#voat

Oda's left enough back hooks that Law could be revealed to have the Voice of All Things at any moment and it would make not only complete sense but explain a confusing scene in Dressrosa that stuck out as being rather odd, both in manga and anime.

There have been a bunch of scenes that can be interpreted at hinting at VOAT for Law, but the thing that definitively made it stand out as plausible if not soft-confirmed is how the Dressrosan rooftop scene happened compared with Luffy's fall from Onigashima. Law communicates with Luffy in what appears to be telepathy, considering his mouth is closed and neither Doflamingo nor Trebol overhear anything. When the chapter first came out, people were wondering if it was perhaps the prelude to a flashback because it did not look like whispering. Weird, but ultimately ignored considering there were a lot more pressing things going on at the time and we'd yet to have Zou elaborate further on the Voice of All Things.

Then years later, Luffy falls off from Onigashima.

And suspiciously similar formatting appears. A telepathic communication that only the other can overhear in the exact same style of bubbled text. Law (unknown-speaker) and Luffy (VOAT-only listener) had communicated in the exact same way as Luffy (VOAT-speaker) and Momo (VOAT-only listener) did. Going even further, Law might've overheard Luffy talking to Momo as well (unknown-only other listener).

In Chapter 1015, when Luffy was telling Momo he's going to come back and kick Kaido's ass and Momo was translating that, only Kid reacts during this. Oda usually pairs him up with Law when doing this type of reaction scene so the exclusion is a notable choice. Immediately after that, Law's submarine and crew find Luffy. Then Law pops up and doesn't doubt it for a second, believing Luffy will be back up soon. It would make sense if he had heard it from Luffy already and knew he was fine.

It explains why Law wasn’t worried that time Luffy went down but then next time in Chapter 1043 he was, because Luffy wasn't saying anything. And there's the fact both Law and Momo are shown reporting very specifically that Luffy's voice has gone out in that moment. It could just be observation haki but its incredibly suspicious to be tied together with Momo like that and the different reactions Law had despite Luffy, by all means, going down the same as before.

On a more meta level though, it's incredibly interesting that we have learned that Roger had a special way of hearing Poneglyphs that Luffy doesn't seem to replicate, meanwhile Law is off in the corner not saying anything and being a secretive D. who doesn't share with the class. Especially since Law has demonstrated the capacity to sense seastone since Punkhazard and "coincidentally" found the Ponegylph in Kaido's massive, sprawling castle.

Sensing seastone is probably the weakest point to mention since Poneglyphs are not made of seastone, but it is an interesting facet of Law's perception that I can't recall anyone else having. Since the VOAT is all about a unique talent of hearing both animals and objects, it is worth pointing out in my opinion.

This also explains how Law knew what chains on Punkhazard were safe to be enchained in if he is able to HEAR sense it. He can feel the energy of seastone and sneakily swap the chains about to be put on him with the identical non-seastone variety. He was able to send that note to Chopper without any noticeable Room or movement after all. Law is a sneaky dude.

Regarding hearing the Poneglyphs themselves, one of the odd things about Law instigating the Rockyport incident is that he was originally motivated by rumors of a Poneglyph being present on Hachinosu. Law having a prebuilt capacity to hunt down Poneglyphs by hearing them would give extra context to what he was doing looking for one, especially if he can glean anything from the voices within them like Roger could.

Shout out to the first scene that demonstrates just how shifty this bastard is and began to cause people to wonder; where Oda chooses to show he is conspicuously saying literally nothing ("....") while confirmed VOAT people are hearing things. Damnit Law! Telling us nothing and standing there suspiciously...

this question is probably going to be just as vague as my first one lol sorry about that but I keep thinking about them from like a cwcb lens. as in like, adult gojo who Grew Up The Way He Did and knows his parents names but has never actually met them and wasn't raised by them meets a version of himself who is just. so different from him at that age and the more they keep talking the more the thought starts to manifest that that difference might be because this boy has a relatively normal home and a mother who loves him. which is like, so cool to think about. he's so chill about that.

but im so curious about what that entire thing would look like from voat satorus perspective (once we make it through the general distress of Being Somewhere Else with what appears to be an alternate version of you as an adult). like once he feels safe enough to ask questions he gets genuinely curious and he has All the questions and adult him just keeps dodging them and with every question that gets dodged he's like, putting together that he's hitting some nerves there but obviously he doesn't know *what* he's hitting exactly? like as u said, he realises he's doing it. a bit. idk just. thoughts.

HI HI THE DOLLSSSS YESSS (this is sliiiightly late because I wasn't feeling great yesterday)

Omg yeah like I'm not sure what angle you want to come at it from (whether CWCB gojo and voat Satoru have different parents entirely, or if it's some merger of both "canons" so to say) but either way I think that could be so fun...like whether they're the same parents or not, Satoru's parents have him up to be raised by someone who loved him and Gojo's parents gave him up for...what? He doesn't actually know because he doesn't know his parents and he can only assume that it was for personal gain somehow

And I'm imagining Satoru having his phone on him and it's not connected to any network but it DOES have shitty, grainy photos on it of like...the neighbour's cat that likes to beg for food from him on the way home, and of his mother, and of Itaru (these photos make him slightly sniffly), and just of Satoru getting to live life? And be a kid?

And I'm considering the idea that voat Satoru trusting Gojo pretty quick and latching onto him miiiight make Gojo face the fact that while he does look after his kids and raise them etc because he cares about the next generation and wants them not to be treated like HIS friends were treated, I think that it could make him face the fact that this is what he wanted his baby self to be treated like. To have an adult who he trusted and who cared for him and who he could cry on, if you catch my drift??

Anyway, baby Satoru is naturally A Little More Concerned about the current situation and despite the fact he trusts Older Him, i think the more Gojo dodges around questions about the future and his own past, the more suspicious Satoru gets and he's like a dog with a bone and will NOT let it go, which leads to Gojo having to talk about his past because the more he tries to keep things secret, the more this volatile baby him tries to squeeze the answers out of him

I just also like him realising that Gojo comes from a world where he was never kidnap-adopted by his aunt and so starts asking about their PARENTS (who may, ofc, be different characters entirely from each other - but I am also very happy if you twist voat Satoru's backstory slightly to fit whatever narrative works best in your mind) because he just assumes that Gojo must have been raised by them instead and Gojo has no answers

Also possibly I'm amused by the idea of Satoru introducing himself as Fushiguro (there are plot reasons he has this surname btw) and Gojo is like...having feelings because like his relationship with the Fushiguros that he doesn't really touch

Oh gosh idk if I've like answered your questions lol I have a lot of feelings

ALSO yeah trans Satoru! My thoughts being that it's something Satoru thinks about very little after going to his mother and being like "I am a boy" because Kiyoko was like "I do not understand really but honestly this will help me keep him protected from the clan" and also I like the idea of Satoru very innocently asked Kiyoko her opinion about X name because obviously she must have given him his first name and Kiyoko has to go lie down afterwards because that's her SON and also she has feelings about usurping Hina as his mother but also-

(Kiyoko is complicated and I love her, i could talk about her a lot)

Also it adds an extra level of confusion when he turns up at the school because he claims the gojo name and he has the six eyes, but they weren't expecting a boy?? And they don't know who this is?? Which is enough time for Satoru to slip in under the higher ups' protection

ALSO bonus little scene that i wanted to add at the end of the fic when Satoru is on his way to the school but that didn't quite fit in but that I love and kept in my notes just in case I could make it work out (I couldn't):

He has a dream that night, when he falls asleep on the train.

He's back in the apartment and the soft lights of night are coming in through the window. He's lying on the kitchen floor, except it's not just him and his mother.

There's a little boy there too, face too blurry to make out. He's giggling, kicking his little legs up next to Satoru's, and when they talk, his mother calls the boy mouse in that same fond way she always called Satoru bug.

It's a bitter dream to wake up from alone, in that almost empty. He wonders if that little brother is awake now, wherever he was taken; he wonders if his mother is awake too, and thinking of him as he's thinking of her.

Battleship Texas on pulling into Galveston, Texas and subsequently being towed into drydock on August 31, 2022.

I added 87 new mob masks to Vanilla Minecraft!

Just finished this next addition to my VOAT (Variations on a Theme) series, where I take a theme I like of something already in the game, and expand it massively. This time, I've offered an alternative to Heads; while less decorative, these masks have proper 3D models, 2 of which have animated textures, and have quite a bit of an interesting flare because of that compared to the uniform & inanimate playerhead item.

This pack adds in a mask for every mob in the game, save for ones where I felt like it’d be weird to have them (villagers, illagers, etc). 

Again, this is Vanilla. It requires a datapack and a resourcepack, found on the forum post, but it is considered vanilla. Here is a post on why that is.

And so the nightmare begins.