@Hanz:
alright, alright. im not gonna post my theories here anymore.
im being treated like the king of bad theories or something… it's my first theory here guys, and it's considerably less stupid than others in here. seriously, there's theories in here about caesar clown joining the straw hats! holyshit.
Your theory/wish for Law to join has been posted plenty of times and people are probably tired of explaining over and over again, that is why you get answers like you did, plus it doesn't make much sense.
Law
1- Law is an ally, he has been established as that, he is on par with Luffy and that dynamic won't change.
2- His doctor skills would overlap with Chopper's.
3- He has a crew and he is their captain, those people are, and want to be pirates, and as their captain he has a responsibility towards them.
So at the end of the day, he will be an ally, an important one till the end of the story from now on, but no he won't leave his crew.
Now compered to Jinbe situation.
Jinbe is the acting captain of a crew of pirates yes, but as it was stated in the story, the fishmen that are with him don't want to be pirates, his Shichibukai status protected them and they could live a relative peaceful life, when Jinbe lost his Shichibukai status they became wanted again, plus after WB death and BM taking over FI they had to ally with her to keep their island safe.
Jinbe said he had to fix something before joining, but accepted the invitation and told Luffy after he is done with what he needed to do, if Luffy asks again he will join him. From a logical standpoint whatever he had to do was probably related to his "we don't want to be pirates" crew and BM, we are now going to have a conflict between Luffy and Big Mom, we have confirmation that Lola is her daughter now and Lola has a debt to the SH pirates, by the end of this arc Luffy and BM will reach some kind of agreement, Jinbe buddies will be safe and he will be free to join Luffy.
There are plenty of differences between him and Law, they aren't just both captains of a crew.
I don't like to make big post since I fear I may mess up with my english and not get the point across , but hopefully I did.
P.S. I repeated this a lot already, but the blood transfusion scene was already a little hurt imo(even though it was still a beautiful scene) by Jinbe not joining then, if Oda somehow doesn't make him actually join, I would be pretty pissed at him.
@Cyclone_Baroness:
For me characters like Law and Pedro qualify as boring. So far there's nothing "fun" about their characters that the majority of characters in this series have. Pedro is still new but he's too similar design wise to Rob in hybrid form. Law just has always felt out of place to me. He has no little personality quirks or flaws (not liking bread does not count). Plus his devil fruit is majorly over powered.
Oda seems to be playing around with that actually, I found Law the typical "forced kewl" I'mma Bleach character, and Oda is exploiting that, like when he asks the ninja to do stuff, but he doesn't really want to look lame doing it so keeps the straight face, I think the forced cool thing is his shtick, I kinda started liking him after the Rocinante flashback, I'm glad he is finally gone for an arc, but I don't dislike him nearly as much as I did till that point, well I'm not sure I dislike him, I think I just didn't care about him that much.