#chapter 1072

[enthusiast-of-many-a-thing]

Lucci looks so good when terrified, actually

[nature-nerd-sarah]

So Bonney can access those futures where something went wrong that Oda's been drawing in the SBS corners, eh?

[fly-chicken]

Oooh she IS part of MADS but as a CLONE OMG! And she’s chilling 💜

(Dartboard crazy theory: Yo what if Sanjis mom is a Stussy clone 👀)

[joysstar]

Stussy is really my kind of character. She's beautiful, she's clever and more importantly she's got those "femme fatale" vibes I love so much!

She is dangerous, she's got her own agenda and I expect a lot from her! She seems to have eaten the Vampire Vampire Fruit and her powers are so cool!

Is she someone on Dragon's side? Does she work for herself? What does she want? Does she hold a grudge against the Five Elders for using her like a puppet?

She's surrounded by so many mysteries. Okay, she's a clone. The original Stussy used to be a pirate and a very powerful one. She got Whitebeard's attention.

And I don't believe just anyone can catch this man's attention. You must be quite special. Okay, their son isn't that awesome. Unlike Roger's and Oden's sons, Newgate's son doesn't look that great.

But you can't be Momonosuke or Ace!

My goodness! It's time for us to know more about Kaido's Big mom's Newgate's and Stussy's background, don't you think?

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Potential

Said our piece on Stussy, that warranted it’s own thing. Now we’re looking at the rest of 1072 going into 1073. This break week hurts but I feel like the other side of it will be incredibly fun. We might actually make the jump from sho to ten! Bonney Bonney Bonney, I did not want to skip you. This distorted future ability is such a cool evolution of her power. A childish base with the potential of all possible futures, not unlike what we’ve said about an actress in concept. Both Pudding and Kiku serve as mundane versions of this. Then we leave 1073 with something that could be that “rug pull” moment.

This felt a little different than our other cutaways. Namely Mr. Narrator getting involved. That’s...pretty ominous and open-ended. Do y’all remember that “thought experiment” structure? We spiral, end on a big mysterious cliffhanger, weirdly cutaway to something else that takes a while to see how it ties in, but it’ll set us up to understand the conclusion. Especially with hopping over to Marco of all people. I’m getting him and Sphinx serving as our like, framing device for the play tomorrow but today it’s beating you over the head with the symbolic tie of dealing with literal clones in similar circumstances. Speaking of:

I feel validated and I get to enjoy a great old school Bond villainess. The only thing I’d add is maybe a cool classy lady spy gadget...nice. Is it part of the lipstick tube or is it like, mixed in with the makeup? Can she plant a Kairoseki Kiss? Nami, I know you don’t know this because you’re not a nerd but you know how in RPGs an encounter might sometimes have a really good one time item to snatch? Gurl. Words cannot express how much fun I’m having with this. 

That said...you know at the start of this arc I was just throwing it out there if CP0 and Drake were popping up early after Kiku had the weird ending that might matter. Now Law’s grown titties, Blackbeard’s mobbing around with perfect foil Pudding in the brig, Bonney’s given us an echo of the Kanjuro story and now there’s a literal classy devil woman triple agent with a trait that might make some say she isn’t a “real woman” who just so happened to pop up in that Tamataebako connection on the deck of the Sunny. That feels like my initial hunch wasn’t exactly wrong. Piling on at this point but she’s tossing in a heart motif and the zan in After Image is the zan in Lingering Snow and holy crackers that line to Lucci about not fighting them head on was a Monet callback, wasn’t it? Right before leaving us on a cliffhanger. 

And X Drake is still a Chekov’s Gun yet to be fired.

[swampstew]

OP new chapter spoilers

DNI if you don’t want to be spoiled or you’re not caught up….

@yamat0 hi bestie😌

I KNEW STUSSY WAS A CLONE BUT NOT FOR THIS REASON🥸🥸🥸

This bitch must be 5 clones in a trench coat cause HOW THE FUCK did they make a former rocks pirate into a person who is somehow a member of MADS(?), queen of the underworld and a member of CP0!!?!

I DEADASS thought at the VERY LEAST that weird ass Judge cloned Stussy to make an obedient wife for himself.

This somehow seems worse🥺

So who is the former rocks member??? Well so far all signs point to Bakkin, WEEVILS MOM, who by my estimation probably had Weevil cloned using Whitbeards DNA. All we know is that she claimed they were crewmates 40 odd years ago - around the time he was still in Rocks crew….

Shit is WILD.

[nature-nerd-sarah]

BIG revelation here

Gonna need a few minutes to ruminate on this sledgehammer of a last panel. Like, even overlooking the plot twist of her betraying CP0, which is fairly minor in comparison to the revelation that she's a clone of a Rocks Pirate.

[nature-nerd-sarah]

Alright, so Bonney’s one thousand percent gonna touch that bubble and get her dad’s memories. Now the big question becomes: What is she gonna find in there? And how much of that is Oda actually gonna show us?