Theory / Thought: One Piece No 2 Luffy, the man who dreams of turning the world upside down.
⚠ Attention ❗Spoiler for Chapter 1000 and previous ⚠
So, in Chapter 1000 Ace told Yamato off screen what Luffy's dream is and asks him not to laugh about it, even though he and Sabo laughed about it when they were children. I didn't even notice it at first, but after reading it for the third / fourth time I noticed something about Yamato's answer.
Yamato tearfully replies that he would never make fun of it because the Pirate King had said exactly the same thing. So in this case it cannot be his dream of becoming the pirate king, because there is no way that Roger would ever have dreamed of holding this title. Roger never persued it, he was named that by Morgans (the newspaper) after doing what he did. I will not go into any further detail about this but...
Holy shit! We're not talking about Luffy's dream of becoming the pirate king!!
And then it hit me like Luffy's elephant gun, it might be his dream to "turn the world upside down". If I remember correctly, that was what he said to Rayleigh, when they said goodbye on Sabaody after the timeskip. And from Rayleigh's flashback we know that it was Roger's dream aswell (what Yamato might have known about), which he uttered when he met Rayleigh for the first time. Luffy probably put it into concrete terms to Ace and Sabo and they laughed. After all, they were just kids...
But what could be meant by turning the world upside down? Well, very likely to fight the injustice between the rich and the poor or to overthrow the ailing system with the tenryuubito and the nobility. I know, I know, this sounds too much like Dragon, although the two are not particularly similar in personality, never met and taken independent paths. Luffy is still a D and therefore "a natural enemy of the gods".
We must not forget that Luffy has a better understanding of the world than one might think at first glance. In Dressrosa he also remembered Goa and was able to draw parallels, such as the throwaway-mentality, not only of everything that is against the system but also simply everything that does not contribute enough to it, illustrated by the toys or the gray terminal, that he has obviously known since childhood and it will be clear to him that it is a global problem, what we can clearly see in Wano, which also suffers hunger, poverty and disease because of its ruler.
But Evy, he only learns that by visiting these islands, you might say now., but I would say they are manifesting his dream of ending tyranny. Learning about the world is a process that most of us go through as we get older. For Luffy, this process began with the Gray terminal and the nobility of his homeland, about which he must have learned a lot from Ace, but also above all, from Sabo, who has detailed insight from his origins.
A particularly dramatic experience was the conflict between Ace and Dadan regarding Sabo's death or more precisely Sabo's murderer, which Luffy overheard. We remember, Ace wanted to take revenge on the world aristocrat, who did this to Sabo, but Dadan stopped him and said, "It was this kingdom that killed Sabo. It was the world itself." Since he was so young, Luffy has not only learned that Goa is just a miniature of what is wrong in the world, but also who is the real enemy of the freedom that he not only wants for himself but for all people. And here we are again at Yamato and it becomes so clear why that moved him to tears, because he himself longs for this freedom and sees what Ace saw, Luffy as the man who is ready to fight for the freedom of all.
So why should he laugh at the man who dreams of turning the world upside down.
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But that was just a thought I had. I hope I could explain what I mean, unfortunately, English is not my native language. Feel free to leave your thoughts on this in the comments below, I'd love to discuss this with you guys! Please remain factual and friendly even if you disagree. I am also very interested in constructive criticism if you find linguistic errors or have improvements in my writing style.
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