#one piece 1043 spoilers

[bottlepiecemuses]

Why Do I Imagine How Easily This Could Have Been Said To The Lunarians And King Wouldn’t Be Able To See The Irony Of It?

The arc has made no bones about how Kaido only views the people of Wano as just people to be conquered and used for his own ambitions. However, it is ironic considering that it’s probably not so different attitude from the world government’s view on the Lunarians which they were a strong people who were known for being formidable but due to how a tyrannical force broke them they have dwindled down due to oppression. And again I could so see the Lunarians taking last stand and losing to the government and they probably said the same thing to them that standing up them was a gamble and now they had to face years of subjugation. 

And again someone who knows the world government firsthand it’s ironic that King can seem to see how Kaido is not so different from how the government views him and his people who can be used and subjugated because they are the losers in the war. If you applied Kaido’s logic to this, the Lunarians like him deserve to be oppressed and fall into extinction because they probably tried to oppose the World Government. And funny enough he’s doing it right now by just being Kaido’s right hand man. It’s always interesting to see how a victim of oppression can become oppressive towards another group of people. Which again shows probably how King has fallen from the ideals he probably used to have until he was freed by Kaido. He probably rationalizes he’s not doing this because of race and that it’s just a step to bringing change in a world. But again from an outside perspective it’s not so different from what he and his people faced and you wonder if he could have seen things differently if it wasn’t Kaido that freed him. 

[missallllsunday]

The reddit One Piece community for the next two weeks

[fly-chicken]

But what if Luffy turns into JoyBoy so he has the will to deliver a killing blow? 👀

[tibuki]

yall chapter 1039 colorspread has this melting stuff

so... tree sap??? what is going ooooon

[uchanekome]

A One Piece Theory *SPOILERS*

Okay soooo chapter 1043 happened and even before that I had gone down a rabbit hole of speculation about what the One Piece is why it made Roger laugh so hard he named the freaking island after it? Who was Joy Boy and how does Luffy’s Devil Fruit relate him? Who was the Sun God Nika? What is the Will of D? 

Well I did some digging (and by some I mean a LOT) and if what I speculate is true than it’s all this is connected by a single thread called Hinduism. Now I’m no expert on Hinduism but I did some reading on it and found some very interesting things. Hinduism is the most ancient religion on earth. And so naturally many myths have an origin in Hinduism much like the legend of Joyboy. Joyboy the spirit of music, is a myth that had it’s origin in india, africa and Haiti. The legend told of a smiling man who’s drums where the stuff of legend and his songs would spread hope of liberation to slaves. Jazz drum musicians would strive to be as good as Joyboy. 

In the chapter we hear mention from Zunesha about the “drums of liberation”  

This legend was actually derived from a Javanese story about a man, a king actually named Jayabaya/Joyoboyo or Nika. Here’s a link to the wikipidia all about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayabaya

But to make a long story short the guy was an amazing ruler and his people prospered under him. But it’s hard to tell what was fact and fiction about him cause stories clamed he was one of Vishnu’s incarnations. (We’ll get into that later.) He also was some sort of prophet and foretold Japan’s occupation in WW2 and that the Javanese people would be saved eventually. He also somehow foretold that there would be cars and planes so there’s that. Anyways this guy apparently meditated so long he got supernatural powers. 

Now after I read his Wikipedia article I decided to go to another...Vishnu’s. This was where things got interesting. Apparently whenever the world is threatened with evil, chaos, and destructive forces, Vishnu descends in the form of an avatar to return balance to it. This very much reminds me of Luffy. Whenever there is evil Luffy rights it. Not because of some god granted reason no Luffy just wants to help his friends...but wouldn’t someone like Luffy be the perfect avatar for Vishnu or in other words for Joy Boy? Vishnu’s avatars all had wills of their own. They all had their own goals and wants. But they always aligned with Vishnu’s core beliefs. General goodness, leadership, but most importantly the rights of the individual. Now in the current chapter Luffy seems to have awakened his devil fruit and with it Joy Boy. But what links Joy Boy to the Devil Fruit?

Well the Youtuber “Joy_Boy Theories” (link below) had a fascinating take on this. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NrswMlA9Rk

 He believes that Joy Boy’s spirit IS the devil inside Luffy’s devil fruit. And that Devil Fruit were created using souls from the ancient kingdom. The Shandorians believed souls of the dead resided in the trees. And we know Devil fruit are made from a special tree, than henceforth reincarnated into the nearest fruit after the original eater has died. Given the information we have it’s not hard to come to the conclusion JBT did. Still I think we can take this idea a bit farther. 

But first lets go back to the Hinduism aspect.

I always assumed that the Will of D was the will of the devil or something along those lines. After all they are the ones said to oppose the “gods” AKA the Celestial Dragons. However I think history has it backwards. Remember Doflamingo’s words at Marineford. “Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice! .” In Hinduism there is a rivalry between two factions, the Devas the Suras. The Devas are basically good gods while the Suras are evil demons. There’s always been a tug of war between the two over control. So if Vishnu is a Deva than maybe the Will of D is actually the Will of the Devas. The gods who existed before the false gods took their place. We know that they were gods because NikaAKAJoyBoyAKAJoyoboyoAKAVishnu was said to be a “Sun God” This terminology has never been used towards ANY of the good guys so far. The “Gods” in One Piece are usually selfish and cruel. But Nika was a symbol of good of hope and of liberation for the slaves. Slavery is something the “Gods” of One Piece the Celestial Dragons and by extension the mysterious Im actively participate in. Meaning there used to be a different set of gods. Gods who’s souls were trapped in a tree and who’s individual powers became the devil fruit.

Now I know what your thinking. “If they were gods how were they killed.” I personally think this has a connection to another aspect of the fight between the Hindu gods. Kshira Sagara AKA the ocean of milk. Which finally brings me to The One Piece TM. It’s my belief that PART of it not all of it, is another pirate legend one that is very well known. The fountain of youth. In Hindu belief Devas and Suras got their immortality from the ocean of milk. They each took turns churning it until it became amirita the elixir of immortality. But if it’s youth and not full immortality we can assume their bodies can be killed. For the fountain of youth to exist in One Piece and no one knows about it it would have to be a well guarded secret perhaps only Im knows about it. After all he seems very immortal. As for Roger, a man dying of an illness the One Piece having with it something he’s never cared about but the whole world would give their left arm and a leg for would be amusing. Of course he didn’t drink it cause like Ace he wasn’t interested in living forever, just living today was enough.

Well I’ve reached the end of my theory. Do yall think I’m way off or do you think I’m on to something here. IDK. But I did have fun with this.  

[queenkyasarin]

HUHHH??????

Yall everyone gotta catch up on one piece ASAP Get tht sinking feeling tht the ending arc is very close

[bobigleux]

One Piece spoilers so read at your own risk babes !

If you need to die to become Joy Boy, kind of make sense of Kaido's suicidal behavior now (and why he said Luffy couldn't be it when he lost the first time at Onigashima) But also all of this means Luffy is dead so i don't like it. I don't want Joy Boy if it means no Luffy, someone take it back plz, thank you

[sheismissing]

Is Joyboy a title or something else?

[caustic-light]

I am not okay

Oda you can’t bring back the victory panels only to do this with them

[onepiecesmosthated]

Kaido! You Bastard Part 14!

Again even though he has noble hidden traits, Kaido still is a bastard who sees people as tools to use for his goals. And again it’s another reason why Luffy didn’t give a shit about his dreams because as shown and emphasized his dreams come at the expense of others and he has little regard for their lives except as disposable bodies for his factories. 

[fly-chicken]

BC of the newest OP chapter I’m going to howl like a banshee everytime my fav live blogger compares luffy to sunshine

I’m not tagging them cause spoilers but if you know you know 👀

[bobigleux]

Me reading chapter 1043 : Luffy isn't dead but also, is he ? Me the two last pages : RIP Luffy, welcome to JoyBoy resurrected into Luffy's corpse tho !!

[bobigleux]

JOY BOY

[bottlepiecemuses]

Words Of A Tyrant That Seem Topical!

A tyrannical maniac who sees another country as just a tool to use for his own uses and mocks the efforts of the citizens who fight back and even tries to say that they chose their fate by standing up to him. And said tyrant views all the lives that he can kill as replaceable and it doesn’t matter that even innocent children aren’t spared his cruelty. It’s chapters and moments like this that make One Piece hit so hard for me. Mostly because you can see people like this in real life and realize how much we lose if we don’t fight back against those who would exploit and use us. 

[bottlepiecemuses]

A Alliance Member’s Adult Fear

Seriously, I would have to feel for this guy having the guy proclaims that no one will be spared. Just imagine him leaving his child and wife behind and under the idea that he wouldn’t come back to them in order to liberate their country. And now there is a possibility they could be subjugated to an even worse form of oppression than has already been faced. It’s a nightmare. 

[bottlepiecemuses]

Yamato Says Better To Die Together Rather Than Live A Slave!

Seriously, Yamato makes a great point because as seen here everyone has sacrificed and built up so much in the two decades that throwing it all away to become replaceable slaves would spit in the face of it all. And again it really shows that Yamato is firmly on their side because they have seen this great country be taken down by their father and Orochi and the future plans for it to become a pirate’s paradise is just going to make things even worse. And if they surrendering that is just giving a tyrant like Kaido what they want instead of proving him wrong that fear and forced subjugation will always win. I mean just look at Yamato’s life they have done nothing but rebel despite their father’s attempts they prove again that no matter how much you keep people down they will try to get up and overthrow you.