The Post- Roles have until the end of the arc to reveal themselves. I already told you this. If you take Carrot's early role of climbing on the Sunny as the timeframe benchmark then more than half of the crew wouldn't make the list to join. We only saw Franky's shipwright skills in his flashback at Enies Lobby, not even in the Water Seven Arc. We only saw Jinbe's helmsman skills near the end of the WCI Arc, he also only sailed a ship at the end of the impel down arc too. And since you think that the nakama shining action is tied to their role, then that also means that the role can only happen at the end of the arc and not now. IF Yamato's role has to with the ship specifically, then she can't show us that right now as onigashima is floating in the sky and all the ships are still on the seas below. At the very least we will need to wait for Kaido to be defeated and for his powers to deactivate.
There are roles and shining nakama actions can't be happen until the end of the arc when a ship is actually available. This is a broken argument and you know it. The only reason Carrot's role got highlighted at all is because she had the luxury of being on the ship at the very beginning, that is a special privilege that NO other straw hat has.
We have to see more to judge, then why are you judging now?
Now be careful becauseI have to explain something:
-The reveal of the post: will be simply the reveal that Yamato is good for a post in the Sunny while being on the Sunny.
- The introductions for a capacities for the post are all the things that will hint that the character (here, Yamato) can be related to one post on the Sunny. For example with Carrot, the introduction of the capacity for the look-out post comes very early, directly at her introduction. You can see Carrot first being a Sentry with her binocular.. then after jumps very high, look and spot Luffy.
Also about that.. I want to note that those introductions can be VERY subtle but they are ALWAYS logical: because you saw Franky being a shipwright in his arc didn't negate the fact that this role was introduced by hints much before by the fact that the Franky family were scrapers) and that Franky was a selfmade cyborg. A good theorist could've have guessed that Franky was the next shipright. Even more so when the whole point of this arc was to find one and the drawing of Luffy was litterally Franky.
So.. If the post can indeed be revealed at the very end of the arc, the introduction for a capacity to this post CAN'T wait. It needs to be done earlier, MUCH earlier. Now.. I will have hard time explaining this to you why as this something I know from experience and from my knowledge. So.. Hm..
Basically.. and narratively, the more subtle a setup is, the better. And to be subtle, it's best to make room between the setup and the reveal. So.. for that reason.. there will be a dead line where the introductions for the capacities for a post won't be able to be introduced anymore. Because narratively, it will be too late:
I would put that dead line just before the party at the end of the arc , as the party is most likely the very last thing that will happen before the strawhats sails away.
So yeah.. until the party, there is room for Yamato to introduced the capacities for a post for Yamato, but the more he waits, the more unlikely it will be for Yamato to be given those introductions. I won't lie, the fact that Oda didn't introduced yet those capacity is more than concerning ! Even for Jinbe, he didn't wait that long. We are in an open space, there is plenty of thing than Yamato can do, if there was a role to fulfill.. Oda would have given us clew by now.
Don't worry about the shining Nakama action, if this is indeed a good parameter to spot a strawhat (hence it's presence), it can in fact happen at anytime, even after the arc itself.
Trust me, Carrot wasn't highlighted just because she was on the ship.. To begin with, this would mean taht Oda would have given himself work for nothing. Oda doesn't do that. Heisknown for his conscision. No, Carrot was depicted because she has a role to play.I know it's hard to understand and accept.. but trust me on that one: an author don't give 2 chapter plus 40 panel + multiple story arc to a character that "just happen to be there"... to begin with if Oda didn't needed this character, he would have given the SUlong to Pekom or Pedro and deleted Carrot.. it was very easy to do with a few twick in the narration. (like putting the sacrifice of Pedro at the very end of the arc for example). Carrot was highled - granted - because she was a Mink, but MOST OF ALL, because she was Carrot.
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No, it makes no sense. Why would Oda go through all the trouble of Making Specific about Yamato and her background and making her connected to Luffy, more so than any other character outside of Ace/Sabo/Garp/Dragon etc. At this point she could literally be considered a sister to Luffy, like Ace was.
Yamato is only connected to Luffy by the respect she has for his dream.. and that she wants to join him NOTHING ELSE. you have mistaken the fact that yamato is within a flashback with Ace with the fact that alla of this had a relation to Luffy.. uh no.. that's were the blinding begins..
You are living in a dream dude.. you see things that arent there. Just to make you remember, the only thing that Yamato shared with Luffy, was her love for Oden and the statement that she should be on his ship.
NOTHING MORE. look at the actual connection
, you can't compared the connection of Luffy and Ace or Sabo or even Garp.. with someone like Yamato.. it's completely foolish, sorry.
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All of the SHs were pre planned, or at least their concepts. Vivi wasn't supposed to join but Oda thought about making her join causes he liked her that much, but ultimately decided against it to continue the original plan.
Why would Oda change plans just for Carrot, especially given how little attention he's given her? If he really liked the character he'd give her more screen time like he did others.
I think (yes this is an hypothesis) that Oda had plans for another strawhat (neither Carrot nor Yamato) but changed his plan to transform this character into the character of Carrot. I've no proof of that, just a little feeling. I've explained this here
I have a theory about that (I wrote this in a private discord):
Wano is the climax of the Yonko saga, this is something Oda has been building up since the beginning of the story. And by "this" I mean the core of what the Yonko really is: - The large plot of Wano (The setup for the war and the war itself) - The few important storylines (Big Mom and Kaido / Yamato / The rise and fall of Onigashima / Luffy's rise to power / The strawhats / Momo's growth / The scabbard story / Oden and the Kozuki / Joyboy and the dawn.. - And mostly the themes (Parenthood / the Inherited will / The importance of the dawn / The legacy of Oden / the Japanese symbolism etc.) If you ask me what Oda is interested in right now, I'd say that his interest lies in those three things MOSTLY. And if I were to make a vast assumption.. I'd say that everything else is just optionnal to him at the moment (The little storylines / Characters development in the story [Sanji/Zoro] / The gestion of characters etc..) So if you'd ask me where is Carrot's place in all of that, I'd say, right at the bottom. If we follow the interview we knew to things: That Oda wasn't expecting to have such a long pretimeskip and that he has been wanting to write Wano for a very, very long time. So the themes and the overall plot must have taken such an important part of his mind that everything else became icing on the wedding cake.. and talking about wedding.. I would put my hand to the beast on the fact that Whole cake is actually an extension of Wano and that it was not here at first.
As I see it now, I think One Piece was just supposed to have a few islands to introduce the crew at first with a BIG middle point at Wano and the rest of the story being the race to the One Piece. So Oda might have had in mind most of his crew the end race of the story and of course the clash between the emperor at Wano.. I'd even go as far as saying that Big Mom and Kaido were supposed to be a couple during that arc a mom and a dad. But of course, when you write something so young, you are bound to make it grow, it how my.. does an idea grow and that without even thinking about it.. Oda then came up with Alabasta.. Vivi.. the shishibukai .. the supernovae .. maybe even Ace (that's debatable).. and the conflict that became Marineford.. Of course Oda didn't planned that at first.. We even have the clew in our interview taht Doffy was supposed to be a Wano fow, Dressora was therefore surely a late idea (I'd even bet on the date (2006) quote me on this lol).. Punk hazard being a dressrosa setup, it might have been the same) I'm still conflicted about Zou that might have been an earlier setup to Wano, Then (of before) Oda might have went with: "wait, what if I went rather for a "Mom" arc and a "Dad" arc instead of having two confused storylines in one..?" Whole cake was born. And with whole cake.. all the possibility of developping new characters.. like Carrot.. I often say that I think that Carrot was a late addition to the crew.. Carrot just feel like a narrative "DLC" (a good one) if we look closely at the story. I think (and I might be wrong on the pattern) that Oda had a plan for another strawhat, but that was not Carrot.. then he changed his mind.. and said to himself.. "why shouldn't I use the space of Whole cake to developp my new idea" Enters.. Carrot.. and all we know about her.. a strict construction of character during whole cake.. and then.. nothing..(almost)
I think that all of this is the reason why we don't see Carrot in Wano. This is not her story, she might have not even planned in it.. And Oda is so excited and focused on Wano that there is just no room for Carrot to grow. Does this mean that he forgot her ? NO. 1006 proved it. But he might only be able to do the minimum.. *
Of course all of this are nothing but assumptions. But this is what the story is whispering to me through it's construction.
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Nah
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I pretty much disagree with this whole section here. Carrot's real defining choice was going after Perospero on Wano. There she had the time and comfort to make that choice.
No. A real choice in a story needs to be defining. Not something you already know you are going to do. read some books about the creation of screenplays, you will understand. I know those are difficult concept to grasp, it took myself multiple year to understand them. That's why i'm being patient here and why I'm explaining the most I can.
Pedro's death can't be considered the most defining as Carrot didn't have the choice to make a difference there. If Carrot was given a chance to save Pedro, but was unable to act on it then that can be considered a defining choice. But Pedro was gonna die regardless of Carrot's imput. The only thing that Carrot could do is stand and watch, that's not a choice.
Pedro's death is one of the "challenge" of Carrot's arc. This is indeed not the moment of the defining choice. This will only come after.
Carrot didn't only just spent a lot of time with the crew before joining, she's the ONLY one to spend a lot of time with the crew before joining. No other straw hat has this luxury, if it only covers one person then it can't be considered a criteria. Criteria's are the rules, not the exceptions.
I'm sorry, i'm talking about the whole time spent, not only the time before joining. This is the time before being RECRUITED. And yes, this is a good criteria to judge the relationship with the crew and the character. Because it doesn't fit Yamato doesn't mean it's meaningless.
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Should ask why Carrot gets to be only one who doesn't need a struggling past.
I explained that multiple time. Now I won't repeat it anymore. Search it.