Davy’s Blood
The meaning of the title “Davy’s Blood”: Davy D. Jones had a deep connection with Im 800 years ago. Rocks carries that blood, and now his son Teach has survived the God Valley Incident — meaning Davy’s will was not severed, but passed down through bloodline directly to Teach. The dream that Im fears: inherited by Teach from Rocks, just as it was passed from the original Davy Jones down through the Jiibeck line.
Speaking of Teach’s dream — it calls to mind one of his earliest lines:
“Man’s dreams… will never end!!” Reading that line again now, the word “man” (人) feels like it might be read as “Davy” — as in the D. clan. D is the natural enemy of God. Luffy, who bears the D, possesses the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika — the Human-Human Fruit, Sun God form. Oda seems to be using “human” as the deliberate antonym of “god.” I haven’t quite articulated this cleanly yet, but I’ll come back to it.
As for the cover page — if it’s connected to the title and main story as usual, the chain is: Im wants to eradicate both the Davy bloodline and the Buccaneers → but Rocks’s son Teach, who carries Davy’s blood, survived thanks to Kuma. Now, “Randolph with the Mihawk-style hat” — does he carry Mihawk’s blood? His mother like Perona? That seems unlikely. But what if the cover characters are stand-ins for a different parent-child relationship?
There’s been recent buzz that Mihawk’s clothes pattern is strikingly similar to a certain popular figure. And the woman chasing that figure has distinctive sideburns — which Mihawk also shares. The reading:
- Perona = Shakky
- Randolph = Rayleigh
- The title “Davy’s Blood” = “Rayleigh’s Blood”
- Mihawk = Mihawk
- Mihawk is the son of Rayleigh and Shakky?
Mihawk is four years older than Shanks, which would put him at 4 years old during the God Valley Incident — meaning Shakky would have had to give birth to Mihawk before stepping down as Empress of the Kuja. And maybe that’s exactly why Rayleigh kept avoiding Shakky — he knew she’d had his child, but he’d abandoned both his role as husband and father to continue his pirate life, and the guilt made it too awkward to face her. Shakky quit the pirates and became a mother; Rayleigh may have been running from becoming a husband and father.
Dressrosa Homage
Unaware that Kuma had already saved them, did Rocks believe he had killed his own wife and son with his own hands? Unable to stop himself from harming the people he loved — begging someone to kill him — this is a clear Dressrosa homage: King Riku, who was manipulated into harming his own people.
Though I had expected Harald to be the one manipulated into harming people — not Rocks. Which raises the question: why was Harald skewered by guards in the first place?
Eris and Teach Survive
Kuma reads the room — surely he would send mother and child to the same place? Their destination might be Lulusia Kingdom, where Rocks had originally planned to rendezvous. Which raises the possibility that among the people who later joined the Revolutionary Army — including Mooda — there may be those who knew Eris. Or perhaps Eris herself ended up there.
That’s all for this chapter. See you next week!