#polo gram

[kotaro-yumekuma]

Ahhhhh 🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🫠

[eaissilyy]

Whitebeard co-parenting 🐋🐋

(I am a firm believer that once polo became partner with wb he brought marco along and said yeah that's your other dad now. Wb be saying why is there a small child in our ship and adopted marco 0.2 milliseconds later. THATS OUR POPS GANG)

[whateverthought]

Oda is so funny, cause he has all the fans begging, "Oh lets us see the Old Greats fight!" "Oh lets us see them in their Primes, please!"

And then he sits down and goes, Okay they were Young and MESSY!, They were Toxiccc~ 🤏🤏

Buckingham liked Newgate but he didn't like her and Roger liked Shakky BUT Gloriosa liked Roger and Everyone Liked Shakky but Shakky only liked Rayleigh but Rayleigh loved Roger and didn't want to hurt his feelings but he also liked Shakky back and Whitebeard said HE'D be with Shakky if she asked and Rocks has a WIFE and Whitebeard gets a boyfriend and here comes Rouge with the STEEL CHAIR!

Like wow Mr. No Romance

[lightningbastard]

So the guy we saw that looked like Marco a few chapters ago is confirmed to be Graham Polo... who is now following Whitebeard so is 100% confirmed to be Marco's dad, without Oda having to directly say so.

...but that means... Marco's full name is... Marco Polo...

Oda stop tormenting my boi 😭😭😭

[well-whateverone]

Gram was Whitebeards "partner"

interesting...

[mangyraccooon]

Father figures am I right?

[battlefrankies]

are you normal or are you thinking constantly about that scene in the ace novel manga that wasn't in the novel itself that oda personally added and sketched out for the artist where thatch was asking marco to stop ace from fighting whitebeard for the 100th time (after thatch was shown worrying over pops's health and the damage he was starting to take) and marco was just like 'nah, i can't do anything about that'

and very interestingly how in marineford it wasn't mentioned at ALL that marco was a doctor, much less THE ship's doctor (which was revealed in 909), which the fandom (including me) understandably took and ran with to mean that he was always trying to control whitebeard's drinking-- but we never see him in the series itself ever trying to do so, even though the nurses try (234)

and in fact we have seen him chilling with pops while he's drinking without saying anything about it even after he lost his hair (1023 and 1121, while he's talking about the 'race of gods on top of the red line', which we learn in wano is something he does when he gets drunk)

do u ever think about. marco knowing that if pops decided to take it easy, stay on land, fight less, drink less, and pay more attention to his health, he'd probably have a few more years to live but asking him not to do the things that make him happiest (sailing around, partying and drinking with his family) would be torture for that stubborn old man, so marco doesn't say anything. just quietly watches his dad who he devoted the last 30+ years of his life to die slowly (and quickly) and simply does what he can to make him comfortable

and in his FINAL MOMENTS, the last person whitebeard thinks of and addresses is marco-- the viz translation makes it sound like [his crew] gave him everything [they have], but the raws are more explicit in that he says 'everything [i have], i received from you guys'.

oda's processing a lot of his feelings about parenthood through kuma and bonney and the giants on elbaf but he's definitely also at the age of going through adult child of elderly parent emotions, so i'm excited to see that pan out.

which all leads me to the question of. who the fuck is polo gram???????????????????????

[naye-et-cetera]

Chapter 434, published November 13, 2006

Chapter 1165, published November 10, 2025

Oda-sensei really waited nineteen years—731 chapters!—to make a Marco Polo joke.