There’s all the things we’ve come to be more aware from in Wano, of a “promised time” when the world will change. This also adds weight to Crocus, Rayleigh and Whitebeard’s words (to name a few) from throughout the series.
Basically, if you’re upset about Luffy being a promised hero, sorry to tell you, but this is no new development. We’ve known for a very long time that Roger is ”waiting” for someone, that he started the Age of Pirates on purpose, that the people of Ohara and the Roger Pirates were “too hasty”, that one day a man Roger was “waiting for” would arise and shoulder “centuries of history.” All words that bring to mind a dream if the future, an idea that people have been waiting for for a long, long time, for someone to come along and save them, like the “Sun God” did. That someone is Luffy, on his road to the Sun,
As an aside for some other things that popped into my head:
Why is the sun so important? It’s a representation of freedom, a bright new start. What is the Dawn? It’s the rising of the Sun and a new day, the passing of night and the fear of the past. We’ve seen a lot of talk from the Scabbards of the Dawn coming to Wano, this is just one more step in the road to the sun.
To the fishmen, it’s the surface, to see the true sun, to be part of the world and not hidden away at the sea floor. The dream of Otohime and the fishmen in the past who created Noah.
For slaves, freedom, away from the drudgery of a slaves existence. How did Tiger remove the mark of slavery? By covering it with a sun.
This is one of the main goals that have been passed down to Luffy, “since ancient times”. Nika’s dream of the Sun. A true expression of freedom, Luffy’s main wish, for all the people of the world who are oppressed.
Also, that thing that Luffy and Roger said that we don’t know about, definitely to make everyone in the world laugh. Childish, calls to mind Joy Boy and Nika, fits like a glove.
*by Garp the Fist
