Luffy's moment with Franky was when he placed Robin's fate- the sole reason they were in EL- in his hands. That's the moment that the Luffy- Franky relationship fully turns around from adversarial to comradely.
And he did know his name there
And this came when the crew were openly looking for a shipwright, when he'd been given a multi-chapter flashback detailing his relationship with Tom and how that tied in to the main plot in the arc- Robin and CP9. Franky was obviously joining from the minute we had his flashback.
Franky and Luffy had an actual story- mutual dislike at first, Franky then turning and placing all his hopes in the Strawhats, Luffy in turn placing the responsibility for Robin on his shoulders, then him finally making the ship for them.
Luffy and Carrot don't have a story. Luffy and Franky (and Luffy and Robin) was at least interesting because that was something that started off adversarial then turned into friendship. With Carrot there's just this... beige, dull friendship that isn't really focused on or interesting at all, especially compared to the other Strawhats. Luffy hasn't liked every Strawhat immediately, but there has always been something interesting about Luffy's interactions with them prior to them joining. I can't think of a single strong Carrot/Luffy interaction in what is coming up to two hundred chapters (a length of time in which every other Strawhat has been at least invited to join the crew, even if Jinbei hadn't fully accepted yet). Even Pedro dying in front of his eyes- Luffy genuinely seems to care more about Oden, who he's never met.
And now she is supposed to spark his attention in a cast of hundreds (slight exaggeration of course), where there's so many other characters that Oda has focused on instead of her. Even her big trump card of Su Long isn't going to be special, cause we're going to see all the other Minks do it as well- and it'll be new to us seeing that, whereas we've already seen Carrot's. And to make matters worse, Luffy is currently hanging around with the daughter of the main villain who is an associate of his beloved, dead older brother. I doubt Yamato will join the crew, but she's sure as hell got more setup to be important in the Wano endgame than Carrot.
And he did know his name there
And this came when the crew were openly looking for a shipwright, when he'd been given a multi-chapter flashback detailing his relationship with Tom and how that tied in to the main plot in the arc- Robin and CP9. Franky was obviously joining from the minute we had his flashback.
Franky and Luffy had an actual story- mutual dislike at first, Franky then turning and placing all his hopes in the Strawhats, Luffy in turn placing the responsibility for Robin on his shoulders, then him finally making the ship for them.
Luffy and Carrot don't have a story. Luffy and Franky (and Luffy and Robin) was at least interesting because that was something that started off adversarial then turned into friendship. With Carrot there's just this... beige, dull friendship that isn't really focused on or interesting at all, especially compared to the other Strawhats. Luffy hasn't liked every Strawhat immediately, but there has always been something interesting about Luffy's interactions with them prior to them joining. I can't think of a single strong Carrot/Luffy interaction in what is coming up to two hundred chapters (a length of time in which every other Strawhat has been at least invited to join the crew, even if Jinbei hadn't fully accepted yet). Even Pedro dying in front of his eyes- Luffy genuinely seems to care more about Oden, who he's never met.
And now she is supposed to spark his attention in a cast of hundreds (slight exaggeration of course), where there's so many other characters that Oda has focused on instead of her. Even her big trump card of Su Long isn't going to be special, cause we're going to see all the other Minks do it as well- and it'll be new to us seeing that, whereas we've already seen Carrot's. And to make matters worse, Luffy is currently hanging around with the daughter of the main villain who is an associate of his beloved, dead older brother. I doubt Yamato will join the crew, but she's sure as hell got more setup to be important in the Wano endgame than Carrot.
