Part I: "The 3 Admiral Trios"
Introduction
The Marine Admirals have aliases which are a combination of a color and an animal of the Chinese Zodiacs. So far there were Blue Pheasant, Yellow Monkey, Red Dog, Wisteria Tiger and Green Bull. In part I of this theory I wanna try to predict the aliases of future Admirals in part II I will suggest characters which may become Admiral later in the storyline.
Admiral Orange
The story told us there used to be always 3 Marine Admirals in OPverse. These 3 Admirals represent the strongest force of the Marines. Before the timeskip the 3 Admirals were Kuzan aka Blue Pheasant, Borsalino aka Yellow Monkey and Sakazuki aka Red Dog. During the timeskip Sakazuki was promoted and became the new Fleet Admiral and Kuzan retreated and became an ally of the Yonkou Blackbeared. The 2 empty slots were filled by Issho aka Wisteria Tiger and a man known as Green Bull.
Like many others I expect that Borsalino will be replaced by Admiral Orange ??? with ??? end up being one of the remaining seven Animals of the Chinese Zodiac The reason is, all members of the pre TS Admiral trio actually have a primary color (of classic art) in their aliases and the 2 new Admirals have secondary colors in their aliases. So the last of the former primary color trio have to be replaced by someone also having a secondary color in his alias. And by looking a Chinese Zodiac
one will see that the 3 animals of the pre TS trio stick together and that the same can be said about the animals of the 2 new Admirals. So the alias of the next Admiral should be either Orange Rat or Orange Rabbit.
The 3 Admiral trios
Now we are coming to 2 characters who are not Admirals, but following the Color-Zodiac pattern, Gion aka Pink Rabbit and Tokikake aka Brown Pig. Both of them are famous Vice Admirals who were part of the World Military Draft to fill the 2 empty Admiral slots. And I also wanna add the former Fleet Admiral Sengoku, because he was not only introduce with a goat but also appears from time with his goat he represents the goat for me.
And if we remove the Goat, the Pig and the Rabbit from Chinese Zodiacs we get 3 trios.
The third Admiral trio
Its quite obvious that after secondary colors the tetriary colors have to come, but there are 6 and not only 3 tetriary colors. The colors are amber, vermilion, magenta, violet, teal and charteuse. But if we wanna keep it symmetric there are actually to combinations possible
amber, magenta and teal
vermilion, violet and chartreuse
I think we can take out the first 3 tetriary colors by looking at the 3 Zodiacs we took out. By looking at Sengokus Buddha form it is quite clear Sengokus color is gold which is super close to amber. Then we have Gion aka Pink Rabbit with pink being close to magenta. And finally there is Tokikake aka brown pig and all duckfans will directly think about the New Zealand Brown Teal, I agree the last one is abit force but excluding 2 colors from the first list is in my opinion enough to go with the second list.
Now is the how do we connect color and animal and out of the 6 possibilities I think there is one that make the most sense. If you look again at the Chinese Zodiac you will see orange follows of yellow, green of blue and purple of red it should continue with
Thats why I think the third trio is actually Vermilion Dragon(Shirioryu), Chartreuse Cobra(Kusakobura*) and Violet Horse(Aiuma**). And I think that this will be the Admiral trio which will be introduced at the End of the Story by Oda showing us what kind of impact Luffy finding the One Piece having on the OPverse.
*Kuskobura literally means Grass Cobra, thats because the translation of chatreuse green is Wakakusairo(lit young grass color)
**These is actually no different between violet and purple in japanese so I decided to go with indigo which is actually blue-violet.
Conclusion part I
By combinig the classical RYB color system with the Chinese Zodiac I manage to determine 3 Admiral trios standing for 3 different parts of the One Piece story line
Pre TS: Yellow Monkey, Blue Pheasant and Red Dog
Post TS: Orange Rat, Green Bull and Wisteria Tiger
EoS: Vermilion Dragon, Chartreuse Cobra and Violet Horse
The Marine Admirals have aliases which are a combination of a color and an animal of the Chinese Zodiacs. So far there were Blue Pheasant, Yellow Monkey, Red Dog, Wisteria Tiger and Green Bull. In part I of this theory I wanna try to predict the aliases of future Admirals in part II I will suggest characters which may become Admiral later in the storyline.
Admiral Orange
The story told us there used to be always 3 Marine Admirals in OPverse. These 3 Admirals represent the strongest force of the Marines. Before the timeskip the 3 Admirals were Kuzan aka Blue Pheasant, Borsalino aka Yellow Monkey and Sakazuki aka Red Dog. During the timeskip Sakazuki was promoted and became the new Fleet Admiral and Kuzan retreated and became an ally of the Yonkou Blackbeared. The 2 empty slots were filled by Issho aka Wisteria Tiger and a man known as Green Bull.
In SBS 73 a user asked why Issho alias is Wisteria Tiger and not Purple Tiger. The answer was that Oda didn't like the spelling of Purple Tiger.
Like many others I expect that Borsalino will be replaced by Admiral Orange ??? with ??? end up being one of the remaining seven Animals of the Chinese Zodiac The reason is, all members of the pre TS Admiral trio actually have a primary color (of classic art) in their aliases and the 2 new Admirals have secondary colors in their aliases. So the last of the former primary color trio have to be replaced by someone also having a secondary color in his alias. And by looking a Chinese Zodiac
one will see that the 3 animals of the pre TS trio stick together and that the same can be said about the animals of the 2 new Admirals. So the alias of the next Admiral should be either Orange Rat or Orange Rabbit.
The 3 Admiral trios
Now we are coming to 2 characters who are not Admirals, but following the Color-Zodiac pattern, Gion aka Pink Rabbit and Tokikake aka Brown Pig. Both of them are famous Vice Admirals who were part of the World Military Draft to fill the 2 empty Admiral slots. And I also wanna add the former Fleet Admiral Sengoku, because he was not only introduce with a goat but also appears from time with his goat he represents the goat for me.
And if we remove the Goat, the Pig and the Rabbit from Chinese Zodiacs we get 3 trios.
- Yellow Monkey, Blue Pheasant(Rooster), Red Dog
- Orange Rat, Green Bull(Ox), Wisteria Tiger
- ??? Dragon, ??? Cobra(Snake)*, ??? Horse
The third Admiral trio
Its quite obvious that after secondary colors the tetriary colors have to come, but there are 6 and not only 3 tetriary colors. The colors are amber, vermilion, magenta, violet, teal and charteuse. But if we wanna keep it symmetric there are actually to combinations possible
amber, magenta and teal
vermilion, violet and chartreuse
I think we can take out the first 3 tetriary colors by looking at the 3 Zodiacs we took out. By looking at Sengokus Buddha form it is quite clear Sengokus color is gold which is super close to amber. Then we have Gion aka Pink Rabbit with pink being close to magenta. And finally there is Tokikake aka brown pig and all duckfans will directly think about the New Zealand Brown Teal, I agree the last one is abit force but excluding 2 colors from the first list is in my opinion enough to go with the second list.
Now is the how do we connect color and animal and out of the 6 possibilities I think there is one that make the most sense. If you look again at the Chinese Zodiac you will see orange follows of yellow, green of blue and purple of red it should continue with
- Yellow -> Orange -> Vermilion
- Blue -> Green -> Chartreuse
- Red -> Purple -> Violet
Thats why I think the third trio is actually Vermilion Dragon(Shirioryu), Chartreuse Cobra(Kusakobura*) and Violet Horse(Aiuma**). And I think that this will be the Admiral trio which will be introduced at the End of the Story by Oda showing us what kind of impact Luffy finding the One Piece having on the OPverse.
*Kuskobura literally means Grass Cobra, thats because the translation of chatreuse green is Wakakusairo(lit young grass color)
**These is actually no different between violet and purple in japanese so I decided to go with indigo which is actually blue-violet.
Conclusion part I
By combinig the classical RYB color system with the Chinese Zodiac I manage to determine 3 Admiral trios standing for 3 different parts of the One Piece story line
Pre TS: Yellow Monkey, Blue Pheasant and Red Dog
Post TS: Orange Rat, Green Bull and Wisteria Tiger
EoS: Vermilion Dragon, Chartreuse Cobra and Violet Horse
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