Who will be the next Strawhat


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I'm so sick of Carrot vs Yamato. Can we talk about Law instead? Because he's got more strawhat criteria checked off than Carrot and Yamato combined (in fact he fits all of them, and better than many of the actual strawhats do as well). Luffy even tells people Law is his crew member just like he did with Sanji before he joined.
Yeah, I see your point that it is getting old and annoying Yamato vs carrot debate which one of them going to be next nakama. I think the reason we do not talk about Law because him and luffy do not share same ideals what it means to be a pirate. Do not get me wrong Law has had story centric arc and has been key ally to the strawhats overall success more than once. As well Luffy does consider him to be a friend/nakama, but the reason is Law still want to be captain of his own crew. On top that when comes to him he does not like mingle with others in their current situation unless you push him do so. He also gets very annoyed when someone is giving him orders to do something. Example of Law not willing help other in need are the kids’ punk hazard, the citizens in Dressrosa, and finally the citizen wano. Him taking orders from other come Kid, Luffy, and Zoro.
Plus fans want another female character to join the crew
 
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Yeah, I see your point that it is getting old and annoying Yamato vs carrot debate which one of them going to be next nakama. I think the reason we do not talk about Law because him and luffy do not share same ideals what it means to be a pirate. Do not get me wrong Law has had story centric arc and has been key ally to the strawhats overall success more than once. As well Luffy does consider him to be a friend/nakama, but the reason is Law still want to be captain of his own crew. On top that when comes to him he does not like mingle with others in their current situation unless you push him do so. He also gets very annoyed when someone is giving him orders to do something. Example of Law not willing help other in need are the kids’ punk hazard, the citizens in Dressrosa, and finally the citizen wano. Him taking orders from other come Kid, Luffy, and Zoro.
Plus fans want another female character to join the crew
Law has more than a character centric arc. He has a role (surgeon, which is different from a doctor), a main vallain that Luffy defeated, a tragic backstory, a dream (to find the meaning of the will of D) a strong relationship with Luffy, plenty of interaction with the rest of the crew, and motivation to join (this being that his dream requires him to go to raftel, and Luffy already has 3 road poneglyphs and the capability to read them). Law does not aspire to be the pirate king, but he needs to go to raftel. The only way to acomplish this is to join the strawhats.

As far as the rest, he saved all the kids on punk hazard, and he was never asked to save the people of dressrosa or Wano. And the way he keeps getting mad that Luffy is seeming like his captain by giving him orders just reminds me of Sanji in baratie. Finally, if being the captain of his own crew disqualifies him, then we wouldn't have gotten Jinbei.
 
Law has more than a character centric arc. He has a role (surgeon, which is different from a doctor), a main vallain that Luffy defeated, a tragic backstory, a dream (to find the meaning of the will of D) a strong relationship with Luffy, plenty of interaction with the rest of the crew, and motivation to join (this being that his dream requires him to go to raftel, and Luffy already has 3 road poneglyphs and the capability to read them). Law does not aspire to be the pirate king, but he needs to go to raftel. The only way to acomplish this is to join the strawhats.

As far as the rest, he saved all the kids on punk hazard, and he was never asked to save the people of dressrosa or Wano. And the way he keeps getting mad that Luffy is seeming like his captain by giving him orders just reminds me of Sanji in baratie. Finally, if being the captain of his own crew disqualifies him, then we wouldn't have gotten Jinbei.
A surgeon is a " doctor who specializes in evaluating and treating conditions that may require surgery, or physically changing the human body".
That is a good point! regarding major villain, possible dream, and he is not after the one piece his goal is to know about "the will of D".
Law, was pushed to save the kids in punk hazard. In chapter 668.
During Dressorsa and wano Law he was kind of annoyed by Luffy wanted help the citizen rather than sticking with the plain. Chapter 746 and chapter 914, 918, and 919
He was also kind annoyed that Luffy blew caesar away rather than capturing him. Chapter 692
Law "Hmph! pirate doing nice things For people make me sick".
Law is also character who like stick with plain rather than strawhats letting the strawhat do there own thing
It is true that Law has got used to the strawhats antics later in the story when they were raiding.

The difference Jimbei and Law

JImbei unlike law is not rival
Jimbei was kind like the voice reason was for Luffy on numerous occasions
Jimbei as a person was willing devote himself to Luffy
Jimbei is also willing take orders from Luffy. Luffy is willing listen his feedback if needed
 
A surgeon is a " doctor who specializes in evaluating and treating conditions that may require surgery, or physically changing the human body".
That is a good point! regarding major villain, possible dream, and he is not after the one piece his goal is to know about "the will of D".
Law, was pushed to save the kids in punk hazard. In chapter 668.
During Dressorsa and wano Law he was kind of annoyed by Luffy wanted help the citizen rather than sticking with the plain. Chapter 746 and chapter 914, 918, and 919
He was also kind annoyed that Luffy blew caesar away rather than capturing him. Chapter 692
Law "Hmph! pirate doing nice things For people make me sick".
Law is also character who like stick with plain rather than strawhats letting the strawhat do there own thing
It is true that Law has got used to the strawhats antics later in the story when they were raiding.

The difference Jimbei and Law

JImbei unlike law is not rival
Jimbei was kind like the voice reason was for Luffy on numerous occasions
Jimbei as a person was willing devote himself to Luffy
Jimbei is also willing take orders from Luffy. Luffy is willing listen his feedback if needed
A surgeon does surgery. It's as simple as that. Chopper is a medical doctor. For example, Law couldn't have cured the ice oni virus, and Chopper couldn't have done the surgery on Luffy's magma hole wound after marineford. They're different areas of expertise. I expect Law will have a chance to showcase this on Zoro once the side effect of the medicine kicks in.

Law is a good enough person that Luffy calls him a nakama and expressed that he would accept Law into his crew. That's all that matters for that.

Luffy is the only strawhat who doesn't like to stick to the plan. This isn't any more of a problem for Law than it is for Jinbei or Robin. Even with Luffy screwing things up, Law's plans have been invaluable.

Calling Law a rival to Luffy at this point is a joke. Luffy has 3 yonko commander level subordinates (4 assuming Yamato joins), 3 road poneglyphs, and the one person alive who can read them. Law might as well be sailing on his own. His whole crew gets no diffed by Ussop, he has no road poneglyphs, and even if he did, he has no way of reading them unless he kidnaps Robin and becomes a villain. If he still pretends he's Luffy's rival and thinks he can beat him to laugh tale after Wano he'd be so blind that it borders on stupidity. And he's been presented more as an ally than a rival ever since marineford. Kid is the one portrayed as Luffy's rival.

Not sure why the rest is relevant. Luffy wants Law in his crew, so that's not a concern.
 
Don't ridiculize yourself just because you want to protect your favorite character.
I hope you can hear yourself...

Law has more than a character centric arc. He has a role (surgeon, which is different from a doctor), a main vallain that Luffy defeated, a tragic backstory, a dream (to find the meaning of the will of D) a strong relationship with Luffy, plenty of interaction with the rest of the crew, and motivation to join (this being that his dream requires him to go to raftel, and Luffy already has 3 road poneglyphs and the capability to read them). Law does not aspire to be the pirate king, but he needs to go to raftel. The only way to acomplish this is to join the strawhats.

As far as the rest, he saved all the kids on punk hazard, and he was never asked to save the people of dressrosa or Wano. And the way he keeps getting mad that Luffy is seeming like his captain by giving him orders just reminds me of Sanji in baratie. Finally, if being the captain of his own crew disqualifies him, then we wouldn't have gotten Jinbei.
Obvious disadvantages (like Heart Pirates having no definitive captain successor among their group's power trio) aside, people like Law are good examples of a next SH as he's not a downgrade from Yamato (or Jinbe for those who doesn't want Yamato)...

That is a good point! regarding major villain, possible dream, and he is not after the one piece his goal is to know about "the will of D".
In an interesting note, IIRC, we have yet to encounter a crew with 2 D clan members outside Whitebeard Pirates?
 
A surgeon does surgery. It's as simple as that. Chopper is a medical doctor. For example, Law couldn't have cured the ice oni virus, and Chopper couldn't have done the surgery on Luffy's magma hole wound after marineford. They're different areas of expertise. I expect Law will have a chance to showcase this on Zoro once the side effect of the medicine kicks in.

Law is a good enough person that Luffy calls him a nakama and expressed that he would accept Law into his crew. That's all that matters for that.

Luffy is the only strawhat who doesn't like to stick to the plan. This isn't any more of a problem for Law than it is for Jinbei or Robin. Even with Luffy screwing things up, Law's plans have been invaluable.

Calling Law a rival to Luffy at this point is a joke. Luffy has 3 yonko commander level subordinates (4 assuming Yamato joins), 3 road poneglyphs, and the one person alive who can read them. Law might as well be sailing on his own. His whole crew gets no diffed by Ussop, he has no road poneglyphs, and even if he did, he has no way of reading them unless he kidnaps Robin and becomes a villain. If he still pretends he's Luffy's rival and thinks he can beat him to laugh tale after Wano he'd be so blind that it borders on stupidity. And he's been presented more as an ally than a rival ever since marineford. Kid is the one portrayed as Luffy's rival.

Not sure why the rest is relevant. Luffy wants Law in his crew, so that's not a concern.
Law has a lot in common with Jinbe as well. They are pre and post war shichibukai. They both saved and helped Luffy during/after Marineford, then they both were present the whole post time skip at different times. First Jinbe in FI, then Law in PH and DR, then WCI with Jinbe and now Wano with both. Law was also the last SN introduced. Oda changed his name to fit the alphabet pattern, gave him a backstory, gave him a dream... contra arguments are 1 we have a doc already 2. Hes too strong/important/a SN rival to Luffy 3. SHs were planned from the beginning, SN were made up on the spot. But as you say, hes different to Chopper, one can do what the other cant. Hes indeed a rival but that dont have to prevent him from joining. He has a purpose which he can fulfill at Raftel only = sail with Luffy. And as for the planned from the beginning part, it was said that the SN were made up (as a group) for Sabaody to make it more interesting, it was never said that every character was made up there. Oda could have simply taken characters he planned to use at different parts of the story and inserted them into the SN plot. For example, Bonney seems to have a connection with Ace, Whitebeard, Kuma... she seems like a character that was to be used anyway. Same can be true about Law. Oda probably made some of them up before Sabaody, but i find it hard to believe he invented 9 such characters in such a short time while writing chapters daily. Some had to be taken from other storylines and inserted there.

Law checks all the boxes, i actually thought that it was suspicious during Dressrosa arc how his crew is not there. I thought he lost his crew, and his goal was taking down DD so he made up the thing about the alliance to take down a Yonko and lied aboht his crew in the process. So they are the only thing preventing him from joining. Someone could maybe explain better (@Van probably) how well Law fits the 3rd recruitment pattern. He is a leader of a gang (like Usopp and Franky) and he kinda has a ship too (his submarine). Dont know about the rest of it
 
A surgeon does surgery. It's as simple as that. Chopper is a medical doctor. For example, Law couldn't have cured the ice oni virus, and Chopper couldn't have done the surgery on Luffy's magma hole wound after marineford. They're different areas of expertise. I expect Law will have a chance to showcase this on Zoro once the side effect of the medicine kicks in.
You don't need to specialize yourself to become a general doctor, but you need to become a doctor to specialize in surgery.. Law is as much of a doctor than Chopper or Miyagi.. It would be great if Law joined, though there can't be 2 doctor on the crew..
 
Since we’re talking about the potential nakama, can we talk about any candidate we have in mind? There is the “others” option anyway.
I imagine that we can also speak about others. Well, this is only an idea which I thought with my gilrfriend and some friends, i am not saying that it is the truth, it is only one option.

Monet for me is always a candidate. Yeah, I know that maybe she is dead, but this is one piece and nobody dies (Specially look what happened in the last manga chapter jajaja). She fits in nami robin pattern. Ex enemy, intelligent and studies, she was damaged by a knife like nami when she hurt herself and robin when crocodile hurt her in the chest. She has a female family like robin mom and nami mom and sister, she had to travel alone through the world. Her first full screen was so similar like nami and robin sitting on a place. And she is the last one who can betrayed luffy and left the crew. Nami betrayed luffy and she went out of the crew by arlong, robin again by lucci and monet had a sad past because doffy said it and she was the one hasnt enjoyed of a full past story like DD pirates. Plus the nothe which read chopper and nowadays no one said anything about that. She could be the lookout, in the crew nest, oda put in an sbs a telescope. Is the perfect place for her by her studies.

Jimbe has already joined. But it was so clear or i think so. He was called a monster like chopper and zoro. In once time he was tied like zoro and chopper. They three have a full japanese pattern (Tanuki, Samurai, Sumo fighter and kimono). They three helped someone before metting luffy. They are full (near) fighters. The first stop of luffy in a new sea. They joined after luffy met a "fat" enemy (After alvida he met zoro, after wapol chopper joined, after big mom jimbe finally joined). And people used to think bad things about they three, zoro a bad person, jimbe fisherman story, chopper is a freak.

I have doubts with the third and fourth patter, as i said in other post, making comparations in one piece is so ramdon and difficult. Maybe i am wrong, maybe i found something interested, but well, only god knows. But if I must choice. Bellamy and momo...

Bellamy fits well with franky and Usoop. They three were betrayed by someone of trust (Kuro, Lucci, Doflamingo) Their enemies lied and the whole island believed them (Kuro work in the island, lucci work in the island, dolamingo as the king). They three were the captain of a gag and they had a ship story. Now Bellamy is learning doing flags (this is a idea that i saw in @Tokiro Oumaga theory) and luffy doesnt know how to make flags. Of course that ussop can make flags, but he also know how to fix a ship but someone better appeared to take that role, franky the ship master and bellamy maybe the flag master. They three had a bad thing in the face. Bellamy scar, Ussop nose, Franky triple chin jajaja. They also were in once time an enemy of luffy. Bellamy always had a dream, the esmerald town and being in a famous pirate crew, so he had something to complete. Remember that all the fleet of luffy accepted being part of the fleet, but bellamy doesnt, and he took the vivre card by some reason and he had to do something before. Then we saw him in a cover learning flags and drawing luffy crest. For me this is so strange

Momo fits with sanji and brook pattern. They love women, they were formal clothes, they three had a problem with a famous enemy and they couldnt do nothing but luffy decided helped them. Sanji first with krieg and them with judge, brook with Moria and the shadow, Momo with lord kaido. They suffered a change in their bodies, Sanji ADN and right now again, Brook rebirth, Momo with shinobu powers. One more thing, is thad Momo now is an adult, and he could be a "true second oden instead of yamato willing", Momo maybe will travel first with someone and in the future join in luffy adventure. Brook past have a lot of strange things, maybe if his past is full showed, we would create a better fourth pattern. Momo had a fake father and sanji also had a fake father. Kin and Zeff. Maybe brook is hiding something, maybe yes, maybe i am wrong jajaja

Of course that I also find good things for Yamato, Carrot, Caribou, Caesar, Kuma, Vivi, Pedro, Marco, Law and X drake. But for me, there four are the most problably future crew members, but of course i cant say that it will happen yes or yes. Is so difficult making a full pattern, in one piece lives so many things in the same level, i dont know who will join finally.

Anyway, I think if Yamato joins, I repeat that she also had good pattern benefits. First she had to join in another crew like oden did. I think Kid or Law being the "new shirohige", and the join luffy. But I think that Momo will make this travel instead of yamato. Right now the big problem that I find in yamato and carrot are two things. Yamato being the "true protector of wano and Luffy reaction about Oden diary". And Carrot with the problem if pedro is or not dead and right now she is not a main character.

Also, I will say it forever, we musnt forget vivi. She is a good candidate always. Yeah, maybe other candidates are better, of course, carrot and yamato are better than her for the moment. But she will be always vivi, a "nakama" of luffy, and is a tittle that she only had. The problem with bellamy is the fact of his full name, but knowing that all pirates in DD crew had a special name, maybe bellamy is the same. And remeber that ussop is sogekin and Franky cutty flang. Maybe bellamy is only a fake name. But is a problem. With Monet the same problem, she is alive or dead?, we dont know, this is one piece, and Oda didnt draw the DF being again in another fruit like smiley. And nowadays her sad past and the note of chopper are still in the air. With tama the problem is a big one. She is not an adult and it will be weird, unless shinobu use her power, like momo.

But again, the main issue is the next, right now the favourite is yamato.
Caribou is a character that if i am honest, is one of my favourite, he is an ex evil enemy and crazy. But he didnt make big efforts for joining, but I said it before so many time, If Oda wants in can change in one day. For me, Caesar has more benefits than Caribou, but it is only my opinion.

Which one are you thinking of
I didnt think If Kidd or Law will recruit new nakamas. I wonder if Ulti and P1 will join in Kidd crew. They fits well in that crew.

Why people want Law to join so much. He's not going to join them he's a supernova trio with Luffy and Kid ffs.
Yes. This is the big problem of Law. Is in the same level of luffy and kidd. It will be weird.
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Marco and Pudding are also my favourites characters. But I dont see them joning in a crew.
 
I imagine that we can also speak about others. Well, this is only an idea which I thought with my gilrfriend and some friends, i am not saying that it is the truth, it is only one option.

Monet for me is always a candidate. Yeah, I know that maybe she is dead, but this is one piece and nobody dies (Specially look what happened in the last manga chapter jajaja). She fits in nami robin pattern. Ex enemy, intelligent and studies, she was damaged by a knife like nami when she hurt herself and robin when crocodile hurt her in the chest. She has a female family like robin mom and nami mom and sister, she had to travel alone through the world. Her first full screen was so similar like nami and robin sitting on a place. And she is the last one who can betrayed luffy and left the crew. Nami betrayed luffy and she went out of the crew by arlong, robin again by lucci and monet had a sad past because doffy said it and she was the one hasnt enjoyed of a full past story like DD pirates. Plus the nothe which read chopper and nowadays no one said anything about that. She could be the lookout, in the crew nest, oda put in an sbs a telescope. Is the perfect place for her by her studies.

Jimbe has already joined. But it was so clear or i think so. He was called a monster like chopper and zoro. In once time he was tied like zoro and chopper. They three have a full japanese pattern (Tanuki, Samurai, Sumo fighter and kimono). They three helped someone before metting luffy. They are full (near) fighters. The first stop of luffy in a new sea. They joined after luffy met a "fat" enemy (After alvida he met zoro, after wapol chopper joined, after big mom jimbe finally joined). And people used to think bad things about they three, zoro a bad person, jimbe fisherman story, chopper is a freak.

I have doubts with the third and fourth patter, as i said in other post, making comparations in one piece is so ramdon and difficult. Maybe i am wrong, maybe i found something interested, but well, only god knows. But if I must choice. Bellamy and momo...

Bellamy fits well with franky and Usoop. They three were betrayed by someone of trust (Kuro, Lucci, Doflamingo) Their enemies lied and the whole island believed them (Kuro work in the island, lucci work in the island, dolamingo as the king). They three were the captain of a gag and they had a ship story. Now Bellamy is learning doing flags (this is a idea that i saw in @Tokiro Oumaga theory) and luffy doesnt know how to make flags. Of course that ussop can make flags, but he also know how to fix a ship but someone better appeared to take that role, franky the ship master and bellamy maybe the flag master. They three had a bad thing in the face. Bellamy scar, Ussop nose, Franky triple chin jajaja. They also were in once time an enemy of luffy. Bellamy always had a dream, the esmerald town and being in a famous pirate crew, so he had something to complete. Remember that all the fleet of luffy accepted being part of the fleet, but bellamy doesnt, and he took the vivre card by some reason and he had to do something before. Then we saw him in a cover learning flags and drawing luffy crest. For me this is so strange

Momo fits with sanji and brook pattern. They love women, they were formal clothes, they three had a problem with a famous enemy and they couldnt do nothing but luffy decided helped them. Sanji first with krieg and them with judge, brook with Moria and the shadow, Momo with lord kaido. They suffered a change in their bodies, Sanji ADN and right now again, Brook rebirth, Momo with shinobu powers. One more thing, is thad Momo now is an adult, and he could be a "true second oden instead of yamato willing", Momo maybe will travel first with someone and in the future join in luffy adventure. Brook past have a lot of strange things, maybe if his past is full showed, we would create a better fourth pattern. Momo had a fake father and sanji also had a fake father. Kin and Zeff. Maybe brook is hiding something, maybe yes, maybe i am wrong jajaja

Of course that I also find good things for Yamato, Carrot, Caribou, Caesar, Kuma, Vivi, Pedro, Marco, Law and X drake. But for me, there four are the most problably future crew members, but of course i cant say that it will happen yes or yes. Is so difficult making a full pattern, in one piece lives so many things in the same level, i dont know who will join finally.

Anyway, I think if Yamato joins, I repeat that she also had good pattern benefits. First she had to join in another crew like oden did. I think Kid or Law being the "new shirohige", and the join luffy. But I think that Momo will make this travel instead of yamato. Right now the big problem that I find in yamato and carrot are two things. Yamato being the "true protector of wano and Luffy reaction about Oden diary". And Carrot with the problem if pedro is or not dead and right now she is not a main character.

Also, I will say it forever, we musnt forget vivi. She is a good candidate always. Yeah, maybe other candidates are better, of course, carrot and yamato are better than her for the moment. But she will be always vivi, a "nakama" of luffy, and is a tittle that she only had. The problem with bellamy is the fact of his full name, but knowing that all pirates in DD crew had a special name, maybe bellamy is the same. And remeber that ussop is sogekin and Franky cutty flang. Maybe bellamy is only a fake name. But is a problem. With Monet the same problem, she is alive or dead?, we dont know, this is one piece, and Oda didnt draw the DF being again in another fruit like smiley. And nowadays her sad past and the note of chopper are still in the air. With tama the problem is a big one. She is not an adult and it will be weird, unless shinobu use her power, like momo.

But again, the main issue is the next, right now the favourite is yamato.
Well you pretty much have made points with what I was about to say lol. But I’ll just make points so they should be easier to read

Monet Pros:
- great design. She is the only harpy in the whole series
- great powerset. She is the first and only canonical female logia
- interesting personality. We’ve seen she has somehow shy personality under her cruel cover
- her name starts with M, and there is no Straw Hat with alphabet M as their initial name thus she fits the alphabet theory
- Oda mentioned in SBS, and later in Vivre Card, that Monet & Sugar had had terrible past and they were saved by Doflamingo. Terrible past is one of the main conditions to have to be a Straw Hat. It’s pretty sus that Oda bothered explaining that she & Sugar had terrible past, only to be killed
- regarding her Logia power, she fits if she’s the only logia in the crew. Sounds a bit too stretched, but maybe that’s also the reason why she is the only canonical female logia so far
- if she joins, she can complete the cycle of power of the girls in the crew: Nami as non-DF user, Robin as Paramecia DF user, Yamato as Zoan DF user, and Monet as Logia DF user
- her Logia DF is just right. But in the case of fighting, she’s more of brain than brawl. She could outsmart Luffy. If she joins, IMO she’s definitely not a downgrade; especially if Robin can’t use haki yet. She’s still weaker than Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Jimbei, Yamato but stronger than Robin
- her DF power is not dependent on occasional scenario. She could even survive the heat side of Punk Hazard while scouting Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Robin without any side effects on her power
- Luffy’s intense love for snow which has been hinted many times
- also regarding her DF power, some say that it would be too redundant if there is another snow/ice user in the crew. IMO, so far Yamato only has 1 ice based attack. I have a speculation that Yamato can use other elemental attacks besides ice (like fire or electric)
- she is presumed dead, but since her DF hasn’t been shown in circulation & nobody has been seen using her DF power, I still have faith she will still be alive; especially with the ambiguity of her status in Vivre Card databook
- with the release of the recent chapter, the speculation above gets stronger. Kinemon survived a supposedly fatal blow from Kaido, and his body was torn into 2 again. This could probably be a hint that Monet could also survive the heart stab; especially since she is a Logia, and the stab wasn’t imbued by haki
- she is also similar with Nami & Robin; being an intellectual. If she joins, her role can be an astronomer, and she may be the key to know Uranus as an ancient weapon
- she was a villain, similar with how Nami & Robin went to the bad way. If she makes a comeback, her mentioned tragic past could be revealed in her comeback arc
- her obsession with birds may possibly related to her past; especially because birds are symbol of freedom. It may also be related to either Skypiean/Lunarian, and she has an obsession with birds/winged creature. It’s also pretty sus that other creatures in Punk Hazard are land based half-creature as she’s the only sky based half-creature
- it’s pretty weird if Oda gave her one of the rarest type of DFs; only to be killed in the same arc, especially since she’s the first and only canonical female Logia. Sounds too sussy
- she has obsession with sky related themes, as birds, and especially with the appearance of sky related books on her desk (books with ASTRO and CLIP; where CLIP is probably eCLIPse). She may have intense obsession, but since she’s indebted to Doflamingo, she toned down her obsession. This obsession could be revealed if she will have comeback later.


Monet Cons:
- presumed dead. Although this point has quite a counter-argument which has already been explained above
- too long to make a comeback. This is another con, but if she has a comeback, it may be possible that her comeback is in Vegapunk arc; especially that tech, sci-fi related themes have been hinted pre-TS, and more as a recurring theme post-TS
- regarding the point above, IMHO I think it’s still much better to be out of story for the meantime because of her presumed death; rather than still alive but being a background character

those are my opinions and points for Monet anyway
 
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Obvious disadvantages (like Heart Pirates having no definitive captain successor among their group's power trio) aside, people like Law are good examples of a next SH as he's not a downgrade from Yamato (or Jinbe for those who doesn't want Yamato)...



In an interesting note, IIRC, we have yet to encounter a crew with 2 D clan members outside Whitebeard Pirates?
I think the heart pirates could just disband. Law is the only one who did anything anyway. I don't think the rest would want to be pirates if they weren't following Law. Also Law hitching a ride to Laugh Tale with Luffy wouldn't work. Luffy isn't so generous, and if Law needs to ask his rival for charity to acomplish his goal, he can hardly call himself a rival anyway. As far as two Ds, who cares? Just because we haven't seen it doesn't mean there's a rule that it can't happen. We haven't seen two ice users on the same crew, but we have Brook and Yamato. This is a non point.
Law has a lot in common with Jinbe as well. They are pre and post war shichibukai. They both saved and helped Luffy during/after Marineford, then they both were present the whole post time skip at different times. First Jinbe in FI, then Law in PH and DR, then WCI with Jinbe and now Wano with both. Law was also the last SN introduced. Oda changed his name to fit the alphabet pattern, gave him a backstory, gave him a dream... contra arguments are 1 we have a doc already 2. Hes too strong/important/a SN rival to Luffy 3. SHs were planned from the beginning, SN were made up on the spot. But as you say, hes different to Chopper, one can do what the other cant. Hes indeed a rival but that dont have to prevent him from joining. He has a purpose which he can fulfill at Raftel only = sail with Luffy. And as for the planned from the beginning part, it was said that the SN were made up (as a group) for Sabaody to make it more interesting, it was never said that every character was made up there. Oda could have simply taken characters he planned to use at different parts of the story and inserted them into the SN plot. For example, Bonney seems to have a connection with Ace, Whitebeard, Kuma... she seems like a character that was to be used anyway. Same can be true about Law. Oda probably made some of them up before Sabaody, but i find it hard to believe he invented 9 such characters in such a short time while writing chapters daily. Some had to be taken from other storylines and inserted there.

Law checks all the boxes, i actually thought that it was suspicious during Dressrosa arc how his crew is not there. I thought he lost his crew, and his goal was taking down DD so he made up the thing about the alliance to take down a Yonko and lied aboht his crew in the process. So they are the only thing preventing him from joining. Someone could maybe explain better (@Van probably) how well Law fits the 3rd recruitment pattern. He is a leader of a gang (like Usopp and Franky) and he kinda has a ship too (his submarine). Dont know about the rest of it
Great analysis! I completely agree.
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Law recruiting Who's Who makes no sense for a number of reasons.

1. Jinbei would never accept WW as an ally
2. Law hasn't even met WW let alone heard about Nika
3. WW joining Law acomplishes nothing in closing the gap between him and Luffy. Jinbei obviously wrecks WW and Ussop still washes the rest. Robin is still the biggest factor, as well As Luffy only needing one more poneglyph.
 
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