Plus: in the manga Luffy said that Kaido had "tough scales" even when it's human form is clearly more powerful in close-quarters fights, and his dragon form seems to be "not a big deal at all" to Luffy.
But then again, the anime shows us an human Kaido transforming his pupils, so maybe Luffy was referring to Kaido transforming only "parts of his skin" to gain an additional shield against direct hits.
The 4 Road Poneglyphs form a star constellation. That's why 3 of them are not enough, and why Laugh Tale will "appear" when you have all 4. Because it is already there.
The lodestar is the Polaris. It is a star that is used by sailors for navigation because it is almost fixed on the sky, with all the other stars rotating around it.
Lodestar island is a place where you can observe the stars, and where you can get into space. It is behind rivers mountain, which is actually a giant knock up stream that shoots you up. If you have the constellation, you can reach Laugh Tale.
Edit: If D. fits Dingir, this would fit with the stuff related to Nibiru.
Argggg this really doesn't feel right. I feel like Rayleigh on Shabondy.
Anyways we have to do this carefully.
Laugh Tale, a story that makes you laugh. It's a synonym for comedy (whereas tragedies make you cry, look at ace's hat). In a particular era, it reffered to stories that make you laugh at the end, and in that era the most famous of all stories called Comedy was written, Dante's "Divine Comedy".
Dante called the poem "Comedy" (the adjective "Divine" was added later, in the 16th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy").[35] Low poems had happy endings and were written in everyday language, whereas High poems treated more serious matters and were written in an elevated style. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of humanity, in the low and "vulgar" Italian language and not the Latin one might expect for such a serious topic
Dante depicts a specific world in his work of fiction. It is a geocentric modell of the earth, like the library of Ohara depicts the One Piece World as. It is a spherical modell of the earth. All land of the World is on one hemisphere, centered around the Holy Land Jerusalem, similar to Mary Geoiese and how most land in the world of One Piece is centered in a ring around the planet, the Red Line. Opposed to it on the other hemisphere lies Mount Purgatory, which leads to the earthen Paradise, like the Rivers Mountain in the One Piece World leading to the first half of the Grand Line called Paradise.
Oda knows this story as he has already referenced it twice, in Skypea Arc and in Impel Down Arc!
The Red Line by itself draws from serpent myths such as the World serpent (and the Grandline, as it resembles the Milky Way, does as well), but the core concept is from this map, holy land on the one half, mountain leading to paradise on the other.
Now interpreting this requires further insight and is another topic. But Dante's Satan has three heads and while his depiction of Geryon doesn't, it's original depiction had. Also Dante's Zodiac, Gemelli (Twin) follows the Bull, Luffy's Zodiac and contains the interesting birthdates of 6.5. (reverse Gomu) and 6.6. (Devil).
Now while Hell and Heaven have already been tackled in Skypea and Impel Down, the concepts might also exist on a larger scale. Personally I think this map reduces the number of possible locations to just three or maybe a connection of them:
1. Bottom of Hell: Below Mary Geoise, which means below Fishman Island, possibly in the planets core
2. Inside Purgatory, The Rivers Mountain
3. In Heaven, outer space.
I already posted my prefered theory a few days ago, because it also fits the ancient believes that the Milky Way is the Sea extending at the edges of the World.
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One thing that stuck with me over the course of the past chapters is the concept of brothers.
We have Roger's "I'll be" in front of Newgate and Oden mirroring Luffy's moment in front of Sabo and Ace. Interestingly Oden is a noble gone rogue like Sabo, while all Ace ever wanted was a family, like Whitebeard.
Then we have Orochi betraying his new "family", similar to Blackbeard betraying his.
But one thing that stuck with me is the concept of Taro and Jirou. Luffytarou and Zorojiro, Shankstaro and Buggyjiro, there's a Roger Pirate with a Taro shirt as well as multiple Wano characters with the name pattern (Denjiro, Kyoshiro, Kozaburo, Koushiro) and Bullet from Stampede is kind of a Jiro to Roger as well.
Considering Luffy Sabo Ace it was always an important motive but right now it gets slammed into our face.
I think the Jiro of Joyboy is Im.
Now a bit more tinfoil.
Joyboy had the OP OP no Mi. As King of the World he wanted to bring great changes, but then his brother (or sister, gender is hardly relevant) fell terribly ill. Knowing his powers could save him, Joyboy prepared himself to use the Eternal Youth Surgery on his brother. Knowing that would cost him his own life, Joyboy wrote an apology to the Fishman, and a prophecy about his return on Laugh Tale. Then he performed the surgery and died. However it was all a ruse and Im intended to betray his brother to become King himself. With the King gone, Im and his 20 allies could easily topple the Ancient Kingdom and replace them. Infuriated by this, the Kozuki clan of Wano created the Poneglyphs with instructions to reach Laugh Tale, knowing that the returned Joy Boy (Luffy) would find them. They then shut themselves from the rest of the world.
This fits greatly into the concept of the D. Clan (and Shanks, Oden, Enel and Nami) being based on Storm Gods (and related beings such as Saturn, Heracles, Tyr and maybe Inanna). As you might know these gods toppled and replaced each other. Kronos replaced Uranus, Zeus replaced Kronos. Same in the Roman mythology and the Middle Eastern myths have these stories as well (actually they got it first).
Raftel is Oda's version of Atlantis, the sunken island on the bottom of the sea, on the opposite side of the planet compared to Fishman Island, right before the Reverse Mountain. That's why nobody has found it yet.
I know where the Laugh Tale is. It's inside Florian Triangle.
The catches are these: 1) we took for granted Florian Triangle without knowing what kind of islands surrounding the are; 2) in kanji, Florian Triangle was written as 魔の三角地帯 (or Zone of Demonic Triangle)... which highly coincides that probably the "demon" refers to Celestian Dragon's natural enemy; 3) it's the last region before the first half of Grand Line.
Now, Laugh Tale is supposed to be located in the middle of four coordinates of four Road Poneglyphs, but (please correct me, Math Professors) geometrically speaking three coordinates are enough to pinpoint a location, and the fourth point won't change the location significantly. So why does it important for the fourth Road Poneglyphs? It's either because of: 1) the fourth spot was under the sea or upon the sky or 2) the fourth Poneglyph does not tell about the location but the time where Laugh Tale would be revealed. Either way, I am thinking that the fourth Poneglyph will link Laugh Tale to the moon, whether it is the location or the specific phase of the moon. Hence we see many allusions to the moon in Wano (Kouzuki, Shimotsuki, Amatsuki). That would match the fact that the Minks await the dawn, because after the moon reaches a specific time, dawn will break. Laugh Tale is the dawn.
I know this is so farfetched... but if I am wrong, when Luffy finally possess three Road Poneglyphs, I am sure a little hint of Laugh Tale location will be featured.
I like your theories about the Florian Triangle as the mysterious figures there have not been solved yet. However, I totally disagree that only 3 Road Poneglyphs are required - see below the explanation I posted on the 818th chapter discussion. As a summary, the 4 coordinates written on the Road Poneglyphs do not make a square. Additionally, Oden’s flashback is proof Roger had to find the 4 of them to reach Laugh Tale.
Some people are already saying you can find Raftel with only 2 spots... Do you guys realize you have to connect the right spots together? Raftel is located on the crossing of 2 lines inside this quadrilateral.
If you have 2 points, you can draw one line. If you have 3 points, you can draw 3 lines with one being a crossing line. If you have 4 points, you can draw 6 lines and see which are the 2 crossing lines.
That means if you have 2 spots=1 line, you have only 2/6 chance that Raftel is somewhere on this line. Let's name the four points A, B, C, D and say the crossing lines are AD and BC. If you only find AB, AC, BD or CD, Raftel won't be on these lines. They will be useless. You could spend your entire life looking for an island which is not the line you found out.
Now, if you have 3 points, Raftel is definitely located on one of the line of the triangle. You have 1/3 chance to find which line is the correct one. You would have to look on the 3 lines without knowing on which one the island is. Thus, without knowing the 4 spots, it's almost impossible to find the place.
I guess it's even difficult with the four spots. How would the navigator knows in One Piece world that the ship is still on one of the crossing line? The log pose system in One Piece won't help it.
Hey something just came to my mind. Part of my methods in theorizing is looking whether or not two different mysteries could be one and the same.
One mystery in One Piece is Lineage Factor. Which kind of is like DNA but we still lack the explanation of why all this DNA experimentation is so relevant in the overall story. An explanation we are expecting from Vegapunk.
Another is the Ancient weapon Uranus. Now most people relate it to the sky, since Uranus is the primordial deity of the sky.
However Pluton is a ship which can only be linked to the Underworld with further research. Basically you need a boat offered by the ferryman Charon to cross the river Styx into the Underworld. Similar myths are found in other cultures as well, I think in Egypt too which is probably why Pluton is in Alabasta.
Now all of that isn't really guessable without pre-existing knowledge or research about Greek Myths. So maybe Uranus requires a bit more research as well.
Now back to the Lineage Factor, one of the more famous stories about Uranos is the story in which he gets toppled by his son Kronos, the father of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades (Pluto). In this story... now it gets a little disturbing, Kronos emasculates his father and throws his genitals onto earth, and from the blood and semen various creatures spawn.
I predict that Luffy will learn to ride Zeus so he can have a flying nimbus, goku style. Normally this would be impossible, because only someone with the energy of Big Mom's soul can ride it, but Big Mom will try to drain Luffy's lifespan soon. The Sun Wukong myth has the Hell King try to confiscate Wukong's soul after he defeats the Jade Emperor(in my opinion the jade emperor represents Kaido) ,this will most likely be because Luffy defeating Kaido gives Blackbeard the chance to suddenly reveal himself and his crew, kill kaido, and steal his DF, causing Big Mom to blame luffy once she fails to stop blackbeard from escaping and try to kill Luffy with lifesteal. This'll fail but it could infuse Luffy's soul with some of Big Mom's haki and allow him to ride Zeus like she does. I also predict he'll get a staff as someone else said he would earlier on, but he'll do more than just use a staff, he'll probably use Rubber Rubber Fruit DF Awakening to turn it into a Power Pole by transforming it into rubber and extending it or shrinking it at will.
Some more evidence that Kaido represents the Jade Emperor is that in the wukong myth, Wukong is acknowledged as one of the gods after defeating the jade emperor, but he refuses the title. IE, Luffy is acknowledged by the world as being equal to the Yonkou because he defeated Kaido, but he refuses, saying he will be Pirate King instead.
"Then fight me, and if you lose, you will never set foot in Wano again!"
Oden is the one behind Whitebeard's scars.
He fought him in order to prevent him to land in Wano and go at war with Kaido, since Oden knew that this would mean his death.
Roger was gone, and Whitebeard regretfully gave his word to never return to Wano.
Shanks remembered all of this and years later stopped Kaido, when he tried to attack Whitebeard.
I predict that Luffy will learn to ride Zeus so he can have a flying nimbus, goku style. Normally this would be impossible, because only someone with the energy of Big Mom's soul can ride it, but Big Mom will try to drain Luffy's lifespan soon. The Sun Wukong myth has the Hell King try to confiscate Wukong's soul after he defeats the Jade Emperor(in my opinion the jade emperor represents Kaido) ,this will most likely be because Luffy defeating Kaido gives Blackbeard the chance to suddenly reveal himself and his crew, kill kaido, and steal his DF, causing Big Mom to blame luffy once she fails to stop blackbeard from escaping and try to kill Luffy with lifesteal. This'll fail but it could infuse Luffy's soul with some of Big Mom's haki and allow him to ride Zeus like she does. I also predict he'll get a staff as someone else said he would earlier on, but he'll do more than just use a staff, he'll probably use Rubber Rubber Fruit DF Awakening to turn it into a Power Pole by transforming it into rubber and extending it or shrinking it at will.
Some more evidence that Kaido represents the Jade Emperor is that in the wukong myth, Wukong is acknowledged as one of the gods after defeating the jade emperor, but he refuses the title. IE, Luffy is acknowledged by the world as being equal to the Yonkou because he defeated Kaido, but he refuses, saying he will be Pirate King instead.
Big Mom will also chase Luffy and the other till Elbaf, but she'll lose them in halfway.
And the awakened form of the Gomu Gomu no Mi is the malleability, so he can do shape-shifting into anything, even he can create weapons out of his malleabilities.
No wonder why did Oda has given MAN names to his Gear 4th forms (Tankman, Snakeman, Boundman, etc.)
Well... We will be able to get an introspection into...
Elbaf is a giant archipelago - There aren't only giants can be found on that island. There are Elves, Dwarves and so forth...
Usopp's past and to the connection of the D. Clan (Usopp is a D.)
Nami's real past and her Scientist father and how did her parents die when she was a baby.
Boa Hancock's real hometown and her real parents are revealed - She's also a D. (Rocks D. Hancock - mentioned only)
Dr. Vegapunk appears - He tells Nami that he's known her father. He was the best man whom he's ever known.
New crewmates (probably siblings from Elbaf's region)
Big Mom chases Luffy and the others, however she lose them halfway to Elbaf.
Big Mom's eating disorder breaks out again and catches Sanji. Sanji tries to free himself with one of his best Diable Jambe attacks, but he fails with that, and then Luffy appears and sets him free from Big Mom's left hand by Gear 3rd and Sanji can easily attack Big Mom with his Diable Jambe - Flanchet Shot. The battle between the Straw Hat Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates will have begun. Big Mom obviously sieges the Valhalla Castle (Royal Castle of Elbaf) and threatens Loki, the King of Elbaf. No wonder why will Luffy defeat her in the Royal Palace.
Meanwhile Sanji and Nami are discussing their relationship in the following.
And then Big Mom wants to take Luffy down by her CoA strengthened forehead, that Luffy answers by his forehead too. The two will have so powerful clash that the Royal palace rips off to pieces. Sanji and Nami are watching them over shocked and when Luffy has knocked out Big Mom then he starts shaking like a Jackhammer and falls off of the exhaustion. Nami runs to him immediatlely as Sanji does.
Luffy will have won Big Mom as an ally to himself and she's going to be the most dependable member of the Straw Hat Fleet. (Sadly she's going to be the last Overlord because she's going to pass away in the final arc during the great battle on the Holyland, Mariegeoise.)
- He tries to calm Luffy down the way like he did it first when he's given his arm for saving Luffy, but the problem is bigger than expected.
Sorrowful farewell - Luffy tries to keep him alive and forces Chopper to do something. In vain he grabs him on his cheeks, Chopper cries and tells him 5 times that he cannot do anything.
Shanks smiles when he passes away and the rain starts falling. Everybody starts extremely crying on his death.
Next stop is the final Island, RAFTEL (LAUGH TALE).
Er... Well, all I have to say is that I think BM will be finely defeated in Elbaf, the giants will become Luffy friends, I don’t see why Nami or Hancock parents are relevant to the history and against the common sense, i don’t think Shanks will die. Oh, and all this about Sanji... I hope noting of this happens. Makes no sense for me, noting personal, but I want much more a Sanji VS Katakuri or Sanji VS Cracker (or even better, Sanji VS Oven and Daifuko, the rematch XD) than a Sanji moment with BM
Er... Well, all I have to say is that I think BM will be finely defeated in Elbaf, the giants will become Luffy friends, I don’t see why Nami or Hancock parents are relevant to the history and against the common sense, i don’t think Shanks will die. Oh, and all this about Sanji... I hope noting of this happens. Makes no sense for me, noting personal, but I want much more a Sanji VS Katakuri or Sanji VS Cracker (or even better, Sanji VS Oven and Daifuko, the rematch XD) than a Sanji moment with BM
Yes it does make sense! Because I have foreseen it. And Nami & Hancock's parents are really relevant to the story. The way like Luffy's mother, which is going to be revealed soon.
And what I foresee something it used to be happening. Just saying.
I was thinking about that why those pairings will NEVER happen like Luffy x Nami, Luffy x Vivi, Luffy x Rebecca, and so and so forth.
Because of curse of the D. name.
And this is why because I am referring to the House of the Targaryens. Because Daenerys is the living example to this. When she's been with Khal Drogo and she was pregnant, she's given birth to an unborn child.
Where only a Targaryen can marry with a Targaryen, it's because to keep the cleanliness of their bloodline. Don't get me wrong, they don't need to marry with their own family members, just with people who got D. in their names. I'm not a shipper either, I just want to make a factual evidence about this. Ex. A Jaguar D. marries with a Gol D., becomes Jaguar D. see?
Which means that in the universe of One Piece, if a person with D. in its name marries with a person with no D. in its name, it doesn't mean any good for it, because it means the corruption of the D. Bloodline. So my assumption about this, that only a people with D. in their names can marry each other.
Because the D. Clan are originally from 12 members alongside with Joyboy (which is based on Jesus and his 12 disciples) and their names are based on the chinese Zodiacs:
• Rat
• Ox
• Rooster
• Sheep
• Horse
• Snake
• Monkey
• Boar
• Dog
• Rat
• Tiger
• Rabbit
Which means that Hancock is the Snake and she can marry to Luffy because she's a D. Just like Rouge "married" to Roger because both were D.
So don't get your hopes up for Law x Robin and etc. because Law is a D. But Robin ISN'T.
If any of those women would have D. in their names, then they can marry a person who has also D. in its name.
Besides Luffy's family and Saul, no other D that we've seen is named after an animal.
The idea of Hancock being a D through one or both of her parents is interesting but I feel like we would've gotten some hints about this when she was introduced, as now it'd just feel like an afterthough, seeing as we've already had her backstory.
This theory would've had more credibility had the D clan truly all been named after animals/follow the chinese zodiac; be it through their family names or given name.
Besides Luffy's family and Saul, no other D that we've seen is named after an animal.
The idea of Hancock being a D through one or both of her parents is interesting but I feel like we would've gotten some hints about this when she was introduced, as now it'd just feel like an afterthough, seeing as we've already had her backstory.
This theory would've had more credibility had the D clan truly all been named after animals/follow the chinese zodiac; be it through their family names or given name.
I don't think D can only marry each other, just seems like they're more likely to be attracted to each other just because of their personality that's typical of a D.
