#one piece 1098

[dailyrebranded]

I’m not over it

[monkey-d-ezekiel]

okay im sorry but. 1098 is just way too much for me to drop a review on it. been trying to work on it for a bit and every time i try it just turns out horrendous. this chapter broke me man. i can't give my thoughts on it coherently 😭

so have some memes instead (let me cope in peace).

cool shanks and mihawk art if you need to cope too (artist)

[joy-girl]

He's such a sweet dad 🥺❤️

[forged-in-kaoss]

[lordofchoripan]

Thinking bout that bear, love you Kuma u didn't deserve all that shit

[karinzany]

The Fallen Celestial Dragons

Red Haired Shanks, son of Saint Figarland Garling Doflamingo and Rosinante, sons of Saint Donquixote Homing Jewelry Bonney, daughter of an unidentified Celestial Dragon that bought her mother, Ginny

[gale-gentlepenguin]

If I was in One Piece I wouldn’t last a week.

Not because I’m a weakling, but because I’d have been killing Celestial Dragons left and right to the point where the World Government would give me a bounty higher than Gol.D Roger.

[bingus35]

I know white lead disease is based on real lead poisoning cases, but can’t find anything about sapphire poisoning. However there’s some legend about this

Something something Bonney is the key to defeating Saturn

[1000sunnygo]

One piece 1098

Oda.. What do you mean you've created a girl who escaped slavery then thrown her back to the hell and worse, for TWO years, being kidnapped right before the day that she eagerly looked forward to. This chapter is going to haunt me for days

Regardless of her small screentime, Ginny is not a nobody. She's essentially the mastermind of God Valley incident. She saved lives including Kuma's and never left his side - wishing to be his 'big sis' after Iva left. She had always been there to protect him. But thinking about it, Kuma couldn't reciprocate it the same way did he.

Ginny was Kuma's opposite - he'd hesitate, she'd jump into action. She knew she loved kuma and proposed him. She saw him being imprisoned and went to fight the King. She was bringing a balance to Kuma's life, which fell apart after she left. Ginny came to save Kuma time and time again, but in the two years of her kidnap, Kuma gave up on her.

"we raised hell to free you, Kumachi", opposing "I thought I'd never see you again." There's a clear difference between their mindsets.

Kuma became violent yes. But so far we haven't seen any hint that he teleported to Mariejeoise. There's already a record set by Fisher Tiger so it wasn't beyond the realm of possibilities, but Kuma was probably trapped by his trauma and abusive upbringing. He didn't think Ginny would be alive because his mother died.

But Ginny never gave up, she had remained firm with her convictions till the end. She loved a person and the child had genes of her abuser, but she carried the baby and gave birth to her, named her. Ginny was not a person who'd abandons someone.

She realized that sunlight would kill her, but she set sail alone and correctly navigated back to the church. Back to the home they once used to live in before they joined the revolutionaries. The place and its happy memories that probably never left her mind in the two years. The church is the place where she found her solace after her childhood slavery. She wanted her daughter to grow there, she wanted it to be her own grave.

What Ginny gave up on was Kuma's love. She knew he'd worry, she looked hideous and felt that she has no right to face him. "Don't you dare come here" - How prude of her to bloat about wanting to marry him, make him happy, to protect him - and then leave for two years and return with a baby? She knew he'd still love her, but she had no right to expect anything from him, for herself or her child.

"Tell the kind Kumachi, that I've always always loved him."

Kuma had always saved civilians from their miseries. She appreciated Kuma's benevolence.

But it doesn't make Ginny any less kind. For she had something Kuma lacked in his younger days. To fight tooth and nail for the ones that are important, and to never give up.

[kookoofufu]

Chapter 1098 Spoilers

Well. That was a hell of a read.

First things first, I really hope Oda gives himself a break. I'll wait however long it takes if it means he doesn't kill himself rushing weekly unfinished chapters.

I was right about Bonney not being Kuma's biological daughter but in the worst way possible! Jesus christ I could not predict Bonney as a product of celestial dragon SA. There's a lot going on in this chapter, let's go.

Bonney's real age is fascinating for a few reasons. One: Bonney is 12 years old, 10 pre-timeskip. Meaning she is aged up somehow (due to Vegapunk or her devil fruit), and has either been cured of this rare disease or something else (in the present her blue stone has disappeared and been replaced by jewelry. suspicious. i still think clone fuckery is on the table).

Two: Kuma's weaponization, and most likely the installment of the Warlords themselves, only happened within the last 7 years (5 years pre-timeskip)! The timeline makes me go crazy.

Kuma raising Bonney also makes me go fucking crazy. Not only are they adorable, but Jewelry Bonney and the iconic "where would you like to go" question comes from this period. Asking other people that question may be a representation of Kuma's free will, a way to think of Bonney while in the depths of cyborg hell. And maybe Kuma didn't want to give Bonney his last name in order to protect her :(

It's also ironic that Kuma believes in Nika the sun god of freedom when sunlight killed Ginny and keeps Bonney trapped in her home. The open sky has always been a symbol of freedom in One Piece, so the sun becoming Ginny's enemy (after implying she was trapped underground) is very tragic. There's also this parallel between the dark and stormy sky with Kuma and the bright, dry sky with Ginny as they're on their own ships:

There's a lot I haven't gone over like the Revolutionary Army, King Becori's return, how the WG and Vegapunk might get involved, Nika, the sapphire sickness itself (passed on from celestial dragons??), etc. But we've got time. Break next week, after all.

[monkeydlitty]

The art this chapter was so raw and almost messy, which is fantastic because I feel like it really added to the almost hopelessness of everything that has been happening to kuma.

[dailyrebranded]

I miss her dearly

[moonpaw]

THAT'S WHERE HER TITLE CAME FROM?? 😭😭

[joy-girl]

Bonney's little teddy bear has the same hat as Kuma 😭

[mugiwara-lucy]

With all of these sweet heartwarming moments being exposed between Kuma and Bonney, I hope even MORE we get a Zephyr from Film Z moment where Kuma helps the Straw Hats escape but he does like Zephyr did.

I feel it would REALLY raise the stakes of the Final Saga

[toweringclam]

Post I made 8 years ago. One year before transition, one year after my fiance died, and therefore at peak Not Okay.

Wait, what's that last one?

Oh noooooooo