It raises a lot of questions about potential inconsistencies, it's unavoidable. I've read through the thread and there are a couple of things to point out.
- Luffy is absolutely the worst person to eat such a special fruit in the entire world. He is the son of the Revolutionary Dragon and a descendant of Monkey D Garp, the Hero of the Marines. That's a D with the most remarkable bloodline in the world short of Gol D. Roger. The WG somehow knew that Ace was the son of Roger and already ate the mera mera no mi, so that would actually leave Luffy as the more dangerous target because he ate the special fruit.
Saying that previous users of the fruit may not have been able to awaken it doesn't solve the problem because Luffy has all the makings of someone who could. His actions of invading Marineford should have been the absolute end of any debate with him declaring he will be Pirate King to Whitebeard himself. The level of incompetence the WG must have to let that go is simply not reasonable. The absolute WORST individuals in the history of the WG = Joyboy, Gol D Roger, Dragon were being combined into 1...and there's no way Imu or the Gorosei didn't see this.
- You don't have CP9 guarding an unremarkable fruit. The only other situation we see CP9 involved with was with an Ancient Weapon. It's simply not a small deal, and either Imu or the Gorosei or even both must have known of its special nature to assign Cipher Pol to guard it in the first place and then punish WsW severely for the failure.
- Joyboy seems to be an enemy of the WG, so his reappearance should be an even greater deal compared to just 1 of the Ancient Weapons. It simply doesn't make sense to just take chances with a potential problem of that level.
- Luffy is absolutely the worst person to eat such a special fruit in the entire world. He is the son of the Revolutionary Dragon and a descendant of Monkey D Garp, the Hero of the Marines. That's a D with the most remarkable bloodline in the world short of Gol D. Roger. The WG somehow knew that Ace was the son of Roger and already ate the mera mera no mi, so that would actually leave Luffy as the more dangerous target because he ate the special fruit.
Saying that previous users of the fruit may not have been able to awaken it doesn't solve the problem because Luffy has all the makings of someone who could. His actions of invading Marineford should have been the absolute end of any debate with him declaring he will be Pirate King to Whitebeard himself. The level of incompetence the WG must have to let that go is simply not reasonable. The absolute WORST individuals in the history of the WG = Joyboy, Gol D Roger, Dragon were being combined into 1...and there's no way Imu or the Gorosei didn't see this.
- You don't have CP9 guarding an unremarkable fruit. The only other situation we see CP9 involved with was with an Ancient Weapon. It's simply not a small deal, and either Imu or the Gorosei or even both must have known of its special nature to assign Cipher Pol to guard it in the first place and then punish WsW severely for the failure.
- Joyboy seems to be an enemy of the WG, so his reappearance should be an even greater deal compared to just 1 of the Ancient Weapons. It simply doesn't make sense to just take chances with a potential problem of that level.