Exactly. The way I see it, is that there needs to be some kind of cause and effect aspect to come into play here. For every action an equal and opposite reaction. Time travel in all forms of fiction are always tricky, but no matter what kind of time travel happens (Forward or backwards), they all share a common theme, and that is there is always some kind of ramification for messing with a timeline.
I mean if you think about it, what exactly is the benefit or payoff of sending the Scabbards from the past to the future? As it stands right now, absolutely nothing. Kaido rules unopposed for 20 years? That could have easily been achieved by the Scabbards escaping 20 years ago with Momo, and then training him and waiting for him to become much older so they could one day return to Wano, and he could reclaim the throne.
I feel like Oda chose the time travel route for a reason, because otherwise it's just a wasted opportunity, and doesn't accomplish anything in the grand scheme of things that couldn't be accomplished by some other means.
And now that I think about it, it could be something like an imposed time limit. The scabbards have "X" amount of time to do what they set out to achieve, before getting pulled back into the past. This makes sense, because technically they are only capable of being in the Future due to Toki's Devil Fruit abilities. If she dies, then shouldn't the effects of her Devil Fruit wear off?
This could be extremely interesting in the sense that Oda could have Toki in the past fighting for her own survival, while the scabbards are in the future fighting for the Wano. Eventually Toki gets caught and executed, but not before the Scabbards achieve what they set out to do, and when she is executed, they are pulled back into their own timeline. Then they would have to wait 20 years to meet back up with the Straw Hats, and grow stronger from there, while it would pass by in the blink of an eye for the Straw Hats.
I know doing something like that could get extremely messy, but man if done correctly would be fucking phenomenal.
I mean if you think about it, what exactly is the benefit or payoff of sending the Scabbards from the past to the future? As it stands right now, absolutely nothing. Kaido rules unopposed for 20 years? That could have easily been achieved by the Scabbards escaping 20 years ago with Momo, and then training him and waiting for him to become much older so they could one day return to Wano, and he could reclaim the throne.
I feel like Oda chose the time travel route for a reason, because otherwise it's just a wasted opportunity, and doesn't accomplish anything in the grand scheme of things that couldn't be accomplished by some other means.
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And now that I think about it, it could be something like an imposed time limit. The scabbards have "X" amount of time to do what they set out to achieve, before getting pulled back into the past. This makes sense, because technically they are only capable of being in the Future due to Toki's Devil Fruit abilities. If she dies, then shouldn't the effects of her Devil Fruit wear off?
This could be extremely interesting in the sense that Oda could have Toki in the past fighting for her own survival, while the scabbards are in the future fighting for the Wano. Eventually Toki gets caught and executed, but not before the Scabbards achieve what they set out to do, and when she is executed, they are pulled back into their own timeline. Then they would have to wait 20 years to meet back up with the Straw Hats, and grow stronger from there, while it would pass by in the blink of an eye for the Straw Hats.
I know doing something like that could get extremely messy, but man if done correctly would be fucking phenomenal.
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