One Piece thread (Spoilers)

My example was perfectly relevant, though. You were arguing that we should take artwork seriously as it is depicted to represent Oda's true intentions in the case of the icicle left at the side of the heart after it was stabbed. I was merely pointing towards an example of an instance where art does not reflect what Oda meant to depict. But it's far more of a stretch to say that the blood gushing from that heart wasn't real and that Oda didn't mean for her heart to be punctured at all, as if that blood was somehow a fluke and Caesar only meant to gently nudge what he thought was Smoker's heart out of spite. I just can't agree that she's still alive when the only explanations for her importance are purely speculative. Enel finding a Poneglyph on the moon is significant, surely, but Oda could just as easily explain that Monet read the signs early and foresaw Chopper's significance in the future using her astrology. You could also speculate that the reason she was so willing to die at that instant was because she foresaw her coming death by reading the stars, but just not in the way she had imagined. All of this is obviously speculative, though, but I could just as easily justify my belief that she's dead with such speculations until Oda himself tells us otherwise.

I believe the cube is filled with blood rather than the heart. We won't know until it show's in the anime though (smokers heart). I base my prediction on how oda handles death in general though. Read the edit though I'm sure you missed it