Today I found something incredible about Shanks! Reader reactions about his shocking true identity are mind-blowing. Let me write what I discovered.
I just realized something amazing! The woman who was taking care of baby Shanks and Shamrock might be the same person who was running away with a child during the human hunting on God Valley! I wish I never noticed this connection. What a terrible thing to realize!
So Shanks and Shamrock were there before this event happened! Yes, it’s really true! The woman has the same hairstyle. Of course Oda-sensei would pull character designs from the God Valley incident when drawing the island residents.
I never expected that One Piece’s past arc would hint at a good mother figure from such an unexpected angle. Garling is really terrible! Is this child Shanks or Shamrock? Garling might deserve to die even more than Caesar now.
I wonder at what stage Shanks was put in that treasure chest, and by whom. The story will probably explain this part too. Maybe Garling pretended to get along with the locals like how Shanks stayed friendly with people in Windmill Village.
If the woman is carrying a child, that child might be her own baby. This is so cruel to put into the world! My heart says they should rewrite this story.
The woman was running away with a child she was protecting! I’m disappointed. I quit being a Shanks fan! But maybe there’s a chance that Shanks will defeat Garling. Even if Garling is his real father, he’s still an enemy of the people.
I see this possibility now. I always thought Shanks would be defeated by Blackbeard, but now a strong connection with another direction appeared. Poor mother! But maybe such a thing never existed from the beginning.
Maybe this woman isn’t the mother of the twins, but she’s smiling and looking at the twins because she was carrying a baby on God Valley at that time. She was either already pregnant or had just given birth, so naturally she felt connected to the children and paid attention to the twins.
Wait, could it be that Garling put Shanks in the treasure chest not for Celestial Dragons to find, but for pirates to pick him up? Hold on! What kind of attitude did Garling have when he said “look at these children”? You psychopath!
People often say this, but the possibility that Shanks has Rocks D bloodline is appearing. I never noticed the naming connection until someone pointed it out. This would make his relationship with Blackbeard much closer. Rocks bloodline really seems possible.
It’s strange that Celestial Dragons would have children in non-member countries. Garling seemed to be participating too, but it didn’t feel very forced.
Did the name “Rocks D Shanks” become a topic on the internet long ago? I heard that Oda-sensei mentioned it at Jump Festa, but I don’t know if that’s true. The woman probably has high chances of being from the Rocks family. At least we learned that Rocks wasn’t just targeting God Valley randomly this time.
Maybe he got angry because his homeland was about to be destroyed. Garling’s facial features look very much like Shanks. There’s also Connie and Bonney’s example, but that’s within their ability range.
Even if Figarland Garling has Rocks bloodline, there’s a possibility that not just one person from the Rocks D family exists. Would someone take a relative’s name instead of their father’s? Well, maybe they would.
What’s clearly stated about Rocks is only that he’s Blackbeard’s father. The wanted poster composition looks very similar to Buggy’s. Shanks values friendship like Luffy does. Now there’s suspicion that the names Shamrock and Shanks are connected, and we’re starting to see traces in various directions.
Oh, he doesn’t have to be Beck’s son. Right, Rocks was a surname. If Blackbeard, Buggy, Shanks, Shamrock, and Luffy are all Rocks-related heirs, that would be too luxurious. But if it’s true, would all Four Emperors be Rocks-related?
If Blackbeard, Buggy, and Shanks are all blood relatives, that would be funny. If so, would Rockstar become Shanks’ relative? Is that why the newcomer became Whitebeard’s messenger?
The fact that someone called “Red Hair” has a “red” member in his crew is actually meaningless, just like how people joke about Blackbeard’s name. This is an incredible Rocks weakness!
If Shanks has Rocks bloodline, what’s scary is that there was a questionable post long ago about Oda-sensei accidentally saying Shanks’ real name at Jump Festa. What was written at that time was “Rocks D Shanks.”
Names like that don’t usually come up, so it was probably dismissed as mishearing. But the story makes complete sense, which is scary. If that’s true, it would be a move that destroys the relationship between Garp and Rocks completely.
The reform is starting to make sense. So it’s Shamrock and Shanks? Maybe Teach’s insomnia comes from his Rocks bloodline. Maybe Shanks doesn’t have insomnia because he’s not pure-blooded.
Actually, we might already have the answer. Why is Shamrock a Celestial Dragon? That makes even less sense now. Figarland family upbringing versus this heartless father.
I think Teach’s condition is a sudden mutation, not genetic. Rocks was probably careful, but compared to other children he’d seen, he noticed his child didn’t sleep and consulted with someone. That’s when he learned his child had a rare constitution.
If people found out that someone like him, such an evil person, had offspring, even that offspring’s life would be in danger. Because they had such a difficult constitution to live with, he might have thoroughly hidden the offspring’s existence to avoid exposing them to danger.
Though it’s just speculation, if Shanks and others are Rocks-related, the meaning of Whitebeard’s words would change. But their faces don’t look similar.
I see. This chapter’s beginning suggested that Rocks might have had children, and it ends with this revelation. Shanks is 39 years old, Teach is 40, but Teach was already 1 year old at the time of this flashback.
This story itself takes place 40 years ago, so it’s probably about Teach. The mother might have a Shanks-like face. There’s no need to modify anything here. There’s enough space to extend the speech bubble.
People forget, but Rocks isn’t his first name. Father Garling, mother Rocks could work too. Shanks’ face clearly looks like Garling’s, so unless that was misdirection, he should normally be the child of Garling and the red-haired woman.
Whether Garling knew it or not, he had a child with a Rocks descendant – what irony! Maybe it’s like “How dare you romance a woman of different status” kind of feeling. Or maybe she’s Rocks’ sister, and to corner him, they made him fall for the enemy’s sister – that’s very dramatic.
I’m getting confused. Are there two theories? One is that Shanks and Shamrock are children of Rocks and the red-haired woman. The other is that they’re children of Garling and the red-haired woman, where the red-haired woman is a Rocks family member like Beck’s sister.
But if he’s Figarland Shamrock, could his father really be Rocks? From what I saw in the anime, the latter theory seems more likely.
There was a sketch in Blackbeard’s idea notes before, showing Blackbeard’s mother and sister. Maybe those characters changed from being Blackbeard’s aunt to being Shanks and others’ real mother. This could be it! This would make the red-haired woman Shanks and others’ mother from the maternal side.
This is incredible! Every week is too interesting! Maybe because there was a pirate like Rocks in the family, she knew that pirates have the habit of taking treasure chests back to their ships, so she put the children in a treasure chest to help them escape.
If “Rocks D Shanks” is his real name, he probably wanted to use his mother’s family name rather than his father’s name. I was curious why only Shanks and Shamrock don’t have the full “Figarland” attached to their names. Maybe it’s because they’re not legitimate children? Wasn’t it corrected in the comics?
The red-haired woman is said to be smart. Maybe the Rocks bloodline tends to be scholarly. I wonder why everyone calls each other by surnames. Even close friend Garp doesn’t call him by his first name. But enemies and allies all call Roger by his first name.
Maybe during this entire time period, he never told anyone his first name until Beck. Even in his first battle with Garp, he only introduced himself as Rocks.
Come to think of it, in the story and among readers, everyone calls him Rocks, but isn’t this like Monkey or Gol – a surname? If these twins are children of Rocks D Beck’s sister and Garling, would it be possible to name them after their maternal family?
Right, surnames and given names. In this story, it’s well known that there’s no father present. If Garling didn’t acknowledge them as his children and didn’t collect them, they would have grown up using their mother’s surname, Rocks, as children of the red-haired woman.
It’s still unclear whether Garling ever revealed his full name or true identity.