#esperia

[love-marimo]

sad but the slight shade to the current world events at the second pic at the bottom is peak lol. cant get enough

i knew brook was hot (im not a necrophiliac i promise)

[lightningbastard]

We've finally made it! Will the Esperia flashback be just as tragic as the Rumbar Pirates or worse?

[queerryan]

Cassadee has a book that said Merlin might have had a romantic involvement with someone named Arthur.

It might be just a silly joke/reference to the story of King Arthur, but imagine if THE King is Arthur and he's Merlin's ex.

Give me the messy drama season AFKJ!!!

[murphmurphthejerk]

The "Candelle was raped" theories don't make any sense to me. It doesn't fit the narrative at all imo.

First of all, the timeline doesn't match up.

We can clearly see Candelle isn't pregnant when she announces her marriage to Reuven. The premise of this theory hinges on Candelle being pregnant already and Reuven marrying her to preserve her honor or whatever.

She'd either:

1) Have to be pregnant already, but we've seen how Oda draws pregnant women.

This panel of Sora is just as small as the one above with Candelle and you can clearly see her stomach is bigger.

Candelle on the other hand still has an insanely small waist lol. Several months should be long enough to have her showing at least a little.

ALTERNATIVELY

2) Shuri would've already been born and hidden, despite the fact that this theory relies on the Kingdom knowing about the rape & worrying for Candelle while a child Brook is kept ignorant of the circumstances.

If the Kingdom knew Candelle was raped and with child there would be no need to keep Shuri hidden in order to fake a pregnancy with Reuven and save her honor or whatever.

3) Shuri was clearly still a baby when she was presented to the kingdom. Even a child Brook should be able to tell a newborn from a toddler lol

Babies grow quickly.

Secondly, Candelle's circumstances don't fit every other time we've seen a woman forcibly "claimed" by a Holy Knight or Celestial Dragon

If one of these men wanted Candelle they would've kidnapped her. Like they did Ginny, Shakky, and the random women we've seen in the story

Any woman that IS able to escape is almost always on the verge of death or immediately kills themselves afterwards

You're telling me Candelle was able to get back up & live a normal life after that?

When even Boa Hancock underwent a dramatic personality shift in order to cope with the trauma.

Brook wouldn't have noticed her MISSING!? The women he's obsessed with?

How would Candelle even get back? How would she be allowed to escape? No matter how strong a person is, very very few are able to escape from the WG. We had an entire arc just to get back Robin remember?

How could Brook NOT notice any of that type of excitement going on around him?

Finally, Reuven would've had to start war with the WG much, much earlier no?

Unless you're saying Reuven would've just accepted her disappearnce?

OR

Are we saying he'd have done NOTHING after discovering she was assaulted!? 😳

The same guy who almost caused a national incident over some Marines beating up a child Brook?? 🤨

THAT Reuven would've just bit his tongue and allowed the person and group that hurt his future WIFE get away with it with no consequences??

There's still a piece of the puzzle Oda is hiding from us.

I don't think so y'all.

There is definitely something that went on with Candelle during that visit from the WG, but I really do NOT think it was rape. She's not Ginny 2.0!

[enisestudio]

BORN TO BURN 🔥 I really like Kulu 🩷

I’m busy drawing a lot of things lately but I’m happy to be back creating what I loooove 🥰

[vintagepromotions]

Cover of the menu on the Italian steamship Esperia, featuring a pelican playing the chimes (1939).

[suicidalartist]

Brooks Backstory: No hesitation brook said fuck the government

[starlightbelle]

One Piece Chapter 1185: My Highlights

Hmm…. this seems pretty dark. So Candelle was “bedridden” for months after the Celestial Dragons visited their kingdom? (And after Brook says the CDs “threw their weight around” while they were there…)

Then it seems like Reuven and Candelle were rapidly married and had Shuri shortly after. Yikes. I’m thinking Reuven wasn’t actually Shuri’s father…

Shuri likely has observation Haki. Possibly more (her hererochromia is interesting…although it could be a visual indication of her split lineage, too)

It can’t be Ohara because this is years before Robin was even born… my guess is Yorki’s place of origin

So as someone else pointed out, this looks like Shiryu… but the timeline doesn’t match up. So either this is someone else (a predecessor to Shiryu, a relative perhaps?), or Shiryu was dealing with time travel (it’s happened before so we can’t rule it out)

edit: or also immortality if he is/was a Holy Knight. Forgot to mention that one. (But Shiryu is a Blackbeard pirate now….hmmmm)

edit2: I KNEW there was a Rocks pirate that looked like him!!! (I could not think of his name right off the bat, but Rocks’ crew was actually my initial thought) - so the guy could have a connection to Don Marlon (who also hails from the West, so…)

Is that creature Imu?? Actually, it sorta looks more like that bird form one of the Five Elders is able to take… (*double checks*) Marcus Mars’ ability to transform into Itsumade. The ringed eyes and beak look reminiscent of that moreso than Imu, plus the flames at the base.

Notice too that both Shuri and Reuven have bat-like wings. Were they both taken over? Made to fight to the death?

Could just be because her eyes are glowing from her body being taken over, but her heterochromia is gone…