r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh2 Lookout • Dec 21 '23

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1102 Spoiler

Chapter 1102: "The Life of Kuma"

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Ch. 1102 Official Release (Mangaplus): 24/12/2023

Ch. 1103 Scan Release: ~30/12/2023

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u/Nightseyes Dec 21 '23

So Vegapunk didn't fully erase Kuma's memories or are his recent actions a pre programmed failsafe? Really sad seeing Vega cry following WG orders, the price of funding...

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u/javierm885778 Dec 21 '23

I think it'll tie to Lilith's words about it being difficult to erase a living thing's will. We also saw this with S-Snake being in love with Luffy.

So even if Kuma's individuality and mind is gone, his paternal instincts are likely to remain in some capacity.

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u/ResolutionIll4614 Dec 21 '23

It would be awesome if s-bear started protecting boney.

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u/Kirosh2 Lookout Dec 21 '23

We might see that in the final war.

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u/RulerD Dec 21 '23

We might see that next!

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u/hdjfhfhsh05803hfjc Dec 21 '23

I hope

I can already imagine the utter confusion on Saturn’s face once he see how S-snake and S-bear are ignoring his orders

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u/Slifer13xx Dec 21 '23

Inject that shit directly into my vein!

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u/Soatok Dec 21 '23

Wouldn't it be funny if S-Bear inherited Kuma's consciousness?

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u/ResolutionIll4614 Dec 21 '23

Maybe his will to protect kuma but not his consciousness. It just doesn’t feel right.

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u/PsychoPass1 Dec 21 '23

Yeah I think the S line-up will end up being their own people / personalities.

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u/TravelingLlama Dec 21 '23

Unlikely since that would kill s-bear since vegapunk also told stussy she was a human too despite being a clone

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u/crysomore Bounty Hunter Dec 21 '23

can Bonney adopt s-bear that'd be so cute

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u/Kirosh2 Lookout Dec 21 '23

For the Seraphims, I've always imagined how they could live with their original once everything is over.

Both Boa competing for Luffy, both Mihawk enjoying fighting each other, Crocodile having an heir to his criminal Empire.

So since Kuma will die soon, this only leaves out Bonney to take S-Bear on a trip around the world.

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u/Hyakkihei1 Dec 21 '23

Mihawk is going to die by Zoro, I can see S-Hawk being trained by Zoro and then send on his own journey.

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u/xukly Dec 21 '23

I want to think that vegapunk somehow instaled kuma's will in every single pacifista aside 0's (and maybe on only S-bear from the seraphim). That way he is fullfilling saturn's request while also instaling that "multiple personality switch"

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It would be REALLY funny if they made replicas of the warlords because they couldn't control them only for the seraphim to betray them and side with vegapunk

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u/Chaotic-warp Dec 21 '23

Like Saturn said, he himself is a scientist so it will be very difficult for Vegapunk to deceive him like that.

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u/Brobman11 Dec 22 '23

Maybe but that line reeks to me of arrogance

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u/Kuro013 Dec 21 '23

Well, he climbing the Red Line sure as fuck wasnt an order, so theres some kind of primordial instinct telling him what to do.

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u/jeejeeviper Dec 21 '23

I really think Vegapunk still went behind Saturns plan and copied Kuma’s personality. My idea is that to hide the copy from Saturn he put it in the ancient robot that’s sitting in the field of junk, so it was somewhere inconspicuous. That’s why the robot is reacting to Nika’s presence and also could be why that’s where we first met Vegapunk. He might have been tinkering inside the robot to get the robot (Kuma) mobile again but got interrupted when Luffy showed up

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u/BanjoSpaceMan Dec 21 '23

Ya let me get this straight.... There's a self destruct mode in him. There's also a split personality more that Vega wasn't allowed to implement.

I've got a feeling he did... And I have a feeling the self destruct will be used as a final selfless act.

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u/jaytix1 Dec 21 '23

It might be pure instinct. Remember when that zombie girl tried to resist Hogback's commands during Thriller Bark?

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u/hotaru_crisis Dec 21 '23

i dont think kuma will make it out alive but the way things have gone in this arc i feel like the switch was implemented anyways and he'll be back to his original self, especially with the way he was mindlessly charging towards wherever he was going earlier in the arc (im assuming egghead)

i think vegapunk expected things would go this way as well