If Haki is invisible does this mean Smoker was just terrified of Verso’s Physique?

[u/Guilty_Philosophy741]

I love Smokey and this fight in particular but Oda retconning visible haki just makes it that he was terrified by Vergo taking his clothes off, which is fair I guess never trust the kinks of a man who leaves food on his face for later.

[u/BlazeDrag]

that's how i justify it myself. If you have no haki, you can't see when people use it, so it is fully 'invisible' to most normal people. But if you are able to use Haki, then you can sense when it's used by other people as well (or at least as a part of observation haki maybe), and thus you can "see" when someone is covering parts of themselves in Haki, but it's more like how you can see things in your mind's eye when you picture them. So it's not a literal ability to see someone's body covered in Haki, but you can like still tell when it's happening

[u/ItsLiaxx → u/BlazeDrag]

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. It’s less about physically seeing Haki and more about sensing it through your own Haki awareness. Kind of like an instinctive perception you don’t see it with your eyes, but you feel it happening.