I Never Thought Of Blackbeards Statements As Being About One Dream Never Ending I Thought It Was More Symbolic Dreams Will Never End - Tumblr Posts

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6 months ago

“The dream must end or the people can not go free” puts that in my back pocket.

But no seriously this goes hard and honestly have never thought about it that way.

So we all remember this moment from Jaya

It's an iconic moment for a reason, people love it so much so you see people make fanart of it or even get it tattooed on themselves, and it's understandable 'cause what Teech says here is kind... hopeful, inspirational even

Which is why the scene always felt so wrong to me, in a way I could not like put into words or explain why?? Like I wanted to be like "hey this guy isn't that bad, I agree with him!" and yet what Blackbeard says here didn't quite sit right with me?

But now, in-hindsight, I understand why

It's because Blackbeard is wrong

Like, from the begining, from when we're introduced to Blackbeard, he and Luffy are explicitly shown to be the polar opposites of each other in many ways (their taste in food being just one easy way to summarize it), including in ideals and beliefs

And while it would be so easy to think this scene was about showing that despite their differences Luffy and Blackbeard actually have one thing they agree on, one common ground

They don't

Luffy's dream has an end

And it's not just that, that's not the only reason he's the opposite of Blackbeard in this sense. If Luffy just keeps on dreaming of doing things, he will never achieve them, because achieving your dreams means the end of them

And think about how that reflects on the rest of the story

If people keep on dreaming of freedom, they will never be free

Nami's village would remain in Arlong's hands, rain would never fall in Alabasta again, the fire of Shandra would never be lit again, Water 7 will sink into the ocean, the kids on Punk Hazard would never see their parents again, the families of Dressrosa would never be reunited, Wano would remain under Kaidou's oppression, everyone on Fishman Island will remain at the bottom of the ocean and never see the true sun

The dream must end or the people can not go free

The darkness of night will break away The dream will end and the sun will rise

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but honestly it’s been right there in front us because there are character who have achieved their dreams Mihawk famously is suffering from his success all the countries you mentioned law and his dream to avenge corasan famously Roger and even Tom all the people that Luffy has found along the way and helped them achieve their dreams no matter how big or small those dreams ended and the they got new dreams that maybe aren’t as desperate as the last and so on and so forth. it’s how you grow. I never thought of blackbeards statements as being about one dream never ending I thought it was more symbolic dreams will never end as in people will never stop dreaming which yeah but it’s important that it’s not the same dream. but yeah it’s a very Blackbeard take to have on the dream situation and I suspect it’s because Blackbeard’s reall dream seems to be power and the chase for power is never ending no matter how stacked your crew is or how large your fleet or how wide you’re influence you’ll all ways want more it’ll never be enough fandom post one piece meta marshall d teach luffy and blackbeard op meta

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