@Robby:
She's 8. As far as I'm concerned that's an immediate hard disqualification so there's nothing to discuss.
I can't even humor the possibility barring time travel or aging shenanigans. She's defenseless on her own and has been kidnapped how many times? And her power, while broken in this arc with all the beast men, will be pretty useless elsewhere.
Maybe earlier in the series when it was all a bit sillier, or she'd come in way earlier before Ace died and we had a timeskip where everyone had to train to match up to the new world, or there was a lot of time to gather an army of unique monsters on every island… but not at this point.
Heck, Usopp and Nami both have the "weak defenseless one that has to use summons to fight" shtick already and Usopp got his plants got wrecked recently and he hasn't used his dials in ages, and Nami got totally destroyed. There's no room to add a third weakling character building an weapon arsenal at this point.
And she'd have to bring the pets with her or tame new ones every where she goes? And fight one of the Blackbeards in a solo 1 on 1 in a few weeks? I just don't see it at all.
But… the pirate apprentice position! I'm sure you've heard all about it, but her being 8 would be okey if she takes that position. Remember back in the days where everyone said that's the position left to be fulfilled? Although back then people used the term cabin boy instead.
I think we can humor it since it has appeared in the series quite a few times already, Bonneys DF, Hody and his crew turning to old men, and Coby's pseudo "age up", if she ages up like princess kaguya or something (one of the most well known old fairy tales that hasn't been referenced in wano yet) and it makes sense enough in the story, why not?
I don't know about her power being useless either, looking back at all the arc, the majority of them have some strong animals in them;
Little garden: Dinosaurs
Drum Island: Lapins
Alabasta: several monsters, giant crab, kung fu dugongs
Skypiea: Nolan and several monsters
Water 7: The king yagara bulls and Yokozuna
Thriller Bark: All the animals zombies
Amazon Lily: The snakes, panther and eagle
Impel Down: Basilisk, Sphinx and wolves among others.
Fishman Island: Surumi and Hodys sea beasts.
Punk Hazard: the dragons
Dressrosa: Ucy, the colosseum lion, and all the beasts that were turned into toys
Zou: Zunisha, lol
WCI: all the homie animals, sea ants, etc
Bonus: Strong World
if elbaf is next for example, there's bound to be some strong pets she could get from there.
But she couldn't have appeared earlier if she was planned from the beginning because of Naruto, so it could make sense if Oda just postponed her character until later.
As for her power level, it's all about balance, we just got a top tier with Jinbe, Tama joining would be create more balance imo, but her power level is still versatile enough because of her pets, so she could be as strong or as weak needed for the story at the moment.
As for blackbeard match up, there's only one that could make sense IMO, and thats Sanjuan Wolf, would thematically fit, with all the fairy tales involving kids and giants, and she could match him power and size simply by having a big and strong enough pet.
No she wasn't. That's not even a good photoshop. Her box isn't lined up with the others and it's smaller.
If you're going to make an obvious fake at least use guidelines people. Its so off you can tell just by eyeballing it. And if you pull out digital guidelines then you can REALLY tell it's wrong.
That aside, putting her before Jinbe? And not tossing in Vivi to make it a nice even clean set of rows like any professional team would strive for? Breaking up the boats? Yikes, bad faking choices all around.
Also the character links are numbered. It would be REALLY hard to accidentally have 875 somehow be right after 10 but not upset or replace one of the boats.
Like, they would have to make an intentional error for it to muck up that bad. Gold Roger and Shanks accidentally appearing in the column would at least make some sense.
That's good to know, I thought it would be fake at first but some people vouched for its authenticity, good to know.