#{ every character in one piece whether canon or oc has to have a giant lofty goal

[seraphiixa]

     A long-term goal Lyra has been pursuing her entire career has been the capture and arrest of Red Hair Shanks (specifically, @chillin-at-partys-bar​). Both Lyra and Shanks are from West Blue, and met briefly once as small children before Shanks sailed with the Roger Pirates. The next time they met, Shanks was just starting his own crew and she was a rookie Lieutenant in the Navy. She has essentially been chasing him across the seas her entire career, and shares a relationship towards him somewhat similar to Smoker and Luffy’s dynamic, but friendlier. She is devoted to keeping up with news about him and his crew. Lyra and Shanks have fought against each other, fought with each other, drank together, and shared good and bad times together. It’s somewhat of a friendly rivalry from her perspective; can she actually compete with him? No, not at all. He’s Shanks. C’mon. Let’s be serious. Nevertheless, Lyra considers him something of an old friend on top of being her number one target.

     So if he’s an old friend, why is she trying to arrest him? Because she’s a Marine and he is a pirate and that’s how things work. 

     Once she consumes her Devil Fruit, however, things become a little more complicated.