Who was Gloriosa in love with?

Key things

• Every Amazonian Empress Lily suffers from lovesickness and leaves the island to pursue her love interest.
• Glorio's potential love interest was probably the Rocks Pirate, narrowing down her love interests to just 6 named options.
• Gloria's true love is a mystery, but she may have fallen for Whitebeard or even a Marine like Garp.

World One piecebeing so big is full of unsolved mysteries. From the missing Void Century to the true nature of One Piece itself, fans were hoping to find some answers to these questions in the upcoming Final Saga. However, the average viewer will not be helped in their search for answers when Oda adds mysteries on a whim One piece that he most likely has no intention of answering.

One such mystery involves Amazon Lily's former leader, Glorios. Although he is not the most important character in the story One pieceOda revealed some interesting aspects of Gloriosa's personality that left viewers with more questions than answers. One such question concerns Gloriosa and her lovesickness. More specifically, fans want to know who Gloriosa fell in love with that made her leave Amazon Lily.

One Piece's Amazon Lily Empresses suffer from lovesickness

Mortal suffering

One Piece's The Amazon Lily is an island that consists entirely of women, called the Kuja tribe. This group is led by Empress Boa Hancock, although she was preceded by both Empresses Shakka and Gloriosa, or Elder Nyon as she is known today. However, at one point or another, every empress in Amazon Lily's history has been afflicted with something called love sickness. To cure this affliction, Empress Lily of the Amazons must leave the island to pursue her love, much like Boa Hancock left to help Luffy on his quest to rescue Ace.

It's like what they say in the East: “Love is always a hurricane!” – Gloriosa

Of course, Gloriosa mentioned that she too was struck by love sickness at one point in her life. This led the former empress to leave her station and join One Piece's Rocks Pirates. However, one astute reader deduced that the one Gloriosa had a crush on was a member of the Rocks Pirates, leading them to ask Oda about it. Oda responded in SBS Volume stating that her crush was most likely part of the Rocks Crew.

Gloriosa was potentially in love with a rock pirate

Adventure for love

Unfortunately, Oda left it at that, teasing fans about what this potential romance could be about without any direct answers. Fortunately, this hint at least narrows down who the former Rocks Pirate, Gloriosa, love might have been drastically. In fact, if we only look at the named male characters revealed in the story so far, there are only about 6 options left for potential love interests.

All in all, Gloriosa's love in One piece it could have been Kaido, Whitebeard, Shiki, John, Streusen, or Rocks D. Xebec himself. Yet, One piece has not yet revealed Gloriosa's relationships with other members of the Rocks Pirates or these various candidates for love. If however One piece a pirate, Boa Hancock, Luffy's love is an example, an Amazon empress usually falls for someone who defies expectations of male stereotypes.

Most likely characters like Big Mom's guardian Streusen, sluggish John and ambitious Shiki. Overall, these characters don't seem suitable for someone like the Empress of the Kuja Tribe. Meanwhile, a character like the beast pirate captain, Kaido, is perhaps too stereotypically masculine for Gloriosa. Most likely, Gloriosa was in love with the former Sea Emperor Whitebeard, a powerful man who still had a soft side, especially when it came to his family.

Other options are still possible

Garp or Xebex?

As for the mysterious pirate Rocks D. Xebca, too little is known about the character to make any firm decisions about whether or not Gloriosa was in love with him. Also, it's worth noting that none of the Rocks Pirates really got along. This group struggle is probably why Gloriosa never ended up together with her love on Rocks Pirates and returned to Amazon Lily Island. This could mean that she was trying to get the Marine's attention through a piratical act, making a character like Garp her true love.

Hmmm, if the way to reduce lovesickness is to be close to the person you're in love with… it might be someone from the Rocks Pirates. – Ode to Gloriosa's lovesickness

In the end, unfortunately, there is no concrete evidence of who Gloriosa fell in love with before she left Amazon Lily Island. The truth is, the details of who Gloriosa left for aren't really important to the overall story One piece. The fact that she left and joined the Rocks Pirates is the only thing that matters in the grand scheme of things, and any other details are unnecessary to understanding the character's motivations. Still, it would be an interesting fact for Oda to reveal in the future One piece.