User blog comment:Hawkinz340/What Are the WBP doing right now?/@comment-5640399-20130723134633

Anyone think they could be waiting for Luffy? I agree that after losing WB, they would have lost much of their purpose apart from killing Teach and Akainu, but I reckon at least a few of them will have perceived a sort of passing of the torch when WB put the entire responsibility of saving Ace on Luffy and told his crew to back him up. I'm sure some will never return, if they do, it will never be in the numbers we saw at Marineford, but the stronger ones who could survive in a smaller crew on their own in NW, are maybe waiting for Luffy to come and make them a crew again. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, though...