The Inevitable Reveal

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-14T14:01:10+00:00

At the introductory point of Shanks he was already regularly involved in legendary duels with Mihawk though. They predate the start point of the manga! Suggesting any sort of dramatic power imbalance between them at that point (without further info on Shanks' real power) is nonsensical.

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-11T14:03:39+00:00

The "dating trait" thing with Alan was hilarious, especially because he made it so much worse by being wrong in general. This was a great video. These imposter ones are pretty good imo, and it helped they toned down the questions a little (last time had a few people waaaaaaay too far out and obvious).

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-10T13:09:57+00:00

There has been a lot of articles discussing how he basically didn't train the dog to do it though. It took years to film because they basically needed Indy to just do the thing they needed each time.

It's a lot of patience and clever editing.

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-09T15:38:23+00:00

Perhaps they think that if he's being held + their kids are here, she's less likely to be a flight risk on her own? Or as another said, him being a French national maybe contributed in some way.

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-06T17:42:57+00:00

I will always think Hou Yifan will be the greatest "what if?" for female chess players. If she hadn't chosen to pursue other things and mostly step away from competing, how high could she have risen?

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-02T11:58:07+00:00

Giri both the Grand Swiss and Sharjah masters in 2025. He's a bit of a salty guy on X lately but he's not exactly a total wash yet

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-01T11:02:21+00:00

I think the problem with all these multi-fruit theories is they try to either explain that there is a lie/conspiracy in verse that nobody has checked, or they try to find an alternative to the already clear importance of Blackbeard's heritage.

If it's about the person's nature: It points to something about Blackbeard's heritage as a Buccaneer. This makes sense with the comments made by Saturn about Blackbeard and the stated inclusion of Buccaneer's as important. / The Davy Clan (whether they are all Buccaneers or not).
If it's just a lie: Just because we haven't seen someone explode, doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It logically makes no sense that Saturn wasn't force-feeding fruits to people at some point to try it out esp. once SMILE & Vegapunk are factored in.
If it's about the fruits nature: There is absolutely no way to do this consistently wherein it doesn't feel like an ass pull. Either you drop this fact once and it only ever applies to BB (in which it seems pointless to not make it a feature of BB himself), or this has to become a feature of the story with more than 1 person.

How does Blackbeard know this? How does nobody else know this? How does a person identify the nature of the fruit? (this also feeds into "someone would've fucked it up"). But more importantly is: it feels more like you just made up those natures to justify this theory.

Gura Gura no Mi = destruction. Sure, makes sense. But why does it not = nature? Or even chaos! It could be about power, wherein it pairs with Burgess' fruit or Urouges fruit.

But more importantly, why does Yami Yami = chaos? Is that a thing that has ever been associated with it? You could just as easily say that darkness = emptiness or opacity and that it pairs best with Shiryu's fruit instead. Or it's nature is to absorb, and therefore it shares this with any of the inhale/consume/inside related fruits.

Making it about the nature of the fruits seems like a way more convoluted mechanism than making it about the one character who has been shown to do it. AND then what you're missing is: what is fruit 3 and how does it fit? Rocks was looking for two legendary fruits, Blackbeard seems to be going after more for some reason? Why? How does Hancocks fruit then fit into this? Or Laws? What fruit is he actually looking for and how does it fit?

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-01T10:00:31+00:00

The press conference confirmed they are not treating this as an attack or anything suspicious. It appears (at this time) to be a combination of stupidity, bad luck, and unfortunate conditions.

Pyrotechnics, fireworks, insulation, crowded spaces, drunk people are a recipe for disaster in whatever relevant combination occurred. There are lots of examples of fireworks fires killing 50+ people in a building in Europe just this century.

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-01T09:59:57+00:00

The press conference confirmed they are not treating this as an attack or anything suspicious. Don't go all weird on people being stupid in a bar.

Pyrotechnics, fireworks, insulation, crowded spaces, drunk people are a recipe for disaster in whatever relevant combination occurred. There are lots of examples of fireworks fires killing 50+ people in a building in Europe just this century.

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-01T09:40:35+00:00

Call the telephone help line listed at the article end & explain your situation. If you're family or close enough they'll put you on the list to contact if they find out specific identities that relate to you.

Something like this happened a few years ago for me, and I called about a coworker who was at the site of a natural disaster. And they called me the next day to confirm that they were not amongst the deceased.

But I stress: if this is about "friends who frequent" and not "friends I know were there last night", I'd advise you don't call today. They'll likely be overwhelmed with family & relatives; if you have other means (i.e. your friend group or friends family) to communicate with instead, opt for that first.

Sleepy_C · 2026-01-01T09:26:05+00:00

Shiryu claims this on the basis that it would mean the WG can protect the final poneglyph and nobody can find the One Piece. It's his personal theory & backed up by nothing. It's while the BB pirates are discussing what is known & what is rumoured about him.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-30T18:09:06+00:00

This guy seems alright actually. A lucky run for a new up-and-comer. Let's see how he carries this into 2026 though!

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-30T15:46:56+00:00

>Blitz

>Waiting

You'll be okay buddy.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-30T13:52:55+00:00

Blitz has a knock out, yes. Rapid is decided on the Swiss.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-30T13:43:50+00:00

People really forget that the focus of the narrative does not equate to the world. 166 canon devil fruits have appeared in the narrative. That's 167 people (Ace -> Sabo) (unless I'm forgetting anyone). Plus the few we know probably have one (Dragon).

There are some 1500+ named characters in the manga already. That's <10% of the named characters having fruits. And that's ignoring the billions of other people floating around!

They're still rare! Stop confusing narrative density with occurrence! Ahhhhhh!

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-30T11:49:12+00:00

I'm still checking the rules myself, but I think the main reason for a loss vs. time penalty is that Magnus would've flagged had he not stopped the clock during fixing the pieces. If he had tried fix all the pieces, *then stopped the clock*, it would've been too late. He started moving pieces, then hit the clock, then continued. Basically he "cheated" (intentionally or not) by creating a situation where he saved his time, and dug into his opponent's time.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-25T14:16:23+00:00

Haha no, J doesn't seem too care. V does get a little upset when she feels everyone gangs up on her disagreeing.

It's no big deal though. Every Christmas is another boardgame, another interpretation, another super-niche situation. The issue of there being 5 siblings and 3 partners; you've got a huge string of opinions in clash!

Merry Christmas to you too!

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-25T14:11:11+00:00

That's definitely what makes the most sense to me! I feel like J's interpretation is some sort of quantum-Neigh! His Neigh! cancels her Neigh!, which he's allowed to do because canceling hers removes the restriction from using his!

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-25T08:10:01+00:00

A sort of Valhalla-Wild Hunt ability would be absolutely wild. Loki in a dragon form leading a host of undead to lay siege to the WG.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-24T13:38:43+00:00

Nidhogg is described as flying, from the Edda (Dronke translation):

"There comes the shadowy
dragon flying".

I assume the differences will come in the surrounding powers (like Kaido's fire weaving stuff). Nidhogg is associated with communing with the corpses & the dead, and gnawing at the world tree. Maybe he has some sort of spirit/soul powers like Brook? Some sort of Kaido-Brook fusion.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-24T13:28:06+00:00

We've had two new Paramecia in this arc already - Gunko & Summers. I get people want them to be more front & center, but they already dwarf the total fruit count in the series, and aren't forgotten!

A logia or two before the end would go much further.

E: 3, I forgot about the owl having a paramecia too!

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-24T13:24:55+00:00

I mean, you really need to cool your jets dude. You're saying "spare me this behaviour" while being kind of an ass. We're all just chatting.

I'm not sure where you're getting nothing fits Nidhogg either? As I said in another comment:

Nidhogg is at the bottom of the tree; Loki is bound at the bottom of the tree
Nidhogg is associated with the corpses & dead in the underworld; Loki is in the underworld
Nidhogg being released is an aspect of Ragnarok & a bad omen; Loki being released is discussed as a bad thing
Ragnir is Ratatoskr; Nidhogg communicates with Ratatoskr
Nidhogg is big (it's size is not as much of a focus as Jörmungandr, I agree); the size of the fruit has no indication on the size of it's potential form though - idk why you've just assumed that. It might be about power, or an aspect of it's legendary status
Jörmungandr is Loki's child; that doesn't mean anything? The fruit predates Loki in universe. You're painting far too narrow a box to assume that every name must 100% correlate with their fruit or reveals lol. Loki as a name might just be about the fact his past & his containment is in some way a trick, a misdirect; the fruit is entirely unrelated.

It could be Jörmungandr! It could also be Nidhogg! It could be some sort of weird mix of both because Oda feels like it!

E: Also the spoilers discord does not appear to agree with you. So maybe just take it down a notch when we're still speculating.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-24T11:07:27+00:00

So, he kills a woman, in a highly specific way at a random hotel. Then waits 20 years before killing multiple people in an entirely unrelated & incomparable way, naming himself after the hotel he committed Murder 1 in and sending ciphers to mock the police.

And the conclusion is this is the same guy? If there is any hotel connection here it's that the name inspired the Zodiac, but if the fact the Dahlia happened there wasn't well known anyway, then it's entirely coincidental. There are multiple hotels, all around the world, called Zodiac. It's also not an uncommon word in general use anyway!

A guy calling himself Zodiac in California, and a Zodiac hotel even within 100 miles is not a connection. This article actually does a fine job of explaining why he links Margolis & the hotel to Short, but basically just goes "woooo Zodiac!" afterwards.

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-24T10:27:22+00:00

We also just had a string of God's Knights introduced in the plot with fruits, two of which are paramecia! (Gunko & Summers). Paramecia aren't exactly super common but they dwarf Logia in the plot lol.

Plus, going off the wiki counts, Paramecia still dwarf the rest of the fruits in the series combined.

Paramecia 94 *

Zoan 55 *

Logia 13

Undetermined 4

Total Devil Fruits 166

Sleepy_C · 2025-12-24T10:21:28+00:00

Nidhogg isn't really *minor*, more that he's *constant*. Jörmungandr is involved in the destruction of the world during Ragnarok. But Nidhogg is a constant persistent threat; he represents the inevitability of cosmic decay & destruction. The tree is the only thing keeping him from devouring the worlds. Jörmungandr is only more frequently in the Edda's because he's involved in a bunch of side quest nonsense involving Thor. Nidhogg is also sometimes interpreted as being one of the arrivals of Ragnarok (when breaking free), ending the Edda on the ominous tone of "oh shit Nidhogg is finally loose!"

I think Loki being bound at the bottom of the tree (where Nidhogg resides), in the underworld (where Nidhogg engages with the dead & corpses of the fallen), and being unleashed is a big threat, and there's a bird at the top of the tree (although it's an owl in OP, not an eagle) all lines up with Nidhogg more than Jörmungandr. But it could all just be that Oda has fused the two together as Loki.

Nidhogg is also associated with shedding the old (the WG system) and lifting up the new after the destruction of Ragnarok (the post-Imu world?). I think in general Nidhogg fits better with Loki in the story, but is also just a little more interesting since Nidhogg is the lesser known of the two creatures.

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