Right?! I think it would be a very beautiful, powerful scene especially in the anime and I was partially inspired by Okami the game for it.
Something like this:
As an Okami superfan, I almost screamed IRL when Yamato's DF was revealed, it was so worth the teasing and wait in hindsight hehe. Perfect choice for her, I'm so grateful to Oda for it! So majestic, so beautiful!
It's also hilariously ironic that Amterasu the goddess of the sun herself who you play as in Okami in her holy white wolf form, restores life and thus beauty to the land as part of her powers, with a celestial/magical paintbrush too BUT in One Piece, Green Bull was the one doing that "unintentionally"/subconsciously with his DF LMAO! I really do wonder if Oda knew of Okami or even played it, far too much coincidence, with Yama herself even facing Green Bull too!
Some fun, relative food for thought too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/1299t2v
Also, something important to note is that in the video game, we go somewhere called the Ark of Yamato in an ice region
(A random fun fact too, a modern day IRL clan, a very recent one supposedly worships Amaterasu and guess their name?
KUROZUMI!)
https://yamato.fandom.com/wiki/Amaterasu
- Amaterasu is named after the sun goddess of japanese shintoism, the name had previously been used by the UNCF as a codename for Sheherzade, the iscandarian ship which brought Sasha Iscandar to Earth
Yamato class battleships (1941)
The Yamato was a Japanese battleship, the lead ship of her class, and one of the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever built. She was commissioned in December 1941 and sunk by American aircraft in April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go.
Yamato is the "Oni Princess" and imo each ancient weapon needs a princess or is a princess in Shirahoshis case lol. I expect Nami to be a princess and thus Uranus would be connected to her via weather manipulator/powers and Vivi for Pluton but this whole twist of Pluton in Wano and Yamato getting her cover story there, as she ended up staying behind, makes me think she's gonna find Pluton eventually as the big twist. Oda kept us from seeing Pluton and the SHs getting to see it for a reason.
This would have been so fucking cool too:
Imo Pluton will be the biggest battleship and can probably not only go extremely deep underwater like a submarine but also actually fly and be a flying ship and also go on land like Capone's tank battleship thing.
I've mentioned it before too but Pirate Warriors 4 really did a spectacular job with Yamato's moveset, gameplay, animations etc, she is so wonderful and badass to play as it in, extremely fun:
@MonsterKaido you may enjoy this post?
Aye thats fair, I was purposely forcing the Whitebeard Oden parallel there tbh. I was thinking he might be a bit skeptical because she changed her mind so suddenly after wanting to join so aggresively, so openly before.
Yeah that sounds right, that makes sense too, I like that a lot. She gets to redeem the Oni and also spread Oden's legacy and remind Wano of who the "real heroes" are as part of her farewell tour, then she can truly leave it in peace. She needs to see the world, not still be a prisoner to that place in one way or another. People who want her to stay don't really understand/respect her character imo.
Oh yes thats true, Blackbeard will find out about Pluton's location as as well as Shirahoshi and make his move for sure, we might really get Blackbeard at Wano and Shanks ironically turning up far too soon to catch him there, when he came by earlier ofc.
Maybe Blackbeard will be the one to break down the actual walls of Wano, instead of Yamato with Pluton as I hoped, but I want my completely wild headcanon of Buggy with his awakening doing it lololol. Oh well maybe in Two/Buggy/Clown Piece lmao. (Funnily enough, there's Touhou character called ClownPiece, Buggy's true daughter or his other daugher aside from Vivi? /s)
But I digress anyway. I do think Yamato's cover story will culminate in her leaving Wano and thus as you said, it would be a lot more emotional with the friends she's made and people she's recruited to help defend Wano in her place like Ulti and Page One. I expected her to reform the Beast Pirates and somehow convince them to help defend Wano, some of them at least.
Depending how loyal they still are to Kaido and her being his daughter, she might be able to exert some authority, even inherit the crew for herself possibly? With King and Queen seemingly out of the picture, god knows whats going on with Sasaki, Black Maria, Jack etc, surely Yamato should be able to get the rest to help Wano even if she has to appeal to their nature, be more pragmatic in convincing them?
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@CoC: Color of Clowns before I posted this too, whoops! ACT 4 BABY!