- Buggy is old enough to be Vivis uncle (buggy is 39, she's 18)
- Rayleigh is old enough to be Cobras dad. (Rayleigh is 78, Cobra is 50)
- Roger is never actually shown in Alabasta, but its implied he went there, because the battle of edd war was over Shiki wanting Roger to tell him the location of one of the ancient weapons. He didn't go to Skypeia until the journey with Oden much later, on top of Poseidon not being born yet, so its likely it was over Roger finding out about Pluton from the poneglyph in Alabasta. It doesn't seem as if anyone knows anything about Uranus yet, so I don't think it's that either. This is also after Buggy eats his devil fruit.
-In all the early Buggy/Roger flashbacks like the argument over the poles + buggy eating his devil fruit + the Oden adventure, Rayleigh is wearing very Alabasta-style purple robes with a wide sash tied on the side. Compare his outfit to Chaka's or Cobra's and they look like the same designer made them.
-The Vivre Card databooks say Buggy was born in the Grand Line but don't say where. and finally...
-Both of them have blue hair.
I'm serious though. Why is Rayleigh a CoC user? Why is his nickname "Dark King"? Perhaps he was, at a very young age, in line to be or newly installed as king of Alabasta, and felt suffocated by the position. He left his country behind to steal a boat and sail around, then sailed with Roger and became a pirate.
Maybe they picked up Buggy on the second trip? Titi (his sister?) was queen, and he had no path to the throne in that case, so why not become a pirate? Then he could get more treasure than any king or queen. And Rayleigh would vouch for him and understand wanting to shirk the royal life for adventure. Maybe that's Buggy's last and biggest secret revelation about his storied past. He's a Nefertari. And now that the gorosei seem to want to erase this bloodline from existence, he's going to want to keep this a secret.
- Rayleigh is old enough to be Cobras dad. (Rayleigh is 78, Cobra is 50)
- Roger is never actually shown in Alabasta, but its implied he went there, because the battle of edd war was over Shiki wanting Roger to tell him the location of one of the ancient weapons. He didn't go to Skypeia until the journey with Oden much later, on top of Poseidon not being born yet, so its likely it was over Roger finding out about Pluton from the poneglyph in Alabasta. It doesn't seem as if anyone knows anything about Uranus yet, so I don't think it's that either. This is also after Buggy eats his devil fruit.
-In all the early Buggy/Roger flashbacks like the argument over the poles + buggy eating his devil fruit + the Oden adventure, Rayleigh is wearing very Alabasta-style purple robes with a wide sash tied on the side. Compare his outfit to Chaka's or Cobra's and they look like the same designer made them.
-The Vivre Card databooks say Buggy was born in the Grand Line but don't say where. and finally...
-Both of them have blue hair.
I'm serious though. Why is Rayleigh a CoC user? Why is his nickname "Dark King"? Perhaps he was, at a very young age, in line to be or newly installed as king of Alabasta, and felt suffocated by the position. He left his country behind to steal a boat and sail around, then sailed with Roger and became a pirate.
Maybe they picked up Buggy on the second trip? Titi (his sister?) was queen, and he had no path to the throne in that case, so why not become a pirate? Then he could get more treasure than any king or queen. And Rayleigh would vouch for him and understand wanting to shirk the royal life for adventure. Maybe that's Buggy's last and biggest secret revelation about his storied past. He's a Nefertari. And now that the gorosei seem to want to erase this bloodline from existence, he's going to want to keep this a secret.
