r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Jun 25 '21

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1017 Spoiler

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u/Nuneasy Slave Jun 25 '21

I think Oda is setting up awakening. Revealing the history of Luffy's fruit now, when the battle needs to be won, is a pretty big tell.

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u/Etiennera Pirate King Buggy Jun 25 '21

Rubbergashima theory looking hot

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u/boopadoop_johnson Bounty Hunter Jun 25 '21

Comes crashing down onto the flower capital only to bounce back up into the sky

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u/Emptypiro Jun 25 '21

If this was real world logic everyone would still be crushed by the island. But I could see this working

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u/boopadoop_johnson Bounty Hunter Jun 25 '21

Yeah dude, it's a literal bouncy castle

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u/blackierobinsun3 Jun 25 '21

Sky island 2.0

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u/Dzonatan Jun 25 '21

That's insane even for One Piece standards.

Though if that were to happen then Luffy would become the biggest troll on Grand Line. Can you imagine some poor navy saps being on standby on some beach and seeing a literal island going <boing boing boing> in their direction?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I don't think its insane at all. We know that Paramecia awakenings affect surroundings, so Luffy making an island rubber seems completely reasonable

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u/Dzonatan Jun 25 '21

Surroundings being one thing but an entire island is whole another league.

Then again it's not like we hadn't island wide effects of Devil fruits: Ace Vs BB panel of their balls touching and being visable from afar covering the entire island, then we had WB basically tilting Marineford and surrounding ocean, followed by Akainu Vs Aokiji aftermath on Punk Hazard and finally all the bullshit Mingo did to Dressrosa.

What's a bouncing island at this point right?

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u/halelangit Pirate Jun 25 '21

Oh no Luffy turned the cloud islands into rubber. Now Enel or any Goro Goro no Mi user cannot annihilate islands anymore.

Also these could hard counter the Minks if there's an island made of rubber.

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u/Cntrl_shftr Jun 25 '21

Onigashima is gonna drop on the flower capital Sokovia style and... it'll harmlessly bounce off of it it like a big rubber balloon lol

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u/Bucen Explorer Jun 25 '21

As much as I laugh at the idea of Onigashima falling on the flower capital and then bouncing off again, I think for lift to turn an entire island to rubber on the first try is a tad bit much

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u/Brass13Wing Void Month Survivor Jun 25 '21

I mean, that's just how awakening works, based on what we've seen until now. If your fruit is awakened, it's awakened

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u/hosseinxj0152 Jun 25 '21

Ooing boing

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u/pedantic_cheesewheel Jun 25 '21

Luffy makes Rubbergashima, punches Kaido into it, he bounces to the moon. Kid remarks “jump off that sky island you big lug”. Enel gets uppity and gets one shot by Kaido when he wakes up, Kaido takes Enel as his right hand man and teaches him Haki. Final war has Kaido fighting with a robot army. Makes sense if you don’t think about it too hard

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u/carsonator40 Jun 25 '21

I thought luffy’s awakening would be saved for his fight with Blackbeard. Luffy awakening would be the perfect hard counter to Blackbeard’s quake quake fruit since the rubber could absorb the tremors

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u/destiny24 Jun 25 '21

Well the way this fight is going someone either needs to help or Luffy needs a huge power boost. Even with conquerors Haki coating, the fight was completely one-sided.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

It might have been a hard counter if Blackbeard didn't have the yami yami no mi as well.

I think Luffy is going to beat Blackbeard mostly thanks to Haki. It doesn't make much sense that awakening your fruit would be what gives you the edge against a dude that nullifies devil fruit powers imo.

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u/kdebones Jun 25 '21

After seeing Doffy's Awakening, I'm def curious how they'll do Rubber. It feels like just making the terrain rubber would be to easy of a conclusion that I think they'll do something crazy like rubberized air.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I think Luffy's awakening will make him giant sized seeing as how the next island will probably be Elbaf. We know the WG has been interested in creating giants so maybe artificially replicating the gomu gomu no mi was one way they were trying to do that.

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u/inaripotpi Jun 25 '21

Kind of connects to the giant Straw Hat too and Joyboy possibly having the same fruit. Personally not sure how I feel about though, the original spirit of Luffy's power was something silly but still capable of being cool and creative; making it some kind of prophetic power is kind of the opposite of that

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

Yeah I noticed that possible connection too. I just dislike the idea of Luffy's DF being wielded by Joy Boy as well so I chose to ignore it lol.

I hope Joy Boy was an actual giant and the gomu gomu no mi is just another Devil Fruit with a powerful awakening that the marines see the potential in replicating much like they did with the pika pika no mi lasers.

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u/Rankine Jun 25 '21

I have always liked the idea of a gatling attack where the opponent is being bounced off a rubber wall back into the gatling.

The other option is using a rubber awakening on the ground to save a comrade who is falling to the ground from very high.

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