Now that we’ve seen Loki’s full beast form, I think it’s basically confirmed that Loki’s transformation in the dragon on the tree in the mural:
In this mural, we can clearly see the dragon (Loki) clashing with the giant serpent on the right, which is likely the Hellfire Serpent mentioned in the First World Harley text. Since the dragon creature got incarnated as a DF, wouldn’t it make sense for its rival, the Hellfire Serpent, to also be incarnated as a DF? If so, I think that Shamrock would be a good contender for possessing this DF.
Oda definitely set up a future confrontation between Loki and Shamrock at the beginning of Elbaf, with Shamrock stabbing Loki 3 times, being partially responsible for Loki’s animal friends dying, and pretty much taunting Loki to fight him later on.
Of course, Oda could always just have Loki stomp Shamrock low/mid diff if he really wanted to, but I think Shamrock is too narratively important to be done dirty like that. He is the identical twin brother of Oda’s beloved Shanks after all, and was important enough to be placed on the contender spread. So if Shamrock will be strong enough to give Loki a good fight, then he would need to have something ridiculous up his sleeve to contend with a monster like Loki, and him possessing the Hellfire Serpent DF would be enough to justify him being Loki level.
I’d also like to point out that Loki and Shamrock do share the similarity of both possessing Mythical Zoan weapons, with Shamrock’s Cerberus sharing a “Hell” theme that would go along well with him being the owner of the “Hellfire Serpent” fruit.
In this mural, we can clearly see the dragon (Loki) clashing with the giant serpent on the right, which is likely the Hellfire Serpent mentioned in the First World Harley text. Since the dragon creature got incarnated as a DF, wouldn’t it make sense for its rival, the Hellfire Serpent, to also be incarnated as a DF? If so, I think that Shamrock would be a good contender for possessing this DF.
Oda definitely set up a future confrontation between Loki and Shamrock at the beginning of Elbaf, with Shamrock stabbing Loki 3 times, being partially responsible for Loki’s animal friends dying, and pretty much taunting Loki to fight him later on.
Of course, Oda could always just have Loki stomp Shamrock low/mid diff if he really wanted to, but I think Shamrock is too narratively important to be done dirty like that. He is the identical twin brother of Oda’s beloved Shanks after all, and was important enough to be placed on the contender spread. So if Shamrock will be strong enough to give Loki a good fight, then he would need to have something ridiculous up his sleeve to contend with a monster like Loki, and him possessing the Hellfire Serpent DF would be enough to justify him being Loki level.
I’d also like to point out that Loki and Shamrock do share the similarity of both possessing Mythical Zoan weapons, with Shamrock’s Cerberus sharing a “Hell” theme that would go along well with him being the owner of the “Hellfire Serpent” fruit.

