i just finished film red and am super curious people have really mixed opinions on this so please i need an answer and solid proof

Another addition to my ‘This was supposed to be a warmup sketch’ collection ALT ID: a genderbent Roronoa Zoro from One Piece with the magenta sun behind her, two swords crossed as she stalks forth

I just haven't seen a drop yet.

Currently rewatching the anime and felt the sudden urge to draw him

Hello i'm new here but I want to state my idea for a one piece story involving a character my friend made. He has gotten me into One piece and its world building (because he knows I don’t like luffy’s personality) and ever since then I’ve been enamored with its lore and characters. I am reading the manga and I wanted to make a story with my character and how he would interact with the One piece world based on what my friend has told me, and some stuff I know already. This would take place around one year before the start of One Piece (luffy would be 2 years old rn)

It all starts with a rebellious, adventurous 12 year old Rabbit Mink named Emerald. He always had a knack for adventure and exploration, but never could express it on Zou. He has always heard from tourists that the world was quite large and tales of other cultures that fascinated him. He wanted to go see for himself but his parents (named Niko and erina) refused to let him go because he was too young. In his recklessness and naivety, he would stew until he saw a tourist's ship. thinking it was potentially his last chance, stowed away in the ship that later headed out to sea. Unfortunately, the ship eventually got raided by pirates and despite his best attempts, got captured and sent to Mary Geoise to be sold as a slave.

Eventually he would be sold off to a slave base near Sabaody, meant to be a collectable or just for show. Emerald silently wept for days as they forced him to do as they pleased, regretting his choice of leaving. at one point even murmuring to himself that he was wrong, and that he wanted to go back home. However his masters told him that he was never going home. After that talk, he was force fed a devil fruit known as the Webbo Webbo no-mi model: Chimerachne, a (made up) ancient Zoan type devil fruit that allows the user to transform into a chimerachne, a prehistoric spider. His masters didn’t know what fruit it was, and what would happen if a mink and a devil fruit were mixed, and because of their curiosity it was their downfall. One point when the brand was covered by Emerald’s fur they re-branded him. However before they could, Emerald used his electro to break out, unfortunately due to Emerald’s frequent disobeying the master had a bomb collar with him and due to Emerald’s electro the bombs went off near him. He was now fatally wounded, outnumbered and out matched by the rest of them aiming and running towards him with blades. however due to the ptsd he would go into an extreme fight or flight response, and with his devil fruit and electro, he decimated the remaining forces. He couldn’t distinguish between friend or foe, thus when he freed the slaves they were forced to run for their lives, but fortunately there were more guards than slaves so they ran off with only some injuries. Emerald after his rampage, had no one left to fight, his body began to slowly shut down. Before he fell he saw a tall man wearing glasses and white hair. he wanted to go and attack thinking it was another one of the master’s goons, but his body gave out and he fell onto the cold floor.

Outside Rayleigh was in sabaody and wandering around, he was relaxing, not going anywhere in particular until he saw smoke and seemingly random electrical discharges. Intrigued he would approach, scream would echo, a roar followed by electro and slaves running every which way. They would tell Rayleigh that one of them broke free and was fighting the ones who held him captive. He would make it there more quickly, and would see Emerald standing there fatally wounded surrounded by the bodies of the ones he was forced to submit to. He turned to look at Rayleigh and he wanted to go for an attack, but his body gave out and he collapsed onto the floor. Rayleigh was surprised to see a mink, especially with devil fruit powers. He picked him up and returned to his home to tend to the wounded Emerald. And that's where the journey begins.

Admittedly this is just me wanting to write spectacle and drama. I’m a lore guy, wanting to follow the story as best as possible, but still give spectacle. With Rayleigh, it gave me a lot more ways to be able to interact with the One Piece cast without being directly involved with their stories, or be too impactful. as my friend believes that when everything kicks off he would still be too weak to leave any lasting impact on major events. Besides the road I’m going with my character, only changes a particular arc involving Zou. Let me know your feedback and opinions because I find One Piece very interesting, and Ive wanted to make a good story. Thank you for your time and if this post gets some upvotes, maybe i’ll drop another post with a continuation of this.

Here's why.

I believe the mother flame is one of the key components used to create devil fruits. At least the original version of the mother flame from the ancient kingdom. I believe the true power of this energy source is the physical manifestation of the imaginary. To speak in somewhat metaphysical terms, this energy source has the ability to give physical form to abstract entities that typically only exist in the imaginary space or what might be termed the astral plane. I promise this will make sense as we continue.

What we know from the story.

According to Dr. Vegapunks theory, devil fruits represent possibilities for human evolution imagined by people. Devil fruits are possibly a product of human imagination.

Mythological type zoan devil fruits are based on mythological figures or creatures that may or may not have existed in the world of One Piece itself, at least not in a physical sense.

Joyboy also used to fight with a stretchy body like the fabled Sun God Nika. Though it's not confirmed if Joyboy himself had the Nika devil fruit like Luffy does.

The mother flame bears a lot of resemblance to the flame on the back of lunarians. A flame that we saw King use to conjure the shape of dragons when fighting Zoro, suggesting that the fire could respond to his imagination. Notice that the fire is not a product of a devil fruit. Logia devil fruit users have been observed to conjure animals and weapons using their elemental devil fruit powers. However, in the case of King this flame is not the rest of a devil fruits, yet he can use it in much the same way a devil fruit user would. Suggesting that it's just as connected to his imagination as a devil fruit user's power would be.

My speculation is that.

The original energy source that he mother flame is based on, much like King's flame or Luffy's gear 5 powers, was capable of physically manifesting abstract objects or entities that purely existed in the imaginary space.

Imagine one person in a room alone, to entertain themselves, imagines there's a dog in the room with him. She imagines throwing a ball the dog going to fetch and bringing it back. Does the dog exist? Now imagine another person comes into the room and joins in on this game of make-believe. Now there's two people participating in this imaginary scenario. Does the god become anymore real? By the time there's 10 people playing along, the dog now had a name. By the time there's 20, they've defined the appearance, sound, mannerisms and history of the dog. Does the dog exist?

By the time this game gets up to a thousand people involved, this dog now exists in the collective consciousness of thousands of people and grows in complexity and nuance to be indistinguishable from the real thing. Now imagine one of the participants grows old and a few generations later tells his grandchildren about this dog. Would the grandchildren be able to tell if the dog was real or not? Let's imagine one of the grandchildren's daughters makes a movie about this dog, paying attention to all the details and reproduces this dog visually on screen. The movie is a hit, hundreds of millions of people watching it. Does the dog exist?

I believe that is essentially how devil fruits are created. Something that initially exists in the imagination of people is encoded into a fruit using an energy source capable of converting abstract imaginary thoughts into physical matter. Taking something from the imaginary space into the physical space. People imagined a Pheonix and eventually a Pheonix became a thing even though that's not an actual creature found in the physical world, it's a creature that exists in the astral plane, the imaginary space of our collective consciousness.

What does the have to do with Joyboy?

I believe the same thing happened with the Sun God Nika. I believe Oda is going to be very vague about whether Nika actually existed or was just imagined. I believe Joyboy or someone close to him used the 'energy source' to bring Nika into the physical space using devil fruit technology. Essentially making Nika real and tangible. I believe Joyboy ate the fruit, awakened it and the rest is history. Cut to the time after the war is lost and Joyboy is probably dead. The new world government seeks to erase Joyboy from history as though he never existed. How do you keep Joyboy alive? Mythologize him, inject Joyboy into the collective imagination of anyone who would listen.

Now Joyboy, a being that most people don't believe actually existed becomes an imaginary being that exists in the imaginary space. Just like Nika, his essense is encoded into a fruit to one day manifest Joyboy into the physical realm again. A fruit that was stolen from Mariejois and given to Bonney as a child by her dying mother. A fruit that allows Bonney go fight with a stretchy body like Joyboy did. The hito hito no mi model Joyboy.

I hope that all makes sense. I had a lot of fun coming up with this head cannon/theory. I hope you enjoyed reading it.

Edit: I feel like I have to clarify a crucial point because I am noticing a lot of people entirely missing it. I am not theorizing that Bonney's fruit or the Nika fruit have the primary ability of imagination. I am saying imagination is an essential aspect of how these fruits work. I did not mention this in the theory, but I suppose it has to be mentioned that we don't actually know what the Sun God Nika's powers actually we're. We know he was stretchy, but that's about it. We still have to find out why Luffy has fiery hair in that form, why he can seemingly conjure physical matter out of nowhere (the bat and helmet from a recent chapter), why his heartbeat can trigger a mechanical robot. To say that Nika's powers were just a rubbery body because that's how we've seen Luffy use the fruit, is just inaccurate in my opinion. There's obviously more to Nika's powers than what we've seen Luffy do so far, but whatever those powers are, what we can say for sure is that imagination has a lot to do with how they are used. Likewise with Bonnie's fruit. I don't necessarily dispute that the fruit primarily has to do with age, but again, there's obviously more to the power than that and the user's imagination has a lot to do with that. Bonnie's fruit being an age age fruit does not disqualify it from being a hito hito no mi just like Luffy fruit being the gomu gomu no mi for 1000+ chapters did not disqualify it.

Hopefully that clarifies the point.

Also, I am not Oda and this is not One Piece cannon so you are free to disagree with my opinion. I literally just came up with the stuff based on my understanding of the information revealed in the story so far. I invite any and all constructive engagement, but to anyone that insists on being an asshole I'll reserve my time other things, thank you.

Now that we've finally had confirmation that Joyboy was the first pirate, I've had thoughts about the piracy-related aspects that may have come up in Void Century. It's as if each element was originated by Joyboy and passed down through centuries as piracy customs. One of these elements is the Klabautermann.

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A Klabautermann is said to be a water spirit (or fairy) that inhabits ships and is basically an incarnation of a ship that has been well cared for.

A Klabautermann is quite relatable to the devils inside the Devil Fruits, and as it is theorized, the Devil Fruits may have been created using advanced technology from the Great Kingdom. Both are beings that live inside the object.

It is a merry and diligent creature that is said to alert sailors when a ship is in danger and help in greater ways at times.

A merry creature, would it be because the first man to create the first pirate ship was a "Joy Boy"? The Klabautermann was introduced into history through the Going Merry, the first ship of Monkey D. Luffy, the Joyboy of the Great Age of Pirates. Merry is also a synonym for Joyness. The Klabautermann may have been created by the Great Kingdom to protect ships from the imminent danger of the great flood that was about to sink the world into the sea.

They are normally considered just a legend among seafarers.

As is customary, everything said as legend is ultimately true, and has origins in One Piece's past. Going Merry had a Viking funeral, which may be an indication that the giants of Elbaf may be related to the creation of the first pirate ships.

Vegapunk said in his recorded message that he would not label the person who killed him good or evil because he understood too little about that people to begin with. In chapter 274, we have Ganfall uttering a similar message upon knowing about the history of Skypea. Could this be a hint that maybe the Celestial Dragon and the Five Elders had actually been lied to by Imu? Maybe the reason why they think of themselves as the rightful "gods" of the world is because they were fed with the version of the history that support that claim? Could the person who truly knows the true history of the world is Imu?

Hello people.

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