Marshall D. Teach, also known as Blackbeard, is the captain of the Blackbeard Pirates and one of the Yonko. He started out his pirate career as a member of the Whitebeard Pirates' 2nd division, until hemurdered Thatch, the 4th division commander, for the Yami Yami no Mi and defected.Prior to the two-year timeskip, he briefly held the position of Shichibukai after handing Ace over to the Marines. he officially became a Yonkou after the timeskip. He is the only person in One Piece to have 2 devil fruit.
However, despite having two devil Fruit he might still have weaknesses in fact every Devil Fruit has its own weaknesses. For example, Enel the skypiea God Devil fruit was reffered as Invincible still have a weaknesses which is Luffy Gomu Gomu No Mi. One of the Yonkou, Big Mom also have weaknesses and even Katakuri has his own weaknesses. It might be coming from the personality not the Devil Fruit but still it can be exploit. So I strongly believe that Blackbeard has a weaknesses too.
Eventhough Yonkou are people born with unbelievable power they still have weaknesses(except, Shanks but he may have a weaknesses shown sooner than later) In fact Most of the Yonkou are shown with one common problem which is - Mental Illness. We will go through one by one.
Big Mom suffers from the loss of Her beloved Mother Caramel. Big Mom loves mother caramel so much, even her ambition to build an utopia where all the race can live together in peace without experiencing discrimination or segregation also based on the treatment Mother Caramel give her. The best mental Illness that we can relate to this is PTSD which is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
Another Yonkou who have known to have Mental Illness is Kaidou. We know very well that Kaido wants to kill himself and die. He has been caught and tortured 18 times and have been executed 40 times only to fail as Kaido survives every single punishment. He even considered suicide as a Hobby because he really want to die. He got jealous of Whitebeard dying and even cry when Doflamingo have been defeated by Luffy. The best mental Illness that can picture Kaido personality is Depression.
Going back to Blackbeard, the best Mental Illness that can picture his personality is Multiple Personality Disorder. There are many hints about it.
Multiple Personality Disorder is a mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. The cause is believed to be due to Childhood trauma. Oda draw Blackbeard once in a kid, which shows he was crying at night with snow at his feet. It was shown that he was lonely and sad. There is mark on his cheek maybe because he is being bullied and I strongly believe Teach might experience Childhood trauma that contributes to his Split personality.
Another thing to mention is that when Luffy and Blackbeard first met in Mocktown, Blackbeard claims to hate the rum and seen to be particulaly grumpy. Later in that episode he seems to be enjoying the taste of it. He seem to be a better mood after that as he goes on to talk about people dreams never ending. This is not something you would expect to see from when we first see him. Luffy and Zoro noticed something odd about Blackbeard and refer him as 'them'.
Blackbeard personality is referred as a strange mix of courage and cowadice, intellectual and stupidity. While at times his character looks strong and fearsome, in other time he was shown as weak and ridiculous.
There are three personalities that exist in Blackbeard. The good side, courageous and inspirational, the bad side, cowardly and brutal (where he uses his crew to gang up
on the defenseless ) and the reckless side, intelligence ( he was shown getting overconfidence at times, even when fighting with ace)
3 personalities and this can be reflected well on Blackbeard Pirate Jolly roger which is 3 skulls and also Blackbeard carry 3 guns. Coincidence?
Many people knew that Blackbeard name actually based on a real life Pirate. Real life blackbeard have many nicknames where one of his nickname is Edward Thatch. Edward refer to Edward Newgate and Thatch is the 4th division commander of Whitebeard pirates.
Blackbeard, Edward and Thatch, 3 personalities. I am not saying that he got Whitebeard and Thatch's personalities after he obtain their Devil Fruit just number 3 has been repeated many times in Blackbeard case.
I believe that Blackbeard has a split personality and there might exists weaknesses there to be exploited.
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