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I comment on One Piece, MHA, PJO (and derived sagas). Spoilers btw

[yonkokraven]

Last night I was playing chapter 2 of Poppy Playtime (I play all four games available on PS5 every week or two) and out of nowhere, when the prototype's hand appears, my Spotify playlist plays Thing (by Steampianist) and oh my god, it's like the universe itself synchronized to give me chills

[yonkokraven]

There's a simple and peculiar reason why I'm jumping from talking about anime/manga to a series that was a hit for almost ten years, and it's simply that I really enjoyed the first four seasons of Stranger Things because you could see they were gradually building the overall plot season by season, although it ultimately derailed into what I call "giving as much fanservice as possible but at the same time not wanting to let go of the story," and what happens? Well, you saw it.

Season 4 has everything it takes to deliver the best series finale in history:

- It establishes the conflict between Vecna ​​and Eleven throughout the entire season.

- It establishes that the Upside Down is leaking uncontrollably into our world.

- The Duffer brothers themselves had said they weren't going to introduce new characters and would focus on what we'd seen throughout the story.

Only to end up with the conflict between Eleven and Vecna ​​becoming a focus on Will and Vecna, the Upside Down being contained with metal plates, and an entire generation of "kids" (played by almost-teenagers) being thrown into the mix, half the time either trying to kill Holly or acting like possessed dogs.

As in my two previous posts mentioning what I think of the series, I'll repeat it: this season isn't Stranger Things, it's Will Things ft. the Stranger Things cast, and it's something that could have worked if Will weren't a ghost character until the fourth season.

I'm going to make a post later, risking getting a nuclear missile thrown at me, but the story could have been the same or even retained the mystique it had with Will dying in season 2.

[yonkokraven]

ST Spoilers

My God, Stranger Things Season 5 doesn't even come close to the worst season of the show.

Seriously, the Duffer Brothers left the scriptwriting to ChatGPT.

[yonkokraven]

If I had a nickel for every time I encounter a legion of fujoshis/fetishists who ship two childhood friends in a mlm relationship and denigrate the female character (love interest) of one of them, threaten cast members or the creator, and base character relationships on details that led nowhere, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[murphmurphthejerk]

This was Foreshadowing Shakky & Rayleigh becoming swingers btw🍍🍍🍍

[yonkokraven]

As soon as I saw that scene on Sabaody, I immediately said, "These guys are in an open relationship."

There's such trust there that I imagine they've shared a man or woman they've caught their eye with more than once.

Lucky them.

[lgbtiba]

HEINOUS pirate captain who was just so EVIL and DESPICABLE just the WORST OF THE WORST what a FOUL VILLAIN he was

[yonkokraven]

Rocks feels like a chaotic Luffy / a neutral mix between Blackbeard and Luffy

[yonkokraven]

About Xebec... [spoilers 1055]

Honestly, with this episode, I feel like we're missing a lot more of Rocks (even more than Teach might know). I doubt he's exactly the same man as Teach.

We're seeing that this man KNEW about the existence of the world's secret king, entered the sacred land, kidnapped five kings, and threatened an entity in his own castle that's conquering Elbaf by itself, all while ESCAPING WITHOUT A SCRATCH.

This man found Laugh Tale first, this man was the pirate king even before that was a thing, because how then Oda would explain all this?

I need more, and I think I will not get the answers I try to find in this flashback.

[yonkokraven]

[One piece Manga Spoiler 1153 & 1154]

I'm genuinely speechless. I'll talk about the episode later. Hell, I'll talk about the whole arc in a separate post, but...

But...

I don't care about Elbaf, I don't care about Dorry and Broggy, I don't care about Harjudin, I don't care about anything. Harald, Ida, and Loki deserved so much more.

Look at him, my God, he's a beautiful baby. It's incomprehensible how someone can be so cruel to a child, to the point of inflicting an ENTIRE DAMN COUNTRY.

And based on the way we're going right now, the episode ends when Loki is 15 (aka, 5 giant years old). 48 YEARS LEFT. We still have to see his relationship with Xebec in depth, his apparent improvement with Harald, and his possible bond with Lola.

Oda, give me a whole volume of Loki's life!

[anxietyproblem]

[yonkokraven]

Idk why but this year is being slow for me.

[yonkokraven]

Touya : Nothing in life is free.

Silena : Love is free.

Tomura: Knowledge is free.

Luke: Friendship is free.

Sora: Self-respect is free.

Ethan: Everything's free if you don't pay for it.

The Squad: ...

Tomura: Ethan, that's illegal-

Touya : No, let them finish!

[yonkokraven]

Tomura: Sometimes I like to place my hands on someone’s cheeks, look into their eyes...

Tomura: ...And violently jerk their head until it snaps.

Sora: ...That took an unexpected turn.

Luke: So did their neck.

[si-lee-me]

[zozzythecloudsurfer-deactivated]

It's hilarious how this trope is more common now. It's a very subtle form of villain redemption, and I can appreciate a villain becoming a hero.

[yonkokraven]

What do you think a universe where Shanks decided to take Luffy with him into the Red Haired Pirates looks like? He sees Luffy ate the fruit, and he gets annoyed and says he's going to earn that fruit. The whole incident with the mountain bandits passes because Luffy is on Shanks' boat at the time, being trained by the monkey. Presumably in canon, Shanks wanted Luffy to grow outside of his influence, but in this world, Shanks is directly molding Luffy's potential.

Ignoring the enormous amount of divergences and consequences that Luffy's leaving as a child would have for the East Blue, including the fact that Luffy would never meet Ace and Sabo, I'll put it simply: Luffy would be a damn beast from his first month on Shanks' crew.

Without Shanks's support, we've already seen what he achieved: he developed G2 as a counter technique to CP9's techniques in a matter of hours! Furthermore, his regular arsenal of techniques is surprisingly varied due to the fact that he perfected it over years of training in a jungle with Ace.

What makes the difference here is that Shanks knows about Gomu Gomu. He knows its full capabilities, even though he can't trigger its awakening. However, he can give Luffy the tools to expand that arsenal using the knowledge at his fingertips. He has great fighters of the seas under his command and complete knowledge of every type of Haki.

Luffy, at the very least, has a basic grasp of all three forms of Haki by the time he sets sail, and he wouldn't shed a single drop of sweat until he reaches Water 7, where CP9 gives him a bit of a fight. Then, let's say that by chance we reach the timeskip: Luffy trains with Rayleigh for two years, but doesn't train the Gears (since it's simply not necessary). Again, Luffy goes through entire arcs without difficulty, and only in Whole Cake Island does he start to get serious.

Although I have to clarify: Luffy definitely wouldn't have the same crew even if Shanks left him in the East Blue at the beginning of his journey and he wouldn't be so carefree in certain aspects either, we're talking about a Luffy who grew up in the New World after all.

[yonkokraven]

What's an alternate universe look like where Blackbeard found his devilfruit first, and Whitebeard's crew had no issues with him taking it, as is the rule for their boat? The story kicks off because he betrays the crew, but in a world where he didn't do that, how do his plans change?

There's something vital about Teach's mindset: his plans aren't 100% certain. He knows he leaves things to chance, and we saw it in Impel Down when he faced Magellan. He's even surprised to be alive when Shiryu saves him.

If he had gotten the fruit, he wouldn't have hesitated to leave, and in fact, he would have had plenty of time to gather followers across the seas. From what we've seen, Whitebeard let his children form their own crews (e.g., White Bay).

Their priorities were going to be the same. Let's review some events in the story:

-Being a Shichibukai: To achieve this, he primarily wanted to deliver a pirate worth around 100 million Beli to the Navy. After Skypea, he had his eye on Luffy. If it weren't for Ace not being there, Luffy would surely have been captured by Teach on Water Seven (of course, depending on whether Garp arrived before or after him). The Marineford War would have passed. Garp didn't intervene to get Ace out, and he won't do it with Luffy, because Luffy would react the same way: he chose that path.

-Marineford: Ace obviously shares brain cells with Luffy, because he would definitely break down the main door of Impel Down to go and get him. Blackbeard and Ace would meet, but thanks to another character, Ace doesn't confront him and they leave. And well, now MARINEFORD, you have the Navy waiting for the Revolutionary Army, but not only them show... but Whitebeard's crew too.

Why? Well, because narratively it makes sense. Ace already showed everyone who his little brother is, and he immediately went to find Luffy in the damn Impel Down. Sengoku knows who Dragon is, so does everyone in the government high command, and that's why Luffy is bait.

The battle ends with Whitebeard's life anyway. The revolutionaries take Luffy out, and Ace, well, you can choose whether he lives or dies. I already made another post answering more or less how it changes if he lives.

So as you can see, many of the paths (if we put them in perspective on the goals Teach showed in the story) result in Teach becoming emperor.

So yes, no matter who found the fruit first, Teach was likely someone inevitable.

[agentterios]

I somewhat disagree with the post. Mostly because I believed that Teach would have killed Luffy and the StrawHats as soon as they crossed paths. He said as such to Ace when they reunited. The WG and Marines may know that Luffy is the son of Dragon. Teach certainly didn't know that Luffy is the son of Dragon and has no reason to keep him alive when killing Luffy would be an effective way to prove his worth to the WG, as Luffy has been a recent major headache for them.

If Luffy is dead and Teach delivers his body to the WG, Ace has no reason to go to Marineford. He would still leave the WB pirates but he would probably make his stand at Sabody and might meet Rayleigh there.

Plus Teach doesn't need a battle of Marineford to accomplish his goal of killing Whitebeard, because he knows that the Old man is slowly dying from a disease and simply wait until Newgate is literally at his deathbed before fighting the Whitebeard pirates. The battle of Marineford simply expedited Teach's plan to become Yonko.

[yonkokraven]

You're right, honestly, there are too many ways to look at it. I included that option because I thought Teach would at least recognize the last name "Monkey D." After all, we know he has knowledge of Xebec. I wouldn't be surprised if he knows about Garp and, consequently, maybe something about Dragon.

But again, there are many ways to look at it, and probabilities. I'm sorry to disappoint you on that front with this theory.

[yonkokraven]

What's an alternate universe look like where Blackbeard found his devilfruit first, and Whitebeard's crew had no issues with him taking it, as is the rule for their boat? The story kicks off because he betrays the crew, but in a world where he didn't do that, how do his plans change?

There's something vital about Teach's mindset: his plans aren't 100% certain. He knows he leaves things to chance, and we saw it in Impel Down when he faced Magellan. He's even surprised to be alive when Shiryu saves him.

If he had gotten the fruit, he wouldn't have hesitated to leave, and in fact, he would have had plenty of time to gather followers across the seas. From what we've seen, Whitebeard let his children form their own crews (e.g., White Bay).

Their priorities were going to be the same. Let's review some events in the story:

-Being a Shichibukai: To achieve this, he primarily wanted to deliver a pirate worth around 100 million Beli to the Navy. After Skypea, he had his eye on Luffy. If it weren't for Ace not being there, Luffy would surely have been captured by Teach on Water Seven (of course, depending on whether Garp arrived before or after him). The Marineford War would have passed. Garp didn't intervene to get Ace out, and he won't do it with Luffy, because Luffy would react the same way: he chose that path.

-Marineford: Ace obviously shares brain cells with Luffy, because he would definitely break down the main door of Impel Down to go and get him. Blackbeard and Ace would meet, but thanks to another character, Ace doesn't confront him and they leave. And well, now MARINEFORD, you have the Navy waiting for the Revolutionary Army, but not only them show... but Whitebeard's crew too.

Why? Well, because narratively it makes sense. Ace already showed everyone who his little brother is, and he immediately went to find Luffy in the damn Impel Down. Sengoku knows who Dragon is, so does everyone in the government high command, and that's why Luffy is bait.

The battle ends with Whitebeard's life anyway. The revolutionaries take Luffy out, and Ace, well, you can choose whether he lives or dies. I already made another post answering more or less how it changes if he lives.

So as you can see, many of the paths (if we put them in perspective on the goals Teach showed in the story) result in Teach becoming emperor.

So yes, no matter who found the fruit first, Teach was likely someone inevitable.

[yonkokraven]

If Ace had survived and vowed to become Pirate King to honor White Beard's memory, how much of a threat to Luffy's ambitions to become Pirate King would he be by now? People like Kidd are jokes compared to Ace. Ace had the blood, the backstory, the power. The effortless charisma. The ridiculously strong allies like Marco and Yamato. He's a true contender and the narrative takes him very seriously.

I love this question, especially everything that attributes to the possibility of keeping Ace present in the story.

First and foremost, if Ace were to start competing to be Pirate King, he wouldn't do it for the title. Rather, as you said, he would have to honor Whitebeard's memory and perhaps assume the position of "The Strongest Man in the World." In addition to all of this, his main goal will always be to defeat Teach.

Now, how does his relationship with Luffy fit into this? Ace and Luffy would go all out against each other, but not to the point of killing the other. Each has their own reasons for this: Luffy wants to prove his strength to Ace, and Ace would want to constantly verify that Luffy has the strength to continue on this path. Canonically, Ace isn't interested in being Pirate King, but making a name for himself requires facing those vying for the title, so it's not a bad idea to visualize two or three fights between Luffy and Ace at different points:

-The first: Ace has to leave Rukushina/Amazon Lily after seeing that Luffy is stable. Luffy wants to accompany him or doesn't want Ace to leave. But this results in Ace having to show him the power differences he will encounter in the New World.

-The second: In the Wano arc, Ace would be a central figure. As soon as he heard from the news and through Marco and Nekomamushi what Luffy was planning to do, he immediately left with Whitebeard's fleet for Wano. The confrontation would be brief, but it would be enough for Ace to notice that Luffy has become stronger, however, he and the other more experienced pirates know that it's not enough to face Kaido. Whitebeard's fleet battles Big Mom's ship at Wano Waterfall, while on Onigashima Ace, Izou, and Marco are constantly at the center of the battle, Ace can face Big Mom (either alone or with Torao and Kid).

-The third: At some point, the last Poneglyph will be the epicenter of the ultimate battle between the pirates of this era, so this would be the moment where both give their all against each other.

Although of course, there are many variants, especially the order in which each character falls between Luffy and Ace's objectives, but I definitely think Ace would have been a constant wake-up call for Luffy, and definetly the story would be different (Dressrosa, for Example)

[yonkokraven]

Let's see a theory. What's an alternate reality look like where All For One loves Tomura Shigaraki as much as All Might loves Izuku? AFO and Garaki really were plotting to turn this guy into the new symbol of evil. No fooling.

This question has a tricky theory, mainly because in the last chapters of the manga we see All For One's way of being: possession and ownership. He saw his brother as a thing for a good part of their lives before seeing him as a threat or enemy.

Canonically, we can say that everything AFO did for Tenko could easily be his way of loving him.

But let's just say AFO is a normal person and not a moron.

AFO saw the OFA pass from hand to hand for at least two centuries, but there's a change when All Might arrives as the bearer: the trust of past generations in the future could defeat him. What are the chances that if he rises again, it will turn out well?

AFO has long considered the possibility of having different body receptors to continue fighting, but he realizes that this is no longer enough. The command has to change, because even if he gets a new body, he knows that the OFA is strong enough now to adapt and win again.

At this point, Tenko has been under his command for years. He has different options for how to use him on the board. A new evolution of Tenko's power awakened when he saw AFO's state after his defeat against All Might (five years before Season 1). This gives AFO the answer: you're next.

And it's not simply to play a trick on some vestige of a Quirk, but because Tomura's personality (as anxious and impatient as it may be) genuinely matches AFO's at this point.

AFO knows it's only a matter of time before All Might selects his successor; no one is safe from an attack like the One he did to the hero. Tomura learns from AFO and Garaki, Garaki starts the Nomu project, and by the time the USJ arc arrives, Tomura has already slowly begun his metamorphosis into the symbol of evil, and despite losing, he regenerates easily and gains a tiny percentage of power in defeat.

That means: Tomura's power would scale at the same time Midoriya evolves, although it would be slightly higher.

By the time the My Villain Academia arc arrives, Garaki gives him one last upgrade, but it takes the same amount of time to complete as it does in canon (if not less, considering Tenko's progress up to this point).

I don't know if Tenko would win in the end or not, but he would definitely decimate the heroes.

Oh, and AFO definetly dies in Kamino or because All Might