User blog comment:Besty17/Impact of the Worst Generation/@comment-24850639-20170510190601

After being a fan this long, Oda has taught me to have a blind faith in his writing. He doesn't do things without a reason, but more importantly, he doesn't NOT do things for a good reason either. I'm confident that even if we don't know them yet, there are good reasons that Oda hasn't fleshed out these people's backstories. If you've followed the series for any significant amount of time, you'd know that practically 10 times out 10, this is because Oda has yet to establish the context where it makes sense to go into a person's backstory. Given how early we met Law, it doesn't really make sense at the time to go into who he really was, because at the time we barely understood who Doflamingo really was. When we meet Bege on Sabaody and see that he has nothing but contempt for the Straw Hats after the ruckus Luffy caused, would you have been able to guess then that he'd turn out to be one of Luffy's biggest allies against Big Mom? Let alone that he'd get married to one of Big Mom's daughters and actually have a kid? That the daughter would turn out to be Lola's twin sister? There's very good reason we don't know more about the rest of the Supernovas, and until we move into  the part of the story that involves them, the best we can do is speculate.

As a whole - They all recognize each other as enemies/rivals for the bid of Pirate King, but at the end of the day I get the feeling they'd rather have each other as enemies and allies than a Yonko. Any Yonko affiliations as of now are nothing more than a means of staying alive while they try to figure out what moves they will make in the New World. I think Oda identified them as a group for a reason, and that they will collectively serve a larger purpose for the series and the world in it. Just like the Grand Fleet, there's probably something REALLY big in store.

Kidd-Hawkins-Apoo Alliance - Most of us are guessing that Kidd had zero interest in playing pawn to a king, which led to his imprisonment and ass-beating. If not just from what we know of Kidd's nature, then by the cryptic threat Kaido issued to Luffy/Law, citing Kidd as an example. The shot at Sabaody of Kidd-Luffy-Law standing shoulder-to-shoulder while they discuss their intentions to meet again in the New World to me just screams future allies. I wasn't sure what would tie their fates together at the time, but now its become very obvious that they will be seeing each other again in Wano Country, and likely teaming up to take Kaido down. Of the 3, Kidd is the only one who has yet to show that breakaway impact, but I get the feeling its coming in Wano. As for everyone else, Killer is a huge wild card. It is very difficult to speculate at the moment whether he's become subservient in order to keep his captain safe (Kidd doesn't seem the type to allow that), if he's attempted to escape, or if he's part of the anti-Kaido efforts now. Apoo is clearly just saving his own ass, but I wouldn't count on his story being so simple. If you can believe that Drake is serving while secretly furthering an ulterior motive, then I don't see what would make Apoo or Hawkins any different.

Drake - I'm inclined to believe Drake has the strongest moral compass of them all, I mean he was a marine for the love of god. I'll go on record now, 100% believing that Drake has some kind of secret plan to take down Kaido. He's just waiting on his moment, whatever that may be. Once we move into Wano, I expect him to have a breakout role just like Bege.

Bonney - Her possible connection to Big Mom  didn't quite pan out like I would have hoped, but her possible connection to Whitebeard is still very much alive in the realm of possibility. And now given her interactions with Sakazuki, and the Marines confirmed interest in things related to Whitebeard (Weevil as shichibukai), I see her and Weevil on a crash course that will probably come to a head when one of them finally meets Luffy. With Luffy having now spent some meaningful time with the Whitebeard Pirates, I bet Bonney would love to hear all about it. She also doesn't seem to really view Luffy as a direct enemy anymore for whatever reason.

Urouge - This guy's been busy during the timeskip, a lot busier than any of us could have imagined. It was nice getting a power check on him and knowing that he isn't quite the pushover some would have guessed with his bounty, but we've got next to nothing on him otherwise. As someone who believes Skypeia was most definitely not our last adventure on a Sky Island, I see Urouge coming back into play whenever the Straw Hats visit another land of the type. We found out a long time ago that Skypiea wasn't the only Sky Island, which to me almost guarantees that we will be seeing them at some point, or at the very least learning more about them.