Theory Ace was supposed to be Joyboy

[Flappy]

Short theory.

Luffy and Ace have been on the same island all the time untill they met. Shanks's plan has always been to bring the nika fruit to Ace, cause that's what Roger wanted. But then Luffy came along. And everything changed.
What do you guys think?

 

[Seatonnes]

shanks thought ace was joyboy, but he wasnt luffy was always joyboy

 

[Twin Milf]

Short theory.

Luffy and Ace have been on the same island all the time untill they met. Shanks's plan has always been to bring the nika fruit to Ace, cause that's what Roger wanted. But then Luffy came along. And everything changed.
What do you guys think?

Makes sense
I might misremember this but we never found out when Ace ate the Mera Mera no Mi right?

 

[mugiwalaw]

adult Ace already met Shanks, but nothing indicates such thing.

 

[Rottkins]

Makes sense
I might misremember this but we never found out when Ace ate the Mera Mera no Mi right?

in the novel it was shortly after when he left the island to become a pirate, when he met Deuce on a lonely island

 

[Finalbeta]

Guess he should have eaten the Gomu in the first place then we will never know

 

[vikas]

Makes sense
I might misremember this but we never found out when Ace ate the Mera Mera no Mi right?

He got it during his first voyage

 

[soheilhazrat]

Shanks's plan has always been to bring the nika fruit to Ace,

Correct me if ik wrong but ace's novel says he didnt know ace was roger's son till he Meet him when Ace was rookie

 

[Fn Lucci]

No but it's interesting to think of the dynamic between Shanks and Newgate. Shanks is hands off until he needs to step in, Newgate keeps Ace by his side and tells Marco not to lose sight of Luffy, but when he relaxes the leash catastrophic things happen on both occasions.

Luffy eats the Gomu fruit and Shanks actually just goes about his business. Interesting.

But not as interesting as Yasopp being right around the corner and not doing anything for his son. What a fucking chump.

 

[Joygirl1]

Maybe Roger wanted Ace to eat the nika fruit because he thought that his son was supposed to become the next generations version of Joyboy but Shanks somehow saw that Roger wasn´t right about this or he didn´t give it to Ace because he knew when the marine figured out that Ace was Roger´s son they would go right after him and as we saw this was exactly what happened. So he kept looking around for another candidate and finally found Luffy. I´m quite sure Shanks left the nika fruit there on purpose so Luffy could it eat.

Ace still played a great role for Luffy´s character development and he initially may have been supposed to get the nika fruit but I think Shanks simply changed the plan as he was concerned that Ace wouldn´t live long enough to get to that point where the awakening of the nika fruit would finally happen and the awakening was very important. Maybe Rayleigh was involved in that decision making too.