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.
