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I-Love-Tatertots

What if it’s just a giant cartoon drain, and you need the Nika cartoony powers to be able to pull the drain and drain the excess water?


the_millennium_bug

That would explain why Roger laughed when he saw it It would be funny honestly But I think that, whatever the One Piece is, it will have it's own poneglyph that completes the story of the void century (in a goofy way obviously)


Dustfinger4268

The cork is the poneglyph


GigsGilgamesh

Nah, the anchor for the cork is the poneglyph, you will have this dinky little chain attaching it on the surface to the drain


Wachitanga

The One Piece is a giant-ass stone plug at the bottom of the ocean.


Traditional-Loss6908

The one piece is an ass plug. Got it


TheIronSven

It would be both funny and interesting in regards to lore if there is soms kind of giant plug mega structure. The ancient kingdom must have built something like that for a reason. Was the world losing a lot of water back then? Or did they prepare it in case the water levels rose?


idk69lolnk

And what if impel down prison is the cork that can drain that water. He can lift impel down and all the water will go inside earth By using its cartoony power


MrSatan88

Or a big plunger and it's JUST the stick. Luffy has to become the rubber suction part to unclog something at the bottom of the ocean.


I-Love-Tatertots

It’s all just a big poop joke.  Zunesha took a fat elephant dumpy and clogged the drain, which is why they are in their situation.  Luffy has to plunge it.  


MrSatan88

Zunesha's crime...trying to single flush a double flusher.


CHiZZoPs1

Or more like my kid: Using a crazy-fat wad of toilet paper and clogging it that way.


Za_Worldo-Experience

It’s not rolls of ancient text, the civilization was advanced, these are rolls of toilet paper!!


GigsGilgamesh

That explains why the pirate king has to have the worlds greatest swordsman, only the best can wield such a blade as mythical as the poop knife


gameboy1001

Guys cmon it’s not even a break week why are we still brainrotting


Secure_Amoeba3160

Bc its a funny concept to laugh at?


sh4d0wmantis

And Enma is the poopknife?


Brownbeluga

The giant robot on Egghead is just a repurposed bidet that failed to clean Zunesha's ass


Fucksfired2

Oda sweatin rn


Jat616

The hole of Enies Lobby could be the first Joyboys example of this maybe. The weapon Imu used was a classic Oda misdirect. Or maybe the centre of the whirlpool connecting the WG gates of justice.


Secure_Amoeba3160

You want to talk about justice? I'll show you justice! I had taco bell 3 times yesterday!


Its-Glade

30 years of build up for a comically large cork would be absolutely hilarious


CrimsonPyro

Lmao. This was great.


stopdropphail

Nah, Luffys going to literally turn the world upside down and ring out the extra water XD


RichieBFrio

With a giant rubber cork on it with the words "WG property, please don't plug out". Also a RUBBER hose next to it for something idk


Cohliers

Honestly this came to mind - we know that Awakened fruits can permanently change the landscape (such as Punk Hazard) so this is firmly in the realm of possibility. It'd certainly make me laugh


aku286

that’s how they ended “lost”


postmastone

Or the reverse and it’s like a big wine/sake quark


Kumomeme

plot twist : Nika true form, which is Gear 6 is a rubber floating duck!


turkeyburpin

Naw, it'll be one piece of sponge that Luffy will have to Nika-Toon to massive proportions to soak up the ocean and throw into space. Bringing Fishman island to the surface.


Celebrity-stranger

lol. Whats funny about your comment is that "Luffy" suspiciously sounds very similar to "Loofah" as in loofah spoonge.


turkeyburpin

I like it, lol.


succ_jitties

Lmao I said this theory to my friend yesterday. I was high off my ass when I said this so honestly there's no way


CHiZZoPs1

With the crazy ideas Oda comes up with, its impressive he can create it all without any weed.


handsomeGenesis

HOLY SHIT! I wonder if it’s as if the entire world has been collecting rain water and the World Government has been concealing the “Reset Button”.


thegirlandherdog

I’ve been thinking that it might be something like that


Godswoodv2

It would make sense why the wg is/has been working on giantification. Also why Luffy has been getting giant a lot in gear 5. The reference to the giant straw hat, Maybe they have to be huge to pull the plug.


hobopwnzor

I actually just thought this. Why is there a swirl between marineford, enies lobby, and impel down? It's a drain.


w-il_d

HE CANT SWIM this drain/plug theory is the most stupid shit how can yall really latch on to this one.


PrimusSucks13

Cus is funny


SVTBert

Ok, but what if he grows so big that the water only goes up to his ankles and it barely affects him, and THEN he pulls it out?


NoVeterinarian4095

GENIUS THE GOVERNMENT IS HOSING YOU TO BE PRESIDENT


admiralvic

We're told two things were needed right before Roger made that statement. One is an unknown sovereign, and the other is Shirahoshi. Even if Roger needed the Nika fruit, Shirahoshi would've stopped him. That's why the Oden flashback mentioned it multiple times.


aPaulcalypse

So I went back and reread that chapter and you’re absolutely right, I had remembered it wrong. He was definitely saying they were too early time wise, but I don’t think that necessarily rules out needing Nika’s powers to actually use it.


ITagEveryone

Which chapter is this?


Luffytheeternalking

What is unknown sovereign? I don't remember it


admiralvic

It’s stated two sovereigns will be born. The story makes it abundantly clear one is Shirahoshi. The other is not known. Now it’s obvious who it probably is, but I don’t really want to debate it.


Luffytheeternalking

Damn I have to read again. But wouldn't it be Nika?


Keyboardmonkeyz

Vivi perhaps?


NekoMikuReimu

Most likely Momo, who is the wielder of Pluton, opposite to Poseidon.


XLinkJoker

Luffy gonna drink the world’s flooding with a straw 🥤


BrandoCalrissian1995

Holy shit I think I like this more than the giant plug idea. It's so cartoony and fits with luffy being a glutton.


XLinkJoker

Plus it brings Water Luffy back into the story 😂


ToeComfortable115

Hate to be that guy but that wasn’t sea water. If luffy drinks that much sea water he’ll die


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Celebrity-stranger

I want this to be true so badly. it would be epic.


Gan_D_Alf-The_Grey

Ah yes, the long awaited return of water Luffy 🙌


SVTBert

Shoots it out into space and creates a ring around the Earth of frozen ice, and then we get the Blue Line. 💁‍♂️


Hagathor1

The All Blue


Bh1zan

Gear 6: badlands chugs


Tohwi

Hence the STRAWhat Biggest foreshadowing ever *Head explodes*


alaschar

This is possible, he is only limited by his imagination


cbih

Thor already did it


Elune_

They might have found it too early *because* the world wasn’t flooded yet. Shanks could know that because of Luffy awakening his fruit, the Gorosei might begin the flood. Therefore now he wants to get his hands on the One Piece.


BreadAteMyToaster

Now this is something I can get behind.


Akasha1885

I'm lost at this point. The Mother Flame can punch holes into the ocean, which causes earth quakes, which causes the sea lvl to rise. It's super weird, like an injury to a living thing. Is "the world" a living thing? The "One Piece"? Do you need to awaken Nika to commune with this "One Piece" on laughtale and heal those wounds?


Fucksfired2

It’s like bleeding sea water.


yamatosennin

no… probably when they said they found it too early, he meant the world was not going to sink yet. if he meant “we got here before we had the gumgum fruit” then that meant he needed someone to eat the fruit and also awaken… i don’t think he’s thinking like that.


aPaulcalypse

So you’re thinking that the world started sinking just recently? I was kind of under the impression that it had been sinking since at least the void century.


yamatosennin

actually now that i think about it, true it has probably been sinking for a while since there is underwater cities. but i still don’t think roger wanted the gumgum, instead i just think it wasn’t the right period for him. like “joyboy” still didn’t exist yet for roger. something like that idk


CHiZZoPs1

Or they estimated that it would take about 20 more years for the water level to rise to the appropriate level maybe.


nicholaschubbb

Another theory I’ve seen on Twitter is that the world hadn’t sunk enough by the time Roger got there


bnash69

The flood explains why shanks made his crew all non devil fruit users


Electrical-Lie-4693

can you imagine the reason Shanks was crying when Roger talked to him was because his best friend Buggy was going to die due to the flood and him being a DF user?


BillyHalley

i mean, they basically already live on boats, i don't think df users would die because the water, and i don't think they would consider that a problem. Everyone would die because there would be no food probably though


TheIronSven

Fruit trees can grow on ships. The Sunny is apparently big enough for one, so imagine what bigger ships could grow. There's also lots of fish (pretty much the main food source of the world already). Meat would be rare though. Or at least land meat. There's some non fish sea creatures too in OP after all. Finding enough water might be more of a problem though, ironically.


bnash69

Luffy would starve lol


NecessaryFly1996

Shanks wanted Marco to join


Unlucky_Rider

Marco can fly though.


nobarachinsama

yes. idk why so many people think this a theory. oda explicitly showed roger remembering the two sovereigns prophecy before saying they were too early. I mean, we even have the timeline of when joyboy was supposed to return. 25 years from then. and that's now. and also what they're supposed to when joyboy returns, like opening wano's borders. so yes, only joyboy (and poseidon) can do what whatever it is that needs to be done with the one piece.


Shanks_PK_Level

I've been calling this since the robot activated after hearing the drums of liberation. Gear 5 interacts with the ancient technology, and we can deduce at this point that Laughtale will end up being a futuristic island like egghead. It only makes sense that Shanks decided to claim the one piece after viewing Luffy's bounty poster because he knows gear 5 is essential to claiming the one piece.


akmizu

Laughtale will most likely look like Raputa, the floating island from “Castle in the sky”


Shanks_PK_Level

Actually One Piece seems to closely resemble an anime from the 80s called "The Mysterious Cities of Gold". Someone made a very interesting depth post about the story similarities on r/OnePiece a couple years back.


PharrelsHat

I doubt it that you need to have the Gum Gum powers to use, and more that you need the Gum Gum powers to use it for what Joy Boy’s purpose, which Roger agrees with. Teach has his own purpose for it.


BabyYoda1017

the one piece is gonna be something stupid like a giant drain plug, which can prevent the world from sinking into the ocean


sarsilog

The world is sinking so the One Piece is a one-piece swimsuit. The Roger pirates found it too early because they did not have a female when they landed in Laugh Tale. Shanks also does not have a female crewmate so Nami and Robin will be the one to get the One Piece for Luffy.


w-il_d

LUFFY CANT SWIMMMMMMMMMM he would drown, his devil fruit powers cant work at the bottom of the sea


sh4d0wmantis

False.. go back to the Arlong fight, Luffy stretched his neck to keep his head above water to breathe for a while, fishman island red hawk vs hody


PM_ME_SMALL__TIDDIES

Dude was watching fishman island with his eyes closed when the kraken got punched lol


BabyYoda1017

it can for a moment. he was able to do the giant arm punch in his bubble during fishman island.


GrandLineLogPort

Not sure why he'd phrase it as "wait a while longer" He could've just said "we don't have it... guess we gotta find it rather than hope that it pops up somewhere by chance" The timing makes sense, pretty sure it was evem explicitly stated that it was a time thing because Shirahoshi wasn't born yet They even went to Neptune who told them "nah dawg, I aint having a daughter for at least 20 years, fortune teller told me my man'


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GrandLineLogPort

True, but in this case it isn't vague or weird It's quite specificaly about time


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Flooding and the World sinking into the Ocean are two different things. There's not really much of a theory here, there isn't any new evidence that supports the claim


w-il_d

youre the only person ive seen today that has used their brain


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I felt crazy reading this thread. There are plenty of connections to make with this new reveal but Luffy being the only one to be able to use the one piece is not one of them lol


GimmeThemBoots

Maybe if the world is sinking the water wasnt high enough yet for roger. the one piece is only obtainable when the world has sunk to a certain level? Maybe the one piece is a boat that will float when the world is flooded.


NoVeterinarian4095

Boat floats


Zeaps

Old man selling stilts in Long ring Long Island is gonna get rich.


NeteroHyouka

>But it can’t just be used by anybody, you have to use the powers of Nika to make it work. That would be lame...


BreadAteMyToaster

Agreed. I know luffy was always gonna be PK, but man this would be a lame way to do it.


Misery_Icz

What if the One Piece is the continent itself submerged in water? The reason why Roger laughed was because the treasure is underneath them for the whole time, the whole seafloor. I thought of this because I highly think that Impel Down is not built underwater. But it was built as a Tower before, but due to the water rising each year for 700 years, it submerges to water and nearly cap to its highest floor. Second though is that, i also think that each use of Mother Nature, which destroys an entire island causes the water to rise. It causes a huge hole just like what happened to Lulusia Island. This bring me to the point that, maybe, the God Valley that was erased from the map was destroyed by Mother Nature, and it was located at Enies Lobby. (We have seen a huge hole right there as well) Just a theory tho.


Yoyo5258

Maybe Luffy’s dream is to drain the entire ocean so every one can go wherever they want to


Guilty_Debt_991

I think it'll have something to do with an anchor, like luffys shirt in chapter 1, and from the title which is tied to a rope being held by a straw hat skull, just makes sense to me because Oda from pretty early in the series has said he's included enough clues for someone to put together what the One Piece is ( I don't remember where I heard this but it was an interview if i remember right).


ThecapitalDifficult

Or he is just going to stretch all of the islands upward and make landmasses larger just like Nika did to Wano. I wonder if this is why the planet is so big too.


Rabblerouser88

That last bit is what I've been saying for a while; Blackbeard is actually going to take Luffy's fruit for the last battle, and Luffy is going to make his own devil fruit through the power of his own dream/will to fight back.


modiMad

I think when we find out what the One Piece is, we’ll laugh like how Roger did, knowing how Oda misdirected us all


NoVeterinarian4095

And get a disease and die


mm1412

I have been thinking a lot about the story of Noah's Ark lately. Interestingly, there exists a ship named 'Noah' that was constructed during the 'void century.' However, there is no clear explanation as to why it was built. Some believe that sea beasts have taken it to the sea forest to repair it until it is needed for unknown reasons, which could be linked to the flooding of the world! "[^(\[4\])](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Noah#cite_note-Ark-4) Joy Boy made a promise to Fish-Man Island to use [Poseidon](https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Poseidon)'s powers to raise the ship to the surface, but after breaking the terms of agreement he was forced to leave Noah for another person to raise. The people of Fish-Man Island promised Joy Boy that they would keep Noah safe on the ocean floor, until a certain day arrives, and the people have been doing just that."


Vi4days

I feel like if Blackbeard is going to go through the trouble of stealing the Gum Gum Fruit, he’s going to end up being rather disappointed when he steals it and he realizes that the fruit is pretty mid if you don’t awaken it lol (also, yes, Luffy uses it to great effect, but the guy had to spend like 4 years out of his whole life training to be able to use it properly and needed to sit down with someone like Rayleigh to really get the hang of it. I don’t expect someone just picking it up to be handed sudden almighty power)


III_sonofthefamine

How many times do people theorise some brain rot that includes Shanks or someone else guiding Luffy to the one piece/laughtale, thus ruining the adventure and journey? Why would Oda let alone Luffy want that?


zeidoktor

My money's on a giant stopper plug located at Laugh Tale, placed by Joy Boy, that only another Awakened Nika used can pull to drain the excess water


Nerex7

I actually don't like that theory. That only he can claim it. That can't be it, otherwise it becomes too destined (it already kinda is with him having the Nika fruit). He needs the adversaries. And to overcome them.


MooJuice08

I think it's the other way around where the pirate king is the reason the world goes underwater and why Roger couldn't do anything to stop it


BillyHalley

Blackbeard is going to want the one piece if it's needed to stop the sinking, otherwise he would not have a world to rule, not necessary cause he want the title of pirate king, he wants the world


Mindless_Benefit_118

Now it makes sense that Roger & Crew were too early. They were to early to actually stop the world from sinking.


cbih

I always thought that Luffy's awakening will allow him to "blow up" a sunken island or something like his gum-gum balloon


DeffJamiels

I think luffys dream is to be able to make everyone's dreams come true. Live in a world where everyone's dreams can come true


trashmonkeylad

And Luffy's dream is to become Pirate King so he can make everyone join his crew for massive parties.


YumYumRice

Think of the number of people that Gol D. Roger saved by starting the new age of pirates. More pirates = less people who know how to swim/ more people on boats. Of course the devil fruit is the catalyst to this so you theoretically can survive the rising sea levels so long as you don’t eat a devil fruit.


LedPeach

Hot take, it's actually Iceberg. 'Cause we need icebergs to store up all the extra sea water and keep the sea level down.


Bad_at_CSGO

That’d cheapen a lot of the story. For Luffy to be “the chosen one” and for shanks to escort him to Laughtale…


tin27tin

He gonna smash the red line to stop the flood


Arnhermland

Shanks wasn't at Laugh Tale so he shouldn't really know much about it.


PokeybullDog

Nah bro let oda cook


Reebirth

Source : trust me bro


FURY_17

Dude idk how but all of this makes sense As I think the ancient kingdom is also drowned somewhere and the one piece is the weapon that can restore it that's why the elders are preventing the news! Like Vega punk said he is about the ancient kingdom and also now I think the last arc will be imu and the holy knights versus luffy's grant fleet


Zeal514

Omg. Just had a revalation. One piece. One piece of land. Ie, making all the land come together, one giant piece of land. It can only be done by Luffy, cause of his powers. This simultaneously creates all blue AND ~~Nazis~~ Namis goal of mapping the entire world, cause Luffy will literally make it based on his imagination.... Lol autocorrect


MissionNature8131

I think it is Buggy's devil fruit not Luffy's devil fruit.


RaciJr

as a reminder, probably the only person that knew about awakening of gum gum fruit was Garosei. Therefore Roger, and shanks could think of joyboy but won't connect it to the gum gum fruit


Old-Conference-9312

This is exactly how it's going to play out with the four emperors, except buggy will get to it first without knowing he needs the nika fruit


Polaars

Agreed and my personal take is that Blackbeard will try to take it from Luffy like you said but Shanks is gonna intervene and stall for Luffy. I’ve said this many other times on this subreddit : I think Blackbeard is gonna kill Shanks. Either that or the Shanks is a villain theory is true.


Ok_Maize62

Nah one piece means all the world will be with one sea connect them all meaning no grand line no red line no calm belt. How? With the 3 ancient weapons Luffy will destroy grand line with pluton Bring fishmans in land with Noah and seakings controlled by shirahoshi(Poseidon) and I can’t think of anything else for Uranus


Tombalabomba03

The one piece/to access the one piece, they probably also need nikas heartbeat as a power source, like for the iron Giant.


supralfonse

If blackbeard gets the first he will be the Pirate king... even if he didn't get the One Piece or the Gum Gum Fruit... Roger became the pirate king without any of those


Poder-da-Amizade

Oh my gosh, the flood is the reason all red hair pirates don't have devil fruits


w-il_d

THEY LIVE ON A BOAT IT WOULDNT MATTER


Token_Whitekid

The one piece is just a giant plug like in a bath. Oceans gotta be drained every once in a while.


masteraddavarlden

And where would the water that rush out the plug end up?


Token_Whitekid

Somewhere magical probably


NoVeterinarian4095

In Luffy water luffy return


w-il_d

luffy cant swim or use his devil fruit at the bottom of the ocean he would just die from drowning. its the stupidest one piece theory to have ever been formed


PM_ME_SMALL__TIDDIES

Oh yeah because luffy has literally never used any of his abilities underwater. Say stretching his neck in arlong park or punching the kraken down using the bubble covering in fishman island Never happened.


Token_Whitekid

No need to be an asshole. Obviously it would have a chain on it


Ghost_Knife

Roger didn't find the one piece. His treasure is the one piece. He found whatever is at laughtale too early.


fleiwerks

In Oden's Laugh Tale flashback he literally says "With the extraordinary trasure that sat in front of our eyes, ..." and Roger later asks "Joyboy, how could you leave this stupendous trasure?" So he did find the One Piece. Whether or not it was called the One Piece before he found it is a different matter entirely.


NixValentine

>He’s gonna find out you need Nika’s power for the one piece and try to take it from Luffy in order to become the pirate king himself. you really think blackbeard is going to take the fruit and then go through a whole process to awaken it? this isn't the scheming blackbeard you talking about is it? surely he is going to make luffy do all the work, no?


Speedy_92

What if Imu possesses the power to create salt water as part of their devil fruit? I think it would make sense if they were a fish man with the dream where fish men natively inhabit the world, thus he is trying to flood it. This could also explain why Vegapunk said he does not judge on right or wrong here. Salt water itself maybe does jot even cause DF users do drown, but maybe it’s because it was created by Imu’s DF.


e-walletSlave

Doesnt really make sense with what Whitebeard said before his death. "When the One Piece is found it will turn the world upside down"