Rimoshifu Killingham - Blog Posts

Okay, so Killingham's power is to put other people to sleep and control them? And Sommers' power would be to bring children's fears to life? Or is that also part of Killingham's ability? Like, his powers bring people's greatest fears to life, and as a result they fall asleep and Killingham can control them, similar to what Sugar's devil fruit did?

The Holy Knights get more and more interesting with each chapter! Honestly, I'm loving them as antagonists!

I have more questions about Gunko every time she appears because so many things about her don't seem to add up. She is the only Holy Knight who has not received the title of World Noble or had her family name introduced (she also does not have a Saint in her name, but neither does Shamrock). She's also the only "celestial dragon" we've seen who has the power of a devil fruit (and we know from Hancock's story that they despise devil fruits), her uniform is very different from the others, and her eyes having different colors seems like it's going to be important in some way. Her powers are very similar to Imu's aesthetically, so I don't think it's a coincidence that she is the one who summons the "abyss" (the pentagram "portal"). Also, her name means "army child", which may imply that she was recruited (perhaps as a child) and trained to be part of the Holy Knights.

Kiringham being introduced in his hybrid form immediately catched my attention. Does his normal appearance reveal some kind of secret about him? He's the only Holy Knight introduced so far who wears the same bubble on his head as the other World Nobles, and the one he wears even appears to have something to help him breathe, so it's possible he has some sort of respiratory illness, or was only recently recruited, so he may have never actually left the Holy Land, which would explain why he was so nervous about being late even though he was already dressed and transformed. Personally, I feel like he could be quite young? As I said, he seems to be very nervous and curious about Elbaph, which probably means he has never been outside of Mary Geoise, and the bubble could be to prevent him from being corrupted by the air from the “filthy world”, also, the way he talks reminds me a bit of a teenager, but that could just be the translation I read.

Having a Holy Knight from one of the Gorosei's family is really exciting, and I hope this helps us answer some questions about the elders. Sommers also seems to be the oldest of the four, and it's the first to take responsability after finding out that Shamrock needs to go back to Mary Geoise, so he probably has been a Holy Knight for a very long period before the current time. He's also the first person we see actually concerned about the food thing in the Holy Land (which is kind of crazy, but okay).

And I don't even need to start talking about the whole Shamrock situation.

Also, the fact that Sommers so casually asked if Shamrock and Gunko were visiting Harald's grave is pretty weird. Like, we know what World Nobles are like, why would they care about Harald? He wasn't even affiliated with the government (and they wouldn't care about him either if that were the case), so why would they travel such a great distance just to see his grave? Why is this a possibility?? Was Harald also a Holy Knight? That's the only way I can see it being reasonable. We can see from their interactions in this chapter that the Holy Knights seem to get along pretty well, so two of them visiting the grave of a deceased colleague would make sense. This could explain why they tried to recruit Loki specifically and not another insanely powerful individual, since he would be the son of a former member, and we know how much they care about bloodlines.

I will say that I'm glad the God's Knights aren't all serious bloodthirsty menaces like Gunko and Shamrock. They've got some variety and quirkiness to them the same as any new set of One Piece characters which is going to make their eventual displays of power hit even harder.

Kiringham in particular stands out with both his Devil Fruit and his personality.

He's all but confirmed to have a Kirin mythical zoan, but his hagoromo is pure white. Whereas every zoan user or apparent zoan user allied with the World Government has had a black hagoromo. We even see this most recently with Shamrock's Cerberus.

Meanwhile the awakened users with white hagoromos, Luffy and Yamato, have both been heroic and pure of heart.

Maybe this is hinting that Kiringham is the nicest of the God's Knights, or at least genuinely believes that he's a force for good? We know from the Donquixotes sans Doffy that there's still chances for Celestial Dragons to become good people in spite of the toxicity of their culture.

Between him rushing to duty after oversleeping and marveling at how big Elbaf is without any of the typical Celestial Dragon disdain for 'the lower realm', Kiringham's giving off the vibes of a new hire who hasn't set a single toe outside his backyard.

Perhaps in addition to his drowsiness, his running gag will be getting distracted by everything about the outside world that can't be found in Mariejois. Or he might have an "are we the baddies?" moment when it really sinks in just what they're doing by taking the children of Elbaf.