Recent content by Vlaput

Agreed. As I've pointed out before, when the CD do something big it's usually through indirect or secretive means. They probably just had the CP0 announce the news and the Gorosei couldn't protest after the deed was done. That's why they are sending assassins after Doflamingo, while someone...

Ace was a pirate with a successful crew similar to how Luffy was and yet he subordinated himself to Whitebeard. Also, former subordinates becoming yonkou has happened at least twice that we know of for sure: Shanks under Roger and Blackbeard under Whitebeard. It's just surprising that you have...

Oda mentions, "one of the legends which lurks in One Piece world," which doesn't have to refer to a person necessarily. If Locks/Rocks is a crew which dominated the seas before Rodger and had both Kaido and Big Mom in it as subordinates under a now gone captain, then it isn't far-fetched to say...

Doesn't matter. I used the Vatican as an example of how ideas are powerful. The Pharaoh of Egypt also ruled as a divinity, and with the priestly class having a lot of powers due to their position in context of the Egyptian belief system, which didn't, iirc, promise eternal salvation or anything...

The Reverie Arcs have been really good because it's all so packed with information. That's twice now the samurai of Wano have been implied to be so strong that even the Marines don't dare meddle in Wano affairs. It says a lot about how powerful Kaido and his crew is. Regarding the Rocks/Locks...

For a long time the Vatican controlled the Western world merely through ideas is my point. Ideas are powerful, both in the real world and in OP. It's not like with the Yonkou that the Nobles are just so powerful and intimidating that their subjects give them whatever they want. Interestingly...

The power of the Nobles is to a large extent based on their legacy. They are, if nothing else, living symbols, of the current world order. That Doflamingo could possibly ruin them simply by revealing some secret says everything about the nature of their power. It's very similar to the way the...

Yeah, I think the straw hat is only something of a symbolic importance, it's not a secret weapon or something lol... Probably something to do with the Will of D... I think the Strawhat in Mariejois is kind of a bait by Oda since Doflamingo probably would have mentioned something about it to...

Assassins are after Doflamingo and Magellan is protecting him. Who'd want him dead but the CP0 and the Nobles? If the Nobles could simply order the Marines to kill him, why bother sending assassins at all? Nothing a single marine or warden could do about it. Who would have the authority to have...

Because the Marines aren't puppets of the CD and because the CD's power isn't absolute. They hold extreme privileges for historic reasons and have a lot of indirect power behind the scenes, but they don't literally own every inch and square of the WG. And there's clear tensions within the WG...

The fact that Doflamingo is expecting assassins (CP0?) to come for his life in Impel Down might mean that all bets are off for him and he might as well spill the beans on the secrets of Mariejois. Maybe Oda will tell us something about those secrets through Doflamingo. What he said to Magellan...

The guy who's watching over the strawhat is holding a bounty poster of Luffy, so clearly something related to Luffy and the strawhat... Doubt it has anything to do with Vegapunk because the room doesn't look like a laboratory or anything. More likely it has something to do with the Will of D and...