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on 5 ratings. First off, what is the omen? It’s stated that the omen dwells within all
of us. At its core, it is a primal desire for power. But to truly
unlock that power, three things are required: desire, corruption, and a
covenant. In my previous theory, i discussed how the people of
the first world were ultimately corrupted by this exact greed. They had
everything they could need, yet they wanted more. In the end, they paid
the ultimate price, and the world itself retaliated against them.
Chapter
1114 is famously titled "wings of icarus." while the chapter explicitly
frames vegapunk as icarus, he is actually talking about the past in the
chapter. Just like icarus flew too close to the sun and got burned, the
people of the first world reached too high. Their insatiable greed for
power caused them to be "burned" by the one piece world itself.
When you get dominion, you ascend to become a god or a devil. But as imu implies, they are actually the exact same thing. Why? Because achieving that level of power comes with a terrifying cost: you lose your humanity.
Oda actually addressed this exact philosophical concept recently in sbs vol. 113:
D: hello odacchi! I was reading and thinking about the celestial dragons. If york wants to become a celestial dragon, does that mean that before he split off the satellites, vegapunk also had some desire to become one? P.N. Kibi dango
O: i see. Are you surprised? This is difficult to talk about, but in my opinion, everyone has "greed" for everything, and only when they have the "reason" to restrain themselves do they become "human". If shaka is considered the "reason", then before being split, if you feel hatred for the celestial dragons or have the common sense that we shouldn't kill humans, then there may be some celestial dragon within you, being held back. That may be an extreme view, though. Please take it with a grain of salt haha. The simple answer is "maybe humans just feel the desire to become celestial dragons".
This confirms that "reason" is what keeps us human. Once you strip that away in pursuit of power, you lose your humanity and become a "god" or "devil" (like a celestial dragon).
This brings us to the climax of the theory. Both joyboy and imu know the dark truth: during the first world, people lost their humanity, became "gods," and burned their world down.
Imu says: "the world rejoices in dominion, isn't that right, joyboy?" - its almost as imu is implying that joyboy wants the same thing, for world to rejoice in "dominion", but there are 2 "dominions"
Joyboy's vision: he wanted to achieve his version of "dominion" by granting people absolute freedom. Whether it led to actual dominion where people would lose their humanity, it didn't matter to him, he wanted everyone to be free.
Imu's reality check: imu knows exactly what unrestricted freedom led to in the first world. It led to the eternal flame, the ancient weapons, and people craving more power even when they already had enough. Eventually, they lost their humanity and humans became "gods". They rejoiced in their dominion, lost their humanity, and destroyed everything they had, and almost the world itself.
It's as loki says, sun god is the bringer of ragnarok, the end of the world. While imu is the one trying to prevent it, imu is the definition of "the end justifies the means", he'll do whatever is necessary to preserve the world, even if he must become necessary evil and commit genocide.
In the end, just as vegapunk asked "who was right" about these two ideologies, and rayleigh said to strawhats that maybe they'll come to different conclusion than roger pirates, but i believe neither of them were right and luffy will realize that they're both idiots and as per usual luffy will do his own thing and actually achieve what both imu and joyboy wanted.
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1 comment:
Your comparison actually proves the opposite of your conclusion.
Modern Egyptians not reading hieroglyphs does not mean ancient Egyptian identity vanished — it means civilizations evolve while retaining symbolic memory. Mexico works the same way. Indigenous cosmology was never erased; it was layered beneath Catholicism through syncretism. That’s why Día de los Muertos still mirrors pre-Hispanic reverence for death, especially Mexica views shaped by Mictlān and Mictecacihuatl, the Lady of the Dead.
You say “most of Latin America embraced Christianity,” but that ignores how Indigenous systems survived inside Christianity. The Virgin of Guadalupe itself is historically tied by many scholars to Tonantzin worship at Tepeyac. People didn’t simply forget; they adapted under colonial pressure.
And ancestry does not grant total cultural authority. Mexico contains Nahua, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Purépecha, Totonac, and dozens more traditions. Saying “my family never heard of it” is philosophically weak because absence of personal memory is not evidence of historical absence.
Ironically, One Piece itself argues against your position. The Void Century is built on the idea that dominant powers erase inconvenient histories while fragments survive in symbols, songs, ruins, and inherited will. That is literally how Indigenous memory survived colonization.
Luffy doesn’t know the full meaning of Nika, yet he still embodies it. Fishmen living beside forgotten underwater cities is not unrealistic — people normalize the ruins around them all the time. Real humans walk over buried civilizations daily without understanding them. Mexico City itself is built atop Tenochtitlan.
So the deeper theme isn’t “people forgot, therefore it wasn’t important.”
It’s that power can suppress knowledge, but cultural memory survives in fragments — exactly the central philosophy of One Piece.
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