u/CorvusIridis

I'm not quite sure how to flair this because it's not an entire theory. It's more like "a lot of things about this are really, really suspicious." I have pieces and don't quite know how they fit. I don't know where this is heading, or if it'll amount to anything at all, but we'll know sooner rather than later.

I read Ch. 1186. Thanks to some previous notes and a spreadsheet I made, I remembered, "wait. Brook is also the only person who could have seen Demonio Fleur." (If you want to see my entire spreadsheet untangling the literary yarn ball that is Onigashima, message me.)

So I went back to Ch. 1021 and checked.

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It turns out Brook didn't see Demonio Fleur; the scene is cut such that he just misses her. Brook avoided possible PTSD by a hair and that's really weird. (It's also really weird that nobody else in the main cast happened to be around for that.)

Part of the reason I even thought about this is "I hope Demonio Fleur won't turn out to be bad writing down the line." (Specifically, I really hope it's not something like a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment - something strange that happens once and is never seen or spoken of again.) I think it'd be weird for Demonio Fleur not to come up in Elbaf, the arc with actual demons.

Also, Robin, the character most concerned with lore, is away from the lore-centric action. It's not out-of-character, but again, suspicious.

Ch. 1186 also had Imu combining with Marcus Mars. It's not the first time fusion has happened, but this time, it made me go "wait a minute—Imu's a demon who can fuse!" That's from Devilman (which is way over the heads of some of the audience, but still). The Devilman references in One Piece are deeper than I thought ("could the entire idea of Devil Fruits be a Go Nagai reference?"), but Demonio Fleur is definitely one of them. Imu might be, too.

Again, I've just been mentally noting pieces. I hope they add up to something. Does anyone have thoughts?

Title! I'm bumming around various types of werewolves for a project and noticed that people could be cursed to be werewolves, but wondered where the idea of a bite being contagious came from. How far back does it go? (Edit: dates and sources would be great!) Curious!

For one reason or another, people don't seem to like showing their work deciphering Poneglyphs. While I do understand some of those reasons ("I want to be the one,""what if someone does find the solution and Oda changes it?", etc.), I don't think people realize that concealing their work poisons the well for every other attempt. If you don't show what works/doesn't work, how can you expect someone else to either test your theory, improve it, or disprove it? If people don't show their work, we'll get repeated, failed attempts all doing the same things without anyone knowing what works and what doesn't.

For example, let's say you have the stance that Poneglyphs are gibberish. (I'd use the term "junk text," but that doesn't mean the same thing that it did 2 decades ago.)

Okay. What did you do to come to that conclusion? Did you try aligning Poneglyphs with the written Japanese and realize things weren't one-to-one? Did you think you needed the spoken language and stopped there? There are several reasons Poneglyphs could be gibberish and I want to know which ones people are using.

Likewise, if people have made headway, how did they do it? (I use the term "headway" pretty loosely—literally "any progress at all.")

On that note, I have a very messy Google document about my own progress on the project, including every little backslide. I'm just shy. One Piece is the biggest fandom I've ever been in (aside from Pokemon). I'd rather send this horrible hodgepodge of half-asleep, sometimes fevered musings to people privately, then post something more polished publicly. (I might need help on organizing that mess, too!)

I also have Google Sheets documenting the characters ("glyphs") on every Poneglyph and a "dictionary" of sorts logging the individual, repeated glyphs. I am missing something very specific. This specific thing, a "radical dictionary" documenting all the bits that make up glyphs, is tedious work. Hidden Island implicitly has one, but doesn't seem to be willing to share it. Again, what I have doesn't feel complete enough to post publicly, but feel free to ping me!

Basically, I am asking for raw theory materials rather than making one myself. I have two theories that need to be proven or disproven. I need to know what's already been done to do that. Thanks in advance!

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This week's episode of Beatbreak was a lot. Without getting too deep into spoilers, we had a Digimon whose existence was dangerous, a venomous dragon, and a poisonous plant. (Technically, Oleamon is also venomous, I think.) That's perfect for this week's prompt idea: biohazard!

This prompt is pretty flexible. You can go with the idea of the Digital Hazard (which looks enough like the "biohazard" symbol), things based on organic substances you don't want to touch with your bare hands, and so on. Algomon could easily fit in somewhere. ;)