#op 1063

[tildemoe]

huge moment for him and for me 

[cachekay]

So the new chapter huh. hellooooooo

[jihef03]

Glad to see Teach making some moves in the story

[shenghuo-jiushi-shenghuo]

Help, trafalgar gives me Bi panic

This:

And this:

Like wut?? How can you be so fine!!

[ble-uh]

when i tell you i fell through the floor sobbing crying screaming giggling kicking my feet tongue lolling out eyes bulging heart beating through chest rolling around dying shivering shaking trembling ascending when i saw law looking like that i am 100% telling the truth

[gay-pirate-anime]

come on oda you couldn't have kept them this way 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[snowpoet123]

Retracing the manga to practice with the new software and contrast. I love fem!Law, though she will probably never come back and just be 98% pure fan service. Let's be honest, there would have been better ways to reveal a devil fruit power storywise.

[hyperbolicreverie]

I read the latest chapter, and suffice to say I'm worried...

Ah, pretty sure I know what this is about. Spoilers for One Piece chapter 1063 under the cut.

So I'm assuming this is about Law because his situation is definitely the part of the last chapter I would call the most concerning. And I do have some thoughts on this frankly terribly unexpected encounter.

First off: I don't think he's going to die here. Considering the themes in the story that have been particularly strong lately of a new generation ascendant--which, admittedly, Blackbeard is generally included in--it would seem a weird choice to knock Law out of the story entirely here, especially when he's one of the primary people in the story that lens has been focused on after the Straw Hats.

But, more specifically, I think it would be a genuinely weird choice to do so after all of the focus Law has received in regards to having a new dream to pursue. He has a specific goal--what is the Will of D?--and we've seen him actively pursuing that despite how recently we comparatively learned about it. We see him talking to Robin, affirming his desire to learn about it in the basement of Onigashima, acknowledge he has to go through people like Big Mom to get the information he's looking for, and actively follow up on his leads by taking a field trip (with Robin, again) to see Wano's road poneglyph. (I just. I just really want a Robin and Law team-up so very very much).

It's just a lot of focus to put on a character you're planning on killing as soon as the current arc ends. And here's the thing: Law didn't need this new dream to get him through Wano. He still would have been there fighting. Robin could have eventually learned the information he's looking for (and almost certainly will anyway) and that could have been the way that information was revealed in story.

But we've gone out of our way to establish a D clan member with active interest in the mystery, and since Luffy doesn't care, it feels like Law at the very least needs to stick around long enough to do so, in the name of at least one of the people in question with that name actually giving a flying fuck about one of the series' greatest mysteries.

He's got multiple death flags hanging over his head, sure, and someday one of them might come due, but I don't think that's now.

That said, it doesn't mean he gets out of this unscathed.

Of note, Blackbeard doesn't say he wants Law's devil fruit, which is interesting, because he did explicitly state he wanted Boa's. So there's a good chance he's not here to rip it out of Law, no matter the Ope Ope no Mi's reputation. He wants Law's copies of the poneglyphs, because he's an opportunist.

I do think it's interesting that this is a random encounter: Blackbeard straight up says he was waiting for whichever of the Boys left Wano in this direction. And I think that Law being the unlucky one of the trio here suggests a few things:

First, it makes the most sense for it to be him. It can't be Luffy, because he's the protagonist and needs to be off keeping the main plot going, and Kid is off looking for the 'man marked by flames,' so that means he's busy. Not to mention we still need to learn about his issues with Shanks. So, unlucky draw for plot relevance, I guess.

However, this could be an excuse to reveal some information to the audience, and the two biggest contenders I can think of are the mystery of Blackbeard's weird body, and Rocky Port.

On the first, Law is the natural person to be able to figure this out, because of his abilities. He might honestly actually already know, since it's confirmed in this chapter that they've met before.

Which brings me to my second point: Rocky Port, one of the most mysterious events to have happened in the series. And if Coby is on Blackbeard's ship at this moment, that puts all three key players of the incident in the same place.

Also: Law at the end of the chapter is looking very cocky. Not that he hasn't demonstrated this kind of behavior before, but right out the gate? He's usually a little more serious than this. Which could suggest he has a plan, or knows something he's not letting on.

There is also the fact that Blackbeard likely doesn't know the full extent of Law's abilities--his awakening is broken as fuck and also a new development. Law could genuinely surprise him, and he also has the advantage of likely knowing at least the baseline of how Blackbeard's devil fruit nullification works. This being Law, I cannot imagine him not workshopping the hell out of potential counters to it if he does.

But I think the big thing here is that as much as I think the narrative support is there to keep him alive, I think he's going to lose something here, because part of this is going to be showing Blackbeard's increasing threat. Maybe he's captured (again! So many times!) or maybe his poneglyph rubbings do get stolen, or something else. Maybe someone else shows up who's enough of a threat he can get away, who knows? There are legitimately so many ways this can go.

And I'm not sure we'll even get to see it, unless there really is something the audience needs to learn here. We could not know how this fight shapes up for a really long time; the end of the current arc, even, if it gets off-screened in its entirety.

On a more meta note...this is going to be one of those situations where no matter the outcome, some of the fanbase are going to cry foul. It'll be bad writing if Law lives, it'll be bad writing if he does well, it'll be bad writing if he does poorly, it'll be bad writing if he wins. Some people seem genuinely excited for Law dying, because death seems to be the only thing they think raises stakes. Which is a sentiment I've never understood, but I'm not here to dictate how other people experience their media. I just find it deeply unrelatable.

I, personally, just kind of want him to have one good thing happen to him in canon. I don't care if he continues on being a pirate, or retires to run the world's most unassailable hospital on an island somewhere. Let the boy be happy, for fuck's sake. Maybe it's optimistic of me to want a good end for a character with so much tragedy and lingering death hanging over him, but I'll own the fact that I am a gooey-hearted sentimentalist and say that I think that'd be a better end to his character arc at this point than his death.

(And on that note, to all the people calling out the Heart Pirates for being "too weak" and that Law should have ditched them a long time ago, and that maybe if they die here Law can have a crew worth a damn: you have missed the point of the Heart Pirates, and of a huge chunk of Law's characterization, and shut up).

[missallllsunday]

How the HELL am I supposed to be normal over this chapter

[vaingod]

ok im still thinking about the recent op chapter, the way Kuma while he was king looks exactly like Vivi's dad, the way we are slowly uncovering more about the devil fruits now again that the CP9 are relevant and how we found out two devil fruits cannot coexist in the same body from them... what will we find out during the egghead arc???

[mistninja]

One Piece 1063

I ❤ Jimbei. He's my laidback cool uncle.

I kinda like these fits honestly

OUGH. OUGHHHHH. Oda sure knows how to draw desperate crying faces.

I kinda forgot that kuma was a king, so that makes Bonney the obligatory princess character of the arc! Im hoping she gets some really emotional moments, it definitely looks like it. Would love to see some bonney and franky interactions.

The big players are clashing! Others pointed it out already but i find it odd that Blackbeard shows no interest in laws devil fruit, which is by far more powerful and versatile than boa's. Also the timeline is a bit weird but i guess Van Augers DF probably explains how they got there so fast from Amazon Lily. I wonder how this fight will end, but i also dont think we will see much of it. At least i hope so, i would prefer if oda didnt keep cutting away from the straw hats.

[crimsonmikasa]

Oh my gosh!! Bonney! You beautiful giiiirl! She can't hurt her dad even if it's a pacifista!!! Ahhhhhh nooooo!!!!

[migila]

Make sure you snatch the prisoner while at it, Law!

[oen-piece]

Also I really hope franky gets to blow up another vegapunk lab

[fwob]

if u honest 2 god think law is going to win here i think you are insane . hes getting his ass kicked

[gumgumvibecheck]

baby boy. baby