u/SimasTheMoze

Hi, everyone! I recently finished Egghead and there are some predictions/theories I wanted to write down somewhere. Please note, I haven't read the manga nor started watching Elbaph yet, so if any of these are confirmed or debunked in the next few episodes, please don't spoil that for me!

I'll also admit, I've probably missed some things here and there. I rewatched the Alabasta saga in preperation for season 2 of the live action, and there are so many details I either completely forgot, or outright missed on my first watch. With all that said, here's some of my theories and predictions.

• Laughtale is the Red Line. The reason no one's found it yet is because everyone expects it to be an actual island, not a continent. And the One Piece is located at one of the two points where the Red Line and Grand Line intersect, since "X marks the spot." This means it would either be at Reverse Mountain where the journey started, or at Mariejois - all the more reason for Luffy to fight the Celestial Dragons.
• The D in everyone's names is short for Davy, and Joyboy's real name was Davy Jones. Since it was revealed that the Nefertari family also bares the innitial D, or at least used to, my guess is that they are the origin of that name. Joyboy's full name was probably Nefertari Davy Jones, but he dropped the family name for plot reasons we're not privy to yet, and everyone with D in their name are his decsendants.
• Shanks stole the GumGum fruit because he knew its true power and wanted to use it to liberate the world. This one I'm the most confident in. I also wouldn't be surprised if his full name also has the D.
• The 5 elders' devil fruits have the powers of gods, just like Luffy's Nika fruit, which is why they're so powerful.
• The land of the gods that Enel wanted to reach is going to come up again as we find out more about the god power devil fruits. It might even be the origin of devil fruits as a whole.
• Luffy is going to fight Shanks at some point, since he said he intends to defeat all the emperors. He'll return the strawhat to him after winning, which Shanks will protest to, revealing that the hat once belonged to Joyboy (as I'm pretty sure we saw in that flashback), but Luffy will give it back anyway, bacasue he doesn't care about all that history stuff and just wants to follow through on his promise to return it.
• Luffy's dream that we cut away from hearing, is to create a world without pirates. Sounds kinda backwards at first, but he currently lives in a world where living freely, fighting for what you believe in and exploring history makes you a criminal. He's strong enough to do it anyway, but he can see that not everyone is. His goal is to make a world where everyone can follow their dreams without fear of persecution.