Best boy
And... probably best destroyer boyyyy-- i mean, him rubberizing the environment around him would cause some destruction here and there, so I wouldn't put it past the giants if some also thought he was a destroyer, as well--
Also, the s a s h. The sash being the only thing that isn't white in his transformation does bring up the theory that it's possible Nika also had a purple sash around him like we see here. But who knows?
Someone even pointed out that the circles on the shield are the same symbol as Bonney's necklace and the cross that Kuma was praying to in his flashback.
It's possible that the cross with the sun symbol could be because Nika is the 'Sun God' he'd have a cross shaped as the sun in the middle. But... that brings up the question--
Now, I'm not familiar with too much religion stuff, but given how it's a cross with a sun in the middle... would it be possible that, in another life, Nika was crucified and reincarnated as a fruit?
I have this nagging feeling that Nika probably either sacrificed himself for the better of the world, or maybe Imu probably banished him inside of a fruit to keep him locked away forever. This theory has been bugging my head for a while.
With how there's many iterations of what god Nika was, something just tells me, that.. he probably wasn't exactly a 'god' to begin with.
With the way that he's described, it's possible he liberated people at the cost of the world getting destroyed. The guy isn't exactly 'clean' in this case, but maybe he was such a good guy to others that the slaves practically gave him the title of 'god', and, despite not liking the title of god too much, he just stuck with it. I just get the feeling that Nika was just a crazy powerful person that wanted to bring smiles for all, but his actions were probably a bit too destructive for the world to handle. Maybe.. the world being destroyed 1 time was an accident made by Nika while the second time it was because of Imu taking over and banishing Nika inside of a devil fruit, and months after that banishment, Joyboy probably stepped in and encountered the fruit, gaining the powers of Nika instead.
The theory's a bit over the top and I guess you could say that I'm assuming that Imu was probably the one who created the devil fruits mostly as a punishment to others, but that's literally the theory I was thinking of this entire time.
Tbh, the whole world being destroyed 2 times would make sense because One Piece is quite literally living in a post-apocalyptic world, and it could explain why;
1. The technology from 800 years ago was so advanced.
And 2. Why some islands are advanced while other islands seem to be either poor or built like villages from Minecraft.
Because you'd think that with the way how things are so modern in One Piece, there would at least be cities or more technology than what it shows us, but no. We are still in the age of pirates, and they use literal snails as telephones. But then again, you could argue that the world government is probably not paying the commoners more because they're too focused with the Celestial Dragons, and yea, I could honestly see that being the case, too.
It's kind of like the place I live, for example. There's a few cities, making it look like it has more money than one might think, but then you go to other places and some of the houses look poor, and there's no denying that. From what I heard, Puerto Rico is pretty poor, and it's true, because if it wasn't poor, you wouldn't be seeing people go to other cars and ask for money with a cup in hand, and with how the inflation rate is going, I genuinely think we're not getting paid enough given how this is a U.S territory in a way. They might call us 'poor' or 'trash' but that's because they're probably not sending us the right amount of money for this shit. And it's similar to One Piece in a way, you have commoners and you have the higher-ups. The higher-ups, the Celestial Dragons especially, treat the commoners like trash and maybe worse the moment they make someone their slave just for 'the fun of it'. So that's just my theory there about some stuff.
If anyone who lives in PR gets offended by the example, please let me know because I'm pretty much saying all of this from the perspective that I have on the world and on the island that I live in-- i don't want to spread misinformation, so if you have any knowledge on that, let me know in the comments/or reblogs.
Bfnfjfrfv, anyway, but yea, just wanted to talk about this because Elbaph has been crazy good so far, and the Nika lore-drop is crazy.
