Imagine being one of the most powerful and feared pirates in the entire damn world so much so that even the top brass of the World Government respect you and being able to take down dozens of people just with your presence, and stop a whole war just by casually showing up but then you’ve spent twenty years in a situationship with your teenage crush, the one you broke up with because of lack of communication, and you’re still constantly mourning the life you could’ve had if you didn’t have this “greater good” responsibility and it turns out the guy you’re clearly still hooked on is literally this person:

One thing about Shanks is that he's a leaver. He will leave.