I've Seen A Pretty Interesting Theory That Imu Is Actually A Child. If This Theory Turned Out To Be True

I've seen a pretty interesting theory that Imu is actually a child. If this theory turned out to be true it would not only be an interesting plot-twist but would also be an interesting foil for Luffy.

Luffy is a boy who is growing up to become a man (in the Pirate King), his Gear 5 form represents the limitless imagination, joy and freedom of a child and has an optimistic point of view of life. Imu, on the other hand, could be an adult trapped in the body of a child who has lived for 800 years, rules the world from the shadows and does so with a system that oppresses others, his powers seem to represent terror and nightmares, and could also have a cruel or indifferent point of view of life.

Luffy, the boy who, despite becoming a man, retains his inner child. Imu, who despite being in the body of a child, is an adult who has lived so long that he lost his inner child.

Something quite interesting is that the places where Curious Cat tries to possess Ruby and possesses Neo are the specific places that represent the main fights that Ruby and Neo have always had.

When CC tries to possess Ruby, the place he chooses to try to possess Ruby is her chest, in other words, in her heart. Ruby is a person who has trouble expressing her emotions (expressing her heart) because she always represses what she feels because she thinks that her duty as a leader and being the perfect hunter like her mother is much more important than her own personal feelings and others have unintentionally reinforced this idea to the point that Ruby takes it to an extreme. Metaphorically Ruby suppresses her heart in favor of living up to what she believes others expect of her.

Later when CC possesses Neo the place he chooses to possess her is through her mouth. Neo has always struggled to be heard, to have the freedom to express what she thinks the way she wants. Her parents forced her to talk, they forced her to use a text-to-speech app that she hated so much, and the reason she finally sides with Roman is because he's the first person in her entire life to really listen to her and not force her to express herself but respects Neo's way of expressing herself. Metaphorically Neo has been trying to express herself as a desperate way to be understood and not have to try to measure up to people who don't even bother trying to understand her.

CC realizes all of the above and tries to use it to his advantage: he knows that Ruby is emotionally devastated by everything that has happened to her and he offers to replace her heart (her emotions and identity) with his own but fails for intervention of Little and Neo. After failing with Ruby, he is going to possess Neo when he finds out that she no longer has a purpose to continue living because revenge was the only thing that inspired her to continue living and when she succeeds, Neo realizes that no matter what doing anything will bring her back Roman (the only person who really heard her) so she breaks down and as a result, CC manages to possess her forcing Neo to speak with a voice that is not her own but someone else's just as it happened in her past, only instead of being a text-to-speech app, it is a being that not only controls her voice but also controls her body and heart.

I don't know if you knew this but Araki in his book Manga in Theory and Practice, The Craft of Creating Manga said that Valentine is a coward.

When Araki says that Valentine is a coward, he doesn't mean that Valentine is not capable of fighting by himself because he has shown that he is capable of that and more. Araki means that Valentine uses innocent people and does horrible things for what he wants, this is selfish cowardice and his plan to redirect the misfortune of the United States to the rest of the world is the best example of this, because if Valentine had been successful with his plans, the United States would be Falconia 2.0 and the rest of the countries would be a total disaster and would have worse living conditions and those who have read Berserk will know how horrible the consequences of the creation of Falconia are for the other countries of the Berserk universe.

Hence Valentine's stand name, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, as he believes himself that the lives of others are cheap compared to his bigger picture of him, he is very cowardly. And stands represent the soul, and Love Train is a stand that gives only Valentine complete protection, emphasis on only him, while hurting other innocents, including US citizens that he claims to protect. Then blaming Gyro and Johnny for this, when it's not their fault, Valentine is just so deluded into thinking he could never do something wrong. Coward no matter what, a true villain.

Yes he is, I even made a post about how similar Belos and Valentine are.

I don’t know if you knew this but Araki in his book Manga in Theory and Practice, The Craft of Creating Manga said that Valentine is a coward.

When Araki says that Valentine is a coward, he does not mean that Valentine is not capable of fighting himself because he has shown that he is capable of that and more. Araki means that Valentine uses innocent people and does horrible things for what he wants, this is selfish cowardice and his plan to redirect the misfortune of the United States to the rest of the world is the best example of this, because if Valentine had been successful with his plans, the United States would be Falconia 2.0 and the rest of the countries would be a total disaster and would have worse living conditions and those who If you have read Berserk you will know how horrible the consequences of the creation of Falconia are for the other countries of the Berserk universe.

Hence Valentine’s stand name, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheep, as he believes himself that the lives of others are cheep compared to his bigger picture of him, he is very cowardly. And stands represent the soul, and Love Train is a stand that gives only Valentine complete protection, emphasis on only him, while hurting other innocents, including US citizens that he claims to protect. Then blaming Gyro and Johnny for this, when it’s not their fault, Valentine is just so deluded into thinking he could never do something wrong. Coward no matter what, a true villain.

and AFO couldn't steal it even if he wanted to since that's not a quirk but rather the power of a devil fruit. Also Luffy's fruit is not the kind of power that AFO would be interested in having and to make things worse for AFO, the heroes and civilians who were scared of him before now laugh at him seeing him being defeated with such ridiculous and funny power.

One of the things I love about Gear 5th is that it is a power up designed to completely destroy the opponent like other power ups seen in other series but what makes Gear 5th stand out is that it destroys the opponent in a different way. A standard power up destroys the opponent physically but the Gear 5th destroys the opponent not only physically but also destroys the opponent’s pride by being defeated by a visually ridiculous power up.

Just imagine for example AFO from My Hero Academia being defeated by Luffy Gear 5th, simply AFO’s pride would be completely destroyed since he wanted to be an all-powerful villain like in the comics and believed that only OFA users can defeat him and he wants to defeat said users in the most epic way possible only to Luffy Gear 5th (a character who isn’t even from the same universe as him) deny him that fantasy by forcing him to operate under Tom and Jerry or Loney Toons physics to the point to force AFO to look ridiculous while being attacked by Luffy Gear 5th, AFO would be VERY frustrated because he never expected in his life that he would be defeated by a power that is not even flashy like OFA but is a power that is visually funny and ridiculous, with this AFO would never want to be a villain again for suffering the greatest humiliation of his life.

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I don’t know if you knew this but Araki in his book Manga in Theory and Practice, The Craft of Creating Manga said that Valentine is a coward.

When Araki says that Valentine is a coward, he does not mean that Valentine is not capable of fighting himself because he has shown that he is capable of that and more. Araki means that Valentine uses innocent people and does horrible things for what he wants, this is selfish cowardice and his plan to redirect the misfortune of the United States to the rest of the world is the best example of this, because if Valentine had been successful with his plans, the United States would be Falconia 2.0 and the rest of the countries would be a total disaster and would have worse living conditions and those who If you have read Berserk you will know how horrible the consequences of the creation of Falconia are for the other countries of the Berserk universe.

Hence Valentine’s stand name, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheep, as he believes himself that the lives of others are cheep compared to his bigger picture of him, he is very cowardly. And stands represent the soul, and Love Train is a stand that gives only Valentine complete protection, emphasis on only him, while hurting other innocents, including US citizens that he claims to protect. Then blaming Gyro and Johnny for this, when it’s not their fault, Valentine is just so deluded into thinking he could never do something wrong. Coward no matter what, a true villain.