Predictions Captain Rock still alive & will make comeback

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It would explain why he wanted that fruit so much.
But... we already know why he wanted the fruit so much. IIRC BB has made the point he wanted that fruit specifically for its ability to cancel devil fruits. Now, it is possible the fruit has a connection to xebec but would just be further context.

Also, BB is 40 years old. So... at a minimum he never met rocks other than potentially as a baby. I don't rule out a connection to xebec though. When seeing xebec's silhouette I kinda got a BB vibe which I couldn't quite explain.
 

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If the Yami Yami no Mi was Xebec's fruit, Whitebeard would have recognized its powers in Marineford and wouldn't have been surprised when Blackbeard disabled his powers.
 

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If the Yami Yami no Mi was Xebec's fruit, Whitebeard would have recognized its powers in Marineford and wouldn't have been surprised when Blackbeard disabled his powers.
what if he did but was shocked at how far along Blackbeard came? Did he know Blackbeard is a yami yami no mi user? I mean, Xebec could have been a known yami yami no mi user, and Whitebeard could still be surprised by Blackbeard using the fruit power.
 

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what if he did but was shocked at how far along Blackbeard came? Did he know Blackbeard is a yami yami no mi user? I mean, Xebec could have been a known yami yami no mi user, and Whitebeard could still be surprised by Blackbeard using the fruit power.
Possible but very unlikely. If Rocks has a role in Blackbeard's backstory, the earliest versions of him should have already existed in Oda's concept at that time, I mean Blackbeard is such a central character that it is safe to assume his backstory has been in development for a long time. If Blackbeard had the fruit of a legendary pirate from the past central to his backstory, any of either Whitebeard, Garp or Sengoku should have made a comment during Marineford.
 

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No, he did not knew. Otherwise Ace would know too when he went after Blackbeard. Instead Blackbeard had to explain to him why he killed Thatch, and what his new ability was.

But Whitebeard was quick to find the weakness of the Yami Yami no Mi. :grumble
 

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Possible but very unlikely. If Rocks has a role in Blackbeard's backstory, the earliest versions of him should have already existed in Oda's concept at that time, I mean Blackbeard is such a central character that it is safe to assume his backstory has been in development for a long time. If Blackbeard had the fruit of a legendary pirate from the past central to his backstory, any of either Whitebeard, Garp or Sengoku should have made a comment during Marineford.
Why? Oda can easily change things if he wanted to. hell, Imu could just go from a very important and mysterious figure to another God of the Universe from DBS figure, not someone for readers to take seriously. Oda could easily have Roger be a gomu gomu no mi user and explain that's why Shanks had the fruit, even if no one ever mentioned it before.

Not necessarily. How often do we get flashbacks to comments made during a time that we didn't see or hear? Not the best example, but remember how Pudding whispered something to Luffy and Nami that made them react the way they did? And then chapters later we learned that she confessed that she'll kill Sanji under the farce of the wedding? Oda chapters from now can give us a page's worth of flashback to Marineford, where Garp says Blackbeard's power reminds him of Rock's.
 

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Why? Oda can easily change things if he wanted to. hell, Imu could just go from a very important and mysterious figure to another God of the Universe from DBS figure, not someone for readers to take seriously. Oda could easily have Roger be a gomu gomu no mi user and explain that's why Shanks had the fruit, even if no one ever mentioned it before.

Not necessarily. How often do we get flashbacks to comments made during a time that we didn't see or hear? Not the best example, but remember how Pudding whispered something to Luffy and Nami that made them react the way they did? And then chapters later we learned that she confessed that she'll kill Sanji under the farce of the wedding? Oda chapters from now can give us a page's worth of flashback to Marineford, where Garp says Blackbeard's power reminds him of Rock's.
Sure he could do that, it is his story. But that would be pretty bad writing and as such I think it is very unlikely. Oda is the third best-selling fiction author alive, I do accredit him with careful planning rather than shoehorning something in.
 

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bad writing how? And how is it any different from him doing flashbacks on Rayleigh explaining haki like future sight?
 

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bad writing how? And how is it any different from him doing flashbacks on Rayleigh explaining haki like future sight?
But Mantra was already future sight when it was first introduced via Satori...
 

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The way most people think about Inherited Will ends up breaking Luffy's goal: Freedom.

About Rocks, Rayleigh said one has to understand what happened in the history, to take his own conclusions. Rocks went through the anarchy way. Teach is following his steps. And Dragon, in a similar way, is also going for a direct war against the WG.
 

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In that flashback, Whitebeard didn't have a mustache. But he did in the Rocks image.
 

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I think we should let certain characters remain dead. No need to bring back Rock if he is already dead. I actually wouldn't mind we learn more about him when we learn the true meaning of D and how everyone with D in their name are all connected.

I suppose we might get more to his story from Garp himself. A lot of what he did in his past is told through others.
 

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Captain Rocks is dead. But his descendants are alive. Like Hancock, because Hancock's real name is Rocks D. Hancock.
 
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