Don't talk about mental gymnastics, Mr. Carrot is going to leave the sunny to hunt all the ponegliffs in the world!
Yeah, that was clearly giving her too much credit, she’ll just slink into being Neko’s subordinate at this rate.
So the daughter of an emperor that is nicknamed the "oni princess", is in fact not the princess of Onigashima..?
Garp...you're a treasure.
Man, not really getting that the “arc princess” role is really a damsel-in-distress role featuring characters, some of whom aren’t royalty, like Nami, Conis, Robin, Vivi, Shirashoshi, Rebecca etc?
And that Yamato is far too strong a figure to be included in this category, while Hiyori fits it to a tee and is the actual princess of the arc? it’s the Wano arc, not the Onigashima arc.
Saying “Yamato is the arc princess“ is as dumb as saying Smoothie is. Or Aladdin’s mermaid wife. Technically true, but not at all getting what the role actually entails.
This is news to you, not me.
Nah, I quite understand that. I can also understand the difference between a statement that
will happen and one that won’t.
Yamato saying she’ll sail with Luffy being an example of the former. As safe a bet as Luffy saying he’ll be the Pirate King.
That would your lack of basic understanding of what the story of OP is about.
Adventure, freedom, breaking the chains that bind people and the world, found family, etc, etc.
All the things that will lead to Yamato sailing with Luffy like she wants to do.
It's from reading the story and applying basic analysis. Momo's entire character has been about his personal development into a leader and recognising that it's ok to accept help from others. Yamao's character is about wanting to be Oden. Someone who protected Wano, adventured around the world, and was loved by all.
The WG is threatening not only Wano, but the entire world in a great cleansing. So it makes perfect sense for Yamao and Momo to go together to rally the nations of the world to finally come together. Momo demonstrating what he learnt about working with others as well as his growth as a leader in organising such a huge allied force. Yamao demonstrating that she can be friends with humans and become someone respected the world over, like Oden.
So Yamato wants to be like Oden and sail the seas with the future Pirate King, which is, according to you, not going to happen, and instead she is going to… be like Oden and make friends with people, which is something that can be accomplished entirely with the Strawhats who have already spent the entire series doing the things you’re suggesting she do.
What an argument this is.
We already know that Wano had to be shut to protect it from a "great external force", (i.e. the WG).
Yes, but we don’t know
why. The entire world needs protection from the World Gov, they’re insane.
What makes Wano so special, that makes everyone want it. It surely can’t just be the gold that Ryuma was protecting, and even the Road Poneglyph doesn’t seem enough.
So why is Carrot the one that has a plot about her coming to this realisation? And you're wrong that everyone else also needs to realise this. The straw hat's importance is something that is already known to them. Inu and Neko showing the ponegliffs to the crew, Marco saying they're the real stars. Kin emon declaring that Luffy will stand at the top of the seas...This is all something that's known. Yet Carrot is the only one Oda had go through the process of needing to learn exactly why they're important. That's huge set up. Why you think she'll finally understand this after hundreds of chapters of travelling with them as close friends, and then decide to just go off and do her own thing, I have no idea.
Great, you’ve listed a bunch of characters more important than Carrot who already know that the Strawhats are important. Not giving me much reason to think she’ll stick around.
And it’s not a huge set up. It’s a minor plotline to be wrapped up. If it was a huge plotline Oda would bother to actually use Carrot more than as a background character once in a blue moon.
If you're in fact talking about this scene then I can't think of a better example to illustrate the decline in your reading comprehension.
Shows how ”memorable” this amazing interaction with Luffy was, doesn’t it? It is meant to be this one, I’m assuming, cause I can’t think of anything else.
