Questions & Mysteries Vasco Shot is Setting Marijoa on Fire: Laffitte Makes a Magic Circle

CoC: Color of Clowns

Soul Full of Scars, Soul Full of Stars
#1
Vasco was already willing to set Hachinosu on fire, and seems to just... be an arsonist.

Dragon wouldn't set public areas on fire, the Revs don't do terrorist shit.

The Blackbeard Pirates are using Saturn's Abyss via Catarina's Fruit to go to Marijoa for York, and Fish-Man Island for Poseidon/Shirahoshi.

Blackbeard with the Abyss is very dangerous, and, I think the Straw Hats will get the Abyss soon, too, possibly from Gunko.

The Abyss is like the teleportation ability you get at the end of RPGs once you've already uncovered like 90% of the map, and need to be able to fast travel around without taking forever.

Laffitte was shown outside the Redline/Marijoa, monitoring their food supplies. Laffitte sneaks in via food shipments using his Hypnosis powers, then draws a Magical Circle: bam, Blackbeard Pirates in Marijoa

We already saw Laffitte sneak into Marijoa during the meeting with Tsuru, Sengoku, and the Shichibukai (which Mihawk, Kuma, and Doflamingo attended). Oda introducing Laffitte in Marijoa was done with a purpose.

Laffitte low key looks like the kind of guy who would summon demons, too:



Wonder if Vasco Shot ends up taking any Celestial Dragon women as slaves? Maybe Shalria? That would be a twist... honestly, if Oda did it right, Blackbeard taking Celestial Dragons as slaves, like Rocks possibly tried to, could be very interesting writing
 
#4
If anyone could do a circle from BBP it would be Devon because she has copied Saturn's appearance and by extension the mark

And iirc ot was said only those with that mark can go through it, maybe only Im can bestow it
 

CoC: Color of Clowns

Soul Full of Scars, Soul Full of Stars
#6
If anyone could do a circle from BBP it would be Devon because she has copied Saturn's appearance and by extension the mark

And iirc ot was said only those with that mark can go through it, maybe only Im can bestow it


Since Nami knew about Magic Circles, referencing some country summoning Demons, it makes me think the process isn't limited to Imu.

Between Nami's comments here, and Brook's adventures getting "summoned" when Kuma sent him to the Satan worshippers, it looks like the Abyss/Magic Circles are magic that exists outside of Imu's domain. IMO Imu is probably the foremost expert/most powerful Magician when it comes to the Abyss, but, that doesn't mean Imu's the only person able to use it.

Blackbeard has been stated by Oda to be a fan of archeology/history: if people from a random country that figure out how to use the Abyss, I trust Teach to. Wouldn't be surprised if his Darkness Fruit can help him connect to it, since the Abyss is very "dark" themed so far.

There's no indication you need high level magical powers to draw a Magical Circle, there's a good chance Laffitte can do it, he's very intelligent. Finally, what is Laffitte's epithet? The "Demon Sheriff"
 
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