 Hello, and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything one piece. And today we are going to step into a strange, bizarre world based on a single hypothetical, being what if everyone that Luffy actually asked to join the Straw Hearts became a crew member? With the basic rule of our universe being that if Luffy does request a person join the crew, then they must say yes. And not only that, we're also very much going to examine how alternate universe crewmates may have affected the story going forward from that point. Because our hypothetical does change a pretty incredible amount. It's a really good what if, you know, to examine what this series could have been if everyone Luffy actually wants to become a Straw Heart was that agreeable. Before we get into that, I have an even better hypothetical though, which is what if you became a subscriber to the Grand Line Review? Well, I will tell you, you would receive regular one piece content uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. That's what would happen. And I think we should make that a reality, dear viewer, just as we are about to do with our other hypothetical here. And as for an example of what we're doing here today, let's take our piece. According to our rules, when Luffy asked her to join them on their adventure, she would have had to agree instead of staying on the Island of Dragon things. And then bam, we have to account for our piece throughout the rest of the story. However, because our piece is a filler character and does not indeed exist, she will not be here today. Apologies to our piece fans provided there are any. So let's go through one piece with this very simple rule in mind. And right off the bat, we have a pretty, pretty insane change to make because during his childhood, Luffy actually asked both Ace and Sarbo to join the crew. And instead of refusing Luffy, they now have to say yes, meaning that we have our first two official straw hats. And this is going to cause us a few problems later down the line, but we don't have to worry about that for now. But basically then Sarbo's story will still play out more or less the same regardless. Yes, Luffy is now his captain, but he will still need to flee Dawn Island, have his whole fake out death scene in Curremnesia and join the revolutionaries. Don't worry though, he will be back. But for now, the straw hats are left with two members and Ace is now going to wait until Luffy is old enough to set sail. Then through various shenanigans, this duo is going to make it to Shelstown, where Luffy hears of a certain swordsman, an opportunity that the rubber lads simply cannot resist. And neither can Zoro this time, who immediately accepts Luffy's offer instead of playing hard to get. Then Luffy, Zoro and Ace proceed to defeat Captain Morgan and Helmepo. Very important thing I should bring up about Ace though, actually, because he is now a straw hat, he will not become the user of the Merimeranome. And this is because Ace would not have become stranded on Sixus and therefore would not have found the fruit. That's all right, he's still pretty powerful regardless. Next up, we have Nami, a fairly simple situation because as soon as Luffy found out she was a navigator, he asked her to join the crew. But this time Nami just says yes, we don't have to deal with the whole betrayal of Baratier business. Instead, it's much more likely that Nami would just tell Luffy about Arlong and they will make the trip to Kokayashi Village to deal with him regardless. Much cleaner, albeit not quite as dramatically potent, not quite at all actually. But now is where another big change happens because then we land on a strange island and meet the guardian of the forest, Gaimon. And after a touching scene involving empty treasure chests, Luffy demands that Gaimon join the crew. To which this time around, Gaimon is obviously going to say yes, captain. And thus excluding Luffy, we now have our fifth official crew member who is a shrub in a box. But now things proceed quite smoothly into Sierra Village where Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Ace and Gaimon help to save the village from the black cat pirates and Usopp hops aboard. Very easy recruitment here. But all of this work has made us very hungry so we're off to Baratier on the hunt for someone to provide frequent delicious dinners. And what do we find? Well, we find a Sanji, would be the dude's name. And as per the one universal constant of this video, Sanji says yes to Luffy immediately. And if anything, this whole Don Creek situation goes much smoother because the straw hats aren't split up by Nami's betrayal due to their being, no betrayal. Although Zoro still gets pretty messed up by me, Hawk. But with Sanji in tow, we now head to Kokayashi Village where this intriguing incarnation of the straw hats takes down Arlong, frees Nami up. And now we're pretty much ready to head into the ground line. And after doing so, our first stop is Reverse Mountain to acquire yet another crewmate, this time being old man Crocus. After discovering that Crocus was a doctor, Luffy very excitedly offered him the chance to become the doctor of the straw hats. And when I say offered, let's remember that Luffy more often than not demands things rather than offers and his exact wording was something like, you're a doctor, then become our doctor. And in this world, Crocus does need to accept this. So the straw hats now have a ridiculously powerful ally at their side. Laboon does, however, remain at Reverse Mountain, having now become Luffy's rival and will await the future pirate king's return. Also of note is that during Reverse Mountain and the ensuing Whiskey Peak arc, we do pick up Vivi mask grading as Miss Wednesday as well as Kuru, but they are not asked to join the crew as of yet. And now we have some pretty massive stuff to change though because after Whiskey Peak comes Little Garden, which is fine. This happens mostly as per we know it and Nami ends up catching her deadly disease. Now generally, this would be the obvious path to Drum Island. However, at this stage, we now already have a doctor being Crocus, a pretty phenomenal doctor as well, having once treated the pirate king directly. So this rather unfortunately means that Crocus is likely going to be more than capable of dealing with Nami's ailment, meaning that we bypass Drum Island altogether and move straight onwards to our abaster, which is kind of annoying because in addition to losing Chopper, we also lose Dr. Kuruha because in the series Luffy did ask her to join the crew as well. However, that's all pretty redundant with Crocus aboard. And I guess the biggest loss is of course the Straw Hat mascot, but to replace our cute reindeer, we now have a shrub in a box. So never fear, Cotton County lover Gaimon will be more than capable of carrying the series from here on out. So we reach alabaster much earlier than we would have otherwise, meaning that there is every chance that Vivi does arrive in time to meet with Koza and prevent the civil war on alabaster from kicking into full gear. Even if not though, the events are still going to play out with Crocodile being defeated, but in a grand twist, Vivi is not going to stay on the island. Instead, Boshi and Kuru are going to pursue their vague dreams of piracy and become regular members of the ever-growing Straw Hat Pirates. Oh, and let's not forget Robin. She will still stay away aboard the Going Merry and work her way into the Straw Hats as per usual. I mean, no, Luffy does not ask her, but he does agree. So that does not break our one rule. From here, we need to skip forward a fair bit because Jaya, Skypea and Long Ring Long Land offer us very little in terms of crew pickings. So we're going to end up on water seven to fix the Going Merry. And here we encounter an iceberg, a mere iceberg to be precise. And Luffy being Luffy once again, discovers a useful talent and then invites iceberg, or in Luffy's words, old man, to become the shipwright of the Straw Hats. And despite being both the mayor of water seven and the president of Galila, iceberg is going to have a rather abrupt change of heart and agreed to become a pirate. Hooray. Due to the tight timing, though the Cypherpole assassination attempt will still likely happen, leaving iceberg injured and thus unable to accompany his new captain to any soby in order to take Robin back. However, meeting Robin on the judicial island will be Luffy, Zorro, Nami, Saga King, Sanji, Gaimon, Ace, Crocus, Vivi and Karu. So this is probably still going to go fairly well or at least as well as it did originally, especially since Frankie is still very much present during these events. Speaking of though, Frankie is a bit of a question mark here. There is very little doubt in my mind that after any soby, he still would have built the Thousand Sunny for the Straw Hats, along with iceberg, they're now official shipwright. And I think an argument can be made either way. On the one hand, Luffy is a simple guy and he doesn't tend to double up on roles. Then again, Frankie did build the ship and the Frankie family is still going to beg Luffy to take Frankie with them due to his newfound global infamy. So with that in mind, I think what happens is that both Frankie and iceberg join the crew and become dual shipwrights, which is kind of nice because they were both apprentices of Tom, although it does leave water seven without a figurehead. No, well, that is not our problem. Sailing straight into Thriller Bark now we immediately encounter Brooke and he joins the crew. Very simple affair there. Although we do still need to help him out with the whole shadow business. So we are coming into conflict with Gekko Moria. Much more importantly than our penis necked wall, though, this means stumbling across both zombie tree and zombie unicorn, both of whom Luffy tries to capture and vigorously persuade to join the Straw Hats. Only this time, he succeeds. With both of the zombies all of a sudden having a change of heart, discovering hopes and dreams outside of their standard days of drinking peacefully in the dark, dank, foggy atmosphere of Thriller Bark. Really sad turn of events now though because as a result of Moria's inevitable defeat, zombie tree and zombie unicorn shadows are going to be returned to their original owners, meaning that these two members will be very, very short live Straw Hats, as well as I suppose the first case of a Straw Hat death that is not the going merry. And so at the end of Thriller Bark, the Straw Hats going to hold a respectful funeral for their lost crew members and are then forced to continue onwards, which takes us to Sarbadi where despite the fact that we have figures such as Ace and Crokers, the Straw Hats are still going to be defeated and separated by Bartholomew Kuma. But this is where things start to get really, really difficult and mostly because of Ace. He's been with us the entire time now. And as such, he has no association with Whitebeard and he might not even have a bounty of his own, although he probably does. Very importantly though, this means that Ace does not become a target of Blackbeard in any way, shape or form. And it actually kind of prevents the entirety of the Paramount War from even happening. For this event to occur, Blackbeard would need to capture another member of the Whitebeard Pirates, none of whom were as brash as Ace. So this whole scenario seems nigh on impossible to achieve, which also may potentially mean no time skip because Luffy isn't truly aware of just how weak he is anymore. And this also goes on to change a whole ton because Jinbei no longer needs to resign from the Warlords, nor does he actually meet Luffy and it's entirely possible that he never does. But because one piece is a story centered mostly around fate, I have to conclude that Luffy will decide on the two year training period. Otherwise the entire crew would be wiped out very, very early on in the new world. So if you do want that ending, then feel free to stop here, I guess. But if we proceed with the time skip and the crew reunite, all 13 of them now, we will then go on to Fishman Island. And quite frankly, I don't think Jinbei is there due to still being a Warlord. And even if he is, he has no association with Luffy. And it's very hard to see the captain asking Jinbei to join his crew without that background. But since that is massive, massive speculation, we'll say that the blood transfusion happens. Luffy asked Jinbei anyway, to which the whale shark has no excuses this time around. He just says, yes, Luffy-kun. We are far from done though, because Punk Hazard is now going to bring us a new series of members, one of which would be Kinamon's legs. And yes, I mean his legs specifically. Luffy did not, I repeat, did not ask the rest of Kinamon to join the crew. So we are just taking his legs. The rest of Kinamon can of course come aboard as a traveling companion, but only his legs are an official straw hat. On Punk Hazard, Luffy also asked random Centaur to join the crew as well. And this leopard Centaur dude is now very, very compelled to do so. So, okay, we now have this. So we then continue to make the alliance with law and proceed to Dressfrozer, where we do not recruit a new member, however, we do regain an old member. Having been sent there to investigate Dolphemingo's weapon trade, Sabo comes across Luffy and regains his memories, thus deciding to leave the revolutionary army and rejoin his captain. And in this universe, this would reunite what would be known as the OG monster trio, being Luffy, Ace and Sabo. And at this point in the story, that pretty much concludes the makeup of the alternate universe straw hats, going forward, this band would then have to tackle the rest of Dressfrozer, Zoho, Hawkeye, Kyland and now Wano, but there you have it. This is the crew that could have been if every character was as agreeable as Luffy wished they would be. 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