#wmg

[aviculor]

A lot of people question why Wish Nikki made the sandwich besides shock value to the audience. I have a theory. She is this new emergent consciousness learning about the world from scratch using Nikki's memories, right? What if she thought she was being clever and flirtatious by making Bear "eat pussy" without grasping the ethics behind feeding someone their own dead cat?

What people don't get about the "What's so bad about being with me?" thing is that Bear wasn't just disregarding Nikki's suffering. He was playing dumb, pretending he didn't know what was going on so Nikki wouldn't realize he was responsible for it and blame him. That line is so important because it's the ultimate expression of him burying his head in the sand out of cowardice.

[mkarchin713]

WMG for Pokopia

Misty Mermaid outfit found in Bubbly Basin

Xerneus has restoring ability. IE it can restore broken or rusted blocks/items to original state

Yveltal has degrading ability. IE it can turn items or blocks into their rusted or broken state

[aviculor]

Oh my god, the Brook flashback is fucking happening now.

The theory that he was a God's Knight is dead, that was always a fringe theory I never actually believed anyway. I just saw the gag potential in it. Instead, my original idea seems to be closer to the truth.

And then Gunko was "adopted" by the Manmayers.

[factual-entropy]

I just had a dream that the Roaring Knight was some forgotten Newgrounds character/creator out for blood. Since we’re throwing ideas at the wall, why not add this one to the pile

[aviculor]

This is not explicitly tied to the SBS question so I couldn't really jam it in anywhere, but another thing is that Moria having Ryuma's corpse might possibly be what inspired him to found the Thriller Bark Pirates in the first place. Essentially, Moria had a complete mental breakdown after he failed to save Wano and all his nakama were slaughtered in the process. We already knew this as far back as Thriller Bark, just without the "saving Wano" part. So he's lost in the throes of despair, right? Left with nothing but the mummified body of Wano's greatest hero. Regardless of how he came into possession of it. At some point, he probably had a thought along the lines of "If only Ryuma could come back to life, HE would have been strong enough to beat Kaido instead of me." That's probably where it all started. The whole mentality he had by the events of the story. Relying on his subordinates to do all the work. Stealing people's shadows to create zombie minions. Treating human lives as crafting materials. Countless acts of graverobbing and desecration. Allying himself with an amoral, misogynistic mad scientist and an actual rapist. It may very well have been a slippery slope that started with one single moment of weakness where he learned a new way to use his devil fruit. Gecko Moria is a fallen hero and we are literally living in his bad timeline future.

[aviculor]

To go into a little more detail about the Moria SBS question before GLR makes a video about it...

I don't know how one just "washes up" in Wano when it's elevated above sea level with waterfalls gushing down every side. That in itself is a whole story Oda is neglecting to give us. I mean, it's not an impossible feat given the same thing happened to Kawamatsu and his mother. But generally, getting to Wano is a difficult task that is not accomplished by random chance. But either way, the wording directly implies that, like Kawamatsu, Moria became shipwrecked. This may very well have orphaned him.

I also don't know how one is simply given the name of the country's royal dynasty. Was he actually adopted by a Kozuki living in Ringo? It also strikes me as a bit odd the people of Wano would warmly accept an outsider who had chalk white skin, pointed ears, fangs, and devil horns given how they tried to kill Nekomamushi, Inuarashi, and Kawamatsu. But I guess that part's less of a stretch.

When the "Kozuki Moria" thing was first revealed, I went off on a huge rant about everything it implied and everything it recontextualized. In fact, even before that cover page, I was re-watching the Oden flashback and I picked up on how fishy it was that Ryuma's grave was broken into while Moria was fighting Kaido, implying Moria didn't actually do it, and that Moria didn't even have a motive for graverobbing since he wasn't building a zombie army at that time. Now it's been explicitly stated he was in Wano for purely altruistic reasons, fighting for its liberation from Kaido. Exactly as I theorized. I went on to theorize that the people of Ringo helped Moria fake his death and they gave him Ryuma and Shusui to keep safe if Wano fell, but that conflicts with new information that Moria was presumed dead after he fled in shame. It's not implausible that he had help from at least one person, or that he took it upon himself to safeguard Ryuma as the very least he could do in his defeat. But we're genuinely missing most of the key details about this story. A lot of you definitely didn't realize there even was a story.

One other thing of note is that we just learned Moria became a pirate before Roger's execution. He was allowed to leave Wano (which is itself unusual, but I mean, he also wasn't a native so clearly they made an exception) and set out to sea as a pirate before he eventually wound up in Loguetown to witness that fateful day. His journey started in the New World shortly before the Great Pirate Era and the rise of the Yonkou.

[frogshunnedshadows]

Unsolved historical mysteries that keep me up at night

Pondering all of the things that have been lost to the vast, gaping void of the past.

[aviculor]

The fact that Sanji was given a boat ride off Momoiro Island suggests that he did, in fact, complete Ivankov's challenge to defeat the masters of newkama kenpo to learn their recipes. It would actually defeat the entire point of the timeskip otherwise. But passing the trial would imply that Sanji himself has learned and mastered newkama kenpo. Kuma sent Sanji there to learn martial arts since his kick-based fighting style was already comparable to that of the okama.

Now, Sanji obviously does not use newkama kenpo. Presumably out of pride/shame. What that means, though, is that he's never actually gone all-out using every technique in his arsenal. Even in life-or-death situations like against Queen, he has never felt the need to have that "I am not left handed" "Rock Lee taking off his weights" "Kenpachi using actual swordsmanship instead of swinging it around like a caveman" moment. He's been holding back this entire time.