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I personally have a theory that the Spirit of Merry is the culmination of a shared divine force among the Strawhats.
Luffy seems to always know who to pick when he travels places, even among a plethora of people. Not only that, but he doesn't pick up people everywhere he goes, even with those gag moments, Luffy seems to always know just who should be on his crew. Add into the fact that Ds seem to have a shared understanding or acceptance of destiny, and what that old hag from Amazon Lily said, something like "What do the gods want with this man", along with other divine references, Luffy's seemingly miraculous odds at survival, and the fact that all but one of the Strawhat's goals are intertwined:
1. Luffy wants to get to Raftel and find One Piece, which requires him to travel all over the sea
2. Robin has to travel all over to find all of the Poneglyphs and decipher the true history
3. Franky's dream is to maintain a ship that will travel all over the world
4. Sanji's dream is to find All Blue, which would require him to search everywhere
5. Nami wants to draw a map of the entire world
6. Brook wants to meet Laboon again, which means the crew will have complete a full circle around the world to get back at that starting point
7. Usopp wants to be a brave warrior of the seas, which means he'll have to encounter the world at its fullest
8. Chopper wants to be able to cure every disease in the entire world, and since some diseases are bound to be unique to some areas, he'll have to go everywhere
I feel like there's something that draws the Strawhats together. Not necessarily a prophecy or "chosen one" or cliches like that, but something found in each of their spirits that make best suited for whatever endgame the Strawhats will accomplish(Some believe it to be destroying Fishman Island, uniting the four Blues into All Blue, the fishmen/merfolk and human, resulting in One Piece). I mean, even by fictional standards, the bond between the Strawhats is something else, especially when you consider Robin, Brook and Franky. Not many people in the real world or even the One Piece world would be willing to put their lives on the line for people they relatively just met. Like, they met Robin maybe a few weeks before Enies Lobby, and were willing to die for her. Brook was gonna die for Sanji and Usopp literally days after meeting them, and they all think of each other equally, I think there's definitely a unique bond between them that culminated as what we call the Spirit of the Merry and lives on between them even now.
