One Piece Theory Ties Davy Jones to Joy Boy and Could Explain the Two Wills of D

One Piece keeps tossing gasoline on the theory fire, and fans are happy to light the match. The latest rumor doing laps on Reddit tries to connect two of the series most mysterious names: Joy Boy and Davy Jones. And yeah, it is a wild one.

The Reddit theory, in plain English

Reddit user u/DrJJGame10 lays out a scenario where Joy Boy and Davy Jones are directly related, with a twist that reframes a bunch of deep-lore moments. The short version: Davy Jones is Joy Boy's son, and Imu allegedly played him like a fiddle.

• Davy D. Jones is posited as Joy Boy's kid. Joy Boy fights for freedom; Davy wants something else entirely: the crown.
• Imu spots that ambition and dangles the ultimate carrot, turning Davy against his father with a promise that he can seize the top spot.

'Imu promised to make Davy the King of the World.'

According to the theory, Davy takes the bait, sides with Imu, and then gets tossed overboard once he is no longer useful. That tracks with Imu's habit of quietly erasing roadblocks. It also gives a tidy explanation for why Davy never actually became king, despite a God Valley flashback beat that fans read as Rocks D. Xebec referring to Davy as a king figure. The theory leans on that moment as one of its anchors.

There is another spicy wrinkle: maybe Imu had some kind of prior connection to Joy Boy and resented him. If that jealousy existed, misleading Davy to attack his father's ideals would be a very on-brand power move. The theory also points to Xebec's line about a certain promise to Davy as connective tissue. From there, it jumps to Davy's supposed bloodline: his 'descendants' — Xebec and Blackbeard — are framed as trying to fix the past and make good on the promise Davy was tricked into chasing.

If that is true, the Will of D gets a lot messier

This take would split the Will of D into two branches: Joy Boy's path of liberation versus Davy D. Jones' conqueror path to change the world by ruling it. That is a big swing, and it would force Eiichiro Oda to finally draw a cleaner map for the D clan and what the will actually means — because right now, the series is deeper into the final saga (call it the second phase, as many fans do), and the mystery has only gotten thicker. Fun for theorizing? Absolutely. Clear direction of travel? Not so much.

Bottom line: it is a fan theory, not canon, but it does try to stitch together some of the series stranger crumbs — Imu's surgical erasures, the God Valley flashback reads, Xebec's promise talk, and Blackbeard's agenda — into one family drama. If Oda ever spells out the D clan's history and motives, we will finally know whether we are looking at one Will of D or two competing ones.

Where this leaves us

Oda loves a long game, and Joy Boy, Davy Jones, and Imu are still in the shadows. If we are going to end this thing with a clear picture of the past and where the Ds split (or did not), he is going to have to put it on the page sooner than later. Do you buy the two-Will-of-D angle, or is this one twist too many? Drop a comment.

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