[Spoilers for the one fan even more behind than me]Oda, I love you, and Fishman Island is fun and all, but can we please stop it with the dead mothers? Portraying them as noble, righteous, and good doesn't really change the evidence that you apparently regard self-sacrifice and death to be part of a mother's role/identity. And do not give me lines about it "making sense in the narrative" because that is bullshit and we both know it.
In lighter One Piece analysis, Sanji/Nami fodder! Still happening!