User blog comment:Luffayking12/Who exactly does doflamingo work for?!!?!?!?!?!?/@comment-6585535-20130629055639

Is it possible that Doflamingo was a World Noble and decided to be a pirate and work in the underground? I get the feeling that he disappeared for a little bit and began to work his way up as a pirate. Then once he became well known, the World Government didn't want him to become a political problem so that he made him a Shichibukai so that they wouldn't have to fight against a World Noble but Doflamingo also got to do whatever he wanted. If he's not a World Noble than he must be related, directly, to the Gorosei. There is always the possibility that there's something higher than the Gorosei and World Nobles that we don't know about but htat sems like a stretch.