I want to go into detail as to why I still think Stussy is the most likely candidate.
It's not so much what she has, but the potential for what she could have. The most telling aspect that a character is a strawhat is a dream and role which are thematically connected and a fighting style that relates to them. For example, Franky is a shipwright with a dream to build a dream ship and he fights by turning himself into the latest battle franky. Sanji is a chef with a dream to find the chefs paradise, all blue, and fights by only kicking because he needs his hands for cooking.
Stussy is almost certainly a scientist. She was created by Vegapunk, presumably raised by MADS, and is a clone of a MADS scientist. Furthermore, she apparantly grew up on eggheaf. No way is she not a scientist. Perfect strawhat role.
Vegapunk has some major death flags. If he dies or retires, Stussy is the closest thing to his progeny and will likely inherit his dream. The dream to find the eternal energy source. A scientist's dream if there ever was one, and the most strawhat-ass dream I've ever heard.
As for fighting style, we don't really know yet, but if she has some kind of artificial devil fruit abilities, or if her powers are genes spliced into her dna or something, then it fits perfectly.
This much is already a crap ton of potential. But also consider she's connected to Weevil and Rocks. This could be the catalyst to bring them into the strawhat's plot. She's clearly an outcast like the rest of the strawhats given Vegapunk's words implying the world doesn't see her as human. She was also introduced as an enemy like all female strawhats including Vivi.
This one is small, but Oda specifically designed each strawhat with a realworld nationality in mind, and each of them are different. They are usually pretty obvious like Franky being American, Sanji being French, and Chopper being Canadian. Buckingham is as british of a name you can have, and her appearance is that of a traditional british lady. Having a clear real world nationality is just another thing that fits, even if it means nothing on its own.
Most of the strawhats come from a group that specializes in their role. Sanji from the ship of fighting cooks, Chopper from the island of doctors, Brook from the singing rumbar pirates, Franky from the island known for shiprwights. Is it just a coincidence that Stussy is from egghead, the island of science, and also likely from MADS?
As far as tragic backstory, she clearly has one based on Vegapunk's comment about the world not accepting her. And Kizaru might just be her personal villain since we know she didn't join the marines to be a double agent, something along the way resulted in that situation. Something clearly happened to her to result in her joining cipher poll.
She also has nowhere to go, no conflicting loyalties, a perfect foil in the BB pirates with Lafite, and an invite to sail on the Sunny.
The point is that all of the right pins have been set up. I'm only giving her around a 50/50 shot since none of them have been knocked down. But you can't deny that that's way more potential than any of the other candidates regarding the things that actually matter.
It's not so much what she has, but the potential for what she could have. The most telling aspect that a character is a strawhat is a dream and role which are thematically connected and a fighting style that relates to them. For example, Franky is a shipwright with a dream to build a dream ship and he fights by turning himself into the latest battle franky. Sanji is a chef with a dream to find the chefs paradise, all blue, and fights by only kicking because he needs his hands for cooking.
Stussy is almost certainly a scientist. She was created by Vegapunk, presumably raised by MADS, and is a clone of a MADS scientist. Furthermore, she apparantly grew up on eggheaf. No way is she not a scientist. Perfect strawhat role.
Vegapunk has some major death flags. If he dies or retires, Stussy is the closest thing to his progeny and will likely inherit his dream. The dream to find the eternal energy source. A scientist's dream if there ever was one, and the most strawhat-ass dream I've ever heard.
As for fighting style, we don't really know yet, but if she has some kind of artificial devil fruit abilities, or if her powers are genes spliced into her dna or something, then it fits perfectly.
This much is already a crap ton of potential. But also consider she's connected to Weevil and Rocks. This could be the catalyst to bring them into the strawhat's plot. She's clearly an outcast like the rest of the strawhats given Vegapunk's words implying the world doesn't see her as human. She was also introduced as an enemy like all female strawhats including Vivi.
This one is small, but Oda specifically designed each strawhat with a realworld nationality in mind, and each of them are different. They are usually pretty obvious like Franky being American, Sanji being French, and Chopper being Canadian. Buckingham is as british of a name you can have, and her appearance is that of a traditional british lady. Having a clear real world nationality is just another thing that fits, even if it means nothing on its own.
Most of the strawhats come from a group that specializes in their role. Sanji from the ship of fighting cooks, Chopper from the island of doctors, Brook from the singing rumbar pirates, Franky from the island known for shiprwights. Is it just a coincidence that Stussy is from egghead, the island of science, and also likely from MADS?
As far as tragic backstory, she clearly has one based on Vegapunk's comment about the world not accepting her. And Kizaru might just be her personal villain since we know she didn't join the marines to be a double agent, something along the way resulted in that situation. Something clearly happened to her to result in her joining cipher poll.
She also has nowhere to go, no conflicting loyalties, a perfect foil in the BB pirates with Lafite, and an invite to sail on the Sunny.
The point is that all of the right pins have been set up. I'm only giving her around a 50/50 shot since none of them have been knocked down. But you can't deny that that's way more potential than any of the other candidates regarding the things that actually matter.