User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 900: So Delicious You Could Die/@comment-24850639-20180402175246

Given the weight of this chapter's events, I definitely wanted to take the time to read it several times, and go through as much feedback as possible for things I could have missed. I've got  more questions than answers at this point, but I'm certainly suspending all disbelief about potential ways that this will end for the Straw Hats. Whether the Sunny's destruction is "real" or not, Oda played all kinds of games with our expectations based on the way that he set up events, and he truly is a master of the Deus Ex Machina. He set it up so that there was absolutely no reason we shouldn't believe that all hell would break loose when the Mink laid their eyes on Samurai, and then it turns out that the Minks have actually pledged their entire existence to the Kozuki Clan. There was theory after theory on who was gonna fight Jack, how they were gonna fight him, and what the implications would be; but I guarantee you no one saw Momonosuke taking command of Zunisha and wiping out his fleet in one fell swoop (pun intended). This escape from TotLand is shaping up in a similar fashion to me, where this is all gonna end in a way that NO ONE could see coming. Wanted to address a few things.....

The "Hallucination" Theory - Truly, truly don't understand this one. Big Mom, her location, and the actions of the Queen Mama Chanter are in NO WAY related IMO. I'm of the mindset that Sanji's cake did the job it was supposed to do, and that right now Big Mom is straight up lost in ecstasy. Let me clarify: I believe the cake gave Big Mom back her strength and livelihood, and she's completely aware of her surroundings, but she's so mesmerized by the flavor of the cake that she just breaks into song and dance. If you look at the outline of Puffs Island at the beginning of the chapter, and the view of Big Mom's surroundings as she eats the cake and begins to sing, I don't really see too much that appears to be out of place. I would imagine eating the cake gave her back full control over her power, so of course the homies are all jolly and singing along. I'm not sure why people think the attacks on the Vinsmokes, Straw Hats, or Sun Pirates are hallucinations of Big Mom's when she isn't even in that vicinity. How would Big Mom be imagining the dialogue between her children over Den Den Mushi that she is nowhere near, or the shadowy figures that have confronted Judge, or the dialogue between the Straw Hats? Same goes for what is happening on and around Cacao Island.

Pudding - She's on Cacao Island, in a random alley.....she was on Cacao Island in a random alley when she did whatever she did to Sanji. Has this chick really just been sitting there the whole time? I currently don't feel informed enough about Pudding overall to muse over what Oda may potentially do with her, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe that it's just sitting in an alley looking sorry for herself while we try to guess what the hell this "last request" was. Literally everything she's done since Whole Cake Chateau collapsed has been to make sure that the Straw Hats can escape, so I'm not convinced she would just sit idly by if there's reason to believe said escape did not happen.

Sun Pirates/Germa - To see the entire Sun Pirate crew get one-shotted by one non-Yonko guy is a pretty bad look. Sure, his Devil Fruit makes him the perfect counter for their advantage in the water, but literally ALL of them? Sure, their backstory gave us reason to believe that Jinbe was essentially the only person outside of Fisher Tiger who could seriously throw down against VERY strong opponents, but hey, they were technically part of a Yonko's crew as well. Just like with Pekoms, people are fine with them not ultimately being successful in their task, was just hoping they would get a little more shine. Same goes for the Germa, with the exception that they actually got to have a little shine first. I saw them as sacrificial the instant they showed up to help Sanji, but for the tide to turn on them so quickly with no catalyst other than superior numbers.....sad.

Big Mom's Mouth - This is me going way left-field, but I personally believe that there is legit an alternate dimension inside of Big Mom's body. The shape of those trees that we get in the first panel inside her mouth match the trees on her Jolly Roger perfectly, and if she literally eats people's lifespans, it makes sense to me that there would be "living" things inside of her. We saw her make a homie immediately after consuming Carmel and the other children.....so it would seem that the souls of people she consumes "live" somewhere until she decides to make use of it.

"Destruction" of the Sunny - When the Queen Mama Chanter arrives, it first blows up a ship that is in front of the Sunny. We see Nami's frantic reaction to it, and then after a few panels of Germa getting WRECKED and Big Mom singing, we see the rest of the crew react to it. These are legit questions of curiosity, not criticisms:

1.) Assuming the Chanter is the flagship of the Big Mom Pirates, I would expect it to be housed at TotLand's most prominent location, Whole Cake Island itself. In both Chiffon and Pudding's maps of Totto Land, Whole Cake Island is BEHIND Cacao and the Straw Hats path no matter how you look at it. So the how the hell did the Queen Mama Chanter end up IN FRONT of the Sunny?

2.) We've seen a small group of Straw Hats successfully defend the Sunny from the Chanter, and not only that, but even counterattack and cause the ship damage. The Straw Hats watched ships in front of them get blown up, and thus have ample time to prepare for the Chanter to fire their way again. With now even more capable fighters aboard the ship like Jinbe and Luffy, why should we believe that they can't handle being fired upon?

3.) Why should we believe Oda would legitamately destroy the Sunny, when he's hammered home that Franky put all his hopes and dreams into this ship? Franky isn't even present in this arc, which seems all the more off-the-wall that Oda would actually destroy the ship. Will it need to be patched up? Absolutely. But obliterated with not even a foundation to start from? Nah son.

Word is we're heading to Wano and this might all be completely left up in the air, so I'm definitely on the edge of my seat.