One Piece Ch. 968 Prophesy
GODA HAS DONE IT AGAIN FOLKS!!!
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One Piece Ch. 968 Prophesy
GODA HAS DONE IT AGAIN FOLKS!!!
Luffy is Joyboy
I wonder what he told him? Maybe he asked him to keep on eye on people likely to make it to the one piece? Could that be why he spent over a year training Luffy? Because he fit what Roger was looking for?
One Piece Chapter 968: Initial Thoughts
Spoilers for Chapter 968...if it wasn’t clear
i dont think oda has ever or yet to go the reincarnation route and that would just kill the story. its more like "dreams and wills" never die. the will of roger was passed on to luffy, the will of whitebeard was passed on to ace and then to sabo. its just that maybe due to circumstances joyboy coudlnt finish whatever he started and then that will was passed on to roger and luffy and as such. its like a relay race. they do the best they can and pass the baton to the next in line. now its luffy
I hope so!! I’ve always thought that’s what “inherited will” means, and I still do.
But i’ve seen some fans who believe it’s all about reincarnation, and honestly, it’s not 100% impossible with Oda if he even introduced time travelling in the story. The main argument for the reincarnation theory was roger’s words to rayleigh (”I will not die”), but I always thought this is related to Dr. Hiruluk’s quote about how someone won’t die as long as people remember them. But now after this latest chapter the words “the day joyboy is born again” sound a lot more about reincarnation than anything idk
But I agree this would be a bit of a shitty ending (for me at least) and I’m hoping it’s not really the case and it’s all about inheritance. And, if that quote is about luffy, it just means he’s a descendant with the same “powers” joyboy had.
If things had been slightly different - if tiny Franky had wanted to return to the sea and had accepted Oden's invitation to join the crew, and if the Roger pirates had come across Brook on their way through the Florian Triangle (he definitely would have joined them since 1/ he'd already been adrift for over 20 years, and 2/ his old pal Crocus was with the Roger pirates) - Franky and Brook would have been crewmates on the ship of the future pirate king a whole 25+ years earlier.
I WILL HAVE TO WAIT 10 YEARS MORE TO KNOW WHY MY SON WAS CRYING???
CMMON ODA
This makes me sad. Roger thinks Ace will find it. He’s a little busy being dead.