Theory Shadows of 1046's cover : Blackbeard, Oven's death and Vasco's fruit [Mystery Solved]

#1
Let's summarize the cover pages in Chocolate Town :

  1. Oven and Pudding are staring at Niji and Yonji in Chocolate Town.
  2. Oven is leaving the city with Brulee through the mirror.
  3. Oven and Brulee are arriving on Whole Cake Island, mysterious black silhouettes on sight. Not buildings, drawn just behind, not trees, drawn on both sides. A group is approaching, that's for sure.
  4. Suddenly, two silhouettes are facing inhabitants of Chocolate Town. They all are panicking and running. Only unfamous and strong pirates could cause that kind of reaction.

Who might they be ? Some of you pointed them to be Blackbeard Pirates. Well, YES THEY ARE.

Why do I think little silhouettes (at least 7) on the third cover are confirmed characters ? Because the two silhouettes on the fourth one can only come from the mirror, it is the same background between the first and the fourth cover, so the only way to be there is going through the mirror.

So what happened between the third and fourth cover ?! Oven has been killed by Catarina Devon and Brulee has been kidnapped to use the mirror path. Why ?


Oven came alone to bring Niji and Yonji to the scientist squad. Weird that Brulee disappeared in between. But overall, he is smiling and waving.. It is totally against his personnality. Just look the second cover above. He was always grumpy during all the arc and now he looks joyful just like Absalom was in front of Moria.. before revealing it was Catarina Devon.

Why killing Oven ? Remember their hunt for devil fruits ? They killed him and gave his fruit to Vasco Shot. WTF ?! Yes. In my opinion, Vasco Shot will fight Jinbe in the endgame :


- He stands like a fishman karateka.
- He looks like a blobfish and his rings are placed on usual bronchias.
- His title is the "Heavy Drinker" and he carries a gourd full of alcohol, a flammable liquid.
- He looks like a jester and a fire eater.

What a better fruit than the Netsu Netsu no Mi to ignite his alcohol and launch some fishman jujitsu with alcohol on fire ? That fruit can also heat up part of a sea, do you remember Oven using it against fishmen being grilled ?

I can't imagine a better fruit to fight against Jinbe, especially coming from the same tribe.

And, who would be the two silhouettes ? Kuzan (or Shiryu) to the left and Laffitte (or Augur) to the right. The shapes of capes, shoes and calves match. (Silhouette on the left could be confused with woman heels, but I think it is just man boots.)


And why would they be on Totto Land ? There is a Road Poneglyph and Pudding is a three-eyed girl. They might be heading for Laugh Tale !

I personally assume that Jesus Burgess is already a three-eyed man. Maybe they want to link the both of them for some reason..

Thanks for reading me, what's your thought ?!

(It cannot be Reiju and Ichiji : capes and shoes don't match / they are wounded and far away from the island / inhabitants would not panick as much as they are doing.)
 
#2
I always thought it would be weird for one of the major players not to turn up in WCI while the whole world actually knows Big Mom is not there. I can't remember the chapter but BB inferred of it was leaked to him that BM is going to wano.
It's also well known both Kaido and BM each have a red Poneglyph. At least all the major players on the world know that.
 
#4
I wont mind this however one panel of Oven smirking aint it, but I can see his fruit being stolen tho, seems like Oda might opt for underused fruits for BBP.

However I don't think Vasco Shot will have it, to me it seems the Catarina Devon/Sanjuan Wolf/Vasco Shot trio were already df users prior to the timeskip, they were regarded as big name pirates before their capture and forgotten in level 6, so make sense they are df users, Catarina and Sanjuan were confirmed as such so might well be the case with Vasco shot.

Good chance Doc Q had already a df too prior to the timeskip to explain his sickness condition, either him or his horse or both.

But someone other than them might get it.
 
#10
It is a well put together theory. Good job @Moliow .

I am not convinced about the Fishman karate part though. Vasco is the clown/jester of the crew. this goes all the way back to his early designs.. For that reason it is more likely for him to fight the Entertainer of the Strawhats: Brook.

Jinbe belongs to the Titanic BattleSHIP
 
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