There is a mental trick many succesful people use,called creating an Alter Ego,these are some articles about it:
https://theprofile.substack.com/p/why-the-worlds-most-confident-people
https://gregcampion.substack.com/p/summoning-your-alter-ego
To explain it simply,it consists on,when you're scared about doing something,or when you lack self-confidece,pretending to be someone else (a character invented by us or an existing character,or another person) and this helps you to perform.
For example,Beyoncè created a character named Sasha Fierce to help her to perform,and the baseball player Bo Jackson pretended to be Jason Vorhess from the Friday the 13th movies to help himself to perform.
I think Oda knows about this mental trick,because he is a person who reads a lot (and maybe he even uses it himself,who knows!) and decided that Yamato would be a character who uses it. I think Yamato started to use this mental trick to "pretending to be Oden",the person she admires the most,to give herself courage in her difficult situation of living as prisoner of her father.
Also,if we think about it,Oda already used this theme with Usopp in the CP9 arc. Usopp created the Sogeking alter ego not only to help the Strawhats without letting them know it was him,but also to give himself courage to fight the CP9.
https://theprofile.substack.com/p/why-the-worlds-most-confident-people
https://gregcampion.substack.com/p/summoning-your-alter-ego
To explain it simply,it consists on,when you're scared about doing something,or when you lack self-confidece,pretending to be someone else (a character invented by us or an existing character,or another person) and this helps you to perform.
For example,Beyoncè created a character named Sasha Fierce to help her to perform,and the baseball player Bo Jackson pretended to be Jason Vorhess from the Friday the 13th movies to help himself to perform.
I think Oda knows about this mental trick,because he is a person who reads a lot (and maybe he even uses it himself,who knows!) and decided that Yamato would be a character who uses it. I think Yamato started to use this mental trick to "pretending to be Oden",the person she admires the most,to give herself courage in her difficult situation of living as prisoner of her father.
Also,if we think about it,Oda already used this theme with Usopp in the CP9 arc. Usopp created the Sogeking alter ego not only to help the Strawhats without letting them know it was him,but also to give himself courage to fight the CP9.
