One Piece - I'm Gonna Be the Pirate King!

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No clue how one does photo editing in One Piece, perhaps you threaten the snail that prints the papers.
I suspect the answer is very simple. You take a pre-existing photo and then...
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And with that, you're off to the printing press!
 
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The problem is that I don't think that is the same X..I don't recall seeing those on anyone post Alabasta arc, at least I did a quick perusal of Luffy vs Kaido and I didn't see the X on his arm in any panel
I assume Vivi snuck the X onto Luffy's arm while the WEJ were editing, Like 3D2Y with extra steps.

Another excellent chapter. Oda always starts strong with his arcs though.

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Vivi is with the Journalist and the mark is probably her editorial to let the Straw Hats know she’s still their friend
This, stop overthinking things, this isn't a message from Nika/Joyboy, this isn't a deepest lore. Hell the picture is stated to be blurry and the X is defined, it's to make it clear it's not part of the original picture and the altered picture was what hit the presses. This is just Vivi doing something that the core Mugis can recognize and understand as "Vivi is fine". Not everything is a riddle inside a pyramid puzzle.

What is a riddle is the gigantic fuck you sword that can be seen in the overview of Elbaf. I'm wondering what the fruit Loki's father had and I'm going for the longball and saying it's the one San Juan Wolf has. A giant giant to be the king, a giant so big he can "touch the sun like a god".

Also, if I understood right, Harjudrin and Loki are both princes but don't sound to be brothers. Could they be related to the giant elders that Linlin fucks up or were neither of those 2 a king?

Also, seems like this will be a longer arc than I thought. Also, I'don't think Luffy will free Loki. He was getting goosebumps, he's a retard but a fantastic judge of character. Who may fuck it up and free him is Ussop "the god of lies tricks humanity's greatest liar" sort of deal maybe. That or it's a fakeout and Loki has a reason for behaving like a nutcase that may be related to Nika lore, One Piece tends to make the pariahs sympathetic.
 
Also, if I understood right, Harjudrin and Loki are both princes but don't sound to be brothers. Could they be related to the giant elders that Linlin fucks up or were neither of those 2 a king?
Might be an inversion of the normal Thor and Loki stuff where Loki's the real child and Harjudrin is the adopted one.

Or if taken a step further the giants might not be the deities from Norse Mythology. The devil fruits might be and the natives of Elbaf are the giants of the same mythology. Loki isn't this fellow's name, it's his devil fruit. Given Sengoku ate the Buddah fruit that doesn't seem impossible.
 
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I wonder if part of the reason for Loki's outcast status even before he supposedly killed his father has to do with his brief betrothal to Lola. Big Mom is extremely unpopular among the giants of Elbaph and that almost certainly extends to those under her command. It's even looking like her desire to bring the giants in alliance with her empire had about as much chance to happen as Crocodile finding Pluton in Alabasta.
 
This, stop overthinking things, this isn't a message from Nika/Joyboy, this isn't a deepest lore. Hell the picture is stated to be blurry and the X is defined, it's to make it clear it's not part of the original picture and the altered picture was what hit the presses. This is just Vivi doing something that the core Mugis can recognize and understand as "Vivi is fine". Not everything is a riddle inside a pyramid puzzle.
You’re probably right. But you can bet your ass that YouTubers will see that as a riddle inside a pyramid puzzle, or at least try to. I can see them doing that.

Robin stowed away on the Going Merry and revealed herself just after the iconic scene where the Strawhats raised their fists in the air to display those X marks. It's not unreasonable to think that she might have seen it on the arm of one of the Strawhats just after or even spied on that moment using her Devil Fruit.

Edit: I might not be understanding the exact question.
Apologies, what I meant was “Robin sees the x mark, she doesn’t know what that is, and the people she’s with don’t know either. So what reason is there to have Robin see the mark except to show it to the East Blue pirates that do know Vivi and know what it means?”

It ain’t something that deep to look into, but I can easily see why it’s being done.

On the topic ofLoki is he chained to the tree? I thought at first he also had one eye covered but it's both, however if he's been bound to the tree there might be some Odin associations to come too.
I believe he was chained to the tree, yes.

People are translating it as "Elbaph" now. More western guilt to bow to foreign properties.
I fail to see how this is a problem. Also, I think the “ph” is the official translation because it was in the stencil font.
 
Saw the last chapter, I'm so fucking hyped by what's coming to the series.

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People are translating it as "Elbaph" now. More western guilt to bow to foreign properties.
That was retarded when VIZ did it and it’s retarded now, it’s literally “Fable” backwards, it’s not a Raftel/Laugh Tale situation.
 
I'm pretty certain they were done in ink in that arc so would have been removed years ago. As people pointed out upthread Vivi is with Morgans so has likely snuck this in the image used to make the papers. No clue how one does photo editing in One Piece, perhaps you threaten the snail that prints the papers.
Yeah I was just being a retard reading it on mobile and not quite getting the context of what robin was saying.

Edit : You know Jimbe pointing out that WEJ always manages to get good photos makes me wonder if Morgans has somebody with a Devil Fruit that can let them quickly poof to places and get Photos without being noticed or put in danger.
 
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Edit : You know Jimbe pointing out that WEJ always manages to get good photos makes me wonder if Morgans has somebody with a Devil Fruit that can let them quickly poof to places and get Photos without being noticed or put in danger.
Wouldn’t that be revealed already? IIRC, Oda has a habit of revealing a devil fruit as soon as it becomes relevant. Only real exception being the full extent of Luffy’s DF because of the story aspect.
 
Oda splitting up the Straw Hat crew so the ones who know what the X means aren't there is shameless teasing.
I’d say it’s more a case of setting it up to see what the East Blue reaction is. Not sure if it’s a bad thing to recognize what the author is doing to set up the future moves before those moves happen, but I think I have a good idea about this development that’s simpler than what weeks of speculating would do.


Robin likely saw it so knows something is up but doesn’t know exactly what.
She may have seen the SHs make their salute, but I’m not sure she saw the x mark. And even if she did, it’s not like she was able to figure out what the mark really meant.
 
She may have seen the SHs make their salute, but I’m not sure she saw the x mark. And even if she did, it’s not like she was able to figure out what the mark really meant.
That’s what I’m saying, Robin knows enough to ask about it.

I think the SH will celebrate and this will be juxtaposed with Vivi getting nabbed.
 
She may have seen the SHs make their salute, but I’m not sure she saw the x mark. And even if she did, it’s not like she was able to figure out what the mark really meant.
It's more likely that she'll have seen the reverse. She'll have noticed some of the crew had the x marks either when she joined the crew or during the Alabastar stuff. However she likely missed the farwell.

So she's vaguely aware there might be a time when Luffy had an x on his arm but the people who know why are all in the other team.
 

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I don't think Robin was paying much attention to Vivi's Goodbye, and she never had a chance to see the X because Luffy never took off the bandage

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At this point I am guessing she heard about them from the others but didn't actually see them at all, because by the time she came out the crew seemed to have wiped them off since Chopper's X is gone before Robin walks out.

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Wouldn’t that be revealed already? IIRC, Oda has a habit of revealing a devil fruit as soon as it becomes relevant. Only real exception being the full extent of Luffy’s DF because of the story aspect?
Dunno, I just think it is strange that we now have 2 instances of Morgan's having a Photo of Gear 5 that comes from a source that doesn't make too much sense. CP0 getting an image of Gear 5 Luffy while they are retreating away from Onigashima and now Somebody getting an Image of Gear 5 while Luffy is fighting Lucci or During the Elder assault.
 
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