I believe with sanji he needs to truly accept himself to awaken the coc.
Scopper told him he has the traits of the king but his doubts hold him back.

I also think it’s not coincidence that we see the swan versions of the vinsmokes in the cover of this chapter.

Sanji doesn’t need to forgive his father or brothers but he has to accept he is a vinsmoke but decides to own the name and make it his own.

Back in wano when momo was being crucified, kaido tells him to deny his name and he will let him go.
Momo shouts out that his name is kozuki momosuki and he will be shogun of wano.
Sanji saves him and tells him how cool it was of him to shout his name out like that.

Later when he’s fighting queen he begins demonstrating his germa powers and has a panic attack and runs away, he destroys his raid suit to truly cut off his connection to his father.

I believe this is a problem. Having a panic attack cause he showed traits of his family and running away from a fight is not good.

In order for sanji to become a king he must accept who he truly is, he must accept he is a vinsmoke but to turn that into a strength not a weakness, he will do it by declaring that he will make it so everyone thinks of him when they hear the name vinsmoke not think of judge.

The vinsmoke name will be associated with heroism not villainy. He will take away all power judge holds over him

So we all know the theory that every lie usopp tells comes true in some sense right ?
So for years people have been saying sniper island was real and so was sniper king.

Now usopp says sniper king is a hero and from the land of heroes.

Now in the grandline there is a country named vira which has been mentioned here and there.
It was first mentioned in east blue saga where Nami was reading a paper and says there’s been another coup in vira.

It’s a country that is apparently always at war and going through changes of government.
The revs have been fighting over it and I think are currently in control.

Now vira has roots in Slavic where it means things like brave and warrior.
Vira is associated with a lot of heroic brave warriors.

This reminds me of usopp who is associated with these things. Usopp dream is to become a brave warrior of the sea and everyone thought it was doing to be elbaf where he gets his moment but so far nothing really.

But the fact vira means brave and warrior in Slavic makes me think it’s similar to elbaf.
The story reveals the Adam tree in Elbaf is not the only one it’s just the biggest and oldest.

I believe vira has an Adam tree on it, that’s where franky for the Adam tree wood from.
The wg and revs have been at constant war over this land for some reason.
Oda also said the last poneglyp could be anywhere and named this country as one of the top 3 candidates.
I believe this island was sniper island though that’s not what its name was officially.
The country was known for its marksmen and rifles.

Now I believe yasopp is actually from this island. When we met usopp we found out he was Yassop son but it seemed most people didn’t even know who Yassop was and that he was just a pirate not a yonko commander.

We also know shanks personally sought out yasopp, as seen in the images above.

We were also told in an sbs that a fan noticed yasopp and vista staring each other down ans oda revealed that these 2 have beef with one another.

So I believe yasopp came from Vira and was this legendary shooter who helped save people.
I believe he killed someone’s important and had to leave eventually coming to the east blue and met usopp mother.

Now yasopp said he had to leave his family as the pirate flag called him.
But why do we assume he was telling the truth ?
I believe his past caught up with him and he has to flee to protect his family.

So I believe Vira will be an island we go to next and it is sniper island and Yassop was sniper king, thus usopp alter ego was a tribute to his dad by chance.

So we all know the theory that every lie usopp tells comes true in some sense right ?
So for years people have been saying sniper island was real and so was sniper king.

Now usopp says sniper king is a hero and from the land of heroes.

Now in the grandline there is a country named vira which has been mentioned here and there.
It was first mentioned in east blue saga where Nami was reading a paper and says there’s been another coup in vira.

It’s a country that is apparently always at war and going through changes of government.
The revs have been fighting over it and I think are currently in control.

Now vira has roots in Slavic where it means things like brave and warrior.
Vira is associated with a lot of heroic brave warriors.

This reminds me of usopp who is associated with these things. Usopp dream is to become a brave warrior of the sea and everyone thought it was doing to be elbaf where he gets his moment but so far nothing really.

But the fact vira means brave and warrior in Slavic makes me think it’s similar to elbaf.
The story reveals the Adam tree in Elbaf is not the only one it’s just the biggest and oldest.

I believe vira has an Adam tree on it, that’s where franky for the Adam tree wood from.
The wg and revs have been at constant war over this land for some reason.
Oda also said the last poneglyp could be anywhere and named this country as one of the top 3 candidates.
I believe this island was sniper island though that’s not what its name was officially.
The country was known for its marksmen and rifles.

Now I believe yasopp is actually from this island. When we met usopp we found out he was Yassop son but it seemed most people didn’t even know who Yassop was and that he was just a pirate not a yonko commander.

We also know shanks personally sought out yasopp, as seen in the images above.

We were also told in an sbs that a fan noticed yasopp and vista staring each other down ans oda revealed that these 2 have beef with one another.

So I believe yasopp came from Vira and was this legendary shooter who helped save people.
I believe he killed someone’s important and had to leave eventually coming to the east blue and met usopp mother.

Now yasopp said he had to leave his family as the pirate flag called him.
But why do we assume he was telling the truth ?
I believe his past caught up with him and he has to flee to protect his family.

So I believe Vira will be an island we go to next and it is sniper island and Yassop was sniper king, thus usopp alter ego was a tribute to his dad by chance.

So oda revealed Yano country was the home of shiki and that it was even more dangerous so my question is where is Yano country ?
Well I believe it’s in east blue.

Shiki is heavily involved with east blue.
The filler episodes that set up strong world was called the little east blue arc, it focused on the straw hats finding a village of east blue settlers who a village modelled after different locations in the east blue.
Strong world also starts with the east blue being attacked.

So I believe Yano country is actually oykot.
Oykot is the kingdom and Yano is the country like how luffy is from dawn island but his kingdom is Goa.

Oykot is Tokyo backwards so I do think there is a wano connection.
Now 55 years ago a ship left wano to the east blue and 11 members got off the ship to build shimotsuki village. The rest I think went to Yano/oykot.
Why ? I am not sure yet but I think there is a connection and thus a reason why they left to go here specifically.

In chapter 0 the manga cannon chapter that was promoting strong world we see shiki escaping impel down and in one panel we see bellemere as a marine saying if shiki comes to east blue she will deal with him.

We know oykot was attacked and i think shiki was involved.

Now in the rocks backstory we were introduced to silver axe who was specially said to be a rival to shiki and a yakuza boss like shiki.
There’s a story there oda hasn’t told us.

But regardless since silver axe was a rival to shiki when they were both yakuza it likely indicates she’s from Yano as well.

Silver axe name is kyo which itself might be a hint to oykot as kyo means capital in Japanese.
Tokyo name translates to eastern capital.東京

But to add a 3rd spin I think scopper is connected.

Roger crew doesn’t really have a theme expect for the top 3.
They are named after metals/medals.

Gold Roger
Silver Rayleigh
Scopper Gaban. ( copper)

Shiki and kyo share a similar theme.
Golden lion shiki
Silver axe kyo.

They are missing a copper and that is scopper.

Think about it when we met scopper in elbaf he was wearing a Japanese like straw hat that we saw in wano and his house also has a traditional Japanese style to it, yes this is a Japanese manga but these seem more wano esq.

Scopper is most likely from the east blue because Roger is from the east blue and like most people I don’t think he got his first crew in other parts of the world and had to go somewhere local.
Thus Rayleigh and scopper are from the east blue, or at least living in east blue.

Thus I think scopper is a former yakuza boss who rivalled these 2 but he joined Roger.

So earlier I made a theory on who Nami father is and I believe it’s a Shepard family member sommers, Peter or a 3rd unknown member, your pick.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePieceSpoilers/s/dJGaI46pRi

But what about the mother ?
It’s possible she was also a cd but I think I have something to say otherwise.
I believe she was a mermaid.

Nami does have ties to the Merfolk and I don’t mean arlong which I will address later.

There are some references to Nami being a mermaid like when the series first Introduced the concept of mermaids sanji imagined Nami as one and then luffy draws a doodle of a fish with limbs and Nami hair, I thought nothing of it at the time but years later oda did a colour spread for a magazine where he had Luffy drawing doodles of the straw hats and his doodle of Nami was of this fish concept.

But there is some other things like when we went to fishman island we met Neptune who has the same orange hair as Nami but oda revealed she and Neptune share the same birthday, again nothing that odd but then when Nami met shirahoshi, shirahoshi goes up to her and instantly says she has this weird unexplained feeling that she and Nami were like childhood friends or something to which Nami has no clue what she means.
But then you also got to add this in Nami is a lot stronger than she seems, usopp is according to oda the weakest member of the crew which seems odd cause Nami doesn’t seem that strong until you really think about it. Nami through the series has been beating the crap out of the monster trio whenever they get out of line, for instance there is one scene in thriller bark where Nami slaps zoro across the face and he goes flying backwards tumbling into a wall. It’s played off as a typical anime gag, nothing to think about really but oda does hide things in gags.

But what stood out to me most is this, in punk hazard law switched the straw hats souls and bodies and sanji took over Nami body.
When he went out with brook and zoro to find Kinemon lower half they found him in a lake, sanji jumped into the water and swam down and at one point a shark attacked, so sanji as Nami kicked the shark and then used blue walk to move faster and get out of the water in time,

Now this stuck me as odd and I don’t see other people pointing this out.
How was Nami able to do that ? It was sanji but it was still nami’s body.

When sanji was swimming he admitted what he was going to do was going to put a lot of strain on Nami body but he had no choice, however when law switched them all back at no point did Nami seem the least bit fatigued she was perfectly fine unaware of what her body went through.
Think about that,

Blue walk is not just a technique, it’s not something anyone can do if they press the right buttons in the right order.
It’s a very physically tasking thing requiring strong leg strength.

Imagine you were a body building able to deadlift 300 kg and you have your consciousness transferred to some scrawny person body who has no experience lifting, you can’t go back to the gym and pick up a 300 kg weight ? You would break your body. It takes years of training to get your body to be able to do that.

Nami shouldn’t be able to do that, she shouldn’t be able to blue walk, but she tried well nothing would happen it would just be her kicking the water, but if she was able to do it she would instantly blow off all the muscles in her leg leaving only bone.
So the fact she was able to blue walk and knock out a shark with a single kick and when they return her back to normal and she feels not the least bit fatigued, then there is something up with that.

In water 7 we met chimney who was revealed to be a quarter mermaid herself, she didn’t have the ability to breath under water and didn’t have fish features but she was a good swimmer able to jump into water filled with whirlpools and drag luffy out with 1 arm.
Nami I think might be half mermaid and her genetics just meant she didn’t have the tail and being able to breath under water but she had the strength. In fact I can’t remember if mermaids have super strength or if that’s just fish folk but that can also work but let’s just say mermaid for argument sake.
This means Nami is part fish folk.

And there is a scene where arlong talks about how he despises humans only for Nami to walk in acting offended to which he says he means all humans except for her as she is the exception, she’s the good human and is practically one of them. Of those this was bs and we know he mistreated her which adds some irony as he ended up hurting a fish person.

But go back to the Shepard idea.
I believe the Shepard family is different from the other 20 kingdoms because I believe they originated from the sky, I believe the Shepard family were from birka in the void century.

Birka is the sky island enel apparently destroyed but I believe there is ties to Nami as birka is a real place, it’s an island in Sweden which use to be a hub of where vikings use to stop and sell goods at, oda did also reveal if Nami was real she be from Sweden.
But there are other things, Nami is exceptionally skilled at all things sky related.
When Haredas the sky scientist who looks like a wizard showed Nami this rope knot trick where you can create wind Nami instantly picked it up to which Haredas looked impressed as it wasn’t that easy.
But in sky island when they met conis and her father they introduced the weaver which is a type of bike they use to raid around on sky cloud, luffy got on it and it instantly went berserk and crashed, coni’s father said he wasn’t surprised as it’s a very difficult machine to operate and it apparently takes 10 years on average for someone to fully master. Then they look over and see Nami riding around it like she’s a pro to which conis father also seems impressed and saying that’s amazing and shouldn’t be possible for a first timer.
Nami can also just tell when the weather changes even when she’s on her death bed like when she got sick after little garden and was able to pick up on the slightest change in the weather.

So Nami has ties to the mermaids and sky folk.

So what happened to her on oykot ? That I do not know as we haven’t gotten there yet but I do not want to say this is a ginny and Bonney situation and instead I want to say it’s either more like shanks and shamrock or something else.

Shanks mother didn’t live in the holy land she lived peacefully in god valley until garling came back and killed her.
Now I don’t know why a mermaid lived in oykot, it might not even be she herself was a mermaid but half mermaid and half human from oykot and Nami is a quarter mermaid like chimney, then one day sommers shows up and kills Nami mother repeating god Valley all over again.
But that’s not really original so here’s a twist.

I do believe in the Peter is a traitor theory and I believe he fell in love with Nami mother and in order to protect his family from Imu influence he hid them on oykot.
That is until one say oykot was chosen as the next rabbit hunt ( refer to Nami father theory )
The hunt started and Peter tried to save his family but it went wrong and Nami mother was killed, and Nami was separated, by the time peter found Nami she was already picked up by bellemere and nojiko, to which Peter watching from afar decided to walk away and forget about Nami believing she is better off.
This will be revealed when Peter story as a traitor is told and why he can’t escape Imu.

So that is my Nami heritage theory.

So earlier I made a theory on who Nami father is and I believe it’s a Shepard family member sommers, Peter or a 3rd unknown member, your pick.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePieceSpoilers/s/dJGaI46pRi

But what about the mother ?
It’s possible she was also a cd but I think I have something to say otherwise.
I believe she was a mermaid.

Nami does have ties to the Merfolk and I don’t mean arlong which I will address later.

There are some references to Nami being a mermaid like when the series first Introduced the concept of mermaids sanji imagined Nami as one and then luffy draws a doodle of a fish with limbs and Nami hair, I thought nothing of it at the time but years later oda did a colour spread for a magazine where he had Luffy drawing doodles of the straw hats and his doodle of Nami was of this fish concept.

But there is some other things like when we went to fishman island we met Neptune who has the same orange hair as Nami but oda revealed she and Neptune share the same birthday, again nothing that odd but then when Nami met shirahoshi, shirahoshi goes up to her and instantly says she has this weird unexplained feeling that she and Nami were like childhood friends or something to which Nami has no clue what she means.
But then you also got to add this in Nami is a lot stronger than she seems, usopp is according to oda the weakest member of the crew which seems odd cause Nami doesn’t seem that strong until you really think about it. Nami through the series has been beating the crap out of the monster trio whenever they get out of line, for instance there is one scene in thriller bark where Nami slaps zoro across the face and he goes flying backwards tumbling into a wall. It’s played off as a typical anime gag, nothing to think about really but oda does hide things in gags.

But what stood out to me most is this, in punk hazard law switched the straw hats souls and bodies and sanji took over Nami body.
When he went out with brook and zoro to find Kinemon lower half they found him in a lake, sanji jumped into the water and swam down and at one point a shark attacked, so sanji as Nami kicked the shark and then used blue walk to move faster and get out of the water in time,

Now this stuck me as odd and I don’t see other people pointing this out.
How was Nami able to do that ? It was sanji but it was still nami’s body.

When sanji was swimming he admitted what he was going to do was going to put a lot of strain on Nami body but he had no choice, however when law switched them all back at no point did Nami seem the least bit fatigued she was perfectly fine unaware of what her body went through.
Think about that,

Blue walk is not just a technique, it’s not something anyone can do if they press the right buttons in the right order.
It’s a very physically tasking thing requiring strong leg strength.

Imagine you were a body building able to deadlift 300 kg and you have your consciousness transferred to some scrawny person body who has no experience lifting, you can’t go back to the gym and pick up a 300 kg weight ? You would break your body. It takes years of training to get your body to be able to do that.

Nami shouldn’t be able to do that, she shouldn’t be able to blue walk, but she tried well nothing would happen it would just be her kicking the water, but if she was able to do it she would instantly blow off all the muscles in her leg leaving only bone.
So the fact she was able to blue walk and knock out a shark with a single kick and when they return her back to normal and she feels not the least bit fatigued, then there is something up with that.

In water 7 we met chimney who was revealed to be a quarter mermaid herself, she didn’t have the ability to breath under water and didn’t have fish features but she was a good swimmer able to jump into water filled with whirlpools and drag luffy out with 1 arm.
Nami I think might be half mermaid and her genetics just meant she didn’t have the tail and being able to breath under water but she had the strength. In fact I can’t remember if mermaids have super strength or if that’s just fish folk but that can also work but let’s just say mermaid for argument sake.
This means Nami is part fish folk.

And there is a scene where arlong talks about how he despises humans only for Nami to walk in acting offended to which he says he means all humans except for her as she is the exception, she’s the good human and is practically one of them. Of those this was bs and we know he mistreated her which adds some irony as he ended up hurting a fish person.

But go back to the Shepard idea.
I believe the Shepard family is different from the other 20 kingdoms because I believe they originated from the sky, I believe the Shepard family were from birka in the void century.

Birka is the sky island enel apparently destroyed but I believe there is ties to Nami as birka is a real place, it’s an island in Sweden which use to be a hub of where vikings use to stop and sell goods at, oda did also reveal if Nami was real she be from Sweden.
But there are other things, Nami is exceptionally skilled at all things sky related.
When Haredas the sky scientist who looks like a wizard showed Nami this rope knot trick where you can create wind Nami instantly picked it up to which Haredas looked impressed as it wasn’t that easy.
But in sky island when they met conis and her father they introduced the weaver which is a type of bike they use to raid around on sky cloud, luffy got on it and it instantly went berserk and crashed, coni’s father said he wasn’t surprised as it’s a very difficult machine to operate and it apparently takes 10 years on average for someone to fully master. Then they look over and see Nami riding around it like she’s a pro to which conis father also seems impressed and saying that’s amazing and shouldn’t be possible for a first timer.
Nami can also just tell when the weather changes even when she’s on her death bed like when she got sick after little garden and was able to pick up on the slightest change in the weather.

So Nami has ties to the mermaids and sky folk.

So what happened to her on oykot ? That I do not know as we haven’t gotten there yet but I do not want to say this is a ginny and Bonney situation and instead I want to say it’s either more like shanks and shamrock or something else.

Shanks mother didn’t live in the holy land she lived peacefully in god valley until garling came back and killed her.
Now I don’t know why a mermaid lived in oykot, it might not even be she herself was a mermaid but half mermaid and half human from oykot and Nami is a quarter mermaid like chimney, then one day sommers shows up and kills Nami mother repeating god Valley all over again.
But that’s not really original so here’s a twist.

I do believe in the Peter is a traitor theory and I believe he fell in love with Nami mother and in order to protect his family from Imu influence he hid them on oykot.
That is until one say oykot was chosen as the next rabbit hunt ( refer to Nami father theory )
The hunt started and Peter tried to save his family but it went wrong and Nami mother was killed, and Nami was separated, by the time peter found Nami she was already picked up by bellemere and nojiko, to which Peter watching from afar decided to walk away and forget about Nami believing she is better off.
This will be revealed when Peter story as a traitor is told and why he can’t escape Imu.

So that is my Nami heritage theory.

The other day I made a theory that Nami was the daughter of Morgan
https://www.reddit.com/r/onepiecetheories/s/koE5rEp67q.

And it did seem to get a positive take, however I don’t believe that is the only possibility.
Another possibility is a member of the Shepard family.
That’s right a celestial dragon.

Oykot

Nami was born 20 years ago on the country of oykot which was destroyed by a pirate attack but was saved by nojiko and belemere.

But there’s something that doesn’t make sense. Bellemere rode a boat through a storm to get back to her home island to which the 2 kids got sick and needed medical attention. Why did she do that ? Bellemere was a trained professional survivor I would imagine she would have found a safe place not covered by flames or whatever and set up camp then called for rescue.
A marine ship would show up to investigate what happened and picked them up saving them.
When bellemere returned she gave up being a marine to raise the kids, lived outside the village.
When the arlong pirates attacked they noticed her on the census reports but if says she lived alone
She never got Nami and nojiko registered.
She chose to take on arlong and reveal the money she gave him were for her daughters not herself.
Later it’s reveal she did this not just cause she couldn’t admit they weren’t her daughters but also because she knew there is no escape, arlong like all pirates destroy every boat on the island to prevent escape.
Which begs the question how did bellemere find a boat in oykot.

Well my belief is this. Following the 3 year rabbit hunt schedule 20 years ago lands precisely on that year.
Oykot was another god valley incident.

The place was attacked by marines and the cd but like god valley pirates showed up the 2nd time in their history this happened.

Bellemere ran to the shore and saw what was happening and tried to stop it she spoke against her commanding officer and in the end she and her squad were shot down.
When it ended she was just about to die when she heard a baby cry. She got up and found nojiko and Nami.
This gave her the will to survive, she picked them up got on a boat and sailed away through the storm cause that’s better than the marines coming back and checking everyone is dead and finding them.
She made it home and raised the 2 girls but never got them registered as members of the village out of fear the wg would one day come looking for them.
If you also notice this sort of parallels dragon and the figarland twins just he failed and she didn’t

Shepherd Nami.

So why does this make her a Shepard ?
As a reminder the shepards are a cd with ju Peter and sommers as members.
So if you look at the images above you will see many images of Nami with a crown on which I believe is setting her up as a royalty of some kind, it’s also noted Nami is sometimes referred to as a goddess which feels in line to how sanji called himself Prince Charming and mr Prince, setting up that he was in fact a prince.
There is also a parallel as Nami also received a covenant from arlong which she had changed into a new tattoo.
Nami also is obsessed with money a trait that might just be inherited. She even has “slaves “. In the form of Zeus and sanji.

But there is more Peter is the god head of agriculture which does actually fit with Nami who can use her climatac to control the rain, you see during the 2 year time skip she was sent to weatheria where she met the sky wizards who were really scientists. When they were showing her around they took her to a sky boat and flew down to the surface world where they came to a village suffering from a drought. Haredas explained to her for a small payment which they use to fuel their scientific experiments they provide support to local communities. They don’t ask for much they just take what they can get from the locals that wouldn’t put the locals in much debt.

For this village it was a drought, so they made it rain and thus were able to grow crops again.
Everyone wins, the scientists make money to fund their experiments and the locals get what they need to feed themselves and sell to make profit. If the gorsei are the evil heads of different concepts like Saturn was science but he was evils science and ju Peter is agriculture but he uses agriculture to hurt nations Nami is the counteract who can use her skills to help countries in need, she can bring an end to drought by making it rain and with the help of usopp with his knowledge on plants and sanji it’s his cooking skills they can bring the end to poverty caused by weather.

But it’s more than that, in the colour volume it’s revealed sommers has orange hair like Nami.
Now I’m not one for hair piece just cause they are similar colours doesn’t mean they are the same gene but it helps a little.
But it’s noted he also wears a flower on his chest. It is a OKI-NO-NAMI
A type of Camellia flower found in Japan,

But the name Shepard also carries meaning.
A Shepard is someone who guides sheep and goats
They are people who lead a flock of sheep to their destination kind of like a navigator.

And it just fits that Nami is a navigator but not just a navigator but a navigator to a ship that was designed after a sheep ! The going merry was a sheep head ship which in a way makes Nami a Shepard.
But wait there’s more, The 2nd ship and current ship the straw hats sail around is modeled after a lion, now there is also are 2 famous stories about a Shepard and a lion 1 called the Shepard and the lion by Aesop ( the inspiration of usopp btw )
In this story a Shepard notices his sheep keep vanishing and makes a vow to Jupiter to track down the culprit, he travels through a mountain finding a cave, thinking he will find a wolf he enters only to find a giant lion eating the sheep, he then vows to give Jupiter a bull if he saves him from the lion. The moral is not to bite off more than you can chew, but I took note how it involved Jupiter the name sake for ju Peter.

The 2nd story is Androcles and the Lion, a story about how a Shepard came across a lion with a torn in its paw and how he removed it, later he was accused of being a runaway slave which he wasn’t and was punished to be devoured by beasts, they released a lion on him but the lion was the same lion that he helped who came to his aid. The moral here is kindness goes a long way and helping others may benefit you one day when you need help.

My take away is this story a thorn just like sommers df power is torns.
So 1 story had Jupiter the other had a throne.

It’s also ironic that sommers job is to kidnap the children of elbaf and that he takes a sadistic pleasure in watching parents throw themselves on their kids trying to save them just to be ripped off by the torns sommers placed around the kids, as he says there’s nothing better than love as love will make the parents embrace their kids even if it causes them great pain and death.
This parallels Nami who is very motherly to children, she protects kids, in punk hazard she went out of her way to save the children who were being experimented on.
She was protective of momo protecting him from brook and sanji, she protected otama in onigashima growing enraged when ulti slapped her which made Nami put her fear aside to take ulti on.
Even in elbaf she ended up beating luffy and usopp for playing to hard with the kids ( usopp was also a victim to this and it was all Luffy )
Sommers kidnapping kids opposes Nami values but also the enjoyment he gets from watching parents throw their lives away for kids is a heavy reminder of how bellemere gave her life for Nami and nojiko.

So what happened in oykot. I don’t know if Nami is the daughter of sommers, peter or some other shepherd but she was present on oykot and must have been separated from the others.
That’s 1 idea.
Another is Nami mother her birth mother who I will cover in another theory escaped the holy land and went to oykot to hide sommers and then who felt rejected by this didn’t like it because the mother escaped him he didn’t get bored or her and let her go. Or she was another cd and their marriage was official but she was a good cd who ran away with Nami not wanting her to grow up like the others and she was hunted down. While there sommers discovers oykot secret which is they are a community of samurai who left wano and related to ryuma, this went back to Imu who then ordered the hunt.

Nami mother managed to save Nami hiding her away and leading sommers away till eventually nojiko found her.

Another idea is this. There is a theory that ju Peter is secretly good that he opposes Imu but is powerless to stop them.
He had a secret family on oykot but it was soon picked for a hunt which Peter tried to stop but failed, he took over it and tried to sneak his wife and daughter out but was to late.

By the time he found Nami nojiko already found her and bellemere found them. He saw this and decided to leave things be and left knowing her life was better off not being a tool for Imu.

So that is my theory. Nami is a Shepard.

So here's an out there theory I've had for a while but it's one I do believe in.
What's next for Lucci.
By no means is oda done with Lucci, he's not dead and we saw him leave egghead, i do believe he will return but how ? Now face it he got humiliated in egghead he bit off more than he could chew but I don't think oda is done, Lucci isn't the sort of guy who takes defeat.
He will come for the straw hats it's just how can he catch up ?
Well I believe he will become a god knight, I believe he is of cd blood.
Now how ? Well not all children of celestial dragons are celestial dragons themselves, we saw in charlos introduction how he saw a random nurse and instantly made her his wife bit its not just that he made her his wife but that he made her his 13th wife, he then said he was bored of wife 1- 5 or something and to have them thrown out.
At the minimum charlos had 12 wives before he first arrived but I expect the number to be higher, he's also just 1 cd.
We saw mjosgard father once with a bunch of women in chains around him,
In doffy flashback while he and his family were being crucified we see the angry mom where 1 person states their daughter was taken by the cd and when she returned she was never the same,
There's also what happened to Ginny and now the implications of what happened to candle.
The celestial dragons are the scum of the earth but there is another question no one really asks.
What happens to every child of the cd ? They can't all become cd, if the average cd takes around a dozen women as slave wives and if even half have children I doubt they all become cd.
I imagine they have a system in place where they get officially married and the other women are just secondary. Take Harold and Ida.
Now while Harold wasn't that sort of man he did have a child with Ida which was hajrudin but the elbaf elders rejected their relationship and strong armed him into marring eris and having a child with her ( not sure why he couldn't just refuse and make them listen to him since he's the strongest biggest giant and the king ! But that's beside the point ) and he had Loki.
Now Loki despite being the youngest was deemed the heir while Ida and hajrudin were refused to even come into the castle.
So hajrudin was considered dirty blood.
Now with the cd I imagine it goes the same just much bigger stats.
Now a lot of the children like Bonney are probably disregarded and left to roam the world which is why a lot of characters might even have cd blood and not know it.
But I say some are given to the wg and indoctrinated into cipher pole where they are put into some sort of test to determine which rank they go to.
Many civilians join cp 1 - 8 but I do think there are cd kids in their

But the majority go to cp9 with the select few that have potential going to cp0.

So first cp1-8, one way to look at it is more like this. It’s not just the children of cd but all descendants. The grandchildren etc.

In Bonney backstory we met alpha who looked identical to Kalifa and it was revealed that they were in fact sisters they were the children of a man named laskey who was a member of cp9 during the Ohara incident.
Despite being sisters oda revealed they have no knowledge of one another.
What this means for me is laskey had kids and he just gave them to the wg who put them through the system and decided 1 goes to cp8 and the other goes to cp9.

Now despite apparently being orphans like we were told there are a few cp9 members with family.

Kumadori had this theme where he acted like a traditional Japanese actor and was overly dramatic and would talk to his deceased mother until in an sbs oda revealed not only is she srill alive but she is also in cipher pole.
So what does this mean for Lucci ?

I believe he is the son of a cd.

Now at the end of the cp9 cover story we saw they became fugitives and went out to sea, next time we saw them they were in cp0, so how did they get promoted?

In an sbs oda revealed they were never fugitives but rather they went under cover to investigate the underworld crime syndicates and exposed spandam father as a traitor who was selling sensitive information to the criminals and they were rewarded for their deeds.
Now to me this feels convenient and screams government cover up.

First of all, Lucci and gang of were not suppose to become fugitives, they were to escort Robin to the gates of justice and that was that, if luffy and gang didn’t show up and if spandam wasn’t such an idiot they would have been a success and continued on.
How could the wg make a plan for them to be disgraced and become fugitives if the plan evolved around them failing a mission they shouldn’t have failed ?

Second, we saw that the marines legit hunted them.

Something doesn’t add up.

What really happened I believe is this, Lucci and gang evaded the wg at every turn and kept stacking up numbers, to the point someone took notice and decided to reach out to make a deal, come back to the wg and all will be forgiven and get promoted.

Lucci and gang took the offer and in exchange they threw spandam father to the wolves so to speak and made him take the blame for something he didn’t do.
Why is spandam a cp0 agent though ? Well 1, idea is they gave him the promotion to keep quiet for his father and to go along with it or 2. What I prefer, Lucci requested it so that spandam could work under Lucci who will occasionally take it out on him as payback for Enies lobby, cause remember the mission would have been a success if spandam wasn’t such an idiot like for example him waiting around for the gates of justice to be fully opened and to have marines lined up to salute him when he could have just walked through no problem.
Plus he and his father shifted blame on Lucci and the others.

Now it should be noted that if you look at Lucci without a shirt on you will see he has 2 tattoos on his arms.
A box with an x.
Weird tattoo.

I believe this is a mark, not like the covenant marks but more like a branding, it’s to signify he’s a bastard cd and the member of a specific family.
Like a farmer who brands his sheep or cows.

As for cp0 I believe it’s mixed between members like Lucci who got promoted and agents who were raised there, if you look at the cp0 agents in wano the ones with the masks there was something that felt off, the sense that they have no individuality.

When drake stabbed guernica he asked drake why is he fighting so hard for luffy to which drake says he’s just following his own justice, to which guernica says it must be nice being able to follow your own justice, implying he himself isn’t, he doesn’t want to interfere with luffy and kaido fight cause he knows he will die but he does it because he has to.
He and the others were essentially brainwashed and indoctrinated into being pawns for the government.

So with Lucci who is his father ?
Well back in punk hazard there was a scene where a bunch of shadowy figures were watching Caesar live broadcast of his new weapon and among them was a man who had a sticking similarity to Lucci.
However this man was with some old guy and not kaku who he’s usually with and no hattori.
In the anime they added some features by making him more gaunt and having a moustache.
He was saying the Luffy law alliance seemed troublesome and no longer a problem for the underworld and to report this to the new world.
I believe this man is Lucci father and a holy knight.

I believe after egghead Lucci will be rewarded not punished because on 2 occasions he was acknowledged. Kizaru noted it was handy that Lucci was able to sneak out information on what the straw hats were doing when they seized the land and then when Mars showed up and asked Lucci for intel, after the initial shock of seeing a giant bird show up out of nowhere and begin talking to him he realised who it was and began detailing all he knew and where in the lab York was located to which Mars thanked him and said he did good work.

So he’s not taking blame like he did in enies lobby, the opposite in fact.

Despite his run ins with Luffy Lucci has a very good track record.

I believe his father will see the effort and the potential and reach out to him, not in a loving father manner but more as a man who sees potential and wants to use it.

Lucci being desperate to get stronger and to get his revenge on zoro and Luffy especially I think he will take a contract with the holy knights gaining the covenant marking and gaining power from it maybe even getting an omen boosting his strength.
It’s like making a deal with the devil which is fitting as his name literally connects him to the devil.
Lucci or Luci is Latin for light and Rob means to steal, meaning his name translates to light stealer which ties back to Ancient Greek who believed the planet Venus was a star trying to steal the light of the sun and this concept eventually got adapted and became the basis for the enemy of god Satan aka LUCIfer.

So Lucci is will essentially take a deal with the devil in exchange for power.
Kaku will be brought along to become a god blade.

As a little potential foreshadowing we saw a scene in film red where Lucci was standing amongst the goresei specifically standing next to Ethan aka Venus.

So here's an out there theory I've had for a while but it's one I do believe in.
What's next for Lucci.
By no means is oda done with Lucci, he's not dead and we saw him leave egghead, i do believe he will return but how ? Now face it he got humiliated in egghead he bit off more than he could chew but I don't think oda is done, Lucci isn't the sort of guy who takes defeat.
He will come for the straw hats it's just how can he catch up ?
Well I believe he will become a god knight, I believe he is of cd blood.
Now how ? Well not all children of celestial dragons are celestial dragons themselves, we saw in charlos introduction how he saw a random nurse and instantly made her his wife bit its not just that he made her his wife but that he made her his 13th wife, he then said he was bored of wife 1- 5 or something and to have them thrown out.
At the minimum charlos had 12 wives before he first arrived but I expect the number to be higher, he's also just 1 cd.
We saw mjosgard father once with a bunch of women in chains around him,
In doffy flashback while he and his family were being crucified we see the angry mom where 1 person states their daughter was taken by the cd and when she returned she was never the same,
There's also what happened to Ginny and now the implications of what happened to candle.
The celestial dragons are the scum of the earth but there is another question no one really asks.
What happens to every child of the cd ? They can't all become cd, if the average cd takes around a dozen women as slave wives and if even half have children I doubt they all become cd.
I imagine they have a system in place where they get officially married and the other women are just secondary. Take Harold and Ida.
Now while Harold wasn't that sort of man he did have a child with Ida which was hajrudin but the elbaf elders rejected their relationship and strong armed him into marring eris and having a child with her ( not sure why he couldn't just refuse and make them listen to him since he's the strongest biggest giant and the king ! But that's beside the point ) and he had Loki.
Now Loki despite being the youngest was deemed the heir while Ida and hajrudin were refused to even come into the castle.
So hajrudin was considered dirty blood.
Now with the cd I imagine it goes the same just much bigger stats.
Now a lot of the children like Bonney are probably disregarded and left to roam the world which is why a lot of characters might even have cd blood and not know it.
But I say some are given to the wg and indoctrinated into cipher pole where they are put into some sort of test to determine which rank they go to.
Many civilians join cp 1 - 8 but I do think there are cd kids in their

But the majority go to cp9 with the select few that have potential going to cp0.

So first cp1-8, one way to look at it is more like this. It’s not just the children of cd but all descendants. The grandchildren etc.

In Bonney backstory we met alpha who looked identical to Kalifa and it was revealed that they were in fact sisters they were the children of a man named laskey who was a member of cp9 during the Ohara incident.
Despite being sisters oda revealed they have no knowledge of one another.
What this means for me is laskey had kids and he just gave them to the wg who put them through the system and decided 1 goes to cp8 and the other goes to cp9.

Now despite apparently being orphans like we were told there are a few cp9 members with family.

Kumadori had this theme where he acted like a traditional Japanese actor and was overly dramatic and would talk to his deceased mother until in an sbs oda revealed not only is she srill alive but she is also in cipher pole.
So what does this mean for Lucci ?

I believe he is the son of a cd.

Now at the end of the cp9 cover story we saw they became fugitives and went out to sea, next time we saw them they were in cp0, so how did they get promoted?

In an sbs oda revealed they were never fugitives but rather they went under cover to investigate the underworld crime syndicates and exposed spandam father as a traitor who was selling sensitive information to the criminals and they were rewarded for their deeds.
Now to me this feels convenient and screams government cover up.

First of all, Lucci and gang of were not suppose to become fugitives, they were to escort Robin to the gates of justice and that was that, if luffy and gang didn’t show up and if spandam wasn’t such an idiot they would have been a success and continued on.
How could the wg make a plan for them to be disgraced and become fugitives if the plan evolved around them failing a mission they shouldn’t have failed ?

Second, we saw that the marines legit hunted them.

Something doesn’t add up.

What really happened I believe is this, Lucci and gang evaded the wg at every turn and kept stacking up numbers, to the point someone took notice and decided to reach out to make a deal, come back to the wg and all will be forgiven and get promoted.

Lucci and gang took the offer and in exchange they threw spandam father to the wolves so to speak and made him take the blame for something he didn’t do.
Why is spandam a cp0 agent though ? Well 1, idea is they gave him the promotion to keep quiet for his father and to go along with it or 2. What I prefer, Lucci requested it so that spandam could work under Lucci who will occasionally take it out on him as payback for Enies lobby, cause remember the mission would have been a success if spandam wasn’t such an idiot like for example him waiting around for the gates of justice to be fully opened and to have marines lined up to salute him when he could have just walked through no problem.
Plus he and his father shifted blame on Lucci and the others.

Now it should be noted that if you look at Lucci without a shirt on you will see he has 2 tattoos on his arms.
A box with an x.
Weird tattoo.

I believe this is a mark, not like the covenant marks but more like a branding, it’s to signify he’s a bastard cd and the member of a specific family.
Like a farmer who brands his sheep or cows.

As for cp0 I believe it’s mixed between members like Lucci who got promoted and agents who were raised there, if you look at the cp0 agents in wano the ones with the masks there was something that felt off, the sense that they have no individuality.

When drake stabbed guernica he asked drake why is he fighting so hard for luffy to which drake says he’s just following his own justice, to which guernica says it must be nice being able to follow your own justice, implying he himself isn’t, he doesn’t want to interfere with luffy and kaido fight cause he knows he will die but he does it because he has to.
He and the others were essentially brainwashed and indoctrinated into being pawns for the government.

So with Lucci who is his father ?
Well back in punk hazard there was a scene where a bunch of shadowy figures were watching Caesar live broadcast of his new weapon and among them was a man who had a sticking similarity to Lucci.
However this man was with some old guy and not kaku who he’s usually with and no hattori.
In the anime they added some features by making him more gaunt and having a moustache.
He was saying the Luffy law alliance seemed troublesome and no longer a problem for the underworld and to report this to the new world.
I believe this man is Lucci father and a holy knight.

I believe after egghead Lucci will be rewarded not punished because on 2 occasions he was acknowledged. Kizaru noted it was handy that Lucci was able to sneak out information on what the straw hats were doing when they seized the land and then when Mars showed up and asked Lucci for intel, after the initial shock of seeing a giant bird show up out of nowhere and begin talking to him he realised who it was and began detailing all he knew and where in the lab York was located to which Mars thanked him and said he did good work.

So he’s not taking blame like he did in enies lobby, the opposite in fact.

Despite his run ins with Luffy Lucci has a very good track record.

I believe his father will see the effort and the potential and reach out to him, not in a loving father manner but more as a man who sees potential and wants to use it.

Lucci being desperate to get stronger and to get his revenge on zoro and Luffy especially I think he will take a contract with the holy knights gaining the covenant marking and gaining power from it maybe even getting an omen boosting his strength.
It’s like making a deal with the devil which is fitting as his name literally connects him to the devil.
Lucci or Luci is Latin for light and Rob means to steal, meaning his name translates to light stealer which ties back to Ancient Greek who believed the planet Venus was a star trying to steal the light of the sun and this concept eventually got adapted and became the basis for the enemy of god Satan aka LUCIfer.

So Lucci is will essentially take a deal with the devil in exchange for power.
Kaku will be brought along to become a god blade.

As a little potential foreshadowing we saw a scene in film red where Lucci was standing amongst the goresei specifically standing next to Ethan aka Venus.

I don’t know when or where but one day sanji will fight green bull.

The reasons are this the 2 of them have paralleling characters.

Green bull does not see the point in fruit, due to him being a tree person he doesn’t require food like a normal human, he feeds off of photosynthesis and water.
He told Fujitora that he hasn’t eaten in 2 whole years and would only eat if a beautiful woman fed him which brings me to another point.
Sanji is a chef, his passion is food, to him it’s not just nutrients to feed the body and keep it operational but a passion.
A way for him to express himself, it’s an art.
So to him someone summing food down as a waste of time and just fuel for the body is an insult and him saying he only eats if a lady feeds him is even more of a insult, while sanji loves to feed people his biggest joy is feeding women as much as people call him a simp his greatest pleasure is to serve women to make them happy so a guy who expects women to serve him contradicts his values.

He’s also a green hair, alcoholic swordsman so that’s just a bonus for sanji.

In their fight with the scabbards, green bull stated that his body in his tree form is strong that people think fire is his weakness but they are wrong as he build his body around that weakness strengthening himself to the point where fire simply doesn’t hurt him. It took momo boro breath to do damage and even then he regrew instantly.
So a man who is proud of his resistance to fire vs a man who can ignite his legs would be an interesting match but this isn’t the real reason I connected them.

His tattoo.

His tattoo is a reference to a famous dark comedic story in Japan called Shinagawa Shinjū.
It’s a story about a ageing prostitute who is out of money and chooses to end her life but fearing dying alone she convinces the village idiot to jump into the river of death with her, when on the bridge he begins to back out and she pushes him into the river, before she jumps a messenger shows up saying he’s been looking all over for her, apparently her only client who was a wealthy old man had died and left all his money to her. Now that she’s rich she decides not to jump and lives a happy life.
For the record the reason this is regarded a comedy is because the male lead, Kinzo survived falling into the river and washed up back in the village, he ran back to the local bar where a Yakuza group he works for hangs out, while they were in the middle of illegal gambling, Kinzo burst through the door shouting which shocked all of the yakuza making them all jump out of a window thinking it was a police raid.

Now everyone who understood the meaning of this tattoo instantly connected it to mean green bull has a tragic story where a woman he loved must have betrayed him leading him into becoming the man he is now.

I however saw something very different. While this is true I do think this has a place in his story the thing that caught my eye instantly that led me to sanji was this.
The name of the prostitute in the story was some,

The reason why this is important is because the name of the prostitute sanji saved from queen in wano just a few chapters before green bull was revealed was named some.
This is way too much of a coincidence from oda.

My belief is oda is purposely making a connection.

Sanji will fight green bull

I believe we will see the return of east blue villains.

Now going through the list.
alvida is with buggy,
Buggy is an yonko now.
Smoker is he counts is currently up to something carrying a box across the sea.
Jango is now a marine.
So here’s the idea.

Gin and krieg

Gin and krieg.
Gin told sanji that if he is to survive the poisoning he got from krieg weapon he will head to the grandline and hopefully they can meet again.
Now for years this guy became a meme every time a mysterious character showed up people said it was him.
Eventually people said oda just forgot about him that is however Vegapunk message went live.
In one scene we see who looks like gin and krieg walking through a crowd on beehive island with pearl nearby. This caused a bit of a debate though as some thought this was shanks in disguise sneaking into beehive, because gin is carrying a sabre when his weapons before were a pair of Tonfas fitted with cannon balls and krieg here looks awfully lot like building snake ( 3rd ) Image. But in an sbs oda confirmed that it is gin and krieg.

So what are they doing here ? Well something seems off they are the only 2 not paying attention to vp message and are walking with purpose through the crowd.
I believe gin is with shanks and this is a theory I’ve had for years.
Now last we saw gin he said he was going to steer his own path from now on but the fact he still is with krieg seems contradictory.
All of shanks crew all seem to have alcoholic themes to them, similar to how kaido crew theme are card games, big mom is food, shanks is drinks. Beckman is a famous vineyard known for making wine, yassop epithet is chaser to how his bullets chase you down but also a chaser is a non alcoholic drink or food you take immediately after take a shot in order to combat the taste.
Shanks in itself could be reference to shanky’s whip a spirit from Ireland. You get the point.
Gin while pronounced different is spell the same as the alcoholic beverage.
In the scene where shanks said he will go after the one piece he’s drinking from a bottle that says number 5, 67 sake.
Chapter 67 page 5 is when gin says he’s going to live freely.

Now my bet is this we know shanks wasn’t to far from the east blue cause it’s not long after this that luffy got his bounty which mihawk gave to shanks who was celebrating on some island. What was he celebrating? Perhaps a successful operation from their doctor hongo.
Gin was told the poison was in his blood he would be lucky if he made it the day but he said off with a boat and krieg men knocked out.
At sea some time must have passed until gin poison kicked him and he fell over, it was then the red hair ship found him. When hongo had a look he determined gin was dead to rights but treated him anyway and managed to cure him. Krieg and gin awaken with the red hair pirates and krieg being kreig became to fight with all his men but were quickly taken down kreig men at this point just ran away.
Gin being thankful for them saving his life agreed to join the red hair pirates as long as if he is still allowed to be free. Krieg facing humiliation after humiliation fell to his knees and begrudgingly joined shanks crew and over the years changed as a character.
I believe gin and krieg are on a mission for red hair pirates to investigate beehive island, pearl being here is just coincidence as you can see he’s not with gin and kreig and is off with the crowd.

Arlong

Arlong was a big part of the story and was the final big bad of east blue saga really.

We know he was captured and we know hachi was able to break free of his restraints and jumped from the ship into the sea. Hachi went on with a new life.
So we know arlong was arrested but we never met him in impel down so while it’s possible he was at some other prison impel down seems to be the standard place to go as every other villain Luffy faced who were arrested was there, especially knowing that when arlong was arrested before he was sent to impel down before he was freed thanks to jinbei.
Now in a recent sbs oda was asked what was arlong reaction to jinbei being a straw hat ans oda drew it. What was noted by many fans is how he’s dressed in his normal clothes not wearing prison outfit. Probably nothing might be something,
So my theory is this, he wasn’t sent to jail he was sent to mariejoise, arlong became a slave.

For the past 2 years he was enslaved by the cd and saw his own surviving crew members like chu and kuroobi die from their abusers. Arlong hatred for humanity even deepenedened.

Now we know the holy land was under attack and there is many ways that can play out but one idea is that it’s the revs making a 2nd attack this time focusing on rescuing all the slaves they failed to save the first time.
During this raid we will see koala sabo right hand in the revs one across arlong and reach out to him reminding him she is the little girl fisher tiger saved.
This will anger him and he will lash out, he goes on to blame her for fisher tiger death and that he was right about humanity and here we will see a flashback about koala point of view and how she felt when fisher tiger died and how that led to her joining the revs.
It’s here where hak the fishman rev who’s also with sabo team tells arlong humanity isn’t the issue it’s the celestial dragons pointing out how humans are also slaves just like him. Causing arlong to take a long look at his views and eventually realises they are right not all humans are as bad and some humans are also just as much victims to cd.

He escapes and joins the revs where one day he will meet Nami again and that will be an interesting plot as arlong will apologise for killing belemere. Nami will accept the apology but say she won’t ever forgive him for what she’s done grabbing her tattoo as she says it but will admit she understands him more learning about fishman history, so she won’t forgive him but she will let him go from her life so now she no longer sees him as some monster who haunts her nightmares but just some man who chose the wrong path.

Going back to the final image, if we were to take that as 100% canon then I say this will be when arlong settles down with the revs finds a change of clothes sits down and koala or sabo hands him a paper revealing jinbei joined luffy crew lol.

Others

To be honest I only cared about gin and arlong.

With kuro and axe hand Morgan I say simple way to bring them back is by having them join cross guild.

TLDR

. Gin survived
. Gin joined the red hair pirates with krieg.
.gin and krieg are in beehive island
.arlong was made a slave.
.his crew besides hachi were killed.
.he is now with the revs.

I believe we will see the return of east blue villains.

Now going through the list.
alvida is with buggy,
Buggy is an yonko now.
Smoker is he counts is currently up to something carrying a box across the sea.
Jango is now a marine.
So here’s the idea.

Gin and krieg

Gin and krieg.
Gin told sanji that if he is to survive the poisoning he got from krieg weapon he will head to the grandline and hopefully they can meet again.
Now for years this guy became a meme every time a mysterious character showed up people said it was him.
Eventually people said oda just forgot about him that is however Vegapunk message went live.
In one scene we see who looks like gin and krieg walking through a crowd on beehive island with pearl nearby. This caused a bit of a debate though as some thought this was shanks in disguise sneaking into beehive, because gin is carrying a sabre when his weapons before were a pair of Tonfas fitted with cannon balls and krieg here looks awfully lot like building snake ( 3rd ) Image. But in an sbs oda confirmed that it is gin and krieg.

So what are they doing here ? Well something seems off they are the only 2 not paying attention to vp message and are walking with purpose through the crowd.
I believe gin is with shanks and this is a theory I’ve had for years.
Now last we saw gin he said he was going to steer his own path from now on but the fact he still is with krieg seems contradictory.
All of shanks crew all seem to have alcoholic themes to them, similar to how kaido crew theme are card games, big mom is food, shanks is drinks. Beckman is a famous vineyard known for making wine, yassop epithet is chaser to how his bullets chase you down but also a chaser is a non alcoholic drink or food you take immediately after take a shot in order to combat the taste.
Shanks in itself could be reference to shanky’s whip a spirit from Ireland. You get the point.
Gin while pronounced different is spell the same as the alcoholic beverage.
In the scene where shanks said he will go after the one piece he’s drinking from a bottle that says number 5, 67 sake.
Chapter 67 page 5 is when gin says he’s going to live freely.

Now my bet is this we know shanks wasn’t to far from the east blue cause it’s not long after this that luffy got his bounty which mihawk gave to shanks who was celebrating on some island. What was he celebrating? Perhaps a successful operation from their doctor hongo.
Gin was told the poison was in his blood he would be lucky if he made it the day but he said off with a boat and krieg men knocked out.
At sea some time must have passed until gin poison kicked him and he fell over, it was then the red hair ship found him. When hongo had a look he determined gin was dead to rights but treated him anyway and managed to cure him. Krieg and gin awaken with the red hair pirates and krieg being kreig became to fight with all his men but were quickly taken down kreig men at this point just ran away.
Gin being thankful for them saving his life agreed to join the red hair pirates as long as if he is still allowed to be free. Krieg facing humiliation after humiliation fell to his knees and begrudgingly joined shanks crew and over the years changed as a character.
I believe gin and krieg are on a mission for red hair pirates to investigate beehive island, pearl being here is just coincidence as you can see he’s not with gin and kreig and is off with the crowd.

Arlong

Arlong was a big part of the story and was the final big bad of east blue saga really.

We know he was captured and we know hachi was able to break free of his restraints and jumped from the ship into the sea. Hachi went on with a new life.
So we know arlong was arrested but we never met him in impel down so while it’s possible he was at some other prison impel down seems to be the standard place to go as every other villain Luffy faced who were arrested was there, especially knowing that when arlong was arrested before he was sent to impel down before he was freed thanks to jinbei.
Now in a recent sbs oda was asked what was arlong reaction to jinbei being a straw hat ans oda drew it. What was noted by many fans is how he’s dressed in his normal clothes not wearing prison outfit. Probably nothing might be something,
So my theory is this, he wasn’t sent to jail he was sent to mariejoise, arlong became a slave.

For the past 2 years he was enslaved by the cd and saw his own surviving crew members like chu and kuroobi die from their abusers. Arlong hatred for humanity even deepenedened.

Now we know the holy land was under attack and there is many ways that can play out but one idea is that it’s the revs making a 2nd attack this time focusing on rescuing all the slaves they failed to save the first time.
During this raid we will see koala sabo right hand in the revs one across arlong and reach out to him reminding him she is the little girl fisher tiger saved.
This will anger him and he will lash out, he goes on to blame her for fisher tiger death and that he was right about humanity and here we will see a flashback about koala point of view and how she felt when fisher tiger died and how that led to her joining the revs.
It’s here where hak the fishman rev who’s also with sabo team tells arlong humanity isn’t the issue it’s the celestial dragons pointing out how humans are also slaves just like him. Causing arlong to take a long look at his views and eventually realises they are right not all humans are as bad and some humans are also just as much victims to cd.

He escapes and joins the revs where one day he will meet Nami again and that will be an interesting plot as arlong will apologise for killing belemere. Nami will accept the apology but say she won’t ever forgive him for what she’s done grabbing her tattoo as she says it but will admit she understands him more learning about fishman history, so she won’t forgive him but she will let him go from her life so now she no longer sees him as some monster who haunts her nightmares but just some man who chose the wrong path.

Going back to the final image, if we were to take that as 100% canon then I say this will be when arlong settles down with the revs finds a change of clothes sits down and koala or sabo hands him a paper revealing jinbei joined luffy crew lol.

Others

To be honest I only cared about gin and arlong.

With kuro and axe hand Morgan I say simple way to bring them back is by having them join cross guild.

TLDR

. Gin survived
. Gin joined the red hair pirates with krieg.
.gin and krieg are in beehive island
.arlong was made a slave.
.his crew besides hachi were killed.
.he is now with the revs.

So here’s an old theory of mind I never shared here.
Nami is the son of big news Morgans.

So first off Morgan is a human who is ALWAYS in hybrid form which makes me feel like he is hiding his identity but why I do not know maybe he is a forbidden race like a lunarian or he’s a famous person a wanted man.

So some similarities, Nami and Morgan are both money misers who love to make money and hate to spend it but they still have their integrity and won’t sell out just cause they can,
They are both short tempered as well and a lot stronger than people think.

In the above images you will see a cover page for chapter 49 which shows Nami with a seagull which I believe is reference to 2 of her parents, seagulls are the marine symbol so that connects her to bellemere but also albatross are often mistaken for seagulls. We also see a straw hat hanging on a post box where you put the news paper.

Nami in the early days and when Robin is around is always the straw hat who is seen passing on information from the news paper and in one image you see her arguing with a news coo about the price which usopp even points out is dumb cause it isn’t even that much money.

Now another thing is this there could be a potential connection to 2 other straw hats.

Zoro mother was named terra as oda revealed in an sbs which is Latin for earth sanji is the son of sora which is Japanese for sky.
Morgan has Celtic roots specifically Welsh Celtic which means son of the sea Mor is Celtic for sea.

So together if this is true you can say zoro sanji and Nami are the children of the earth sky and sea,
Luffy also fits as the sun god, usopp being the only other east blue member is the odd one out for now so for arguments say he will connect to the moon god.

So sun
Earth
Sky
Sea
Moon.

So then who is Morgan ? Well for this to work we are going to need to be a little lenient with the timeline.
I think Morgan is a Roger pirate.

So hear me out, just answer this 1 question…..how on earth did Morgan know about one piece and its significance?

It was Morgan who gave Roger the title of pirate king, it was him who told the world about the one piece.
How did Morgan know ? Roger and crew didn’t seem like the type to brag and even then who would believe them ? They found an island no one knew existed and left a big giant treasure there and when asked where the island was they wouldn’t say ? Seems fishy right ?
No self respecting journalist would publish this story and make it front page news and then declare Roger to be the king of pirates all based on the achievement of finding an island no one even knew existed.
Morgan had to have an inside source or was there.

Now yes we did see him in the god valley flash back but also keep this in mind that meeting took place several days before god valley incident, he blackmailed the wg to give him money not to leak Ginny message to the pirates about god valley and they paid him then he took the money and leaked it anyway leading to all these pirates going to god valley.
So he could have quickly done this and flew back to Roger ( yes he can’t actually fly but I think that’s only because he’s fat now cause why can’t he fly ? )

Now there’s some other things. Roger is known as gold Roger because the wg hid his name being gol D Roger as they didn’t want the world to know about the D clan.
So why did they publish Luffy as monkey D Luffy ? I say it’s because simply Morgan has more sway now over the press and he “accidentally” leaked Luffy full name just like he “accidentally” leaked Luffy new wanted poster when the wg requested him to not do that.

Now yes Morgan did blame Luffy for the murder of vp and he knew it wasn’t true but 1. He doesn’t care about the morality of Luffy just the results 2. He’s still a miser 3. He was already in a very bad spot with the wg for realising the image of Luffy in nika form and needed a way to get back on their good graces.

He also took in vivi keeping her hidden from the wg and while he does threaten to expose her if she keeps arguing with him that seems more like an empty threat. But this does mirror how it was Nami who made a deal with igaram to take on Vivi when she was hiding from the BW.

He has so far shown a great interest in the supernova and wonders which one of them could continue Roger legacy and become the next pirate king.

So who is the father ?

Well looking at the crew I say the youngest member besides shanks and buggy who does hold some resemblance to Nami is of course….spencer.

He does sort of look like a male Nami with a fridge and fun fact but Spencer is also another name for a trisail a type of sail that is used for navigation.
As seen in the final image