#toritoma

specifically, how reproduction and everything surrounding it is handled. For example, are pregnancies and births treated as community events, and is the mother accompanied at every step by older members of the tribe? Is childcare shared, and are girls raised communally?

Obviously, every child knows who their mother is, but at the same time, are all the other women in the tribe considered sisters/cousins/aunts/grandmothers?

[REMINDER: THIS IS JUST MY THEORY, IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT THEN THAT’S FINE. YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN OPINION AND I CAN HAVE MINE. PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL.]

EVIDENCE I: Similarity

I personally think that Toritoma has a similar smile to Luffy but that could just be me. I mean, look at them! Even their noses are similar!

It would make sense for Luffy to look more like his mother than his actual father because let’s be real, Luffy does NOT look like Dragon at all! But I do understand that it could just be an artist choice by the people drawing the manga.

EVIDENCE II: Age

In the newest chapter of 1156, we see the first official appearance of Toritoma in the manga and she looks to be a child around this time. 

We also see Garp in the same chapter and he looks to be fairly young so we can assume that he already had Dragon and Dragon is also a child around this time. I say this because Shakky or Shakuyaku was crowned the new empress as seen below and the manga stated “And her popularity continued to grow to an unmanageable level.” So due to her popularity growing, it would only make sense that the Navy would start chasing after the Kuja Pirates. Which would then mean that she was now being hunted by Garp around this time as she previously stated! And that was 40 years ago so if we minus that by Dragon’s age, he would have been at least 10 years old around this time.

but at the same time. I am actually happy that the theory has been disproved in the latest SBS and Oda gave us the name and face of the previous Empress, Toritoma.

Her Hair and Eye-shape are totally different than Crocodile's from when Oda drawn him as a woman and as a child. Also, Hancock's clothing as a child is that of the Amazon people. Meaning Crocodile did not grow up among the Amazons.

First Toritoma, the previous Empress of Amazon Lily (R.I.P). Unless she is somehow Luffy's mother like some theories say, i fear this is most likely all we'll see of her IMO.

Secondly, Hanafuda, the Warlord who Kuma replaced due to being defeated by Ace.

The fact that Oda said "what he's scheming behind this remains unknown" makes it sound like he could still be active in canon & Oda might include him in the final saga. Could he be the man marked by flames???

So, obviously, Crocodile is heavily believed to be AFAB. Now, I know about Empress Toritoma and how Croc couldn't have been the missing empress but that doesn't mean he has NOTHING to do with Amazon Lily.

Right now, I'm thinking Croc was born there, as the child of Gloriosa and Xebec, and was later taken to be raised elsewhere. Where he was raised, I'm not 100% certain but my current timeline headcanon is as follows:

Born on Amazon Lily

Taken to be raised either on Xebec's ship or somewhere else

Taken by Stussy to Du Feld after the God Valley incident