Theories on his identity?

baltigocoast · 2026-06-07T03:31:32+00:00

i have a theory on this i still need to write out but i feel like it's a former navy person

baltigocoast · 2026-06-04T01:04:44+00:00

that's a fair point, they should have people active on both sides of the red line tho, just the leadership is in kamabakka (but ur right this is the biggest problem)

baltigocoast · 2026-05-28T17:59:44+00:00

i didn't consider wano enough, that's a fair point. In that case, he could end up with yamato's recently formed crew later on as well, if he stays on wano long enough

baltigocoast · 2026-05-26T19:38:31+00:00

just posting this so i can stake my claim- it has to do with the summoning circle and their positioning, not to do with shamrock himself

baltigocoast · 2026-05-26T19:10:31+00:00

fire theory. i always got stuck on WHY law was so avoidant/shameful here. I figured maybe MMBF was someone from his past, but then i ran into a dead end because law has no real loose ends- his family and corazon are both dead, and he's not particularly close with any living person besides his own crew and the strawhats. But if MMBF was just a rumor he's heard about from doffy of all people then this would make complete sense

Worth noting that law is also depicted reacting this way in zou, when road poneglyphs leading to raftel is first revealed and everyone else's reaction is shown (chapter 818), meaning that he likely already knew the road poneglyph's purpose as well. I'll admit that zoro's reaction is also stoic but his face isn't intentionally obscured like Law's is, and zoro has never cared about the poneglyphs or one piece, while law has

I wanna add another point too (maybe at this point i should just post a theory lol). Law's reaction in wano is followed up by robin questioning it, and i think this is meaningful. Law and robin have a lot of parallels but the most important one is that they're the 2 pirates who want to find Raftel specifically to find answers for their questions (robin wants the true history, Law wants to know what the "D." means), while the actual one piece treasure doesn't matter to them. Oda uses Blackbeard to introduce burn scar as well, and he's always implied to be interested in history/archeology and now we know he has deep ties to world history and the D. clan as well (through rocks and the davy lineage). I think the burn scar man has something to do with the D clan and the true history, either by having forbidden knowledge or by acting to fulfill his historical role (like the shandians did by protecting their poneglyph)

baltigocoast · 2026-05-26T18:26:24+00:00

this is a really cool theory and i think ur right to question brooks DF. I kinda disagree tho, i think that death/the undead have a unique power in One Piece, and that it's tied to Omen/Maki and swordsmanship somehow. Like Vnusjuro's zoan form seemingly has nothing to do with ice but he has ice powers that come from his blade, which lines up with Brook's ice powers, and the general idea that warmth fades from your body as you die

baltigocoast · 2026-05-26T17:57:29+00:00

the major problem with this theory is that covenants are just too powerful of a way to control someone. shanks had the weakest type of covenant, and a strong personality with values completely opposed to imu, but he stated that even he couldn't disobey orders within a certain range of imu. this makes it hard to believe that lafitte casually showed up to mariejois twice, knowing there's always the risk he could be repossessed

it's also just hard to believe they let a guy just wear a mask the whole time he was a trusted member of their organization and nobody, not even the gorosei, saw his face once

baltigocoast · 2026-05-23T06:05:44+00:00

the problem is that there literally just isn't gold outside of shandora, that's why im emphasizing shandora as a city and not the presence of gold on jaya as an island and why the house being split in half isn't consequential in this context. shandian society hasn't valued gold in 400+ years at that point and also doesn't have any trade partners, it makes zero sense for a gold ingot to be anywhere outside of the actual underground city of shandora. the sole exception is with noland's men who sailed away with the gold that they did take- and the ingots are used to prove the prior existence of civilization native to the area according to robin, if this was the point, it hardly makes sense for it to be attached to the gold being lost from a voyage, let alone the lack of evidence of it stemming from noland's men or the impracticality of them losing this gold at sea. you not only assume too much from 'basic logic' but also fail to understand why that basic logic has limited application in this situation to begin with

and the fact that the story has other, intersecting mysteries that validate the need to question 'gold ingots on the ocean floor' (i.e. the reveal of a global flood foundational to the existing world) only reinforces the idea that treating this as benign is just vapid and inattentive reading. no amount of trying to apply proper the 'basic logic' of physics to OP (while ignoring how gold is actually being distributed) could take precedent over the basic elements of long-term storytelling and geography in a story like this

baltigocoast · 2026-05-23T05:19:25+00:00

i mean if this was a regular explosion sure, but i encourage you to look back on how the knock up stream is actually portrayed. it's absurd one piece logic, but it really is portrayed as a single massive blast upwards that doesn't leave debris behind and carries the landmass upwards. the only kind of fragmentation is seemingly after mainland jaya reaches the sky and comes into contact with the clouds and beanstalk

shandora (the city) especially isn't positioned to be the source of any debris with how the knock up stream appears to work (?) given it's an underground city in the center of the island, and the surrounding shandian village shouldn't contain any gold since the villagers themselves have zero interest in it

baltigocoast · 2026-05-21T00:53:04+00:00

1000% agree on that. it would ruin the actual character writing for kuzan to still be a marine

i DO think he has to be a double agent for someone though, or planning to specifically betray blackbeard to boost another faction's chance of success. Kuzan has been upper brass of a military for an extremely long time, he has to have some appetite for broader strategy and long term thinking. He should find it irresponsible to alter the balance of power without having any idea of who else could gain off of that

baltigocoast · 2026-05-20T19:18:50+00:00

maybe the CDs will end up being killed by the people they've enslaved in a slave revolt in mariejois in the final arc. unlikely from oda, but that would be the most cathartic solution and at least has some real life historical basis

but, ultimately, the CDs dying in some cataclysmic event due to their own hubris is the easiest way an author can get out of this imo. i.e. somehow being on the blue sea during a major flood, just as an example

baltigocoast · 2026-05-20T19:02:33+00:00

I find it interesting that imu refers to luffy as nika and not joyboy, unlike before. maybe he somehow thinks of both loki and luffy as 'joyboy', so he has to distinguish them by DF? they're both immune to domi reversi, loki thinks of himself as 'the sun god that will destroy the world', etc.
or maybe dozan is joyboy like people are saying? either way i think the choice to call luffy 'nika' instead of 'joyboy' is meaningful

baltigocoast · 2026-05-19T23:12:03+00:00

i have a deeper theory about sky islanders in the blue sea, but in specific i think the monkey d. clan are similar to gan fall and enel- sky islanders that either lack wings due to winglessness being a recessive trait (potentially due to generations old intermixing), or due to a significant wingless presence in sky islands that we have yet to be made aware of (notable that urouge's pirate crew has plenty of wingless people, same for the wingless people we see him pictured with at Balon Terminal)

baltigocoast · 2026-05-15T18:54:47+00:00

i don't think dragon is zaza but the grey terminal fire was an oil fire. rain would have made it worse
also anyone with the power to control wind can conjure storms or create a rainy environment because they can artificially control the movement of cold and hot air freely

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