I totally remember those theories and loved the idea at the time.
Personally, I'd love Tama over Momo as an apprentice. Ace clearly meant to take her out to sea eventually. Tama apparently has no one and also has a pretty unique power that can help protect her against enemies. I'd love if she became a Kunoichi in training or if Shinobu (if she can) ages her a few years for this reason alone.
Her and Tengu certainly have additional roles to play in the arc somewhere.
And tbh, if Chopper could get some sort of mink related powerup this arc instead of a mink joining, I'd love that even more.
Personally, I'd love Tama over Momo as an apprentice. Ace clearly meant to take her out to sea eventually. Tama apparently has no one and also has a pretty unique power that can help protect her against enemies. I'd love if she became a Kunoichi in training or if Shinobu (if she can) ages her a few years for this reason alone.
Her and Tengu certainly have additional roles to play in the arc somewhere.
And tbh, if Chopper could get some sort of mink related powerup this arc instead of a mink joining, I'd love that even more.
Tho with the momo and tama stuff momo admittedly has more valuable things he can learn from the crew along with the more interesting devil fruit.
Still tama has the ace connection and promise that luffy can potential keep instead. Shes also the only other female character to have the strawhat on other than nami and robin
Chopper learning his own version of electo and the floating thing would be hype