This is why she would join. I don't believe for a second she will die now that there is something that will easily save her from an obvious demise, and that is by just following Luffy. It is not like Oda at all for her to die when she has a path to salvation. Instead it is more like Oda to make the path more easily availble through trial of her heart and that she must save herself.
Of all of the other ways previous SHs joined this is how Hancock would join? I think it'd would be quite unnecessary for Oda to do all this just to get a nakama in to the crew. I think he has something much bigger planned for her and this situation. Not to mention he kinda said there'd be no romance amongst SHs and they're only in love with adventure. I don't think a one sided relationship where if a person is not around the captain they will die is a believable reason for her to be nakama. It's overdone and forced imo. I think Oda can do better than that but that's just me.
It was stated that as the only person to survive a "Love Sickness" she was also the only person to follow her heart. She is passing this knowledge onto Hancock and saying, do not shut your heart away from what you feel you must do, that is your path to death.
I mean this is a good assumption but you'd think Nyon would say that outright similar to the way you said it if that is what the case was. from what she said I don't see the implication of she followed her heart and managed to survive, I think there's more to how exactly she survived. I mean keep in mind she is no longer around the person she is in love with, unless this sickness is temporary only when the "love is at its peak" in the person.
But I will let you believe differently.
Let me? lol it's not like you could change it.
Luffy would come away from it looking just like… "Wow people near me can die!" thats it. Nothing emotional, just something. Besides Luffy is known to save people from death anyways, he wouldn't let it happen anyways even if he didn't care for her that much.
LMAO
What you are asking for… is a character to sacrifice her life for a man that she cares for, but he has absolutely no care for her in the same way. Not only has such a scenario happened before with different areas and they came out alive, but it is a poor way to get rid of a character.
You only grasped some of what I suggested. I didn;t think I needed to explain every detail but in this sacrifice scenario Hancock would have either confessed her love for Luffy while dying or before that. Since Oda has been building up her shyness in loving Luffy it will eventually reach a boiling point where she will have to let him know.
There is only one confirmed, meaningful death in this series, and it was to a character all the strawhat members knew and loved, and that characters death was not only implied it was all but finalized by Luffy saying it would happen. The ship Going Merry. Oda, no matter what happens in the course of the story, never takes death lightly. If it happens you will see it a mile a way, and it will be stretched out to the ends of the world till it officially happens.
I've seen Hancock's death coming ever since her past was revealed.
Her past as a slave is the biggest one. She is also a character that is just throwing a front for people. She is too afraid of letting anyone even acknowledge the possibility that she used to be a slave. She wants to serve under no one else again, thus why she shows that where ever she goes. She could easily, if she becomes a strawhat, have a personality change when she realizes she can be herself around them.
Now that would be a travesty. This isn't a Robin or franky situation. The way you're pitching this makes me think if Oda does have her in mind as a candidate for next nakama he himself is not sure if he should or if it would really be a good idea. The best thing about the SHs is that they haven't changed their personalities after joining, only displaying their loylaty to the crew in various ways. Franky was the one who had that mean, bad guy, gangster exterior that progressed in to a person who values family and is really a sensitive guy. What we've seen from Hancock is the same thing only different when regarding Luffy and him alone. She's shown she can even become angry with her sisters. I wasn't talking about her joining but the transition of her becoming a SH would be non existent without Oda revamping her whole personality for the most part. I don't see him doing that at all. I mean what it seems like is if you take away Hancock's "front" she has no personality at all except for a scared, wounded, shy, helpless little girl.
I still see her as a character in a unique case/situation that has a high probablity of dying. The conditions regarding her love for Luffy(love sickness), her inner conflict in what to do about it and if she should tell him, her leaving AL(last farewell), and everything Nyon has said to her makes me think she'll go against it. Plus she'll eventually realize that Luffy won't return this love and could die because of that given the circumstance.
Seems that Zik is the one pushing it the most about Hancock dying for Luffy becuase she loves him and that it will somehow make luffy more mature or the series more mature or something.
That is just a childesh reatarded thinking.
I remember you assuming that last time. Luffy will never get more mature, her death would be more of an effect on the fans than him.
Let off the Hancock dying, it ain't gonna happen. I don't see any death ever in one piece. The only possible death I see is WB loosing and being captured. And thus later being executed. Ace isnt' gonna die, hancock isn't gonna die. And none of the shichi, admirals or anyone is gonna die. Accept it. People in One Piece don't die, they get beaten in battle. You would think that after 523 chapters you wouldn't keep thinking that someone will
The biggest surprise is when he starts killing ppl…......