Roger Wore The Straw Hat In Rayleighs First-Meeting Flashback

Status: pending · Technique: wardrobe-foreshadow, prop-tell

The seed

The payoff

(Forward — whether the hat is literally the same prop, and what the cross-generational straw-hat lineage means, lands far past this window. Keep pending.)

Why this matters

A textbook wardrobe / prop-tell: Oda dresses an earlier era’s Pirate-King candidate in the protagonist’s signature object before any character states a connection, banking the curiosity for a later reveal. Cross-link Rayleigh Recognizes Luffys Straw Hat, Joy Boy Hat as Prop Tell Aggregate. (Folds into the hat-prop aggregate if a single canonical note is preferred.)