scenes if luffy is actually dead but the person in his body now is boyjoy
Now.
Hear me out on this one. I thought about something that can maybe, MAYBE salvage this. So, the Gomu Gomu is that special fruit 99% confirmed. So...let's try and figure out WHY it is so special.
We still don't know where Devil Fruits come from, right? Maybe, MAYBE the Rubber Fruit was JoyBoy's fruit (99% chance this is the case). What if, somehow, part of JoyBoy's soul carried on when the fruit respawned? Like a Horcrux from Harry Potter mixed with the Chimaera Ants from HxH.
In the beginning, there were legends about a "demon" residing inside the fruits, and the reason someone couldn't eat two, was because the demons would fight each other and the host would die.
What if this is somehow the case, the fruits possess fragments of the souls from the people of the country related to the Void Century? And Luffy managed to get the one with JoyBoy's soul.
Should still need explanation for why they changed its name, but meh.
I could dig that.
Especially because of how BB was able to bypass this restriction.
Damn I need me some BB's lore drops.