Arranka

Like I know Oda-sensei sometimes seems like he just wants to draw funny faces for the hell of it, but you know...

Scien's name is "Queen the Plague" and his specialty had seemed to be more drugs/virology even in the MADS cover story. For some reason he turned to cyborg/machine engineering, which kinda had felt more like Germa specialty. And who knows what he's been doing the whole time with Kaidou?

Judge too, with the whole conquering North Blue.

But Caesar stuck to being a scientist and still trying to beat Vegapunk. He still kept doing Devil Fruit research too, and while he added the poison gas research that's still in relation to his own devil fruit powers.

Kinda reminds me of the "bad end" future where Sanji ends up like Judge in the messed up timeline, but remains more or less the same in the "normal" timeline.

Like, maybe it's really just unfortunate genetics, but honestly... Both Scien and Judge looks like they started deteriorating in that one cover where they were fighting to be the "number 2".

I speculated that around this time Judge became the king, and you can also see that Scien had also started his cyborg experiments, as seen by his robotic arm. So maybe it really was because they completely lost the plot and went down the wrong way.

So the fight for this №1 spot always hits me in the feels whenever I think too much about it.