Jaguar D. Saul was a giant and a former Vice Admiral who first appeared as a castaway on the island of Ohara. He was introduced in Nico Robin’s flashback during the Enies Lobby Arc, and by then he had already defected from the Marines. He died while protecting a young Robin from the Buster Call that destroyed Ohara, being frozen to death by fellow Vice Admiral Kuzan 20 years ago.
While it appears Saul died at Ohara Island, there are arguments that may prove otherwise. The simple fact that he and Aokiji were good friends may show that Aokiji was reluctant to kill him.
Amongst the noted signs, is the name of the move used by Aokiji ‘Ice Time Capsule’, which alone implies he may still be alive. In so many works of fiction, freezing one’s self over time will allow them to unfreeze later and live in the future, almost like a TIME CAPSULE.
To start this theory we must first talk about his good friend Kuzan aka Aokiji. Many speculate he could be a member of SWORD and for good reason. He left the marines and is now working with a Yonko. Practically the same thing Drake has done.
We know that he has morals and is on friendly terms with marines like Smoker, Garp, and Sengoku. What this tells us there’s no way he would actually want to affiliate with Blackbeard and is just undercover.
It was Kuzan that allowed Robin to escape. And proceeded to look after her from that point. Even going as far as to spare her life many times despite her being a pirate. Robin is one of the most dangerous individuals alive in the eyes of the World Government. So then why would Kuzan do that?
Is it simply just because his friend Jaguar risked his life for Robin? I don’t think so. His allegiance to SWORD may be more than his obedience to the World Government. If Kuzan was willing to spare Robin why kill someone he cares about? The most logical answer is that he wanted to kill Saul before the Marines got their hands on his friend. Or perhaps he “killed” Saul so that the marines and Woreld Government would think he is dead.
Was Jaguar D. Saul’s death faked and what could this mean for the story going forward? Before getting into that let’s explore a related hypothetical. Was Jaguar D. Saul a member of SWORD before or after his supposed “death”. I think it could be just as likely to go either way. Jaguar is incredibly Moral and even has the D initial. I think he would fit right in with SWORD.
However Saul could be a bit too outspoken and rebellious which I could see being a problem for a secret organization such as SWORD. SWORD members probably have to bite their tongue when the WG orders the Marines to do the cruel and unusual. I believe that Sengoku is a high ranking member of SWORD and possibly even the leader. He chose Jaguar for this mission because he had a plan. That plan was to have people on the inside of the Buster call Operation that would try to allow some of the scholars of Ohara to survive and escape.
However even if Jaguar was a member of SWORD when ordered to initiate a Buster Call against Ohara he may have had to quit as he couldn’t sacrifice Ohara for the sake of keeping his rebellion a secret. He wouldn’t go as far as to blow all of SWORD’s cover, but he couldn’t just sit by and watch a massacre.
So did Kuzan allow Robin to live and escape because of Jaguar? I theorize that it was truly the plan of SWORD all along. It may not have been Robin specifically that was planned to have survived and escaped, however that is how things panned out.
Now regardless of whether or not Saul was a member of SWORD before his “death”, I do think he definitely is a member after. We all witnessed Kuzan freeze Saul, but does that automatically mean that Saul is dead? We have already seen people get their entire body’s frozen and survive.
Now let’s get into the semantics of the names of Kuzan techniques. Ice Age and Ice Time can be seen as a double entendre. It not only refers to freezing the person due to cold temperature, but the “age” part could refer to being frozen in time. Then there is the move used on Saul. Ice Time Capsule. No double entendres required. It’s quite straight forward. It’s literally a move meant to freeze something in time.
A time capsule is something that is only meant to be sealed a way at one point and unsealed later at another point. It’s been in our faces the whole time. I speculate that Kuzan froze Saul to get him off the WG’s radar. At a later point unfroze him. If Saul wasn’t a member of Sword before being unfroze then that was the moment he was recruited. In order to get Saul to keep himself and SWORD a secret then they would have to reassure him that Robin is alive and taken care of.
*Theory by EliDZ
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