Boa Hancock
Boa Hancock is a female anime and manga character who features in One Piece.
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Biography
Origin
Boa Hancock (Japanese: ボア・ハンコック, Hepburn: Boa Hankokku) was a female human who lived on the island nation of Amazon Lily alongside her sisters Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold. The three of them were members of the all-female Kuja (九蛇, Kuja) tribe. When she was young, she was one of many people that came to witness the death of the famous pirate Gold D. Roger. When Hancock was 12 years old, she and her sisters were included into the Kuja Pirates crew and were sailing on their ship, when suddenly, they were captured by slavers and sold to the World Nobles. During her time as a slave, Hancock was fed the Mero Mero no Mi Devil Fruit to entertain her captors. The three sisters came to suffer the greatest horrors imaginable whilst enslaved by the World Noble. Four years later, Fisher Tiger appeared in Mary Geoise and freed as many slaves as he could without discrimination, even though his goal was simply the liberation of the fish-man slaves. Left with nowhere to go, the sisters were eventually rescued by Elder Nyon, Silvers Rayleigh, and Shakuyaku and brought home. However, the Hoof of the Celestial Dragon that was the symbol of the World Nobles had been burned deep into their flesh. Hancock chose to hide the mark and her Devil Fruit powers and disseminated to the fellow Kuja that it was punishment for slaying a gorgon, for if the truth were revealed, the three sisters would have nowhere to go. She, Marigold, and Sandersonia collectively gained the nickname of the Gorgon Sisters. Unfortunately, despite being freed, the experiences that Hancock went through corrupted her innocence, and she would later grow up to distrust everyone, especially men. She also especially hated the World Government, in particular the World Nobles. Over the years, despite Elder Nyon's love and mercy, Hancock became cold, burying any warm feelings, kindness, and sensitivity deep within her, and although she would later become the Empress of the Kuja, she was selfish and uncaring towards her people. When Hancock was 18 years old, she became the empress of the Kuja and quickly gained a notorious reputation despite her young age, catching the attention of the Marines and even the World Government, who were frightened of her potential, as she had earned a large bounty after only one campaign. Hancock later opted to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea in order to protect her fellow Kuja, by forming a treaty to protect their homeland from the government, preventing them from entering there. When Hancock was 27 years old, she was given news that Bartholomew Kuma had been appointed as a new replacement member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, but she did not care much for this news causing Gloriosa to protest that they needed the information.
After sailing with her all-female crew, they met a Marine ship led by Vice Admiral Momonga, who told Hancock that the Seven Warlords were being summoned to prepare for the upcoming war against the Whitebeard Pirates due to the execution of Portgas D. Ace a week from then. However, Hancock refused, stating that she would not obey the World Government, even though she fancied her Warlord position. When Momonga threatened to revoke Hancock's position if she did not comply with the summoning, she came up with a make-believe story. The Marine crew turned into stone mysteriously. She also demanded all the treasure on Momonga's ship and justified her selfish actions by claiming herself to be 'beautiful', which everyone present excluding Momonga vehemently agreed with. Then, she performed a special move that mysteriously turned the Marines to stone, except for Momonga, who had stabbed his own hand to avoid the effects of her attack. As her crew sailed away, Momonga called that he would wait for two days, and if she did not follow him, the treaty with the Kuja would be null and void. She arrogantly told him to "Do as he pleased". Upon returning to Amazon Lily, Hancock was greeted with pleasantries though concerned that the warriors were not around, due to them chasing after a 'monkey'. She speaks with Elder Nyon about the danger that would befall Amazon Lily if she does not comply with the Government orders, but she remains arrogant and confident that both her power and beauty would allow her to get her way, throwing Nyon out of a window to prove she was right. When deciding to take a bath in privacy, she unexpectedly encountered Luffy, who fell down into her bath while looking for the person in charge, wanting to borrow a boat. He managed to see the symbol on her back and commented that it looked familiar. She attempted to petrify Luffy, but Luffy, being simple-minded, mistook the beam for a Noro Noro Beam and panicked. The beam did not have any effect on him even though he saw her naked. Luffy attempted to run away but ended up captured and thrown in the battle arena. In the combat arena, Hancock showed no mercy to Luffy or anyone who tried to defend him, turning Marguerite, Sweet Pea, and Aphelandra to stone for attempting to defend him after they admitted to bringing him to their country. At first, she attempted to have Bacura execute Luffy, but predictably, he knocked it out with a single punch. Soon afterwards, she realized that Luffy was not attracted to her in any way, and was in fact disgusted by her behavior, nearly causing her to collapse.
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Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Boa Hancock was a very tall and slender beautiful well-proportioned woman with long black hair that extended past her waist with locks of hair that frame her face down to her chin and shows off her high forehead, dark brown eyes with long, voluminous eyelashes and pale skin. She has a narrow waist and very large breasts, and with serpent earrings. She came to be considered the most beautiful woman in the world. As leader of the Kuja Tribe, she came to be known by the name of the reigning Snake Princess (蛇姫, Hebihime).
Like her fellow Kuja, Hancock has no modesty at all, being unashamed showing herself naked to Luffy upon revealing her past and again when they reunite during the Cidre Guild Arc. However, she makes it very serious that she would rather die than ever let anyone see her slave mark on her back, fearing she would only bring shame to her people if they ever learned that their empress was a slave of the World Nobles.
Powers and abilities
Boa Hancock was born a female human where she was widely considered to be extremely powerful by friend and foe alike.
She came to consume a Devil Fruit (悪魔の実, Akuma no Mi) with hers being a Paramecia (超人パラミシア系, Paramishia-kei) type. In Hancock's case, she had eaten the Mero Mero no Mi (メロメロの実, Love-Love Fruit) that allowed a range of attacks which used emotions such as love, lust or adoration to transform opponents into stone.
She alongside her siblings came to be known as the Gorgon Sisters where they ruled over the Kuja. In this time, she came to be the leader of the Kuja Pirates (九蛇海賊団, Kuja Kaizokudan) whose Jolly Roger was a small skull with no jawbone, and no crossbones but instead had nine snakes appearing from behind the skull, curving to the right. She came to join the ranks of the Seven Warlords of the Sea (王下七武海, Ōka Shichibukai) who were powerful pirates that were affiliate with the World Government and worked alongside the Marines. Hancock would come to abandon their ranks following the Marineford incident.
Notes
- Boa Hancock was created by Eiichiro Oda where she featured in the setting of the One Piece universe.
In other media
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Appearances
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