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This is a thread that is dedicated to discussing One Piece. Do not read this thread if you are not currently caught up as there are spoilers in here.

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Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
January 29 2016 09:57 GMT
#24321
On January 29 2016 08:37 Hyperbola wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2016 07:51 royalroadweed wrote:
I don't know how a family of assassins have so much influence with the government. Maybe the Vinsmokes are government assassins like CP9.

They are big players in the underworld. Naturally, they'd have enough money to pull strings.
What I'm curious about is the Brook connection. What's he so angsty about?


It's probably related to why he used to work for his Kingdom, then became a pirate.
maru lover forever
evilfatsh1t
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia8916 Posts
January 29 2016 09:59 GMT
#24322
On January 29 2016 13:53 Hyperbola wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2016 13:05 evilfatsh1t wrote:
On January 29 2016 11:59 Hyperbola wrote:
On January 29 2016 11:53 evilfatsh1t wrote:
On January 29 2016 08:37 Hyperbola wrote:
On January 29 2016 07:51 royalroadweed wrote:
I don't know how a family of assassins have so much influence with the government. Maybe the Vinsmokes are government assassins like CP9.

They are big players in the underworld. Naturally, they'd have enough money to pull strings.
What I'm curious about is the Brook connection. What's he so angsty about?

yeah big players in the underworld. that usually means theyre enemies to the government, so it doesnt explain how someone was able to pull strings to make a government wanted poster keep the son of an assassin family alive. youd expect the government would want anyone from a big underworld family to just be dead

You're right, silly me. All politicians are perfectly ethical and can never be bought. What was I thinking?

aside from doflamingo who is of noble heritage, there is no villain that has been able to manipulate the world government like so.
do you really think celestial dragons would be willing to negotiate with people 'below' them? every tier in the world government's hierarchy has characters that would in no way be bargained with by people from the 'underworld'.
that leaves pretty much one sensible answer, which is what royalroadweed originally suggested. the assassin family works for the government themselves
not sure why you are trying to bring real life political issues into one piece. one piece is a lot of things but one of the main themes that cant be seen in one piece compared to the real world is corruption.

No you're absolutely right. The celestial dragons would never ever deal with the underworld especially when they do things like buy slaves from the auction house...
The marines also, (you know the guys who issue wanted posters) would never in a million years negotiate with scum like pirates to buy devil fruits or work out a protection deal (especially with fishmen, they're the worst!)
You're also 100% right about how there is no politics whatsoever in one piece and how corruption is strictly RL stuff and Oda would never write about, much less base half of his entire series on. I am sorry for ever doubting you.

if you lost the sarcastic tone and stopped being a little bitch then maybe id elaborate on my points but tbh now i just cant be fked

User was warned for this post
Hyperbola
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2554 Posts
January 29 2016 17:48 GMT
#24323
On January 29 2016 18:59 evilfatsh1t wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2016 13:53 Hyperbola wrote:
On January 29 2016 13:05 evilfatsh1t wrote:
On January 29 2016 11:59 Hyperbola wrote:
On January 29 2016 11:53 evilfatsh1t wrote:
On January 29 2016 08:37 Hyperbola wrote:
On January 29 2016 07:51 royalroadweed wrote:
I don't know how a family of assassins have so much influence with the government. Maybe the Vinsmokes are government assassins like CP9.

They are big players in the underworld. Naturally, they'd have enough money to pull strings.
What I'm curious about is the Brook connection. What's he so angsty about?

yeah big players in the underworld. that usually means theyre enemies to the government, so it doesnt explain how someone was able to pull strings to make a government wanted poster keep the son of an assassin family alive. youd expect the government would want anyone from a big underworld family to just be dead

You're right, silly me. All politicians are perfectly ethical and can never be bought. What was I thinking?

aside from doflamingo who is of noble heritage, there is no villain that has been able to manipulate the world government like so.
do you really think celestial dragons would be willing to negotiate with people 'below' them? every tier in the world government's hierarchy has characters that would in no way be bargained with by people from the 'underworld'.
that leaves pretty much one sensible answer, which is what royalroadweed originally suggested. the assassin family works for the government themselves
not sure why you are trying to bring real life political issues into one piece. one piece is a lot of things but one of the main themes that cant be seen in one piece compared to the real world is corruption.

No you're absolutely right. The celestial dragons would never ever deal with the underworld especially when they do things like buy slaves from the auction house...
The marines also, (you know the guys who issue wanted posters) would never in a million years negotiate with scum like pirates to buy devil fruits or work out a protection deal (especially with fishmen, they're the worst!)
You're also 100% right about how there is no politics whatsoever in one piece and how corruption is strictly RL stuff and Oda would never write about, much less base half of his entire series on. I am sorry for ever doubting you.

if you lost the sarcastic tone and stopped being a little bitch then maybe id elaborate on my points but tbh now i just cant be fked

Hey sir it's not okay to cyberbully others. Just because you disagree with someone's opinion doesn't mean you get to say bad words at them!
But I will be the bigger man and forgive you.

User was warned for this post
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Necro)Phagist(
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada6660 Posts
January 29 2016 22:35 GMT
#24324
I don't really see it being a far stretch for an underworld family of assassins to be able to buy some higher ups. I mean Arlong could buy out the local marines with some small wads of cash to cover up the fact that he was ruling over several villages like a tyrant.

Axe Hand Morgan at the very beginning was a marine who basically over took a town and ruled like a fascist. Doflamingo used his influence and money to do it. The shichibukai system is a complete farce of corruption. Essentially anyone below Akainu and the admirals have proven to be quite easily corruptible or willing to let things slide. Even Aokiji let Robin live twice when the marines wanted her dead, going against direct orders for personal reasons and he was an admiral at the time.

Look at it from the higher ups position, either they take the money and make a wanted poster only alive. Or don't get a large sum of money and piss off a noted family of assassins. Pretty easy choice to make if the Vinsmokes are as bad ass as they seem to be.

I like the family of assassins more then him being a noble, noble was something guessed at long ago kind predictable and an easy cop out. Assassins make his family much more interesting to me, his brothers are probably going to be really strong and play a role down the line. How he was raised before he presumably ran away could explain his intelligence and tactical thinking in key times. It fits well to me and I like it 100x more.
"Are you talking to me? Because your authority is not recognized in fort kick ass!"" ||Park Jung Suk|| |MC|HerO|HyuN|
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
January 29 2016 22:50 GMT
#24325
The other possibility is of course that the government wants him alive to gain leverage over the Vinsmoke.
Sableyeah
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands2119 Posts
January 30 2016 00:26 GMT
#24326
If that's the point I am pretty sure a skilled or famed Assasin family would be able to capture Sanji themselves. If it's not Vinsmoke family that put the 'alive only', it doesn't really make sense.

The more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense how Vinsmoke is an Assasins family. And I am not happy about this!
BoA | Sunny | HyunA | ChoA | Hyemi // Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree and you will miss the entire f0rest - Takuan Soho
Necro)Phagist(
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada6660 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-30 00:40:23
January 30 2016 00:37 GMT
#24327
On January 30 2016 09:26 Sableyeah wrote:
If that's the point I am pretty sure a skilled or famed Assasin family would be able to capture Sanji themselves. If it's not Vinsmoke family that put the 'alive only', it doesn't really make sense.

The more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense how Vinsmoke is an Assasins family. And I am not happy about this!

Well a couple reasons could explain why they haven't come for him yet.

A) Thinking he was dead.
He ran away and got on a ship, even if they found out which ship he got onto, that ship was attacked by Zeff and multiple people saw him go overboard. No reason to really believe he was alive after that. Zeff and him both then led relatively quiet lives as cooks in East Blue, so no news of an old one legged chef and a boy in east blue would really reach the new world.

B) They had no use for him until now. Why waste the resources of tracking him down when he doesn't want to be apart of the family. Having to jump the redline and deal with the long travel just to get a bratty kid back doesn't sound like something a family of assassins would care about. Especially with 2 older sons already. Now that they are in talks with big mom about an arranged marriage suddenly finding him becomes a bit more important again, not to mention him being in the new world makes it easier for them to get at him.

To me I can find ways that make sense, but I'm biased to the other side, I quite like the family of assassins twist.
"Are you talking to me? Because your authority is not recognized in fort kick ass!"" ||Park Jung Suk|| |MC|HerO|HyuN|
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
January 30 2016 00:42 GMT
#24328
On January 30 2016 09:37 Necro)Phagist( wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 30 2016 09:26 Sableyeah wrote:
If that's the point I am pretty sure a skilled or famed Assasin family would be able to capture Sanji themselves. If it's not Vinsmoke family that put the 'alive only', it doesn't really make sense.

The more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense how Vinsmoke is an Assasins family. And I am not happy about this!

Well a couple reasons could explain why they haven't come for him yet.

A) Thinking he was dead.
He ran away and got on a ship, that ship was attacked by Zeff and multiple people saw him go overboard. No reason to really believe he was alive after that. Zeff and him both then led relatively quiet lives as cooks in East Blue

B) They had no use for him until now. Why waste the resources of tracking him down when he doesn't want to be apart of the family. Having to jump the redline and deal with the long travel just to get a bratty kid back doesn't sound like something a family of assassins would care about. Especially with 2 older sons already. Now that they are in talks with big mom about an arranged marriage suddenly finding him becomes a bit more important again, not to mention him being in the new world makes it easier for them to get at him.

To me I can find ways that make sense, but I'm biased to the other side, I quite like the family of assassins twist.


Same. Making him some sort of noble would have felt too obvious and also would have made his past a bit too similar to Sabo's. If the assassin family concept is well executed I like it a lot better than the noble idea.
Hyperbola
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2554 Posts
January 30 2016 03:02 GMT
#24329
Haven't seen this posted here. You think these might be vinsmoke brothers?
[image loading]
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Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
January 30 2016 03:15 GMT
#24330
I dunno, what connection do you think those dudes could possibly have with the Vinsmokes?
"Apparently, Sentenal is a paragon of friendship and tolerance. " - Ech0ne
BlackMagister
Profile Joined October 2008
United States5834 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-30 03:37:16
January 30 2016 03:36 GMT
#24331
reddit was not the original poster, but that's where I saw this too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePiece/comments/432s6k/a_certain_someones_family/

From what I understand it's just "hey Vinsmokes traveled to East Blue in the past, these guys appeared in Luffy's past they could be Vinsmokes. That they're observing Caesar's weapons demonstration is further proof as they have underground connections."

A stretch, but most One Piece theories are. It is a good catch to connect the characters from Luffy past to the show though.
Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
January 30 2016 03:47 GMT
#24332
It is a good catch that those guys are probably from Luffy's past, but the idea that they are Vinsmokes.... IMO "Crocodile is Luffy's mother" has more going for it than that theory.
"Apparently, Sentenal is a paragon of friendship and tolerance. " - Ech0ne
Forikorder
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada8840 Posts
January 30 2016 05:19 GMT
#24333
On January 30 2016 09:37 Necro)Phagist( wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 30 2016 09:26 Sableyeah wrote:
If that's the point I am pretty sure a skilled or famed Assasin family would be able to capture Sanji themselves. If it's not Vinsmoke family that put the 'alive only', it doesn't really make sense.

The more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense how Vinsmoke is an Assasins family. And I am not happy about this!

Well a couple reasons could explain why they haven't come for him yet.

A) Thinking he was dead.
He ran away and got on a ship, even if they found out which ship he got onto, that ship was attacked by Zeff and multiple people saw him go overboard. No reason to really believe he was alive after that. Zeff and him both then led relatively quiet lives as cooks in East Blue, so no news of an old one legged chef and a boy in east blue would really reach the new world.

B) They had no use for him until now. Why waste the resources of tracking him down when he doesn't want to be apart of the family. Having to jump the redline and deal with the long travel just to get a bratty kid back doesn't sound like something a family of assassins would care about. Especially with 2 older sons already. Now that they are in talks with big mom about an arranged marriage suddenly finding him becomes a bit more important again, not to mention him being in the new world makes it easier for them to get at him.

To me I can find ways that make sense, but I'm biased to the other side, I quite like the family of assassins twist.


they may ahve almost nothing to do with this even, big mom could be handling the bulk of the legwork tracking him down and setting up the wedding e.t.c
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
January 30 2016 09:33 GMT
#24334
On January 30 2016 12:02 Hyperbola wrote:
Haven't seen this posted here. You think these might be vinsmoke brothers?
[image loading]


Wow whoever caught that is really observant
maru lover forever
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
January 30 2016 11:03 GMT
#24335
On January 30 2016 18:33 Incognoto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 30 2016 12:02 Hyperbola wrote:
Haven't seen this posted here. You think these might be vinsmoke brothers?
[image loading]


Wow whoever caught that is really observant

soo... luffy + sabo used to beat them up as kids.
they don't seem that strong to me then
Life is run, it is dance, it is fast, passionate and BAM!, you dance and sing and booze while you can for now is the time and time is mine. Smile and laugh when still can for now is the time and soon you die!
Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
January 30 2016 19:32 GMT
#24336
So getting beaten up as a kid means you are weak as an adult?
"Apparently, Sentenal is a paragon of friendship and tolerance. " - Ech0ne
Slaughter
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States20255 Posts
January 30 2016 19:36 GMT
#24337
On January 31 2016 04:32 Sentenal wrote:
So getting beaten up as a kid means you are weak as an adult?


The Coby to become an admiral hype has died.
Never Knows Best.
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
January 30 2016 20:31 GMT
#24338
On January 31 2016 04:32 Sentenal wrote:
So getting beaten up as a kid means you are weak as an adult?


Luffy was quite weak as a kid.
maru lover forever
terranghost
Profile Joined May 2010
United States980 Posts
January 30 2016 20:58 GMT
#24339
The other part that makes this good imo is when we had the rescue Robin arc the SH's were fighting elite assassins... now we are potentially getting that again but with Sanji.
"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it." - Thomas Sowell
Hyperbola
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2554 Posts
January 30 2016 21:25 GMT
#24340
On January 31 2016 05:58 terranghost wrote:
The other part that makes this good imo is when we had the rescue Robin arc the SH's were fighting elite assassins... now we are potentially getting that again but with Sanji.

Yeah dude the comparison to the water 7 arc is real. Looks like we basically skipped over skypeia (zou). If Oda is actually intending this, it means that we're really nearing the end here. Few arcs from now will be the great war.
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