#1151

So one thing that I haven’t seen any of the usual OP review channels mention with this chapter is about Loki’s phone call at the end

Not that it’s not mentioned- plenty of speculation about the identity of Shaggy/Mosa

But when Shaggy calls him, instead of a speech tag for his dialogue bubbles, Loki has a thought tag:

Seeming to imply that although Loki isn’t speaking out loud, Shaggy can still hear him — they’re responding directly to his thoughts

Is this an art mistake? I don’t think so, it seems too consistent, being used in this Shaggy conversation — even in the same panel, when Loki calls out ‘Wait,’ that’s given a speech tail, that he says out loud, so it seems like something that would be hard to do by accident

A function of this particular Snow-type Den-Den Mushi? Except in Loki and Shaggy’s first conversation he’s speaking out loud to them.

A function of Loki’s Devil Fruit? Although he still has one leg bound by Sea Prism, so he shouldn’t be able to use it. Which leaves a function of Shaggy’s Devil Fruit, assuming they have one (which I’m not sure that they do)

How else are Loki and Shaggy able to communicate through thought like this? Why is Loki even thinking and not talking out loud?

I know he wants to maintain his air of not-caring in front of the others, but given his facial expressions and what’s going on, it seems like he might forget that and just yell out loud anyway

Just a very interesting choice 🤔