None of these fruit were a forbbiden fruit that the WG had to cover up for years. Doffy's fruit isn't an incarnation of a String God or something like that.
It is not. So? It causes a whole lot of things to turn into strings. It allows to someone to possess an entire army like puppets. The seats even saved it for someone who should be king of the world. The Nika fruit is a lot like that. A blind man should be able to tell it is powerful. It turns everything into rubber. The fact that everyone was acting like it was a weak power should have clued us in that information about it was suppressed. Not to mention that Doffy's fruit still is a Paramecia.
Also, Luffy was always destined to make waves. After the revelation of the significance of the D., Luffy was never really a random underdog. He was a key person before the Nika revelation. Nika merely served to inform us on how, not whether. We were already informed that he was the chosen one.
I did?....that is why I can talk about its impact on the narrative not the generalization of the fruit. If it was just Luffy being able to make the world rubber that is fine but the fact that the fruit has significance in the world as being the same fruit as "the chosen one" as @Random Internet Person said it feels less impactful.
I legit just said it being the hidden god fruit is what rubs people the wrong way not it just being a wack DF made powerful because of Luffy's creativity.
As I said above, Luffy was clearly meant to be the man to carry Roger's legacy and the Will of D. As for it being hidden, that was explained. The WG did not want the fruit's real symbolism to be revealed. Luffy was always set up with "Sun this, laughter that, savior of Fishman Island, FREEDOM!!!" and the revelation that Nika was a thing just tied everything together. Sharly had a prophecy about him for goodness's shake! Nika was them admitting that yes, Luffy is a chosen one. They danced around it long enough that it was obvious.
As for it being powerful because of the creativity of the user, that was the very reason for the awakening and why it is regarded as godlike. It is the fruit that rewards creativity with the power and versatility to match. It is not powerful because it is a god fruit, it is a god fruit because it is powerful at the right hands. It was just a rubber fruit at the hands of the uncreative. It take someone free and creative like Luffy to make it godly. The WG just pretended that bending reality like rubber was not part of its power set. Such a fruit SHOULD have been legendary.
I'm not sure what context this is for
was it for what Random said or what I added. Clearly he planned for Shanks to save Luffy but the argument is that it was an impulsive thing Shanks did to save his friend instead of some grand plan that would be more significance years later. I don't think Oda planned for it to be that important.
We know that he did not plan for Shanks to lose an arm. His editor pushed for that. As for how important it was meant to be, perhaps he told his editor that Imu was the Devil and made contracts with people. He might not had decided yet to make it so that the left arm was the catalyst for the contract. Perhaps Shanks was meat to overcome it differently or cut the arm later? Oda certainly plans for a whole lot more that we can imagine. He did not plan for everything though. Sometimes, he got inspired and rolled with the punches. Ace being Roger's son and the Supernovas are two more examples. What I know is that if he added something and it turned out to be important, he must have thought it should be the case. He has said that apart from some cases, the skeleton and most of the structure was decided before even the first chapter was published. There was enough leeway for future inspiration but he always considered how it would fit in the grander story. It is why it is so hard to guess what was always planned for and what came later. Everything fits.
I don't have the energy to respond to all of that
