Who will be the Next Strawhat?


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I mean you don't have to go with the royal blood shtick, many have mentioned and it stuck on my mind aswell that the shark that shows up at the start of Egghead is following his "true instincts" and couldn't be controled, so a S-flamingo might just be doing that.

I'm sure that setup is going to pay off, my issue is that if the Seraphim do kill Vegapunk, they HAVE to get controled by the gorosei after at some point, because there's no way they'll just be independent.


Also if Vegapunk actually dies, i have no idea what Oda is going to do with Stussy or Bonney.

Kinda lowkey wanted the next chapter now to know what headcanon to go with.
I think you know deep down what Oda would do with Stussy. Join the Stussy brigade Warback, it's your rightful place:beckmoji:
 
I mean you don't have to go with the royal blood shtick, many have mentioned and it stuck on my mind aswell that the shark that shows up at the start of Egghead is following his "true instincts" and couldn't be controled, so a S-flamingo might just be doing that.

I'm sure that setup is going to pay off, my issue is that if the Seraphim do kill Vegapunk, they HAVE to get controled by the gorosei after at some point, because there's no way they'll just be independent.


Also if Vegapunk actually dies, i have no idea what Oda is going to do with Stussy or Bonney.

Kinda lowkey wanted the next chapter now to know what headcanon to go with.
If Vegapunk dies, someone must inherit their will and dream, search your feelings Warback, you know what this means
 
There is that potential "theory" that his Celestial Blood would be enough to give him the strenght to resist the suboordination.

As for his motivations, Doffy was portrayed as a psychopath since childhood, his seraphim might just want Chaos and revenge for being a lab rat.
That’s an interesting idea. But if will power is enough to break out of the control. Should S-Snake who also has CoC be able to free herself? And possibly S-Hawk as well.
 
Stussy needs to actually do something. I can't begin to get behind her as a potential strawhat when she's so passive a player in the arc.

The comparable Strawhat to her is Nico Robin. Mysterious member of a rival organization that we're introduced to earlier than the arc she joins who you can't be sure of their aligence until later.

Stussy's big problem however is that nothing she's done so far has made a major impact on the strawhats. She's not given us an igaram moment or substantial playful banter with the crew yet.
 
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Stussy needs to actually do something. I can't begin to get behind her as a potential strawhat when she's so passive a player in the arc.

The comparable Strawhat to her is Nico Robin. Mysterious member of a rival organization that we're introduced to earlier than the arc she joins who you can't be sure of their aligence until later.

Stussy's big problem however is that nothing she's done so far has made a major impact on the strawhats. She's not given us an igaram moment or substantial playful banter with the crew yet.
I mean, it's only been a few chapters. I imagine she'll get some major focus soon whether she joins the crew or not.
 
What did she do in Wano that tells you she's gonna join at all?

Lucci and Caribou are more believable candidates rn :milaugh:
pretty sure fighting the man who's responsible for the death of Pedro is pretty important lol. Yea she lost, but the focus she got while fighting perospero had everything to do with the Words that Pedro left her when he died. And the words were "Keep Moving Onward". Pedro's will has everything to do with joining the strawhats, don't ignore that because she didn't get an insane amount of focus in Onigashima. Carrot has had a lot of focus throughout the 200+ chapters she's been in, and ranks 16th most chapter appearances in the entire series despite only being introduced in chapter 804. Oda put her in the middle of 105, keeps alluding to her in Egghead with the Rabbit and Bunny references, and the fact she's the only character from Wano who wasn't given a proper ending or close.
 
pretty sure fighting the man who's responsible for the death of Pedro is pretty important lol. Yea she lost, but the focus she got while fighting perospero had everything to do with the Words that Pedro left her when he died. And the words were "Keep Moving Onward". Pedro's will has everything to do with joining the strawhats, don't ignore that because she didn't get an insane amount of focus in Onigashima. Carrot has had a lot of focus throughout the 200+ chapters she's been in, and ranks 16th most chapter appearances in the entire series despite only being introduced in chapter 804. Oda put her in the middle of 105, keeps alluding to her in Egghead with the Rabbit and Bunny references, and the fact she's the only character from Wano who wasn't given a proper ending or close.
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Pot Goblin

Conejo Blanco
pretty sure fighting the man who's responsible for the death of Pedro is pretty important lol. Yea she lost, but the focus she got while fighting perospero had everything to do with the Words that Pedro left her when he died. And the words were "Keep Moving Onward". Pedro's will has everything to do with joining the strawhats, don't ignore that because she didn't get an insane amount of focus in Onigashima. Carrot has had a lot of focus throughout the 200+ chapters she's been in, and ranks 16th most chapter appearances in the entire series despite only being introduced in chapter 804. Oda put her in the middle of 105, keeps alluding to her in Egghead with the Rabbit and Bunny references, and the fact she's the only character from Wano who wasn't given a proper ending or close.
Really well said, if you really consider the grand scheme of things in Wano she's honestly comparable with the other straw hats in terms of depiction

On Onigashima she helped Nami with getting out of the homie situation
Saved Marco by attacking Perospero
Then fought Perospero and stalled him from going into Onigashima sooner than he would have otherwise

Take Carrot out and have no one save Marco or stall Perospero and it becomes a full on massacre

There's some stuff like how she was there with the crew listening to Oden's story as well that adds to things.

And honestly, the fact that we did not see her when the Strawhats left Wano is seriously understated
Was that not a perfect moment to throw Carrot fans a bone and say she's a crewmate like he did with Yamato, Tama, Kin, and Momo and let things rest there?
Would it not have been easy it simply add Carrot to the ending there in any capacity, even just a simple smiling panel to show that she is indeed staying behind to go to Zou?
Could Oda have not drawn a simple text bubble of Carrot saying "Yes I'll do it" in response during that scene in 1056? If he did it for Yamato he could've done it here as well.

Then he goes on to have those little rabbit hints as you said (That turbine was so blatant) and put her in the middle of the volume cover. Which was not related to the Zodiac year cause the 2005 one was in the year of the horse and during Oda's draft of 105 he put the goat in first but choose to put Carrot in instead.

Like why do all this if he's just gonna reveal something that could've been done so easily in the first place?
Why make it so weirdly open ended if he doesn't have anything planned for it?
 

Mr. Reloaded

Professional Backstabber
pretty sure fighting the man who's responsible for the death of Pedro is pretty important lol. Yea she lost, but the focus she got while fighting perospero had everything to do with the Words that Pedro left her when he died. And the words were "Keep Moving Onward".
Firstly what focus? That fight got off screened only in the anime did you see anything from it, secondly that wasn't even her fight that was Neko's. Man did what she couldn't in a 2v1.

Pedro's will has everything to do with joining the strawhats, don't ignore that because she didn't get an insane amount of focus in Onigashima.
Pedro's will didn't amount to dick, we don't even know what that is.

Carrot has had a lot of focus throughout the 200+ chapters she's been in, and ranks 16th most chapter appearances in the entire series despite only being introduced in chapter 804.
Because of a creepy ass editor that wanted to have children with her :milaugh:
And what happened after he stepped down again? She goes into irrelevancy her only meaningful cotribute to the raid is getting offscreened and rescued.
. Oda put her in the middle of 105, keeps alluding to her in Egghead with the Rabbit and Bunny references,
She replaced Sengoku's goat in 105 to keep a gag going, and a huge reach there claiming all the rabbit references were for her. Also bold of you to assume that isn't anything other than Oda trolling her fans.

and the fact she's the only character from Wano who wasn't given a proper ending or close.
This I agree with and I've been very open about this. What happened to Carrot at the end was a tragedy, clearly Oda had no actual plans for her but he saw the worldwide popularity poll and knew he couldn't silently get rid of her.

No build up to her being queen
Didn't lead shit during the raid
Was denied revenge for Pedro
The minks all agree she's not qualified for several parts of the role but gaslight her into anyway.

But Oda did it anyway because how else can he excuse bringing her back for the final war.

The weird ass ending hers isn't alluding to her joining the crew I can't for the life of me see why people still believe this. Everyone was so convinced she ran away from her duties and hid in a barrel, and that straight up never happened.
 
Really well said, if you really consider the grand scheme of things in Wano she's honestly comparable with the other straw hats in terms of depiction

On Onigashima she helped Nami with getting out of the homie situation
Saved Marco by attacking Perospero
Then fought Perospero and stalled him from going into Onigashima sooner than he would have otherwise

Take Carrot out and have no one save Marco or stall Perospero and it becomes a full on massacre

There's some stuff like how she was there with the crew listening to Oden's story as well that adds to things.

And honestly, the fact that we did not see her when the Strawhats left Wano is seriously understated
Was that not a perfect moment to throw Carrot fans a bone and say she's a crewmate like he did with Yamato, Tama, Kin, and Momo and let things rest there?
Would it not have been easy it simply add Carrot to the ending there in any capacity, even just a simple smiling panel to show that she is indeed staying behind to go to Zou?
Could Oda have not drawn a simple text bubble of Carrot saying "Yes I'll do it" in response during that scene in 1056? If he did it for Yamato he could've done it here as well.

Then he goes on to have those little rabbit hints as you said (That turbine was so blatant) and put her in the middle of the volume cover. Which was not related to the Zodiac year cause the 2005 one was in the year of the horse and during Oda's draft of 105 he put the goat in first but choose to put Carrot in instead.

Like why do all this if he's just gonna reveal something that could've been done so easily in the first place?
Why make it so weirdly open ended if he doesn't have anything planned for it?
Wano had some of the dumbest writing in the series. It was malicious and sparse for no reason. Why the hell would they write these resolved details for her and then go blank? Is this a form of trolling? Is this what it like to have their head up their ass? I'm fully ready to call the editor completely incompetent, malicious trolls, and Oda dementia having has been.
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Every time one piece had a boom, it was always substained. So much for having those new fans because wano engagment dropped like a rock. This shit didn't happen after water 7, people wanted more. I keep saying this, after the arc the people will decide rather it worth continuing and the new people that jumped on for the 1000+ chapter celeberation don't give af about one piece. Considering oda being blind by 60, not being able to enjoy a trip with his kids/wife, who are likely enstranged from him I'm not going to be too harsh.

If he is trolling, he going to get very good at it and people around him are going to get just as good at being a dick to him too.
 
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Firstly what focus? That fight got off screened only in the anime did you see anything from it, secondly that wasn't even her fight that was Neko's. Man did what she couldn't in a 2v1.


Pedro's will didn't amount to dick, we don't even know what that is.


Because of a creepy ass editor that wanted to have children with her :milaugh:
And what happened after he stepped down again? She goes into irrelevancy her only meaningful cotribute to the raid is getting offscreened and rescued.

She replaced Sengoku's goat in 105 to keep a gag going, and a huge reach there claiming all the rabbit references were for her. Also bold of you to assume that isn't anything other than Oda trolling her fans.


This I agree with and I've been very open about this. What happened to Carrot at the end was a tragedy, clearly Oda had no actual plans for her but he saw the worldwide popularity poll and knew he couldn't silently get rid of her.

No build up to her being queen
Didn't lead shit during the raid
Was denied revenge for Pedro
The minks all agree she's not qualified for several parts of the role but gaslight her into anyway.

But Oda did it anyway because how else can he excuse bringing her back for the final war.

The weird ass ending hers isn't alluding to her joining the crew I can't for the life of me see why people still believe this. Everyone was so convinced she ran away from her duties and hid in a barrel, and that straight up never happened.

I see it and I don't believe it, a carrot fan saying that and acpeting the true history of his character.

P.S. It's not April Fool's Day, is it?
 
Firstly what focus? That fight got off screened only in the anime did you see anything from it, secondly that wasn't even her fight that was Neko's. Man did what she couldn't in a 2v1.


Pedro's will didn't amount to dick, we don't even know what that is.


Because of a creepy ass editor that wanted to have children with her :milaugh:
And what happened after he stepped down again? She goes into irrelevancy her only meaningful cotribute to the raid is getting offscreened and rescued.

She replaced Sengoku's goat in 105 to keep a gag going, and a huge reach there claiming all the rabbit references were for her. Also bold of you to assume that isn't anything other than Oda trolling her fans.


This I agree with and I've been very open about this. What happened to Carrot at the end was a tragedy, clearly Oda had no actual plans for her but he saw the worldwide popularity poll and knew he couldn't silently get rid of her.

No build up to her being queen
Didn't lead shit during the raid
Was denied revenge for Pedro
The minks all agree she's not qualified for several parts of the role but gaslight her into anyway.

But Oda did it anyway because how else can he excuse bringing her back for the final war.

The weird ass ending hers isn't alluding to her joining the crew I can't for the life of me see why people still believe this. Everyone was so convinced she ran away from her duties and hid in a barrel, and that straight up never happened.
The amount of coping I sense is WILD.

The focus of having a flashback of Pedro's last words? The focus of her going off on her own to fight the man who's responsible for Pedro's death? I don't think y'all understand that Oda highlighted those words for a reason, and it wasn't to Lead Zou Lmao.

We don't know entirely what Pedro's will can do to Carrot and her story. But we know that his will had everything to do with protecting the strawhats and that he wanted to achieve the dawn. That was also the will of the Nox Pirates, which is why Carrot taking Pedro's will is a lot like Jinbei taking Fishertigers will. The will of the Sun Pirates was the same as Fishertiger, and the Will of the Nox Pirates was the same as Pedro.

Ohh yea her only reason for being here is because an editor wanted them to be....? She didn't go back to being Irrelevant lol. Carrot has never been irrelevant, and she stays relevant even today. Oda makes multiple Bunny References throughout the story, and puts her on the cover of 105. You can say it's just a funny way to replace the Goat, but it still highlights her. The best part is that during 1056, she's the only one who didn't get their ending complete lmao. So why would Oda put her there? Why not Yamato in Dog form? Or Momo in Dragon form? It wasn't the Goat Year when the Goat was put there, so why is Carrot the one put there?

"Clearly Oda had no actual plans for her" shocking how many times y'all wanna speak for Oda. Stop doing this. You aren't him. Everything I believe is from what Oda has already shown us, not from your random nonsense trying to get justified with "Oda just doesn't care!" Like girl give it a break.

People believe she's joining because she has to? There's no other way for her character to go lmao. In the end, Carrot will become an official strawhat and will be there when Luffy becomes the Pirate King. Pedro's will set this up, and Oda actually did that and wrote that down. I'm not taking that from nowhere. He put it into his story for a reason, and it's not so she can do the job Wanda and Shishillian clearly got set up for (both were leaders during Zou and Wano). So please, read the story boo. It ain't rocket science.
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Really well said, if you really consider the grand scheme of things in Wano she's honestly comparable with the other straw hats in terms of depiction

On Onigashima she helped Nami with getting out of the homie situation
Saved Marco by attacking Perospero
Then fought Perospero and stalled him from going into Onigashima sooner than he would have otherwise

Take Carrot out and have no one save Marco or stall Perospero and it becomes a full on massacre

There's some stuff like how she was there with the crew listening to Oden's story as well that adds to things.

And honestly, the fact that we did not see her when the Strawhats left Wano is seriously understated
Was that not a perfect moment to throw Carrot fans a bone and say she's a crewmate like he did with Yamato, Tama, Kin, and Momo and let things rest there?
Would it not have been easy it simply add Carrot to the ending there in any capacity, even just a simple smiling panel to show that she is indeed staying behind to go to Zou?
Could Oda have not drawn a simple text bubble of Carrot saying "Yes I'll do it" in response during that scene in 1056? If he did it for Yamato he could've done it here as well.

Then he goes on to have those little rabbit hints as you said (That turbine was so blatant) and put her in the middle of the volume cover. Which was not related to the Zodiac year cause the 2005 one was in the year of the horse and during Oda's draft of 105 he put the goat in first but choose to put Carrot in instead.

Like why do all this if he's just gonna reveal something that could've been done so easily in the first place?
Why make it so weirdly open ended if he doesn't have anything planned for it?
You spitting, I wish people would look into the story more instead of just pushing random agenda. Carrot fans know that her story isn't over, and it's mostly due to the fact that Oda clearly left it unfinished. ON PURPOSE. For a REASON.
 
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