I really hope so! I'm so sick of death fakeouts and characters who are known for killing like Kaido, Big Mom, Kid and a dude literally named KILLER not killing anyone on-screen presently! And regarding Kaido and Big Mom, he mercy killed Oden and it was in a flashback too and his other kills were off-screen, whereas with Big Mom she only ever killed her own children! And even then, their deaths were undone too somehow? Moscato and Cream was it? ironically the "Ice cream guy" and "Cream guy" were both the ones who "died" lol.
You could say Kaido did "kill" Orochi on-screen and currently too ofc, but Oda cheated Orochi's death without explaining how, but it's probably either due to the theories with his Orochi DF and it's mythological powers or his head ninja Fukurokuju being based on the Buddhist god of resurrection or so?
We've got Brook's DF which resurrected him from death so why not too?
I wanted Hawkins to be a Blackbeard captain as his fatalist themes, voodoo speciality and being the whole "dark magician" and just using such underhanded tricks to protect himself fit perfectly with the BB pirates and Blackbeard himself especially.
I actually wanted Kidd and or Killer to kill Apoo for what he did to them, that immense betrayal from the beginning. It did make me wonder too, was Apoo serving Kaido back at Sabaody pre TS and thus was scouting out Kidd as a potential recruit for Kaido? Or he joined Kaido over the TS and then went to set up a fake alliance with Kidd and Hawkins? It really bothers me especially if it's the latter too, but I suppose Capone joined Big Mom relatively recently and gained a lot of power/rank/trust in her crew pretty fast too?
Hawkins taking Kidd as a hostage indirectly, what a cowardly move but fitting in such a cruel, pragamtic world, especially with pirates ofc. And as we've seen with Kaido and Big Mom, pirates can be both dirty and have a sense of honour still too. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to see Hawkins get wrecked hard by Killer even more than usual and hoping for Killer to get the win and for both him and Kidd to actually get some major feats and wins overall this arc.
Hawkins definitely afraid of Killer and thus indirectly Kidd too. He knows he's outmatched and imagine if Killer had fire techniques too? LMAO! I really love that idea some people here had recently of Killer targeting Hawkin's left arm and using that to "literally disarm him"
or using it to make Killer bleed out and Kidd will be "safe" due to losing his arm to Shanks or at least one of his crew ofc previously and ironically lmfao.
I really hope Oda gives some love to Heat and Wire but given how he's handled Law's crew so far especially Bepo, who should be going SAVAGE with Sulong here, I know that hope is in vain. Law has been around since Punk Hazard post TS and his crew have been just as irrelevant as the Wano team of Big Mom pirates that came but for several arcs now!
I really want to see Oda give Kidd the shine and ideally a solo Yonko defeat or even kill, especially Kaido with how personal his experiences are with him and thus that poetic/karmic/justified revenge too! I'm ZKK massively but at the same time, I'd love for Kidd to get the kill on Kaido, maybe even both working together to kill Kaido! Although I would priortise Kidd over Zoro due to those personal resons I mentioned too. But god knows I would LOVE to see both kick ass together somehow and even for Kidd to use that gigantic sword at Onigashimas entrance vs Kaido and Big Mom!
Also, I do believe Kidd is a D and I hope Oda does reveal it soon with his actual flashback and such with Killer. I know they go FAR back and their most hated food is Udon or Curry Udon specifically? Which makes them being imprisoned in Udon all the more darkly ironic?
I've been hoping Oda will give him multiple arcs like he did to Law and have Kidd competing with Luffy in a shaky alliance - rivalry for the One Piece and Laugh Tale but I think Kidd might have other agendas like Law and other Supernovas have too naturally.
Kidd was shown to hate Celestial Dragons and the WG back at Sabaody so that's one of the reasons I hope he will be revealed as a D as it fits his personality majorly too and he's the kind of character I see going out in the maddest blaze of glory when his time does eventually come too!
I also hope he's gonna be especially relevant vs Shanks in his arc and looking for revenge on him and there will be a massive conflict between him and Luffy on Kidd wanting to actually kill Shanks, not just defeat him ofc.
I'm so excited for Kidd's future character arc and roles and hope he will be instrumental vs the WG and so on.
Anyway, my essay is over lmfao, I said more than I intended to as usual haha.
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