One Piece 762. !Spoilers!

Good evening/morning (it's 2am here),

So I know most of my posts have been about One Piece but i'm still geekin out about it. So the new chapter came out today and we finally got our Trafalgar Law flashback, and guess what? Now we don't want it. Oda, you can have it back.

Traffy is like the love of my life (seriously, <3) so all this heartbreaking stuff that's happened to him throughout his life is keeping me up at night (not literally. but still.) I bet when creating the whole Dressrosa arc, no, in fact, way before that, I bet Oda thought he'd create loads of lovable characters and then get everybodys hearts and put them into a blender by giving them such tragic back stories. As I said in my last post, one of the things I love about One Piece is the whole 'brother' dynamic, and I think that's why this is effecting me so much. Law reminds me a little of Ace. Where Law wants to destroy everything and kill everyone before he dies, Ace wanted to find out why he was living. Let face it, I don't need another reminder of Ace. Cries.

I found this on Tumblr and I had to share it cause it just makes sense. Source: Rankyakus.tumblr.com

In this chapter we get to see Lawsie's family for the first time, and if you walked in on me reading this, you would have seen me gawking. He has a sister and when I found that out I just crumbled, not only that, but they were such a lovely normal family who were trying to find a cure for the poison, just like how the nun stayed behind to save the children. Law must have been reminded of that when the Strawhats wanted to stay behind on Punk Hazard. Everything is coming together in a really awful way.

This is a picture of a normal happy family THAT PRESENT DAY LAW COULD HAVE SAVED. Imagine how much remorse he feels. Omg it's killing me. Before Lamie dies, Law gave up his chance of escape to hold her hand and reassure her, despite knowing that there wasn't a chance. Seriously, older brothers in One Piece = <3.

Not only that, but everyone treats little baby Law like nothing but a disease despite what he's been through...

Baby 5 won't even touch any part of him other than his hat, and Trebol refused to even go near him. HE'S A BABY DAMN IT! GIVE HIM A HUG!

This chapter was so important, not only do we get baby Dellinger (seriously, cute cute), but we see this:

This is so fascinating, because now I'm all confused over what to expect next, and how exactly Law and Corazon's relationship works out. Where do relations go downhill with Doflamingo? So much so that this happens:

I mean seriously, how much of a dick is Dof that he has to use lead bullets to remind Law of his past. What a kick in the balls. That's why I hate to love Doflamingo. Yeah, he's a prick, and I hate him for all the wrongs he's done to King Riku, and Rebecca, and the Tontatta, and Bellamy, and Luffy, and, most importantly, Law, but he's also one of the best, most interesting and charismatic villains that's ever graced One Piece. I will actually be kind of sad when he leaves, because he's so interesting. He's so evil, yet so respectful of his crew/family. Stupid Doflamingo. I love/hate you.

So in 762 the fandom kind of burst into flames. We see baby Dellinger, loving big brother Doffy, Trafalgar (everyone I love is dead) Law's family, Law's friends which were all suddenly BRUTALLY MURDERED (Oda, please)....So I have a happy little theory and a sad little theory:

Happy little theory - No one actually SAW Lamie die. MAYBE she will come back...
Sad...super sad....heartbreaking....theory: What if Law did the eternal life surgery on Luffy after Marineford? What if Law is going to die? That's why he put all his faith in Luffy. What if he saved him in the first place because he couldn't save his family? Oh no. Oda can't do that to us.

Protect Law.

Niff x

Marineford: An Unimportant Filler.

If this is true, then I am both really excited and having to mentally prepare my psych for inevitable downfall (I just showed this picture to my friend and he asked me when my funeral was.) 

Call me a weirdo or Weeaboo trash or whatever, but I rewatch the Marineford Arc every year in November (the anniversary of when I first watched it), and it makes me cry every time. I will always have more emotion when it concerns family or friends, rather than a relationship or love story, and the story of the three brothers in One Piece touches my heart. I think the whole 'brother' thing within One Piece is really important, because not only does it mean family, but it means friendship, and what makes Luffy so fierce? As Mihawk says, his power to make friends.                                                                                                 As a fan of pirate history, I've always loved looking into the history of great and famous pirates - Blackbeard, Silver, Hornigold, Anne Bonney etc, and even in real life, the brotherhood was there.                                                                                                                 Quite recently in the anime, and a few chapters ago in the manga, Bartolomeo (a definite favourite) protects Bellamy from Dellinger and states that after fighting in the same ring together, the two are now war brothers, and that he would never turn his back on that. This was just an awesome moment, cause he's a fan, a big fan, of Luffy and the Strawhats and surely knew that Ace was Luffys big brother. Bartolomeo is a great monument to brotherhood and friends just like the strawhats, and it's really what One Piece is all about. It makes me wonder whether Bartolomeo could be a candidate for the next crew member? Maybe.

The whole Dressrosa arc so far is a roller coaster ride. You just have to look at the facial expressions to see that. I particularly loved the involvement of a love story between Kyros and Scarlett and how it took a backseat. Alliances and history and family was far more important to Oda. That's what's so great about One Piece. 

Niff x