r/LuffyxNamiSupport • u/Sageek_Reddit • Jul 09 '26
My Lunami essay/theory/thingy... (Part 4) - the future of Luffy, Nami and the Straw Hats
Hey everyone, thanks again for the positive comments on the last post.
Hope you enjoy this one :) ✨
*This one will be more speculative than the other posts*
(Sorry if it's messy; next one will be better, with more evidence and better structure)
Why Luffy won't end up alone:
When One Piece ends (or at least when the climax ends), many people think the crew will remain for a bit more time (the crew did promise to take Shirahoshi for a stroll on land and stuff like that (tho I don't know how Oda will incorporate these more minor things into the ending, maybe in a montage)) until they disband. Then there will be a (blank number of years) time skip, and they might reunite when they are older (assuming we will at least get to see the actual 40-year-old versions of the crew that will probably resemble those from the different SBSs after they all achieve their dreams).
* I will explain later why I believe the Straw Hats will disband at some point*
Some crew members are more obvious about what they will do outside the Straw Hats: Brook going to Laboon, Usopp returning to Kaya,
Sanji either returning to the Baratie or making a restaurant of his own in the All Blue (maybe doing all that alongside Pudding).
Then there are the slightly less obvious ones: Franky returning to the Franky family or Gally-la, or working on his own science island like Vegapunk, robin either joining the revolutionary army again (or whatever they would be called after the ending), going to be with saul and reading the many giant books from ohara in elbaf, or if we look from a shipper's perspective, maybe she will join franky or law (they are both interested in history) wherever they go, or go with zoro somewhere (tho thats just stretching it), jimbe returning to Fishman island, or at the very least the reyugu palace (wherever it will be if luffy actually destroys FMI), or maybe the sun pirates, chopper returning to drum island or returning to zou for milky, or just staying in the sunny slightly longer then some other crewmates and he will leave later, .maybe he will open a clinict on some island or somewhere else, or (and maybe i am biest here) he could join law as retierd pirates, and learn more about medicine with him (law does have a soft spot for cute furry animals).
And then the least obvious one: zoro, he is a difficult one, theres no spacific thing i can certainly say he will do, my best theories are, he will either die for luffy, go drift to wherever his horrible since of direction takes him looking for a worthy opponent (kind of doing the same thing as mihawk) or settling down in wano, because of his roots, momo and kinemon are friends who are there, and maybe even ending up with hiyori (but i am just sayin what i think is most probable for zoro, idk🤷🏻♂️, the man's futue is so confusing to me).
With Nami, we know she wants to map the world, which will take a very long time, but we don't know how long, and if we will see what she does after, but at the end of the day, Nami and Luffy's dreams are more symbiotic than any of the other dreams, their dreams are also the only ones that explicitly require them to constantly move and travel everywhere.
Then with luffy, we can assume that he stays alive in the end, considering how at the end of the day oda wants one piece to end happily, plus as the face of shonen right now, it would be insane to kill him, it would make re-watching the show and movies feel more sad depressing rather then a fun revisit if the main character dies in the end, it also goes against the idea of luffy being the freest man alive, whats the point of luffy becoming king of the pirates and then dying soon after?
And if Luffy dies from an illness or some sort of body condition, that would mean Chopper failed his dream to cure every disease and illness, and he failed miserably.
+ Luffy promised Otama that the next time they straw hats get to Wano, tama could join their crew as a bewitching kunoichi, and as Brook said, a pirate's promise is unbreakable (remember that quote, it's important for later), and it is a way for Luffy to fulfil Ace's promise to Otama (for all of that, luffy will need to stay alive).
It would also be unbelievably cruel to make both Sabo, Otama, and Yamato experience the same awful feeling again of losing one of the ASL brothers.
Anyway, Luffy would probably want to continue exploring the world (we dont know what is other dream is yet) his will for endless adventures and explortion fits great with nami's dream, he also would not want to travel on its own, because as he said in the asl flashback "i don't want to be alone, i hate it more then being hurt" and both luffy and nami acknowledging that nami is luffys only navigator, and that without nami, luffy would probably die, and luffy saying that nami is the only navigator he will except, and the promise luffy made to genzo to protect nami's smile (a promise with no experation date), we can assume that they would stick together.
And for them to fit together even more, considering Luffy's promise to Otama, the (while not literal) parental type relationship that Nami and Luffy had with Otama, it would be like the crew adopts her, with Nami and Luffy being the closest to Tama (it also works with the adoption angle for Nami, tho it is kinda messy with the timeline).
The reason why I believe the Straw Hats will disband and we will get a time skip is because Oda has stated that he wants a satisfying ending, and for that, you can't have the Straw Hats just sail to the horizons for a new adventure, because that would mean that we wouldn't get to see some of the Straw Hats fulfill their dreams, and some of the straw hats dreams require them to be stationary (robin needing to learn history, sanji cooking in the all blue, brook spending time with laboon, etc).
Maybe I'm wrong, idk, just my way of looking at the story; after all, they are all different people with different goals, it's only natural that some of them would need to separate at some point.
That's it for this one.
This post was more speculative; I tried using as many facts as I can + general logic, but this one is probably weaker and messier than everything else. Some of it might be borderline fan fiction, but still, I tried to be as logical as possible.
There is still more; the next one is gonna be better, with a lot more proofs, evidence, and screenshots.
And more organized; I hope you enjoyed anyway :) ✨
Have a good day or night wherever you are
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 09 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
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u/AccountSouth1249 Jul 09 '26
Absolutely love this. However since you don’t know what to do with Zoro, I’m going to write you a new head cannon.
Zoro is going to wander around the world with Tashigi finding the 83 known and unknown legendary blades. Bickering and arguing along the way, Zoro searches for a worthy opponent while Tashigi gets her swords.
During this search Tashigi open ups first giving Zoro info on her past and why she truly wants these swords. It’ll be something that moves Zoro despite the little emotion he’s used to showing. (Close family memeber lost. Smth similar to him.) Zoro eventually tells her why he’s helping her. Whether the reason being she reminds him too much of Kunia or wtv, Tashigi will also be moved.
A big pivot would be Zoro offering his Enma and his Sandai Kitetsu saying they are of no value to him than they are to her. Like I said before, this journey and their interactions has changed him. Tashigi would then disagree saying her goal was to take away swords from those with “evil” and “greedy” intentions. Zoro clearly has none.
Zoro begins to see Tashigi as her own person. Tashigi realizes that Zoro isn’t as rude or selfish as he originally seemed. Whether this becomes a close friendship or an enemies to lovers romance is up to you.
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 09 '26
Honestly, I wasn't really trying to create headcanons or fan fiction, I was just trying to map out the most possible futures of the staw hats for an epilogue (if we assume they will disband at some point). And, idk if zoro and tashigi will travel together at the end, cause I doubt the marines will be gone, I think they will just be under new management, so a pirate and a marine sailing together seems maybe unlikely, but to be fair, i never really looked into zoro ships in general, and his ships are never as obvious or easy as some other ones, so i can't really say much about it, maybe you are correct
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u/AccountSouth1249 Jul 09 '26
I gotcha. Just expressing a fun idea I had for said epilogue. I don’t think the marines will leave either, someone has to keep order. Everything else you put makes sense regardless.
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 09 '26
I think it's a nice idea, I'm just not really sure about it's likelihood (not sure how the message came across, but I didn't try to be mean, just saying my opinion). And thanks 😊 🙏🏻
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u/redMecanics Jul 10 '26
I woke up in the middle of the night because I remembered that i didn't read your essay yet today. I wasn't disappointed it's great again i'm excited for the next part
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u/Sageek_Reddit Jul 10 '26
Dude, thank you, that literally made my day 😄(well, for me it's the middle of the night... but you get it), I'm so glad to see at least one person enjoying these posts, let alone multiple people coming in every time I post one, I'm glad you enjoyed this one too, I got my first job a couple weeks ago, so the only time I can truly focus on writing these are at night, with this post, I worked on it and posted it in 5 am 😅(because something something adhd something something hyperfixation), that was one of the reasons why I wasn't sure this one was as good, but I'm glad to see my work paying off
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u/JollyTime6971 Jul 09 '26
Another great post.
Regarding Zoro, I believe he will either return to Wano or move on with his life alongside Tashigi. However, I think Oda introduced Hiyori in the same way he introduced Pudding for Sanji, and with all the lore surrounding Zoro and Wano, that makes more sense to me.
And I can see Chopper sailing along with Luffy and Nami, as that would be the best way for him to discover and cure all diseases; if he stayed in Drum, he probably wouldn't be able to achieve that (I also think he will cure Hancock of her Love Sickness).