The orange zodiac lowkey has the potential to be a perfect opponent and foil for zoro/mihawk
As for why it’s starts off with luffy
Imo the 4 emperors specifically shanks, kaido, big mom, and Blackbeard and the 3 admirals specifically akainu, kizaru, and aokiji are important for luffy to fight and beat on his journey to become pirate king. Even if they get beat by others before or even after luffy I still think he’ll eventually fight all of them
As the for the other admiral and emperors imo that’s free game. With none of of them being a necessary fight for luffy
That’s where cross guild comes into play. Them being an emperor crew that honestly isn’t that relevant to luffy himself
If he were to fight anyone in the crew it’d have to be mihawk but that’s pretty unnecessary especially when there’s someone way more fitting to fight him in zoro
It’ll basically be Zoro’s emperor battle with mihawk not technically being an emperor
The way I see it going
- Usopp vs buggy: fame
- I think usopp has the biggest chance to become the vice captain of the crew and even his own captain after. Plus luffy/shanks best friends
- Zoro vs mihawk: power
- While not an emperor it gives zoro a top tier fight. Zoro will become wss taking the title from mihawk kinda like luffy took kaido’s emperor title
- Nami vs crocodile: wealth
- The brains of the group planning out their journeys. Plus both might be women…
As for the other admiral and zodiac in general I honestly don’t think it’s necessary for luffy to fight them either
Imo fujitora and ryokugyu are 100% fighting law and kid
- Both groups of luffy kid law and kizaru ryokugyu fujitora represent a monkey bull and tiger
- 3 billion captain trio
- Kid and ryokugyu both make giant constructs and focus on grappling. Law and fujitora combine their fruit and sword skills and control their surroundings
The orange zodiac could be another situation similar to mihawk. Them being comparable to admirals just without the title
So same way mihawk will be his emperor fight without actually being an emperor the orange zodiac will be his admiral fight without actually being an admiral
As for extra stuff I would personally like from the orange zodiac which is honestly just a wish list lol
- Zoan users either they themselves and/or their weapon (sword) eats it
- A swordswoman
- Maybe they can be tied to mihawk. Like why he doesn’t trust most people and why he became a marine hunter