User blog comment:Feroza/How will Luffy awaken. THEORIES./@comment-24850639-20161012212749

That was VERY long, but you actually managed to keep me engaged until you lost me at the NHC-10 bit. I've been making noise about that cover page of 631 for quite some time. Crocus is very familiar with the person, and it could honestly be ANY old friend of his, but I highly support the theory that is Scopper. As important as Gol D. Roger and his legacy is to the storyline, he's still dead, and we know next to nothing. Therefore all information and history we learn about him has to come vicariously through someone who spent a lot of time with him and/or just knew him really well. It makes perfect sense for Luffy to meet these people, especially with how everyone who's ever known Roger has spotted some kind of similarity between Roger and Luffy. We've been kept in the dark about who a lot of Roger's crew was, and I think this is because Oda was holding specific roles in the story for them. Just look at Inu and Neko. If he truly is in Wano, I can see him helping out big time in the fight with Kaido. Thing is though, for him to teach Luffy awakening, you're assuming that Scopper has a fruit of his own, which it's a little a too early to guess at. As little as we've seen of Roger's capabilities, we've seen even less of Scopper. Perhaps he did though, and the Gomu Gomu No Mi was even Roger's fruit at some point, which would make Scopper perfect for the role. Not gonna hold my breath on that though, I think he's more likely to just provide insight and tactical advice.

I'm heavily against our protagonist juicing up on a drug to unlock awakening though, that couldn't be farther from Luffy's style. Especially after what Chopper told him about it. I agree that Luffy's gonna need another power up before he's ready for the likes of a Yonko, and Awakening seems to be the next major step. Another timeskip doesn't make sense, and special training on a separate island somewhere also seems out of the question, given that his crew is going to be right in the thick of things in Wano. Personally, I feel that Awakening is either going to happen after the Yonko conflicts are resolved and Luffy can train somewhere without worries, or Luffy is going to experience an extremely traumatic event that causes him to awaken the fruit. The "power of friendship" is a more believable shortcut to that kind of power for someone like Luffy than taking a substance.