Alabasta Is My Favorite Arc Because It's Supposed To Be So Middle Eastern! My Grandpa Is From Palestine

finally some good audio for what !! sounds like

Not to be the Usopp Defense Guy again, but whenever people complain about his more childlike or immature tendencies I'm like. Do you think the guy that was forced to grow up and raise himself when he was like seven or whatever, might have a reason to cling onto whimsy and childhood.

Do you think the the guy that was orphaned and forced to take care of himself and his survival and his house and his livelihood at an extremely young age, with barely any adults around, might have had a) trouble maturing properly and b) a desire to keep with him what was taken away by such an experience. Let him be whimsical. Let him laugh at immature jokes he's literally 17 pre-timeskip that's a kid. A kid that somehow self-taught himself the basics of engineering without a formal education, even. Don't let his playfulness distract you from how intelligent he is. Defending Usopp on the internet isn't enough I need a hammer. Potentially the inflatable fake type that can fool my enemies into thinking it's real.

so smoker gets swapped with tashigi and turns into the baddest bitch that ever walked?

i’m so in love with him it’s not funny

One piece episode 1112

Hey folks, I made some GIFs for you to use for whatever you wish. If you haven't watched the episode yet, maybe come back later.

Ok so let’s talk about a fairly well known OP Theory,

Is Kid a Vegapunk Satellite?

(I like to believe he is but I’m only 70% sure if this theory)

Now let’s talk (possible) history

So I believe Vegapunk made Kid to express all his anger so it wouldn’t blind HIS work. So after he made him, he left him somewhere far far away from Egghead (like in the South Blue)

Why would Vegapunk choose to leave his anger satellite on a scrap heap, no government protection island? Because the constant stress of possible danger and rude islanders is a perfect place for Anger to fester and stress to build. (An unnecessary evil from Vegapunk) but Anger can’t build and fester on a technical paradise.

Vegapunk probably never planned that Kid would ever even leave his island, nonetheless the South Blue itself to enter the Grand Line. When he first read about Kid’s atrocities, he was probably having a visceral reaction (not to the violence, Kid’s the anger part of the brain) but to the fact that he was making headway into the Grandline and became a Supernova.

What Vegapunk didn’t know while Anger can blind you, spite is also a pretty big motivator for angry people. He didn’t understand the idea that his satellite he made to seethe on an island somewhere would have goals and aspirations (like claiming the One Piece).

Now let’s move onto my other point, the number 7 on the Damned Punk

(Not to mention this is an actual Railgun, as in a FUTURE GUN)

Now why, why would Kid put a 07 there? There was no reason to add a 07 and yet he did, as if it was a type of instinct to put it on a creation he was proud of. Kinda like the Satellites

(Who also share the same Number system as Kid, 0 than a number.)

And while we’re on the topic of the other satellites, let’s draw some comparisons between Shaka and Killer’s mask.

It’s (somewhat) safe to assume Kid might’ve designed Killer’s mask as it seems to fit almost perfectly on him and shows none of his face (the exact specifications that Killer would probably want). It’s smooth and rounded kinda like Shaka’s and that beard sticking out almost resembles Shaka’s lower mask.

Now this point doesn’t have much meaning but it is interesting how similar they are.

Now you may ask “what about child kid, we’ve seen him and he was already on the island?” Well whose to say Vegapunk didn’t drop him off on that island even younger?

(Look he’s even holding a wrench and a toy robot he probably built himself.)

Childhood is also a person’s most impressionable time, so placing him in a negative environment at a young age was crucial to making him a bitter and angry so the others don’t feel that. (Seriously it’s unnecessarily cruel)

Now let’s talk about another point, Kid’s Face

Look at his face it’s got a sort of Perma-Malice to it, wouldn’t you agree? Like his face was made to feel every bad emotion of a person. Now let’s take a look at his smile, clearly scary and kinda unnerving, as if he’s not supposed to smile. Now let’s compare that smile to the grimace on the right, it looks almost perfect, as if that’s how his face should look. I’m fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Kid smile while he wasn’t being malicious in some way.

It’s like the only reason he smiles is to piss off his enemies and look smug, meanwhile that grimace is a fairly common face that we’ve seen many a time whether pissed off or sad. It’d make sense for the Satellite of Anger to have a face more inclined to make a resting bitch face.

Anyways I think if Kid had made it to Egghead, the Satellites would be very tense around him. Kinda like how you’d tense up if you don’t want someone to figure out a secret but they’re on the tip of figuring it out. Like “please, please just leave. Don’t make eye contact with us”.

Also Kid looks vaguely like Lilith, what with the both of them having kinda defined chins. Kid’s chin is more square than Lilith’s but that smile is almost a dead ringer

(And you got to admit they look vaguely like siblings for some reason.)

Last point I have here is his devil fruit, we know Kid got it at a fairly young age and that’s why he’s so adept at using it but we also can assume that Kid did a bunch of experimentation with it. Seeing what he could and couldn’t do and all his limitations, just like a scientist would.

It got to the point where Kid was 100% confident in the idea that he could make his Punk Rotten

A giant robot made of magnetized metal (kinda like the fake sea kings of the Vegapunks). Kid was so confident in his abilities to make this thing because he’s tested himself multiple times and trained himself to the peak of his devil fruit.

(Idk I like this theory and I think I’d be cool with it if it were true.)

While I do like some of the points you make, I can't say I really like this theory at all to be honest. It seems too coincidental and there's a fair amount of holes in it, the biggest of which being that the satellites were only conceptualized and created during the timeskip. Plus why would a perfectionist like Vegapunk pull a Star Wars and release a number 7 satellite decades before 1-6 were made? If we're talking about Kid representing spite, Atlas already covers that because a lot of her job is griping about her frustrations about not having enough resources to patent inventions and then take out those frustrations through violence. As for Kid not smiling in a way that doesn't look malicious, there's plenty of other characters who do that too, Doflamingo and Blackbeard being some of the most prominent.

You can also count Kaido in that, barring his goofy drunk expressions.

But the real reason why I'm not a fan of Kid being a Vegapunk is that a big part of his appeal lies in how he doesn't have some secret past. He's not related to anyone famous, he didn't have a mythical Devil Fruit or a warlord being an influential figure in his childhood. He was just a scrappy kid with a knack for robotics on some scrap island in the middle of nowhere who fought hard and viciously for everything he had and got to the top by his own merits. Vegapunk is far from the only genius in the One Piece world, Franky was an engineering prodigy long before he ever looked at Vegapunk's blueprints in Baltigo.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the South Blue had a reputation for being home to a lot of technicians and shipwrights.

I'm feral for them rn

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trying my hand at writing. idk, just a zosan one shot. i just love these cartoon pirates man, and i wanna make them pathetically in love with one another.