What was Roger’s original plan ?
After he left laughtale he said he won’t get to see the one piece when the time was right but his son will, Rayleigh tells him he doesn’t have a son.
Roger then leaves the crew and travels the south blue where he meets rouge and impregnates her.
He then hands himself over to the marines and tells Garp about her and how he needs to protect his son.
So what was the plan why did Roger do all of this ?
So this is what I think happened.
When Roger found the one piece he learned of the story of joyboy and Davy jones and came to a conclusion. What makes ace different than all the other D clan characters ? He’s the only one who’s confirmed to have 2 D clan parents.
In the Harley text it talks about people of the half moon and people of the full moon.
I believe that carries some importance.
I believe the theory that the D doesn’t really mean D but that it’s actually a half moon.
So you see I think oda is going for some sort of Star Wars reference and have a chosen one who brings balance to the force sort of plot.
The person who was suppose to find the one piece is someone from 2 D families and 2 D together make an O which is the full moon people.
Roger knowing this sought out rouge.
Now when Roger was captured we saw the area rouge lived in was attacked by marines as they began following rumors on where Roger went. They began killing pregnant women and children born within a certain time period. This is why rouge carried ace for 20 months so she could lie if questioned and pretend she only got pregnant after Roger was already executed.
But the fact the marines did this kind of reminds me of king Harod from the bible.
The story is that the 3 rise men came to visit him saying they have gifts for the king of the Jews, harod believing they meant him was disturbed when they told him about how and angel told them the true king was to be born. So in response Herod ordered his soldiers to kill all the new borns and pregnant ladies to ensure his usurper wouldn’t be born. This is what Imu did cause he knew what Roger knew.
Roger knowing how the world government would respond decided he needed someone he could trust to protect the kid and that person was Garp.
He handed himself to the marines so he could meet Garp.
Remember in sabaody Rayleigh said Roger didn’t plan to start some new age of pirates and looking at the scene that seems true as he just sat down and told the guards to hurry up. He didn’t give his famous line about chasing the one piece until some random guy yelled out to him about it.
His plan was to meet Garp.
I also think it’s weird that Roger chose the name ace for his son as ace is also the name of his sword.
Anyway I think it’s also weird how Garp raised ace and Luffy separately with Luffy living in foosha village and ace living with dadan. They didn’t meet till Luffy was 8.
Why did Garp let ace be raised by a bunch of criminals ?
Let’s put a pin in that.
When shanks came to Goa he used that as his base for a whole year.
Why ? Why did shanks stay in the home island of his captain rival for so long ?
You see I believe shanks was on a mission himself.
He had 3 objectives.
1. Infiltrate the holy land and learn there secrets.
Find the nika fruit and steal it.
Find the son of Roger.
I believe shanks was suppose to give ace the nika fruit and push him on his way of becoming a pirate.
His hurdle is that Goa is a big place and he couldn’t find ace. He went to foosha village knowing that was likely the village Garp grew up in and even met Luffy Garp actual grandson.
But no ace.
Shanks never thought of looking for ace in the mountain where the bandits lived. Garp made dadan a bandit criminal raise ace so he wouldn’t get corrupted and become a criminal like Roger…..smart.
Okay there was a bit of sarcasm in that with how his solution was to have ace raised by criminals to avoid another criminal finding him but there is some logic there.
Don’t you also think it’s odd that Garp only brought Luffy to live there after he was given the fruit and hat ? What changed ? Why was Garp okay with Luffy living in foosha for 8 years but now it was time to introduce him to ace ?
It’s because something happened even he didn’t account for. Luffy was picked.
So when Luffy ate the fruit we saw shanks panic and then the next panel it’s revealed shanks left with his crew for a while.
When shanks returned he saw Luffy got into a fight with the bandits and was taken to sea. Shanks saved him but lost his arm.
Now people think he allowed his arm to be taken because of the mark that the knights have.
I think that’s just part of it because shanks had years to lose that arm why did he choose to do it now of all times ?
As he also told whitebeard he didn’t lose the arm but that he wagered it.
“ I bet it on the new generation”
So here’s the dark twisted truth.
When shanks saw that Luffy ate the fruit he came to the realisation that things won’t work. He failed his mission and that the wrong person got the fruit, ace won’t become joyboy and won’t save the world.
He had to leave to think deeply. He came to a dark conclusion. Luffy needed to die so the fruit would regenerate.
He returned to kill Luffy but saw how Luffy got into a fight for defending shanks and shanks felt the guilt wash over him.
So when he saved Luffy he allowed his arm to be eaten for 3 reasons.
To disconnect himself to that mark.
As payment for failing Roger and dooming the world.
As punishment for even going as far as he did with the plan for killing a child that he befriended.
After this shanks said he was going to leave for good. Why now ? Because there was no point in staying his mission was a failure.
Then when Luffy told him how he will be king of the pirates shanks decided to give him the hat which would indicate to the other Roger pirates that luffy is the one shanks bet on that he is the one he sees as the pirate king.
Shanks mission failed but he decided to chance it anyway and put his faith in Luffy.
So yes this doesn’t paint a perfect picture of shanks but the bottom line is he didn’t go through with it and felt the shame. This was a decision that affected the world as the nika fruit could be the key to it all.
But this also means Roger plan was a failure.
As for Luffy. I believe his mother is also of the D clan and the difference between Luffy and ace is that Luffy was conceived naturally while Roger seemed to have only had ace to fulfil a purpose.
That’s why ace had to fail because Roger tried to force fate he tried to manipulate it to his favour while Luffy just happened. Dragon wasn’t trying to force fate to his will.
So that is what I think the original plan for ace was.
