u/Comfortable-Rush-701

If you think about it, Boa Hancock is one of the most tragic and mentally unstable characters in One Piece. She was a child slave owned by her world's equivalent of the guys in the Files and was physically and probably sexually abused for years. Even after being rescued, she spent years being misanthropic and distrustful of everyone in general and men in particular. Despite her self-imposed isolation from her people (or maybe because of it) she developed an obsessive and one-sided crush on a guy she barely knew.

There's so much Oda could have unpacked with this character. How she became the same kind of tyrant to her people as the World Government. How she, a victim of child abuse, fell in "love" with a 17-year old when she was pushing 30. He could have used her to depict the trauma of slavery, had her develop healthy relationships and heal from her trauma, or even made her a villain. Instead, her entire role in the story so far has been fanservice and comedy. I love One Piece, but stuff like this is why it's hard to at times because WE WERE THIS CLOSE TO GREATNESS GODDAMMIT ODA I KNOW YOU CAN WRITE BETTER THAN THIS THINK WITH YOUR BRAIN NOT YOUR EGGPLANT

In Dust of Dreams, Sechul Lath says that he and Kilmandaros were plotting something in the Azath House involving Kolanse even before the Errant found them. In The Crippled God, he mentions a deal with Calm. Do we ever learn his motives? He doesn't have the Errant's desire to return to their days of power, and he doesn't seem to share Kilmandaros's hatred of humans. He says he wants to destroy the world, but I don't remember him explaining how or why.