Basil

You can call be Basil! I do not mind any pronouns, feel free to call whatever you prefer. While I am an adult, I tend to avoid anything that's heavy nsfw.

This is a sideblog dedicated to One Piece, which I managed to completely finish by some miracle. It's great, I love it, and I really wanna analyse all the lore in there.

I have been part of many fandom spaces and have since gotten tired of any discourse. I just plan to enjoy what I like and block what I don't, for my own piece of mind.

All of you are welcome here as long as you are not here to hate on anyone. Any comments, reposts or ask that break this one rule will be either blocked or deleted.

I'm very busy and also very anxious, so I do not answer dms often.

He doesn't harass me about my interest in Shanks and lets me rant about him when I want. But he does not care about him at all.

Which ia funny as all hell cause I'll talk about Shanks and look at him and go "What are your thoughts?"

It's not that I don't see the character development or small moments they have, because I do! Zoro is fiercely loyal to Luffy, and his crew. He wants to achieve his dream of becoming the greatest swordsman, by any means, to fulfill a promise made to childhood friend.

But it also feels disconnected to me. It felt like Zoro could have achieved this dream on his own, and it wouldn't have been as detrimental a choice as compared to the other strawhats. Zoro as a whole, feels like an outlier in the strawhats because his dreams doesn't need to find the One Piece to be fulfilled.

Mihawk also has the issue where he felt like a plot device rather than an actual character for majority of the story. He is powerful, and intimidating, but there was little else to be known about him.

It's also in the time-skip that we see small aspects that imply he does have attachments to people, and he's opening up a little. My theory that he only joined cross guild cause he missed having the company of Zoro and Perona follows this mindset.

But even then, it feels too litte for a character that supposed to be a huge part of one of the first characters' dream.

Zoro and Mihawk are connected to each other simply by the dream of 'greatest swordsman'. But this make them feel disconnected to the main plot of One Piece as a whole.

We were wondering about all the different people who could've adopted Ace and one of them was Buggy. But not consciously. I ten took the idea and went crazy with it.

Ace would have already been on Dawn island and grown up a bit. He's still an angry-at-the-world boy who doesn't have a real reason to live yet. Buggy has his small crew in the East Blue. He is still an angry-at-world man, who is desperate to forget his past.

Buggy by chance lands on the docks of Foosha Village, and doesn't do much. He's not there to raid, nor attack. He is just there to restock. His crew isn't big enough and he's still trying to be on the low. His crew is mainly going around gathering supplies. Buggy stays on the ship most of the time.

Ace decides that Buggy's ship would have good treasure and goes ahead trying to steal from it. They didn't look too strong, and Ace was confident he could get away with it.

He did not. Buggy finds him and chases him off the ship with loud, flashy words. He doesn't give the boy a second thought, though he does look familiar.

But Ace is a stubborn little shit and isnt just gonna give up because he got chased away once. He keeps on trying and Buggy keeps on chasing him away over the course of a few days. Somehow, Buggy gets to know more details about the boy from crewmates who get news from the island, and small comments the boy makes.

He starts to care, in a distant sort of way. He stops chasing away the boy immediately and leaves out food or/and candy for him. (No treasure. The boy is gonna have to try harder if wants any of it). Once he catches sight of some of the wounds Ace had, he leaves behind a bunch of bandages too.

It's a silent ordeal, and no words are really shared between them about this whole thing. Ace never took the food/candy/aid left behind at first. But one day he took a piece. Then more. Then even more. Then one day, Buggy found him sitting in the spot, munching away at half of the food while stuffing the rest away in his pocket.

Buggy stares at him for a moment, and then he mives on. He continues doing his own work, ignoring the eyes that followed him around. It felt familiar in way. He remembered following this kind of routine with Shanks.

He leaves the room for a minute and when he comes back, Ace is gone. Nowhere to be seen. All that's left to indicate his presence are crumbs and dirt. Buggy knows he'll come back.

He does. Each visit, he'd stayed longer. He'd become less violent, more predictable. His eyes shifted from distrust to mere curiousity and confusion. Somedays, Buggy would have a small shadow following him around the shift. He ignored any questions about the kid. He didn't have answers to it, none that they would understand.

Ace started asking questions. They were obviously a questions only a child would ask.

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"Are you really a pirate?" Of course he was.

"Where's you treasure then?" Nice try, brat.

"Why's your nose so weird?" WHO ARE YOU CALLING RED-NOSED, YOU LITTLE SHI-

"Does being a pirate mean being free?"

"...Yes. If that's what being a pirate means to you,"

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Buggy has to leave eventually. Ace knew that it was inevitable. But that doesn't stop his sulking when he comes to the realization. Buggy doesn't offer empty comfort. He doesn't promise to stay longer. Even if the sea rejects him, he still loves it. He can't stay tied to land for long.

....But it doesn't hurt to tell the kid that he'll come by and visit once in a while. The look on Ace's face made it mildly worth it.

I am in love with it. It just looks so cool, and detailed. I can also see traces of lore hidden in his appearance, as well as hints as to what exactly is his ability and current appearance.

First of all, he shares similarities to both the Ancient Giants and Lunarians, if assumptions are correct.

He has the horns of an Ancient Giant, with the horns being long, curved and dark. They look very similar to Loki's, and Harald's, who we already know carry the blood of Ancient Giants.

There is also the slight chance that he has the dark skin and wings of a Lunarian. In the panel inside the castle, we can see wings on his back, which look similar to that of Lunarians, although they look very mangled and distorted.

(I also saw someone suggest he might also have gills on his neck, connecting him to fishmen. I think it makes thematic sense, given what we've noticed so far with his design. He seems to carry traits of all the races that are implied to have been allies with Joy Boy, and have since been oppressed)

Secondly, his devil fruit is written strangely.

It's mentioned that his ability is written with 'Akuma' in Katakana, while the more common version "Akuma' that we see with Devil Fruit Abilities is written with Kanji.

From what I can gather, Katakana is a phonetic script that was originally used for foreign words. It's not mainly used for grammar but rather names that were foreign (coffee, orange). It was derived from Kanji.

Meanwhile, Kanji were characters that were taken from Chinese. Katakana is the simpler of the two to learn, as it's pronounced as it is written. Kanji tends to be a bit more complicated.

I don't know if this is entirely reliable, but it feels like this implies that while the Devil Fruits that we have seen so far are 'True Devils', Imu's ability isn't a true ability, but rather something that is 'translated to be a devil'. Imu ability is some kind of mutation of actual Devil Fruits.

There are also other reasons that I believe this. I think his ability isn't one single power but rather an amalgamation of multiple 'Devil Fruits" that has been stored inside one individual. These Devil Fruits may have been the first ones created and therefore the most powerful. One of these 'Devil Fruits' seem to be similar to Big Mom's Devil Fruit, Soru Soru no Mi.

Third, the current appearance he has might be a form similar to Luffy's Gear 5 form.

The clouds that surround him look similar tothe ones that appear with Luffy when he does Gear 5, and his hair also has the same kind of pattern in them. It only looks inverted. He even has the 'cloud shawl that luffy always has with him in his Gear 5 form (which adds to my theory of Imu's ability being a mutations of some original Devil Fruits).

He would then become the literal anthesesis of Nika. Which he already symbolizes by being at the head of a stagnant system that deprives entire races of basic freedom, while Nika continues to represent both change and freedom.

Fourth, he is weak outside of the Flower Room.

We can see him cough blood immediately after he teleports to Elbaf, which is not seen in any other instance..

It is possible this 'mutation of multiple devils' wasn't stable for Imu to handle, so he relied on the Ope Ope no Mi to be given an immortal body. But he didn't realise it would not give him a resistant body, which meant he still had a frail bdy that prevented him from even leaving the flower room we see him in most of the time.