Riku Doldo III

I both reread and rewatched (through One Pace) Dressrosa arc again, and remembered a pet peeve of the arc I’ve had since first experiencing it years ago. As seen in the Kyros flashback, once King Riku found over Scarlett and Kyros wanted to marry he was initially hesitant on consummating the marriage due to fears regarding the people remembering Kyros’ past murdering those two men, causing Scarlett to say she would fake her death effectively removing her as part of the royal family….I have a problem with this.

If the people of Dressrosa did found out about Kyros and Scarlett’s plan to marry…I would 1000% bet they would not care and in fact approve of the marriage! Think out it, both were extremely popular figureheads that the people were shown to adore as Kyros was the legendary warrior of the Colosseum and then Commander of the Royal army and Scarlett was the princess. The people likely wouldn’t care and would be extremely for the marriage, it feels very contrived. Likely this decision to fake Scarlett’s death was done by Oda to include that emotional scene of Rebecca begging Kyros not to leave Dressrosa, and deciding to not be currently in line as princess and instead be her Aunt’s Viola’s lady in waiting.

IDK, as said before it feels very contrived.

When Doflamingo visits Riku Doldo III in his room at night to tell him to either leave Dressrosa or give him 10 billion belly, at that time Riku recognises Doflamingo as the one who had blackmailed/threatened the Marines/World Government into making him a warlord 10 years ago. But if we go back to the Marine's meeting about the straw hats after the Alabasta arc (after zoro got a wanted poster) where Mihawk joins the meeting and says that he is interested in the meeting is when Doflamingo made his debut in the anime (which was before the time skip), and in the anime Doflamingo was said to have ruled for 10 years which means he took over Dressrosa before becoming a warlord. But somehow Riku recognised him as a warlord? Someone please correct me if I am wrong or please give your opinions on this. Thankyou for taking your time and reading this.