ecause of how easy it is for her to manipulate others with her beauty, Hancock can be very

selfish, used to having her own way despite being Empress and quite unreasonable towards
others, men especially. When Luffy was captured and despite his honest attempts to explain why
he was on Amazon Lily, Hancock ignored his requests claiming he was lying to defend himself.
However, Hancock is capable of being reasonable to an extent. After her sisters were defeated
by Luffy and he again tried to plead with her to unpetrify her subjects, Hancock agreed but only if
Luffy chose one of two options: she can unpetrify them on the condition he has to find another
way off the island or he can leave the island and they stay that way. She was shocked to see him
unhesitantly picking the latter and, after further testing his character, Hancock agreed to help him
get off the island regardless. After falling in love with Luffy, Hancock gradually mellows out as a
person and as a proper ruler, growing more considerate and mature as a proper ruler for her
people and herself. The Marines and the Blackbeard Pirates attack shows her growth as a
proper ruler, having gone to the front line to protect her people from further harm, even if it
means having to fight Blackbeard herself. Once Blackbeard has her by the throat and most of his
crew and Marines petrified, Hancock was willing to return them to normal so long as they and the
Marines left the island.

Hancock is also fearless, as she is completely unafraid of the consequences of her actions
because of her beauty and strength. Even as the Marines surrounded her island and her people
panicked, Hancock remained confident with a smile reminding everyone she was a Warlord for
her strength for a reason. She was completely unfazed when Blackbeard was strangling her, as
she absolutely refused to give him even a hint of fear or submissiveness. Her conqueror's spirit
was shown when she openly declared she won’t bow down to either the Marines or Blackbeard
and welcomed them to kill her before she would ever be another's captive.

Hatred of Men
Due to her suffering as a slave and how the first man she ever saw painfully burned her back
with her slave mark, Hancock is very discriminating and judgmental towards men. She refused to
listen to Luffy's story about how he was sent to her island or give him any mercy even after
Marguerite pleaded on his behalf. When she gave him the option to leave the island or help
unpetrify Marguerite and her friends, Hancock believed he would act selfish to save himself and
was speechless when he showed his selfless nature. After falling in love with Luffy, Hancock
seems to have lessened her judgmental nature towards men as she allowed Law and his crew to
dock at the edge of her island and chose to lift her country's law to some extent and permitted
Jinbe to wander on the island without watch.

This especially qualifies towards anyone affiliated with the government. As due to how the
Marines turn a blind eye towards slavery in general despite it being abolished years ago,
Hancock unhesitatingly petrified both pirates and Marines during the Marineford War citing to her
all men, barring Luffy, are all alike.

Because of the horrors she endured from the World Nobles, Hancock became a very bitter and
cold woman, caring nothing for others (except her sisters) and usually maintains a tough and
aloof demeanor. She maintains this attitude due to her belief she should be strong for her people
and out of fear of being taking advantage of again. After falling in love with Luffy, she has
become a lot more sympathetic and kinder. She now smiles more often and has started to treat
her fellow Kuja's with much more kindness and respect and has even decided to do work with
them such as helping them make food for Luffy rather than just order them around as usual.

Running Gag
While referring to herself, Hancock uses "warawa" (ワラワ?)—an antiquated pronoun that
signifies nobility—instead of the more common "watashi" (私?).
Hancock "looking down" on a group of Marines.
In spite of her arrogant behavior, Hancock has several running gags. The first is that when she
looks down on people, she leans backwards so she faces the ceiling (or the sky) above her,
apparently looking down on people so much she is looking up. [22]
Another is that she appears to dislike small animals, in which she angrily asks who left the animal
in front of where she is walking before kicking it away, no matter how cute it is. A Kuja
responsibly apologizes, while the offended animal snarls at her, and Hancock advises her to be
more careful in the future.[1][23]

She also tends to lose her temper whenever someone tries to keep her from spending time with
Luffy, such as when she glared angrily at Jinbe for trying to eat some of the food she made for
Luffy and when Rayleigh forbid her from seeing Luffy during his training, which prompted her to
angrily pinch his nose.

Lastly, she often thinks about Luffy and mistakenly thinks that they are married or engaged and
despite (or perhaps because of) repeatedly being told that they are not, Hancock is now very
intent on becoming Luffy's wife.