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Originally Posted by Fipskuul
Why did he think of losing a limb, in the first place? And not two arms, but a single arm (considering the attack uses both arms, not one)? There are many ways for Mihawk to finish Luffy according to the thinking process, but Luffy thought of a single one.
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You realize this defeats your point, right? If Luffy was using Haki to predetermine what would occur, then he should see both arms cut, not just one.
In the end, the visual of a cut arm was just that, a visual. It represented Luffy's thought process, not any specific foresight (beyond regular cause and effect thought patterns). Hell, the cut arm literally appears as a thought balloon above Luffy's head, which should be a clear visual metaphor for what Oda is trying to do.
At best, this is a sequence of Mihawk's Haki (his projection of intent), but Luffy's Haki does not seem to appear in any significant fashion in regards to his thought processes.
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Originally Posted by Fipskuul
A question. Are you perfectly sure that this is character growth? If you can give a percentage of the possibilities, what would you give to the haki-based scenario? And, if you assigned a non-zero probability to it, what was the reasoning you used for that possibility?
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Well, technically, everything is somewhat character growth, so any statistical representation would always lean toward character growth. That being said, and to get to your point, this scene was less to do with haki (at leats in regards to Luffy), and more to do with Luffy simply trying to find a way to get to Ace.