#op 833

[khalshaza456]

A thing I like to do is try and gauge how savage of a beating Luffy is gonna give the big bad from how shitty they treat people. And after this chapter, Judge's is going to be fucking gruesome!!!

[dixxymouri]

Sanji Theory: The Man in the Iron Mask

I think Oda’s going for a different literary work:  The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas, or more specifically, the final third: The Man in the Iron Mask.

For those unfamiliar with the story (even I’m pretty sure I maybe saw part of the Leonardo DiCaprio movie and maybe an episode of Wishbone, even though it occurs to me a lot of you might be too young to know what that show was) the basic idea is that the titular character is the twin brother of the King of France. Now there was a REAL Man in the Iron Mask but no one knows who they actually were (royal twin or not) but for the sake of this theory we’ll be going with the Dumas story. Sanji being in that mask, as some have pointed out, is probably meant to keep him from being recognized as a member of the royal family, and since he’s a quadruplet of all things that’s especially risky. So why not kill him? Well . . .

I’m thinking Judge planned on keeping Sanji down there indefinitely just in case a situation like this came up. And for that matter . . . we don’t know how long Sanji was in there (both the mask and the cage/jail cell). In 832, Reiju explained it had been 13 years since she spent time with Sanji, but it’s only been 11 years since Zeff came into the picture (Sanji was 10 during the starvation flashback). That’s two years to go from “not spending time with Reiju” to the sinking of The Orbit. Yeah, crossing the Red Line as a kid would take a while, I get that, but taking a look at volume 7 (sorry no pictures for this one) . . . I don’t think Sanji was on that ship very long. The dialogue feels like the cooks are still in the process of introducing themselves to him - maybe not “first day” introduction but he’s still a newbie at this point. My point is that “not spending time with Reiju” doesn’t mean he left home right away. He could have been in that mask for a while, up to two years when you consider Germa Kingdom is mobile - he could have escaped while they were in/around East Blue and found his way onto The Orbit from there. Additional “evidence: - Oda has said that if Sanji were from the real world he would be French, and The Man in the Iron Mask is a story about French royalty written by a French author. - Duval is initially named “Iron Mask Duval” and hid his face because of Sanji’s wanted poster. Other than the fact that he, you know, tried to kill Sanji when they first met, his use of the mask to hide his face might have REALLY rubbed Sanji the wrong way. And . . . oh man this chapter guys, this chapter. Everyone just . . . just go find something fluffy with Sanji in it okay? Okay. 

[maeillustrates-blog]

I literally cried reading the last chapter, I needed to draw this to ease my heart...poor baby sanji 

[flattery-suplex]

My boy Sanji don’t deserve this shit...

[pingo1387]

So if it was the Vinsmokes who taught Sanji never to kick a lady, why the hell would he have held onto that all these years, from a family who didn’t care about him and held mutual hatred for him?

[laoih]

Okay I wasn’t THAT interested in the last couple of chapters, just because there are too many new characters again and it’s hard for me to keep up with them all and be interested in their stories… but that damn chapter 833 broke my heart. X.x

SANJIIIIII .__________.

[hime-tessa]

Connection between germa 66/vinsmokes and flevance?

I do believe some people have posted theories on this before, but with the latest chapter and the apparent ravage the germa 66 has done in the north blue I can’t help but think that they might be involved with Flevance/Law as well. If Law were to find that out... 

[lordjeanliness]

Awful thought of the day

So, I hate this: 

So much. But you know what it reminded me of? This:

Duval had to wear an iron mask to hide his face because of its similarity to Sanji’s. Sanji’s response to this was to REARRANGE IT so it didn’t look like Sanji’s anymore. 

I wonder if seeing the mask on Duval reminded Sanji of his own childhood, and THEN Sanji found out that the reason Duval had to wear the mask was because of Sanji. No wonder he wanted to fix everything.