Why Carrot has to be like Yamato to Join??
Or like Sanji????
Why she can not be like she's now??? I mean, why can't she join the crew how it actually is???
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Don't you really realize how oversaturated would be if every mugi had to be greater than the mugi before???
I don't think you read or understand what i wrote. Carrot can stay the way she is right now- nobody said she can't and nobody is trying to stop her, but what she is right now is not Straw Hat material. Yamato is.
The matter of fact is that no Straw Hat has ever joined the crew that is as minimally built up and as shallow as Carrot. Plenty of One Piece characters meet the minimum things that Carrot has like a sad backstory and also dreams, but many of them if not most of them never joined the crew. Vivi, Dalton, Wyper, Paulie, Rebecca, Pudding etc, there are countless characters who fall into this category.
Its the reason why we got Franky instead of Paulie, its the reason why we got Brook instead of Perona.
Most if not all the straw hats had their own good reason and reservation to not join Luffy's crew at the start, and only when they see that they can achieve their dreams and goals by joining Luffy do they actually join Luffy. Most of them also had to give something up or let go in return to join. All of them had something that was holding them back from joining.
Zoro at first turned down Luffy's offer and never wanted to become a pirate, until he had no choice because Captain Morgan was gonna execute him
Nami wanted to join the crew and sail with Luffy and the rest, but she couldn't at first because her village was held hostage by Arlong
Ussop wanted to join the crew, but he couldn't do it without saving his village from Kuro first
Sanji couldn't join the crew, until he was able to let go of his sense of guilt in repaying Zeff for sacrificing his leg for him
Chopper couldn't join the crew, because Drum Kingdom was still under threat from Wapol
Robin couldn't join properly the first time, because she was afraid that the WG will go after the crew, giving them a burden
Franky couldn't join at first, because CP0 was still a threat to him and Iceberg, Tom had not been avenged, and he still felt like he had the Franky Family to take care of as a responsibility.
Brook couldn't join at first, because his shadow was stolen, and he still was unable to fulfil Laboon's promise, returning to him from the other side.
Jinbe couldn't join at first, because he still had the burden and felt the responsibility to unite the people of Fishman Island and to also help the fishman from the fishman underground, fulfilling Fisher Tiger's will. Jinbe also couldn't join at first because he still hadn't properly cut ties with Big Mom, and he knows that if he leaves her unannounced, Big Mom would go after Aladdin and the Sun Pirates.
For every straw hat who joined, it never happened easily for every one of them. They all either had something that was tying them down like responsibility, or they had other plans that they must carry out which were more important to them than joining and becoming a pirate to find the One Piece, or it was risky for them to leave everything behind and just join without doing anything else.
For Yamato it will be defeating Kaido, kicking him out and freeing Wano from Kaido's tyranny. Yamato also had to turn against his own father and be expelled from the Beast Pirates, a Yonko's crew. That's not a easy decision that any girl can just muster up the determination and courage to take. Pudding for example never went against Big Mom, despite how defiant she was in her heart. Yamato is also taking a risk, for if Luffy fails to take down Kaido-then Yamato's gamble would have been for nothing, and the fate that Kaido decides for her then could be even worse than just being locked up and risk dying by explosive shackles. Yamato was even shocked when Luffy said to Big Mom that he didn't come to Wano to take down Kaido, but both of them. Yamato was relieved, but the first part had Yamato worried that Luffy really wasn't here in Wano to take down kaido, and her gamble and betrayal could have been for nothing.
What has Carrot done for Zou for her to join the crew? What has Carrot had to sacrifice and give up personally to join the crew?
*The reason why the straw hats who join had their own character arcs, is because it helped develop and flesh out their character first, and it also added internal conflicts and burdens for them before they joined, so Luffy can come in to help and resolve them- it is through this process that the bond between the new straw hat and Luffy is created and sealed in stone.
This also makes every straw hat joining not a easy decision for each and every one of them, making Luffy's efforts to recruitment them all the more satisfying, rewarding and most importantly- meaningful.
Having Carrot just saying that she wants to go on an adventure and randomly popping up on the Sunny is not how a Straw Hat joins, it's not what makes a Straw Hat.
The whole idea, draw and romanticism of Pirates and One Piece in this story, is the idea of taking risks to achieve your dreams, and making sacrifices to achieve your goals. What good reason does Carrot have to join the crew outside of just wanting to go on an adventure? Or fulfilling Pedro's will, which is an even more shallow excuse to join the crew- joining because of somebody else, when the dreams of every straw hat are all individualistic and personal? Or the Dawn, which is just a 'thing' that Oda still hasn't properly explained in the story, but by all means it is implied to be grandiose, hereditary and general, not individualistic and properly defined?
