#chapter 1068

I really love that Vegapunk has a dream like this.

He is all for progress, his ultimate dream is of a better, more advanced world. One where everyone has all the energy they could need and no one is deprived of it.

And the idea of that dream really seems to excite him, it's a dream as special to him as any other person with a dream.

Like, he seems like a good person who only wants the best for the world, to create advancements that can really help people, but he's also causing the group that's oppressing the world to benefit the most from him.

I'm really looking forward to seeing if this kind of thing is shown more later on, like, the idea that the group that's supporting him is at odds with his needs to help people, and how he's hurt so many people as a result of who benefits from the progress he makes.

two thoughts:

1. I'm very interested to see what Oda plans doing with Vegapunk's former associates in the cover story while we are finally meeting the man himself in the main story

I know it's a very sensitive subject and I know I will hurt people here. Feel free to tell your feelings. ^^

It deals with Vegapunk's dream. He told he wanted to provide people energy for free.

It's a beautiful dream but in the previous chapters he told Dragon he didn't want to join his Army because he was poor.

I mean he needed money to make his own dreams and ideas true one day.

So his own work isn't for free. He needed to buy materials, ressources, and he needed to hire people to help him. How much the Five Elders spent on Vegapunk's works? Billions perhaps?

I am sure his people need money. Pretty much like us who need money to be able to live.

I understand the feeling because energy isn't exactly cheap recently. Especially because of the Global Warming. Our need in energy has a cost and an impact on Nature and people.

But I'm going to talk about people there. Those people deserve to be paid for the efforts they put on science. They only live for science and they spend their entire lives in this area.

How those people are supposed to live if they don't get money? They don't have time to make grow vegetables in their gardens!

They need money to pay for their children's schools. They need money to make sure they can buy their houses. They need money to pay their taxes.

I don't know how it works in the US or in Japan but in France, people who work in the energy providing system, the statefounded one, are allowed to not pay the energy. Because they work to make sure it works. Truth to be told it's the only one communist President we ever had who made that law.

Somehow it reminded me of a debate I used to have with a former collaegue. She claimed medical services should be for free. I disagreed. Because I used to work for that system.

I bought recently a flat with my boyfriend. I need money to repay the one I borrowed to the bank. If I work for free, I won't be able to do that. People do medicines. People make beds. People make sheets.

It's not like we work for free. We spend our lives to do that. So we need money to live. We need money to eat. We need money to have healthy water.

So I'll suggest a compromise. Pretty much like in France, we buy energy each months. If we use less energy than the money allows us to do, we are paid back the right amount. Or raise people's paychecks!

Okay, I loved Stussy from the start and she continues to win my heart:

CP0 have invaded Egghead Island, and find themselves at the end (or cold front) of a non-meeting so chilly that Kaku fancies himself a cup of tea (it is also snowing).

We're reminded, from Shaka, I think, that G-14 is near by, so we're bound to see Smoker, Tashigi, (Doll) and Mocha again this arc. Not to mention Akainu's daughter.

CPO are having none of it and infiltrate (or invade, really) and Kaku launches into the sky to check out the upper reaches of the island.

Stussy's got prior knowledge of the system, but doesn't let anyone know until Kaku's

born the brunt of the beam. Rob Lucci's deadpan, "You should really mention this kind of thing beforehand," and a dusty Kaku letting Stussy know he's none too pleased.

"Well, at least you're not chilly anymore, right? <3" She's got a point.

The Atlas Vegapunk comes charging along. I thought the "Dr. Atlas! <3" was Stussy at first. Was it? It might be, as it seems to be speech tic to end her sentences with <3. So I guess she's as Southern Hospitality sweet as a madam running her brothel. Atlas. Shaka warned you.

Rob Lucci in zoan form! Oof. Poor Atlas.

Then look who comes in to witness or breeze past the carnage! Luffy and the Pigeon Guy got history. Gonna add Bonney's current supernova as luggage fate to another post. And are y'all excited about this?

First of all, Sentomau! I've always been interested in him (wish he'd been the her I first thought he was). And they're the seraphim we've seen: Boa Hancock, Mihawk and Jinbei. All of the shichibukai have animal themes, don't they? Crocodile, Gecko, Bear, Flamingo (?) and let's hope for an S-Seal or an S-Snow Leopard!

And did Kuma receive a call from Vegapunk, or is it a connection with S-Bear that has him launching himself to Egghead Arc (unless he's actually on his way to save Law, heh). Bonney obviously hasn't been a drawcard, for whatever reason, but maybe her being out cold triggered something.

King's wings. I'm sure we're gonna get a deeper flashback for both him and Kaidou (and maybe Big Mom), considering how involved, willingly or not, they are in the MADS experiments at Punk Hazard, and that King's DNA (and that of the shichibukai) is being used to create the seraphim (at least, I think so). AND

All of these panels.

1st. Luffy obviously doesn't talk all that much with Robin or Law, or their paths just don't connect when CP0 are lurking around.

2nd. They obviously didn't come across Jinbei's path at Wano.

3rd. RIP Izou. I guess that Nami and Usopp witnessed you saving them from the Beast Pirates, but not the interaction with CP0, right? And apart from Nami and Usopp, did any of the other Straw Hats have much of an interaction with him? They all knew O-Kiku. What a waste of a character's potential. Ah.

4th. Not might, but I guess Luffy didn't catch sight of the guy that interrupted his fight with Kaidou (I can't remember), and even if he did, didn't make the connection with CP0.

Luffy picking his nose during big reveals is I C O N I C. Whatever this is all building towards, it feels like we’re seeing it escalate. It’s so weird seeing the concepts I was thinking about starting this blog spelled out. Been going on all Egghead. Ketsu, or a detached Act 4. Vegapunk’s dream, or Luffy’s reaction to it actually, is a big example. For how I felt about someone else from Wano.