Aqua Linguine

As Tekking101 has been saying for years, " GEOGRAPHY! IS! EVERYTHING!"

I can't believe that the people jokingly said "They first built Impel Down and then built the ocean around it" were correct

odas notes for every chapter shows him with a "fish head" in water

Trafalgar Law instantly has the best ship in the verse now. No coating required.

It's crazy how one single line from Vegapunk made the ENTIRE One Pice story connect

You didn't mention the all blue, Sanji and Zeff's dream could actually be a warning passed down through folklore among chefs but at some point got swapped into the all blue is a paradise

Fishman Island was built under Marijoa so they couldn't be erased like Lulusia

What blew my mind is that the Celestial Dragons outfits make all the sense now.

Re-contextualization really is the key word for this entire saga. It really gives me hope that Oda is going to pull off the revelation of the One Piece itself in such away that our brains are going to expand to the size of planets with all the re-contextualization we'll be hit with.

Oda spends 25 years building a fantastical living world and then just says drown em all 😂

OMG the water tight walls around old Wano were probably meant to protect it from the rising ocean but that backfired via the rain water filling it up!!

Hehe this video is 11:13 minutes long

Water7/Enies Lobby being the first arc to mention Island sinking is also the first arc where the World Government is the primary antagonist.

Okay so when Luffy and Bellamy meet again at Dressrosa, Bellamy says he needs to make it onto Doflamingo's ship to survive the waves that were coming. Obviously everyone would assume he was talking figuratively about the new era of piracy, but on the other hand...

I just love that the sinking world of one piece explained how the gates of justice were created. I've been wondering for AGES

It's also worth mentioning that the original 20 kingdoms/the celestial dragons knew this and that's why they built their home on top of the red line

Fun note, in a few translations I've seen, Arlong outright calls Fishmen evolved humans. With the fact Fishman Island is below the sea in a huge air bubble, and may not have always been there... They likely adapted to survive the conditions. Maybe even started as merely good swimmers or used to be much less fish-like.

I call it: There is a second ocean below the earth crust, which gets broken by Imus Uranus laser canon, which causes earthquakes and contributes to the rising sea levels all over the world to flood the world and control the rest of the islands' fates in his palm.

This is the magic of one piece, you keep re-reading it and I swear the pages change everytime you do since you know more, odas a madman, 25 years and he hasn't missed

So the one piece is going to be a giant cartoon drain plug, that when pulled lowers water levels and connects the islands into one whole land mass.

Don't know how old it is, but Thriller Bark was turned into a boat. Could have been like Water 7 where they ended up doing the same thing.

I still believe Caribou will be key in saving the world by absorbing all the islands and preserving life inside his swamp.

La-goon-a .... Laguna...it was killing me every time you said Laguana but amazing video as always

The will of the Drowned is very real 😱✨⚡🌊

Now I know what caused "The Void Century". The world was flooded by the sea for a hundred years.

I know you said this in a previous video but it's worth restating Rayleigh is a ship coder and one could argue that Tom decided to build the train floating is in response to knowledge he received from Rogers crew.

It is good writing that something is so blatantly telegraph and the twist was still a shock.

This also recontextualizes why the government was so interested in the Sea Train. We know their interests in the well being of islands themselves isn't great, so it did seem weird that they would care if the train helped Water 7 thrive. But given what at least some of the higher ups know, their interest in speedy traversal over the ocean makes a ton of sense.

It's blowing my mind that the last word of King Cobra and the letter of Nefertari D Lili that got blurred by Imu might be "Bear the flag of the dawn against the SINKING world!"

2:29 "Aqua laguna", which references an actual phenomenon in the Adriatic sea called "acqua alta" or High water. It creates tides and partial submersion in the Veneto region of Italy, which is where Venice, the city that inspired Water 7, is located.

The hair looks amazing Merphy

Geography is everything! - Tekking101 Aqua Lengua - Merphy

Did anybody else noticed that in Jimbe's cover story there was a city that had a Poneglyph sunk near an island?

I think the base of Impel Down is wider because the walls are thicker. The reason is that the deeper you go, the more the water pressure on the walls increases. The space available for inmates on level 6 may be smaller than higher levels for this reason. It also makes sense to put the most dangerous inmates as far away as possible from the only exit to the surface.

9:00 WAIT A DARN MINUTE, Teach wanted Whitebeards devil fruit, his devil fruit causes earthquakes, Teach wants to flood the world himself, Van Augur said it himself that Teach wanted the world, also Teach has Rocks ship hidden somewhere, this dude knows a LOOOOOT

7:38 there are TWO devil fruits able to terraform the land, and Wano is the country in which two former users of known fruits appear in flashbacks. Maybe they even raised those wall to prevent the sea levels eroding the mountain, and also trapping Pluton there.

I saw someone mention somewhere that as far as we are aware, shank’s crew doesn’t have devil fruits and since he was on the pirate kings crew maybe he knew that in the future it would be more beneficial to have a crew that could survive the world sinking

When we were first introduced to choppers. Island I always wonder why the castle was high up above from all the Citizens similar to the red line

In real life, due to plate tectonics, the crust actually absorbs water, lowering the amount on the surface. In One Piece, it's like this process happens in reverse. The sea level rises and the planets crust shrinks.

6:13 made me think the Red Line was built as a worldwide dam to keep the water levels on one side. But the gaping hole that was/became Fishman Island equalized the water levels over time.

Aqua "Lengua" like tongue not sure about that but I'm here for it 😅

Something else that shows change, in the impel down picture the lower floor has windows. Seems like it was a building that was once opened from below.

1:21 Did Merphy make that meme? 😆

So here's a thought that me and my friend both came to in regards to the Celestial Dragons 1. We call their outfits space but now they're clearing diving suits for underwater living . That was my friends theory. We then discuss how the Celestial Dragons plan to live on the Red Line long term once all the islands are flooded since its been stated that the Red Line is barren rock, nothing can grow on it. He suggested that perhaps they plan to just strip mine entire islands and transplant the soil to the Red Line and this made me realise. The Hunting Games, it always seemed strange to me that they have them every 3 years but then it hit me. What if it's an experiment, after they kill off all the locals and harvest all the resources they stripmine the island, and then the 3 year period is to see of the soil can support repeat harvests.

8:13 I think Rain Powder was invented as a counter measure to sink Old Wano as they were building the wall to protect themselves from the flood.

Playing with the idea that vegapunks message will essentially be the "great truth" that was KNOWN BY ALL 900ish years ago. They all "came to their own conclusions". Some decided to build on top, some went to high ground, etc. Somehow after the "void" nobody knew about the flood but the geographic signs remained everywhere, unknown in plain sight.

I haven't watched One Piece theory videos in a long time and this video makes me wanna watch more again. My mind is constantly being blown.

“After each Aqua Laguna, the foundation of Water 7 sinks a little…” Okay so it’s basically New Orleans…

Wano seems to be built over a fault zone where the magma turns into mountains over time. Wano’s Mt Fuji might have once been an active volcano.

You've gotta remember that the people who grew up outside of the Grand Line found the weird weather differences, the extremes in sea currents etc to be aberrances to the norm. Remember what our rugged navigator looked like going to Whiskey Peak after a thought life near Arlong Park? There's something weird and special about the area the Grand Line covers, and it's got something to do with the continent movers, the Red Line and the big hole near Enies Lobby.

geography? is this tekking approved? heresy! :'D

Emotions are undulating in this arc. Loving it!

I started having doubts when water seven and Enies Lobby were introduced. one is a city sinking in the ocean the other a hole in the middle of the ocean that mysteriously never seem to fill up with water.

Roger started the Great Age of Piracy so people would build more ships, either as pirates sailing the high seas or marines building warships to combat them, so people would have more ships to go on once things start going South. If worst comes to worst, they can just go up to the sky islands.

Ahhh yes. The Famour Water Tongue Arc haha Peace!

This vid and your evidence is so gratifying for me cause I've had a few moments of seeing old places being shown again in the manga or just certain geography and asking my more enthusiastic One Piece friends if it seems different or if the water might be rising due to a mysterious reason and not just the stuff being mentioned and they always brush it off. Thank you lmao

Wow, it really has been right in front of our faces.

Another day, another great one piece vid from the rat queen. Been subbed since you started this One Piece journey and there hasn’t been a video I haven’t loved on the series since. Top 3 One Piece KZfaqr for me and you ain’t 3.

Me : Merphy needs to stop being apologetic about her criticisms and theories of one piece she's as much a fan as we are at this point, heck she has spread one piece more than any of us alone did during our decades of being fans Merphy : aqua langua Me : nevermind

I just was impressed how it tie into clinate change in the real world

i saw this in joyboy theories video: at 7:39 you can see in the top and middle the sea level is in line with old wano, but in the bottom panel (presumably many years later) the sea level is higher than most of old wanos buildings.

Morj has a really good video regarding the Noah from Fishman island. Which fishman island is becoming the skypiea of post time skip with more arcs fleshing out certain aspects.

love your content, greetings from Chile ❤

The river in alabasta is less because of rising water, but more because of the drought on the island

Is cool that you are getting into Anime! Welcome to the club!

I love the transition effects ngl

Amazon Lily as well. Big sealable cup in the middle of a large mountain.

The island of ohara looks like the water went up the tree and made it grow that way

Funny enough, this was one of the first things I thought about when I saw the red line. "The world was less flooded, but the red line was risen artificially, pushing the ocean arround"

8:18 a really stupid wano ruler comissioned a stone stone devil fruit user to make giant walls around the country in order to protect it from flooding and only remembered rain a bit too late

The Weather Islanders might have known!

You made me hungy talking about tongue that much.

8:50 On the last vídeo of Dawn & Dusk is explain really well how the big holes made on the ocean work to make the world sea level increase and how it causes the earthquakes

This only means that VOID CENTURY were just massive amounts of islands with histories and libraries drowned in a great flood

Noah’s Ark is in Fishman Island…

Alubarna palace was built way high up, which means they knew.

"water tongue"? Aqua Lengua is really funny tho, because it surely looks like the sea licks the land

Idk about the impel down one. If it was designed like a regular tower there should have been an entrance on the ground that had to be constantly adjusted with the rising sea levels

I really didn't see this coming but it all makes sense😮

Flawlessly executed Tekking jumpscare at 01:20

At 6:00 I believe the creation of Fishman Island was at Joyboy's request. 800 years ago, he asked Poseidon to instruct giant whales to headbutt a hole through the base of the Redline, evident by the scars on the pod of whales we meet immediately after leaving Fishman Island (and Laboon's connection). Joyboy also asked Poseidon to instruct all the enormous Seakings to guard a corridor around the world, creating the calm belt - interrupting sea currents. The Grandline was created to hide Poneglyths/history from the WG as only recently could Marines use Seastone to pass through the calm belt. The redline hole also made a natural funnel so the next Joyboy would come through and meet Fishman on his way to spread Liberation. Joyboy's apology was to request all this at his death. Seakings and Fishmen are essentially the gatekeepers and protectors of the Poneglyths and will be the ones to save humans from the flood when those secrets are revealed.

We have also seen an island that's completely underwater and can only be seen every couple of thousand years Warhead Island where the Millennium dragons lived is the island that's completely underwater except for the very top low key I think that was our first clue

So Doflamingo Parents were indeed stewpid since they knew coz Doffy also knows 😮

Omg, it just hit me why Buggy is really mad at Shanks for "making" him eat a devil fruit! 😳

Oda having a avatar being a fish, the same fish like at the end of the chapter

Aqua Lingua. That water tongue really licked Water 7.

If you look at the pictures of the wano walls flooding you can see the sea level rose from below the City to above the City

The giant bridge that was being built where Robin was Kuma'd maybe

Sabaody, the archipelago trees go down underwater

Im thinking Oars’ predecessor (the skull for Onigashima) is responsible for the sea walls of Wano. I believe the term “continent dragger” or something similar was used to describe them. And that implies moving ground

Fishman Island also has the Arc. It was supposed to be saved one day like something happened in the past and they knew it would happen again. Oh and Joy Boy probably made the walls in Wano right? He could bend the land like rubber.

fishman island kinda looks like neptunians could move it, so maybe it was placed directly below mary jois so it could not be lulusia'd

Currently rereading end of Alabasta. It hit bigger because of inherited will, knowing what Nefertari did to even start all this.

I’m wondering if the stone growths around Wano are actually seamounts or underwater volcanos. We know there’s underwater crevasses like the Mariana trench; underwater mountains are also a thing. While water does erode stone, minerals carried from vents and underwater eruptions can build up the sea floor too!

I thought for a second you were talking about real life because like yea the sea levels are rising we’ve known that for a long time now

Wano was made watertight by the walls. No seawater in, but no freshwater out. It also was done to protect from the flooding, possibly.

Wano has free clean water for drinking and cooking because of rainwater collected by walls.😂

wano could be a devil fruit user trying to shield wano from the rising water by making these huge walls but the rain water ultimately filled up the "bowl" they were in

Everyone: Aqua Laguna / Lulusia 👍 Merphy: Aqua Lingua / Lulicia 🤣