in the collective reality where oda actively bothers to do something with alvida and/or galdino in this new post cross guild going for the one piece reality, how plausible do u consider either of them actively caring for buggy or going behind his back to help him in some way? i find the fact oda kept alvida with the narrative extremely fascinating and it frustrates me how she is so underutilised (then again with such a huge cast it is hard to get every character to do a lot, but alvida could have been discarded quite easily post loguetown. yet here she is, a 1000 chapters later, sitting on the cross guild couch drinking wine)
i do wonder sometimes what oda is thinking when he keeps characters like cabaji, mohji, and alvida around a thousand chapters since they last really did anything. does he like drawing them? does he want to throw a bone to the handful of east blue stans out there who miss when op pirate crews had a simple gimmick they stuck to? is he trying to show that buggy lifts his crew up with him, or refuses to leave anyone behind? i just don't know.
modern day alvida has a lot in common with galdino. she's calculating, analytical, and sides with the person who will give her the greatest advantage. that's been buggy for a long time because he's had the appearance of power for a long time. even now, the appearance of power is still there. does she actually care for buggy? does galdino? i'm not sure.
but for the purposes of answering this question, let's assume that she does, that they both do. i think their pragmatism still outweighs any fond feeling, unless:
- it's to their significant advantage to help buggy, and/or
- they won't get caught
safety above all else, you know? and getting on either mihawk or crocodile's bad side is not particularly safe behavior.
Finally, some people getting curious about why Alvida remains in the narrative when she should have faded into East Blue oblivion with Kuro and Don Krieg, by all shonen standards.
Oda brought her back and she is narratively linked to Buggy of all characters, a character who will continue to show up and influence the narrative. Why tie her to such an important character and do nothing with her?
She also narratively tied to COBY and lord knows there is a long needed payoff there.
Alvida is linked to not one but two significant long-game characters and I've been saying it for years. I think it's incredibly frustrating and discouraging to see her continuing to do NOTHING in the meantime, she could be written like the co-warlord and manager of Cross Guild that she is (who do you think was ACTUALLY running Buggy's Delivery Service? Please.) But instead she's been relegated to Mohji and Cabaji tier drinking wine.
I'm still waiting for her Chekhov's gun to fire.
