#Five Elders

[bubbydarkstar]

gorosei family photo

(sorry for making peter so babygirl)

[silvadour]

[album-aurum]

I LOVE IMU'S VOICELINE

[pollution-of-subterranean-waters]

Me: I wonder why nobody translates gorosei as “five celestial bodies”, a celestial body is literary a term that means a planet or a star

Also me:

Yeah, yeah, I know celestial bodies don’t sound cool. But, but, but! Celestial is literary in the name! Consider

[yorkin-it]

evil grumpy old men

[wolfbrotherzach]

Reading One Piece as long as most have, you really get a feel for how Oda seeds important characters into the narrative. Obviously he can't spend time giving designs to these far off characters immediately, so instead he resorts to vague silhouettes that he can fill in or completely disregard later. Helps give an air of mystery to someone whose going to be important later on. Loki is just the latest example of him doing this.

These two will devastate the fandom when their reveals happen.

[tuna-core]

rest in piss old man I hope it was too painful for words

[cardboard-writer]

What would you do if you are a Vice Admiral and you just saw the top leader of the world evaporate in front of you?

[mugiwara-lucy]

Here he is standing with literal DEMONS yet Sabo is unfazed 😎

[owarinaki]

Sabo recap -One Piece EP1089

[mastomysowner]

To the sea, where dreams collide! 🏴‍☠️ by @vimart__

[luffypeach]

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[joy-girl]

Oh shit...

[album-aurum]

beware

[1000sunnygo]

Ope ope fruit speculations

so I just found this post:

It's too late to participate in the discussion there, but I want to add a small information that seems to get lost in translation.

Ope ope no Mi's ultimate surgery is "Eternal Youth" (不老), not "Immortality" (不死).

Aren't they used interchangeably? Well, Oda did something curious in Volume 107:

In the magazine edition, Blackbeard asked Law if he (the fruit) could make him both eternally young and immortal - as seen in the left image (不老不死) . IIIRC it was the only time when "Immortality" was added to explain Law's power. But Oda removed the "Immortal" bit in the volume version of the same panel, it was corrected only to eternally young (不老) as previously said during Dressrosa.

Maybe it means Imu isn't unkillable and Law doesn't have to sacrifice himself to reverse the surgery? The "reverse" effect isn't supposed to work in the first place, given Hancock's explanation that her paramecia power is irreversible once the original user dies. It'd be strange if the rule changes from one fruit to another:

Makes me wonder why powers like Hobby-Hobby which keeps the user young don't have the "Eternal Youth" effect. It seems Doffy collected the hobby fruit for a similar research on Eternal Youth, but then learned about its limitations.

How does a natural death occur in One Piece anyway? Is it heavily related to soul rather than one's physical self? A person's soul stays within a body for a specific duration (the natural lifespan), then leaves regardless of the physical condition of the person. If the soul is empowered with revive revive fruit, it can revitalize the body regardless of the corpse's condition (Brook). Since Law is able to swap personalities, it's possible that that Ope ope is able to "operate on" the soul. Eternal Youth surgery could simultaneously sustain a human body and keep the soul trapped within the body forever (which Sugar's fruit can't do), and thus a person gains indefinite lifespan.

I subscribe to the theory that the Elders (who have the ability to immediately heal) had never been humans and their ability isn't the result of ope ope surgery. They could be an extension of Imu's own, unknown devil fruit ability that let him create five puppet figures to run the government. Or they're real demons who would cease to exist once their original summoner (Imu) is killed. Imu, the so-called immortal human, keeps himself safe in a locked room where he cant be harmed, so he can exist forever.

The theory that it's Lili's (eternally young) body Imu is currently residing in makes some sense too, maybe he now has a muse for Vivi and wants to be swapped into her body.

Whichever case it is, Ope ope is definitely involved.

It's possible that a reason the govt allowed Law to become a shichibukai was to regain their access to Ope ope. It'd be ridiculous for the govt to not to collect Law's lineage factor to replicate the 5 billion bounty worth of power. It's very likely that vegapunk was able to replicate the "soul swapping" power of it, so rn Law's original fruit isn't highly sought after as it once was. The govt can still exploit ope ope powers, but they don't need Law to do so.

I don't think they've made his seraphim, it was a long term and expensive project. But how wild it'd be if Doffy's seraphim is revealed to have the Ope ope ability, operating with Law's lineage factor?

I should sleep lol

[dellithium]