Who's the chief mate of the Sraw Hats
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People tend to gravitate to Zoro since he was the first to join, consistently the 2nd strongest, one of the members fairly vocal about chastising Luffy's poor decisions and offering a strong opinion on matters of the crew such as whether or not to accept Usopp back. Despite that though, I'd say Nami has more right as a 2nd in command of sorts as Zoro lacks any role in the crew beyond fighting, whereas Nami's navigation skills and ability to give orders properly is the most important to the crew's survival at sea overall.
The real answer is that there is no true "first-mate" of the Straw Hat crew, considering Luffy treats everyone as equals rather than it having a clear hierarchy like with other Yonko crews, with Rayleigh being the only person thus far known to have the title of first-mate on a crew.
The real answer is that there is no true "first-mate" of the Straw Hat crew, considering Luffy treats everyone as equals rather than it having a clear hierarchy like with other Yonko crews, with Rayleigh being the only person thus far known to have the title of first-mate on a crew.
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Yes. First-mates are usually meant to be the ones to safeguard crew members in emergencies though, which whilst could be applied to Nami giving the orders of what to do, seems more to be Zoro and Sanji's territory or any character best suited for handling it. Another requirement of a first-mate is to keep watch on the ship from 4-8am and 4-8pm, which doesn't seem like something you can fit any of the Straw Hats into with how little scenes of guarding the ship are shown, the only ones springing to mind being Usopp watching it at night on Skypiea and Zoro watching it in what seemed to be the early afternoon in Water 7.
