User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 985: Kaido's Big Plans/@comment-4623405-20200719182200

Orochi's name and devil fruit powers are based on yamato no orochi from japanese myth. It is a mythical snek boi just like the Hydra from greek myth. Hydra is able to regrow it's heads. Maybe they borrowed the power of one snek boi for the plot twist of another one. The fact that Orochi died by decapitation is very suspicious. In different media snake monsters are shown to be able to regrow their heads. Also the fact that the death was surprisingly brutal and quick adds to the suspision.