#sbs 114

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Her name was Magnolia

OMG. Her name is Magnolia. That is beautiful. This means the twins are named after their mother and father.

I repeat, Magnolia, named Shamrock after her (flowers), and Shanks is named after Garling (weapons). That is so cute. Garling you don't deserve her.

I wonder if Shamrock purposely wears his hair similar to her as a way to spite his father.

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Transphobes: Oda confirmed Yamato isn't actually trans because him being Oden is only still a thing in the bad timeline! Get Rekt Loserz!! 😂😏

Me: Actually, Yamato getting wrinkles in the GOOD timeline lowkey confirms the opposite because so far none of the WOMEN get them in their good timelines. Only the MEN.

Yamato wanting to emulate Oden isn't the ONLY reason he would be trans either. It's literally just gender goals for him because he thinks Oden is the epitome of manhood & doesn't believe he has the ability to be a "good man" without copying him, which is obviously something he needs to work on. He is an extremely traumatized person who struggles with his identity because of who his father is, after all. He still needs to grow into his own person and realize he doesn't need to be like anyone other than himself to be a good and valid person.

Also Me: Well..... all the men except Sanji. My GOAT is the outlier who stays youthful with baby skin forever no matter what apparently! 😌😅

Is it cause he's the only man concerned about nutrition?? Probably.

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ONE PIECE SPOILERS SBS 114 / OP CHAPTER 1176

me getting a moria story is so special and awesome... i do find it interesting and funny though that oda is slowly revealing the ex warlords' backstories little by little. mihawk and crocodile next, please?

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Moria. Utopia.

What's this for? Honestly my last of the three little connective tissue points I wanted to make was this. Between this iconic scene between Moria/Doflamingo and Izo being killed by specifically Aegis Zero, the two have an established grudge with the powers that be and all. Like, the two have that hook in the upper echelons we'd see in endgame right? That plus Kiku's bookend to mainline Wano and the big class themes just simply gives the pair a reason to still be doing stuff at some future point in the story. The possibilities there are limitless.

We did though get something a little more interesting. An SBS question about the grave in the cover serial and all. So...thoughts ahead, but honestly it wasn't that far off from how we interpreted it:

I'll say right now I think what is and isn't covered suggests more like...this is what Oda thought he might spell out in Wano as a main arc. Cover serials still tend to set up something for the future and Moria's been buzzing around nearby. The extent of what Oda covered is essentially half of the basic interpretation we walked away with. So in the sense that SBS segments cover details the author doesn't think he'll get back to, note he chose to answer one of many questions that didn't directly mention nor did he include anything about Cho/Kiku's involvement.

So what did it say? Like many, Moria washed up in Wano as a kid. No firm age but probably sometime around when Izo or Kiku were born. And he was taken in, treated warmly. Which Fallensnowfan pointed out is interesting because it doesn't track with what we saw in the log. Sure, the Minks/Kawamatsu were racism and I'd buy Kiku/Izo getting some combination of people creeped out by their father's crimes or a subtle nudge at some kind of queer phobia. In essence saying yeah Wano hospitality is great if you're not "abnormal." Or is Oden the unreliable narrator striking again?

The only big thing we were off on is Moria like, making several voyages in and out of Wano as a young adult. But this still puts him floating around during a lot of the time the flashback covered. Though mostly when we skipped ahead over a lot of the good years. Little weird Kozuki was given as a title almost and his name actually is Gecko? Or was it just some kid named Moria and he made the wordplay on Kozuki/Gekko? Does Yamato earn Kozuki if he kicks a little ass for a few more years? Or is this idea of claiming it like he was doing way more normal in Wano than we realized? Oh, also that it seems like there was a grave there the Ringo Stars restored. Like, it's still clearly not there in the cover serial. The way it's written too, if someone knew and was just playing coy letting people think he died valiantly yeah Kiku/Cho fit that bill. This does lend weight to the idea she may have actually helped him dart off with Shusui.

So yeah, if nothing else we do now 100% know Kiku & Gecko Moria know each other. Like, when you're someone who pointed it out during mainline Wano it's not a surprise and all but man, how about that reach being true? There was only one other time in my 22 years of fandom here I had anywhere near this good of a "call" and that was just saying Barto will probably end up wanting to get the Flame Fruit for Luffy for some reason because Luffy will need to get out of this Colosseum. One last time, there were a few clues. Moria came back after Act 1, Oden glossed over it in his log but Kiku the Ringo girlie who might wanna ask about a pirate named Izo had extra incentive. First big zombie we meet is an actress inspired by Okiku's Well and Kiku's intro is stopped by a fat bat gifter. Then the reality she had plenty of chances to and didn't say anything about Shusui like so many others.

[soundbuster]

Roger's Mustache Ramble

So with the reveal of the Vol. 114 SBS, the mustache on Roger's Jolly Roger turns out to be udon noodles, explaining how it was there despite him not growing a mustache at the time of God Valley.

I'm posting this so late, but I genuinely thought it would have been bc the Rocks and Roger Pirates did a Davy Back Fight with the former winning.

And instead of asking for their Jolly Roger, a crew member, or supplies, Rocks decided to humiliate Roger by ripping off his mustache or shaving it off.

So when Roger said in Ch. 1096, "It's been a whole year!! Do you have any idea how I've felt all this time?!" I thought it would have been bc Rocks wronged him for something like that and the latter always evaded him.

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We also had Yamato's good/bad timelines and...wow. I love the bottom half. That shit is hilarious. That's the good timeline, right? The hair is killing me but the pyre man...I'm sure it was a legendary death. Also good job Oda, Yamato's 28 now so you shouldn't look much different at 40. And I do like the touch most of the pretty girls don't age this rapidly in OP. Part of that's the expression but compare 60yo Yams to say...current Shakky.

Seriously. The top half is the good future. But I do like Yamato's having at least that little capacity for jokey ambiguity. Like...I've still always seen Yamato as "trans" more through the lens of some kind of nonbinary/genderfluid identity if we used modern terms and I don't think that's too uncommon. The reference in his case it The Dragon King's Daughter, a parable about that figure becoming a man to overthrow said father. It's ambiguous in different versions of that story if they change back after. Yamato? I don't really think the top half is "forgetting the weird obsession" or anything as much as completing it. You do what Wano needs you to do for a while and finally get a little chance to sail with Luffy. You know that's probably not happening in the series if Oda's saying it here like this. But then after having about thirty years of fulfilling everything in the log and then some...what is Yamato past the point there's no more of Oden's story to emulate and be inspired by?

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Also, best SBS reveal since Moria's was mostly spelling out what you could guess. Some fluff about Straw Hats killing time. Jinbei is running dice games on the Sunny. I repeat, Jinbei's running dice games on the Sunny. Amazing. Of course it makes sense Jinbei's Yakuza-coded from head to two blue dicks and beyond.

Reminded me right away of this from Guys and Dolls. We did it as a middle school musical so I have a soft spot. I was Lt. Brannigan, the villain essentially, and played him like Inspector Zenigata. Also thought it was really funny it led to some boys running a bathroom crap game for two weeks.

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