Alright! Here's a FULL rundown of what transpired at the Reverie behind the scene and all the proof I gathered! Thread ->
Here's what I figured out from rereading: NO Sabo didn't die and NO Vivi didn't die. Here's what's probably the ONLY plausible outcome after reviewing the facts:
Firstly, SOMEONE has died, and I agree with the community on this one. It was Cobra. The foreshadowing is endless
Firstly, SOMEONE has died, and I agree with the community on this one. It was Cobra. The foreshadowing is endless
Now who was it that did it? I think we can all agree the government wanted him eliminated BUT there's actually 1 more player that people haven't considered! It's the slimy Wapol! Wapol has always HATED Cobra and Vivi. It's obvious oda was setting him up for it
But Wapol's a coward. He'd never kill someone himself. World Gov. needed to clean their hands, so Wapol made a deal. THEY kill Cobra, and HE covers them by REVEALING that Vivi & Cobra were Luffy allies. He's the ONLY villain to know this. THIS was the inside info he told Morgans
So WHAT HAPPENED to Vivi & Sabo? One thing you shouldn't forget, was that Imu was targeting Vivi. He wanted her, and Sabo being luffy's brother was the PERFECT justification to capture Vivi, a princess, with Sabo, a revolutionary. They can frame her with him
But wait! They weren't JUST captured. Oh boy oh no its not that simple. I would actually say they were ENSLAVED. Let's revisit some dialogue: when we first meet Vivi, igaram says "what if a bird snatches you away or a wicked man has sniped you"
This is interesting bc Charloss tried EXACTLY THAT on Shirahoshi! Oda made us think shed get captured, but he had Vivi enslaved instead. In that scene, we get a reminder that these are LOWER KINGS and CAN be enslaved, 'set an example'. You know what other King was enslaved? Kuma!
What REALLY proves this is the garp dialogue to King neptune. Garp says "discourse between rulers without blood is peace" but in THIS case there was blood. The rulers in this case are the celestial dragons and Vivi. He said the Navy is trying to "resolve" this, meaning negotiate
This is a DIRECT PARALLEL to when Vivi told neptune to not think of the enslavement attempt at Shirahoshi as a reflection of humanity. THE EXACT SAME PHRASING!! If they were JUST captured it wouldnt be as big, but they were ENSLAVED, the tenryuubito are also VERY stubborn
Now for SABO specifically, hes not just enslaved, but he's had his execution announced as well. This aligns very well with makino being sad, Dadan saying "we JUST found out he's alive" and so on. Dragon & Koalas shock comes from the enslavement. Koala ESPECIALLY knows how it is
Announcing Sabo's execution, ofcourse, can ONLY mean war. And this time its Dragon's own boy. FURTHER foreshadowed by what Sabo said right b4 he left. Doffy is LOVING it in prison because he was the same in whitebeard war. This will be HUGE but there's 1 more BIG player
And that is 1 & only TEACH. The "thing" he set out to claim, is not the pluton, or Shirahoshi nor the one piece. Its the MERA MERA fruit! B4 you say its not important enough to mobilise, I don't think you understand how BADLY he wanted it throughout the series. The panels speak
In this upcoming war, he'll try claim the fruit himself. Even when Sabo ALREADY ate it, Burgess was still tryna steal it by killing him. Oda has also built up the fruit as a 'memento' from Ace and no one else can have it. Blackbeard HIMSELF moving will motivate Luffy more
As for Sabo + Vivi the icing on the cake is Oda's statement in jump festa 2019. He teased "Sabo will...! Vivi will...! Hancock will...!" Boas recapture and facing her past is INEVITABLE. We know this. Putting Boa, Sabo, and Vivi together ONLY confirms to me that they're enslaved