Theory Blackbeard is heading for...?

[WILDCARD 1 7]

Not sure is someone made this thread so I thought I mite. Anyway after rereading the Oden flashback and chapter 956 and 957 I believe Blackbeard is heading for Buggy considering his interest in the Rock Pirates and Buggy has the log pose to Captain John Treasure. What do you guys think?

 

[Admiral Teach]

Who says I'm goin' to only one place at once? Zehahahahahah!

 

[kkck]

Does teach even know buggy has that? I suppose that not pirate would say no to a treasure but its not necessarily the case that this is a fish big enough to be interesting to BB. Also worth noting, buggy does have a rather powerful force behind him. He doesn't have anyone who is a heavy hitter by himself in the new world but as far as military forces go it was enough for it to be relevant at marineford and its presumably stronger now...

 

[afromarco005]

I think that BB is after a devil fruit maybe sabo's as he has shown interest in the past. my theory is that he wants to recreate the rocks crew by stealing the abilities :

Gura gura/ yami yami= Whitebeard / Rocks
Soon he will add Linlin and kaido's fruits to his crew too.
Mera mera must have been on the crew too imo

 

[costicla]

Blackbeard my be heading to Whole Cake, since the country is not as well guarded right now. It's probably the best time to attack it and get the Road Poneglyph, since he also needs it to get to Laugh Tale.

 

[McNuss]

Blackbeard my be heading to Whole Cake, since the country is not as well guarded right now. It's probably the best time to attack it and get the Road Poneglyph, since he also needs it to get to Laugh Tale.

This is option number 1. Blackbeard has to be somewhat +1 in the race towards Pirate King compared to any other rival. Right now among the people that Doflamingo mentioned in his Throne Wars speech, Luffy will have three Road Poneglyphs after Wano, Big Mom has 1, Kaido will have 0, Law knows the location of one, and everyone else possibly doesn't even know about them. Blackbeard gaining Road Poneglyphs would make him keep up with Luffy.

The other option is that he is heading for Pluton in Alabasta, as the World Government might shake this country up. Problem is that Alabasta is way back in Paradise, supporting for the theory that Blackbeard will go for the Antique Weapons is that Caribou has to spill the Poseidon secret to someone and it can't be Kaido or Big Mom as these are going down this arc, and the WG (Im) at least suspect it already anyways.

So to create tension Blackbeard has to either gain 3 or even 4 Road Poneglyphs, or assemble the three Antique Weapons. He is going to be the finale of the Grand Line, Im and the WG are epilogue.

 

[costicla]

This is option number 1. Blackbeard has to be somewhat +1 in the race towards Pirate King compared to any other rival. Right now among the people that Doflamingo mentioned in his Throne Wars speech, Luffy will have three Road Poneglyphs after Wano, Big Mom has 1, Kaido will have 0, Law knows the location of one, and everyone else possibly doesn't even know about them. Blackbeard gaining Road Poneglyphs would make him keep up with Luffy.

The other option is that he is heading for Pluton in Alabasta, as the World Government might shake this country up. Problem is that Alabasta is way back in Paradise, supporting for the theory that Blackbeard will go for the Antique Weapons is that Caribou has to spill the Poseidon secret to someone and it can't be Kaido or Big Mom as these are going down this arc, and the WG (Im) at least suspect it already anyways.

So to create tension Blackbeard has to either gain 3 or even 4 Road Poneglyphs, or assemble the three Antique Weapons. He is going to be the finale of the Grand Line, Im and the WG are epilogue.

Good point, we still don't know what's up with Alabasta after the Levely. Blackbeard may be heading there for the info about Pluton, especially since he said he doesn't want the Marines getting their hands on it first (whatever it is). He might then go directly after the Strawhats since he would probably need somebody to read the Poneglyph and the only one person who can do that is Robin.

 

[Grandmaster Woro]

Something related to alabasta.
The ancient weapon poneglyph information was probably leaked

 

[ShadowHeart]

Good point, we still don't know what's up with Alabasta after the Levely. Blackbeard may be heading there for the info about Pluton, especially since he said he doesn't want the Marines getting their hands on it first (whatever it is). He might then go directly after the Strawhats since he would probably need somebody to read the Poneglyph and the only one person who can do that is Robin.

He probably can read them himself tbh.

 

[Sachsenhesse]

I think that BB is after a devil fruit maybe sabo's as he has shown interest in the past. my theory is that he wants to recreate the rocks crew by stealing the abilities :

Gura gura/ yami yami= Whitebeard / Rocks
Soon he will add Linlin and kaido's fruits to his crew too.
Mera mera must have been on the crew too imo

Thats actual quite a cool idea, maybe Rocks had the yami yami no mi also.

 

[goldb]

Who says I'm goin' to only one place at once? Zehahahahahah!

Because if it was a case of splitting his forces to several locations, he wouldn't have waited until the latest development.

Having said that, what makes the most sense to me is WCI; which I initially mentioned when the chapter was released at the time. Attacking Marie Geoise doesn't make sense to me, as the Reverie is over and so thing are back to normal and he'd have to pass Marine HQ (with its high ranking officers back in position).

So we know that whatever BB is going after:

• He had prior knowledge of and now circumstance have allowed him to finally claim it.
• The WG/Marines are also after it.
• It involves a piece of news revealed in the newspapers after the Reverie was over. Some things that were revealed in the papers:
  • An incident involving Sabo and co to take back Kuma
  • The disbanding of the Shichibukai
  • The Supernova gathering in Wano and Big Mom chasing after Luffy (ch925)
  • An incident involving Alabasta

Though Big Mom's actions were revealed in ch925 and Teach confirms his move in ch956, I think the latter is using Big Mom's travel to Wano as an opportunity to move into her territory; be it for the Poneglyph or conquering her kingdoms...or both. Her forming an alliance with Kaido doesn't seem to have made the newspapers yet, the Marines being aware of it because these two spoke without using white den den mushi.

The way I see it, a possible outcome is Blackbeard moving to WCI, which will force BM to be recalled to WCI with her forces before she becomes too involved in the current fight. Leaving Kaido to deal with the alliance with his and Orochi's forces.

 

[ShadowHeart]

Because if it was a case of splitting his forces to several locations, he wouldn't have waited until the latest development.

Having said that, what makes the most sense to me is WCI; which I initially mentioned when the chapter was released at the time. Attacking Marie Geoise doesn't make sense to me, as the Reverie is over and so thing are back to normal and he'd have to pass Marine HQ (with its high ranking officers back in position).

So we know that whatever BB is going after:

• He had prior knowledge of and now circumstance have allowed him to finally claim it.
• The WG/Marines are also after it.
• It involves a piece of news revealed in the newspapers after the Reverie was over. Some things that were revealed in the papers:
  • An incident involving Sabo and co to take back Kuma
  • The disbanding of the Shichibukai
  • The Supernova gathering in Wano and Big Mom chasing after Luffy (ch925)
  • An incident involving Alabasta

Though Big Mom's actions were revealed in ch925 and Teach confirms his move in ch956, I think the latter is using Big Mom's travel to Wano as an opportunity to move into her territory; be it for the Poneglyph or conquering her kingdoms...or both. Her forming an alliance with Kaido doesn't seem to have made the newspapers yet, the Marines being aware of it because these two spoke without using white den den mushi.

The way I see it, a possible outcome is Blackbeard moving to WCI, which will force BM to be recalled to WCI with her forces before she becomes too involved in the current fight. Leaving Kaido to deal with the alliance with his and Orochi's forces.

Blackbeard already knew about BM going to Wano so it's not that. He only made his move after the Reverie so it's related to that.

 

[costicla]

He probably can read them himself tbh.

He might but I don't think it's that easy to learn. I think he may try to capture Robin, thereby directly attacking the Strawhats, maybe even after Wano.

 

[KimCorrea]

I thought he was going to try and recruit the formers shichibukai.

 

[hokageji]

Didn't Luffy provide Buggy with Captain John's treasure? The one he found in Thriller Bark?

BB doesn't care for Buggy, unless his DF holds some secrets.

 

[Lord Rayleigh]

BB is building up his forces as proven by his DF hunt, his weapon collection in Dressrosa/Baltigo, and most of all his HQ labelled as a Pirate Heaven aimed to welcome openly all pirates.

In that situation, I highly doubt he would try to invade Big Mom territories and launch total war against 2 allied Yonko. He is not ready to face them (what he told Shanks 2 years ago) and he carefully follows his planned strategies.

The most likely move for him is to recruit Shichibukai or at least try to collect their DF powers. Shichibukai are powerful pirates without a big organization hence better under his protection than locked in Impel Down by Marines.

 

[hokageji]

BUt Teach is the ultimate opportunist... Isn't it wise to enter WCI when Big Mama isnt around, take all the Poneglyph information, steal some high quality DFs and then leave?
Katakuri's DF is superior to Luffy's atleast, since Luffy was targeted, why not target Katakuri?

 

[goldb]

If it's to recruit, which of the Shichibukai do you think is most inclined to join him? Weevil is the only one that comes to mind.

 

[ShadowHeart]

He might but I don't think it's that easy to learn. I think he may try to capture Robin, thereby directly attacking the Strawhats, maybe even after Wano.

I think he has 3 souls inside him 1 being Rocks whe seemed like he could read them. Either way since I think he's heading for Alabasta for Pluton guess we'll soon see.

 

[Fox666]

I thought he was going to try and recruit the formers shichibukai.

Now that you mention it, kinda obvious Blackbeard was talking about recruiting the Shichibukai or stealing their abilities