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So, let's get to some more crazy theories.

What do you see above is a Giraffe, obviously. When a person eats a giraffe fruit they are able to get abilities of giraffes.

Let's take a look at another fruit ability:

As you can see, using your head to shoot projectiles is an ability given by a pteranodon fruit.

Does it make sense to you? It doesn't to me, really.

The power of imagination

Usually, when we read One Piece we brush stuff like this off as Oda being a wacky funny guy, and One Piece is a wacky funny manga. And while it is possilbe, i think there is actually an in universe explanation for it.

In the newest chapter we see Bonney assuming Nika's form. A feat thought to only be available to Luffy, the actual owner of Nika fruit. Possible explanation is that its just an ability of her fruit to do anything.

But what if actually any fruit can give almost any power?

Think about it, how many times have we seen a fruit doing something that makes absolutely zero sense considering the assumed power of a fruit? Couple of cases above are just something that comes to my mind the first, I am sure any of us can think of dozens of examples without even trying.

Luffy and freedom of creativity

I vividly remember how Gear 2 didn't actually make sense, neither did Gear 3. Nowadays we have an obvious explanation of Luffy never actually being a rubber man, but rather being Nika.

This is possible, but i feel it might actually be a misdirection by Oda. The true power of Luffy, from the very start, was his imagination. That was separated him and that's why he is also capable of using the power of Nika the way we see it.

I think its not actually about Luffy or the Nika fruit at all. I think this logic is applicable to any fruit. Any fruit can do anything its user thinks this fruit can do. We have seen it time and again.

Which is unacceptable to anyone, who wishes to control the world.

Fruit classification is a government hoax

In comes a fruit classification and the official narrative of how fruits work.

We already seen many times how WG controls the narrative by spreading misinformation. I think here we might actually have another example here. As long as fruit users think that their powers are narrow they are much less dangerous to the government. And together with WG fooling the population, so does Oda.

I think fruits are like this as well. We(and people in the One Piece world) believe fruit abilities to be simple and narrow. Rubber is a rubber, fire is fire, that's all. If they don't think they can do wild things with their fruits, they won't do wild things.

Logia, Zoan, Paramecia? The more you try to make sense of the separation, the less it makes sense. Zoans don't just transform people into animals, Logias dont just transform users into the element, Paramacias can do almost anything, we have just seen the example with Bonney.

The conclusion

I think here we see a clear end game for the world liberation. Luffy and the Revolutionaries cant just free the whole world themselves, people should understand first that they are free, that they are actually capable to do MORE with their fruits and their freedom. I think in the future we will se more fruits having Nika-like powers.

The final nail in the coffin of WG is going to be everyone embracing freedom and imagination. And then the world will be truly free and everyone will be able to be as creative as they are capable of.

There were many theories about what the Luffy's real dream is. And i know that my idea isnt actually unique, since i've seen other people mention it on reddit before. But I think with time I forget the best case yet for it, based on plot, character of Luffy and thematic significance. So, let's get to it.

There will be spoilers up to the latest chapters.

The dream

In the manga we have not been yet shown what Luffy's dream is (chapter 1060). The only thing that we were shown are reactions of the Straw Hat pirates. Those are:

Zoro, Jimbe and Nami: surprisied and worried

Brook, Franky and Sanji: laughing and amazed

Chopper: just amazed

Robin: misteriously thinking about something, probably drawing some historical parallels in her head

On the next page Jimbe and Nami aren't as worried anymore and we see Franky saying:"You need to be a pirate king to make it possible".

Another possible theory is going to the Moon but while I think Moon is going to be important, the Egghead arc mostly disproves this idea. I think so because if going to the Moon was that important to Luffy he would have asked the world greatest scientist about it.

So what is it actually? The idea needs to be something a child ideolising Roger and Shanks could come up with and also something you NEED to be a pirate king to acomplish.

Luffy wants everyone to be a pirate.

Let me explain why it makes a perfect sense.

Real significance of the pirate king

To get into it, we need to first understand what Luffy thinks the pirate king is, and what we saw pirate king to mean in the story so far.

At the very first page we see the following:

I think this is the ultimate proclamation of what The Pirate king is in the story. And this is what it also likely means to Luffy. Notice that we never actually see Roger rule anything, or enjoy his wealth, or to control anything mush, really. But we see him inspire others to be pirates by declaring that he left everything in that place.

Since we know that Luffy doesn't actually care about Wealth, Fame and Power. He does not want to rule anyone. He wants to be the freest man in the world. But we also see time and again, that while Luffy is seeking freedom for himself, what he also does time and again, is inspire others to fight for their own liberation. He is "a warrior of liberation" but he doesn't actually free people all on his own. He actually helps each and every one of them discover their own self worth and to fight for themselves together with Luffy. He ispires other to also seek freedom. To be pirates(so far mostly metaforically).

Pirate King is the one who inspires others to also be pirates, to also be free.

Thematic sense and Doflamingo

This idea also makes sense thematically. Bear with me here for a moment, but I think there is a good reason why Doflamingo wasn't killed and why we still constantly see him in the manga even though he can't actually do anything physically. The reason here is that Luffy never actually defeated Doflamingo. Sure, he beat Doffy up, but Doffy never changed his ways and he still holds his ideology. Which is: "Justice always wins, because victors decide what justice is". Essentially, Doffy believes that whoever wins the great war will become a new ruler on the Empty Throne and declaring all his previous opponents vile pirates.

The only way to actually defeat Doflamingo once and for all, is to prove to him that nobody is going to ever sit on that throne again, and nobody is ever going to rule over others in a tyrannical manner. How could this be achieved? If nobody rules anyone at all. If its not possible, if every single person is a pirate forging their own path.

The clash of ideas and revolutionaries

Another thematic clash for which we don't yet know a real meaning is the fact that the revolutionary army and pirates are two different things, with both opposing the world government differently.

I think, there is a good reason why we don't know much about the figure of Dragon and what his plans actually are. And we also don't know what Oda is planning to do with this faction. We have to notice that Luffy didn't ever actually directly ally with the Army, besides some parts with Sabo, where it was more about brotherhood for Luffy, than anything related to the revolution. Why so?

I believe that's because Luffy as a pirate king and Dragon as a leader of revolutionaries don't actually have the same ultimate goal. Yes, both of them want to destroy the world government, but what is going to happen afterwards? Here there must exist a difference, something that might potentially even create a conflict between Luffy and his father.

If Luffy wants everyone to be a pirate, to be free and to decide everything by themselves, Dragon might want to create a more fair, just society, as opposed to World Goverment's regime of oppression. This is not good enough. As noted in the previous part, it would just continue a cycle of winners writing history and slowly descending into the oppressive regime.

The only solution is the Pirate's King way. Everyone being a pirate, everyone setting to sea...

The great flood

In the latest chapters we found out that the world is going to sink. Its important to mention that Vegapunk tends to speak like a scientist. He usually speaks in theories and probabilities. There is no doubt in him when he says that the world is going to drown. Many people already said that this is unavoidable, and that this will happen for one reason or another.

Obviously, people are not going to just die and drown because of it, they will need to be saved and they will need to live somehow even without their old homes. It might happen that other islands will appear instead, but i think it makes better sense thematically, for everyone to just move to live on ships or mobile floatins islands like Baratie or Water 7 or even Thriller Bark.

And who lives on ships? Why, pirates of course.

The conclusion

I am not the best theorist out there, and I also never even reread One Piece, so I am not going to break down every single important panel and page here, since i don't really remember where to find them and such. But I hope that i made a compelling point here.

While watching this scene I noticed something’s off, but couldn’t get what it was until I stopped the moment

It was the role switching and their hands. Lady Tilley was leading the dance, their arms were in a more equal position and I love it sm

spoilers alert I guess

The main point of my theory is: Lady Tilley Arnold was her own "deceased" husband.

I know I know, but listen to me, the Bridgerton's makers do everything on purpose, every little detail of the clothes, environment, decor etc. And I have a bunch of prooves for my theory.

I don't know if that's a trans situation or just her wanting to be in that particular social role, but let's go.

1. Ok, the thing I noticed the first. Her cleavage zone looks unsual for the show. Her dresses look a little bit different than everyone's else. Less showing. And even when the cleavage aloows to show some boobs, that part of the dress often seems to be a little bit empty (which contrasts with the usual Bridgerton "push-up the boobies as much as possible" style a lot). Like the dress looks like a right shape, but her chest looks flat.

2. Her room. It's dark colors. Green, brown. Do you know which rooms have the same color scheme in this show? Men's rooms. Anthony's cabinet, Colin's cabinet, Colin's bedroom, Lord Fetherington's cabinet and bedroom. Only the red curtains look a little bit too bright/a little bit off, like if someone added them without redecorating the whole room to just slightly change the mood.

3. "I was married. He died." she said. Not "My husband died" or "I'm a widow", but this interesting wording. Sounds a little bit odd and smooth to tell the truth not telling the truth. Like old me died, new me is here right now.

4. When Benedict meets her for the 2nd time, she's looking at the statue. Again, most things on this show are intentional and meaningful. And that scene took to long to be just random. She's looking at the statue, that looks like a Venus statue. And Venus is who? Feminity, all the woman things. If she was ment to be "not so feminine lady" that won't be a first thing to choose for her to stare at, u know. Then why is she looking at it? Because she's glad to be who she always felt she is. Just a suggetion. Or maybe it's connected to the Androgyny of Venus in some statues? Idk, I'm not a Greek mythology pro, but that seemed to be an interesting scene to me

5. "Well, then you have misjudged me. I am all for brute strength. In fact, I much prefer it to aimless talking" she says. Which is interesting too. And right after that their dance happens. And it feels to me that there happens a conversation without words between them. While they're dancing, at some point she takes the male role and leads the dance. Benedict looks condused at first, but accepts it and they dance like this. (all the females are to the right, all the males are to the left, except for them) Was it "an action" instead of "the words" to discuss something?

6. The music while they're dancing. I've seen some complains of the showrunners reusing the music from the season 2. People say like that was the family moment etc. etc. But I rewatched that scene from the 2nd season (during the Bridgerton+Shama ball when no one came and they danced with each other) and it was not about the family. It was about the harmony, the harmony with yourself and being whoever you feels right to be without looking at what is and what is not appropriate for the sosciety. Which suits Lady Tilley and Benedict's dance if my theory is correct pretty nicely.

7. During their making out scene in her bed, her chest is covered with the cloth. Bridgerton show is usually not too shy to show nudity and if they need to not show female body, they prefer to use pretty underwear, but not such trick as cloth. Interesting, that in a promo for the 2nd part of season 3 she's in the bed wearing the drak robe. Which is again not too Bridgerton-y or feminine.

8. While in her bed, Benedict is on the righ side of the bed and she is on the left one. I was rewatching the older season and noticed that every time they show the spouses' bed there's the husband who's on the left side of the bed (Violet Bridgerton, Mondrich, Bassets, Kate+Anthony). Why? Because that's originally her part of the bed since you know... my theory.

9. "You're MY solicitor" she says to a solicitor when Benedict visits her. Usually solicitor works with male only. In the Queen Charlotte spin-off show Lady Danbury even says that solicitor would probably refuse to talk to her, so she decided not to sign her name saying "Better he think I'm an impolite man". And you know what? At the same time there's a person who looks at the inheritance documents and search for the frauds. What if he has questions to her "husbans"'s will papers and now her solicitor has to provide her some better papers to convince the inspector. "I shall retern with things in order" he replies. She also asks Benedict if he came to "overcharge her as well", so she either has a lack of money or she has to pay her solicitor an overcharged sum. What if it's the silence fee?

10. Well, and their first interaction with Benedict was "My apologies, I thought you were a... - A man?". And that's her first line ever in the show is. You may say "C'mon, teal, she's just a lady with male interests", BUT! the only scene that points at it is this one. She's pretty feminine all the other times and everyone of the ton talks to her like she's a lady. No shade. No judjment (like when they speak about Eloise during previous seasons or Anthony joking on Kate being able to shoot). If that was the point there would be more than one moment/line pointing at that.

I hope you enjoyed my little theory. Anyway, the 2nd part of the season is just in a week from now and we'll find out if I'm right or wrong UwU

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