I'm going for Water ... Trafalgar D Water Law (WaterLaw ... Waterloo)
I like this idea, makes some sense!
Btw, these New World Flashbacks are heavy heavy stuff... Their scale and depth are beyond the scope of anything Pre-Time Skip, the only one comparable would be Robin's theme with the Banishment of Knowledge and the Prosecution of a child and entire Country to hide the dirt of the reigning World Government, and Boa Hancock and Keimi's Slavery, which was then expanded in the New World. Franky dabbed at it, with the WG's quest to eradicate any ally of Roger, but that wasn't that in-dept, and CP-5's betrayal wasn't as much WG as it was Spandam's, even though we could claim that he was still a part of the organization. But damn... the depth of what the World Government's rule is doing to the world and to individual people is breath taking.
All these stories and hardships are directly stemmed from that point in history, hundreds of years ago, when the World Government was founded. The creation of the Celestial Dragons, the acquirement of aligning Countries and the ostracization of the non-aligning countries, and all the extremely immoral and heinous acts that come from it. It's like we're seeing a huge beast moving it's paws, and from them we see the stemming cruelty infecting whole countries, families and individuals. We get Slavery and from that we see Boa Hancock and her sister, we see a whole alienation of a Race and it's discrimination, we see Fisher Tiger, we see Hatred, Racial Crimes, Abuse. The claws move again and we see abandonment of supposedly ally countries, we see Over-exploration of resources, Pollution, and we see the WG actively encouraging this, and even going as far as incite the confinement and banishment of the country's people when all goes wrong. And the beasts moves again, and we see Rebellions, Extreme Poverty, the depth of human hate not just against those are different, which is mindless hate, but hatred for those that are keeping them from Survival. North Blue's rebellious nature is, to me, not empowering, but extremely sad. They are not rebelling because their stronger, they're rebelling because they're cornered. They can't take the abuse anymore, it's either fight or extermination. The banished Donquixote Family weren't a threat, but their existence was too much connected to the despicable oppressors of the people, and it was just impossible to look past it, to a point where the rebels themselves were just as heinous and, frankly, fundamentally horrifying , as the Celestial Dragons.
And Oda goes there, he shows the World for what it is. It's easy to dismiss this as fictional, but, the fact is, you aren't as involved in the World as the Straw Hats are. Through their travel, they have seen, and keep seeing, Humanity at it's worth. These appalling events existed long before the Straw Hats knew about them, as they exist in our World, but now they're being exposed. I wonder if Oda undertook this research because he wanted to bring awareness to our own problems, because it certainly is making me think about the extremities of human nature.
And all this time we had dismissed One Piece as stemming from Gold Roger, the worst Pirate in history, and the arms-race to the Golden Age of Piracy. Rayleigh warned us, they found out the True History, but there was nothing they could do about it. And that is because only knowing the Void Century means nothing, it's completely empty. The only one that could truly understand the meaning of the Void Century is the one that knows, completely knows, the direct implications that the Void Century had in the world. And we are coming to realize that. Gol D. Roger found the history of the world, but was too weak, to ignorant of the state of the World as it was. He knew, though, that there would come a person that would pick up what he couldn't, and it was that the bet he made when he opened the Golden Age. Roger was but a Catalyst, not the creator. And, more and more, I just fall deeper and deeper in love with One Piece. And really see the Straw Hats as light in the darkness of this world, and the gratitude that the crew's friends show to them is slowly but surely sinking in on me as being essentially more deep than I could have ever thought.
