General & Others If the straw hats were like traditional pirate crews

#1
Imagine if one piece was like fairy tail that it has many characters as the “main characters” and made the straw hats like traditional pirate crews with many members on it.

Under Luffy would be the 9 senior officers which are the canon members and then under those 9 are small “divisions” each specialized in something.

Zoro would lead the combat division responsible for fighting and will include Johnny and Yosaku as his vice officers and some other fodder combatants

Sanji’s division are the kitchen staff with him being the head chef and Gin as the sous chef

Nami’s division is navigating, Usopp is the gunner, Franky and the Franky family are the shipwrights, Brook has the musical group, Robin leads a division of archeologists and Jinbei leads the sun pirates and so on

Vivi is an official member and the secret 10th officer, who keeps an eye on the government as well as safeguarding the poneglyph that shows the location of pluton. Only Luffy, Zoro the VC and Robin know about this
 
#4
Wasn't Gin the Combat Commander of the Krieg Pirates? He would be a better fit for Zoro's division (we don't even know if he can cook).

Anyway, I'd hate it... just having those extremely long arcs with lots of side characters (e.g.: SH Grand Fleet, Minks, Samurai, etc.) already takes a LOT of the attention away from the strawhats and important plotlines, imagine if Luffy had a huge crew. That would be a huge mess too, like most of Oda's big-scale arcs.
 
#6
  1. Zoro bounty hunter division. Just going around fighting and drinking
  2. Nami cartography division. Kinda similar to saruyama alliance
  3. Usopp explorer division. Just adventuring for the fun of it
  4. Sanji baratie 2.0. Fighting chefs and pretty ladies
  5. Chopper sea ambulance. Probably more on the adventure and piratey side of things while going around learning more about medicine and drugs
  6. Robin library division. Basically like her mom and clover
  7. Franky building division. They just built crazy weapons and fun dumb shit in general
  8. Brook rumbar 2.0. Musical pirates
  9. Jinbe new new sun pirates. Just go back to leading his crew
 
#7
You are describing Blackbeards crew structure, where he has a cooperation of multiple captains?

Like Laffite is the navigator while he owns a ship at the same time?
 
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