Did Anyone Else Think Apollo Vs Leonidas Was Like Watching Pre-heresy Fulgrim Vs Sevika?

Did anyone else think Apollo vs Leonidas was like watching pre-heresy Fulgrim vs Sevika?

Pre-heresy Fulgrim and Apollo

- They're handsome.

- They're obsessed with being perfect.

- They want to inspire others to be the best version of themselves.

- They value the arts, music, poetry, and both physical and inner beauty.

- They worked hard and become respected by their "paternal figures" (Big E/Zeus).

Sevika and Leonidas

- They have the same physical build, similar clothes and the same hairstyle.

- They detest a privileged person or group (Piltover/Apollo) because they believe they were the ones who caused the misfortunes their people have gone through (Zaun/Sparta) and seek revenge as a result.

- They are both smokers.

- They both use weapons that can change shape.

I don't know if you know Record of Ragnarok but I think that Leonidas and Geirölul are what Ichigo and Zangetsu would have been if they had had a good relationship from the beginning without the lies and the prejudices of everyone around them (considering the violent nature that Ichigo has always had, it wouldn't have been unreasonable):

Zangetsu would get angry with anyone who despised him or Ichigo just as happened with Geirölul.

Zangetsu would call Ichigo with nicknames as a sign of affection and trust while he shows concern for him like Geirölul does with Leonidas when she calls him Leo.

Ichigo and Zangetsu would crush their enemies together with enthusiasm, just as Leonidas and Geirölul do in their fight against Apollo.

It's quite curious how Guts and Casca's arcs are opposites, which makes them complementary.

Guts is so active that he never rests, this is seen by the fact of how little Guts cares about himself or when he decides to leave the Band of the Hawk to find his own dream to be an equal to Griffith and how he decided to go on a revenge rampage instead of staying with Casca which caused the Beast of Darkness to be born as a result, and Casca is passive because she has always prioritized the dreams of others above her own plus she is in a constant fight to recover and maintain her agency that is constantly taken away from her.

Guts has to learn to be passive in the sense that he must learn that he should not do everything alone and that he has the right to rest, to be vulnerable by venting his sadness in a healthy way and enjoy the simple things in life and Casca has to be more active in the sense that she must have her own aspiration and must recover her agency.

It's Guts who encourages Casca that she can be more than Griffith's swords and values her for who she is and it's Casca who encourages Guts to relax, to be vulnerable and that he can do and enjoy other things than just fighting.

Guide My Way (Red like Roses part III) is a perfect continuation of the Red like Roses songs! Red like Roses I was musically all about Ruby, but lyrically it's not about her all. It's her connection yo her mother, and then to each of her teammates. Red like Roses part II is a literal dialogue between Ruby and Summer about the abandonment issuess and pressures and ideals a child si forced to burden after losing a parent. But Guide My Way is Ruby affirming her worth as her own person. She can still admire Summer but the true honoring of her isn't being her copy or her echo, it's being her own burning rose.

Some time ago I made a post where I said that Imu would be a very good and interesting contrast for Luffy and both this post and the chapter 1060 on which it focuses show more clearly the contrast between Luffy, the future Pirate King and Imu, the current King of the World.

Isn't it "funny" that Imu destroys Lulusia in the same chapter where Luffy happily talks with his crew about what is at the end of his dream?

Like, you see this.....

...and after a few pages you have this

I think, if this is no coincidence (which likely isn't, Oda wouldn't randomly put all of these specific scenes in the same chapter), it could be taken as another proof that at the end of Luffy's dream of becoming the pirate king there is something bigger than that, something like maybe uniting the whole world under his crew, the whole world being one "crew" of friends (literally a one piece of friendship lol) and of course Imu stands in the way of it, because they want to keep the world divided into four seas, various nations with social and racial differences fueling hate against each other (instead of directing it towards the ACTUAL enemy).

Imu's style is surely divide et impera, while Luffy wants everyone to be free and happy. I also think ultimately the concept of "one piece" will be applied to the whole world, the Red Line will cease to exist and so all the separations and divisions it symbolises, not just physically as one huge mountain in a world of sea but also as the house of Celestial Dragons and World Government

Since it was revealed to us that the sapphire scales disease that Bonney inherited from her mother Ginny is incurable, a theory popped into my mind: what if Kuma turned into a cyborg to save Bonney?

Don't forget that the paw-paw fruit can repel anything from the target's body so Kuma probably repelled the disease from Bonney's body and absorbed it into her body so that it wouldn't come back to Bonney. Later, he would ask Vegapunk to turn him into a cyborg so that the disease couldn't affect him.