For some unholy reason I looked at this and decided to imagine the RK without arms
Monster kid is the Roaring Knight confirmed!?!?
Roaring knight is actually TOGORE who became so powerful after absorbing the souls of Papyrus, giving it the aura, Knight Night, giving it the cool night stuff, Dess, giving it a vulnerability to being run over by a truck, and Carol, giving it homophobia.
I agree with the likeliest being General Hassan. He has deathflags written all over him, he’s an old, wise, mentor figure. His group is set closest to the Fenrir, which doesn’t bode well for him at all, and his death/sacrifice could be used as a way to motivate Morden to try harder against the Keraxan forces.
My second, slightly generic pick: Akeem, he’s got slightly less deathflags on him than Hassan, but he is also the one set to fight the Son on the Fenrir. He may sacrifice himself to stop them or whatever. Not much else to it.
The rest of the generals don’t have any deathflags. Nasir is all the way in the back as a healer, and Kelia is far away from the Fenrir which is the main point of danger.
I have the complete opposite reasoning on why Morden and Iris are unlikely to die first. It is not because the player knows them too well, it is because we know too little of them. Their characters have not been explored to the fullest degree, and I doubt we will be able to complete a character arc satisfying enough to justify a prominent death from a main cast-member in the second sea.
Unexpected, but cheap. Killing off an important and established character in order to hype a future antagonist (who most of the playerbase will likely just make fun of tbh) is essentially deeming that the shock and emotional impact from the character’s death is more valuable than their continued existence in the narrative.
Therefore, I doubt Warren will die, at least not until Vimir or Aegean. Because only then would he have had enough time and development to possibly have a “completed” role in the story that would justify him being removed from the narrative.
Vetex could just pull One Piece Arabasta War Saga
[Spoilers for said saga]
This is saga is notoriously full of fake deaths. In Whiskey Peak arc, second arc of the saga, the loyal servant of princess Vivi, Igaram, works with her secretly in a criminal organization undermining Arabasta. They find out the identity of the culprit, but are discovered. Igaram dresses up as Vivi to act as a decoy and sets out, before his ship blows up.
Igaram later appears in burning ruins of Nanohana after the civil war has begun in charred clothes and no explanation.
Pell, another Vivi’s servant who was at Arabasta, sacrificed himself to save everyone at the capital of Alubarna, where the battle was raging. He carried up a bomb into the sky and it blew up on him.
He later visits his own grave.
Luffy himself also nearly dies not once, not twice, but three whole times, while fighting Sir Crocodile, the villain behind the scheme, and so does Nico Robin.