She was literally kidnapped, had a bomb collar put around her neck, held at gunpoint about to be murdered, about to be sold into slavery for the purpose of entertainment where she would have at best been either a plaything or been chased by piranhas until she either died from exhaustion or the piranhas ate her, and had her friend shot in front of her. But you're right, she never faced hardship.
I also have no idea what you're trying to say with Camie only having evolution and not development. Those are synonyms. She has clearly developed after the time-skip which is undeniable.
Being kidnap or having a bomb collar does not make for a development. In a story, you can face hardship and being completely passive about it. That's Camie's case here. There is no development with a story, no internal hardship, no need to overcome. Camie was a fun background but she was just a catalysis in order for Oda to tell his story, nothing more. Carrot is completely different.[/QUOTE]
Evolution and development may be synonym, those do not describe the same thing. An evolution is a change of status for a character regarding his characterization for example it's Koby becoming Captain, this as nothing to do with development character which involve the crafting of an internal evolution in the character psyche and needs.
Carrot is being developped, Camie just had a nice evolution.
She ignored the war in order to take her revenge. Her fighting Perospero is not for the greater cause of the war, it is purely for selfish reasons. That's still lingering from her anger at Pedro's death, and now with Perospero's defeat, she has returned to being the hanger-on character she was with Nekomamushi. She has shown no further development from having her sole target defeated.
We don't care about the reason, in fact if Carrot was really selfish (which she was not, Perospero being a real threat for the alliance) it would be all the more interestesting for her character.
The next step of the developped as indeed not been shown yet, but it was implied by Perospero's word. Sometimes you don't have to look for the character to know that there will be a development, you just have to listen to the antagonist.
No, it was definitely on Nekomamushi. All Carrot did was shout Nekomamushi's name in a panel where she definitely not the focus.
Remember : What am I talking about here ? Am I talking about focus in term of action and paneling ? No. I was talking about emotionnal relevancy of the fight. And Carrot was the one to react.
Of which Carrot has neither.
I suggest you read whole cake again, you missed the part where Carrot two half of chapters dedicated to her and her action which doesn't happen often if we talk about paneling utilization.
Which is the only highlight Carrot got in the entirety of Wano and it did not develop her character in anyway, unlike Brooke where we learned about how important his afro is to him and how it ties into his dream of seeing Laboon again.
Wrong. It does develop her character as it opens the door for a self questionning for her role as a pirate. Again you look at the lack of Carrot dialogue when you miss the whole point of Perospero's words.
Talking about Brook, remember that until the very end of Thriller bark, Brook was almost nowhere to be seen. In fact Carrot had a lot more development during her time in her story that Brook had during Thriller bark, minus the very end, where Brook's character is really developped. So you can wait for the end of the arc to say that Carrot has something missing.
All evidence, on both the narrative and metanarrative level, points squarely at Yamato. Even Carrot fans have resorted to hoping that Carrot joins with Yamato. It's fitting since that's what she's been reduced to, someone who rides the coattails of other characters in order to be relevant.
Wrong. The narration AND the meta narration points to Carrot being the next strawhat. Carrot fan have not resorted to hoping that Carrot will join with Yamato. You are making assumption on nothing here.
Yes she is. In term of treatment Carrot is beyond all those characters in term of probability. I proved it already in my blog but I intend to make a post about that in the future showing why Carrot's character is unlike anyone you have ever seen already.
With Robin he built up intrigue by connecting her to the greater mysteries of the One Piece world: the Poneglyphs and the Will of D. while also having her save Luffy from the main antagonist despite seemingly being an antagonist herself, having attacked Vivi and Pell. The best Carrot has going for her is that the Minks have ties to the Kozuki clan and a few Minks, namely Nekomamushi, Inuarashi, and Pedro, have stated their interest in the Dawn of the World. Carrot herself has never shown any interest in the Dawn.
The anime proves you that it is implied by the story that she is indeed interested in the Dawn.
You creating criteria does not mean Oda is following it. Many people have helped the Straw Hats before, many have even acted as a lookout/scout since it's one of the easiest ways to make side characters appear useful to the crew. All Oda has to do is have them keep their eyes open.
It's not a "criteria" it's a fact.
Remember, in all the story, only 2 people helped as real crewmates on a
real (an tangible) post on the Sunny:
Pedro and Carrot on the lookout post.
Are you saying that Oda made a point to highlight all the post but, the lookout post is not a real post ?
We had Yosaku report back to Luffy about what happened after the crew split at Baratie, Chimney scouted out Enies Lobby and helped direct everyone towards Robin, the Tonta Corps had an entire spy network to report on what was going on around Dressrosa through their flying beetles and moving so fast no one can see them. Viola is perhaps the best example since all of the Straw Hats who aren't currently working at being the best at their jobs are highly specialized already. Viola's Devil Fruit makes her one of, if not the, best lookouts, especially more so than Carrot since she can see for miles around in literally every direction and can telepathically link to birds to have an even better view. All of that trounces Carrot's supposed specialty in being a lookout.
Nothing here relates to an actual and tangible post on the Sunny. I did not see ANY of those characters of the Sunny on a specific post.
As it so happens, with Boxset 4's release, I've been reading Zou and Whole Cake again. Multiple crew members have shown that they can already handle any lookout/scout needs already, with Brooke specifically saying that he specialized in being a scout. There's also Usopp spotting multiple points of interest, Luffy and Sanji also quickly getting above the treetops in Zou and spotting something in the distance, and now we have Zeus who covers everything Carrot can: Electric attacks, Flying > jumping, transforms anytime > transforming once a month, and he's now permanently tied to the Navigator, the person a lookout would report to. Carrot is redundant multiple times over. Even worse, there are multiple times when she fails in her lookout duties. She failed to notice the crocodile in the Seducing Woods, she failed to notice the genie until it was right on top of her, and she failed to notice the fleet of ships in front of the Sunny until they had already surrounded the ship.
Where is Brook mentionning that he is specialized in being a scout ?
So you are saying that if another strawhat can do the job, therefore it can't be Carrot's ? You are forgetting the fact that a lot of strawhat can do the job of multiple other strawhats.
You are also forgetting the fact that the Job in question becomes only really specific to the character in a very specific situation (minus some (Cook/doctor etc.)
This is a pretty common trick in the Yamato fanbase, trying to undermine the role of lookout.. and when it can't be done, saying that other character can be look-outs to..
The thing is, none of those characters have wonders in there eyes.. and a look out on the Sunny MUST have enjoy their discoveries to the maximum. That is minus the Sulong which is the pinnacle for a Scout.
None of those characters are Carrot.. but you should know this already.. after all none of those character have been meticuloussely drawn to the look out post.. but Carrot was..
Unless..
You are saying that Oda is drawing things ..
for no reason ?
Just to show he was near death 
