I say bring it. When Oda wants to write a character, he makes them work well. Carrot’s bishouju gag and Chopper-aniki are legit funny. If Oda writes Carrot as an actual secondary protagonist, she’s fine. See WCI. It’s just not WCI anymore and Carrot has not had one gag in all of Wano. I don’t really find anything entertaining in her story at the moment, but maybe when the raid is over that’ll change.
It’s just that everything points to only one spot left. Luffy wanted 10 crew members, the editors recently reaffirmed that Luffy meant 10 besides him, Oda loves soccer teams of 10 teammates plus the Captain, and Blackbeard has 10 Titanic Captains. If there is one spot left, Oda is clearly building to Yamato. Even the Carrot fans admit this. They’re just praying and begging it’s a red herring, probably to convince themselves more than anyone else. It’s the denial phase of copium.
I find Yamato more entertaining to watch. Carrot works in Chopper’s or Nami’s shadow, but we already have our cowardly trio. She just feels like an extra when with the other strawhats. She never had that focus. Wanda had more focus than Carrot in Zou even. I admit that her gags do work, but she’s extremely reactionary rather than pushing any plot herself. Even when she chased after Perospero, Oda offscreened it. True, he offscreened Nami/Usopp vs Ulti/P1, but they got their full fight later. Carrot just ate grass until Neko came along.
There’s also nothing standing in the way of her “dream.” Even if you say her dream is to have an adventure, nothing really stands in her way from the story’s plot with the remaining antagonists. Nobody on the Marines or Blackbeard directly oppose her achieving it unless she gets a true heart-to-heart with Luffy when he beats Jack or Perospero for her. Oh, wait. She doesn’t really have a tangible dream in the way Nami or Franky or Brook do that someone can antagonize. Neither does Jinbei, but he and Luffy had a true heart-to-heart in Impel Down and Fishman Island.
Yamato’s dreams are all tied-up with the strawhats. Revenge for Ace, having the same adventure as Oden by going to Laugh Tale specifically, knows Luffy’s true dream which no other strawhat knows. That ties everything to Blackbeard (and probably Alvarro or Devon cosplaying as Oden since BB knew him), the Marines with Akainu, and Sabo with the Revolutionaries. Yamato has just as much purpose on the crew as any of the others with all that stands in their way.
If both join, it can work and Oda’s comedy will make both shine, but I can’t help but feel that while Yamato would be running off with Luffy and getting lots of screentime, Carrot would just be a consolation prize to chill with one-liners next to Nami or Chopper. I can’t in good faith root for that kind of addition to the crew.
It’s just that everything points to only one spot left. Luffy wanted 10 crew members, the editors recently reaffirmed that Luffy meant 10 besides him, Oda loves soccer teams of 10 teammates plus the Captain, and Blackbeard has 10 Titanic Captains. If there is one spot left, Oda is clearly building to Yamato. Even the Carrot fans admit this. They’re just praying and begging it’s a red herring, probably to convince themselves more than anyone else. It’s the denial phase of copium.
I find Yamato more entertaining to watch. Carrot works in Chopper’s or Nami’s shadow, but we already have our cowardly trio. She just feels like an extra when with the other strawhats. She never had that focus. Wanda had more focus than Carrot in Zou even. I admit that her gags do work, but she’s extremely reactionary rather than pushing any plot herself. Even when she chased after Perospero, Oda offscreened it. True, he offscreened Nami/Usopp vs Ulti/P1, but they got their full fight later. Carrot just ate grass until Neko came along.
There’s also nothing standing in the way of her “dream.” Even if you say her dream is to have an adventure, nothing really stands in her way from the story’s plot with the remaining antagonists. Nobody on the Marines or Blackbeard directly oppose her achieving it unless she gets a true heart-to-heart with Luffy when he beats Jack or Perospero for her. Oh, wait. She doesn’t really have a tangible dream in the way Nami or Franky or Brook do that someone can antagonize. Neither does Jinbei, but he and Luffy had a true heart-to-heart in Impel Down and Fishman Island.
Yamato’s dreams are all tied-up with the strawhats. Revenge for Ace, having the same adventure as Oden by going to Laugh Tale specifically, knows Luffy’s true dream which no other strawhat knows. That ties everything to Blackbeard (and probably Alvarro or Devon cosplaying as Oden since BB knew him), the Marines with Akainu, and Sabo with the Revolutionaries. Yamato has just as much purpose on the crew as any of the others with all that stands in their way.
If both join, it can work and Oda’s comedy will make both shine, but I can’t help but feel that while Yamato would be running off with Luffy and getting lots of screentime, Carrot would just be a consolation prize to chill with one-liners next to Nami or Chopper. I can’t in good faith root for that kind of addition to the crew.
