonny d’ville#art requests#answered#holy shit its a des art tag
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WE DID IT JONNY HAS DEFEATED BLACKBEARD
now I need every mechs fan to listen to me very closely
next round is carmilla vs jonny and I don't want to see a single vote for jonny
this needs to be the single most crushing defeat our First Mate has ever experienced
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the way u draw Jonny makes me want to squish his face (fully aware he would kill me for it)
your art is so edible
He's certainly a special little guy :)
I'll hold him still, GO GO GO GO-
(Thank you♡)
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I'm curious how Zoros fight with King comes across in Japanese, especially his declaration of being king of hell
so what i find really exciting and interesting about this development is something i do think is somewhat obscured in translation, which is now it sets up zoro as a parallel and successor to rayleigh.
rayleigh's epithet in japanese is 冥王/meiou, which is generally translated into english as 'dark king,' since that's the literal translation of the kanji. however, 冥王/meiou/'dark king' is also the term used in japanese to refer to hades/pluto, the greek and roman god of the underworld. the king of hell, in other words.
as we know, zoro's newest sword, the one that was formerly oden's and which he struggles with throughout this fight, is named 閻魔/enma. this is also the name of a king of hell- enma is another name for yama, the buddhist wrathful deity of the underworld.
after answering king's challenge and saying that yes, he does have the will to become a king himself in order to fulfill his promises, zoro starts using the word 閻王/enou in his attack names, a word which the manga emphasizes to show its importance. this is another title of yama, and also mirrors rayleigh's epithet basically exactly, being a two-kanji name of a deity seen as the king of hell, where the second kanji is 王/ou ('king').
rayleigh is associated with hades, zoro is associated with yama. both are kings of hell- zoro is just somewhat more buddhist about it, which is fitting, given his wano heritage and his trend of invoking buddhist theology in his attack names. i would not at all be surprised if, if zoro ever does get a new epithet to replace his old kaizokugari/'pirate hunter' one, it's 閻王/enou.
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Jurgen Leitner should be spelled Jürgen. You can't convince me otherwise.
Also, both Jürgen (which is the real spelling, google it, i'm right) and Leitner are german names. Why tf is that guy norvegian?? When he has a full on german name??
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#jonny 'just another michael and plagiarized his own birth certificate' sims is the answer lmao#magpod#tma#the magnus archives#magpod confession#jurgen leitner
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#tmp#tmagp#the magnus protocol#poll#gertrude robinson#gerry keay#lena tmp#Tma reference#Jonny sims#celia tmp#please answer#tmp spoilers
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does anyone know how they know the statement givers pronouns?
like?? do they put it in as a part of the forum, does jon just… know (and in that case-what about the rest of the institute staff) or do they just assume based on names and stuff?
or… do they know in some other way???
#i know there’s probably no set answer for this but i was just wondering#like what do you guys think???#i feel like the fact i’m even thinking of this shows i’m both very queer and very obsessed with tma hahag#the magnus archives#tma#magnus#magnus archives#jonathan sims#mag#jonny sims
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Opinion on the captain first mate of the Aurora, as well as opinions in both of the ships doctors (rip Carmilla btw)
My opinion about Jonny dVille is that if he was my wife i would post really mean things about him on facebook. Fortunately I don't have facebook and we're not married yet.
Marius on the other hand is a little bug to me and i am a little bug to Camilla
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