Otohime

**Queen Otohime** was a goldfish mermaid, the queen of the Ryugu Kingdom, the wife of king Neptune, and the mother of Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi, Manboshi, and Shirahoshi.

Otohime was a political activist who worked hard for union and peace between Fish-Men plus Merfolk and Humans, dreaming of having her people emigrate from the Sea Floor to the surface. Eight years before the start of the series, she was assassinated by Hody Jones, who had framed a human pirate as the instigator of the deed.

## Statistics

### Debut:

Chapter 621; Episode 539 (image), Episode 540

### Epithet:

Incarnation of Love (愛の化身, Ai no Keshin?)

## Personality

Otohime was very open-minded as she tried to promote friendship between fish-men and humans. She stated how despite having different morphology, they share the same sun. She claimed that Fish-Men and merfolk shouldn't judge all humans by the few that come to Fish-Man Island, kidnap and sell them to slavery. Due to her Kenbunshoku Haki abilities, she believed that distance was the closure of a person's heart and so long as distance separates the person's heart from others there will always be a barrier between them and the humans. But this same barrier was not just between humans and themselves, but between their own people also. This is why she preferred to visit the people directly and speak to them face-to-face, rather than have a speech prepared ahead and have it relayed to the people on her behalf, to prevent a distance between the royal family and their subjects.

Being extremely compassionate, Otohime was very devoted to the welfare of her people since she disregarded her own injuries (as she was weaker than normal Fish-Men/merfolk) while acting for the greater good, personally taking care of a simple matter of stopping a burglar, despite her subjects claiming that they had it under control. Her devotion made her popular with the Fish-Man Island citizens. She was also very encouraging and influential, as she told a burglar that she believed he could turn his life around, prompting him to turn over a new leaf and surrendering to the authorities. Despite all this, it was not enough to get many citizens to sign her petition for inter-species relationship improvement.

Even though she hardly had any success, she remained persistent and would never stop believing in co-existence. She was also very bold and courageous, accompanying a World Noble to the surface in order to prove to her people that the surface shouldn't be feared, despite the Noble that showed extreme cruelty and ungratefulness.

She appeared to be very moody, going from being angry, to sorrowful, to hopeful in just a matter of minutes. She was also somewhat compulsive and peculiar, as she thought that a child should never have snot hanging from one nostril, going as far as slapping the said child for it and then apologizing, but that it is perfectly acceptable if snot is hanging from both. However, this did not seem to apply to her own children, at least not Shirahoshi (though she was just a baby at the time). There was one occasion when she was emotionally stressed, she consumed vast amounts of alcohol in sorrow and berated the island over the broadcast radio, all while intoxicated.

As part of her immense desire to strengthen the bonds between humanity and fish folks, Otohime was also very merciful and kind, and did not hate anyone despite whatever offense they have made. She further tried to have others to let go of their hatred, believing that it should not be passed onto the next generation; while she understood the Sun Pirates for hating Mjosgard, she tried to persuade them to forgive him and not let the children around inherit such hatred. Even when she was shot by Hody Jones, she did not hate him and pleaded her children to not hate him either.

Apparently, Otohime was quite seditious in her youth, as well as seductive.

## Relationships

### Family

Otohime loved her family. While her husband, Neptune, did not take an active role in her campaign for integration, he strongly supported her. All she had ever wanted was a bright future for her children and the rest of Fish-Man Island.

Upon Otohime's assassination, Neptune was torn between his desires for revenge and to preserve his wife's ideals. After her death, her whole family worked hard to restart her campaign and gather the signatures all over again.

#### Seia

Otohime was Seia's adoptive mother and raised him since infancy. She showed pity on him when she found him as an orphan and took it upon herself with the help of her husband to raise him. Seia was incredibly distraught after witnessing his mother's death as a child and since then vowed to avenge her.

### Fish-Man Island

Otohime was very devoted to the welfare of Fish-Man Island and its citizens, personally stopping a simple burglar and preached to the burglar that what he did was wrong, and should turn over a new leaf. She tried to remove the barrier between the people by personally appearing to make her speeches, in order to improve interpersonal relationships. In turn, she was beloved and admired by all her citizens, and though they were reluctant to immigrate due to Tiger's actions, through her perseverance, she was able to gain their full support in the immigration plan.

Even after death, her ideals continue to affect the people, and they refused to step on her fumi-e when the New Fish-Man Pirates forced them. When the citizens gave in to the New Fish-Man Pirates' demands, they felt great remorse and regret.

Jinbe eventually follows in her footsteps and becomes the diplomats for the Sun Pirates where he accepts the World Government's offer to become a Warlord in order to raise the status of the Fish-Men.

### Enemies

As a person who wishes for more integration between humans and Fish-Men, her enemies included those who believed otherwise. However, no matter how antagonistic any of her enemies act towards her or her ideals, she always stood up to them with sympathy and forgiveness, trying her best to help them.

#### Fisher Tiger

One such person would be Fisher Tiger, who wanted Fish-Men and humans to remain separate due to the horrors he had seen during his time as a slave. His actions, as well as his reputation as a hero to the Fish-Men, made him a big obstacle for Otohime, as he discouraged everyone from integrating with humans. Despite their opposite perspectives, however, Otohime and Tiger did not consider each other as adversaries, as Otohime, with her Kenbunshoku Haki, was able to see and understand the pain and suffering inside his heart inflicted by the World Nobles, while Tiger, on the verge of death, admitted his guilt for getting in the way of Otohime's efforts to make peace between humans and Fish-Men.

#### Hody Jones

However, Otohime's greatest enemy was none other than her own assassin, Hody Jones, who was raised to hate humans from an early age. As a result, he despised Otohime for her ideals and was the one who eventually murdered her without remorse and blamed it on a human pirate, nearly destroying everything she had worked hard for, and years later tried to murder her whole family. In fact, Hody and his crew are the embodiments of her very worst fear: hatred passing down into children without any experience, turning them into empty monsters who practically *thrive* on hate and are destined to destroy everything.

Prior to her death, Otohime expressed her mercy by not hating her assailant and requested her children to share the same sympathy, which Hody ridiculed when he heard Shirahoshi explaining it.