User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 956 Thoughts/@comment-198.232.93.121-20190919202555/@comment-108.83.222.210-20190919215005

That would make sense, Blackbeard wants to have the user of the flame fruit in his crew, he invited Ace to join and commented on how having this would be similar to having Ace in his crew. He could be doing something else, but this pattern has worked before in his favor and as they say if it isn't broken don't fix it.