But that is exactly my point: since Dragon is already well-estabilished, dangerous, full of control... hell, even considered more dangerous than the Emperors for the influence he has and the danger he directly rapresents to the WG, WHY should he become an Emperor now?
A such radical change of status and definition of his entity..?
Because apparently some crazy shit has happened in the world while we’ve been in Wano
Dragon having done something insane plus Kaido and Big Mom falling all in the same two week period could mean the world considers him to have taken their place.
Eh, I don't know about Shanks.
But yeah people like Luffy and Newgate don't want to control the seas but reign cause people from different territories (especially in New World) entrust themselves to them rather than to the World Govt.
There are different ways to become an Emperors, all of them require territories to back you up and unique strenght of the individual. These are the main 2 ingredients for the recipe.
And Kid and Law don’t have either main ingredient. No territory of note and needed to team up to extreme diff Big Mom (plus bombs)
Like I’ve been saying, potential Emperor, sure, current ones, nonsense.
Sure we don't know what happened with Sabo & co at the Reverie but as I was saying before that would not justify Dragon's sudden change of status.
World Govt. reinforcing the manhunt on Dragon's ass? Highly likely. Even obvious, I'd say.
World Govt. suddenly categorizing him as an Emperor? Don't see the point of it to be honest.
The justification would be that the space has suddenly opened and the workd has obviously changed.
Beating an Emperor should get you at least a ticket for the privileged walkway, don't you think? It's not everyday shit.
About as much as Blackbeard got. Which was for the Gorosei to say “shit, we need to watch this guy”
Last time an Emperor fell was in Marineford, completely outnumbered. This time a group of rookies defeated two Emperors in a row.
And that Emperor, upon his defeat, was not immediately replaced
Lets be real
The Strawhats beat the Beast Pirates. Luffy beat Kaido, Zoro beat King, Sanji beat Queen, all the way done, the Strawhats were the ones who gained the samurai as allies to provide backup.
If it had been the Kid Pirates or the Heart Pirates vs the Big Mom Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates would have fucking destroyed them.
It was two seperate captains
combining to take down just Big Mom. A Yonko crew is more than just their captain.
You can define them as just strong pirates with a crew of fodders but that's what the market offers if you look around. If you remove Shanks & Teach, the strongest pirates with something that comes close to the two main ingredients I mentioned before are Luffy, Kidd, Law. No one else.
No, you have Luffy as the clear and runaway leader and then miles behind him Kid and Law.
The three aren’t equals. They aren’t even close. The Strawhats genuinely shit all over the other two in every imaginable fashion. That’s what makes the idea of Kid and Law being Yonko so ridiculous.