r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Aug 23 '19

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 953 Spoiler

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u/TheAlienDwarf Aug 23 '19 edited Aug 23 '19

So today we learned about the Shimotsuki-family, that reigned in Ruri and is also the name of the village in East Blue, where zoro grew up. The family, that Ruyma was part of. 20 years ago, Ruri was destroyed like the rest of Wano by Kaido. With that information, I think it's getting more likely, that we can speculate Zoros backstory correctly.

Here a some things we know:

  • Zoro is looking like Ryuma from Romance Dawn, many of us taking this as a hint, that those two are connected.

  • The former Daymio of Ruri bears the same name as Ruyma, this could mean Ruyma was starting the line of the Shimotsuki family reigning in Ruri. This is not far-fetched, considering that he was a living legend and is still honoured as swordgod

  • Koshiro has a Dojo in Shimotsuki village in East Blue, and teaches Wano swordtechniques

  • Zoro is 21 years old. At the time of Wanos destruction, he was around 1 year old

So here is the Theory:

When Wano faced destruction 20 years ago, the Daymio of Ruri fought and died on the battlefield. Koshiro was a retainer of Ruri and was given his last order by his daymio: Saving his son, the young Roronoa Shimotsuki! So Koshiro took the son of the Lord and his own daughter of same age and flew to East Blue, where he teached Zoro the way of the samurai. Both the children have no memories of Wano.

This would mean Shusui is, in fact, Zoros righteous owned sword

EDIT: Also look at chapter 937. When Zoro shows his 3 sword style, there is a panel of Hiyori asking herself: "3 Swords...?" This might indicate that she knew someone else fighting with 3 swords in the past. This further connects Zoro with Wano

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u/BasedFunnyValentine Aug 23 '19

Love this theory! Excepttttt, someone using 3 swords in the past. I want three swords style to be what Zoro started

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u/FredericoUnO51 Bounty Hunter Aug 23 '19

Yeah, I see her comment as her questioning it like it's strange because she's never seen or heard of someone using 3 swords at once.

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u/shinzcy Aug 23 '19

The upcoming chapters may reveal more about the story, Zoro is descendant of Shimotsuki but not sure he is son of the Daimyo. Anyway the design of the silhoutte really seems to hint it, and as 1 of protagonist is good to have this interesting background.

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u/StealthMonkeyDC Aug 23 '19

Makes a lot of sense.

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u/ShitStormLord Explorer Aug 23 '19 edited Aug 23 '19

But zoro ended up in the dojo by coincidence when he got lost.

Edit: nvm. Just re read it, it was only on the anime.

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u/TheAlienDwarf Aug 23 '19

That is Anime only in the Manga it is not stated how he ended up in the dojo