Ngl
It's sad as fuck to see yet another character becoming a nepo baby with special lineage.
BB was way more interesting when he was unrelated to Rocks
@Baldwin
Oda really wasn't subtle at all when naming BB's ship.
I still like more the fan theories where either Buggy (same lineage, without the will) or Croc (same plan for a utopia to replace the WG
at all costs) are Rocks' son, while BB is someone inspired by Rocks' legacy and who is just as messed up, if not more.
It made sense, too.
Luffy inherits Roger's will, and is chosen by a freedom-god DF.
BB inherits Rocks' will, and is chosen by a chaos-god DF.
No blood needed.
And it reinforces both the themes of inherited will and returning cycles of liberation/destruction.
IMU becomes the system/status quo that both Luffy & BB want to topple, albeit with different means and for different reasons.
BTW, If Roger-Shanks-Luffy are variants of JoyBoys, two failing, while the third finally succeeds, who was the middle counterpart in the Rocks-???-BB equation?