It seems you are trying to convince yourself about that. I still have this theory that Yamato could die,and at the same time i have the theory that Yamato could join. We'll see which one of the two will happen,or maybe none of the two,and she travels on her own,for example. But i wonder why you seem so offended by the mere thought of someone considering Yamato's death! It could happen,like it could not. We'll see.
ok I ain't the one trying to convince here. You're the one entertaining the idea that she could die without sufficient evidence and flimsy reasons.
You keep saying that you have this 'theory'. well, let's hear it then?
You say that i'm 'offended' by your theory that Yamato could die, when i'm actually annoyed seeing all these death theories being pushed down on a likable character and potential straw hat for god knows why.
I'm not petty enough to get worked over people writing the deathbed for a fictional character, i just wanna know why people love pushing the death theories when it doesn't align with what One Piece has been like all along, that and also why people keep pushing these kind of theories even though most often then not these deaths don't end up happening. Law didn't die like people said he would back on Dressrosa and Jinbe didn't die on WCI like people said he would.
is yamato's death something you seriously 'believe' will happen, or is this something you 'hope' will happen? And if so why? for emotional impact and shock value? Or are you saying this is something that could happen just because? Cause i can't tell.
I hope i didn't come across as mean or disrespectful, and if so, i apologize to you in advance. I'm just tired and annoyed of death theories being pushed down a likable character for no good reason, despite the evidence shown throughout the whole story of One Piece up till now that this is something that Oda does not do.
And let me go a step further and consider your idea so it doesn't look like i'm just trying to shit on you and your opinion for no reason.
Character deaths in One Piece happen to serve specific purposes and also happen under specific conditions, And in the case for Yamato none of them are needed, viable, or even make sense:
Reason 1: To cause conflict. This is done for plot reasons and is also the final nail to have luffy fight the antagonists. Wapol killing dr hiluirk, orochi killing yasuie etc. But this won't happen because Luffy and the Straw Hats are ALREADY in conflict, even better they are already fighting. Its already too busy to have Yamato die now, and its too late to have Yamato die later. We are already well past that point.
Reason 2: To have a profound and intimate impact on ANOTHER important character. The straw hat backstories and ace's death are probably the best examples of this- but so are the other examples of chaka/vivi, law/Corazon and etc. Yamato's death will impact who and help whom exactly??
Reason 3: To villainfy the antagonist. Akainu killing Ace and Whitebeard turned him into a villain. Blackbeard killing Thatch turned him into a villan. Who's gonna kill yamato that isn't already a villian in the Wano Arc?
Reason 4: The death tells a moral lesson and acts as a consequence of bad decisions. Pedro died by sacrificing himself to pay up for his previous mistakes that killed his brother. Whitebeard is also another example. Yamato hasn't done anything wrong so this reason can't even work.
I get the impression that Yamato dying will make the Wano Arc a better story is the driving reason of why people want it to happen, something that i disagree with as well, and in my opinion won't make the story better. Cause that to me would mean that Oda has run out of ideas and must resort to shock value in the form of character deaths to tell a good story, which i know that is not what oda is like (he's not hajime isayama). And neither is Oda trying to be masashi kishimoto to have character death be the driving force of conviction in life like what he did with sasuke and the death of his parents and later itachi. The Straw Hats and even the story as a whole are driven by dreams and hopes of the future, not death and losses of the past. Even though the straw have had important people in their life die, rarely has there been a case of a character dying to help push the straw hats to the future. It already happened to Ace to help push luffy to get stronger and reach the new world. AND it helped bring the arrival of the timeskip.
It is both too late in the Wano story arc, and too early in the Yonko Saga for Yamato dying here to be considered a good idea, or even make sense for it to happen at all. It would actually make more sense to have yamato die to push another character close to her to join the straw hats or carry out their will and leave wano. But no such character exists. Yamato is already carrying the will of Oden, she isn't gonna be able to pass it down to anybody else- she is the one who has to carry it out, fulfil it and live on.
