Powers & Abilities "Power of Love" as we know till now.

#1
"To never doubt, that is power"
- Silvers Rayleigh

If Haki is the embodiement of the user's will, then "love" is probably the most powerful one, its the strongest feeling, if it's real, then it isn't dubious, there is no room for someone's doubts or wavering. Even Conquerors have doubts and moments of despair and weakness.

It's a power that makes the impossible something possible, someway, somehow.

It looks like this power was deeply within the Buccaneer's roots and culture, which means that they were probably the ones who made this become a thing.





I bet Oda is gonna use Gaban to go further into that. I believe that Luffy will eventually have to use that power to break limits, and he will share with his Right and Left Arm at least a very few abilities (Future sight is a given i guess, for the 3 for example...)


Overall, things could go like:

Zoro and Luffy can use CoC offensively.

Sanji and Luffy gonna be able to use "Love" the same way.

(Btw i could be wrong about what i said above, because there could be other stuff they can share with each other, not necessarily restricted to CoC or PoL...)

- Most people would think that it makes sense for Gaban to have CoC, and indeed, there is no problem with that. But i think Oda wants to explore different stuff through Luffy's most trusted and strongest subbordinates. Sanji as the Left Arm would fit the role.

- What if Garp's strength also gets explained through Power of Love? I mean, he is no swordsman, he has no Mythical or Logia Devil Fruits, no Lineage Factor modifications through scientific experiments, and he is still shoulder to should with Sengoku and co?

"Wavering is a sign of weakness"
- Monkey D Garp.



So to sum things up :quest::

- As silly as it may look sometimes, everything points out that "love" can make someone more powerful, but it still seems to be a quite rare ability (power of friendship *ahhh* ability);
- If willpower and the user's spirit translate into Haki as we know, then "love" can translate into something new.
- It seems to break the barriers of what science and Haki can pull up;
- Buccanners might have been its pioneers, and it explains Kuma being able to do what he did without Vegapunk not finding a proper explanation, same to Kizaru when Sanji blocked his laser, Kizaru's expression speaks by itself;
- Gaban, the "Preacher of Love", will probably display it in Elbaph, but perhaps not even against Luffy, he will use it to protect something important to him when things go dire.

The Legend of Nika was previously told to be a Buccaneer tale, but recently it was revealed that it's famous in Elbaph as well (and many other places it seems...), and as everyone knows, Devil Fruits exists through the dreams of people, they wish something so much that it becomes reality at some point: That was Vegapunk's theory.


If the Buccaneers were PoL users mostly, what if Nika embodies the PoL notion to a point where it completely distorts reality at free will? I mean, thats what Gear 5 does, isn't it? It explains why Luffy feels SO FREE when he is using it. Perhaps Luffy knowing more deeply about the PoL will make him much stronger, matching the whole point of his Devil Fruit and being able to use it without restrictions such as time limits, the fruit choose him for a reason!


The definition of "Pirate Jesus" indeed :suresure:


I could add a few more stuff, specially Sanji and PoL related, but it's too much already. Cheers
 
#4
Power of Love was always associated with impossible feats:
- I think the first instance that was mentioned by name was Garp punching Luffy. Oda got asked if this was haki, he said no. People said this a gag but than:
- In Thriller Bark Sanji zombie resisting direct orders and keep his OG personality way longer
- In Amazon Lili the old empress and boa say a hurricane of love can overpower destiny
- One that is very overlooked: In FMI Otohime mentions the power of love can bring the change Joyboy failed to bring

(@nik87 you might be intressted in this for you void century theory)
- in egghead, Sanji can tank attacks from an enemy that can do internal damage that has FMK and liquid acess
- in egghead again, Kuma can move and think despite his brain being disabled for days and keeps doing so. Something the "god of science" thinks it impossible
- in egghead again Sanji can shatter a laser, something who the 2 local experts on lasers, franky and Kizaru, cant explain
- and finally in egghead again, Vegapunk mentions as a power that he cant explain


I think those are all instances

It seems to be tap into the energy that Vegapunk says it all around would be my theory/wish

I hope its not CoC or something, would be incredible boring
 
#5
Power of Love was always associated with impossible feats:
- I think the first instance that was mentioned by name was Garp punching Luffy. Oda got asked if this was haki, he said no. People said this a gag but than:
- In Thriller Bark Sanji zombie resisting direct orders and keep his OG personality way longer
- In Amazon Lili the old empress and boa say a hurricane of love can overpower destiny
- One that is very overlooked: In FMI Otohime mentions the power of love can bring the change Joyboy failed to bring

(@nik87 you might be intressted in this for you void century theory)
- in egghead, Sanji can tank attacks from an enemy that can do internal damage that has FMK and liquid acess
- in egghead again, Kuma can move and think despite his brain being disabled for days and keeps doing so. Something the "god of science" thinks it impossible
- in egghead again Sanji can shatter a laser, something who the 2 local experts on lasers, franky and Kizaru, cant explain
- and finally in egghead again, Vegapunk mentions as a power that he cant explain


I think those are all instances

It seems to be tap into the energy that Vegapunk says it all around would be my theory/wish

I hope its not CoC or something, would be incredible boring
:finally:
 
#7
‘Power of love’ is the power to protect.
Maybe... But Haki can be used for defense as well, what if "love" can be used offensively in order "to protect"?

What i wanted to add about Sanji is about his "passion". He ties it to his flames, Queen couldn't find an explanation for him busting into flames other than being a Lunarian (obviously that would be tied with the fact that Judge made several modifications to his children, Queen knows all of that, but he didn't find explanation for the flames to tell the readers tho).

"My passion surpasses the temperature of flames" :quest:

Need to find out if Sanji is just yapping nonsense or if there's an actual logic behind it. Im getting tired of waiting :seriously:
 
#11
I think ‘Love is a hurricane’ will be an important part of Gaban’s fighting style. He may be able to generate storms by twirling his axes, which would also explain how he creates whirlpools (assuming he is the Burned Scar Man.

I don’t think the Power of Love is an actual power but is the strength/ will that motivates people who are passionate about protecting their loved ones. It’s a source of strength.

I may be wrong and Oda may have PoL be an insane ability that is akin to haki and may be how you hurt the Gorosei.
 
#15
I wish both power could coexist as two different sets of power, similar to how it coexisted in Bleach universe. While supreme color haki acts as an intimidating fear that makes people around you unable to move (like as Asnodt's), the power love acts as an overwhelming force that helps people around you move (like Pepe's arrow that symbolically move people, albeit different context since he was the antagonist). Garp's power of love also moved the young marines' heart to keep going. Same mechanism how Sanji gained allies Viola and pudding

So far, we know that power of love has been introduced since Garp punched Luffy, and we could say that it's as old as the introduction of haki itself. Thing is, the power of love characterization shown in the manga and what happens in bleach is rather similar. It's been getting more and more exposure too.

Let's take a second that Sengoku-Garp combo may be a coincidence that Oda can use as a plot device to further explore this concept, with Garp leaning more towards power of love, and Sengoku leaning more towards Supreme color. In advanced level, both should theoretically work against the immortality, since I can't see Sengoku or Garp lose to the holy knights.

Just like normal haki/love is enough to solidify/deflect normal logia, advanced haki/love is designed for advanced form of logia-like ability, the immortality.

Another note: if power of love is going be a category of its own, then the example of power of love equivalent to the haki would be people radar for observation haki. It's the one that Sanji uses to look for Bonney "lady radar" and probably what Gaban uses too to bypass the presence masking ability from HK.

For armament and supreme king, as those concepts haven't been explained well, the explanation for power of love manifestation will need to wait.
 
#16
EOS powers will be the most broken and op.

Power of Love will be one of them. Haki will be old news.
But conqueror haki is gonna be the strongest no matter what. Oda never fails to hype conqueror haki since marineford to dressrosa to wano to egghead (joyboy haki )👀
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Power of Love was always associated with impossible feats:
- I think the first instance that was mentioned by name was Garp punching Luffy. Oda got asked if this was haki, he said no. People said this a gag but than:
- In Thriller Bark Sanji zombie resisting direct orders and keep his OG personality way longer
- In Amazon Lili the old empress and boa say a hurricane of love can overpower destiny
- One that is very overlooked: In FMI Otohime mentions the power of love can bring the change Joyboy failed to bring

(@nik87 you might be intressted in this for you void century theory)
- in egghead, Sanji can tank attacks from an enemy that can do internal damage that has FMK and liquid acess
- in egghead again, Kuma can move and think despite his brain being disabled for days and keeps doing so. Something the "god of science" thinks it impossible
- in egghead again Sanji can shatter a laser, something who the 2 local experts on lasers, franky and Kizaru, cant explain
- and finally in egghead again, Vegapunk mentions as a power that he cant explain


I think those are all instances

It seems to be tap into the energy that Vegapunk says it all around would be my theory/wish

I hope its not CoC or something, would be incredible boring
I think POL is some bloodline power only gaban Sanji etc have
Gaban might be mixed race with something else hence why he isn’t afraid to mixing with other race like giants. Something Sanji inherited from his mother
 
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