Wait, Shanks started forming his crew right after Roger died. Uta (if that's even a canon for the manga), he found before the encounter with Blackbeard.
In the new chapter, he's 25, he has a scar, and at the same time he talks about how he vacationed in Mariejois and allowed his Jewish tribe to brand him?
Wow
And his crew knows perfectly well that they are essentially servants of the Celestial Dragon and they're... okay with that?