Boa Hancock

The Pirate Empress

Boa Hancock is the ruler of Amazon Lily and captain of the all-female Kuja Pirates, as well as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Renowned as the most beautiful woman in the world, she wields that beauty as a weapon and a shield in equal measure.

The Love-Love fruit

Hancock ate the Mero Mero no Mi, which turns anyone who feels desire or admiration toward her into stone. Since almost everyone does, few opponents can even approach her — a power perfectly matched to a woman who has learned to expect cruelty from those who covet her.

The wound beneath the crown

Hancock’s arrogance masks deep trauma: she and her sisters were once enslaved by the Celestial Dragons, branded and brutalised, a shame she hides from her own people. That history explains both her contempt for the powerful and the fierce loyalty she shows the few who see past her mask.

Ally to the Straw Hat

Everything softens when she meets Luffy, who is immune to her petrifying charm and indifferent to her fame. Falling helplessly in love, Hancock smuggles him into the great prison Impel Down and fights at Marineford for his sake — a Warlord of the government turned devoted ally to the pirate who never once tried to possess her.