'it's been a while since I came to the surface of the world'

A theory on the true nature of the five elders, the source of their power and the secret behind devil fruits in one piece.
#ONEPIECE1094 To start off I'd like to adress the talks of devil imagery, that have been floating round since the reveal of Saturn's ability, and rightly so. There has been a consistent theme of this starting from this curious image in the tomb of alabasta

Was just having some thoughts and was thinking about Ace and the more I think, the more I realise how insanely written he is and how well he ties into the narrative. This could be a thread but I just wanna ramble my thoughts for the most part #ONEPIECE I think a lot of stock is put into Shanks being the one who inspires luffy to become a pirate, and this much is true. But you could argue that Ace was just as influential. Luffy through shanks sees piracy as a way to expand the boundaries of his freedom.

'The strongest is strongest alone'

A thread on dracule mihawk, making inferences about his character, possible future role and key dynamics
#ONEPIECE In a recent chapter of the egghead arc, when Zoro clashed with the mihawk seraphim, he mentioned something that struck me. 'you're not on his level because you still have life in your eyes'. This made me start to wonder about mihawk.

'I forgive you'
A thread focusing on the cycle of hatred in one piece, focusing majorly on nami and how she and others tie into this central theme. #ONEPIECE #ONEPIECE1060 My favourite thing about one piece is that it serves as a fountain of storytelling depth, because in its rather lengthy runtime, it has managed to touch on a number of different themes. One of these involves the theme of the cycle of hatred

'It is I'

A detailed breakdown of all of the facets of Enels character, including his visual characterisation, symbolism and narrative impact

#ONEPIECE Hard determinism can be seen as the central ideology backing enels character. From the definition we see below, it lines up with what we see of enels character, and to understand his actions, we have to keep this in mind

''𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓪 𝓻𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓸"
A thread on the life and themes of Portgas D ace and how the Novel recontextualises his themes and why every one piece fan should read it I will start by saying that I used to dislike Ace and I felt people only liked him because he was cool and that his backstory was thrown in to make us feel sympathy. However, now i have more respect for the man who lived like a raging fire