

Her devotion made her popular with the Fish-Man Island citizens. This is why she preferred to visit the people directly and speak to them face-to-face, rather than have a speech prepared ahead and have it relayed to the people on her behalf, to prevent a distance between the royal family and their subjects.īeing extremely compassionate, Otohime was very devoted to the welfare of her people since she disregarded her own injuries (as she was weaker than normal Fish-Men/merfolk) while acting for the greater good, personally taking care of a simple matter of stopping a burglar, despite her subjects claiming that they had it under control. But this same barrier was not just between humans and themselves, but between their own people also. Due to her Kenbunshoku Haki abilities, she believed that distance was the closure of a person's heart and so long as distance separates the person's heart from others there will always be a barrier between them and the humans. She claimed that Fish-Men and merfolk shouldn't judge all humans by the few that come to Fish-Man Island, kidnap and sell them to slavery. She stated how despite having different morphology, they share the same sun. Otohime was very open-minded as she tried to promote friendship between fish-men and humans. She was usually seen wearing a very long white kimono with a cream-colored carp-scale design along the hem and a sash around her shoulders that floated behind her head much like her children. She also had green eyes (blue in the anime), thick eyelashes, and wore pink lipstick. Her golden blonde hair was partially held up in two loops, much like her daughter Shirahoshi only shorter, by an orange headpiece.


Unlike her husband and daughter, Otohime was a normal human-sized mermaid.
