Nami’s mom could easily be revealed to be a former slave, with her character arc completing in Mariejoa when she finds her “father.”
My impression from these guys is that they will try to recruit Zoro and/or Nami at first, but then back off when their offer is rejected. Stabs is revealed not to be Shanks when Luffy meets him, causing him to at first rejoice but then get angry and confused. Or, he will clash with him thinking that it is Shanks before Stabs and Gunk take off. God’s knights only teased, as well as their identities as clones, so that someone can out the pieces together when the crew meets the revolutionaries next arc. No fight, or they just leave before Luffy and co. even show up.
This reveal is meant to be a tease, just like Gunko’s outfit. They came here to recruit Loki, not to fight the Strawhats who were just down the hill from where they landed.
No chance the Gorosei or Imu are dumb enough to send two knights to fight the actual god of their nightmares in the middle of a nation of powerful, fanatical allies when all 5 of the gorosei couldn’t stop him from leaving Egghead. If they wanted the place cooked they could send a whole force, or they could use the weapon.
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On a fun note, I love how clear it is made in this chapter that there are a grand total of 3 real pirates on the Strawhat crew, and all of them are on a boat sailed by a Nami-simp heading towards a captured Prince and two secret agents.
All 7 of these others are some regular people along for the ride 😂
Sanji- eating, enjoying girls
Usopp- feasting, spinning tales
Robin- reading and reuniting with a friend
Chopper- studying medicine
Franky- carpentry
Jinbei- enjoying himself as a spectacle
Brooke- playing music and partying
Luffy- pissing on local folklore/making war
Zoro- threatening decapitation/making war
Nami- robbing the palace
Arrived at the island of their most powerful allies
Ate their food and drank their wine
Robbed them blind
Unshackled the great destroyer
Power up, beat him to a pulp
Ran off the secret malevolent forces at work under the people’s noses
Convert “villain” to good guy
Win friends, even though you took all their stuff and put their lives in danger, because you exposed their true enemy and united them together