▲ 13 r/ShadowSlave
They lowered are expectations with the sneek peek so now everything looks peak
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 1 day ago
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▲ 79 r/writingscaling
Hype and aura is good writing
Most hype thing I've ever experienced btw
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 4 days ago
You will never experience something deeper than this.
I think I can confidently declare, "The Legends of Ren Zu" is the deepest piece of literature, media, art, whatever you call it, ever written.
It is essentially the Bible within the world of Reverend Insanity. Ren Zu is the first human ever, and we follow his story to find meaning in his existence.
The legends of Ren Zu serve as an allegorical myth or fairy tale that draws upon parallels in the current events of the story while also holding unfathomably deep symbolic meaning.
This, on its own, is genuinely too deep. Reading it is extremely exhausting because of how intricately layered it is, my brain genuinely gets fried after a single chapter of analysing it.
The only reason it works is because it's dropped in snippets through out the story of Reverend Insanity, but either way, for such an incredible piece of literature, it is truly underappreciated.
If anyone wants to get a taste of what these tales are like, here is an audio book containing it with even some visuals, though I won't recommend watching it without reading RI beyond the first hour: https://youtu.be/QTdLexKMJS0?si=vP4cG68QAO3s9Qom
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 9 days ago
I want to read something like Qing Mao Mountain
To me it was the favourite part of the story. (Just finished vol 4) The new introduction to the world. The absolutely beautiful descriptions. The rants about society and whatever. The chill renzu stories. The low stakes exploration type of chapters.
Man it was all so beautiful. Please give me another novel that either has something like this, or focuses on something like this entirely 😢
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 19 days ago
▲ 4 r/writingscaling
Why you shouldn't listen to the internet
The internet had mentioned this was both some kind of woke slop propaganda. And also mediocre movie that just tried to appeal to more people by including diversity.
Reddit retastards obviously weren't gonna let another group be more dumb than themselves so like any other popular story it was downplayed.
But holy shit watching it was certainly one of the best theater experience in my life. The story was incredible, engaging start to end, the acting was good, I won't say the best I have ever seen (zendeya 💔) but it was certainly good.
The protagonist was compelling, I was genuinely invested in oddy's journey back home. Even though I knew a lot about the lore due to cultural refrences, it still felt like this a rather fresh take on the poem. For example, some how, despite so many adaptation of the trojan horse, I hadn't seen a signel one where the guards check it by stabbing swords in the gaps of it's wood. One of these pierce one of the hidden soldiers inside and another guy instantly wipes the blood off the sword with his hand to stay undetected. Also Cycoplse's design was the best among any media imo.
And the final fight, holy shit it was something else. Incredible tension, stakes and most importantly catharsis.
And idk how to pinpoint the reason why, but the characters just felt so small. The story itself, it was miniscule to the world it inhibits, this feeling was so surreal because despite that feeling of being small, the concept of home never lost an inch of value.
All in all a masterpiece movie. Easily 9/10 as a movie for me and around a 8.5/10 as a piece of media.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 22 days ago
▲ 29 r/writingscaling
Almost all popular edit channels are Larpers.
"unrelated" image. But I scrolled upon one of the guys who makes this type of edits.
Capy is a known larper, I actually like his edits. But I'm pretty sure majority of his opinions are just what he heard on reddit.
Z tier is somehow supposed to be the highest tier, so these guy just put whoever is the "best" in a category there.
So this one guy always puts reverend insanity in the Z tier whenever there is a relevant category.
But I saw when bro was rating the best "Isekai anime" reverend insanity was magically not there.
This just made me realize how big of a larp take everything bro says is. Cus in RI, the protagonist being isn't a focal plot point untill later, so a larper won't immediately know it's an Isekai.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 22 days ago
▲ 4 r/writingscaling
The Truth about One Piece World Building: Interconnection.
Part 1.
I am making a series of posts discussing the world building in one piece. I will discuss both it's pros and cons, but my initial attempt would be to focus on its "flaws" especially ones that keep popping up in discussions.
First interconnection.
Claim: One Piece World Building is not interconnected. It's islands, culture and cast are isolated and disconnected each other.
My Answer: This is both true and false. The problem is, in the ways that it is true, actually improve the world building. And the ways that this claims is false... Let me elaborate.
Geography
Geography of one piece is arguably its best aspect. The grander structure of it's world is why the claim that one piece islands are disconnected exists in the first place. It's because one piece is intentionally designed in a way that makes trade and travel between islands in the grand line incredibly difficult. But I will not go into the genius of the overall world but instead the individual islands.
- the string of magnetic fields that create a route for the log pose to follow. Just position of a island relative to other islands creates a unique route of travel for sea travel as 'log poses' use one magnetic field to connect to the next which forces people to go from one island to another.
- Ecology.
Lets start with Alabasta and Skypeai, this isn't explicitly stated but the clouds created from the under sea lava floors are implied to travel beyond alabasta, they possibly go to jaya (the island right after it), which is why it has such large concentration of clouds, other than of course jaya itself having super active undersea volcanic activity. (partial speculation feel free to ignore)
Ignoring that, the connection between jaya and skypeai.
Jaya is the island below skypeai. The tangible clouds in skypeai exist because the lava floor from jaya undersea create steam pockets that leads to steam explosions, aka knock up streams that send things flying high into the atmosphere. The seastone at the bottom of the sea flows to the sky and breaks down under the heat and pressure, their keratins infuse into the condensation nuclei in clouds which makes them tangible.
More so, upstreams also carry dirt to the sky which is the primary driver for agriculture. Later it's revealed a large part of the the jaya island itself was thrown into the sky. Sending natives on it to skypeai, which led to the whole conflict between two civilizations as dirt is considered sacred due to its agricultural prowess in skypeai and the piece of island that went up from jaya carried the city of gold. This also connects noland, a guy from east blue, a totally different sea who came here as a researcher. (we literally see collision of science with tribalism). Thats also ignoring the fact there is established currency trade and linguistic differences between travelers and people of the sky.
This subject can go much much deeper but I will stick to talking about interconnection. So we already have geographical, ecological, agricultural/trade related, religion/ tradition/ conflict and linguistic connection between jaya and skypeai, which speculative geographical connect with alabasta.
...
moving on, water 7.
This connection is actually quite cool. Long Ring Long land is a island near water 7.
It looks like this, its essentially divided whenever the water level is up and connects when it goes down. Now why does the water level go up and down? It happens because of a tide. Water from LRLL is displaced and moved towards water 7, which is why the phenomenon is Aqua laguna happens.
Now there is some speculation this tidal movement happens due to the vortex in enies lobby but revolving sea water causing the illusion of tides but its not confirmed yet.
Instead let's talk about the connection between water 7 and enies lobby, that being the sea train. Franky's whole backstory revolves around this train, as preestablished its an incredibly well developed trait of the one piece world to be hard to travel across. This is why sea train is so important as it directly connect water 7 with the government island. Allowing efficient trade and travel. It was important enough that government was ready to forgive the crime of making roger's ship.
Moving on while we are on enies lobby, let's talk about it's connection to the other 2 government islands.
As you can see, these are 3 government islands, and the way they are connected is extremely creative. Between these 3 is a gigantic whirlpool that spins everything in it's radius. Using this whirlpool, government ships are able to fast travel in between each island and reach 3 important spaces in the grandline: Red line (marine ford), calm belt (Impeldown), and middle of the grandline (enies lobby). What makes this connection even more impressive the governance procedure, Enies lobby is the judicial island where verdict is passed, then once beyond the gates of justice, criminals are sent to impel down to be imprisoned. They either stay there or are then transferred to marine ford to face a public execution in the military base marine ford.
Now marine ford is a marine base right under marijoua, the place where world nobles live. This is strategic advantage as military is constantly present to protect the nobles and also as a detterent from pirates going to the new world. Also, from marine ford to mary geoise are continental lifters that bring goods up the red line. (these later get attacked by the revolutionary army, starving the nobles)
Then sabaody, a not really island close by to marine ford and mary geoise. It not being island (its a group of mangroves) and being so close to two major places in the world makes it a prime spot for cultural intermixing.
The culture of this place is that of a travel attraction as many pirates stay here as the last place before going to the new world through fishman island. And as it's close by, world nobles are known visit here, they are confident tyrants who act as they want here as marine ford is near by, and any harm caused to them immediately warrants a buster call with an admiral at standby. More so, they become clients who purchase goods from here, giving rise to slave cultures to sell people to nobles and world nobles. And fishman island being at the bottom of this also creates another layer of racism that follows through between the two islands.
Geographically, the reasons fishman island exists itself is because of sabaody, the roots of sabaody reach the bottom of the sea and its sap collects the bottom, creating the bubble which is fishman island, it also is able to provide light at the bottom. There is also a net of underwater rivers that brings nuances to underwater travel, and volcanic avticity that helps enrich the place with nutrients. Sabaody's resin also has special usage like coating ships so they can travel under water go to fishman island (and then to new world) which also creates an opportunities for fishman to exploit humans like the hordy pirates. And it's sap is also collected by weatheria (a completely separate island far away) and used for propulsion.
This alone is a collision of 4 major places (with countless minor places within them), with multitudes of cultures, pirates, fishmen, merfolk, nobles, merchants, natives, slave traders, nobles, soldiers, etc. The islands have influence in each other in regards to trade (obvious) political pressure (marine ford protecting nobles) and racial conflict, (fish ppl), and if that wasn't enough, the ecology itself is interdepended.
Honestly literally just these 4 places alone create an unbelievable complex world. Literally just these alone can create an entire series with nothing else needed. But more than that, it still does have a lot more because these places are the hub for people all over the world, the different blues, different places from grandline etc to travel to. Which kinda what happened with the plot.
Which brings to my next point. Interconnection of the plot and characters.
Literally almost every character in the paramount saga comes from an arc introduced far before. From the very start at
romance dawn (shanks crew, koby helmeppo), to buggy from orange town, to jango in syrup village, mihawk/that marine in baratie, jinbe mentioned in arlong park,
mr 3, ace, crocodile, mr1, from lil garden, drum island, alabasta.
Doffy, whitebeard crew, blackbeard crew from Jaya/Skypeai.
Kuzan/garp from the water 7 saga
Technically oars's descendant, kuma and moria from thriller bark (intentionally isolated arc btw)
Sabaody - impel down is obvious.
These are side characters that directly connect plotlines of various parts of the world and keep every part of it alive.
More so, through bounty reveals, cover stories, sbs etc we are always connected with the world with more ways than not. Also I'm not even discussing the fact every strawhat collected through the journey is a connection to the island as well lmao.
...
I could get into the post time skip but its literally far too much and franky unnecessary. Yall already know it has countless recurring characters (major ones likes law, bonney, kid etc) and the pov shifting complexity is many folds bigger.
TLDR:
But I think I will stop here because I have thoroughly proved my point. Not only is saying one piece isn't interconnected wrong. It's like calling fire cold. With characters, with plotlines, economy, ecology, geography, religion, linguistics, literally freaking everything you can think of, this world is beautifully interconnected and cohesive. And the places it's not (very few) are intentionally meant to be that way.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/shounenfolk
The Truth about One Piece World Building: Interconnection.
Part 1.
I am making a series of posts discussing the world building in one piece. I will discuss both it's pros and cons, but my initial attempt would be to focus on its "flaws" especially ones that keep popping up in discussions.
First interconnection.
Claim: One Piece World Building is not interconnected. It's islands, culture and cast are isolated and disconnected each other.
My Answer: This is both true and false. The problem is, in the ways that it is true, actually improve the world building. And the ways that this claims is false... Let me elaborate.
Geography
Geography of one piece is arguably its best aspect. The grander structure of it's world is why the claim that one piece islands are disconnected exists in the first place. It's because one piece is intentionally designed in a way that makes trade and travel between islands in the grand line incredibly difficult. But I will not go into the genius of the overall world but instead the individual islands.
- the string of magnetic fields that create a route for the log pose to follow. Just position of a island relative to other islands creates a unique route of travel for sea travel as 'log poses' use one magnetic field to connect to the next which forces people to go from one island to another.
- Ecology.
Lets start with Alabasta and Skypeai, this isn't explicitly stated but the clouds created from the under sea lava floors are implied to travel beyond alabasta, they possibly go to jaya (the island right after it), which is why it has such large concentration of clouds, other than of course jaya itself having super active undersea volcanic activity. (partial speculation feel free to ignore)
Ignoring that, the connection between jaya and skypeai.
Jaya is the island below skypeai. The tangible clouds in skypeai exist because the lava floor from jaya undersea create steam pockets that leads to steam explosions, aka knock up streams that send things flying high into the atmosphere. The seastone at the bottom of the sea flows to the sky and breaks down under the heat and pressure, their keratins infuse into the condensation nuclei in clouds which makes them tangible.
More so, upstreams also carry dirt to the sky which is the primary driver for agriculture. Later it's revealed a large part of the the jaya island itself was thrown into the sky. Sending natives on it to skypeai, which led to the whole conflict between two civilizations as dirt is considered sacred due to its agricultural prowess in skypeai and the piece of island that went up from jaya carried the city of gold. This also connects noland, a guy from east blue, a totally different sea who came here as a researcher. (we literally see collision of science with tribalism). Thats also ignoring the fact there is established currency trade and linguistic differences between travelers and people of the sky.
This subject can go much much deeper but I will stick to talking about interconnection. So we already have geographical, ecological, agricultural/trade related, religion/ tradition/ conflict and linguistic connection between jaya and skypeai, which speculative geographical connect with alabasta.
...
moving on, water 7.
This connection is actually quite cool. Long Ring Long land is a island near water 7.
It looks like this, its essentially divided whenever the water level is up and connects when it goes down. Now why does the water level go up and down? It happens because of a tide. Water from LRLL is displaced and moved towards water 7, which is why the phenomenon is Aqua laguna happens.
Now there is some speculation this tidal movement happens due to the vortex in enies lobby but revolving sea water causing the illusion of tides but its not confirmed yet.
Instead let's talk about the connection between water 7 and enies lobby, that being the sea train. Franky's whole backstory revolves around this train, as preestablished its an incredibly well developed trait of the one piece world to be hard to travel across. This is why sea train is so important as it directly connect water 7 with the government island. Allowing efficient trade and travel. It was important enough that government was ready to forgive the crime of making roger's ship.
Moving on while we are on enies lobby, let's talk about it's connection to the other 2 government islands.
As you can see, these are 3 government islands, and the way they are connected is extremely creative. Between these 3 is a gigantic whirlpool that spins everything in it's radius. Using this whirlpool, government ships are able to fast travel in between each island and reach 3 important spaces in the grandline: Red line (marine ford), calm belt (Impeldown), and middle of the grandline (enies lobby). What makes this connection even more impressive the governance procedure, Enies lobby is the judicial island where verdict is passed, then once beyond the gates of justice, criminals are sent to impel down to be imprisoned. They either stay there or are then transferred to marine ford to face a public execution in the military base marine ford.
Now marine ford is a marine base right under marijoua, the place where world nobles live. This is strategic advantage as military is constantly present to protect the nobles and also as a detterent from pirates going to the new world. Also, from marine ford to mary geoise are continental lifters that bring goods up the red line. (these later get attacked by the revolutionary army, starving the nobles)
Then sabaody, a not really island close by to marine ford and mary geoise. It not being island (its a group of mangroves) and being so close to two major places in the world makes it a prime spot for cultural intermixing.
The culture of this place is that of a travel attraction as many pirates stay here as the last place before going to the new world through fishman island. And as it's close by, world nobles are known visit here, they are confident tyrants who act as they want here as marine ford is near by, and any harm caused to them immediately warrants a buster call with an admiral at standby. More so, they become clients who purchase goods from here, giving rise to slave cultures to sell people to nobles and world nobles. And fishman island being at the bottom of this also creates another layer of racism that follows through between the two islands.
Geographically, the reasons fishman island exists itself is because of sabaody, the roots of sabaody reach the bottom of the sea and its sap collects the bottom, creating the bubble which is fishman island, it also is able to provide light at the bottom. There is also a net of underwater rivers that brings nuances to underwater travel, and volcanic avticity that helps enrich the place with nutrients. Sabaody's resin also has special usage like coating ships so they can travel under water go to fishman island (and then to new world) which also creates an opportunities for fishman to exploit humans like the hordy pirates. And it's sap is also collected by weatheria (a completely separate island far away) and used for propulsion.
This alone is a collision of 4 major places (with countless minor places within them), with multitudes of cultures, pirates, fishmen, merfolk, nobles, merchants, natives, slave traders, nobles, soldiers, etc. The islands have influence in each other in regards to trade (obvious) political pressure (marine ford protecting nobles) and racial conflict, (fish ppl), and if that wasn't enough, the ecology itself is interdepended.
Honestly literally just these 4 places alone create an unbelievable complex world. Literally just these alone can create an entire series with nothing else needed. But more than that, it still does have a lot more because these places are the hub for people all over the world, the different blues, different places from grandline etc to travel to. Which kinda what happened with the plot.
Which brings to my next point. Interconnection of the plot and characters.
Literally almost every character in the paramount saga comes from an arc introduced far before. From the very start at
romance dawn (shanks crew, koby helmeppo), to buggy from orange town, to jango in syrup village, mihawk/that marine in baratie, jinbe mentioned in arlong park,
mr 3, ace, crocodile, mr1, from lil garden, drum island, alabasta.
Doffy, whitebeard crew, blackbeard crew from Jaya/Skypeai.
Kuzan/garp from the water 7 saga
Technically oars's descendant, kuma and moria from thriller bark (intentionally isolated arc btw)
Sabaody - impel down is obvious.
These are side characters that directly connect plotlines of various parts of the world and keep every part of it alive.
More so, through bounty reveals, cover stories, sbs etc we are always connected with the world with more ways than not. Also I'm not even discussing the fact every strawhat collected through the journey is a connection to the island as well lmao.
...
I could get into the post time skip but its literally far too much and franky unnecesarry. Yall already know it has countless recurring characters (major ones likes law, bonney, kid etc) and the pov shifting complexity is many folds bigger.
TLDR:
But I think I will stop here because I have thoroughly proved my point. Not only is saying one piece isn't interconnected wrong. It's like calling fire cold. With characters, with plotlines, economy, ecology, geography, religion, linguistics, literally freaking everything you can think of, this world is beautifully interconnected and cohesive. And the places it's not (very few) are intentionally meant to be that way.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 1 month ago
To People Who Follow Books/Author's on Patreon.
How many do you actually follow? I read a lot of stories that I want to continue, but I can't imagine buying a patreon on all of them, so how much do you spend on this every month?
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 1 month ago
I don't understand how anyone thinks vol 4 is worse than vol 3
Heaven and earth difference in quality.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 1 month ago
▲ 5 r/writingscaling
People Fundamentally Misunderstand What Character Development is.
All the characters you see are incredibly well developed.
Because development doesn't equal change. A character changing as a person over the course of the story is not the only way to develop a character.
Luffy: Barely changes as a person, only learns some things and matures a bit, but subtly, his character traits and the thematic depth is explored more and more through out the story. We knew he wanted to be king of the pirates since chapter 1, but that title representing being the most free person instead of being an conquer is what was developed of his character hundreds of chapters later.
Fang Yuan: From ch 1 (to where I've read) to the end, he changes as a person even less than luffy. But just like luffy, why he is the way he is explored throughout the story through exploration of his philosophy and mending bits of his backstory into the plot.
Itachi: Technically he never changes, but as his backstory is revealed, our understanding of him as a character flips on it's head. That is development.
Jamie Lannister: Now this is a special case, because this guy changes as a person like how the general understanding of character development goes, but what I want to talk about is his ending. It's generally believed his ending regresses his character because he goes back to his sister. But I disagree, failing to change, failing to become a better person, giving into your past is STILL character development, simply becoming a better person like throffin is only one of way to develop a character, other ways are not any less valid. (Though I'm ignoring the fact his decadence is rushed, but that's just season 8 as a whole lmao.)
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago
▲ 123 r/writingscaling
Thinking Naruto's Fight with Neji was about "Hardwork vs Talent" is just outing a lack of reading comprehension.
It was never about hardwork vs talent.
In this very fight Naruto couldn't have won without kurama. A "gift" only he has lol.
The actual theme of this fight is "Prejudice."
Naruto didn't say he will beat neji by working hard, he said just because everyone thinks naruto is a loser, just because everyone says he will never amount to anything, doesn't change his merit.
He is saying misinformed opinions about you don't define who you are.
That is what Neji needed to hear. If Naruto was a story about "Hardwork vs Talent" Rocklee would be the one beating Neji lol.
Because Rock Lee is the embodiment of hard work. But even then, the story doesn't put him in a shallow bracket of something like "Hard work vs talent" That rhetoric is just stupid. Instead, Kakashi directly call's rocklee a genius, which means Naruto considers the ability to hardwork a talent in and of itself.
Please reread/stop larping.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/writingscaling
I feel like people have some deep personal hatred against One Piece unironically.
Did Oda steal your first born or what? What could be reason for such behavior lmao.
I'm not showing this person to avoid targeted hate over fiction, but to bring up your family members disability (Which literally does not negatively affect critical thinking so completely irrelevant) just to get validation over downplaying a manga is MENTAL 💀
By the way, the post this was said under had NOTHING to do with One Piece 😭
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago
▲ 117 r/writingscaling
When a work is so good, it's technical flaws don't even matter.
Reverend Insanity, at an technical level is CHEEKS.
The dialogue reads like it wants to provide information for the reader.
"I, zix shi dih, of the big dih dragon sect, will now explain the particular lore about about the hyper specific historical event that is barely relevant to the conversation."
The author single handedly deconstructs the stereotype of Asains being good at math.
The cave was 1.5 kilometers long, fang yuan walked across it for 12 hours.
The narration just randomly does random shit, just goes on a random tangent about the lore or the author just straight up forgets he is writing a novel sometimes and just rants non stop for multiple pages.
But despite all this, the story is fucking peak. The depth, how much meaning, nuance and thought is put into even the random tangents and rants is insane. Reading basically what the writing equivalent of hand waving can still be life changing if the author has something worth saying and hearing about.
This single handedly shows even a bad writer can be an exceptional storyteller. Though his descriptions are amazing btw. (Also to point out, bad translations definitely exaggerate some of these flaws, but stuff like the dialogue and bad math exists in the original work too lo,)
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/writingscaling
Iq test: Which Series has better worldbuilding
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago
▲ 570 r/writingscaling
Opinion on these?
I lowkey thought ts was peak, 2nd one was quite slow but over all if I were to consider these as movies, I'll probaby put em over anything I've watched in the last few years lmao.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/writingscaling
Nen is really not a great power system
It's okay, like 7.5/10 maybe, but people just glaze it because they don't understand it.
It's 6 types are categories not abilities. So bascially they can be anything and the categorization almost doesn't matter. And even if it did matter, there is the 6th specialization category that can just do whatever the the author wants it to do atm. Like for example, meruem is somehow supposed to be an emmiter???
The mechanics of the power system are not well devloped. Take nen beasts for example, they are just shit conjerour's can make up. Like there is literally no lore explaination or background info on how they exists.
Naruto has something similar in summoning, but they have a whole established contract system along with summonings and reverse summoning that explain how these beasts works. Even chain saw man has devil contracts etc.
Then we come to the nen conditions and post mortem nen. These are cool ideas with terrible execution. It was innitially supposed to be getting a condition put upon urself for a buff. Thats not well explained on how it works at all, but for a 7/10 power system its passable. But then it's reconned into being a "trade" for gon. He traded his life's potential for the power, it's no longer just a condition.
And post mortem is fine on its own but the way hisoka used it is funny. He literally had been dead for a while and then somehow revived by pumping his own heart with rubber and gum. That literally makes no sense, after you already been dead for a while, pumping the heart again isn't gonna do shit, it's just illogical magic that we are supposed to believe works.
Other than that, the non nen elements from dark continent and the special biology just remain unexplained. 7.5/10 is being generous.
Edit: Forgot to mention, but lack of good progression is another point.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago
▲ 20 r/Piratefolk
Foreshadowing does not equal planning.
I hate when any foreshadowing discussion about one piece devolves into "There's no way oda planned all that."
What everyone is missing is that's literally not the point. You don't have to plan out every little detail to plan out something.
Like do I think Oda planned all of gear 5 in skypeai? Fuh no. But I'm still confident this example is definitely foreshadowing. Oda doesn't need to plan everything, even if he just had a vague idea of somehow relating the sun god to luffy, this is still 100% valid foreshadowing. Ofcouse, it only foreshadows the relation between sun god and luffy. Not nika, joyboy, mythical zooan etc.
u/VagabondFromTheRiver — 2 months ago