Some food for though on this topic (pun not intended lmao):
Sadist troll Oda could be lulling us into another false sense of security like he did with the story before Ace fought Blackbeard and especially pre Sabaody to Marineford but I doubt it too. He's actually killing off some characters now too unlike pre TS which still only had fakeouts and only lasting deaths in flashbacks, as far as I remember?
I was shocked and disappointed how brazenly he killed off Saturn like that too. Also the apathetic offscreen, pathetic deaths of Izo and Asura too, but oh well. Especially with how he handled Kiku and Kinemon insultingly in man ways, especially in regards to those too as well.
Also the pathetic ways he ended the lives of Big Mom and Kaido, assuming they're not returning but I believe they will still and aren't actually dead, well I hope they're not actually dead because that would be so pathetic yet not surprising with Oda at this point sadly.
Damn thats an amazing pfp and sig btw
@MonsterKaido
After Nika Bonney too, this will probably happen unironically too and tbh I love these characters so I'd be happy with it but I know a TON of the fanbase, especially here, Piratefolk and a few other places will EXPLODE with fury like never before if it happens, especially as how an overwhelming amount of people here and in general HATE Edo Tensei in Naruto too, even though I love Edo Tensei and the 4th Great Ninja War for that regard too lol:
I actually want to see these characters return, for their living loved ones to reunite with them and give them more screentime and development. Fuck the stakes, fuck the tension, fuck the edginess, there's enough death IRL as it is, we don't need to be constantly reminded me of it. There's not a single day that goes by that I don't wish I had done more for my grandma, that I had been better to her and I keep wishing I could have gone instead of her, that she would still be here instead. Death fucking sucks. Its necessary but it fucking sucks regardless.
I actually loved Edo Tensei for letting us have certain characters reunite with certain characters and thus all that development and emotional reunions. I just wish we could have Jiraiya return too, Kishi fucked up with the most bullshit excuse to not bring him back too.
The Strawhats and dare I say Momo and Hiyori deserve to see their loved ones again, I've been DESPERATE for Zoro to see Kuina again, Brook to see his former crew and thus Yorki too, Chopper with Hiriluk, Nami with Belle-mere, Ace, Luffy and Sabo truly reunited and together again, Franky with Tom, Law with Corazon and Corazon seeing what hes become now, his beloved new crew who would die for him and the BEST BEAR
@Bepo D. Bear who risked his own life and went under his own Monster Chopper style moment to save his beloved emo goth tsundere captain too.
I really wanted Zoro to meet Kuinas and Ryuumas ghosts at Wano, if not his own familys ghosts too, Kuina at bare minimum though, having her ghost manifest from Wado Ichimonji as Zoro came extremely close to death (literally even with that fucking unexplained, stupid grim reaper moment, which could have just been a Brook gag too, at least it would have an explanation then) and Momo and Hiyori seeing their parents again, especially seeing Momo become a man, sacrificing his childhood and becoming Shogun and a fully grown dragon clone of Kaido's fruit ironically lol.
Fuck man, if Oda doesn't give us Brook reuniting with Laboon and thus summoning his whole crew as ghosts with his devil fruit and music (hallucinations/illusions at least), I'll genuinely never forgive him, even more than anything else he's done including what he did with Kidd, sigh.
I don't want anymore "good guys" to die, but I've always expected Shanks will die a Jiraiya style death at some point, either vs the BBP or the WG, more likely the former I guess or even both potentially depending on how things go and I expected Garp to die on Beehive there, but Oda seems to have spared him for the time being, maybe he will get executed ironically by Blackbeard on there later after a pirate version of the Marineford arc BUT with what happened and all that framing, that was the perfect timing to kill him off in front of his beloved former and current students, the former being part of the reason why Garp would die there too ironically ofc.
