User blog comment:DancePowderer/Where Monarchs Dream, Part 3/@comment-62.72.94.110-20140524005711/@comment-62.72.88.95-20140525140319

Note - Sakazuki is quite sneaky - remember the Sqaurd part? How he tricked the guy into stabbing Whitebeard was underhanded and kniving enough.

That aside, we know by now for sure that regardless how serious a situation is, Luffy is Luffy - his mood can change from carefree too serious but never from stupid to collected. He is goofy in all situations.

Remember when he was talking to Whitebeard? It was quite serious situation. Or when in Sabaody? When there was news of an Admiral coming to chase them, targeting them specifically; it was a situation serious enough - yet his personality did not change a bit.

Until something or someone gets into immediate danger - like in the case of Margaret and co turned into stone or Zoro getting nearly killed by Kizaru, Luffy never shows a serious and collected attitude. And till now he had been into "new" situations quite a few times (meaning the situation was new to him at that point).

The marines might be holding still because of the delicacy of the situation - but Luffy? Just because Robin shouted once - nah, not probable. Besides, the situation you portrayed might be tensed, but that is under the surface.

It would be likely that in a case like this one, Luffy would still do stupid things and the other Strawhats would somehow cover for him. That would be much more likely.

I understand though that maybe thinking of that sorta stuff along with the storyline is probably a bit difficult for you - or you don't enjoy it as much.