Despite having only known each other for a relatively short time, Luffy and Boa Hancock are on very good terms and get on very well with each other. Hancock has developed a deep infatuation with Luffy to such a degree that she makes him, effectively, the centre of her world, doing everything she can to help him no matter how trivial. On her island, she rules over the Kuja Tribe and is the captain of the Kuja Pirates, both made up of exclusively women. As a result of her experiences with men, she continues to enforce the policy that no men be allowed on Amazon Lily, with the sole exception of Luffy.The two first met when Luffy arrived on her island, Amazon Lily, after being sent there by Bartholomew Kuma. Luffy, after causing mayhem, was eventually captured upon meeting Hancock after falling into her personal bathhouse whilst she was bathing. Infuriated, Hancock had her sisters apprehend Luffy and have him summerly executed due to her deep hatred of men and for having seen the slave mark on her back. However, the execution, via combat, did not go as Hancock wished as Luffy proved himself to be a formidable individual who could keep her with her sisters. Eventually, the execution was called off when her sister, Boa Sandersonia, was about to have her slave mark revealed before Luffy intervened and covered it so the crowd would not see it. Although Hancock still held some animosity towards Luffy, she accepted that he was unique. After offering him the option of returning him to his crew, back on Sabaody Archipelago, or undoing the petrification she had placed on the three girls Luffy befriended on the island, she was stunned that Luffy chose the latter, shattering her belief that all men are selfish. In her bed chamber, she had Luffy summoned where she told him the story of how she got her slave mark from a Celestial Dragon and why it is she hates all men. After hearing Luffy had done the unthinkable and assaulted a Celestial Dragon, as well as for not looking down on her for having been a slave, she began to fall in love with him.
