Many have speculated that there are some worrying details about Loki’s background/conflict with his personality. There are certainly overt hints that he is a caring, though vengeful and arrogant, person.
My impression is that Loki is going to be an unfortunate victim that parallels Luffy in a particularly unique way: namely, that they are both ‘victims’ of a prophecy made about them before their birth. Loki and his actions may not only be motivated by a sense of self-fulfilling the prophecy, but also by people’s perception and treatment of him colored by the prophecy that he would one day kill the king.
Luffy, also, is the victim of a prophecy in this way. Guided by chance, to a certain degree, but is now being increasingly groomed by people like Shanks and the giants, Vegapunk, Bonney, etc. to become this ‘Nika’ when he has no desire to be the ruler of the world or the hero who destroys the ancient evil.
For Luffy, this will cause conflict with Shanks and with Dragon, who will insist that he fulfills a role prophesied for him that he did not understood or want. This tension of rejecting or accepting the determined prophesied future, a commentary on destiny and cyclical patterns, is likely something only Loki’s character can understand and agree with. Luffy and Loki may have a tremendous amount in common, with Loki’s struggle against the negative aspects of awaiting prophetic fulfillments being in the past and Luffy’s being in the future.
Loki’s prophecy is likely being used by Oda as misdirection to ultimately include through his backstory the revelation that he took blame for tragedies and things that Big Mom and others in fact did (the panel of her burning down the village and him supposedly burning down the village are nearly identical). His father Harald was also possibly a government plant or sympathizer who had been brought under their thumb and told to teach peace (I’m sure for some sad, justifiable reason he agreed, such as not having his island nuked). When Loki found out, he rampaged, causing all of those who were biased because they knew the prophecy to immediately turn on him, leaving him no choice but to fight to the death.
4D-chess-haired Shanks may have had a serious ulterior motive for capturing and returning him…
My impression is that Loki is going to be an unfortunate victim that parallels Luffy in a particularly unique way: namely, that they are both ‘victims’ of a prophecy made about them before their birth. Loki and his actions may not only be motivated by a sense of self-fulfilling the prophecy, but also by people’s perception and treatment of him colored by the prophecy that he would one day kill the king.
Luffy, also, is the victim of a prophecy in this way. Guided by chance, to a certain degree, but is now being increasingly groomed by people like Shanks and the giants, Vegapunk, Bonney, etc. to become this ‘Nika’ when he has no desire to be the ruler of the world or the hero who destroys the ancient evil.
For Luffy, this will cause conflict with Shanks and with Dragon, who will insist that he fulfills a role prophesied for him that he did not understood or want. This tension of rejecting or accepting the determined prophesied future, a commentary on destiny and cyclical patterns, is likely something only Loki’s character can understand and agree with. Luffy and Loki may have a tremendous amount in common, with Loki’s struggle against the negative aspects of awaiting prophetic fulfillments being in the past and Luffy’s being in the future.
Loki’s prophecy is likely being used by Oda as misdirection to ultimately include through his backstory the revelation that he took blame for tragedies and things that Big Mom and others in fact did (the panel of her burning down the village and him supposedly burning down the village are nearly identical). His father Harald was also possibly a government plant or sympathizer who had been brought under their thumb and told to teach peace (I’m sure for some sad, justifiable reason he agreed, such as not having his island nuked). When Loki found out, he rampaged, causing all of those who were biased because they knew the prophecy to immediately turn on him, leaving him no choice but to fight to the death.
4D-chess-haired Shanks may have had a serious ulterior motive for capturing and returning him…
