The one piece manga just confirmed one of
THE MOST GAME-CHANGING theories about Luffy’s father. Ladies and gentlemen, Monkey D. Dragon was
a marine. That's right. Which means we simply must ask all sorts of
questions such as why did he join? What rank was he? Did he already have his devil fruit? What made him hate the world nobles SO MUCH
that he eventually declared war on the Celestial Dragons? And how did he become the MOST WANTED MAN
in the world? Man, there’s so much to think about. But thankfully the chapter gave us some reason
why he left, which is that he realized that there was no true justice there, but COME
ON. There has to be some truly tragic or horrifyingly
awful event that sparked his desire to leave. And honestly, by looking at his entire timeline
I think we can actually figure out what that super important event might be. Before we get ahead of ourselves though, let’s
start at the beginning here on this handy timeline because to really understand Dragon’s
motivations we need to understand exactly where he has been. It all starts when Dragon was born 55 years
ago, and we assume that Vice-Admiral Garp is his father, even though that’s actually
never been confirmed. In fact, Garp only ever said that Dragon was
Luffy’s father, not that Dragon was his own son, so there’s definitely room to speculate
that Garp is not Dragon’s dad. But for now, let’s assume that he is Garp’s
son. Well, then it makes a ton of sense that Garp
would want Dragon to join the marines, just like he wanted Luffy to. Only this time it seems that Dragon listened
to Garp instead of immediately rebelling like Luffy did. And I’m sure Garp was absolutely thrilled
that his son was following in his footsteps, but I also don’t think Dragon joined just
because of Garp. I mean, he clearly has a strong sense of justice
that he has continued to believe in even after leaving the marines, so there must have been
some inner motivation for Dragon to join the marines. Now while we don’t actually know when he
joined I think it’s reasonable to assume that it was sometime as a late teenager or
early twenties, which just happens to line up with the God Valley incident. More specifically Dragon was seventeen during
the events on God Valley, so maybe he joined up soon after that enormous battle. Now, what exactly happened during his time
in the marines? We don’t really know for sure, but he simply
must have risen high enough in the ranks to realize there is no true justice there. Because he probably isn’t finding out something
life-changing like that as a common marine or even lower ranking officer, so I would
imagine he became pretty high ranked, probably at least a Vice-Admiral if not even an Admiral
since those are the marines who get tasked with a lot of the marine’s dirty work. And man, I would just love to see Marine Admiral
Dragon doing something truly amazing. Plus Dragon has this whole green color scheme
with his robe and clothing, so he would fit right into the admiral’s color themes. But the next actual confirmed sighting of
Dragon is this scene right here, which was sixteen years after the events of God Valley
when Dragon was thirty-three years old. Now, at this point he has already left the
marines and formed what he calls the “Freedom Fighters” which we’ll talk more about
in just a minute. However, when I read this scene it seems like
these Freedom Fighters have not been around for all that long, so I would imagine that
Dragon was a marine until at least his late twenties, so maybe about five years or so
before this scene with Vegapunk. But even more importantly this scene gives
us our most concrete clue about why Dragon may have grown to hate the Celestial Dragons
and eventually leave the marines. Before I speculate on that though, let’s
explain why some other common reasons for Dragon’s hatred of the world nobles are
probably not true at this point. One of the most common theories for Dragon’s
hatred was that the world nobles killed Luffy’s mother. But after this chapter we can pretty much
cross out that idea because if you look up when Luffy was born, Dragon was already thirty-six
years old which is DEFINITELY AFTER he left the marines. So that means Luffy was born AFTER Dragon
created the revolutionary army, which actually brings back the idea that Ginny might be Luffy’s
mom, but more on that in just a minute. First, though another common idea for Dragon
hating the world nobles is the idea that he learned about the World’s secret ruler,
Imu. But this was basically already proven to be
false in chapter 1086. That’s because when Sabo explained that
Imu is the secret ruler of the world to Dragon and Ivankov, there was absolutely no hint
that Dragon already knew this information. Which of course it is possible he was hiding
that info, but I think that’s pretty unlikely at this point. So that’s also not the reason he left the
marines. So that leaves only two or three decent reasons
that I can see for Dragon leaving the marines. The first is that the world nobles didn’t
actually kill Luffy’s mom, but instead they killed DRAGON’S mom. Which if we are going with the idea that Garp
is his actual father then that would mean they killed Garp’s wife. Which again, seems pretty unlikely because
I feel like an event like that would send Garp on a rampage to wipe out the world nobles
himself. Of course, if Dragon isn’t Garp’s son,
then we have a whole different situation, but I still think this is unlikely. But the MOST LIKELY option based on the timeline
and the events from chapter 1066 is that at some point Dragon met the scholars of Ohara
AND learned some of the true history of the world. Don’t believe me? Well, during his meeting with Vegapunk, Dragon
revealed that he already knew Professor Clover, who was the leader of the scholars and was
desperately searching for information about the Void Century. In fact, we were told in that same chapter
that Clover was arrested by the marines at least ten times. So wouldn’t it just make a lot of sense
if Dragon was the one who chased after Clover while he was a marine. And if that was the case, I can easily imagine
that Dragon would become friends with the adventurous scholar and even learn some of
the dark secrets about the world government that Clover discovered. I mean that same marine and pirate dynamic
is what happened to Garp and the former pirate king, Gol D. Roger, where Garp chased after
Roger for years and they eventually became somewhat like friends. On top of all this, Dragon could have met
Nico Olvia, who was also one of the scholars of Ohara and Robin’s mother. In fact, in chapter 593 we learned that the
Revolutionary Army and Dragon have been searching for Robin for over ten years and they even
call her “the Light of the Revolution”. Which is just even more evidence that Dragon
had an important relationship with Clover or Olvia in the past, and it fits together
nicely that this relationship plus maybe some other tragic event sparked Dragon’s desire
to defeat the Celestial Dragons. Or one more bonus option is that Dragon met
Roger at some point and learned the true history of the world. This is possible because Roger did find Laugh
Tale about three years before Dragon met with Vegapunk right here. So I’m just saying, the timing lines up
pretty well. Plus I’ve always been super curious how
Dragon earned the highest bounty in the entire world. And while we don’t find out in this chapter,
we do know that the ONE THING the world government absolutely does not allow is
the research into the poneglyphs. So if Dragon was friends with the people who
did research the poneglyphs or he got some info about them from Roger, then all of that
plus the fact that he is making an entire army to fight the world nobles could be enough
for him to earn that super high bounty. But whichever of these reasons sparked Dragon’s
decision to leave the marines, it’s not as important as what happens next. Because as we learned from chapter 1066, Dragon
had already formed a group known as the Freedom Fighters, which is essentially Dragon’s
group of rebels before he officially formed the Revolutionary Army. And in this most recent chapter we finally
get to see these Freedom Fighters in action. That’s because about sixteen years after
Kuma and Ginny started living on the island, the ruler of the Sorbet kingdom basically
segregated the entire island into a section protected by the kingdom and a section that
is just lawless land. On top of this, there was a MASSIVE tax placed
on the people to pay for the World Government’s heavenly tribute. Now, this whole storyline might finally explain
how Kuma got his reputation as the “Tyrant King” because even though he is basically
a priest for these people I can honestly see the young Kuma rising up to become sort of
the boss or king of the lawless land, which obviously the upper class of this kingdom
wouldn’t want at all, and he is put into jail. But soon after that Dragon and Ivankov arrived
with their band of Freedom Fighters to overthrow this corrupt ruler, which leads to Kuma and
Ginny joining up with the Freedom fighters, which then officially became the Revolutionary
Army. From here though, there are a few new important
points we can add to our timeline. For example, in this chapter we learned that
fourteen years ago Kuma and Ginny were confirmed to both still be a part of the Revolutionaries. At this time, Kuma is thirty-three years old
and Ginny is thirty-seven. And this fact by itself is super surprising. First of all, again, props to Ginny for surviving
this long. I honestly thought she wouldn’t make it
off of God Valley, but the second interesting point this brings up is that we once again
have to reanalyze the question of if Ginny is someone’s mother. After last chapter it seemed pretty logical
that since she and Kuma were living together then Ginny would eventually be Bonney’s
mom, and I’d still say that is the most likely option since Ginny already wanted to
marry Kuma in this chapter. I mean there is just so much similarity between
their names and personalities. But WAIT until you hear the INSANE theory
coming up in just a moment. Before that though, another option is Ginny
being Luffy’s mom, which after last chapter I thought that wouldn’t be the case, but
now that she has been fully with the revolutionaries for such a long time, I mean anything could
have happened between Ginny and Kuma or Ginny and Dragon. Which, okay, is just such a weird love triangle
to even think about. So, onto the next option. Then there is of course the idea that Bonney
is Ginny’s clone, but now that we learned at the end of this chapter that Ginny has
been kidnapped, I am starting to think there might be a mind-blowing new possibility that
we hadn’t considered. Because even though we don’t know exactly
when on the timeline that Ginny was kidnapped, we can reasonably guess that it was sometime
around fourteen years before the current story. And whenever this occurred it gives us the
perfect set up for Kuma to become a Warlord and World Government slave. Because if Ginny was captured by the World
Government then OF COURSE Kuma is going to try and save her. Maybe they wanted Ginny for some sort of devil
fruit power or some other reason, but for now that reason isn’t that important. Honestly, I keep saying I’ve been surprised
that Ginny has been alive for this long, but what if that is because she was never actually
dead in the first place. That’s right, I’m saying that the Bonney
that we have known for most of the story is in fact Ginny who was aged down AND had her
memories pushed out by Kuma. Which sounds CRAZY! I know, and while she doesn’t look exactly
like Bonney in this chapter her appearance isn’t far off. Plus if you look deep enough, there is some
pretty solid evidence that supports this idea. First of all, we know the world government
wanted Bonney’s for some reason and it appears they once had her captured. Which seems really odd seeing as how we’ve
always viewed Bonney as a pirate and a pretty young one at that, but what if they had captured
her as Ginny and then they later let her go in exchange for Kuma becoming the world government’s
slave? On top of that, if you look back to chapter
1074 and the memories that Bonney viewed in the lab, there are some very odd circumstances
surrounding this. First of all, Vegapunk was desperate for Bonney
not to see those memories, which was always a bit weird to me. I mean yeah, her father’s memories might
have been painful, but wouldn’t it be good for Bonney to see what her father went through? Unless of course those actually weren’t
Kuma’s memories, but they were instead Ginny’s memories and Veapunk didn’t want her to
realize that Bonney isn’t who she thought she is. Also, in this flashback that we thought was
Kuma’s, Bonney is looking at Kuma from the outside, which wouldn’t make sense if they
were Kuma’s memories. If these were Kuma’s memories, shouldn’t
the memories show a perspective through his own eyes? Instead, we see it as if someone else is looking
at Kuma, which would make sense if these were Ginny’s memories. Plus, we were also literally shown Bonney
turning Vegapunk into a baby right before she touched the memories, which seems like
some sort of foreshadowing that Oda would do. However, the evidence that fits this theory
all together is this panel from chapter 908. So in case you don’t remember, this scene
had Bonney trying to sneak into Mary Geoise in order to save Kuma. But going back to look at it now, I just have
to wonder how she knew who this Conney person was and that they were the Dowager Queen of
Kuma’s homeland. Unless of course she once lived there and
had memories of this person, just like Ginny did. Plus there is the question of how she even
looks enough like this Conney person to fool the guards, but I don’t have an answer for
that unless Ginny was a descendant of that ruling family or something, which doesn’t
seem like the case from this chapter. But yeah, Ginny might be a mother, but she
also might also still be alive as Bonney and we never knew it. But with all this talk of Dragon, the marines,
and the revolutionaries, I do wonder if Dragon’s story of being a marine and later leaving
will be the model for another marine to flip sides in the future. An easy choice for this character would be
Koby, but honestly I see him more as following in Garp’s footsteps than Dragon’s. I mean, Koby literally dreams of being a marine
admiral, and he trained under Garp. Plus Garp basically gave up his life to save
Koby, so yeah, I see Koby as trying to get rid of the corruption from within the marines
rather than from the outside. Which means the perfect candidate is Vice-Admiral
Smoker. I mean, if you look at his entire character
arc which has just led to him uncovering more and more government corruption then it would
make sense that eventually he wouldn’t be able to take any more and he will choose to
leave the marines. At this point, I just wonder what event might
tip him over the edge and make him possibly become a pirate or join the revolutionaries. What’s even more exciting though is that
the flashback is not even over yet, so in the next few chapters we might even get to
see Dragon fully show off his powers for the very first time. And wow, that is one of the mysteries I have
been desperate to know about for so long because he just HAS TO BE one of the top tier powerhouses
in the entire story. And if you want to know what his legendary
powers might actually be, plus the mysterious powers of other strong fighters in the story,
you can check out this video right here. Shanks for watching, and I’ll see you in
the next one.
