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danwhobrowses · 29 days ago

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Once Piece Chapter 1138 - Initial Thoughts

And we return once more

Answers have come with more questions, as they tend to do in One Piece fashion, but with Shamrock and Gunko setting sights on Elbaf, the stage is slowly beginning to set itself

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OH MY GOD QUELLE SUPRISE this mysterious base with cat aesthetic and cat guards is the home of cat enthusiast Who's Who, WHO WOULD'VE GUESSED!?

I mean he wasn't gonna go back to the WG anytime soon

Still got his cat harem, but the oiran seem to be held against their will as he enjoys sake with his large sword with a tiny blade (not a euphemism...maybe)

We continue with Loki, who notes Shamrock's similarity to Shanks

Gunko notes it has nothing to do with him, which Loki agrees but can't help but be curious, since one's a pirate and another's a Celestial Dragon

Confirmation that Shanks is the younger twin of Shamrock, who says his twin 'went astray'

Oh? Shanks went back to Marejois? Wonder why that gives him a little more leeway with the Navy

He grew attached to the world though - which Shamrock calls 'filthy' - which is why he left again

Hearing that Shanks went back only makes Loki dislike him more, but also notes that now he has beef with an entire family it seems

He continues to pledge violence once he's free, hoping to avenge his animal friends

Shamrock asks if it's a threat, Gunko tries to calm him but he agrees it's not worth dirtying himself over

His sword however...seems like it ate a Cerberus fruit

Pretty badass power for such a dick...

Also reminds me of Thriller Bark with their cerberus

Blades come out of each hounds' mouth

It might be my Zoro fan coming out but I see a swordsman with a power that makes three swords...

The heads can also detach from the body and float around, Shamrock calls it his 'biting blade'

Gunko makes an arrow plane as Shamrock sics the hounds on Loki, offering for him to challenge him anytime so long as he survives

All three stab him in the gut, Loki did seem worried about the damage it'd cause

I doubt he's dead but still, sets the tone

Unable to get Loki on-side for 'subjugation', Shamrock plans to go low: kidnap the children

A third God's Knight is going to be called in to assist

Back at Ouest Castle, Luffy refutes the guards' suggestion that Shanks attacked them

Tbf the giant guards must not be so perceptive, they claim it's Shanks because he's visited Elbaf a lot but Shamrock lacks the eye scar and missing arm...

Detective Zoro at it again, noting that if he's visited recently he'd have no need to sneak back in to skulk around

Luffy continues to defend Shanks, which Nami notes regarding his loyalty

Luffy does make a point that Nami would be equally refuting if accusations were thrown at Bell-Mere, though he called her Tell-Mere and got corrected, with the added honorific XD

The giants entertain that it may be a lookalike, or a brother

Luffy wonders if he has a brother, expecting him to be a cool guy (spoiler Luffy: he's not)

But he also mulls over the fact that Shanks never really talked about his bio family

The guy from that cover story we think might be Shiki got a sneaky panel? Wonder what that's about...

Luffy notes that as far as he knew, Shanks was raised on a pirate ship, so he assumes that Roger and Rayleigh were his family

'Their whole crew...except Buggy' - damn Buggy catching strays, that's Yonko on Yonko violence

Over to Franky and Ripley who are at Treasure Tree Adam - lucky guy

Franky marvels how there's so much of the tree, expecting it to be rarer given its black market value

Ripley didn't know that it was rare and jokes about selling it on the side

Seems Saul is more protective of the tree, demanding that Franky didn't cut into it because it's a sacred tree - Ripley was sent to keep an eye on him

Ripley enjoys Franky's Saul impression, also she is still beautiful

Franky concedes that the value is probably because it'd be difficult to steal from Giants, but he then spots something, a mural

Ripley calls it graffiti, thinking it was likely down to kids a long time ago, which made it a heritage site - because it was done sometime around the Void Century

Aw Franky immediately thinks of Robin when he hears it's from the Void Century

He notices though that the drawings aren't all of giants, which Ripley confirms since it's full of multiple races

She thinks the mural was some kid's dream because of the cooperation

Class starts in the Walrus School, very unaware that soon to be 3 God's Knights are likely to be targeting them

Over to the Owl Library, Saul shows Robin and Chopper the Harley text

Chopper marvels at the size, but catches a big ball of giant dust

The Harley's cover also has the circle symbol we've seen a lot in One Piece, the circle with eight mini circles around it

The tome also holds other myths too apparently

As we were told before, the Harley's different interpretations have led to different interpretations of the Sun God

Robin asks to read it and Saul happily obliges

Turns out the Harley is split into 3 different texts; 3 states of the world - which explains why Giants believe the world has been destroyed twice before

The only common thing agreed upon is that Nika appears laughing to the rhythm we've heard before, with Saul also doing the dance

Robin decides to read aloud, which plays over Franky's marvelling of the mural

The First World allegedly burned in endless flame, the Sun God rose from the prayers of the enslaved

The enslaved must've done something though, since they are said to have 'reached the forbidden star', which angered the god of the land

With a Serpent of Fire, the God of the Land cast the world into ruin, darkness and death reigned

'They would not meet again'

The Second World was a breath that stirred in the abyss

The God of the Forest nurtured devils

The Sun lit the embers of war, those of half-crescent and full moons dreamed

But the ones who slew the sun deified themselves, angering the Sea God

Once more 'they would not meet again'

And finally the Third World: Chaos reigns, the world drifts into void

Time does not erase the memory of the promised day

The voice of the half moon echoes through the ages, and once more the Sun God will rise

In the final act, the sun is reborn, a new dawn will break

'Surely, this time, they will meet'

The mural itself is marvellous, while it's possible to be all three worlds I think it mainly depicts the first and second

To the left you can see the enslaved carrying fires in a factory

These fires look like stars next to the moon though

A dragon fights a big serpent, and between them is a ship similar to the Ark Maxim

The ship seemed to crash, and bring winged people and animals

In the middle there's the tree, but there's another fire or star to the side of it

Then on the left is a battle, a demon holding the sun battling armies led by Nika

Emeth, a whale, a giant, a mermaid, a fish, a samurai's boat, another boat adorned with the symbol, possibly a Lunarian and a Mink, a tontatta and two other species are also in battle

And in the middle is Franky soaking it all in

There are spreads like these where you just have to sit back and be in awe of it for a while, because this feels big.

I believe the mural depicts the first and second world since it was made during the Void Century, and thus the world had yet to fall into void. The image of Emeth implies that the second world is Joy Boy's time - 'those who slew the sun deified themselves' is likely a nod to the Celestial Dragons. It's just so much to dissect, but from what I'm seeing it sounds like Devil Fruit powers were perhaps initially due to the 'forbidden star', which probably led to Nika's creation, the resulting war brought Skypeians, Birkans and Shandorians to the planet from the moon - as depicted in Enel's cover story - but Nika lost, the world plunged into darkness.

The second world implies that the God of the Forest created Devil Fruits, and that they are rejected by the ocean because of the Twenty Kings putting themselves at the top. Perhaps Devil Fruits were a gift and they used it to overthrow the world, it also implies that DF users could potentially not be weakened by the ocean under some circumstances. The mention of the moons is interesting too, the full and crescent moon are common in One Piece, but since it's the sun who 'lit the embers of war' it's probably Joy Boy's revolution that did it. Interestingly, they don't say the Sun God in this World, just 'the Sun'; we know Joy Boy awakened his fruit because of Emeth but why isn't the Sun God listed here.

And finally we expect the Third World to be the current one; the Void happened but people don't forget, the sun god shall rise guiding the world to its final act. But there's some things that aren't too clear; who is the half moon that echoes through the ages? What is 'the sun' that'll be reborn after its demise in the Second World? And who will meet?

In terms of Norse myth I do feel like the first and second world have Muspelheim and Niflheim influences; endless fire and breath in the abyss (Niflheim meaning 'world of mist'). When the ice met the flames of both realms the ancestor of jotnar (giants) was born, Ymir.

But anyway, I'm interested in there being three shadow creatures too, I've seen some say that Imu is the one on the right, and they could very well be, but what if Imu's powers are a set of three? What if Blackbeard has another that needs to be awakened the same way? Three dark entities of the world's destruction...

We could go on all day about it, but there was a first half of the chapter to get to as well, so we'll leave it for now with me being glad that Robin, Chopper, and Franky had parts in the chapter for once, and Ripley ofc, though I do wonder if Lilith and Bonney were overhearing Robin's reading of the Harley. Now we need something from Usopp, Sanji, Jinbe and Brook.

Over with the Loki stuff, it is a surprise that Shanks went back to Marejois, maybe he did want to see what life was like there among his birth family? Regardless he still turned away from it. As I said before I'm sure Loki's alive, though he seems more and more like a potential ally as the chapters go on, where does that leave Hajrudin though? We're getting a lot of layers but no conflict right now.

But conflict will soon come, targeting kids is a scummy move but it may set the floor not only for Colon to encourage bravery from the others but for Elbaf to show its fighting spirit, I could definitely see Ripley going ham. When Gunko and Shamrock arrive though I do worry for Robin's group, including Saul, that feels like the next place shit will hit the fan.

We have more mysteries too with that cloaked guy appearing after Luffy mentioned Shanks' family, the shadow guy from earlier chapters has yet to show too, and a third God's Knight is coming, but the numbers are still quite uneven, things are gonna get a lot crazier before we see the full picture.

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