Ada Rahasia Apa Ivankov dengan Crocodile?
Sir Crocodile dari One Piece adalah salah satu penjahat paling kejam dan tak tergoyahkan di semua anime dan manga. Pemimpin keren dan koleksi karya Baroque tidak mudah bingung, dengan hanya kejenakaan yang absurd dari Monkey D. Luffy sepertinya naik darinya. Kalau tidak, Buaya tetap menjadi angka yang paling tabah dalam duniakekacauan One Piece .
Itulah mengapa penggemar sangat memperhatikan satu-satunya momen di mana karakter non-Luffy berhasil memprovokasi mantan Shichibukai. Selama arc Impel Down, Crocodile mengungkapkan keinginannya untuk bergabung dengan aliansi pelarian penjara Luffy. Ketika kapten Topi Jerami tampaknya enggan, Komandan Revolusi Ivankov yang ikut campur, menyatakan bahwa dia dapat mengendalikan Crocodile karena dia tahu "kelemahannya", dan jika Crocodile mencoba sesuatu, dia bisa "memperbaikinya," yang dilakukan penjahat tangan kait. bereaksi dengan ekspresi sedih.
Crocodile sang Panglima Perang dari One Piece
Sementara implikasi bahwa Crocodile dan Ivankov memiliki sejarah sudah cukup untuk membuat imajinasi penggemar One Piece menjadi liar, pertukaran itu bisa berarti banyak hal. Baru pada tahun 2019, dengan dirilisnya Volume 5 dari Vivre Card Databook, koneksi tersebut dibuat secara eksplisit. Halaman karakter Crocodile menyatakan bahwa dia memiliki "kelemahan" dari masa lalunya yang lebih suka dirahasiakan, dan bahwa dia berhutang pada Ivankov atas sesuatu yang diberikan Komandan Revolusi kepadanya.
Jelas Eiichiro Oda memiliki rencana pengungkapan besar untuk kedua karakter ini. Sejauh ini teori yang paling populer dan umum adalah bahwa Buaya ditetapkan sebagai betina saat lahir, dan Ivankov menggunakan kekuatan Buah Horm-Hormnya untuk mengubah jenis kelamin Buaya. Kekuatan hormon Ivankov membuat salah satu prinsip karakter yang paling ikonik, dan jika Ivankov memegang pengaruh apapun atas Buaya, akan sangat masuk akal bahwa itu akan berkaitan dengan kemampuannya.
The basis of this theory doesn't just revolve around Ivankov's involvement -- Oda has also taken pains to obfuscate details of Crocodile's appearance as a youth. For starters, his drawing of the Seven Warlords of the Sea as children features a very androgynous-looking Crocodile. It's noteworthy just how different young Crocodile looks compared to his square-jawed, rugged adult self -- especially given that Oda's usual approach to drawing characters' adolescent variants is to shrink their features down to child-size.
Additionally, "Chapter 0," a promotional chapter that ties into the events of One Piece Film: Strong World, depicts Gol D. Roger's execution, 24 years before the events of the main series. Many familiar faces from the present are featured, including Crocodile, who is the only character to have his face obscured, being shown exclusively from the back. Given his Shichibukai compatriots received younger redesigns for the occasion, omitting Crocodile seems a deliberate choice on Oda's part -- as if there's a reason to hide what the 22-year old Crocodile looks like.
This theory is further expounded when taking another theory into consideration -- that One Piece's Shichibukai are based on the villainous Seven Heroes from the classic SquareSoft JRPG, Romancing SaGa 2. As put forth by a blog post on The One Piece Underworld, the seven One Piece characters have a lot in common with the game's villains. Crocodile's equivalent is Lord Wagnas, who seeks an ancient weapon to subjugate the game's Eastern Kingdom -- similar to Crocodile's desire to use Pluton and conquer Alabasta.
One key feature of Wagnas that Crocodile doesn't share is the fact that the former is intersex, with the male-presenting Wagnas also possessing female sexual characteristics. Given the clear similarities between the rest of the Shichibukai and the Seven Heroes, it's a key character detail of Wagnas' that Oda has yet to parallel in his own work. While being transgender and intersex are not directly equivalent, if Crocodile is revealed to be a trans man as theorists posit, then gender variance would be yet another trait the two characters share.
If this fan theory holds true, then it wouldn't be the first time One Piece has featured a prominent trans character, with the Wano arc in particular giving fan favorites such as O-Kiku and Yamato. Given Crocodile and Ivankov's respective importance in the story, it's highly likely both characters will show up again at some point -- and that fans will learn what the secret is in the process. If Crocodile does turn out to be trans, here's hoping One Piece keeps up its streak of handling the subject with the respect and tact that the Wano arc has.
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