Questions & Mysteries Roger Pirates' young bucks

[Xione]

In the Oden Flashback, we saw the Roger pirates have young dudes that weren't the apprentices like Buggy & Shanks. I'm referring to guys like Doringo (a swordsman) who was put up against Marco The Phoenix, and Taro (a swordsman) who was put up against Vista.

How strong do you think these guys were/ became by now and what they could possibly be doing?

 

[Jew D. Boy]

Ahh, interesting topic and a great catch! I believe the most we’ll get is seeing them in action whenever the Roger/Laugh Tale flashback happens in the future...we’ve still only met Rayleigh proper, and it seems like Scopper Gaban could come into play sometime soon, but we won’t see any more “lesser” crew mates play a significant role.

Really, the only way I see them factoring into the main storyline is if their experiences on the Grand Line somehow hold any importance for the journey of our protagonists, and I’m not sure why they would. Anything we need to know about Roger’s trip to the final island can be informed by Rayleigh or Gaban, and anything else about their crew could easily come from Shanks or Buggy. It’s a nice thought that we could someday learn more about the lesser Roger Pirates, but I don’t know how that would fit in with what’s left of the series

 

[Xione]

Ahh, interesting topic and a great catch! I believe the most we’ll get is seeing them in action whenever the Roger/Laugh Tale flashback happens in the future...we’ve still only met Rayleigh proper, and it seems like Scopper Gaban could come into play sometime soon, but we won’t see any more “lesser” crew mates play a significant role.

Really, the only way I see them factoring into the main storyline is if their experiences on the Grand Line somehow hold any importance for the journey of our protagonists, and I’m not sure why they would. Anything we need to know about Roger’s trip to the final island can be informed by Rayleigh or Gaban, and anything else about their crew could easily come from Shanks or Buggy. It’s a nice thought that we could someday learn more about the lesser Roger Pirates, but I don’t know how that would fit in with what’s left of the series

But how strong do you think they grew to be, similar to Marco/Vista or stronger? Think they're just doing their stuff on the side or living a life in hiding like Rayleigh?

 

[Jew D. Boy]

But how strong do you think they grew to be, similar to Marco/Vista or stronger? Think they're just doing their stuff on the side or living a life in hiding like Rayleigh?

I try not to do too much powerscaling in general...probably safe to assume either that they’re strong enough to match YCs (albeit maybe in 3-4 range), or Roger so outsized everybody else in the world that weaker members of the crew (looking at you, Red Nose) could hide behind him and survive that way.

Since we have little indication of their fate, I would assume most Roger Pirates retired after going to Laugh Tale and are living lives of solitude compared to active buccaneers. Once you’ve been the first people to step foot on an island for eight centuries and gained a knowledge few others have, what else is there to do but kick back and relax before the world undergoes a seismic change?