User blog comment:Dinosel/One Piece Discussion/Theory! Who is Luffy's mom?/@comment-24850639-20160712152232

1. Oda stated in an SBS that we've seen Luffy's mom. Take that at face value only. Doesn't mean we've been introduced to her, or even seen her face for that matter, just that we've seen her in a panel at some point. This also doesn't confirm whether she's dead or alive, but it does at least narrow down that she resides in some place that the story has visited before.

2. I agree that she most likely isn't in the Revolutionaries. It should have definitely been hinted to, or at least subtly referenced at some point. We know too many people in the RA who know Luffy now, and if she was in the army she definitely couldn't have hidden having a child. There's a reason that she hasn't been involved in Luffy's life up until now, and my biggest guess is that she needs to keep the fact that she had Luffy a secret. Either she's a CD who had a baby with a member of the D. Clan, an archaeologist who discovered something the WG wants her dead for, or an infamous pirate....which the WG would also want her dead for.

3. I refuse to believe that Garp and Dragon know nothing about the D. Clan. Dragon has inside info on the WG's dealings and history through some unknown means, and I'm assuming his own clan as well. The "True History" of the world seems to be something he knows a little bit about, and Rayleigh/Whitebeard seemed confident that a person who learns it will be motivated to take some kind of action against the WG. If you want to choose to believe that Luffy's mom is a CD, which I'm inclined to, then it makes all the more sense that Dragon wants to change the world for his family.