User blog comment:AYET/AYET Chapter 721 Prediction/@comment-10860731-20130906194526/@comment-4754162-20130907134931

I think her background story can be better written, this is just giving a gist of what I think the story will go. To be honest, she is not all that interesting to me but I felt like wanting to connect the bits and pieces about her that we are aware of at the moment.

Yes, Ricky is the elderly man, but I did not give any thoughts about his motivation against Dressrosa / Doflamingo at the moment of writing. Just filling his part into Rebecca's story (explaining why we saw him apologise to her in heart)