#michael dorman

I know you, Garp. I trust you. As if you were one of my own crew. Which is why I have one final favor to ask.

SPOILERS FOR THE IDENTITY OF SAID SON

One thing intrigued me in this scene, namely that... no, you don't, Roger. Not yet, since your son will only be born in fifteen months, after your lover manages somehow to keep him in her womb long enough to save him from the massacre the Marines are operating among all the babies who could potentially be yours.

It seems like that in this continuity Ace was born before his father's death, perhaps to avoid having to deal with the complicated issue of Rouge's prolonged pregnancy. So Ace has already been born, which is probably why Roger speaks of a son, not of a child; since ultrasound apparently do not exist in the world of One Piece, he would have no way of knowing the gender of the baby otherwise.