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(SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 1186)

I know the situation is dire and this is a serious and heartbreaking moment, but I will never get over Imu just... popping his head out of other people

You know. Like a fungus.

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One Piece; Chapter 1186

Alright! Brook's tragic ass backstory continues because Oda wouldn't know how to give a character a break if you gave him a step by step manual

Spoilers below, as per usual!

Okay guys, op chapter 1186 - key points 🎻👹 💀

It's late... very late, but here we are!

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(SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 1186)

Well this was unnecessarily painful

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(SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 1186)

The way Brook immediately forgot about using polite speech when he saw Reuven lying on the floor like that. He keeps using it for over 60 years, but it's not his natural way of speaking, it's something he uses deliberately, probably to honor the memory of the two people he admired the most and who gave him the foundation on which he built himself

It's interesting that Oda chose not to show Reuven's face at any point in this scene. Last chapter we could still see his horns and wings, but they don't seem to be here now, and yet his face seems almost pointedly covered by the framing and even the speech bubbles. Since this is a flashback from Brook's POV, and he even tells the Straw Hats that he thought he had imagined what happened in that room because of trauma, I wonder if the idea was to show that this was such a painful memory for him that he can't even bring himself to recall how Reuven looked then

So the fire bird wasn't one of the Five Elders, then? Those are Imu's black flames, but does that mean they are like a part of his body? He still seems to be present and conscious even without a physical body, and there doesn't seem to be any Abyss marks on the floor. Can he manifest like that because there's a God's Knight with a Depths Covenant around? Is it because there is something different about the Manmayers that he can do this? To go to Elbaf he seemed to need to use the Abyss like all the others, and in God Valley he had to manifest straight out of Saturn's body, though Saturn didn't dissolve like this and his body seemed much more solid than the fire bird

[Hilarious mental image of the God's Knights carrying a little jar of Imu's flames around with them in case Imu wants to manifest]

Hey, I was right! Also, is it just me or does Brook seem more surprised that Shuri knows she's half Celestial Dragon than he does about the actual fact that she isn't Reuven's biological daughter? I don't know, the implications of Candelle being pregnant after that first Celestial Dragon visit and choosing to hide it are pretty damning and horrifying, but he seems to focus more on Shuri not considering Reuven her father anymore. To me, it says that he already knew. The Manmayer guy said Brook wasn't allowed to go near him (probably for Brook's own protection), but if he's as smart as he's depicted as, then it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to have at least guessed as much. He's not saying that Shuri isn't half Celestial Dragon, he's saying that she's still Reuven's daughter. Parents and children don't need proof, Reuven was the one who raised her and loved her, of course he's still her father. Maybe that's just semantics, but it's how I read it, at least

(chapter 1167)

As other people have already pointed out, Shuri sounds suspiciously like Shanks did when he infiltrated Marijoa. If we consider the possibility that she's doing all of this on purpose, then it would also explain her comment about Reuven being a terrible king for bringing his people to war instead of handing her over, which I'm sure she'd normally feel very guilty about. If this truly didn't have anything to do with her anymore, there would be no need for her to say that the war would be over now that the king is dead

Whether or not Reuven was in on this and told her to kill him (like Harald did with Loki) remains to be seen, but it really would make more sense for her to be faking all of this. We saw in the last chapter that there's a chance she has future vision, so maybe she saw that resisting would just mean the death and destruction of her whole country. Maybe she even saw that if she asked Brook for help when he got there, he would end up dying. Her love for him has been highlighted a lot, so I can see it being enough for her to pretend to be evil to prevent that from happening

(chapter 79)

All of this actually reminds me a lot of Nami, the whole pretending to side with the enemy in order to protect her loved ones, both when Nami was a kid and joined Arlong, and when she pretended to stab Usopp. Nami knew that the villagers had no chance of stopping Arlong, just as Shuri knows her country has no chance of defeating the World Government. Nami knew that siding with Usopp would just get him killed, and Shuri knows that Brook is strong but no match for a God's Knight (plus Imu). The possibility of her accidentally missing every single vital point in Brook's brain when she stabbed him isn't zero, but it is pretty small

(chapters 1186 and 74)

There's a term for heterochromia in Japanese, and it's 虹彩異色症 (kousaiishokushou), which literally translates to "different colored iris condition", but that's not what he says here. He calls it 双極の瞳 (soukyoku no hitomi), with 双極 (soukyoku) meaning bipolar (as in a pair of things that are opposite to each other) and 瞳 (hitomi) meaning pupil or eye. With the added comment about the possibility of something awakening for her, it means that it's not just that her irises are different colors, but there really is something special about them

(chapter 1149)

I did wonder about that during the first time we saw her get possessed by Imu, especially with the emphasis on her left eye when she was remembering Brook and her right eye right before Imu takes over. Since her eyes are specifically called bipolar, it makes me think of things on opposite ends of a spectrum. I wonder if that means that Imu specifically is on one of those ends, or if it's just something that Imu can take advantage of to possess her

Shuri is using one of Brook's attacks here, which is particularly cruel, especially considering he let his sword go, meaning he would rather die than attack the girl he's known since her birth, the child of the two people he owes a life debt to

The attack name is 革命舞曲 - with the furigana ガボット (gabotto) - ボンナバン (bonnaban). 革命 (kakumei) means revolution and 舞曲 (bukyoku) means musical dance. Bond en avant, or ンナバン (bonnaban), is a fencing term that means to leap forward. The gavotte, or ガボット (gabotto), is a French dance which in itself doesn't seem to have anything to do with revolution. It could be as simple as a French fencing term and a French dance along with the term revolution leading one to think of the French Revolution and the abolition of the monarchy in France, which fits into the themes of One Piece in general and a fight against the World Government and the Celestial Dragons in particular. Even if this attack was introduced way before all of this, the Straw Hats do have a history of deposing tyrants and bad kings (and replacing them with good kings, but that's an essay for another day and beside the point)

[Sidenote: the gavotte was popular in the court of Louis XIV, also known as the Sun King, who was a symbol for absolutism and, according to Wikipedia, whose reign is the longest of any sovereign monarch in history. In other words, he's giving both Joyboy and Imu. I don't know if Oda had all of this in mind when he first introduced the attack way back in Thriller Bark, but it is interesting nonetheless, especially with a Domi Reversi'd Shuri using it right now. The association with Louis XIV also matches well with her bipolar irises, since the attack name would contain the opposing ideas of revolution and the Sun vs absolutism and an extremely long reign, two ends of the freedom spectrum]

The choice of using the first song Brook sang in front of Reuven as background for the last time he sees Shuri before now really rounds out their story, especially because the lyrics are a denial of everything the Celestial Dragons stand for, saying that there is nothing intrinsically different between a king and a slave (or a Celestial Dragon and the rest of the world), since in the end they all end up the same

(chapters 1186 and 1154)

Ah, I wonder if this is what Jarul meant when he said the giants had an enemy a long time ago. If we can take Imu's words at face value, then it's possible that things are unfolding a bit like they did during the Void Century

Imu implied that Nidhoggr was a traitor, so we can assume that he at least thought that they were on the same side at some point. There's a chance that all of them - Imu, Joyboy and Nidhoggr - started off as friends or acquaintances, and when a rift formed Imu came to think of Nidhoggr as a traitor when he chose to side with Joyboy. Since I'm already speculating, I would say the reason they disagreed had to do with their different views about domination and freedom

(chapter 1181)

As retaliation, Imu would have then used Elbaf's children as hostages to pull Elbaf into the war on the side of the 20 nations, which could explain how they managed to defeat the Great Kingdom that was much more technologically advanced. It would also explain Gunko's speech about the giants being one of the deciding factors in who wins the war that's coming

(chapter 1146)

But something happened during/after the war because Elbaf didn't become a member of the new World Government at the end of the Void Century. Maybe it had something to do with the Sea God raging, as the Harley text said, which might have been the cause for the sea levels rising. If the 20 nations were all busy scrambling up the Red Line they wouldn't have had time to take control of Elbaf before they managed to break free. Maybe the possible link between Poseidon and Elbaf was one of the reasons why the Sea God raged?

There's also the possibility that Imu used the kids to control the giants first, and Nidhoggr managed to save them and pull Elbaf out of the war, which is why Imu calls him a traitor. If he couldn't, I wonder if those kids ever made it home. Maybe the reason why the Buccaneers worship Nika and are persecuted by the World Government is because they are mixed race descendants of those kidnapped giant children

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