Rocks Is Teased As A New Father At The Pirate-Era Peak
Status: confirmed · Technique: chekhov-explicit / dialogue-from-dead-character
The seed
The payoff
Earliest known caller
(Pending.)
Why this matters
A crowd-narration “new father” tell dropped inside a Rocks-era flashback is a classic Oda chekhov-explicit plant: the fact of a descendant is stated before the descendant is shown. Feeds Will of D and Rocks and God Valley — the long-running Rocks D. Xebec bloodline question.