User blog comment:Rainelz/jinbe joining?/@comment-70.233.139.69-20110820003821

Shirahoshi will never join. Since the battle against the NFP began, almost all the Straw Hats have to protect her, she has no fighting skills and is too big a target and destraction towards the public. The only powers she has is taking advandage of her large size or her sea king summoning ability. Plus, being 16, she can't walk on land. Her size makes her unable to sleep on the ship and is too loyal to her island and people to ever be a pirate. She may like the Straw hats now, but it's not enough for her to join since the New World would crush her in an instant.