So she got an arc about her, was one for the main driving forces of the arc and had Luffy defeat a villain for her? Had no idea.
This and the dream/goal/desire indeed, were the ONLY things that Carrot lacked to be considered a full strawhat. But like I have explained already multiple times before, this is just
one of the many parameters of the writing of a strawhat.
Well... arguable. I don't feel baited yet. More like put on standby
But all the analyzing you did was pointing to her joining the strawhats at the end of wano(according to you)
Yes and no. In reality, all my reasonning for the first theory (the CarrotForNakama theory) was pointing toward two things : first indeed to carrot joining, but second to Carrot becoming somewhat important in the story later.
That's why I was not surprised to see her be given the title of Zou. The story portrayed her as an important character despite being a secondary character. (remember all the time I said "no Carrot is not irrelevant despite her lack of story screentime?") I would be surprised on the other hand if that was the end of her story.
The Carrot For Nakama is dead, my conclusion was proven wrong. But we are talking here about a second theory
based on the hypothesis that Carrot could have an important place in the story related to the notion of the Dawn and that it could or could not impact her status as Queen and her relationship with the strawhats.
My conclusion to the first theory was that passed a certain point in the story, Carrot's chance would be done. But I rationnalized that on the fact that it was what Oda had done everytime in the story. Oda could still prove me wrong, and Carrot could still join the crew because of that relationship with the Dawn and the element of that second theory.
That's why I'm debatting this here.