Maldives Island

remember who got shanks his scar? teach. it's pretty clear to see that teach inherited the "evil" d's ideals. and shanks, being a follower of roger, the "good" d's ideals. so it wasn't an accident that these two clashed.

I think it is pretty safe to say that the Will from Rocks D. Xebec was passed down to Marshall D. Teach.

There are a lot of similarities between the two since Rocks’ story was revealed in One Piece Chapter 957. For instance, both became infamous by banning together a ton of strong fighters into one group to take over the world, both have the will of D, and both are the main rivals towards Luffy and Roger (Besides Whitebeard).

There’s not much else to say towards this, it just makes the most sense in my eyes. I do think what Whitebeard said to Teachright before he died explains this a bit.

Whitebeard claims that Teach is not the man that Roger is looking for, and he couldn’t be! Whitebeard knew that it was obvious that the will of Roger could not be from Teach. And while us fans know that the will of Roger was passed down to Luffy (since he’s the main protagonist), in universe nobody truly knows that (besides maybe Silvers Rayleigh and Edward “Whitebeard” Newgate himself). We know that Roger has told Whitebeard about the Will of D, so maybe that gave him some insight on whose will passed down onto who.

Either way, this theory isn’t fullproof. Marshall D Teach is 40 years old, while the battle between the Roger and Garp against Rocks (where he supposedly died) happened 38 years ago. We don’t quite know how the Will of D works in terms of the wills being passed down however, so it is possible that this theory could still be true.

Personally though, I still believe my theory, both are just too similar. If the age difference is an issue however, it can be also possible that Teach is Rocks’ son as well. If Rocks was Roger’s biggest Rival (again, besides Whitebeard), and Teach is Luffy’s biggest Rival (Besides maybe Smoker and potentially Kidd), then that has to mean something between the two.

GDQx 2019 - Celeste

Diagram of an active volcano.  Wings to Adventure - My Do and Learn Book. Revised edition. 1964.