Chapter 562. Oda. What.

[eiliem]

Well.

Fuck!

Did not see that coming.

Except... I worried for that Squard might have disappeared for suspicious reasons. But then I dismissed my paranoia and reminded myself that Whitebeard trusted Squard enough to put him in charge of the pirate allies. Except he couldn't. Because Squard went missing.

For suspicious reasons.

I any case. I never saw the sword coming.

And neither did Whitebeard.

ASDF;GKADJFGHALDKFASCNF;KJADHGAOUWEYHFALSKDJFNBVADFGADLGHA;

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck.

This is so very very not good.

Ahahaha. Understatement. @_@

Ooooookay. Um. Oda! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!?!!??!

Why?!

And oh please Oda for the love of our sanity answer that next week. Or so help me I will sic Tanaka Mayumi and a basket of squashed kittens on you.

@___________@

So... thoughts? On the heel face turn Whitebeard was so very obviously not expecting a;sdkfjhads;gkjah;fsgaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Squard:

made a deal with Sengoku

is mind controlled

is just generally evil and wants to take Whitebeard's head as much as most everyone at Marinford presently.

disagreed with Whitebeard's decision to storm Marinford on behalf of one man and wants to "save" the rest of the Whitebeard pirates by having everyone get the hell out of there.

is being controlled by Doflamingo
-unlikely as we've seen him otherwise occupied - at lest when Squard first disappeared

is dead and his body is being possessed by one of Moria's shadows: he's a zombie
-also less likely as Moria was busy first with Jinbei and then with... whoever he was fighting in this chapter

made a deal with another of Whitebeard's enemies: Teach, or Kaidou (okay, that last one is a huge stretch but we know he tried to attack Whitebeard on his way to Marinford so... not a friend certainly)


At the moment... my money is on "he wants to save Whitebeard's crew". If only because of the little speech he gave right before running Whitebeard through with his BFS - the whole "for the sake of the Whitebeard pirates we would gladly lay down our lives"

But he said "we". As in, more than just him. So. who else is in on this!?!?!??!?!?!!

Pirate ally mutiny would be so very not good right now!

And what debt do they all owe Whitebeard? (putting aside the question of who the hell "they" are!!!)

And and and... ASDKFJHASKDGJAH;DSKAF ODA WHAT!!?!?!

Do I share my random moment of morbidness, or don't I? ...skip if you can't handle my random morbidness: Squard's big fucking sword probably perfectly bisected Whitebeard's symbol on the back of his coat... that's kind of, um, creepy... above and beyond the whole stabbity stab thing. Okay, random morbidness over. o__o


Before the whole Marinford stuff even started I was thinking "ominous foreshadowing is ominous, Whitebeard is doomed". And then he showed up at Marinford. And was awesome. And I thought "no one that awesome can die! Nobody dies in One Piece, nobody dies in One Piece nobody dies in One Piece nobodydiesinOnePiece."

...

Until Oda proves otherwise, I'm going to believe Whitebeard won't leave Marineford alive. That way, if I'm wrong when when when, oh please ODa I can be joyously surprised. Rather than... the other way around.

:( oh Ace. And Marco. And everyone! This is going to suck so hard.

Silver lining: he's not taking a break next week? And Buggy. There was Buggy - and rescuing of the video feed AAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAA. Not quite how I pictured it but... I totally called that!

EDIT: IVNAKOV! IVANKOV CAN HEAL WHITEBEARD! ...oh I am so bad at this emotional distance thing. Whitebeard don't die Ace will be sad! And... even more broken. ow ;_;

More excellent chapter musings (and squee and freak outs) here and here and here. Is it next Thursday yet?

Comments

[velshtein.livejournal.com]

*flails* lskfjsdlfk ;;

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

...

why did you use that icon?

why

;_____;

*clings*

oh Ace

ow

[sayaka-sama.livejournal.com]

This icon. It sums up my reaction perfectly.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DON'TDIEDON'TDIEDON'TDIEPLEASEDON'TDIE

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

:(

yeah.

oh god.

I don't want him to die but-

butbutbutbut

archetypes.

Oda will subvert? *clings*

D:

He's such a good captain and daddy and... ;____;

[sayaka-sama.livejournal.com]

*oh god clings back*


kasjhskjdh Ace, Ace, what is he going to do now?

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

http://eiliem.livejournal.com/3559.html

Oh Marco. And Ace.

And everyone.

Their daddy!

[schneefink.livejournal.com]

I didn´t manage to resist spoilers and read that Whitebeard gets stabbed and dies and I thought "no, that must be fake, no way, won´t happen, won´t happen" but there it is! (Only he doesn´t die, he´s only wounded!) Two baskets of kittens!
At least there´s Buggy, saving everyone, and now I need to go read happy endings. ARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg I don´t even want to start thinking about that guy´s reasoning because Oda will have thought of something completely different and great and everything but please, Oda, soon, before I bite through my pencils...

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

Two baskets yes! Guh

asdkjfasd; - I

I really really don't want him to die. Never mind that I say he's going to die, I still don't believe it ;__;

Oda Oda Oda! *clings*

[zhadra-ahni.livejournal.com]

ASLKDHD;'FKF. Efjnfkd, Oyajiiiijign wosjvik nsd whygodwhyeiliem ioajflnag?

The REACTION SHOTS oh god I am slain, slain! I think I am going to go with your coping strategy and hope to be hit with surprise!joy, but I keep thinking about all the foreshadowing about this being "the end of an era" and wanting to curl up into a ball of denial.

AAAAAAAAAACCEEEEEEE. Babyyyyy~! TT_TT

Urgh, I'm tentatively gonna go with Squardo making a deal somehow or otherwise thinking this will ultimately benefit the WB pirates, even though I really have no idea how he could figure taking out Oyaji is to their good, unless he's severely brain-damaged, >_>. Also if he's not being physically manipulated, I can't believe he thinks he's going to come out of this alive. SO. DEAD.

Oh god, please no pirate-ally mutiny! DDD: WHY SO EPIC, ODA!!

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

I... yes, my coping strategy. Heh.

It's not working very well for me. Um.

I mean, on the one hand there's all of the foreshadowing and "end of the era" and everybody wanting to kill him and the sword through his chest. And, also his archetype of the wise old powerful wizard mentor. Which. Has a high mortality rate :(

And it makes my storyteller instincts go: this, this would be a really painful, moving time for him to go out in a blaze of glory. And also it would throw all kinds of wrenches in the balance of the world, which could move the story along.

But then I think: Oda. Oda does unexpected subversive things.


Maybe Squard is evil/made a deal but was... reassuring Whitebeard that he'll protect his crew? Because of the debt?

Sengoku seemed pretty desperate to get the Den Den Mushi offline so I somehow think he wasn't in on this...

Oh I have no idea.

Pirate ally mutiny... would be bad but I'm less worried about it. Kind of. At the very least Oars has proven that some of the allies are as committed to bringing Ace home as his own crew. They really can't afford to lose the support of even one ship though @__@

[catiprojectc.livejournal.com]

kjsaposiajalwoa ;A; OJAYI!!

Damn you squardo, I don't care the reason i hope you get your ass whooped, I seriously squeaked when i saw the end of this chapter and even wailed.. ((much to annoyance of my mother, but she doesn't understand how.. BAD BAD BAD BAD this is))

I'm hoping your mantra will work, and will stay. nobody dies in one piece nobody dies in one piece.. ;A; pleas odachi don't let him die cause whitebeard rocks socks!! seriously..

TT.TT the dude is awsome!!

I'm really hoping for answers, cause.. my mind .. and brain need them.. alot.. I can't believe I have to wait so long. *sob*

[shayera.livejournal.com]

I assumed Squard's "we" referred to himself and his crew. Squard is a captain, not one of Shirohige's nakama, so he has his own crew - and they have apparently been saved by Shirohige's pirates in the past.

Other than that... Um. I. THIS IS REALLY REALLY BAD. *clings*

(Squard could still be a zombie, because he was MIA and Moria might have done him before he ran into Jinbei? But mostly I'm just saying this because it would hurt less than having him be a traitor. ^^;;;)

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I knew Squard wasn't on Whitebeard's crew. I just. Really really hope it's only the one crew and not, some kind of conspiracy behind Whitebeard's back. But that's me being paranoid and I don't really think that's it... @_@ they can't even afford the loss of a single ship.

(and... that would be better than having Whitebeard betrayed again by someone he trusted but Squard was all the way at the rear with the ally ships, how would Moria have reached him? Or can he just send random shadows searching for corpses?)

*CLINGS BACK*

[shayera.livejournal.com]

I know! Shirohige's men love him so much, and yet he's already been betrayed once! It's... I... I don't want this to be another traitor because owwww.

You're right about Moria not being able to be in several places at once. But what DID happen to Squard while he was MIA? Oh dear... there will be an explanation, and it will probably hurt either way. ;_;

[naye]

...you do realize that if this. Um. If Shirohige doesn't get to Ivankov (YAY IVA-SAN THE MIRACLE WORKER) stat - or else shrugs off the attack - then. Then his last order to Marco was make sure that kid doesn't die.

So we have that, at least? Um. Even if morale fails all over the place and they turn against Squard and his spiders, Marco will NOT want to fail his oyaji.

Which is some comfort to me, though I am NOT THINKING about this maybe being permanent because I'm not going to let Odacchi hurt me that bad until I know, know that this is final.

As final as it has never been before ahklkahglhljgdsfah WHYYYYY.

[elvenarchress.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Shirohige!!! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*brain crashes*... *reboots*

I doubt Squado damn you traitorous bastard!!! is being controlled in any way (flamingo, gecko or seagull)... there was that awful calm about when he walked up to Whitebeard and ran him through that practically screamed "I know fully the terrible consequences of my actions but I believe it must be done"...sorta like the atmosphere when Luffy punched the World Noble.. except Squado is wrong!!!

I don't know what "debt" he owes (probably support? the new world's supposed to be terrifyingly dangerous after all) but I doubt killing Shirohige is the way to clear it.

the pirates are surrounded, and outnumbered badly, they really don't need to be divided themselves!seriously, back up now please!

problem with Iva-chan healing Whitebeard is that the Healing Hormones cost 10 years (or is that only for fighting off poison?) and I'm not sure Whitebeard's got all that many years to spare but still!

He can't die. He just can't. The WB pirates need their father! The world needs him. Most importantly Ace needs him (even got 2 panels in the inverted!shocked panels at the end).

*goes back to wailing*

[wispyhollow.livejournal.com]

Nononono I do NOT want to believe that after all of Daddy Whitebeard's kindness to his sons, more than one of them mutineed. ;-; That's just too cruel! I'm thinking he's a doppelganger planted by Sengoku for now AND FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, WHITEBEARD, PLEASE DON'T DIEEE ;____;; !

RANDOM COMMENT!

[kookiety.livejournal.com]

Because I saw this and I don't know how much you like tweaking with layouts but

... damn that Zoro icon above distracts me. In a good way.

Ahhh - yes - when I find One Piece stuff I think of you, so

http://community.livejournal.com/toledan_night/tag/fandom:+one+piece


... the probability you probably know and don't want to fiddle with layouts is high - in that case ignore this comment ^^;

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[eiliem.livejournal.com]

Oh wow ☆＿☆

I... had no idea that was there. o_O

Shiny &hearts

I will poke layout! ...and hope it does not bite me >.>

*glomp*

(your icon is so cute! &hearts)

Re: RANDOM COMMENT!

[kookiety.livejournal.com]

Hhehe. She used to obsessed with OP so no more new layouts - but enough good old ones, yes?

I OFFER MY HELP IF IT BITES!

I like the fiddles and the whatnot and am half-geeky, only half but I can try and help ^^;

:D

*glomps, tackles*

<3

Ha ha - man I miss the big ole nakama in manga. Sob. Patience! I has eeeet :D

I wonder if there's a One Piece mood theme anywhere. Hm

Re: RANDOM COMMENT!

[kookiety.livejournal.com]

TADA!

One Piece moodtheme if you're in the mood for a completely OP centric LJ : http://community.livejournal.com/impulstanz/11962.html

You can preview the whole thing too ^^
It's actually very - close to the moods. I'm impressed. I've only ever found my FMA moodtheme to actually look the mood - so - yay - another just in case I want colour and people to think I don't like dark.. things.. and dead.

... I am insane but there is still love for the insane, right?

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[eiliem.livejournal.com]

shiiiiiny &hearts

Also! Speaking of One Piece: http://naye.livejournal.com/734468.html

It's a fic thread! \o/ People answer prompts with as little as a few sentences (although some are a bit longer ^^;) and then they get to request their own prompt! Tons of great ficlets &hearts Even if you don't participate you should go read! :D

Re: RANDOM COMMENT!

[kookiety.livejournal.com]

Ooooh that does look interesting.

I'll definitely stalk/spy! ♥

(Haven't really charged in and terrified OP fandom yet ^^)

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[eiliem.livejournal.com]

And now it has an index! http://naye.livejournal.com/735712.html

So you can read without having to navigate the monster thread o_o

&hearts

(ahaha - feel free to participate as much or as little as you like, OP fandom is a very happy place to be unless you're Ace) XP