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Law & the Voice of All Things

Oda's left enough back hooks that Law could be revealed to have the Voice of All Things at any moment and it would make not only complete sense but explain a confusing scene in Dressrosa that stuck out as being rather odd, both in manga and anime.

There have been a bunch of scenes that can be interpreted at hinting at VOAT for Law, but the thing that definitively made it stand out as plausible if not soft-confirmed is how the Dressrosan rooftop scene happened compared with Luffy's fall from Onigashima. Law communicates with Luffy in what appears to be telepathy, considering his mouth is closed and neither Doflamingo nor Trebol overhear anything. When the chapter first came out, people were wondering if it was perhaps the prelude to a flashback because it did not look like whispering. Weird, but ultimately ignored considering there were a lot more pressing things going on at the time and we'd yet to have Zou elaborate further on the Voice of All Things.

Then years later, Luffy falls off from Onigashima.

And suspiciously similar formatting appears. A telepathic communication that only the other can overhear in the exact same style of bubbled text. Law (unknown-speaker) and Luffy (VOAT-only listener) had communicated in the exact same way as Luffy (VOAT-speaker) and Momo (VOAT-only listener) did. Going even further, Law might've overheard Luffy talking to Momo as well (unknown-only other listener).

In 1015, when Luffy was telling Momo he's going to come back and kick Kaido's ass and Momo was translating that, only Kid reacts during this. Oda usually pairs him up with Law when doing this type of reaction scene so the exclusion is a notable choice. Immediately after that, Law's submarine and crew find Luffy. Then Law pops up and doesn't doubt it for a second, believing Luffy will be back up soon. It would make sense if he had heard it from Luffy already and knew he was fine.

It explains why Law wasn’t worried that time Luffy went down but then next time he was, because Luffy wasn't saying anything. And there's the fact both Law and Momo are shown reporting very specifically that Luffy's voice has gone out in that moment. It could just be observation haki but its incredibly suspicious to be tied together with Momo like that and the different reactions Law had despite Luffy, by all means, going down the same as before.

On a more meta level though, it's incredibly interesting that we have learned that Roger had a special way of hearing Poneglyphs that Luffy doesn't seem to replicate, meanwhile Law is off in the corner not saying anything and being a secretive D. who doesn't share with the class. Especially since Law has demonstrated the capacity to sense seastone since Punkhazard and "coincidentally" found the Ponegylph in Kaido's massive, sprawling castle.

Sensing seastone is probably the weakest point to mention since Poneglyphs are not made of seastone, but it is an interesting facet of Law's perception that I can't recall anyone else having. Since the VOAT is all about a unique talent of hearing both animals and objects, it is worth pointing out in my opinion.

This also explains how Law knew what chains on Punkhazard were safe to be enchained in if he is able to HEAR sense it. He can feel the energy of seastone and sneakily swap the chains about to be put on him with the identical non-seastone variety. He was able to send that note to Chopper without any noticeable Room or movement after all. Law is a sneaky dude.

Regarding hearing the Poneglyphs themselves, one of the odd things about Law instigating the Rockyport incident is that he was originally motivated by rumors of a Poneglyph being present on Hachinosu. Law having a prebuilt capacity to hunt down Poneglyphs by hearing them would give extra context to what he was doing looking for one, especially if he can glean anything from the voices within them like Roger could.

Shout out to the first scene that demonstrates just how shifty this bastard is and began to cause people to wonder; where Oda chooses to show he is conspicuously saying literally nothing ("....") while confirmed VOAT people are hearing things. Damnit Law! Telling us nothing and standing there suspiciously...

The evidence is not conclusive and most of it can be explained as different coincidences, but the allusions to Law potentially possessing it keep happening and that Dressrosa moment is suspicious. Trying to explain it away as "just whispering" isn't quite right, and seeing something similar occur between confirmed users of it made me genuinely believe Law has the Voice of All Things.

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ローコラ詰め合わせ Pixiv: ふこ @unko_1515

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Trafalgar Law and his giant gas cloud clown hostage + their matching mustaches

Dragging him around like a handbag. Amazing. Hilarious. Also so very darkly cunning of Law to put Caesar's heart in his own chest to make sure they both die if he dies, thus dooming Doflamingo to death by Kaido. Sososo clever <3

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that psych eval was correct. no issues. kakashi was the most perfectly broken child soldier assassin konoha ever produced. that's why they made him the president against his will. 👍

rewatched the first ep of the kakashi anbu arc. and it's so funny to me that minato assigned kakashi to anbu, quite literally the assassination and black ops force where all the members solely identify each other by animal names, then thought to himself "wow after rin essentially killed herself/he killed her, he's probably traumatized. that's something ppl are traumatized by, right?" and had another anbu basically give him a psych eval.

then the guy watched kakashi completely dissociate and murder four targets w no consideration for gathering more intel, willingly rip off his mask to let the last guy see his face before killing him in a blast that could be seen from above the treeline, and leave his face and identity fully exposed until the rest of the squad caught up to him.

and the guy reports back like "yh there weren't any issues 👍 great soldier. awesome at murder. brilliant fit for this job"

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DOG MAN KAKASHI

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the captain’s seat

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Heart🫶

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Little Hearts Chapter 11 - Words

Law tugs his hat down over his eyes, pressing gritted teeth to his knees. Too many thoughts branch out all at once inside his head. There are too many courses of action to consider and far too many things he needs to do. He should write them all down, pin them in place to look at them without emotion. He’d put it all in a notebook if he had one. He doesn’t though. There could be something to write on down in the kitchen, Law supposes, or in Penguin and Shachi’s room but… Cora-san had a notebook, didn’t he?

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I know Law is like THE Revenge Character of One Piece, and that it's over Corazon/Rocinante's sacrifice and death, but while I fully recognise why Law is fucked up and grieving due to that, I feel like a lot of people forget about his familys part in it?

As in, Law's birth family, his father and mother and little sister, and also his teachers and friends/classmates.

The point I'm trying to make here is how Law's upbringing and relationship with his family, and the terrible way he lost them, goes on to shape his relationship with Corazon and his reaction to losing him.

Law is a rare One Piece character who actually had a good childhood, for at least 10 years or so. He was raised by two loving parents, lived in a wealthy and comfortable home, was sent to a good shool to study something that interested him (medicine) and just overall had a pretty nice and peaceful life. His parents(?) or at least his father was a doctor, so I'm sure that Law was taught compassion from an early age, and I feel like that's something that sticks with him even as he goes through horror after horror: Kindness. Compassion. Mercy. All things Doflamingo tried to stamp out of him, and Corazon unwittingly fostered by showing Law all three.

Rocinante didn't make Law kind; he reminded him how to be.

It was a lesson taught to Law by his family first, but suppressed and forgotten about due to a need for self protection and survival. The world was cruel and called Law a monster, so he decided to be one, until Rocinante stepped in and shattered that by treating Law like what he was: a poor, sick, child.

I remember during the flashback of Flevance's destruction, one of Law's classmates say something like, "My parents are dead, but they'd have wanted me to survive. I'm going to live!" (He doesn't)

Meanwhile the Nun tells Law that the soldiers will let the children go (a lie), and that no matter how bad things get, there is still kindness and mercy in the world.

We then cut to the sight of their dead bodies, left spread on the ground where they were gunned down/slaugthered like animals. Law finds his parents in the same manner and watches the hospital with his little sister go up in flames, while she burns alive inside.

All this is to show us how Law loses faith in kindness and mercy.

Then Corazon, a man whose name literally means Heart, comes along and shows Law that no, those things do exist, (though Law will struggle to accepts this for years to come.*)

That's why Law goes on a revenge quest over Cora's murder. Because Corazon gave him his heart back: and I don't just mean the thinly veiled allegory in the form of a heart shaped devil fruit.

The big emotional break through in Law's and Corazon's relationship comes when Cora weeps over Law while he thinks that Law is asleep, and the show of compassion causes Law to cry, because no one else has pitied Law for his illness or misery before that: they've just tried to kill him.

Through his actions, Corazon comes to symbolise something Law had thought lost when he lost his family: unconditional love.

Cora's last direct words to him are, "I love you, Law!" While smiling a big bloody smile, because that's what he wants Law to remember: that he is loved. That even if Law lost the first people to love him, and then the second, Cora represents the hope that as long as Law stays alive, he'll meet more people and receive more love.

That's why you really can't seperate Law's relationship with and loss of his family, from his relationship with and loss of Corazon. The two become interconnected, and Corazon becomes a kind of figurehead representing Law's losses.

Law is just one person. He can't bring down the entire World Government, who caused the destruction of his homeland and the death of his family. But he can conceivably bring down Doflamingo, who symbolises many of the same things, and who killed Corazon.

Ahhh man, I just love the themes of Law's backstory so much. The main one being love and the shapes it takes: mercy, compassion and reciprocity vs. unconditional love, but also; freedom of choice.

They keep cropping up in real time with Law too: What was saving Luffy and Jinbe after Marineford? A whim, according to Law, but also an act of compassion and mercy. I'm sure he'd have saved Ace too, had it been possible for him to do so. Later that act of compassion comes back around to Law, when Luffy teams up with him to bring down Doflamingo-- Luffy becoming the one to finally break the shackles (or should I say strings) that are keeping Law a prisoner to his past, and setting him free.

During the Dressrosa showdown, when Law tries to stay behind, saying he dragged Luffy into this so he should either stay to witness him win, or die together with him if he loses, Robin informs him that Law couldn't have made Luffy do anything. Luffy is free, and is only doing what he wants. There are no secret terms or conditions tied to this.

Again, unconditional love, loss, compassion and freedom.

The other sub plots of Dressrosa are stock full of these themes too. Just looks at Rebecca and Kyros (and Scarlet), or Baby 5 and her whole deal with needing to be needed (to be loved)

*I believe part of Law's revenge is grounded in survivors guilt. After Dressrosa, when Law is still struggling to understand why Rocinante saved him, and brings up the Will of D, Sengoku tells him "Don't try to put a reason behind someone's love" and Law is seen holding back tears, looking like this is when he finally starts to accept it: Rocinante didn't want Law to succeed his mission, he just wanted Law to live, and to do so freely.

In short, Law is such a good character. 10/10, would torture again. I mean hey, it's not my fault that Law looks so pretty when he's covered in blood and suffering. Take it up with Toei/Oda. They know what they're doing

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This is the biggest downgrade in history and I’m not going to elaborate

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malandros

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Ok Marineford Doffy

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i made that first post after waking up from a weird dream i cant remember and then went back to sleep and then two separate law RP accounts reposted it'how would an onigiri eat an inu-inu fruit?' skill issue