
Blackbeard wants to be the strongest which is why he’s picking out the strongest fruits he can

Xebec and his crew definitely being an inspiration. Just a theory but yeah he probably wanted the darkness fruit because xebec himself had it. With him coincidentally taking the fruit of his strongest subordinate

Imo when it comes to the whole worlds strongest man and creature titles both of them are based on the fact they’re devil fruit users more than anything
- Whitebeard who was the strongest man had what many consider the strongest Paramecia fruit. Paramecia fruit in general turn the user into a super powered man
PARAMECIA LITERAL MEANING: Superhuman System - Kaido who was said to be the strongest creature had one of the strongest zoan fruits. Zoan fruits being able to turn the user into different types of animals or creatures
ZOAN LITERALLY MEANING: Animal System
LOGIA LITERALLY MEANING: Nature System

If he has the fruits of the strongest logia and paramecia users it’d make sense he’d try to do the same with his final zoan fruit. Especially considering they were all on the same crew being the captain main commander and apprentice

While I do think Kaido like Linlin will return stronger than ever with awakening + think it’d be cool if he returned to fight Blackbeard who’s going after pluton there’s a chance even if that happens that bb fails to take his fruit.
Why? Idk in story it can be handled a bunch of different ways. Out of story oda might not want to repeat fruits for luffy. I personally wouldn’t mind due to Blackbeard still likely using the fruit a lot differently. Probably focusing on the talons rather than using a weapon

Maybe he could take a fruit of someone else who can be considered to be the worlds strongest creature. Tho if Kaido returns awakened he should definitely fully get the recognition imo
Also don’t think warcury is stronger tbh and imu themselves is likely more than just a mythical zoan. So him taking kaido’s fruit would make a lot of sense