What exactly is making people think Ulti will join? This is the first I'm hearing of it.
It's the usual fan response over a design or personality, but zero merits to Luffy and his crew. Im not sure why some people don't see the difference between Carrot/Yamato and the rest of the pitches.
Like with Monet, Perona, Ulti, Momo, Kinemon, and many other fan crew guesses, they quite literally have no actual warrant to being part of the crew to any capacity. No tragedy (in relation to the character alone, Momo and Kinemon both lost Oden, it wasn't either characters personal tragedy), flashbacks (same thing), Dreams, or characteristics that make you think they jive well with Luffys crew. Then compare them to:
- Carrot, who has been on the crew's ship for the past 150 chapters, but also experienced a tragedy in real time with a character who literally passed on his will to her, whos dream was to get on Roger's ship. Said character has a passion for adventure and has been shown, multiple times to be a "lookout" in the ship, whether or not that matters.
- Yamato, who in 3 chapters, has proclaimed she wants to join Luffys crew, wants him to help her be free and leave Wano, knew Ace, and clearly had a tragedy in relation to her father.
You quite literally cannot compare any other character in terms of relationship to the crew (Luffy or someone else) over these 2. There is no comparison, and its kind of baffling to me that people try and use other characters as examples in the same light.
And im definitely not saying either Carrot or Yamato are surefire selections, but they clearly are much higher because of HOW Oda portrays them, all we can do is guess if he means to have them join like Jinbe