Writing and characterizing Luffy is really just trying to decide the ratios between
- Luffy pretending to be stupid to put someone at ease or make them lower their guard
- Luffy pretending to be stupid because there’s complicated political shit happening that he can’t be bothered to deal with and he wants someone else to do the thinking for him
- Luffy seemingly pretending to be stupid so he can drop some insane brilliant iconic move only what actually happened was that the genius solution to the problem seemed so obvious and straightforward to him that he didn’t bother to explain it to anybody because he honestly didn’t think he had to
- Luffy seeming stupid because he has a very clear understanding of the power scale, potential risks, and capability of his crew, and he knows for a fact they can handle just about anything so he doesn’t need to pay attention too all the warnings and the planning and the whatever. Teehee gum gum go boing because Taking Fights Seriously is for people who can’t dog walk warlords
- And Luffy genuinely sincerely just being extremely fucking stupid.













