Didn’t see this posted yet so thought I’d share.

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Crazy that they confirmed Rocks is Blackbeards father!

No break next week!!

  • drinkinglakewater [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    13 days ago

    Thanks for posting the thread! TCB posted the chapter literally an hour after I checked >.>

    This is such a good chapter, the crumbs of world building, multiple backstories covered and topped off with a huge reveal! Loki is 100% joining the crew I’m calling it now.

    Xebec being revealed as the Blackbeard’s father is interesting, I wonder if his pirate ideology is different to Blackbeard’s? Luffy is parallel to Roger because they seem to have the conception of freedom, whereas Blackbeard is very focused on gaining power and copying Xebec with the way his crew is structured and his tactics which makes me think he’s aping it for his own goals instead of whatever Xebec was about.

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      12 days ago

      I wonder if his pirate ideology is different to Blackbeard’s?

      All things point to xebec being a wild card and having very low control over his crew. Blackbeard seems like he moves on two waves, one is he wouldn’t do drastic shit out of nowhere like murdering some admiral but he will wait it out. Two, he just often goes fuck it we ball. He does play it safe to some extent and often over expects the grasp over situations.

      As for aping xebec, I don’t think blackbeard’s crew is similar to very unhinged powerhouse that was rocks. But also xebec’s goals are not clear neither do we know how much blackbeard knows about the real void history.

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      13 days ago

      He can’t join the crew purely because of the logistics of having to draw him in group photos. I think we are heading toward hajrudin and Loki reconciling and then fighting as brothers. My take is that Loki will become the next king of elbaph for the final war since elbaph needs to organize and defend itself. It would be a dramatic resolution plot wise.


      Rocks reveal was the best part of this chapter. Just when I thought Blackbeard was losing his intrigue we get this baller reveal.

      I doubt rocks actually raised Teach in any meaningful capacity but rather that Teach found out about him and started idolizing him and inheriting his will (similar to Loki). Considering whitebeard seems to be a core rocks companion, I doubt he knew about blackbeards parentage or if he did find out he didn’t care as no son of his should bear the sins of their parents.

      I think rat haired shanks snitched on Blackbeard to the Gorosei tbh (but thats my agenda lol). Guessing because Saturn was aware of Blackbeard’s lineage when Devon and Van Augur met him in egghead.

      Really, I think the Gorosei figured out Blackbeard beforehand and tried to recruit him like they tried to do with Ace when he was offered a warlord position so they could make seraphim clones out of him and use his talent for their own ends.

      (A seraphim ace sounds horrifying NGL. Imagine luffy meeting that).

      Also BB and Rocks dont share any family names besides the D clan like we see with the Monkey D. family. Things might be even more interesting.

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        13 days ago

        He’ll fit, trust the plan… biaoqing-copium

        I still think the snitch was Shamrock and Shanks is a rat in a non-WG aligned way. Also I feel like the Gorosei wouldn’t care about Blackbeard’s lineage because they assumed they could keep him under their thumb until he went rogue, but Blackbeard’s ambition is more than they expected.

        You lathed Seraphim Ace, it’s been foretold