#op yamato
Wow I forgot to post this here I’m so dumb
Anyways I belive in Yamato supremacy
Just wanted to draw Yamato again after so long
You said you’d come back here!
I wanna live freely!
One Piece Episode 1015
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Thinking about the 3 most recent people to have clashed with Kaido on Onigashima, and the one thing they all have in common:
Luffy
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One Piece 911 | 1042
Yamato
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One Piece 999 | 1024
Marco
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One Piece 999 | 1043
Kaido may have never met Ace, but Ace did come back for him. Ace is back for him, here and now.
And if we get a final fight between Kaido on one side and Luffy, Yamato and Marco on the other… then what
One Piece Episode 1003 | 1010 | 1013
These three scenes from the recent episodes on Wano struck me as similar at first because of the way Marco, Corazon and Yamato say the word “Free”. But as always with One Piece, there are other common threads woven in here - of Fathers, Fate, Loss, and Inherited Will.
Yamato has no freedom because he is the son of Kaido. Marco and Law, on the other hand, were both put on the path to freedom by their adoptive fathers.
Marco, the first son of Whitebeard, is no longer bound by his father’s voice, or his will. He is free to do as he chooses. Yamato, who felt bound to remain on Onigashima by his father’s will, is finally able to express his true desire with the help of Whitebeard’s other son, Ace.
Ace helps Yamato break free – metaphorically – from the shackles of Kaido, and realize his desire to follow in the footsteps of Oden; the same way that Ace himself sought to break free from the shackles of Roger, and would go on to follow Whitebeard, picking up the mantle previously held by Oden.
Law’s situation is a bit more nuanced; Corazon’s words still have a hold over him, but not in a way that takes away his free will. Sengoku ensures that Rosinante’s will, for Law to be free, is carried forward – by telling him that Corazon’s love for him, that the act of saving him, is not tied to Law’s status as a bearer of the Will of D. Where Law might have felt compelled to seek the true history in repayment of Corazon’s sacrifice, he now chooses to do so of his own volition. This freedom is a recent development – for all that Corazon willed him to be free, Law never truly escaped the shackles of Doflamingo until the man was defeated – by Ace’s little brother, Luffy.
Yamato rejects the hand dealt to him by fate in order to start on his path to freedom, whereas Law, upon finally gaining his freedom, sets out to find the meaning behind his fate. Their actions on Onigashima are driven by the will they inherited from another – Law by Corazon’s will, and Yamato by Oden’s – just as Marco’s very presence on Onigashima is driven by the will he inherited from Ace.
Law lost the father that nudged him towards freedom, Yamato lost Ace, and Marco… Marco lost them both. Yet of the three it is Marco – who carries in him a bit of Whitebeard, a bit of Ace, and a bit of Oden – that experiences freedom in the truest sense.
One Piece Episode 1013
Yamato: “Hey Ace tell me about your adventure”
Ace: “Alright you asked for it”
16273 stories about Luffy later:
Started T in April, I think he’d be proud
ONE PIECE SPOILERS
I’m so glad there was this scene with two trans characters using the baths that matched their gender identity/expression. In the past, it’s been difficult to tell how seriously Oda takes this kind of thing bc there have been a few questionable portrayals. I think it was made even better by how respectful Yamato and Okiku were about it in the previous panel after Nami asked Yamato if he wanted to bathe with her:
The characters are doing everything with respect and the best intentions which is so different from how Oda portrayed a lot of the okama stuff as nonconsensual.
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