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There is a One Piece panel in recent memory that was so shocking that I'm still reeling at the implications of it.

This one:

I cannot fully express or explain how much the image of "Vegapunk, Kuma, Bonney, Kizaru, and Sentomaru doing the Nika dance" shook me to my very core. Specifically Borsolino doing it. Prior to that very chapter, Borsolino had gotten a lot of supposed development in the Egghead arc, but it was hard to tell whether he was being serious or sarcastic.

But then Luffy hit him with the Star Gun and he still maintained the same expression, even while on the ground down for the count by his own admission, and I realized he was totally serious the whole time. He just has an "unbreakable chillax face".

Chapter 1,100 made me realize that Kizaru genuinely thinks of Vegapunk and Sentomaru as found family, and Kuma and Bonney as dear friends, and nothing hurt him more than being assigned to this mission. Everything he's been saying the whole time about not wanting to do this was true and from the heart.

And then we saw him do the Nika dance, and I'm still processing it. The implications of a Marine Admiral doing the dance of Sun God Nika, Warrior of Liberation are truly staggering to me. Even if he doesn't know the full details, even if Kuma didn't tell him, doing the Nika dance feels like a sign that you've got the Nika spirit.

We met Kizaru on Sabaody Archipelago hunting down the Straw Hats as punishment for punching a Celestial Dragon in a slave auction house. Slaves. The Admiral who did the Nika dance defended a World Noble's right to own slaves. Hell, in this arc, he FOUGHT Luffy in Gear 5!

I truly don't know what to expect from Kizaru going forward, but this arc has fully taken him from my least favorite Admiral (I just found him kinda boring), to my favorite (barely surpassing Kuzan).

Tonights random assortment of one piece sketches

The Seraphim & The Concept of Self

I wonder who picked the Seraphim's outfits cause at first glance when you only look at S-Hawk and S-Snake it feels like there's a standard uniform. then you see the whole group and there's definitely some individuality going on; like S-Bear just wearing a mini kuma outfit, S-Shark with the gi, my man Moria got a little suspender situation going on over there. S-mingo wearing a whole ass hawain shirt. So there's definitely some variety though they all incorporate white in some way. And I wonder if maybe they got some input into what they wore one of the only acts of "free will" they were allowed was choosing whether they wore shorts or long pants which is as adorable as it is sad.

Because think about the implications that they are dressed to the taste of their adult counterparts, right down to how doffy and mihawk like to open their shirts (except for S-Snake which thank god) but yeah what if it wasn't an allowance of free will but a test to see just how deep DNA ran. If it could influence something as simple as choice of clothing, just another fact for Vega punk to marvel at.

Or maybe the clothes were chosen by one of the Vega punks (I can imagine Shaka doing it) or one of the other various lab assistants. And it's just another way to get them to embody the warlords, to reinforce who they were cloned to be, impressing on them that they are not their own people, their lives are not their own. They are already predetermined; from what powers they get, to what weapons they use, even down to what clothes they wear. Everything reinforces that they are not people, just "better" "stronger" versions of someone else.

Either way, and It might have not have been purposely meant that way because I'm pretty sure Vega punk doesn't really register them as human (which is weird cause he treats stussy very humanly and a whole other can of worms seeing as they seem to be aware and possess a personality to some capacity) it's another way of dehumanizing them, reducing them to the people they are meant to become. They have no "free will" no illusion of choice; they have a predetermined destiny, a pre-determined order, there was never any room for choice even down to the shirts on their back.

The Seraphim & The Concept of Self

I wonder who picked the Seraphim's outfits cause at first glance when you only look at S-Hawk and S-Snake it feels like there's a standard uniform. then you see the whole group and there's definitely some individuality going on; like S-Bear just wearing a mini kuma outfit, S-Shark with the gi, my man Moria got a little suspender situation going on over there. S-mingo wearing a whole ass hawain shirt. So there's definitely some variety though they all incorporate white in some way. And I wonder if maybe they got some input into what they wore one of the only acts of "free will" they were allowed was choosing whether they wore shorts or long pants which is as adorable as it is sad.

Because think about the implications that they are dressed to the taste of their adult counterparts, right down to how doffy and mihawk like to open their shirts (except for S-Snake which thank god) but yeah what if it wasn't an allowance of free will but a test to see just how deep DNA ran. If it could influence something as simple as choice of clothing, just another fact for Vega punk to marvel at.

Or maybe the clothes were chosen by one of the Vega punks (I can imagine Shaka doing it) or one of the other various lab assistants. And it's just another way to get them to embody the warlords, to reinforce who they were cloned to be, impressing on them that they are not their own people, their lives are not their own. They are already predetermined; from what powers they get, to what weapons they use, even down to what clothes they wear. Everything reinforces that they are not people, just "better" "stronger" versions of someone else.

Either way, and It might have not have been purposely meant that way because I'm pretty sure Vega punk doesn't really register them as human (which is weird cause he treats stussy very humanly and a whole other can of worms seeing as they seem to be aware and possess a personality to some capacity) it's another way of dehumanizing them, reducing them to the people they are meant to become. They have no "free will" no illusion of choice; they have a predetermined destiny, a pre-determined order, there was never any room for choice even down to the shirts on their back.

Something about Vegapunk using the dna and blood of a caged and experimented on child to create more caged child experiments and the cycles we perpetuate.

Because what does it mean that all that King has left as proof, that the lunarians were real, that they existed as a tribe, as a people, are seven manufactured children he doesn’t even know about, enslaved as weapons to the government that wiped out the culture they’ll never get to be a part of, and Alber himself another enslaved child lost to something he’ll never fully know.

And what of the warlords? Already young once and hurt by their government, young again and slaves to it. Boa looking at a version of her practically pulled out of time stuck in her worst nightmare or Jimbei looking at a version of himself living out a past he escaped by the skin of his teeth but so many he loved didn’t, even Doffy once again at the mercy of the people that already abandoned him, has Kuma not suffered enough? Given enough, is this child version of him doomed to repeat the same path he already could not escape from . Property of the world government, beholden to the celestial dragons, this version of me that cannot go free?

It’s interesting that Vegapunk joined the government so that he could do the most good, but look at the long line of people right infront of him that he’s hurt with his own hands.

Don't take this joke seriously

he’s developing a way to power the world with bisexual energy

I am lovingggggg the new outfits

Ponte verga

WELCOME BACK TO EVEN MORE CRACK POT ONE PIECE THEORIES WITH ME ELI

Every devil fruit awakening is slightly different between user of the same fruit

Emet (egg head robot) was joyboys franky (suuuppper) and zou was his chopper

Brook knows of islands that have been erased and some erased history and will (unintentionally) foil a government plot by revealing this info

Someone has a copy of the Vegapunk recording

Vegapunk put together that Luffy was Nika fruit users and the return of joyboy and his importance to the one piece (thus more people want to join and stop Luffy and probably massive bounty increases)

The ancient technology was lost because both sides destroyed it, to slow the other down

Hey bestie so i'll actually kms so what if we didnt

Fun Crossover Idea

What if pressure took place in the one piece universe? The lab was one of vegapunk's old ones but then he abandoned it because he couldn't get the results he wanted out of the projects. And then the world government took over and that's when all the really REALLY unethical stuff started. The Expendables are just people from the first level of impell down that they ship to the lab once the level starts getting too crowded. It would also make Sebastian's backstory of wrongly being committed for the murder of nine people a lot more believable cuz we know the justice system in one piece is shit. He would be one of vegapunk's failed experiments because we know vegapunk has experimented on people (King and kaido's backstory) and he's a huge perfectionist (him throwing away an entire artificially made devil fruit just because the colors off). And maybe while an impel down trying to save Ace, Luffy is mistaken for an expendable. 

Not me screaming and throwing my phone across the room when I saw this hot ass mf appear on my screen

FINALLY!!! Some Dragon content!!!

While reading, I was like is that Dragon’s silhouette and then WOW double page of Dragon and then I turned page and there was ANOTHER Dragon page and I was like I can die happy now

Dragon despising war and violence is great! I still remember back when we were first formally introduced fo him that he reprimanded one of his soldiers that were celebrating winning a war… it’s all coming together! I love it!

Nami and Robin’s reactions are the best!!! “He’s so passionate” I know right?!?!? I’m gonna use that line every time somebody asks me why I love Dragon. And are you really telling me that Dragon had Robin at his HQ for TWO WHOLE YEARS and never told her he knew Clover? Come on! Open up a little, man!

Also, Vegapunk seeing Luffy and going “Welcome Dragon’s son” had me! Now my new headcanon is Dragon calling Vegapunk in the middle of the night to gossip about Luffy. I’m obsessed!

Can’t wait for more! Good job Oda!

Ok…

We can take Shaka off our list of suspects.

And living people.

Damn, that was brutal.

But nothing new… just another character that joins the list of “people that I liked that are now dead because the universe doesn’t want me to have nice things”.

Great. Keep it up Oda.

OK WHO WON THE BET?!?

I for sure did fucking not…

Damn, well played Oda.

Also, bye bye to any hope I had for Shaka being alive.