User blog comment:12th Supernova/Chapter 780: Best Wish Ever/@comment-24850639-20150319144736

Dammit Law, make up your mind if you're dead or not! Lol. Its really hard to call this. I personally REALLY want Law to live, he's got one of my favorite DFs, voices, backstories, and crewmates. Bepo would be so hurt! Anyway, here's the facts:

LAW'S NOT DEAD:

1) Mansherry has done literally absolutely nothing else, and right now no one needs her help more than Law 2) Doffy asked Law why he carries the Heart, and though we have a pretty good idea by now, we still don't have the full story. Regardless of Law's status right now the Heart Pirates do still exist. Oda has left a lot of things open ended, but it seems out of character for him to do that now. The only person who can give us this story is Law himself, and speaking of open ended, its been Law who's taught us more about the D than anyone else has so far 3) Viola saying we've lost some  of our own too definitely doesn't imply that he's dead. Both sides have "lost" people, and none of them are dead. Why wouldn't she actually make the distinction that we REALLY someone if he is actually dead? 4) It was implied that Luffy was able to tell Law was still alive before through his Kenbunshoku haki. Luffy can be pretty stupid, but I don't think even he's stupid enough to tell a man missing an arm and filled with bullets to "pull himself together" if he had reason to believe he was dead lol 5) I don't give a damn how strong the Straw Hats become, one crew of 9 isn't enough to take down a Yonko, at least not this early. Law was the brains of this operation, and even though his want for revenge got in the way of things on Dressrosa, I HIGHLY doubt the buck stopped merely after getting rid of the factory. Law must have had SOMETHING in mind when it came to actually taking on Kaido himself, and his past with X. Drake is also something pretty important thats open ended. 6) Finally, we still don't have Doffy's full story either, at least in terms of what exactly is giving him so much leverage over of the World Government. These are things he'd discuss with Law potentially, that he has no reason to discuss with Luffy. Maybe Sabo, but thats pushing it. Speaking of, Koala's at the palace too, and she def isn't going against Trebol or Mingo, so I see no purpose for her being there other than getting Law the hell out of the way.

LAW'S DEAD

1) As a D, there truly is no better way to go out.....a smile, some shit talking, and even flipped Doflamingo the bird (pun intended) just for good measure. I mean its really the classic way we've seen all D Carriers die. 2) From what we've learned of Law post-timeskip, it really seems like he's had no greater goal in life than getting back at Doflamingo. That was the sole purpose of the man who gave him a reason to keep living, and it seems he cares a lot more about that than One Piece, being the Pirate King, etc. I mean he went that far just to become a Shichibukai for Pete's sake. Despite how grim things are for him right now, he still has a ridiculous amount of confidence that Luffy will get it done, so maybe this really is the end of the road for him. 3) DP brought up a point of Law's signficance, and it really seeming like he did nothing else but get Luffy on another Yonko's badside. But when I think about it, the SHs would have ended up on Punk Hazard regardless. They still would have met and wanted to save the children, and thus would have butted heads with Caesar, Vergo, Monet, and thus Doflamingo anyway. Meeting Kin'emon and Momo would still have given them reason to make Dressrosa their next destination, and Mingo would still have the Mera Mera No Mi. When they actually got to Dressrosa, it was the Tontatta/Kyros who REALLY convinced them to take up arms against Mingo, not Law. And since we don't really know much about what direction Law's plan was gonna turn after SMILE was dealt with (if there is one) it really just seems like Law's only been acting on his 13 year personal vendetta (as Sanji so eloquently pointed out). Given how repeatedly Mingo's commented on Law's trust in Luffy, our own observation of his confidence in him, and what we've continued to learn about D. carriers, it kinda makes sense in a really sad way that he'd leave Luffy to carry on his will. And since the factory actually is gone now and they're NOT getting Mansherry back, in a lot of ways it kinda seems like Law's served his purpose up til now. They wouldn't have been aware of Mingo's connection to Kaido otherwise.

Sorry to be so long-winded, I always end up doing this somehow. All that foolishness aside, I really liked the chapter and can't wait for Luffy vs. Mingo to officially start. I just hope Luffy learns to listen to Law eventually, and not let his anger cloud his judgment. Because right now it seems like Luffy's really just playing into Mingo's hands. Luffy's been in a race against time facing Crocodile (bomb), Enel (Skypeia destruction), Rob Lucci (Robin/Gates of Justice), Moriah (shadows returning), Hordy (Noah destroying Fishman Island), and Caesar (gas filling facility), so Luffy having to deal with the bird cage shrinking should be nothing new LMFAO.