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Straw Hat Pirates

General

"Welcome to life with the Straw Hat Pirates, bid your last farewells to your problems and your sanity, because they'll never come back."

Total Bounty — ฿2,980,100,000

• Adaptational Badass: Thanks to Cross's involvement, the crew gains abilities they never had before, as well as regaining skills they've had before but neglected to use, while also discovering skills they didn't gain until later. It really says something that a crew like the Straw Hat Pirates can become even more powerful than in canon, with Nami even becoming part of the Supernovas.
• Adaptation Expansion: While this version contains all the canon members (excluding Jinbe who hasn't been recruited yet), it also consists of characters that didn't originally join (or in Merry's case, didn't stay with the crew) as well as fic-exclusive characters.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: With the World Government itself. In canon, the Straw Hats mostly didn't care about the Government and what it did as long as it didn't affect them or their friends directly, and are completely willing to cooperate with the more benevolent members of the Navy, like Smoker or Tashigi, if they have to. Here, between Cross regularly airing out the Government's crimes via the SBS, Vivi getting a bounty, what the Straw Hats saw on Sabaody (and heard about during Charloss's interview), and Cross confirming that the Government knew Moria was stealing shadows from both pirates, civilians, and Marines alike, the Straw Hats have plenty of reasons to despise the Government.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • The World Government. While the Straw Hats get along with and even admire several of those under their employ, the World Government as a whole, both directly and indirectly, is responsible for screwing over at least five of their members, one of them in the story itself. Even those who didn't hate the government personally beforehand came to hate them after what they did to Vivi, and essentially have little to no qualms about Cross regularly pissing them off on the SBS. In turn, no one, not even Roger or Dragon, has done more damage to the World Government than the Straw Hats. The Enies Lobby arc alone is responsible for the WG losing fifteen percent of its members, who either declare independence or have their current regimes overthrown so they can do the same. By the time of Sabaody, the WG has come to hate the Straw Hats so much that they deliberately try to lure them to Marineford so they can televise the crew's destruction to the world, putting the deaths of Luffy and Cross on the same level as executing Ace and ending Gold Roger's bloodline.
  • As for individual people, the Straw Hats have faced many enemies over their journey, but the two movie-exclusive ones stand out the most.
    • With Omatsuri and Lily Carnation, the level of villainy goes beyond just personal, he changes who the Straw Hats individually are at their cores and gets them to turn on each other and ignore the perilous situation at hand; Cross, in particular, is Jumping Off the Slippery Slope out of desperation to get more viewers. Then Baron Omatsuri really goes to town and completely drops his charade, not only torturing Luffy and Soundbite with the apparent one-by-one deaths of their friends and making them both completely helpless to stop it but inadvertently forcing pretty much everyone listening to the SBS at the time — Marines, pirates, friends, and family — to do the same. Not only is this enough to make Luffy want to murder Omatsuri, he actually does it.
    • Shiki the Golden Lion from Strong World first kidnaps Nami, then he separates the crew and tosses them into his personal floating archipelago for his mutated beasts to hunt down, and then, when Nami manages to escape from him, he calls her his property and starts scolding them for "stealing" her away. And to top it off, they find out that he's the one trying to destroy East Blue, their home sea. By the time the Final Battle starts, every single member of the crew wants Shiki very, very dead. And though Shiki barely manages to survive the full force of Luffy's wrath, Hancock subdues him and hands him over to the Marines. Right up until he breaks out of Impel Down again, this time as a subordinate to Blackbeard.
• Badass Crew: As in canon, the Straw Hats are an extremely powerful crew, with this version having 15 more members than they originally did. That includes six additional Devil Fruit users on top of their canon four.
• Badass on Paper: If you were to read half of the Straw Hats achievements over the course of the series, you would assume that they were a ruthless crew of One-Man Army pirates who could steamroll anyone they face. If you were to actually spend ten minutes with the Straw Hats, you'd realize that they're a bunch of nut jobs who are lucky to have made it as far as they did... and can still steamroll anyone they face.
• Berserk Button:
  • There are a lot of things that piss this crew off, both individually and collectively, but above all else, if you mess with one of them, you mess with all of them. Shiki tried using this against them, and though he won the battle, he lost the war.
  • Suggesting that none of the animal members aren't members of the crew in equal respect to the human ones is another major one, most prominently with Cross.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Unlike in canon, everyone is now perfectly aware of how insane the Straw Hats are thanks to the SBS. They are also aware that their insanity doesn't make them any less dangerous.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Three of the Straw Hat women fall under this: Conis (blonde), Robin (brunette), and Nami (redhead).
• Bring It: Essentially what the Straw Hats told the World Government during the CP9 saga: if getting back Robin was tantamount to declaring war on the World, then the Government can bring it on.
• Bully Hunter: Not intentionally, but as of the Sabaody Archipelago saga, the Straw Hats have become feared amongst tyrants and despots for being this trope.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They're an utterly random collection of individuals, quirky as hell (even the relatively saner ones), and about as far from normal pirates in this series as one can get. Get on their bad side, though, and they'll show you just how they earned those seemingly ridiculous bounties. Here's the list, in the order in which they joined the crew:
  • Luffy, the captain, is a Manchild who is obsessed with meat as his Trademark Favorite Food, asks incredibly inappropriate questions of people (such as if they poop), always chooses the most dangerous route when given the chance because it'd be the best adventure, and can not only send a person halfway across an island with a single punch/kick, but has strong enough willpower to do so while beaten within an inch of his life. Virtually all his contemporaries consider him the gold standard of piracy for their entire generation.
  • Zoro, the swordsman, is obsessed with strength, training, and swordsmanship, cannot find south with the help of a bird whose head always points south, drinks grog like a fish as his Trade Mark Favorite Food, and can cleave battleships in half with one swing of his sword.
  • Nami, the navigator, is unbelievably competent at her job and sensing weather changes, is one of the two relatively sane members of the crew, and can literally drop entire storm systems on someone's head, but has a Money Fetish that is literally orgasmic.
  • Usopp, the sniper, is a liar, a coward, and the second-weakest human member of the crew, above only Cross. He's also a Gadgeteer Genius and trickster who is so skilled with a slingshot that a gun would be a downgrade. In this story in particular, what he lacks in strength he makes up for in cunning, trickery, and Improbable Aiming Skills.
  • Sanji, the cook, is a perpetual womanizer who only fights with his legs in order to preserve his hands for cooking, but his kicks put him in the Monster Trio of the crew with Luffy and Zoro. And while those two are mostly brawn, Sanji uses brains in more than just the heat of battle, showing a genius level of spanner-throwing intelligence that resulted from being given adult-level military training by Judge as a child.
  • Cross, the third mate among other jobs, is a brilliant tactician, unwavering in his morals and convictions, and an incurable adrenaline junkie who loves to run his mouth. He takes a while to keep up with the rest of the crew physically, but his foreknowledge and cunning make him a match for Robin mentally, and he makes up the difference with help from Soundbite, Lassoo, and Funkfreed.
  • Soundbite, one of the Communications Officers, is a snail, a memelord, The Gadfly, and the self-appointed but not disputed god of noise.
  • Chopper, the doctor, is a shape-shifting, talking reindeer who is incredibly shy and unbelievably gullible and ditzy, but is also both an incredibly skilled doctor and formidable fighter. And lord help you if you awaken either of his monstrous sides, be it a Mad Scientist or a rampaging beast...
  • Lassoo is a bazooka that ate the Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Dachshund, and he's a bloodthirsty beast in battle armed with bombs, flames, and trick ammo. When not in battle, though, he prefers sleeping, even if it's some other kind of life-threatening situation.
  • Vivi, the negotiator, is a princess, the most morally upstanding of the crew, will make you respect her authority, and possesses Logia powers that turn her into a living cyclone. She's also an airhead who frequently forgets important, life-threatening details until the last second.
  • Carue is Vivi's bodyguard, a giant duck who doesn't look remotely menacing. He's a bit cowardly and, thanks to Soundbite, speaks in Donald Duck's voice, and has leg strength that arguably outclasses Sanji, to the point of briefly managing to go full supersonic.
  • Boss Dugong, head ship guard, is a kung-fu dugong obsessed with manliness and flexing his muscles. He is also the greatest martial artist of the crew and joined the Monster Trio to turn it into a Monster Quartet. His four disciples, the Teenage Dugong Warrior Squad, are just as formidable fighters as they are a quarrelling quartet of pseudo-siblings.
  • Nico Robin, the historian, is a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, a former assassin and brutally honest, but is also the sanest and most mature member of the crew and possibly the best historian in the world, and a formidable combatant.
  • Conis, the gunner, is a pleasant girl from the sky bound White Sea that often trips over her own feet and sometimes misses social cues, but can carry a gigantic Dial-upgraded arsenal on her back that can blow your face off, melt your face off, or anything in between.
  • Su, the Team Pet, is a tiny fox — who's far Smarter Than You Look, took down dozens of zombies with well-placed salt pellets by herself and beat up one of the beasts of Merville, and as of the Denouement, is a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit user.
  • Funkfreed is a sword that ate the Elephant-Elephant Fruit. He's as friendly and mild-mannered as you'd expect an elephant to be...and a few times as dangerous besides.
  • Franky, the shipwright, is a perverted, speedo-wearing cyborg with a penchant for crying out "SUPER!". He has also built himself into a cyborg after a debilitating accident in his past, and even built the Thousand Sunny.
  • The Going Merry, once a simple caravel, now the helmsman of the new ship, hides her terrifying strength and giant gun beneath the looks of a little human girl. She also can mimic the skills of many of her crewmates, in addition to all their quirks, and has a gigantic vocabulary of swears on top of that.
  • Brook, the musician, is a living skeleton with terrible puns and an obsession for women's underwear. He is also a genius musician, a formidable swordsman and used to be the captain of his own crew.
  • Billy is a crossbreed of a chicken, peacock, and duck that looks even less menacing than Carue. He's gentle, timid, friendly, and is not only able to fly but can generate electrical energy formidable enough to kill Sea Kings in one shot.
• Character-Magnetic Team: The Straw Hats were already this, but thanks in part to Cross, they end up pulling even more crewmembers, to the point that the TB! recruits outnumber the canon members^note and that includes whenever Jinbe joins the crew.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Every single one of them, to varying degrees. Even the so-called Only Sane Men have their moments, be they Nami's Money Fetish, Usopp's lying and cowardice, Cross's adrenaline addiction, or Robin's penchant for the macabre.
• Combat Breakdown: After a week of fighting in Shiki's Strong World, Conis is using melee weapons to fight, and Usopp has been using rocks for ammo for an unknown length of time. Porche of the Foxy Pirates notes that due to how fast ammunition runs out in a firefight, she would be amazed if they had any of their normal ammo left after more than a day there.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: Averted. Despite the crew having 15+ extra members than in canon, the crew's effectiveness isn't diminished in the slightest. In fact, they've become even more dangerous.
• Cursed with Awesome: Aside from Nami, they have rather jubilant reactions to their bounties going up. Indeed, to folks like them it can be as much of a benefit as a liability.
• Death Glare: Even though many of them have done one individually at some point, the first collective one was the one they gave Shiki before his utter curbstomping of them due to the Dehumanizing Insult he gave both Nami and Billy. The next one was when they learned about Ace's capture and upcoming execution. It was so chilling that it scared X Drake, who was seconds from beating them over forcing the Supernovas to face the World Government's wrath.
• Does Not Like Spam: Everyone on the crew has some food they don't like to eat. In addition to the canon examples, the Cross Brain included the dislikes of all the new Straw hates in a bonus chapter.
  • Monkey D. Luffy: A certain shop's cherry pie
  • Roronoa Zoro: Chocolate (It's too sweet)
  • Nami: Orangette^note Orange-flavored soda (Prefers actual fruit)
  • Usopp: Mushrooms (Got sick once)
  • Vinsmoke Sanji: Konjac (Not nutritious)
  • Jeremiah Cross: Biscuits (He's allergic)
  • Soundbite: Anything with salt
  • Tony Tony Chopper: All things spicy (It's not sweet)
  • Nefertari Vivi: Dried shredded squid
  • Carue: Caviar
  • Lassoo: Gum
  • Nico Robin: Gum (Can't swallow it)
  • Boss: Fois gras
  • Leo: Olives
  • Mikey: Mushrooms
  • Raphey: Pineapples
  • Donny: Anchovies
  • Conis: Military rations
  • Su: Vermin
  • Merry: Rocky Reverse Mountain oysters
  • Funkfreed: Hay
  • Franky: Marshmallow (It's not hard). Also, original to This Bites!, diet cola.
  • Brook: Lemon (Can't make a sour face)
  • Billy: Food pellets
• The Dreaded:
  • Everyone in the crew is this to some extent for the average mook.
  • Luffy, especially when he's angry. There's a reason why people call him the strongest rookie in Paradise.
  • The events of Omatsuri Island are this for the crew, to the point that they refuse to acknowledge it as anything more than a bad dream while at Water 7.
• Elemental Powers: Between Dials, Devil Fruit powers, and plain-old techniques, many members of the crew can utilize elemental forces in their attacks.
• Famed In-Story: The SBS has made the Straw Hats the most famous crew in history. Everyone knows who they are.
• Familiar: Three of them are Loyal Animal Companions to three other members: Carue, Su, and Billy, to Vivi, Conis, and Nami, respectively.
• Family of Choice: Just like in canon, they form something of large, extended haphazard one. Cross in particular views Robin as an older sister (a sentiment she eventually returns), and became Sworn Brothers with Zoro and Nami via a sake sharing ceremony not unlike the one Luffy shared with Ace and Sabo when they were kids.
• Friendly Pirate: They're a very nice bunch who only seek fun and adventure, and can get along with anyone they meet...as long as they don't piss them off.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: The Straw Hats went from a rookie crew from the weakest sea to the gold standard of their generation, who are directly responsible for what was outright declared the darkest day in the entire history of the World Government.
• A Hero to His Hometown: They are greatly admired in their home sea of East Blue, even by those who have never personally met any of them. This feeling increases significantly after they save East Blue from Shiki; now, it's unlikely you're going to find a single East Blue denizen willing to bad-mouth them.
• Interspecies Friendship: Half the crew is made up of animals, and while many of them are Loyal Animal Companions to some of the human members, they're still considered crewmates in their own rights.
• It's Personal: Shiki seemed to be intent on pissing off the entire crew as much as he can. First, he kidnapped Nami and dumped the crew on his personal, hellacious floating archipelago, separating them all for a week and forcing them to jump from island to island trying to survive the very dangerous mutated animals that lived there. Then they find out that he was the one attacking their home sea of East Blue, which they had just been planning to take a detour to from their Grand Line journey. However, the absolute last straw for all of them was when he showed up to take Nami back after she managed to escape from him, and started scolding them for taking away his property. That caused all of them, especially Luffy, to absolutely fly off the handle.
• Killer Rabbit: The Straw Hat Pirates are this as a whole in-universe, as they tend to just wander around exploring on the islands they travel to, making them come across as simply visitors instead of the group of powerful, yet benevolent and friendly pirates that they truly are.
• Mook Horror Show: Four of the weaker Straw Hats (Nami, Chopper, Cross, and Soundbite) instill such terror into the Marines they fight at Enies Lobby that the one calling for reinforcements is reduced to simply repeating "Oh God" over and over.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Slightly averted. Under Cross's guidance, this version of the crew does a lot more looting than in canon, albeit only from enemies.
• Power Trio: The crew includes three of these, two of which overlap with the third; Cross even remarks on it:
  • Monster Trio — Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji, the top three fighters of the crew.
  • Demon Trio — Chopper, Nami, Cross and Soundbite (who are treated as one), the ones who look and act normal until they take off the mask of normalcy and show what lies beneath.
  • Kiddy Trio (AKA Dumbass Trio or Idiot Trio) — Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, the three least mature of the crew.
  • On another note, all of them have been considered to be quartets as well, with Boss, Soundbite and Brook considered as the other fourth members respectively.
• Price on Their Head: As in canon, the majority of the crew all have bounties on their heads, the only exceptions being Carue, Lassoo, Funkfreed, and Billy. Cross has ended up making history by being the first person in Paradise to earn a bounty of over 1 Billion, which has been stated in canon to be monstrous even by New World standards.
• Quantity vs. Quality: Zigzagged. Thanks to Cross, the crew has expanded to the point that the TB! members outnumber the canon members^note including with Jinbe. Nevertheless, the additional members have proven to fit the crew's main requirement of being exceptionally powerful, making this version of the Straw Hats an equal match in quality and quantity.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Among the canon misfits, we now have an inter-dimensional traveler, a loud-mouth, trolling Transponder Snail with Devil Fruit powers, a ditzy former princess and her duck bodyguard, a quintet of martial arts fighting amphibians, two former villainous Zoan weapons — a dog gun and an elephant sword — turned friends, a gun-toting tomboyish resident of a sky island and her cloud fox, the crew's first ship turned human, and a Cowardly Lion electricity-generating mutant bird.
• Red Baron: All members have a moniker to go along with their badassery — "Straw Hat" Luffy, "Pirate Hunter" Zoro, "Weather Witch" Nami, "Sniper King" Usopp, "Black Leg" Sanji, "Voices of Anarchy" Cross and Soundbite, "Spark of Genius" Chopper, "Corsair Princess" Vivi, Carue "the Duck", "Devil Child" Robin, "Man of the Sea" Boss, "Disciples of the Sea" TDWS (including "Half-Shell Blade" Leo), "Angel of Destruction" Conis, "Cottontail" Su, "Cyborg" Franky, "White Menace" Merry, and "Humming Swordsman" Brook.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • Enies Lobby, which is even worse than it is in canon. In canon, all the Straw Hats did was completely wreck the judicial island trying to get Robin back (with some not-so-inconsiderate help from the Marines). In This Bites!, they did that, and aired it live, for the entire world to hear. That act sparked a massive crime spree all across the Grand Line, spearheaded by the other Supernovas, who were trying to one-up the Straw Hats and/or draw away some of the impending heat. It even caused some of the Four Emperors to act up, which distracted every single Marine on that side of the Red Line, plus half of the Warlords. But they didn't end there, oh, no. They fanned the flames by airing a shit-ton of the World Government's dirty laundry, permanently ruining their reputation and precipitating civil unrest on a global scale, with numerous countries worldwide going revolutionary, including Water 7. Their escape, an unprecedented victory by a single rookie pirate crew, over one of the three major superpowers no less, is the final nail in the coffin, and by the time they're done, they've made the World Government and the Marines assuredly regret the day they screwed with the Straw Hat Pirates.
  • Strong World. In retaliation for Shiki's many transgressions against them, the Straw Hats loot his palace, crush his army, steal back the transceiver he stole from them, and all in all ruin the plan he had been working towards for the last twenty years. That's before Luffy beats his ass into the ground that is very, very below and they crash land Merveille into the sea. And this time, instead of the world hearing said rampage, they're watching it, all thanks to Shiki's Visual Transponder Snails.
• Talking Animal: All the animals on the crew can talk, by virtue of Soundbite's powers. This adds to the sentiment that said animals are crewmates in their own right. Even Aokiji acknowledges said animals as full-fledged members of the crew due to this.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Many of the new members of the Straw Hats here, such as Conis, Billy, and Funkfreed, weren't members in the original canon or in Vivi and Carue's case, temporary ones.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Nearly every member of the canon crew has become even more dangerous than they were in the original story.
  • Happens gradually offscreen during Strong World, with the crew slowly getting absorbed into Shiki’s evolution game by eating the SIQ-laced animals.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Each Straw Hat has a favorite food. In addition to the canon Straw Hats, the new generation had their favorites revealed in a bonus chapter.
  • Monkey D. Luffy: ALL KINDS OF MEAT.
  • Roronoa Zoro: White rice, Sea King meat, and anything that complements ale.
  • Nami: Mainly tangerines as well as other kinds of fruit.
  • Usopp: Pike from an autumn island as well as other fish of the season.
  • Sanji: Spicy seafood pasta and food that complements black tea.
  • Jeremiah Cross: Lobster
  • Soundbite: Lettuce
  • Tony Tony Chopper: Cotton candy, chocolate, and other sweet food and drinks.
  • Nefertari Vivi: Curry and pudding
  • Carue: Bread and steak
  • Lassoo: Bones
  • Nico Robin: Sandwiches, cakes that aren't too sweet, and food that complements coffee.
  • Boss: Rare steak
  • TDWS: Pizza
  • Conis: Pumpkin coffee
  • Su: Aburaage
  • Merry: Cloth trifle
  • Funkfreed: Melons and other fruits
  • Franky: Hamburgers, French fries, and food that complements cola.
  • Brook: Tea, takoyaki, and curry.
  • Billy: Eclairs
• True Companions: They might be silly and Vitriolic Best Buds three-quarters of the time, but when one of them is threatened, be assured they will go to war with the world itself for their crewmate, and the world is going to lose.
• Two Girls to a Team: Averted. While canon members Nami and Robin are still present, the number of females on the crew has increased with the additions of Merry, Vivi, Conis, Su, and Raphey.
• Victor Gains Loser's Powers: On account of the pilfering Cross has encouraged, the Straw Hats often obtain the equipment of their defeated foes:
  • Lassoo and Funkfreed are both Devil Fruit weapons used by the Straw Hat crew's foes, but after Cross pulls a Defeat Means Friendship, they both decide to join him.
  • During the Skypiea arc, Cross emphasized to the crew the importance of taking the Dials off of any foes they defeat. Of particular note are Ohm's Eisen Dial, which is integrated into Nami's Clima-Tact, and Yama's Axe Dials, which are integrated into the Thousand Sunny.
  • The Straw Hats also picked up sea prism stone items from their attack of Enies Lobby and their encounter with the Accinos, which they later use to upgrade their weapons.
  • Leo the Kung-Fu Dugong picks up the dual swords of two defeated foes, first those by Long John "Silverteeth", and later the Grade Swords Oto and Kogarashi.
• Weapon Specialization: Of the crew's 25 members (as of the end of the "Strong World" arc), nearly all of them carry (or have started to carry), have some access to, or are weapons, on top of their inherent abilities. The only exceptions are Soundbite, who relies solely on his Devil Fruit's powers (justified since, being a snail, he can't carry a weapon, though he can enhance others' weapon attacks), Su (who, being a regular cloud fox, has no real powers yet or ability to use weapons), and Billy (who mainly uses his lightning).
• Women Are Wiser: The female members of the crew, often serve as voices of reason for their male crewmates, but sometimes their antics infects the girls.

Joined in East Blue

Monkey D. Luffy

"Straw Hat" Monkey D. Luffy — Bounty: ฿475,000,000

Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates who makes up for his idiocy with brawn and heart. His dream is to be the Pirate King.

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• Always Someone Better: To the other Supernovas. While Cross concedes that those with the more esoteric powers could probably give Luffy a run for his money, if not outright beat him in a fight, it's generally agreed upon that Luffy is the strongest, most infamous, and most dangerous rookie of his generation. On top of having the highest bounty and the strongest crew (with two other Supernovas serving under him), he's already begun awakening and mastering his Haki by the time of Sabaody, while the rest have barely even scratched the surface of that power, if they've even heard of it at all. This is plainly displayed with the Supernovas' fight against the Pacifistas. Together they manage some decent damage against the two machines, but were on the verge of losing until Luffy showed up and destroyed them. To top it off, he didn't even do it on purpose — the Pacifistas were just collateral during his own fight with the much stronger and tougher Bartholomew Kuma.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Thanks to all of Cross's efforts preventing Ace's execution, Luffy doesn't experience the post-Marineford despair he did in canon^note with Cross being the one who has to be pulled back from the Despair Event Horizon in his place. However, the War opened his eyes to the true power in the world and realizes that if he wants to make sure he never loses anyone, he still needs to go through his Time Skip training.
• Anti-Hero: Luffy may be a Nice Guy at heart, but he's also kind of selfish. Unless he's directly confronted with something being wrong, he tends to just go with the flow, which means he lets a lot of things he could stop slip by because they don't directly involve him. A perfect example is the Sabaody arc; as in canon, Luffy would have rescued Keimi for being kidnapped and then just stopped thinking about the slavery problem entirely. Cross is the one who decides that slavery is morally wrong and needs to be removed from Sabaody entirely — and better still, the world pushed towards actually enacting the World Government's on-paper decree of slavery being illegal, before coaxing Luffy into going along with it. To Luffy's credit, he is angry that Cross thought he needed encouragement to attack slavers, but still, that doesn't change that Cross had to be the one to decide that the Straw Hats should oppose slavery in the first place.
• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Luffy's main tactic is always being on the offensive. Mixing that with his Determinator-mindset makes him an extremely difficult opponent to defeat.
• Bash Brothers: Teams up with Bartolomeo against Shiki to great effect, complementing each other's abilities and skills.
• Berserk Button: "Rape, Pillage, and Burn" pirates are this for him. Luffy hates these kinds of pirates with a passion and sees them as fakers who give adventure seekers, that Luffy sees as the actual way pirates should be, a bad name. And lord help you if you dare to imply that kind of amoral behavior is what pirates are supposed to be like.
  • He also hates people that betray their comrades. When Jabra kicks Blueno aside for the sake of fighting Luffy, Luffy proceeded to deliver a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the wolf Zoan.
• Beyond the Impossible: Luffy shows that his stupidity transcends space and time when he mistakes Coby for Natsu Dragneel.
  • He also somehow manages to win at surfing against an octopus that has mastered the art, despite never having surfed before in his life and being incapable of swimming due to his Devil Fruit.
• Combination Attack: "Gum-Gum Grand Slam". Having Cross shoot a Cani-Cannon baseball at him, Luffy uses a Gum-Gum Home Run to knock the projectile into his enemy, concentrating the force of impact on a smaller area hard enough to leave a crater in the ground just before the bomb detonates.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Cross explains to the Firetanks' Vito and Eustass Kid that Luffy relying only on his purely offensive mindset makes him difficult, but not impossible to defeat. On one hand, his Determinator status makes him able to bounce back from a physical defeat (or near defeat). But on the other, using esoteric tactics (such as Foxy's style) will really give him a challenge since Luffy can't brute-force his way out of it that easily.
• Death Glare: Tick him off, and you'll get a terrifying glare that Jabra compares with that of Garp... and realizes the latter is the one that loses in the comparison.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: He's a D., it comes naturally for him. Especially when the so-called superior being is threatening his crewmates. Just ask B.R.O.B. how well it went when they gloated about ripping Cross from his home and marooning him on a strange world. Or Eneru when he kidnapped Nami and Cross.
• The Dreaded:
  • While the entire crew is this thanks to the SBS, Luffy is this even more so, with many regarding him as the frontline contender to being the Pirate King. This becomes all the more clear during the Marineford Misery arc, where he's immediately regarded as one of the biggest threats on the battlefield upon his arrival despite his status as a rookie, and the highest-priority target after 'Cross' (a disguised Mr. 2). Even Whitebeard regards him with some respect when they first meet.
  • He's become this to such an extent that, unlike canon, absolutely none of the Marines were surprised to learn he had Conqueror's Haki. In fact, Sengoku commends Isuka for being able to endure the full weight of Luffy's Haki, which shows how much Sengoku acknowledges Luffy's current strength and potential.
• Dumbass Has a Point:
  • Upon hearing that Merry can never return to her ship form without tearing herself apart, Luffy comments that it doesn't matter, saying that the important thing is that Merry is still alive and can continue traveling with the Straw Hats. Everyone is dumbstruck by how much sense he made.
  • During Strong World, he's the first one to figure out that the mutated animals have been playing them. How? The forest was too quiet, and he realized that wouldn't be the case unless the animals within were preparing for something. After listening to Cross and Boss's discussion over the plants and their chemical properties, he starts connecting the dots, and the other two finish it for him.
  • There's also the part where he figures out that Shiki is evil:
    Shiki: I find myself curious, Straw Hat!...You somehow suspected me when you had no right to! How did that happen?
    Luffy: I remembered you from Shanks' stories! And he said that you were the most evil, hateful bastard of a tyrant that he ever met!
    Shiki: Sticks and stones, my boy! The words of none will ever hurt me! Not yours, not your third mate's, and certainly not that Red-Haired brat's either! JIHAHAHA!
  • When Tashigi mentions that the Marines were having a difficult time rounding up the remnants of the Golden Lion Pirates due to someone burning Enies Lobby to the ground, Luffy pointed out that it was the Marines who did that. As true as his statement is, it doesn't keep Tashigi from Dope Slapping him.
  • When the blockade to Sabaody Archipelago puts Cross's newest plan in jeopardy, he's the one to point out that if they waste too much time trying to break through it, an Admiral will definitely arrive there to destroy them.
  • While Cross is convincing the other Supernovas to help with the Sabaody Revolution, Luffy points out to them that in the course of liberating the slaves, they can also potentially add to their crews by asking any pirates among them to join up (something Law did in canon with Jean Bart, not that Luffy knows it).
  • In addition, Luffy is the one to put together that setting pirates against slavery will be a way to add to the memetic identity of piracy, and a way to make their names immortal. Mind you he doesn't put it in those terms, merely pointing out that pirates act a certain way: skull and crossbones, obey calls for parley and Davy Back fights, mark treasure with a big X, etc. And if they're successful, they'll add another item to that list.
• Dumb Muscle: When it comes to strength, toughness, and fighting instinct, Luffy is second to very few indeed. The downside is that... well, he's not very bright elsewhere, and although Cross's influence does cause him to start using his head a bit more, in the end, Luffy is still Luffy. Cross even admits at a conference of the Supernovas that this is Luffy's biggest weakness: in a straightforward brawl, Luffy is practically invincible, since pretty much nobody outside of the New World can take or dish out more punishment, and even in the New World, Luffy is pretty high-tier. If his opponent is smarter than Luffy, and plays to that advantage, then Luffy is in a lot of trouble.
• Dumbass No More:
  • Luffy has been becoming less dumb over time thanks to Cross's influence, but he is still Luffy. However, a variation exists where he is mulling over everything that has happened in Chapter 60 and how he realizes he can no longer remain willfully ignorant of what Cross knows out of fear of spoiling the adventure. Not only because he realizes that Cross's future knowledge can be (and often is) insufficient because of how things can change, but also because he realizes just how much pressure Cross is putting on himself, something Luffy cannot ignore as Captain.
  • By the time of Impel Down and Marineford, this trope is arguably played straight. With his brother — and the world, for that matter — on the line, Luffy puts his own desires aside and takes a letter containing everything Cross knows about the Summit War Saga, reading and memorizing it on his way to Amazon Lily until he can all but recite it himself. He then uses that foreknowledge during the subsequent arcs with frightening effectiveness, even playing Magellan like a fiddle during the Impel Down arc in preparation for the mass breakout. The change is so prominent that many that know him (which is just about everybody at this point) can't help but be unnerved by it.
    Buggy: ...I liked you better as a happy-go-lucky idiot, Straw Hat.
    Luffy: So did I.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: Luffy's youth was spent a lot like this as he reflects on his experience with wild animals 'that were that were (often) bigger, (possibly) stronger, and (always) looking to eat him alive'. This wound up benefiting him during the Strong World arc as his experience with it helps him clue into how to survive the mutated animals trying to attack him and his crewmates.
• Extreme Omnivore: Luffy has eaten enough plates that he can compare the taste of porcelain to china (and declare it superior).
• Generation Xerox: To Roger. Several people listening to the SBS have commented on it, but the parallel itself doesn't become obvious until the climax of Strong World, where Luffy enters Shiki's palace with the rest of the Straw Hats. The silhouette of his billowing cloak and the straw hat does not just leave the rest of the world absolutely stunned and breathless, but it also leaves every single member of the old guard feeling as if they were seeing Roger reborn.
  • In Impel Down's Eternal Hell, Douglas Bullet actually moves and speaks for the first time in 20 years to comment on the resemblance.
• Graceful Loser: Tells the other Supernovas in Denouement he wouldn't mind them trying to take his crown as King of the Pirates when he claims the title, though he also states he'll try and take it back if someone takes it from him.
• Hate at First Sight: He admits flat out in the last chapter of Impel Downfall that he's never liked Blackbeard, to the point of Irrational Hatred, from the second he saw him, even before Cross told him who he was and what he'd do and has done. He's only gotten more reasons since then to hate him.
  “Don’t ask me why. Even without Cross telling me who he is, something about him’s always just pissed me off.”
• Heel Realization: Invoked. In the finale of the Impel Downfall arc, after Magellan decides to let Luffy's party pass, Luffy stops and admits that he knows that what he's done by breaking into Impel Down and retrieving so many pirates from its cells makes him "the bad guy" in this situation. But he can't let that stop him, not when the alternative is his brother's death.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Done when Cross starts to apologize for "usurping" him by strategizing a plan for the crew, Luffy gently reminds him that he's unable to cook, predict the weather, swing a sword, lie, or be smart. The underlying message is that it's okay because he has Sanji and Nami and Zoro and Usopp... and now there's Cross too.
• Home-Run Hitter: One of Luffy's new attacks thanks to blending his old pipe-fighting techniques with his Devil Fruit-empowered fighting style. "Gum-Gum Home Run" twists his torso and his arms together at the same time, unwinding quickly for a massive swing.
• Idiot Hero: And how, though he's started taking Cross's encouragement to be less so. It's had some success, but not enough to count as Dumbass No More, hence Dumbass Has a Point above. The only real difference is that everyone in the world now knows he's a happy-go-lucky moron, and have suitably adjusted their expectations to accommodate for that.
  • For example: At the Accino Family wedding, Luffy, instead of his usual modus operandi of stealing food, decides to use one of Franky's contraptions to procure it all instead. While smart on the surface, one has to remember that A) he's not an engineer, and B) he was telling this to Vivi, who, being in proxy-Bridezilla mode at the time, promptly ties him up with the rope he was about to use to trigger the machine. Thus, after he finally manages to escape his bonds, he triggers the machine to see if it would work — and watches as it cuts every support beam in the church in half, causing the building to collapse in on itself.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: The Summit War Saga is this for him, in a sense. With Ace's life on the line and a potentially catastrophic war on the horizon if he doesn't rescue his brother from Impel Down, Luffy takes advice from Cross, tools from his crew, and briefly (to a degree) sets aside his desire to not be spoiled about the adventures coming to stop the events of canon from taking place.
• Magnetic Hero: And not even the Self-Insert himself is immune.
• Not Me This Time: Upon arriving at Amazon Lily, Luffy has to defend that he is not responsible for the chaos currently afflicting the Kuja, and most certainly he didn't try to assassinate Hancock and Marigold!
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • An indication of how pissed off Luffy is in the climax of Strong World; he's completely serious, with no silly antics in sight, and most notably, making sense. Even his crew are a bit offset by that.
  • Another noticeable time is his attitude during the Impel Downfall arc, where he acts much more calculated and thinks out his actions as he infiltrates Impel Down, coming from Cross telling him about how exhausted and out of energy he was during Marineford being one of the catalysts for Ace's death.
  • During Marineford this trend continues, where Luffy uses Gear Second in extreme moderation and goes through every effort to avoid fighting anyone he can't immediately crush, like the Warlords (going as far as to try and bribe Mihawk with alcohol at one point). He's also a lot more serious and grimmer during this arc, furiously threatening Crocodile when the man tried to attack Whitebeard and not smiling at all until Ace is off the execution platform and released from his bonds.
    • When Garp was about to attack a vulnerable Ace, a furious Luffy attacked him in turn to stop him and even used a technique that will give Garp another scar for the rest of his remaining natural life. The last time Luffy opposed his grandfather, he was trembling and terrified; here, there was no hesitation or fear to be found. As he puts it, with Ace so close to freedom, the absolute last person Luffy was going to allow to screw this up was his grandfather.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Do not EVEN think to harm Luffy's crewmates if breathing is an activity you enjoy. Seriously, don't. When Lucci brought Luffy to the edge of defeat for the second time, a voice from beyond was able to get him back on his feet by pointing out that Lucci would murder every member of Luffy's crew if he couldn't stop him. Needless to say, an ass-kicking ensued with Lucci on the receiving end.
  • He even stands up to his grandpa, the one guy he's absolutely terrified of, for the sake of his crew.
  • Immediately goes to try to attack Shiki as soon as he realizes just who he is despite knowing he's out of his league. When he meets Shiki again and the man starts addressing Nami as his "property", Luffy flips, hitting the ground so hard with his fist that it shatters.
  • When Luffy learns that Kuma was going to scatter the Straw Hats to train whether they were willing or not, and told this to Cross when he was already put down by the actions of Doflamingo and the reveal of Ace's capture, he is infuriated enough to punch the Warlord into a mangrove tree.
  • Thanks to the SBS, everyone knows about this trait of his. This backfired during Marineford, as the fact that Luffy was barely paying attention to 'Cross' clued Sengoku in on the fact that he wasn't the real Cross.
  • One of the first instances showing just how protective he is of his crew is when he yells at B.R.O.B. when the being is gloating about how he kidnapped Cross and dropped him in the middle of nowhere.
• Pipe Pain: In his childhood, before he developed his powers, this was Luffy's weapon. At Cross's recommendation, he begins using one again, and he's fully integrated it into his fighting style since then, using it as a bat, blowgun, and anchor.
  • Chapter 53 has Usopp add sea prism stone caps to the ends.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Averted — he acknowledges to Magellan at the end of Impel Downfall that he knows he's the bad guy in this situation for releasing so many pirates from their cells, most of which he knows likely did deserve to be there. He even apologizes for it — but admits that he isn't willing to let it stop him, even though he hates it, when the alternative is letting Ace die without doing anything.
• Rage Breaking Point: After an entire week of running around, jumping from flying island to flying island, separated from his ship and most of his crew, all while fighting off mutated animal after mutated animal, Luffy has finally reached his absolute limit. When the animals show up to attack him and his friends again during the first bright spot they've had in days, he outright snaps and all but roars at them to leave, awakening his Conqueror's Haki in the process.
• Rubber Man: Courtesy of the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Signature Headgear: His treasure and trademark is the straw hat he got from his mentor, Shanks.
• Strong Family Resemblance:
  • To his grandfather Garp. Two people have noted this thus far: Aokiji, as in canon, and Jabra, who noticed after pushing Luffy's Berserk Button. Especially notable in the fact that Jabra didn't know that the two were related at the time.
    • Then, after Jabra unwisely smashed Luffy's Berserk Button in order to get the fight of his life, he realized he was wrong. Luffy was much worse.
  • He also resembles his father Dragon enough that Cross would have probably figured out their relationship after meeting Dragon had he not already known.
• Tattoo as Character Type: Post-Marineford War, Luffy gets a tattoo, but not the "3D2Y" message from canon; rather, he gets a big tattoo of Zoro-esque stitched scar lines, arranged in an X across his chest, as a replacement for the X-burn scar that Cross and his machinations made sure he didn't get in this timeline. He got it as a reminder of the time he almost wasn't strong enough, and a promise to get strong enough so that it never happens again.
• Terrible Artist: As in canon. It's actually weaponized by Nami when discussing the terms of Foxy's joining the crew — she informs him that if he doesn't agree to their terms, they'll just claim the Foxy Pirates' flag and let Luffy draw them a new one. Then she shows him Luffy's first attempt at drawing the Straw Hats' Jolly Roger, which is so terrible it makes him blanch.
• Took a Level in Badass: Most likely due to Cross's advice, Luffy intensified his training, to the point where he developed his Gear Second technique three arcs early, albeit only an incomplete version that he called "Gear 1.5".
  • Then, in Navarone, we see that he developed Gear 2.5 as well.
  • As of Chapter 35, Chopper worked out a way to decrease (or eliminate) the canon consequences of using his Gears.
  • Even better as of Chapter 42. He used Armament Haki five arcs earlier than canon.
  • Better still in Chapter 56: he awakens his Conqueror's Haki, and while it's not much earlier than when he first used it in canon, its result is much more impressive: it brings several mutated animals to heel and even knocks back members of his crew.
  • Chapter 57 sees him managing to figure out a half-assed version of Moonwalk by punching the air, and in the middle of his fight with Shiki no less. Boss later gives him his scroll containing the instructions for the Six Powers so he can fully master the technique.
  • By the time of Marineford, Luffy has already begun the journey of mastering his Haki, able to use his Conqueror's Haki to subdue his enemies (even if he can't fully control it yet), his Observation to dodge attacks, and even his Armament Haki for extra firepower. This culminates in him managing to develop and use Red Hawk (and against his grandfather, no less!) over an In-Universe-year earlier than he originally did in canon.
• Tranquil Fury: By the time Robin is done explaining the truth about Ohara to the crew, CP9, and thus the entire world, Luffy is so furious that he's completely calm and composed, which, for him, is not a good thing.
• Villain Respect: Due to the actions of the SBS, Luffy is far more well-known. Because of this, coupled with his Magnetic Hero tendencies and the sheer craziness he gets himself, several villains have developed a great respect for Luffy, normally coupled with an interest in fighting him:
  • First there was Lucci and Jabra who, after listening to the fight with Foxy, both wished to fight him one-on-one.
  • Then there is Sengoku after the whole business with Lily Carnation; he developed similar respect towards Luffy for ridding the world of Lily. Granted, this was before the Straw Hats literally gave him a heart attack in Enies Lobby...
  • During the assault of Enies Lobby, Doflamingo himself announces that he wants to see, more than anything, the sheer madness that will arrive from the Era of the Straw Hat Pirates.
  • Finally, pretty much all of his Supernova rivals hold him in incredibly high esteem. Kid outright calls him the gold standard for every pirate of their generation since he beat Crocodile, and Capone Bege declares that due to Luffy inspiring him to rob the Marines' gold stockpile, he owes Luffy a debt that will take years to repay.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • The narrative outright states that Luffy is the only opponent Lucci will ever see as an equal, for giving him "the fight of his life".
  • Crocodile also clearly views him as this; he bears no grudge against Luffy for ruining his plans and is pleased by all his accomplishments as it mitigates the humiliation of said defeat.
  • Kuma, while more subtle about it than both Lucci and Crocodile and not actually a genuine enemy considering his connections with the Revolutionary Army, also holds Luffy in such regard. Unlike the final canon encounter between himself and Kuma in Sabaody Archipelago, this time Luffy not only manages actually instill a amount of fear into Kuma with his rage, but he also manages to land some pretty brutal blows on The Warlord that actually has Kuma admiring the younger man. This all ends with Kuma metaphorically tipping his hat towards Luffy by calling him by his given name instead of his Red Baron epithet just before sending him away.
• Written by the Winners: Part of his plan when he finally takes the Pirate King's crown: to redefine the whole idea of 'pirate' so that adventurous pirates like him will be the real pirates and the Rape, Pillage, and Burn assholes will be the wannabe fakes.

Roronoa Zoro

"Pirate Hunter" Roronoa Zoro — Bounty: ฿150,000,000

First Mate of the Straw Hat Pirates, a warrior who wields three swords and aspires to become the World's Greatest Swordsman.

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Like in canon, he begged Kuma to take him instead of Luffy. In this story, Kuma was there for Cross as well and shocked the swordsman by saying that his sacrifice would only make him release one of them.
• Blood Knight: He loves nothing more than a good fight.
• Clean Cut: Zoro's strongest attack since Enies Lobby is One Sword Style Asura: Imperial Lion's Anthem. Ideally, it cuts a battleship in half. If performed 'incorrectly', it cuts the sea and the sky as well while the battleship is cut halfway through and collapses under its own weight the rest of the way.
• Cool Sword: Wields one in each hand and one between his teeth.
• Code Name: As a Straw Hat confidante and thus privy to the New World Masons, he is given the codename Sidewinder.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Cross began training under him after the crew entered the Grand Line, and considering how hard Zoro trains himself, it's not surprising that he's like this. And after The Reveal, it only gets worse for him; he barely considers it worth it.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: When Cross confronts Zoro about his apparent knowledge about Baroque Works, he points out that while he sleeps too much, obsesses over swords too much, and is generally grumpy, he's never been needlessly sadistic. Zoro just grouses that he's not grumpy. Soundbite is surprised that that's what he takes issue with.
• The Lancer: All of the crew is loyal to Luffy, but none more than Zoro.
• Mr. Fanservice: His female crewmates enjoy watching him while exercising, and after the SBS gains a video component, enough of his workout routines are broadcasted that he is definitely viewed as this in-universe. Enough that Cross has to blacklist a lot of his female viewership calling in with rather indecent questions.
• No Sense of Direction: He was this in canon, he couldn't be any less here.
  • During the G-8 fight, Zoro is outside the base. Soundbite is keeping an eye on him, but the latter takes his focus off the former for ten seconds... and suddenly Zoro is inside the kitchen fridge.
• Secret-Keeper: Shortly after Cross's promotion to third mate, he and Nami begin serving as confidants for sensitive information.
• Sworn Brothers: Conducts a sake sharing ceremony with Nami and Cross at the end of the Thriller Bark arc, cementing them as siblings.
• Took a Level in Badass: To a lesser degree due to how badass he is normally, but by Enies Lobby, he manages to One-Hit KO Vice Admiral Momonga, and cut through his ship, the sea and the sky behind him in the process. Momonga wasn't using his Haki for offense (at first), but even he admits Zoro has him beat in traditional swordsmanship.
• Willfully Weak: In the "don't want to use an advantage" sense; Zoro is too much of a traditionalist, where swordsmanship is concerned, to lace his blades with sea prism stone, even after the crew obtains a sizeable supply. However, sea prism stone caps on the pommels are acceptable.
  • One-time and necessary advantages are also acceptable, like putting salt paste on his swords to combat the zombies of Thriller Bark.
• The Worf Effect: An interesting play with the trope — while he was still able to beat Ryuma on Thriller Bark, even after the latter went all-out, he had to redirect the zombie samurai's attack back at him to win, and was pretty clearly at a severe disadvantage strength-wise. And this was Ryuma without Haki, after his body had been decaying for several centuries, and "powered" by Brook's shadow (who, while skilled, is still a relatively less skilled swordsman than Ryuma).
• Wrecked Weapon: Yubashiri, as in canon. Zoro manages to save it from complete destruction thanks to Cross's forewarning, but the damage is still too severe for the Water 7 blacksmith to fix before the crew leaves, and so Zoro leaves it behind. When he unexpectedly meets up with Tashigi later, he reluctantly offers to give it to her as compensation for beating her in a duel.
• What You Are in the Dark: He fully intended to sacrifice his dream to Kuma for Luffy and Cross.
• Zorro Mark: Done via his Three-Sword Style Burst — Five Sense Ravager attack. Zoro put the Straw Hat Jolly Roger on the gold pillar to claim it as his.

Nami

"Weather Witch" Nami — Bounty: ฿125,000,000

Second Mate, Navigator, and Treasurer of the Straw Hat Pirates, a treasure-loving master of meteorology who dreams of drawing a map of the entire world.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: When she saw a glint from a far-off battleship, Nami assumed it was a sniper, and threw up a mirage to throw off said sniper's aim. What it actually was, was Admiral Kizaru attempting to warp over to the Bridge and slaughter them all. Bottom line? Nami not only accidentally defeated Kizaru without even realizing it, she refracted him clear into the Red Line.
• Action Girl: Initially, Nami is not a fighter, but her navigation skills make her one of the most important members of the crew. Before reaching Alabasta, Nami asks Usopp to make her a weapon so she can help in combat as well, and she gains the Clima-Tact, making her able to fight. After adding the Eisen Dial, Nami's improved to become a One-Man Army like the rest of the crew.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Upon hearing that Kuma would release only Luffy or Cross with Zoro's sacrifice, she offers up her own head and dream to save the two.
• Almighty Janitor: While technically her position is only the navigator, her word is law on all matters related to sailing, finance, and the day-to-day management of resources, thus making her the unofficial quartermaster. At this point, even she's quite a bit stronger than her 125,000,000 bounty would imply thanks to the massive and dangerous upgrades she made to her Clima Tact. This is Truth in Television: In Real Life pirate ships, outside of battle, the quartermaster held just as much, if not more, power than the ship's captain.
• Badass Adorable: She's a very cute young lady, and she knows it, but she's also far from helpless. She even sometimes lampshades it.
• Badass Boast: Shortly before arriving at Sabaody, Nami comments to Cross how despite her efforts to stay "normal", she's actually become quite the badass who's definitely earned her Supernova level bounty.
• Badass Bookworm: Nami is a master navigator as well as a master cartographer, to the point where Arlong considered her skills on par with the "superior" fishmen since the maps were superior to any fishman's. When Luffy destroyed her room at Arlong Park, maps of both bathymetric and geographic nature were seen, indicating Nami has a wide variety of cartographic skills. She is capable of formulating advanced equations in mere minutes to predict a precise course of action, although she usually needs to write the equations down when formulating them. She has the innate ability to sense changes in the weather, and can even predict the appearance of supposedly unpredictable cyclones in the Grand Line, even when running a high fever. Heck, in the Strong World arc, she's shown to singlehandedly outclass an entire crew of specialists armed with advanced equipment.
• Badass Normal: She has no Devil Fruit powers, but the Clima-Tact more than makes up for it.
• Bavarian Fire Drill: In Chapter 32, Nami accidentally finds herself impersonating a Marine Captain and takes Drill Sergeant Nasty up a notch as she yells at a Marine for bumping into her.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted. The aftermath of taking Cross's pain onto herself really beats her up, and leaves her left arm badly scarred on account of her clawing at it in an attempt to escape the pain.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do not touch Nami's tangerine trees unless you have her express permission. Soundbite apparently took a single leaf once in the past, and whatever happened after put him off of them for good.
  • Having to leave a potential treasure is one. When Cross tells her they'll have to leave some of the gold pillar behind, she strangles him and threatens to eat his entrails.
• Black Magician Girl: Nami has all the trimmings of this due to her Clima-Tact: she's among the weakest of the crew in a physical fight, but she's able to control weather effects as though they're magic spells being cast from a staff (with lightning being her specialty, although she's more than proficient with heat, wind, cold, water, sea clouds, and illusory techniques as well). Some of her opponents have even referred to her as a witch in response to her fighting style.
• Blow You Away: Since she can control the weather with her Clima-Tact, she can use this to attack. It's how she defeated Miss Doublefinger.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Nami briefly falls victim to one of Miss Goldenweek's Color Traps, which makes her attack Cross and Vivi, though they're able to quickly snap her out of it.
• Cat Fight: Gets into these all the time, but her fight with Kalifa in which Nami herself is scantily clad and getting rubbed all over by the just-as-buxom, fishnet-fond Kalifa using her "Slippery wet soap powers" takes the cake.
• Chekhov's Skill: When she starts wondering if her skills as a thief would be able to help the crew in the future, Cross brings up a few pertinent ones, including lock picking. Said lock picking comes in handy when they end up in Crocodile's cage under Rain Dinners.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: She's quite adept with these (to the point where Cross once wonders if she ate the Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Cheshire while he was unconscious). Notable instances:
  • When she's gloating to Kureha about Cross getting out of her medical bills.
  • When fighting Kalifa, who is already peeved, while taunting her. Kalifa goes berserk.
• Classy Cat-Burglar: Nami definitely qualifies — First, she is a master thief, being able to steal items off of her victims without them noticing. Second, her animal motif is a cat, the animal most associated with being sneaky like a thief.
• Code Name: As a Straw Hat confidant and thus privy to the New World Masons, she is given the codename Callie (short for California Mountain Snake).
• Confusion Fu: One of the Clima-Tact's abilities is to create several fake Nami illusions. It also makes her look like any one of them, meaning it's not a good idea to rely on the fact that they all look different from her.
• Cool Bike: Her Waver, which Pagaya modified to be a one-man portable affair. It's strong enough to allow her to drive through the whirlpools and massive waves around Enies Lobby, allowing her to reach the gate controls and slam the Gates of Justice in Sengoku's (and the Marine fleet's) face. Unfortunately, it's destroyed by Shiki in Chapter 57.
• Defiant to the End: Is this to the "Golden Lion" Shiki.
  Nami: Fulfill my wish first and then I'll join. And don't worry, it's an easy one.
  Shiki: Deal! What is it?
  Nami: (smiling beatifically) Kill yourself.
  (Beat)
  Shiki: (laughs for eight seconds, and then grabs Nami by the throat) Alright, listen here, baby—! (pauses as he sees the defiance in her eyes) ...You really aren't afraid of me, are you?
  Nami: I... grew up... with evil... and I've... faced death... with a smile... you're... nothing... new...
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: As detailed in Achievements in Ignorance above, she accidentally defeated a Marine Admiral.
• Discard and Draw: During the Strong World arc, her Waver is destroyed by Shiki. She makes up for it by allying with the electric pea-duck Billy as a mount.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: The Marines consider her this. Which is justified, given how much stronger she is than them and her overwhelming greed.
  Marine: Don't look her in the eye, lest she take your very soul and make you pay interest to get it back!
• Fire, Ice, Lightning: The Clima-Tact's most basic function is to create three types of air bubbles named the Heat Ball, Cool Ball, and Thunder Ball. It used to be a slight subversion in that with the first version of the Clima-Tact, the Heat and Cool Balls were useless as attacks, and tended to be used for weather manipulation only. Once it got upgraded, the Heat and Cool Balls became strong enough to inflict damage to enemies (albeit relatively minor damage) in their base form.
• Five-Finger Discount: Part of her thieving history involves pickpocketing. During the Skelter Bite arc, she greets Apoo and pickpockets him while he pickpockets her in return. Later on, she attempts to do this to Capone Bege only to say to the man he has no wallet to steal.
• Glass Cannon: Starting with the Enies Lobby arc, Nami's Clima-Tact becomes a weapon of mass destruction; with enough setup, it can produce lightning on the scale of Eneru's Mamaragan. That said, Nami herself is a normal human and if the enemy can get to her they rarely have a hard time subduing her.
• Had to Be Sharp: Living a life as a thief working under an oppressive fishman pirate has led to her developing quite a few skills just to survive, including lockpicking, stealth, acting, and observation. In particular, the last one includes looking out for telltale glints of light, which could indicate gold to be snatched up or snipers homing in on her (which almost got her killed one time).
• Hairpin Lockpick: In lieu of using Mr. 3's powers to open the Straw Hats' cage under Rain Dinners, Nami used this to get them out. She scoffed at the fact that Crocodile would use such a common lock.
• I Shall Taunt You: She enjoys tormenting her opponents when she has the upper hand. No surprise, since she's been on the sidelines for so long. Notable instance: she deliberately taunts an already incensed Kalifa despite knowing how dangerous she is, utilizing Cross's prophetic taunt:
  Nami: Maybe Conis misinformed me. But I thought you said that you'd sooner kiss Cross than take his advice? Because from my point of view... You're looking really bubbly right now.
• Instant Expert: Her weather knowledge allows her to master Ohm's Eisen Whip in less than five minutes.
• The Immodest Orgasm: She has one when Cross tells her the Straw Hats will become incredibly rich.
• Impossible Thief: Cross Lampshades this when she, somehow, manages to locate and steal all of the Accino family treasure in a couple of minutes.
• Made of Iron: By normal human standards, especially for someone of her thin build, Nami is this. In the instances she fights, she occasionally takes direct blows from what are superhumans and continues fighting.
• Magic Staff: Her Clima-Tact, a Weather-Control Machine and her signature weapon. Enhanced with the Eisen Dial in this story.
• Martial Arts Staff: Before obtaining the Clima-Tact, Nami's only method of defense was bojutsu with a three-piece staff. After Boss and his students join, Nami has Donny give her help in reestablishing that skill.
• Money Fetish: Cross unintentionally found out that this is literal for Nami, as his dramatic declaration of how rich their crew will become causes Nami to orgasm, much to his horror. In Chapter 31, she actually dry-humps a pillar of gold. And whatever she does with it while behind closed doors, it causes Robin to beg for Brain Bleach after seeing it.
• Never Gets Drunk: Openly admits that her tolerance has gotten so high that she simply can't get drunk anymore, courtesy of her Dark and Troubled Past. She even downed an organ-destroying amount of alcohol and was completely fine. Though COMЯADE-Grade South Blue vodka is too much, even for her.
• One-Woman Army: Nami has more than earned her place as this. She was already fairly powerful, but in the Enies Lobby Arc, she is able to take down ten Marine Battleships all on her own. This earns her a spot as one of the Supernovas.
• Only Sane Man: Frequently falls into this role.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: Nami's knowledge of weather, as well as her innate instincts, allow her to use the Clima-Tact to the best of its ability. Even Usopp, who created it, is flabbergasted at what Nami is capable of with it.
• Proud Beauty: She's attractive, she knows it, and knows how to use it to her advantage.
• Psychoactive Powers: The first time she uses the Eisen Dial in an actual fight, the clouds generated are shown to react to her subconscious thoughts (like strangling Cross) unless she actively gets a hold on them.
• Secret-Keeper: Shortly after Luffy promotes Cross to be the third mate, she and Zoro begin serving as confidants for sensitive information.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Besides her "Happiness Punch", she also changes on the Rocketman in full view of everyone.
• Shock Stick: Her Perfect Clima-Tact is a Weather-Control Machine compressed into a staff, and one of its three sections controls its electrical output. This section has been used as a weapon on its own at least twice (once against Kalifa on Water 7 and once against Absalom at Thriller Bark).
• Super-Senses: Nami can detect Yoko spying on her due to the change in air currents.
• Swiss-Army Superpower: The Eisen Dial embedded into her Clima-Tact allows her to create solid constructs out of Iron Clouds.
• Sworn Brothers: Conducts a sake sharing ceremony with Zoro and Cross at the end of the Thriller Bark arc, cementing them as siblings.
• Tattoo as Character Type: Her canon tattoo (mikan and pinwheel) on her left shoulder counts, but after she damages it with the scars she gets on Thriller Bark, she takes the chance to update it with a lattice of storm clouds and lightning as a symbol of her decision to stand on the front lines as her mother did.
• Tempting Fate: She really shouldn't have kept opening her mouth when Cross said he wanted to get the heck out of Enies Lobby before the Marines (including Sengoku) broke through the Gates she just slammed shut in their faces. As it turns out, the top two brass there (Garp and Sengoku) are fully capable of smashing through them if they have enough time.
• Took a Level in Badass: Due to both her training and Cross telling her Kalifa's abilities in advance, Nami effortlessly takes the assassin down in Water 7.
  • Also applies when she integrates Ohm's Eisen Dial into her Clima-Tact.
    • Her aforementioned warping Kizaru into the Red Line.
    • Frying ten battleships during the escape from Enies Lobby.
  • All of this eventually culminates in her becoming one of the Supernovas.
• Touché: When she first sees the pillar of gold in Skypiea, she initially "offers" to let the crew have ten percent of the gold they can take with them. See the following...
  Nami: STINGY?! I'M LETTING THE CREW HAVE TEN PERCENT OF ALL THE GOLD WE'VE FOUND! THAT'S NOT STINGY, THAT'S GENEROUS BEYOND ALL BELIEF!
  Luffy: THAT'S NOT EVEN ENOUGH FOR HALF OF MY MEAT SUPPLY! WE NEED AT LEAST EIGHTY PERCENT!
  Nami: Ugh, you and that stupid appetite... FINE, TWELVE PERCENT!
  Luffy: NINETY PERCENT!
  Nami: YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY, DUMBASS!
  Luffy: I'm just following your modus operandi!
  Nami: Ah... Beat Alright, fair enough...
• Water Is Womanly: Nami has a water motif: her name means "wave" in Japanese, she's the navigator of the Straw Hats' ship, wears a bikini top after the time skip, and can control the weather with her Clima-Tact. She's quite feminine, having cute mannerisms, compassion for children, and pride in her good looks, and frequently reels in the more rambunctious male members of her crew.
• Weak, but Skilled: After gaining Ohm's Eisen Dial, she shows far greater mastery of it in just a few minutes than its previous wielder ever did. She’s Strong and Skilled compared to normal people, however.
• Weather-Control Machine: The Clima-Tact, one of these in the form of a staff, is Nami's weapon of choice. Chapter 53 has Usopp reinforce the orbs with sea prism stone.
• What You Are in the Dark: When she learns that Kuma only will release either Luffy or Cross and not both due to Zoro's sacrifice, she too intends to sacrifice her own dream alongside Zoro to get the two captured allies released.
• Women Are Wiser: Along with Robin, she often has to express common sense since few of her male crewmembers, especially her captain Luffy, possess it. On the other hand, Nami has her own blind spots (such as the promise of wealth) and has to be reeled in by the others in turn.
• Wrecked Weapon:
  • During the events of Strong World, her Waver was destroyed by Shiki. Billy salvages the Jet Dial engine, which Usopp later uses in building a saddle for Billy.
  • During the confrontation with Kizaru on Sabaody Archipelago, her Clima-Tact is half-melted by one of Kizaru's laser blasts. Usopp seemingly manages to repair the damage after the fight.

Usopp

"Sniper King" Usopp — Bounty: ฿40,000,000

Sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates, a coward and a liar with unequaled marksmanship skills who dreams of becoming as great a pirate as his father.

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• Bad Liar/Consummate Liar: It depends on the circumstances which one he is; his tall tales are typically outrageous enough to be unbelievable, but at the same time, he's pulled off a lot with his bluffs.
• The Blacksmith: An atypical example, but he is responsible for many of the crew's weapons and armor, be it building, repairing, or upgrading them.
• Brats with Slingshots: Unassuming at first glance, but in Usopp's hands, it's as threatening as a gun, especially with the variety of Trick Bullets he has on hand. Moreover, if he runs out of ammo, he doesn't need to find more gunpowder and can just shoot rocks.
• Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Chapter 53 has him mentioning some special sea prism stone ammunition for him and Conis.
• Fake Special Attack: Played straight with a few of his attacks, including his Turtle Wave and Usopp Pound moves, but subverted with variations of those moves that are genuinely dangerous.
• Gadgeteer Genius: As the physically weakest member of the crew, he leans heavily on these skills to keep up with the rest of the Straw Hats. And considering the fact that apart from his versatile arsenal he built and upgraded Nami's Clima-Tact, Vivi's Lion Cutters, and Cross and Carue's armor, and that said weapons have a reputation for being extremely durable, it's clear that said skills are a force to be reckoned with.
• Hero Worship: He idolizes his father Yasopp, even after he left the family to become a pirate. After meeting Brogy, Usopp develops a similar idolism towards the Giant Warrior Race of Elbaf.
• I Like Those Odds: Usopp's thoughts on facing roughly 2500 enemy Marines with at most 70 people on his sides?
  "These poor bastards don't even stand a chance."
• It's Raining Men: His Usopp Skyglider a.k.a. a parachute.
• Lovable Coward: The basis of his personality.
• Manchild: Not to the extent of Luffy. but aside from Chopper and the aforementioned Luffy, he's the one most likely to be seen goofing around, playing silly pranks, and getting excited over boyish things like robots.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Nami will never let him forget about his trying to put party tricks into her Clima-Tact, as evidenced when she says she'll be going over every page of the blueprints for the saddle he's making for Billy.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Cross reassures Usopp that while he'll always be the weakest member of the crew, that only means he's the weakest out of the world's strongest crew, and one day he'd have the epithets of "Sniper King" and "God".
• Took a Level in Badass: After Boss and TDWS join the crew, Usopp steps up on his training, to the point that he takes out 1/3 of an army that tries to storm the Merry in Mock Town.
  • And during the Enies Lobby Arc, he manages to utilize Shave.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Given the constant moral support he receives from Cross, the admiration he receives for his sniping skills and constantly feeling useful, since he is responsible for many of the crew's weapons and armor, this Usopp is much more optimistic and cheerful than its canon counterpart.
• Wake Up Fighting: Once sniped down the Unluckies with a single shot within milliseconds of being roused from unconsciousness.

Vinsmoke Sanji

"Black Leg" Vinsmoke Sanji — Bounty: ฿90,000,000

Chef of the Straw Hat Pirates, a lady-loving man with unparalleled culinary skills and kicks stronger than cannons. He dreams of finding the All Blue, a legendary sea that is a home to all species of fish in the world. He later reveals he is actually the third prince of a group of assassins known as the Vinsmoke Family whom he disowned due to his past.

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• Age-Gap Algebra:
  "Shirahoshi might forever be out of my reach by way of half-plus-seven, but surely there must be other women who I can grasp!"
• Almighty Janitor: After the Alabasta Arc, Sanji doesn't receive a bounty like Zoro or Luffy, despite being as strong as them, and having even played a big role into defeating Crocodile when he saves his entire crew from a deadly trap. Outside of bounties, despite being one of the best fighters of the crew, Sanji's official position is the cook.
• Armed Legs: In Chapter 53, Usopp makes special soles out of sea prism stone for his shoes.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Despite the above Almighty Janitor and below Badass instances, Sanji will likely lose his train of thought if a pretty woman comes into his focus.
• Badass Normal: Not normal by our standards, but he's the only Straw Hat to not use either a Devil Fruit, a weapon or an animal companion, so he's literally just going with the rest of the crew and fighting with just his own two feet. Despite this, he's one of the three strongest members of the crew.
• Berserk Button: Never insult or hurt a lady in front of him, especially not a lady on his crew. And even more importantly, never, ever waste food in front of him.
• Burning with Anger:
  • When Conis is hit with one of Ohm's Iron Clouds, Sanji goes berserk to the extent that he subconsciously uses both Diable Jambe (with the power of the post-Kamabakka "Flames of Hell") and Sky Walk against the priest. Unfortunately, it doesn't last.
  • Upon learning what Absalom did to Robin and Nami in canon, he spontaneously bursts into flames and takes multiple crew members to hold down.
• Chef of Iron: One of the main bases of his personality.
• Chivalrous Pervert: One of the main bases of his personality.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: A culinary example. The Death's Door Lunchbox contains enough nutrients to feed an army of normal humans for seven days, while enough to bring Luffy back from the brink of death. He explicitly warns Luffy not to eat it unless he was absolutely starving and needed excess energy, otherwise, the concentration of nutrients could kill him.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Sanji reveals his time before meeting Zeff was this when he lived in the Germa Kingdom.
• Didn't Think This Through: His reaction after running into Blueno's pocket dimension to prevent him from using it.
• Extremity Extremist: Since a chef's hands are his life, he relies exclusively on his feet to attack. And as stated above, he's trained enough that his kicks are stronger than cannons.
• Genre Savvy: At end of the Little East Blue arc, Sanji remarks that he knows enough about comic plotlines to know they're going to be in the thick of whatever scares Boss Kabuto so much.
• Haute Cuisine Is Weird: On Kamabakka Kingdom, when Sanji mutters his fear of how his Death's Door Lunchbox could kill Luffy by overnutrition if not consumed at his weakest state, the Okama Juliet offers a way to improve his recipe with the use of a rotary evaporator (a lab device repurpose to distillate and extract food qualities). Sanji laments to himself that he isn't keen on this future of cooking.
• Mafia Princess: Rather, Mafia Prince, he's the third son of the Vinsmoke Family, although he rejects them due to his past.
• Meaningful Name: "San-ji", which means "Third Child", as in the third child of the Vinsmoke Family.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Cross unleashes him on the Marines by telling him that they scarred Vivi. The results are predictably vicious and fiery.
• Playing with Fire: His Diable Jambe is this, especially when he combines it with his version of the Tempest Kick.
• Razor Wind: Apéritif, his version of the Tempest Kick.
• Secret Legacy: In Chapter 59, he reveals his past being part of the Vinsmoke Family to the Straw Hat Pirates, much to the surprise of everyone, including Cross.
• Shed the Family Name: His family name is Vinsmoke, but he rejects it as he doesn't want to be related to them after being disowned.
• Spit Take: Sometimes he starts choking on his cigarette whenever Cross makes a seemingly-innocuous remark. Usually whenever he mentions secret agents and family.
• Supreme Chef: Dude manages to make cloth and oil smell and look delicious when he prepares something for Merry.
• Took a Level in Badass: He was already one in canon, but by Enies Lobby, he is fully capable of combining the aforementioned Apéritif with his Diable Jambe flames to send out flaming air blades that can cut through pretty much anything.
  • And during Thriller Bark, his finishing move against Absalom is Hell Memories, fueled by his memories of an iron mask, an attack he only used previously post-time skip.
• White Sheep: Of the Vinsmoke family when he confesses his past in Chapter 59. Unlike other examples, he's glad to be disowned by them.

Jeremiah Cross

"Voice of Anarchy" Jeremiah Cross a.k.a. Ophiuchus — Bounty: ฿1,500,000,000 (shared with Soundbite)

The story's Author Avatar, third mate, tactician, public relations and co-communications officer of the Straw Hat Pirates.During the Time Skip, he and his partners are sent by Kuma to the hidden level of hell, Serpent, where the worst of the World Government's enemies are sent to be forgotten.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: His systematic obliteration of the World Government's reputation has the accidental side effect of the destruction of the modeling industry, after an interview with Saint Charloss reveals that the World Nobles use fashion magazines to not only search for spouses, but to also kill anyone of notable beauty for daring to equal the radiance of the Celestial Dragons. Cross nearly has an aneurysm once he comes to this realization.
  • Later, his revelation over the SBS that the Five Elder Stars were an Unwitting Instigator of Doom to their own plans for the Summit War by warning the Straw Hats about it leads to Imu summoning the Elder Stars before the SBS even ends, implicitly to — at best — chew them out.
• Action Survivor: In comparison to his crewmates, Cross isn't really a fighter. All of the battles he gets that aren't against Mooks or Spandam into generally devolve to running from his enemy until he finds a way to either lose them or knock them out safely. Even then, he gets pretty injured, as attested by his many scars. And while it does sound kinda pathetic, the true reason as to why he qualifies for this is the fact that he doesn't really need to put himself in danger — as attested by Smoker — but he does so anyway for the sake of his friends and the beliefs he shares with them.
• Actually Pretty Funny: When Soundbite pulls his SBS interruption with the "But it was me, Dio!" meme, Cross starts to rage only to begin laughing and admit it was funny, especially since they started the SBS by playing Sono Chi no Sadame.
• Agony of the Feet: After Wapol ate himself to reduce his bulk, Cross got the idea to kick his remaining chin like a football. Unfortunately, it still weighs as much as the actual Wapol, so Cross only managed to hurt his own foot.
• Angrish: In Cross' own words, he's not coherent when he's hurt. He'll shout out a jumble of swears if he's injured particularly bad enough, like when he injured his foot trying to kick the compressed Wapol.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • The Unluckies were this for a while, as they despised him so much that they refused to retire until he's dead. A canon Deleted Scene has them dial this attitude back after witnessing the multiple levels he's taken from Enies Lobby to Strong World, however.
  • Sengoku, who calls him the biggest aggravation of his career, if not his life. It's ultimately one-sided though, as while Cross has lost a lot of respect for him, there is no personal animosity on his side of the equation.
  • If there's anyone that Cross really hates, it's Aokiji. On top of screwing up several of Cross's plans, Aokiji's final parting shot to Robin at the end of the crew's first confrontation with the admiral nearly destroyed her and her faith in the Straw Hats and led to the Enies Lobby arc, where she (along with everyone else) almost died multiple times. After Cross finds out that Aokiji was directly responsible for Ace's capture, leading to the War of the Best happening right on schedule, he gives up on Aokiji entirely and makes it all too clear that he will never be willing to forgive the ice-man, and that as far as he's concerned, all the terrible things that will come about as the result of the war are entirely Aokiji's fault.
• Armor-Piercing Response: When Robin tries to press Cross for an answer on how he's so knowledgeable, even trying to seduce him, Cross tells her she'll answer her question on one condition. When she asks what that is, he tells her to tell the crew about the day Ohara died. This completely shatters Robin's attempts and outright scares her.
• A Taste of Power: Cross gets a glimpse of how strong he'll be post-Time Skip when the Straw Hats meet Wyvern, i.e. his future self who's nearing the end of the training period.
• Badass in Distress: Badass might be stretching it when you compare him to the Monster Trio or the other combat-capable members of the Straw Hats, but Kuma sent Cross to the worst place possible. The Eternally Rotting Tree Serpent, the "Seventh Hell" in the shadow of the Red Line. Although details of the place are scarce, Soundbite, Lassoo, and Funkfreed have been fighting to keep Cross alive non-stop since they got there.
• Badass Normal: At the start of the story, Cross has zero combat capabilities whatsoever, and since he's from our world, he lacks the superhuman endurance common in the world of One Piece. He makes up for it with his intelligence, future knowledge of the story (at least until his usage of said knowledge starts creating butterflies), and Soundbite. As the story progresses, he starts growing into his own and, while nowhere near as strong as the more normal members of the Straw Hats, he's capable of holding his own fairly well. And from what is seen during Cross’s breakdown when he creates a small crater with a single punch hints that Cross may end up becoming strong enough to take on more than solely mooks like he always intended in the crew’s strength hierarchy.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: From the moment he entered the One Piece world, Cross looked forward to when he'd get his own bounty. However, the insanely high price that Garp had placed on him was more than he bargained for.
• Berserk Button: Do not call him any variation of Jeremiah, and do not mess with Soundbite.
  • Spandam's entire existence. Cross absolutely and completely loathes him, to the point of telling the crew point blank that he would have no issues in killing him. Or torturing him.
  • Out-of-series references are another, more comical button. It grates heavily on his sanity whenever Soundbite (or by extension B.R.O.B) gives any animal a voice from a different series, and even more so when their names happen to match. To the point where he wonders if they're intentionally trying to drive him insane at some points.
  • On a more serious note, bigotry really pisses him off. In chapter 67, he finally snaps for what is only the second time in the story and goes on a massive "Reason You Suck" Speech toward Kuroobi and Chew on how their behavior led to the rise of Hody Jones and the representation of pointless cruelty. Enough so he begins foaming at the mouth and was about to get violent before Koala knocked him out... and Luffy was holding him back the whole time!
    • In Chapter 74, he gets engaged with another random bigot who wants him to stop broadcasting fishman equality on the SBS because "they're freaks". He doesn't bother trying to talk; it takes all of his self-restraint to settle for knocking the ass out cold with his bare fist, rather than going for the Impact Dial and hoping it would blow him to bits.
  Cross: Last time I tried talking sense to a couple of stupid bigots who wouldn't hear my words, I snapped. It's an exercise in futility and I am distinctly not in the mood.
  • Do not put him through an Amnesia Episode. He hates them and after going through the Filler one for the anime he clobbers the party responsible.
  • Hypocrisy and denying any responsibility for your own actions tend to be lower yield though no less provocative subjects for him. Usually when he gives a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to any Marine officer it's either kickstarted or focused around one or both of these subjects. When Aokiji shows up Cross emphatically wants to avoid aggravating him for risk of might happen but when the Admiral tries twisting things in his Breaking Speech to paint Robin in the worst light possible (which "conveniently" excised his role and misdoings in those events) Cross has enough and returns fire, delivering a tirade that ends with him bringing up exactly what Aokiji's old friend Saul would really think about his actions.
  • He doesn't like the notion that just being a pirate means he has no morals. There are pirates like that, and he's aware of it, but he and his crew do not fall into that camp, thank you very much.
  • He didn't precisely lose it and was coming off of a massive blow-up but Cross did get testy when Koala assumed that he had some Freudian Excuse for hating bigotry so much rather than that he's just morally opposed to it.
• Beware the Silly Ones: While this trope applies to all of the Straw Hats, it bears repeating for Cross. He’s just as self-indulgently zany as the rest of his crew, but there’s a reason the World Government considers him the single greatest threat their regime has ever faced.
• Beyond the Impossible: B.R.O.B. reveals directly to Cross that he's managed through sheer force of will to fight against fate, which to their admission, is supposed to be outright impossible since the higher-up entities work to decisively railroad and "correct" any attempts to alter history, and yet against all odds, Cross had managed to save two lives that were supposed to have unfailably died; the first being Merry. While B.R.O.B. did intervene on that moment, they only provided the absolute bare minimum, and yet Cross still managed to save her. The second was Ace, who through Cross's connections is able to leave Marineford alive due to Dragon and Sabo arriving at the literal last minute due to being warned by Cross himself in spite of believing that they ultimately wouldn't arrive at all. As a result, B.R.O.B. has taken an interest in Cross compared to all the other beings they've thrown into similar situations who couldn't make the par.
• Brass Balls: Lampshaded when he asks why Nami is always attacking his head or his groin, she yells back that they're both such large targets.
• Break the Haughty: As much as Cross has made massive strides to change the world of One Piece for the better, it was becoming apparent that Cross was becoming quite cocky using his meta knowledge to always "flip the script". And despite knowing how the universe, or more specifically B.R.O.B., autocorrects any massive changes, Cross tries to cause in order to retain the outline of the story, he still was confident in his capabilities to make changes, with everything else he accomplished beforehand. At least till the last venture of Paradise came to completely shatter that confidence in himself. By the end of the Sabaody Arc, Cross's mindset had been dragged through the wringer, having to suffer an exhaustive SBS with Saint Charloss, the realization that Doflamingo had been pulling the strings behind everything they've done, and that Ace has still been captured and slated for execution, capped off with Kuma outright telling him he's powerless to do anything more about it. By the end, he's despairing over the fact that even with his newfound Herculean strength and all the new crew members, skills, and weapons they've gained up to now, it's still just not enough to match up with the top powers of the world.
• Break Them by Talking: It's practically his weapon, and undoubtedly his most dangerous; every time someone allows him to open his mouth, it proves to be more than they can handle. Vivi's masquerade as Miss Wednesday? Broken. Smoker and Tashigi's faith in the Navy's justice? Broken. Aokiji's unflappably nonchalant demeanor? Broken. Kaku and Kalifa's flawless masquerades? Broken. Hogback's intention not to tell the world about Thriller Bark? Broken. And those are just the ones he did on purpose.
  Zoro: ...damn it, why did I make the one mistake everyone makes and let you open your mouth?
• But Not Too Foreign: Chapter 66 reveals he's half-French and he says he spent some years growing up in France. But, still, he considers himself American first.
• Catchphrase: "Pi~ra~te." Said in a singsong voice whenever he justifies his underhandedness by the fact that he is a career criminal.
• Chairman of the Brawl: He begins the Supernova Bar Brawl on Skelter Bite by taking a chair and smashing it clean across Killer's face.
• The Chew Toy: Between bites to the ear, strangulation, broken noses, Groin Attacks (usually from Vivi), Zoro's Training from Hell, or generally being laid out cold by whomever he draws ire from, Cross is very well acquainted with physical abuse.
• Chick Magnet: Downplayed. He doesn't fall into the pit some self-inserts do of being harem protagonist-tier chick magnets, but his radical leanings do make him attractive to girls who share the same views. His "world-shaking" plan makes Koala barely able to hold herself back from making out with him and Sandersonia practically goes feral with lust. As in she was ready to pounce on him till Koala knocked her out. And even when Cross was barely fending off a Heroic BSoD, Sandersonia still found him taking charge and telling her to shut up getting her blood flowing. And considering the utter hell he will be enduring for the next two years, Cross honestly deserves to have some sort of happiness at some point.
  • This comes up again in Impel Downfall Pt. 1, when Marigold mentions Tashigi and Cross’s vitriolic friendship and how it could develop into something beyond that one day. Heck, Bartolomeo has a betting pot for it, so who knows how many Masons are in on it? Plus we actually see a peek of this when Tashigi towards the end of the Marineford War is actually deeply concerned for Cross and desperate to find him. But when he was nowhere to be seen, she was left beyond devastated and worried for her dear friend, considering the last chilling recording he left her and the Masons.
• Code Name: As the warden for the New World Masons, he has the codename Ophiuchus, the unofficial thirteenth member of the Western Zodiac.
• Comically Missing the Point: When Tashigi informs him that Shiki used the Snail Transceiver to broadcast visual projections of the Straw Hats' struggles, he is far more concerned over Shiki getting more viewers than he has listeners on the SBS. He does admit though he did it on purpose because he was incredibly stressed out at the moment and needed something to lighten the mood.
  Tashigi: (emotionlessly) ...Please tell me someone else is listening to you right now, Cross. Because I need to hear someone punching you for getting your priorities out of line. I need to hear you in pain.
• Cycle of Revenge: Cross kicks this off with the Unluckies, turning them into recurring antagonists. Which is part of why he deliberately doesn't do any such thing with CP9 in the aftermath of Enies Lobby.
• Deadpan Snarker: Cross's penchant for sarcastic comments is one of his many talents. On the other hand, it's also one of his biggest weaknesses, especially when dealing with dangerous nut jobs.
• Defiant to the End: Is this in the face of Eneru demanding he Kneel Before Zod, and despite the amount of Electric Torture he endures, he refuses to give in.
• Die or Fly: Unlike the other Straw Hats, this was the motivation behind Kuma's decision to send Cross to the Seventh Hell. A part of him believed that if Cross is incapable of growing strong enough to handle the chaos caused by his presence once they reach the New World, then he must die in order to take the target of being the second most-wanted man in the world off of Luffy's back and relieving him of a heavy burden.
• Disproportionate Retribution: On the receiving end. Cross's bounty was not initially specified by the narrative because it was ridiculously high — Sengoku asked for a perfectly reasonable ฿500,000,000, but somebody (*coughcoughGarpcoughcough*) forged his signature for a much higher bounty request, adding an extra 1 at the beginning and tripling it to ฿1,500,000,000.
• Double Meaning: Sometimes Cross's future info comes out like this; either because there are things he really does not want particular people to know, or simply because he wants a laugh.
• Due to the Dead: After seeing the dead body of the innocent bystander Saint Roswald killed, he slowly approaches the body, takes off his gauntlet, closes their eyes in reverence, and returns to his crew with the intent of starting the Sabaody Revolution.
• Equippable Ally: Soundbite can amplify and disguise his voice, giving him an even greater ability to screw with people. The trope is played a bit straighter with Lassoo, and later Funkfreed. And even later, both.
• The Faceless: Subverted; for the first twenty-one chapters and the Christmas Episode, the author gives no description what Cross looks like aside from his clothes, but he did have a picture before the story gave a few details, and eventually a full description in Chapter 32.
• Faking the Dead: In the Epilogue of the first half, it's hinted that Cross (along with Soundbite) did this after escaping from Serpent in order to secure his cover while he completes his timeskip training.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Cross has quite a few, but his most prominent problems are his recklessness and his mouth. His adrenaline junkie tendencies have caused him to jump In Harm's Way on a regular basis (such as against Garp), and he often doesn't quite know when to stop needling people (like Jonathan) who could very easily kill him, leading to more than a few problems arising. Aesop Amnesia doesn't even begin to describe it, as he rarely learns his lesson. B.R.O.B. even hints that this should've gotten him killed as early as Loguetown, pissing off Smoker enough to want to lash out at him while he was still Made of Plasticine, subsequently killing him by accident. And it’s unfortunately unlikely he will learn this lesson even after the timeskip
  • Later on, his anger starts to become more visible as a problem — him chewing out Aokiji both before and after Enies Lobby initially made Aokiji want to kill him, and the second time drove him away when he was having second thoughts about the Navy. Later, he tried to strangle Kuroobi and Chew after the revelation that Hody Jones killed Queen Otohime was met with denial that their actions were responsible for influencing him to do it, and had to be knocked out twice before his rage truly died out.
  • One could consider his reliance on meta knowledge another flaw, on two different fronts:
    • His failure to consider Spanners in the Works. For most of the journey, it was mostly streamlining the path that the crew followed, which was mostly successful. But after it seemed like he had succeeded in saving Ace, he got bolder with his actions. Thriller Bark was the first example of this happening: Cross's plan to flip the script worked perfectly, but with the war apparently averted, he failed to consider the possibility that Kuma could still show up, and this oversight caused them to face two Warlords in a row. The same thing happened on Sabaody: Cross's plan to dismantle the slave trade worked perfectly, but it turned out that Doflamingo had been watching the whole time and could have stopped him on a whim. And immediately afterward, he learns that he didn't stop Ace's execution after all, which he learns shortly afterward was due to Aokiji accidentally intervening.
    • The scope of his meta knowledge, while large, is still finite. He only knows as far the conclusion of the "Dressrosa" arc, and as such is left unaware about anything that happens after it. While this would normally mean he'd simply be flying blind once the Straw Hats leave Dressrosa, Oda has a habit of expanding on canonical backstories with each new arc, meaning even what Cross does know can be left inaccurate or filled with holes, which can then screw him over in the future. Such as his being unaware of Sanji's true past as a member of the Vinsmoke family before meeting Zeff, and only learning about it after the mess with Duval, Cross himself being just as caught off guard as the others due to said detail only being revealed in the "Whole Cake Island" arc. Or how one of the bigger reasons for his hatred of Aokiji was his actions at Ohara, including killing Jaguar D. Saul, when the "Egghead" arc revealed that Saul is alive, and made contact with Dr. Vegapunk while in hiding on Elbaf. Or how despite the lingering guilt Cross feels for getting Vivi exiled from her home and making Alabasta go revolutionary, he may have sped up what will and may happen in canon; since Cobra revealed to Imu and the Gorosei that he and Vivi are like their descendant Lily, apart of the .D clan. Or the fact that Cross will be completely flabbergasted by Uta’s existence and that’s not even close to what his reaction will be for Gear 5.
• Foil: To Belo Betty of the Revolutionaries. Both of them incite the public to rebel against the authority of the corrupt government, but while Belo Betty used a devil fruit explicitly tailored towards this, Cross is just an otherwise ordinary person who gets through with pure words and charisma. He's also had far more success with his endeavors, something Betty is left bitter about, feeling upstaged by a "normie" like him. In fairness, Cross's creation of the SBS allows him to reach a far larger audience than Belo Betty can, who has to be up close and in person to use her powers.
• Foregone Conclusion: A newspaper article in Epilogue shows his crucified body burning on a funeral pyre. That one of the onlookers has an "x" on his forearm raised high in the air and the existence of Wyvern, Cross' future self who is nearing the end of his training for the New World, already tells readers that Cross is Faking the Dead.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: Cross can spring into quite the Cluster F-Bomb in French when sufficiently hurt or frustrated.
• Freudian Excuse Denial: When Koala asks him "who was it?", following his raging about the stupidity and evil of slavery, both back in his own world and out on the seas here, Cross angrily tells her he doesn't have a tragic backstory connected to slavery and sure as hell doesn't need one to loathe it.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: For the World Government, he was initially an annoying pirate kid unable to shut his mouth, even when imperiled. Then he started waving their dirty laundry for everyone to see by using the SBS, and he's scarily well-informed about what's really going about. After Enies Lobby — well, he's one of the most wanted men in the world.
• Future Me Scares Me: Downplayed. Meeting Wyvern, a future version of Cross that's nearing the end of the two-year Time Skip training period, makes him excited and scared. His future self, while nowhere near Moster Trio level, is able to dismantle an entire Paradise-level bounty hunter crew by himself with no backup. On the other hand, Wyvern looks like a mummy with the copious amounts of bandages he has. Given what we learn about Serpent, Cross had every right to be concerned about how his future was going to play out.
• The Gadfly: He can either be this or a Troll. He ping-ponged himself back quite a few many times, depending on the nature of the prank.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: When rescuing a cannibal prisoner on Serpent, he cuts down the inmates assaulting her. After some hesitation while he processes his first kill, Cross deems killing worth it if that's what it would take to stay alive in this Hellhole Prison.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Cross's fighting style is straight-up brawling and his teachers agree the only way for him to get better is by fighting.
• Grappling-Hook Pistol: Makes use of the Usopp AAaaaAAAaaaAA! (a grappling hook belt) long after the Skypiea Arc is over, perfected so that it can detach.
• Gratuitous French: Cross is of mixed heritage and spent a few years living in France. He's bilingual in English and French and occasionally slips into French, like when he's cussing up a storm.
• Groin Attack: A frequent victim of this, courtesy of his angered female crewmates.
• Guile Hero: Only somewhat stronger than most Mooks, and does the majority of damage through his silver tongue, unorthodox strategies, future knowledge, and penchant for tap-dancing on Berserk Buttons.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Cross has a brief one in Chapter 19 when he realizes that it was his presence and intervention that resulted in Mr. 3 getting a second chance and killing countless civilians and Marines in Rainbase. It doesn't last long, however, before he refocuses his attention on the one who's more to blame.
  • He gets another 50 chapters later when he realizes that everything that happened in Sabaody, from them destroying the slave market to causing chaos in the Auction House to free Keimi, was all because of Donquixote Doflamingo and that he himself was Out-Gambitted.
• Hit Me, Dammit!: Seeing that Iceburg was accompanied by Kalifa and Kaku, while Franky was there with the Pluton blueprints on his person, without Cross being prepared for any of it, he desperately asked Soundbite to bite him as hard as he could. He was close to panicking and acting suspicious, which he knew would set off the undercover CP9 agents, so he needed the pain-induced swearing to not give himself away as well as give him an opening to warn Nami of the gravity of the situation.
• Honorary True Companion: To the Whitebeard Pirates. Cross alerts them about their captain's condition and how he does not have much time left, which allows the crew to let nothing go unsaid between them and their Pops.
• Hyperventilation Bag: Required one after seeing his ridiculously high bounty.
• Insistent Terminology: For the first dozen and a half chapters, he objects to being called a brat or a kid, being eighteen, and later on nineteen. He still insists on it now and then, but it's less frequent... mainly because people calling him a brat or a kid is also less frequent.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite his foreknowledge and subsequent actions to change the future, things rarely turn out very differently than before in a beneficial way, at least in the short term. This is actually his greatest fear: that despite his best efforts, he'll fail to stop the War of the Best and Ace's death. He only stops the latter by the skin of his teeth.
• Ironic Name: "Jeremiah" is the name of a biblical prophet who attempted to stop a war and turn people back to God. While Cross is also trying to stop a war from happening, the War of the Best, he's doing the exact opposite of his namesake and turns people against the World Nobles, the "gods" of the world of One Piece.
  • Of course, the name becomes less ironic if one compares the World Nobles to the false gods Israel had taken up, meaning the God in the analogy would be Nika, though Cross doesn't know about that yet.
• I Am What I Am:
  • While Cross had sought to be stronger in order to survive the world of One Piece, he eventually accepted that he’d never reach the heights of the stronger members of the crew. This was seen when he gave his pep talk to Usopp and how as a tactician and commie he trains to solely be above mooks-nothing more, nothing less. And this is shown since Cross always faces the bottom of the barrel villains in most arcs such as Miss Friday and Mr. 13 and Lucci’s pet pigeon. And this is quite surprising since most self inserts have their characters written to be generically OP badass. So this is an interesting twist for this particular insert. And while some would say Cross should try to aim beyond that mindset, the end of the Saboady Arc showed Cross may be able to grow stronger to fight more than just fodder.
  • And while Cross never intended to be the Voices of Anarchy, and broadcasted his knowledge and opinions solely to spite the World Government for ruining Vivi’s life; he has come to eventually embrace his alias wholeheartedly. Especially since he grows more and more motivated to watch the World Government and its tyranny burn.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he can come off rather callous with his pranks and full of snark, he does care for his friends in the Straw Hats.
• Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls him Cross, initially because they don't realize Cross is his family name, but later because it's simply his preferred nickname.
• Leitmotif: Ronald E. Harris composed a theme song for Cross in the spirit of the main characters' anime themes. Listed here.
• Lawman Baton: Smoker gave him one in Loguetown. In Chapter 35, Usopp upgrades it with a Thunder Dial, turning it into a Taser Baton. Unfortunately, it's destroyed in Chapter 42.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: His reaction after suffering a severe Trauma Conga Line that also revealed that all his efforts to subvert the War of the Best failed is to rip the World Government another new one by having Silvers Rayleigh reveal the truth about Roger's capture and execution. That one hits so hard that it proves to be the final straw for Sengoku, who calls Kong in the middle of the broadcast to resign, effective as soon as Ace's execution is over.
  Cross: Alright, you ancient astral bastards. You want to play hardball? Let's play fucking hardball.
• Like Brother and Sister: Has this relationship with Robin, who returns the sentiment. It's very sweet.
• Made of Iron: Thanks to Kureha's miracle vitamins and local food, this is what Cross becomes, enough to survive 100,000,000-volt Electric Torture. But originally, he was...
• Made of Plasticine: When the baseline of the world is being Made of Iron, this applies to an outsider like Cross; one of Nami's Idiot Punches knocks him out for ten minutes. Fortunately, Kureha's vitamin supplements fix that problem for the most part when they get to Drum.
• Magnetic Hero: Not exactly in Luffy's league of charisma, but it's thanks to him that the crew is nearly three times bigger than it is in canon and that rebellions against the World Government are being formed on both sides of the law.
• The Man Behind the Man: Cross would object to this term being applied to him, because he genuinely does like and respect Luffy and wants him to claim the One Piece, but the truth is that Cross's intelligence and more morally motivated proactive nature means that he does sometimes end up in the position of being the brain directing Luffy's brawn. The best example of this is the Sabaody arc, when Cross is the one who decides that a true stand needs to be made against slavery, and he essentially manipulates the Straw Hats (and the Supernovas) into going along with it.
• Meaningful Name: No matter his distaste for his name is, the name Jeremiah referred to the prophet. Cross himself feared not preventing the War of the Best and Ace's death.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: By Chapter 54 onwards, Cross isn't described as being any more muscular than when he started, but he's Took a Level in Badass enough that he can pull off Neck Lifts and inflict Grievous Harm with a Body on the Mooks he once struggled against with hardly any effort.
• Mind Rape: Cross suffers a brief, but brutal case of this at the Human Auction House. Realizing that Doflamingo may have set them up, he confronts "Disco", only for it to be revealed as Doflamingo's Black Knight clone, which promptly blasts him point-blank with Conquerer's Haki. He's so overwhelmed that he suffers an illusion of him being turned into a faceless puppet helplessly controlled by a string, which is then severed by a pair of scissors. The metaphorical message is that Doflamingo literally holds his life in his hands, and can kill him at a moment's notice, and only didn't because he decided to let them live. It was so much for him that he suffers an identity crisis when he breaks out, having to mentally remind himself who he was. He describes it as the single-most terrifying moment in the entirety of his time spent in the One Piece world on a level of horror far deeper than he ever experienced, and it leaves him so shaken that the realization that he had been completely played by Doflamingo leaves him crying and laughing hysterically.
  • He's still suffering from PTSD from the event, as hearing Doflamingo confronting Luffy during the battle of Marineford leaves him suffering a panic attack. Soundbite deliberately channels the sound to Luffy, and Luffy alone, to ensure that his captain doesn't vindicate Cross's panic by fighting Doflamingo.
• National Animal Stereotypes: Heavily downplayed with Cross being neither an American nor French stereotype, but his partner Soundbite is a snail, an animal associated with France and its cuisine.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Cross doesn't lose his old jobs, but he goes from being the communications officer of the Straw Hats to also being the third mate, tactician, and public relations officer.
• Not Me This Time: When Sengoku accuses him of causing the mass mutiny in part 2 of Marineford Misery, Cross responds that while he probably caused it indirectly thanks to the SBS, specifically, he had nothing to do with organizing or planning the mutiny, and was as surprised as Sengoku (albeit far more pleasantly) when it happened. (And while Cross was responsible for helping found the organization they belong to, there's no way he was going to tell Sengoku that).
• Not So Omniscient After All: As much as Cross knows One Piece inside and out, he was inserted 9/19/2015, and thus has read up to chapter 800 of the manga at best, meaning all events from Zou onward to the end of the story are a total unknown for him (including Luffy's bounty increase to 500 million — he says Luffy's increase to 475 million after Enies Lobby is the highest he knows; this is also a sign that he is unaware of the contents of "One Piece 15th Anniversary: Dive to Grand World", a minibook released in August 2012 with that week's issue of Shonen Jump, which revealed Ace's bounty of 550 million). He also has some glaring blind spots because he never saw any of the movies, and doesn't know how much of the anime is crossed over. That one puts him through all kinds of hell as he only saw the poster for Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island. It also hits him hard in Strong World, particularly when he refuses to listen to the last part of Nami's Tone Dial message, which the audience knows was her asking the crew to come save her.
  • Deconstructed during the penultimate chapter; even though Cross ultimately succeeds in saving Ace's life, it doesn't give him much satisfaction in light of his run-in with Doflamingo decisively outwitting him, as having all that knowledge puts so much pressure on him that he believes he has to always be right for the sake of his crew when in reality he's been running by the seat of his pants the entire time. And the further they go on, the more Cross feels he can't afford to be wrong, since the harder things get, the more real the possibility of losing becomes to him, and the higher the stakes are for losing. It takes B.R.O.B. reminding him of all the changes he's made for him to snap out of it.
• The Omniscient: He has a reputation as this. One of the Boa sisters states she cannot be certain that Cross is ignorant of anything, even when it should be impossible for him to know something. He successfully bluffs Sandersonia and Koala with knowledge he does not have at one point because of his reputation.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • He completely drops his usual joking attitude in favor of unbridled rage when he fights against the Golden Lion Pirate subordinate crews due to both his week of hell in Merveille and having Shiki kidnap Nami twice. It's enough to make even Tashigi scared seeing him like that.
  • Hearing and witnessing the aftermath of Saint Roswald shooting an innocent bystander is enough to silence him cold, pay his last respects to the dead and informing the crew in a chilling tone their plan to destroy Sabaody's slave trade has officially begun.
  • When it is finally revealed that Ace was captured and will be executed, he coldly addresses Tsuru that an emergency meeting of the Masons will be called.
  • The sheer quietness and icy tone in Cross' voice, along with him being so emotionally numb to everything that he is able to withstand a blast of Conqueror's Haki — which would otherwise only be possible if the target in question was dying — are what convinces Sengoku that the Voice of Anarchy is thoroughly serious about interfering with Ace's execution.
    • He then willingly gives permission to Doflamingo to make his Written by the Winners speech to the world.
  • In general, if he's the one beginning the SBS broadcast, people know something serious is about to happen.
• Only Sane Man: The threshold for sanity on this crew is so low that the adrenaline-addicted gadfly is a model of rationality. Though just like the other Straw Hats, he trades this role in and out depending on said level of adrenaline.
• Outside-Context Problem: He's this to the World Government. He appeared more or less out of nowhere on a rookie pirate crew with a supposedly destroyed piece of technology that lets him broadcast to nearly the entire world, blowing clean through their tendency to lie and make themselves look good, and has knowledge that only the uppermost levels of the Government should have they can't work out how he obtained.
• Out of the Frying Pan: When he publishes Spandam's blackbook and exposes his true colors, he succeeds at getting Spandam to face justice. Unfortunately, his actions also provoke the less evil, but much more dangerous Sengoku to lead the fight against the Straw Hats instead.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Near the end of the Sabaody Arc, Cross punches a mangrove as hard as he can and leaves a crater deeper and wider than he is tall. By his own admission, a year ago he'd have been blown away at the thought of such strength, but in the current situation, Cross is depressed that he's not capable of more.
• Plot Allergy: Eating biscuits, for a reason that not even he knows, causes him an instantaneous and excruciating case of diarrhea that lasts for a half hour. According to Xomniac, this is an actual food intolerance he has in real life.
• Pose of Supplication: After the truth about his self insert nature is exposed on Drum Island, Cross kneels on the Going Merry with his head pressed against the deck, begging for the crew's forgiveness for lying to them and tearfully pleading that they let him remain as a Straw Hat Pirate as he's genuinely come to love them as friends.
• Power Fist: Combined with Armed Legs, Usopp originally created the gauntlets and greaves to help with Cross's last-ditch brawler fighting, but once he has access to Dials, he upgrades his gauntlets with a Flash Dial and an Impact Dial. In Chapter 38, his cap is added, padding and metal plating changing it from accessory to armor. In Chapter 53, it is upgraded with sea prism stone knuckles and reinforcement.
• Punctuated Pounding: While viciously slamming Tatsu, the memory-stealing seahorse, against a tree, Cross vents his frustration regarding that bit of filler.
  Cross: I! HATE! AMNESIA! EPISODES! NOW! GIVE! US! BACK! OUR! MEMORIES! AND! SCREW OFF!
• Rage Breaking Point: Cross has only gotten mega-pissed twice. First is the above mentioned with the Golden Lion and the second time was when Chew's comments finally set him off, enough to where Luffy has to hold him back.
• Retroactive Precognition: Of the Trapped in Another World variant because he's read One Piece. At least up to chapter 800.
• Running Gag:
  • Whenever Cross ends up in trouble on islands they are on, it usually ends with the town on fire, with Vivi being the one to ask why the hell it happened.
  • Cross also likes to trigger his Snail Transceiver's foghorn feature, much to the crew's ire.
• Scars Are Forever:
  • Cross's forearms and legs are permanently scarred from his Electric Torture at Eneru's hands. Chopper says he could have fixed them but didn't have time as he first had to make sure Cross's internal organs weren't going to fail. He gets a chance to get rid of them when Trafalgar Law repairs the damaged nerves, but he elects to keep the skin how it is because it serves as a symbol of how far he's willing to go for his conviction.
  • At Enies Lobby, his face is slashed open, leaving his nasal cavity exposed unless he keeps it bandaged.
  • If his future self is to be believed, Cross will eventually become something of a mummy due to all the innumerable scars in the far future if he doesn't keep his recklessness in check.
• Screw Destiny: It's revealed that the BROB has been setting him up to fail from the very beginning (ex. Cross was supposed to get killed by Smoker in Loguetown), yet Cross keeps succeeding regardless, and even managed to do things even the BROB thought were impossible without reality-warping powers, like saving Merry and Ace.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When he sees that he's going to be facing Shichiseiken instead of Sir Bearington or Brook (who have already done this), he asks Funkfreed if he's okay with him making a run for it (Funkfreed agrees, and insists that he do so).
• Sherlock Scan: Shortly after meeting Yoko, Cross asks Mayor Fabre which of her parents died, how badly, and when. He came to the conclusion of her Freudian Excuse by noting that while she was dirty and injured, the Marine cap and coat she was wearing were immaculate.
• Signature Headgear: He obtained a Marine cap from a random grunt in Chapter 18, which Tashigi allowed him to keep in Chapter 19. In Chapter 26, Usopp finishes the redesign of the cap, coloring it black with white crossbones and a cross moline. And in Chapter 38, Usopp upgrades it into an inconspicuous hard hat.
• Signature Laugh: "Pfffhahahahahaha!"
• The Smart Guy: Explicitly acknowledged as such by Luffy when he decides to make Cross the Third Mate and tactician, as our straw-hatted glutton fully knows he's not that smart.
• Stepford Snarker: Cross’ snarky streak is meant to help him deal with the fact he’s dealing with dangers and villains would could easily kill him.
• Stunned Silence: When he and Soundbite see their new bounty.
• Suddenly Shouting: While pointing out that Brook is a skeleton thanks to a Devil Fruit, Cross finally snaps and shouts at his crew for constantly missing the obvious answer.
  Cross: Yes, everyone, skeletons aren't supposed to be alive. On the other hand, animals aren't supposed to talk, either. Also, reindeer shouldn't be part human, guns shouldn't turn into dachshunds, swords shouldn't turn into elephants, ships shouldn't turn into girls, people shouldn't be able to stretch or grow limbs anywhere and everywhere and WHY DO I STILL HAVE TO SPELL THIS OUT WHEN WE'VE TRAVELED ALMOST HALF OF THE FREAKING GRAND LINE?!
• Supporting Protagonist: The story may be told mostly from his perspective, but it's usually a POV story where he aids Luffy and the Straw Hats on their journey.
• Sword and Gun: Due to taking ownership of Lassoo and Funkfreed. He's still working on using them simultaneously.
• Sworn Brothers: Conducts a sake sharing ceremony with Zoro and Nami at the end of the Thriller Bark arc, cementing them as siblings. It hits a snafu when he ends up using COMЯADE-Grade South Blue vodka, something too strong for even Zoro and Nami (and something even Whitebeard is hesitant to drink), but Luffy comments that it still counted.
• The Teetotaler: Cross doesn't like the idea of getting black-out drunk and refrains from drinking at almost all times. The only exceptions are when he's trying to block out Luffy, Shoujou, Masira's singing and when he, Nami, and Zoro become Sworn Brothers through a sake ceremony like Ace, Sabo, and Luffy.
• Terrible Artist: A self-admitted one. He mentions that there was a time when he wanted to be an architect, but quit that path when he realized how much art was involved, because "I draw like Luffy".
• That Man Is Dead: A picture in the epilogue of the first story shows a news article claiming that Cross and Soundbite ultimately died when they burned down Serpent, and reading the text has an interviewee claiming they inherited Soundbite's Devil Fruit. If the omake of Cross meeting his future self known as Wyvern has some truth to it, this could ultimately be his intent, symbolically dying and reinventing himself.
• This Cannot Be!: When Kizaru informs everyone of Ace's capture and upcoming execution, he casually snarks him but has Luffy check his brother's Vivre card again showing it normal. Right up to it bursting into flames.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Cross's complete mindset the moment he learns that Saint Charloss of the World Nobles is a fan of the SBS, and that in order to keep his extremely fickle Psychopathic Manchild attitude (which has the added bonus of possibly digging the WG's bad PR grave even deeper) from shooting him dead or giving him up to his WG agent entourage, Cross has to do a live show with Charloss. The mere thought makes him vomit.
• This Means War!: When the Straw Hats and allies begin their raid to rescue Robin from Enies Lobby, Cross starts a worldwide broadcast to pretty much declare war on the World Government.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill:
  • Cross has a notable aversion to actually killing anyone (except Spandam), and manages to avoid doing this until his time on Serpent. He panics initially taking down a Baroque Works Mook in Whiskey Peak, and a Marine Mook in Alabasta, until he confirms that they're alive. It's solidified, however, when he has Mr. 13 at his mercy, the assassin having just tried to kill him. Even considering the fact that he's just an otter ultimately isn't enough, and he settles for simply knocking him out... albeit brutally.
  • In Water 7, after he's attacked by the Unluckies for the third time in a row and they've made it clear they won't rest until they've subjected Cross to both Cold-Blooded Torture and a Cruel and Unusual Death, Cross still refuses to kill them. When Lassoo and Soundbite lampshade how stupid this is, including Cross stubbornly refusing to let Franky or Lassoo kill them for him, he claims they would still be dying by his hand indirectly. He then admits that he knows he'll have to kill eventually, but he wants to delay it as long as possible, and that he absolutely refuses to give the Unluckies the satisfaction of them being what makes him a killer.
• Thrill Seeker: On a day-to-day basis, Cross has an alarming disregard for his own health and safety towards self-destructive levels due to being an adrenaline junkie that goes Laughing Mad whenever he's in a dangerous situation, like tow-skiing on a tightrope, having a galleon fall on his head, or pissing off Garp in person.
• Trauma Conga Line: Suffers through a major one in Saboady Archipalego. Following being on top of the world after the success of his operation to break up the slave trade, he learns that Doflamingo was lurking behind the scenes from the moment that they set foot on the island. The knowledge that they only succeeded because he allowed them to leads to him feeling that he didn't really accomplish anything on the archipelago. Then the Straw Hats and their allies receive a vicious Curb-Stomp Battle at the hands of Admiral Kizaru, during which he finally learns about Ace's capture and imminent execution, and finally being confronted by Kuma who declares the Straw Hats will be scattered, not just for training, but to prevent everyone but Luffy from getting involved in the coming War. The whole situation leaves Cross almost as devastated as Luffy's canon despair moment following the War, and borderline suicidal. After relaying their inevitable split-up, many of his allies, including himself, are having doubts he'll come back alive. And his destination turns to be a literal hell on earth, the "Seventh Hell" of Serpent, the World Noble's personal jail for dissidents, which is exactly where he would have wound up anyways if Cipher Pol Aegis 0 had successfully "disappeared" him. It's basically Merville up to eleven, and Kuma sent him there half-expecting him to die due to basically being considered The Load in his perspective from reputation alone. By the time he starts the SBS during the Marineford war, he's already taken a knife to the stomach, and is in terrible condition the day afterwards, his companions having been fighting to protect him nonstop since the day they arrived. And they're all expected to endure it for two years.
• Tranquil Fury: Cross was originally willing to pit strategies against Komei on even footing, but once he sees that the Marine has deployed the likes of Strawberry (who was the one responsible for giving Fisher Tiger the injuries that lead to his death, and by extension torturing Koala with guilt of being responsible for it), he adopts a look eerily similar to the face he bore when facing down Shiki's crew, and declares that playtime is over.
• Troll: While not as bad as Soundbite, Cross can sometimes...well, cross into this territory, engaging in very mean-spirited pranks for a laugh or purposefully omitting or using half-true information just to get a rise out of the crew. See Double Meaning above.
• Took a Level in Badass: As of Chapter 54, he has gotten strong enough to face an entire pirate crew all by himself and win.
• The Unreveal: His new bounty, which is so large that Robin can only name Dragon and the Four Emperors as having bounties higher than his off the top of her head. ^note the authors state that his bounty will be named when Dragon's and the Four Emperors' are One he's bumped down a rank is Jack — a Person of Mass Destruction worth ฿1,000,000,000. Later chapters state that the Five Elder Stars were going to intentionally give him the highest starting bounty in history, and that Garp beat them to it. Finally, on 09/26/19, with spoilers for manga chapter 957 having revealed the bounties of all four Emperors (pre-timeskip) and Roger, the number was retroactively inserted into the chapter: ฿1,500,000,000, the same as Luffy's post-Tottoland bounty that made him "The Fifth Emperor" in canon.
• Weak, but Skilled: Even with Zoro's Training from Hell to increase his stamina, Kureha's miracle vitamins to increase his durability to the standard of a World of Badass, and Usopp's custom-made armor to increase his hitting power, Cross's strength is enough to stand up to Mooks and not much else. He makes up for that, however, with his cleverness, to the point where Luffy named him the crew's tactician and third mate shortly after they entered the Grand Line.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Eneru's Electric Torture left him with a case of astraphobia, making him flinch whenever he saw so much as a flash of lightning. As of Chapter 37, however, Chopper's therapy has undone most of the damage.
• Winds of Destiny, Change!: Using his intel, he's caused many events to deter from occurring in canon. His biggest accomplishments, by far, are preventing the canon deaths of Merry and Ace, which according to BROB were supposed to be set in stone.
• Wrecked Weapon:
  • During the fight on Enies Lobby, the baton he received from Smoker was broken by a Marine. Cross didn't take kindly to that.
  • During the confrontation with Kizaru on Sabaody Archipalego, his gauntlets are crushed by the Admiral. He's still able to wear them, but it's unknown if they still work.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem giving Vivi a conk in the head if she gets too generous about Groin Attacks.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Cross really doesn't like the fact that Saint Charloss of all people is a fan of the SBS. He gets a double-dose when the Noble tells him that if he wasn't a fan, CP0 would have already gone after him.

Soundbite

"Voice of Anarchy" Soundbite — Bounty: ฿1,500,000,000 (shared with Jeremiah Cross)

Co-communications officer of the Straw Hat Pirates, a Baby Transponder Snail that ate the Noise-Noise Fruit. Cross's partner and best friend. During the Time Skip, he is sent to Serpent with Cross by Kuma.

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• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He constantly snarks at Cross and never hesitates to bite him, but genuinely cares about his well-being, becoming utterly distraught when Eneru inflicts Electric Torture upon Cross and plotting a way to Curb-Stomp the Foxy Pirates in order to retrieve Cross from them. Most notably, when Cross is about to be killed in the Enies Lobby arc, he Awakens his Devil Fruit to save him.
• Berserk Button: Soundbite sees himself as a legitimate Straw Hat and Cross's partner. He takes offense to being called a "pet" or being excluded in any way.
• Calling Your Attacks: Cross and Soundbite begin doing this in Chapter 21, basing them off of the root "Gastro" as in gastropod.
  • Gastro-Blast: Soundbite's primary offensive technique. While in physical contact with a victim, Soundbite lets out a loud noise along the same frequency as his or her bones, shattering them. Initially lethal, he manages to tone it down enough to leave the victims alive after practicing. Also capable of shattering wood, stone and metal and flash-cooking and liquefying food.
    • Gastro-Blast: Stereo Edition: A remote version of Gastro-Blast, requiring physical proximity but not contact. One of his new Awakened abilities.
  • Gastro-Phony: Soundbite's secondary offensive technique. Taken from "cacophony," Soundbite fills the air with noise to mask the underlying tones that tickle the inner ears of anyone in the vicinity, causing extreme dizziness and nausea.
    • Gastro-Nation: An improved version of Gastro-Phony thanks to his Awakening, Soundbite mutes the area around his enemy, uses Gastro-Phony to induce nausea, and vibrates their brain and skull at just the right frequency that it feels like their brain is grinding itself apart.
  • Gastro-Amp: Soundbite amplifies the volume of someone's voice within his range so that anyone in said range can hear that voice.
  • Gastro-Clone: Soundbite speaks while flawlessly imitating a voice he's heard, typically for either deception or entertainment.
    • Gastro-Blur: Soundbite masks someone's voice with a distorted male and female voice speaking in unison, for the purpose of protecting their identity.
  • Gastro-Flash: Soundbite lets out an earsplitting siren while Cross activates a modified Flash Dial, resulting in a flashbang effect.
  • Gastro-Scramble: Soundbite fills the air with white noise to prevent anyone from eavesdropping on their conversation. Unfortunately, it can't affect the ghosts made by the Hollow-Hollow Fruit or anyone with sufficiently strong Observation Haki.
  • Gastro-Sonar: Like a bat, Soundbite bounces sound off objects to get a visual map of the immediate location. One of his new Awakened abilities.
  • Gastro-Barrier: Soundbite wraps himself in a sphere of polarized sound, which diverts away most damage directed at him.
• Code Name: As Ophiuchus's partner, he chooses the codename Knucker, referencing a type of serpentine dragon.
• Deadpan Snarker: Soundbite’s snark streak is strong enough to rival Cross.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Even after Robin joins the crew, Soundbite maintains his enmity towards her from their encounter in Whiskey Peak... up until Cross gives him a peek at her Dark and Troubled Past.
  Cross: Ever see an entire island, people and all, perish in fire in less than an hour?...She has; that's what happened to her home when she was eight. She was the only survivor, and the World Government's been hunting her ever since.
  • Despite being practically the poster child for The Gadfly and Troll, even Soundbite finds nothing funny about people dying and will willingly participate in moments of silence for people's passing. Examples include the one Cross initiates for the Crocodile Hunter on Long Ring Long island, and the one for Carrie Fisher during the crossover chapter.
  • After they get to Saboady Archipelago, Soundbite reveals he's fully aware of all the dark info in the internet, but was able to bury it under use of memes. Once he hears the despair in the prison the "island" had become though, he's shaken at just how real that info seems to him now.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Has this towards birds due to their place in the food chain compared to snails. The only exceptions are Isaiah and Terry (Because he loves how their antics drive Cross crazy), though Coo has earned some respect.
  • He also isn't fond of his aquatic cousins, Territorial Sea Slugs, due to the fact they like to brag about being able to take saltwater unlike Transponder Snails. Unfortunately, he states he also cannot block them, or rather, he cannot block all of them if they are widespread enough, and the unblocked ones will report the gap in communications anyways, making blocking part of them a moot point^note This may pose a problem when the TB!Straw Hats eventually invade Totland.
• Forgot About His Powers: When Chopper first goes mad and tried to vivisect Cross, he gagged Soundbite with a metal rod. It takes a gagged Cross attempting to shout "Gastro-Blast" to remind Soundbite he could destroy the rod, letting him call for help.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: As Nami put it, he can hear everything within a mile of him and make anyone in that range hear anything he wants. Plus, as of Chapter 31, "hear anything" apparently extends to the Voice of All Things. The same power that enabled Roger to read Poneglyphs and him and Luffy to understand Sea King speech. If that's not enough, by Chapter 40, Awakening his Devil Fruit can even make his opponents hear silence.
• Hey, That's My Line!: Doesn't like it when other people steal his 'Start the SBS' Running Gag.
• Insistent Terminology: Soundbite always objects to being treated or designated as less than a genuine sentient being; he's a true member of the Straw Hats, not their pet.
• Karma Houdini: Downplayed. Despite being a Troll more often than not, he got plenty of good things going for him such as hearing the Voice of All Things and Awakening of his Devil Fruit. It's very often it's Cross who got the brunt of the crew's anger due to Soundbite's more frail nature as a snail.
• Logical Weakness: If his mouth or throat are obstructed, he can't use his Noise-Noise powers. This changes once his power Awakens.
• Make Some Noise: The Noise-Noise Fruit lets Soundbite manipulate sound in a large variety of ways; Real-time translation, Ventriloquism, mimicry, inducing nausea and weaponized frequencies are all within his power.
• Meaningful Name: Referred to his Noise-Noise Fruit and tendency to bite people. Also doubled with a sound bite, an extracted piece of a recorded audio/video that was chosen specifically for appropriateness. Exactly the same way Soundbite speaks usually.
• Parrot Pet Position: His usual spot is set on Cross's shoulder.
• Pirate Parrot: The closest thing to one that the crew has: sitting on a member's shoulder, repeating what he hears, and being a wise-cracker.
• Secret-Keeper: He overhears Zoro and Nami's What You Are in the Dark sacrifices to Kuma in order to save both Luffy and Cross from being taken by him. Soundbite knows if anyone were to learn this, it would be catastrophic for the morale of the Straw Hats. He eventually tells Lassoo and Funkfreed this since he couldn't hold it in.
• Signature Laugh: Some combination of "Hoohoohoo", "Heeheehee", "Hohoho" and/or "Hahaha". The order varies. Cross describes it as an in-universe laugh track Soundbite makes by playing all the different laughs he's heard together.
• Speaks in Shout-Outs: By eating Cross's iPhone and gaining a connection to the vast internet, Soundbite frequently uses media quotes to communicate and chooses the voices he provides in translation based on some media character. He also gets limited access to One Piece material (specifically, the soundtrack) after Awakening his Devil Fruit during Enies Lobby.
• Toilet Humor:
  • Cross specifically prohibits him from playing the Wedding March at the Accino/Hiruno wedding to avoid this, since he probably would have done it entirely out of fart noises. Soundbite concedes the point.
  • Later, at Sabaody, he provides Cross with some much-needed moral support... and then says he'll claim he made a fart joke instead if anyone asks.
• Too Desperate to Be Picky: Turns out that even after taking the first bite out of the Noise-Noise Fruit and discovering it tasted rancid, Soundbite ended up eating the whole thing. As he put it:
  I was a lone snail IN A DAMN JUNGLE! I ATE MY food whenever it came TO ME, NO MATTER THE TASTE! Sue me!
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • When overuse of his Devil Fruit in Skypiea unlocks the ability to hear the Voice of All Things.
  • And again in Enies Lobby, when Cross about to be killed causes his Devil Fruit to Awaken.
• Translator Microbes: Soundbite can translate the language of animals and reproduce it as the human language in real time. He's so practiced at it he translates in his sleep, granting any animal within his radius the ability to talk to humans subconsciously.
• Troll: It is basically Soundbite's shtick. Or The Gadfly, depending on the situation or the pranks. He often engages in pranks with little regards for others, somewhat sharing this with Cross.
• Ventriloquism: The basis of the Noise-Noise Fruit; it enables the user to emit any sound that they've ever heard, forward or reversed, at any volume, anywhere within range of the user's senses. Soundbite had a naturally extended range of a quarter mile already due to being a Transponder Snail, but once he's fitted with a standard rig for a Transponder Snail, that range extends to a full mile.
• Verbal Tic: As he has no voice of his own, he speaks with a randomized combination of other people's voices, like a spliced recording.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Mostly he and Cross; while they're seamless in battle, they love snarking at each other more than anything. But Soundbite has this relationship with many of the other members of the crew as well due to his prankster tendencies, most notably Usopp, who usually serves as his Butt-Monkey.
• Voice Changeling: Soundbite can mimic any sound he's ever heard, backwards, forwards, or any other way you can think of. This is, however, the only way that he can speak, which results in him using an amalgamation of different voices for his sentences. Chapter 17 reveals that he's fully capable of picking one voice and sticking with it, and he explains his reasoning for doing otherwise. One aspect of his powers that he uses often is giving animals the ability to speak. Vivi's pet duck Carue speaks in Donald Duck's voice, Eyelashes the camel in Alabasta speaks in Achmed the Dead Terrorist's voice, Scissors the moving crab from Alabasta speaks with Gratuitous Spanish... and so on. The point is that when he gives animals the ability to speak with his powers, he determines their voices based on what/who they are. The voices he gives them suit them, but his own voice is all of the voices.
• Weak, but Skilled:
  • Soundbite's powers make him amazing at listening in on enemies, bluffing out his opponents and mustering reinforcements in seconds, plus he's managed to work out some genuine attacks. But without his powers, he's just a snail, meaning that his top speed is maybe a mile an hour at best, and salt is as deadly to him as massed cannon fire.
  • Applies especially after his Awakening: his control over his powers is boosted by several orders of magnitude, but a snail just doesn't have enough energy to throw around that sort of power for very long.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Salt. He is a snail, after all; this has mostly been Played for Laughs. Chapter 34 reveals that due to Transponder Snails as a species building up a resistance over years at sea, saltwater isn't outright deadly, but does give him extreme nausea.

Going Merry

"White Menace" Going Merry — Bounty: ฿50,000,000

First ship of the Straw Hat Pirates, considered an honorary crewmate, her love for the crew was strong enough that she developed a life of her own. To save her life, she ate the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Child, allowing her to heal from all of the accumulated damage and still travel with the Straw Hat crew, to fulfill her dream of traveling to the end of the Grand Line with them. When the Thousand Sunny is built, her connection with him makes her the perfect choice for the Straw Hat Pirates' helmsgirl.

During the Time Skip, she is sent to Davy Jones's Locker; a hidden ship graveyard at the bottom of the sea, where a massive dome of coral keeps the wreckage trapped in a giant bubble of air.

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• Anything but That!: Has this reaction to finding out her timeskip training will be in Davy Jones's Locker, which to her is a Fate Worse than Death.
• Anvil on Head: She saved Usopp and Conis from one of Shiki's men by dropping an anvil from above on him. She bemoans having to sacrifice it though.
• Astral Projection: Her Klabautermann, a ship spirit, manifests itself in the form of a ghostly child wearing a raincoat and carrying a hammer in her hand. This is how she speaks with the crew prior to her transformation, and how she repaired herself in Chapter 29.
• Badass Longcoat: While the other Straw Hats put the outfits they wore during the Final Battle with the Golden Lion Pirates into storage, Merry decides to hold onto hers, intent on making it her official outfit.
• Berserk Button: People who don't take care of their ships or treat them as disposable (for obvious reasons), a trait she shares with Franky.
• Beyond the Impossible: The fact that her Klabautermann was able to eat a Devil Fruit is something that can only be seen as a Hand Wave.
• Big Damn Heroes: Much like in canon, she arrives during the climax of Enies Lobby to help the crew escape. Fortunately, this time it doesn't become a Heroic Sacrifice, but it comes close.
• Bottomless Magazines: Not quite bottomless, but her Hammerspace hold allows her to hold a lot more ammo than normal.
• Butt Biter: Merry is not afraid to bite down on someone's exposed backside with a set of jaws second only to Soundbite.
• Child Prodigy: Due to have Robin's intelligence combined with Franky's mechanical expertise, she is one of the most technical savvy members of the crew.
• Code Name: As a Straw Hat confidante and thus privy to the New World Masons, she is given the codename Cottonmouth.
• Composite Character: Since the crew is the heart and soul of a ship, Merry has personality traits inherited from her fellow crewmembers, such as Cross's love of pranks or Vivi's occasional ditziness.
• Cute Bruiser: Apparently, a girl with "the proportionate strength of a caravel" makes her strong enough to hammer people into stone walls.
• Didn't Think This Through: On occasion, posited to be due to Vivi's influence:
  • When she was prepping the bathhouse doors for the girls' fight with Absalom, she reinforced it to take blasts from wrist-mounted Hand Cannons. What she didn't remember was that they were dealing with a guy who had an extra 600 pounds of muscle willingly grafted onto him — meaning that said hand cannons were much heavier artillery than expected — and that he'd only need to blast the door halfway off its hinges and let the water pressure do the rest.
  • She probably should've negotiated the price better with Goldenweek before she commissioned the artist for a ship-sized art project.
• Dope Slap: When her sentience became public knowledge, she would occasionally use her pulley to do this, particularly when Cross neglected to mention the drop from Skypiea. After becoming human, she would team up with Sunny to do this with his pulley.
• Extreme Omni-Goat: Given her Animal Motif and her nature as a Zoan ship, she can consume a lot of inorganic matter. Her favorite food is cloth. This physically pains Sanji, as he considers it a point of pride in knowing how to cook someone's favorite dishes to the best of his ability... and the ingredients he now has to work with include tar and rope.
• Faint in Shock: Does this when she discovers that Kuma sent her to Davy Jones's Locker.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: Thanks to Cross being part of the crew, Merry is just as capable of swearing up a storm in French when she realized just how badly she screwed up when commissioning Ms. Golden Week.
• Gatling Good: After Strong World, she gets her hands on an M66 Jingo Rotary Cannon from Shiki's arsenal, which she claims as her main weapon. However, due to how much the specialized ammo costs, she had to promise Nami to ration the shells she obtained, unless they encounter another threat as bad as Shiki.
• Hammerspace: Merry still has all the storage room she normally does, even while still a little girl. She can keep and remove massive items from her coat pockets.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: After the crew celebrates getting the Thousand Sunny, Merry is shown holding two mugs of ale bigger than herself and yelling out, "LET'S GET KEEL-FACED!"
• Heroic Sacrifice: She gives Franky several bottles of cola so he can Coup de Vent everyone out of Enies Lobby, knowing that it will put her on the edge of death.
• Hidden Depths: Merry longs to be with her crew and dreams of sailing the world with them. However, when Cross manages to get a one-on-one talk with her, it's revealed that she's angry at herself for not being as strong as she feels she should be for them.
• Humanity Ensues: Manages to survive her damages by consuming the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Child and becoming a real girl.
• I Call Him "Mister Happy": While Zoro and Franky have to hold Merry back from attacking someone, Raphy tells her to "calm [her] tits". Merry insists that her tits are calm and even names the left one Siddhartha Buddha and the right one Vardhamana Mahavira to demonstrate their level of calm. She then insists that the rest of her is furious.
• Iconic Item: The crew forgot to remove their flag from Merry before she became human. It turns into a T-Shirt that is worn under her Badass Longcoat.
• It's All My Fault: Due to the insults of other ships in Jaya, Merry has a Heroic BSoD along these lines at how she's not pulling her weight with the rest of the crew.
• Jaw Drop: She has one when the crew ends up in Great Octopus Shogunate. Note that this was before she became human.
• Killer Rabbit: A tiny cute innocent-looking girl at first glance... until she starts cussing like a sailor, talking like a buccaneer, and tearing your ass off at the seams.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: Merry swears a lot more than Usopp was expecting, though Mekao says it's only natural given that a Klabautermann is always surrounded by sailors.
• Machine Empathy: She has this in spades with Sunny. She helped build him, she put in many hidden supplies and secret switches that she can navigate by heart, she can operate Sunny's very complicated, un-labeled control system with ease, and she's a ship herself, so she can really connect with her big brother in a way few others can.
• Morphic Resonance: Her human form has clothes that are the same color as her deck, and her hair is white except for two brown locks that resemble ram's horns. Merry also has several large scars from the damage she took in the Grand Line.
• Power Copying: With how a ship's crew is its heart, Merry's connection with the Straw Hat crew means that she can potentially mimic all of their skills and/or fighting styles through muscle memory. Borrowing Franky's skills are how she helped build Sunny, after all. It's somewhat deconstructed, though, as she can only copy mundane movements and abilities- those powers and abilities acquired via Devil Fruit, such as Luffy's stretchiness or Robin's ability to summon more limbs, she can't copy because she hasn't eaten those fruits. Further, it's not just the positive traits she's received- she's also gotten the negative traits as well, as shown when she has moments of ditziness to rival Vivi, who was one of her components.
• Secret-Keeper: After becoming human, she joins in as a confidant to Cross alongside Zoro, Nami, and Vivi. She justifies this as she already knew everything, seeing as how the meetings had been taking place on her.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: By necessity. Although she still has the power to transform, her ship body is so badly damaged that if she tries, her weight will tear her to pieces in a heartbeat.
• Signature Laugh: "Mwahahahaha!"
• Small Girl, Big Gun: Carries over twice her body mass in nothing but pure gun which she uses to full extent in the final battle at Strong World.
• Something Only They Would Say: When Usopp comes aboard and sees her Klabautermann for the first time, Merry reveals her identity by saying that she was the only one who knew that Usopp dropped pieces of Nami's Clima-Tact in her bilge and had to dive in to retrieve them.
• Sorry That I'm Dying: When it's revealed that the crack in her keel still happened, her Klabautermann appeared before the crew to confirm it with a simple "I'm sorry".
• Spared by the Adaptation: Thanks to Cross's efforts, she managed to escape her Viking Funeral fate.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Due to carrying Chopper, Soundbite, and the dugongs for months, she learned how to understand animals even without Soundbite's translating powers.
• Super-Strength: Downplayed. The amount of weight she could support transferred with her to her new body, giving her "strength proportionate to a caravel." This would normally be a Charles Atlas Superpower, but in the Grand Line, it only promises that she has nothing to fear from Mooks.
• Talk Like a Pirate: When her true nature as a pirate ship comes out.
• Walking Spoiler: The fact that she's even still around post-Enies Lobby makes her a very big one.
• What Were You Thinking?: Cross gives her this when he points out that she ate a Devil Fruit while standing on the ocean.
• Wild Take: Apart from her Jaw Drop to seeing Shogun Octavio, it's hinted that she had her canon expression to realizing how the Straw Hats would be leaving Skypiea, as she whacked Cross with her pulley afterwards due to not mentioning that.

Joined in Paradise

Tony Tony Chopper

"Spark of Genius" Tony Tony Chopper — Bounty: ฿66,000,000

Doctor of the Straw Hat Pirates, a reindeer empowered with intelligence thanks to the Human-Human Fruit who dreams of finding a cure for all illnesses.

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• Adaptational Badass: Due to Cross's advice and his subsequent experimentation, Chopper... well, let's just say he grows a lot more capable of channeling his foster mother and teacher, Kureha.
• Berserk Button: Don't disregard Doctor's Orders, and don't perform any medical "malpractice" in front of him.
• Blasé Boast: Gets one to Dr. Indigo.
  Indigo: ...You... You honestly think that you can waltz in here and challenge my mastery straight to my face?!
  Chopper: (honestly puzzled) Well, yeah? I mean, I'm a Straw Hat. It's what we do.
• Catchphrase: While under the influence of his new split personality, the mad doctor will often talk about "SCIENCE!", always shouted.
• Chekhov's Classroom: Chopper seems intent on invoking this once he realizes that the Semantic Superpower nature of Devil Fruits also applies to Zoan transformations and his Rumble Balls are likely nothing more than placebos by writing a paper about Zoan morphology.
• Crazy-Prepared: When it comes to chemistry. Not only does he easily identify every chemical Dr. Indigo throws at him, but he is ready with the proper antidote and counter to it.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique:
  • Monster Point, his dangerous eighth form that he can access by consuming three Rumble Balls. Though thanks to his enhanced intelligence, he doesn't lose all of his mental faculties when he enters this form; he keeps enough to be able to learn and adapt to attacks... which makes it even more dangerous.
  • In another way, he has developed serums and stimulants that can keep him running long past exhaustion, but will knock him out for hours when they wear off. One's even labeled "Last Resort".
• The Dreaded: Played for Laughs among the crew; they quickly get worried (but resigned) over the fact that the one who's responsible for patching them up after fights has developed a Mad Scientist Split Personality.
• Enlightenment Superpowers: A discussion with Cross regarding Awakened Devil Fruits suggests that Chopper's Monster Point is actually a form of partial awakening of his own DF.
• Fate Worse than Death: One of the Marines at Enies Lobby tells his comrades to make sure Chopper doesn't take him alive, even if they have to shoot him themselves.
• For Science!: The mentality of Chopper's Mr. Hyde-esque alter-ego, created by using a serum to access his Devil Fruit's human intelligence. The only way to snap him out of it is a strong conk to the noggin.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When sufficiently angered, Chopper's eyes flash a glowing cyan like his berserker Monster Point.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: He briefly goes insane when he learns about his canon bounty and epithet from Cross ("Cotton Candy Lover" Tony Tony Chopper, worth 50 Beri (The government thought that Chopper was the Straw Hats' pet)). He's snapped out of it after learning about his current bounty and epithet, though.
  Chopper: "Cotton. Candy Lover"… "Pet"… hehe… heeheeheeheehee… hahahahahaHAHAHAHAAAAA! SOMEBODY'S HEAD IS GOING TO ROLL FOR THIS! HAHAHA—!
• Mad Doctor: After experimenting with his powers at Cross's suggestion, he soon finds himself capable of increasing his intelligence at the cost of entering a Mr. Hyde-like state with a propensity For Science!!
• Multiform Balance: His method of combat revolves around the speed, strength, and intelligence granted by his Devil Fruit's three forms, as well as expanding those forms into seven with his Rumble Ball.
• Parental Issues: Discussed during the Strong World arc when he takes out a giant carnivorous stag. He says it reminded him of his birth father and he may have enjoyed that a little much.
• Psycho Knife Nut: After analyzing all the times Kureha chucked scalpels at him (and traumatizing himself in the process), Chopper has managed to replicate her throwing technique. In Chapter 53, Usopp helps with it by making some scalpels out of sea prism stone.
• Science Hero: Between his trick compounds and serums to boost his stamina, he's definitely this with a focus on chemistry.
• Split Personality: By experimenting with an enzyme to unlock greater intelligence in his mind, Chopper developed a split personality with great knowledge, but little to no morality or impulse control. Cross specifically relates the new change to Jekyll and Hyde.
• Tranquil Fury: Learning the truth about Hogback gives Chopper the means to control his Mr. Hyde-like personality: by focusing all his psychosis on a single target. It pops up when he confronts Dr. Indigo. Chopper disables all chemical weapons thrown against him while talking in a deadly calm tone.
• Trick Bomb: His experience with chemistry has produced some interesting compounds, such as:
  • Cherry Blossom Blast: Essentially nitroglycerine's older brother; Chopper throws scalpels with pinpoint accuracy to strike test tubes filled with the stuff and detonate it.
    • Cherry Blossom Blast Blizzard: A much more volatile form of Cherry Blossom Blast, used very sparingly.
  • Cherry Blossom Haze: A smoke bomb; a single test tube of the stuff creates a pink cloud capable of covering a football field.
  • Cherry Blossom Slumber: A chemical used to make combatants fall asleep; first used offscreen.

Nefertari Vivi

"Corsair Princess" Nefertari Vivi — Bounty: ฿80,000,000

The kindhearted princess of the desert kingdom Alabasta who allied with the Straw Hat Pirates to save her country from the criminal syndicate Baroque Works. The World Government unjustly assigned her a bounty following the Alabasta arc, and she subsequently joined the Straw Hats as the negotiator. Eventually, she ate the Gust-Gust Fruit, becoming the Straw Hats' first Logia.

During the Time Skip, she is, ironically, sent back to Alabasta. Later, after the Marineford Misery arc, she becomes the student of her Arch-Enemy, Sir Crocodile.

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• Adaptational Badass: Due to staying with the Straw Hats after the Alabasta arc, she becomes a more formidable fighter. In addition, she possesses a story-exclusive ability called Sovereign’s Will, and even became a Logia during the Strong World incident.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Downplayed; Vivi's animosity towards Crocodile remains mostly the same, but This Bites! throws another, more personal reason for her hate of the Warlord; the Sand-Sand Fruit was once part of the six Devil Fruits used by the Royal Guard to defend Alabasta. Crocodile being in possession of the fruit means Vivi can't reclaim it until the end of his natural life or his untimely demise, the latter of which is unlikely given his former Warlord status. Their relationship is only further complicated when Vivi is forced to accept Crocodile as her Evil Mentor, adding another layer to their inevitable confrontation once the mentorship is over.
• Ambiguously Bi: All but stated to have a crush on Kohza, but given how Robin's able to set her off and the way she and Nami negotiate, it's not a stretch to say she batting for both sides. Cross even calls out the latter when they cash the gold in on Water 7.
• Ancestral Weapon: Her Gust-Gust Fruit is one of the Devil Fruits traditionally held by the six Alabastan Royal Guardians, the Storm of Alabasta.
• Ascended Extra: Due to her being forced to stay with the Straw Hats in this story.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: Is revealed to have one of these when the crew first ventures into the Florian Triangle. Considering Vivi's upbringing, it's likely a combination of natural talent and training as part of her high-class education.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Pacifist though she is, when she gets mad, she's capable of scaring the likes of Smoker.
• Blow You Away: As of Strong World, she's a Logia, having eaten an aril from the Gust-Gust Fruit.
• Bridezilla: By proxy. During the Lovely Land arc, she uses the arranged marriage between the Accino and Hiruno famiglias to arrange what would've been her dream wedding. As a result, she is intent on making sure everything goes as perfectly as possible, much to everyone's consternation.
• Cast Speciation: Like Luffy, Vivi is able to use Conqueror's Haki. However hers is a distinct variation called Sovereign's Will that forces those who respect her authority to obey her comands rather than the usual effects of Conqueror's Haki.
• Childhood Friend Romance: See Ship Tease. It's implied that Vivi and Kohza are aware their feelings for each other are mutual, but obviously, circumstances currently prevent them from having a relationship right now. There is, however, an understanding that they will be together when they get the chance.
• Code Name: As a Straw Hat confidante and thus privy to the New World Masons, she is given the codename Copperhead.
• Compelling Voice: As of Chapter 41, she's unlocked an ability that lets her order people to do whatever she says for a given period of time. Garp later identifies it as the Sovereign's Will, a variation of Conqueror's Haki.
• Covert Pervert: According to Carue, she has quite the Hentai collection.
• Dirty Business: She's forced to accept Crocodile as an Evil Mentor, as he's the only person offering that can teach her everything she needs to learn about her Logia powers before she reunites with the rest of the crew for the New World. The narrative makes it clear that Vivi hates the fact that she has to throw in her lot with him, even though she has no choice.
• The Ditz: She has a tendency to act before remembering, considering, or displaying all available information. It doesn't happen much, though; she tends to only do that when it involves something potentially deadly.
• Divine Right of Kings: Vivi admits that she's always known she would be a ruler. Not because she was raised to lead as a princess, but on an instinctual level. Her innate right to rule is proven by her being one of the few to possess Conqueror's Haki and one of fewer still to have the Sovereign's Will.
• Dramatic Wind: In the final fight at Merveille, she releases her ponytail as her long hair is immediately blown by wind. However, the wind is self-generated by her new Logia powers and she then uses it to literally blow the roof off Shiki's palace.
• Dual Wielding: She uses her Peacock Slashers when they first meet her, but this changes to the Lion Cutters, a pair of chain-linked crescent-blade kusarigama, when she joins the crew full-time. Chapter 53 has Usopp temper them with sea prism stone.
• Empowered Badass Normal: During "Strong World", she finally eats the seed of the Gust-Gust Fruit, becoming a Logia.
• Godzilla Threshold: During the Strong World arc, following Shiki curb-stomping the crew and re-abducting Nami, Vivi finally eats the Gust-Gust Fruit seed.
• High-Class Glass: While planning the Accino and Hiruno wedding and in complete Bridezilla mode, Vivi took to wearing a monocle she came across. A monocle that seems to awaken a very scary and downright tyrannical personality that has all fear her as she’s planning the wedding. As they're sailing away, Cross gets the TDWS to destroy the monocle and chuck its remains into the sea so as to never summon that kind of Vivi again.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Averted for the most part, as she has a pretty good handle on her powers after eating the Gust-Gust Fruit seed. Justified, since the Gust-Gust Fruit has been in her kingdom's possession for generations, so the royal family would know the ins and outs of this Devil Fruit after having so many Gust-Gust Fruit users in their employ.
• I Choose to Stay: Averted. Instead of staying in Alabasta, Vivi is forced to leave with the Straw Hats due to the World Nobles having the Government issue her a bounty for working with the Straw Hats, meaning she can't become queen eventually, and the trip to either Impel Down or Mariejois that would result from her being caught.
• I'll Kill You!: After reluctantly accepting Crocodile's mentorship, she swears that she will kill him one day and re-claim everything he's stolen from Alabasta.
• I Want Them Alive!: Her bounty specifies that she is to be taken alive, as opposed to 'Dead or'. Her father and Cross suspect that this is due to the World Nobles wanting to handle her punishment personally, which would effectively serve to punish her friends and family as much as her herself.
• Immune to Bullets: A standard Logia power as any bullets her way just pass through her air-like body and even no sells a cannon blast to the head as it quickly regenerates from air. As she states, only sea prism stone-based weaponry can now hurt her, or people armed with Haki.
• Literal Metaphor: Thanks to her new Gust-Gust powers, many of her crewmates jumped on the chance to point out how much more of an airhead she's become.
• My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours: Befitting a negotiator and a well-learned noble, she manages to make an obstinate Marine Commander shut up by pointing out a certain rule in the WG's Foreign Policy which not only allows the pirates and slaves go free, but also makes the area in Sabaody they're all in part of the Ryugu Kingdom's protection and an embassy to boot.
• Necessary Drawback: While the Sovereign's Will is more versatile than Conqueror's Haki in that it lets Vivi command others to do her bidding, it comes with an additional requirement. Not only does Vivi have to impose her will like with Conqueror's Haki, her intended victim has to respect her and her authority or her Will is powerless against them. The marine she fought when she unlocked this power overcame it through his own Heroic Willpower, Garp only respects the select few who outrank him, and Cross learned to overcome it by focusing on Vivi's aspects that he didn't respect.
• One Degree of Separation: Apparently was propositioned by Vinsmoke Niji during the last Reverie, due to her hair color of all things.
• Oh, My Gods!: Frequently invokes the Alabastan (read: Egyptian) pantheon.
• Polyglot: In Chapter 14, she states that she knows twelve different languages.
• Precision F-Strike: Vivi expresses her sentiments on being accused of treason by the World Government as.
  "Fuck every last one of those bastards who banished me from my home, hard."
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: As stated above, she's a pacifist. Despite that, she left her royal lifestyle and infiltrated in a criminal organization that was trying to destroy her country, portraying herself effectively as a bounty hunter. For two years. Starting when she was 14.
• Sadistic Choice: Kuma's training ground for her gives her this choice. Now that she's back in Alabasta for her two years of training, does she train then return to the crew or remain in her dearly missed homeland? She knows Cobra and Luffy would support either choice, which leaves her guilt ridden no matter which option she picks because to pick one would mean abandoning the other.
• Secret Weapon: Her Sirocco charm-container, given to her by her father to be used in the direst of emergencies. It contains a single aril from a specific pomegranate hidden back in Alabasta's royal storage: the Logia-type Gust-Gust Fruit.
• Ship Tease: With Kohza. Cross outright admits that despite having some minor romantic interest in Vivi he won't dare pursuing her because Kohza would kill him if he did so, Soundbite idly notes that Kohza would enjoy Vivi's new bounty picture, and Vivi states she started planning her dream wedding when she realized she had feelings for a certain someone. At this point, they're the closest the story has to an Official Couple, even if Kohza's already minimal screen time went down drastically after the Alabasta arc ended.
• Technical Pacifist: She hates hurting people, but she is perfectly willing to fight for her friends. She also likes to break Cross's nose when he gets on her nerves.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • In canon, she admits that she was probably the weakest of the Straw Hats when they left Alabasta. Here, by the time of Enies Lobby, thanks to her Sovereign's Will and her Lion Cutters, and daily training she manages to develop enough skill and athleticism to defeat a Marine HQ Captain-which is no small feat. And the first time she awakens the Soveriegn's Will, she saves Robin's life as well, freezing Spandam despite their long distance.
  • She takes another during Strong World when she finally eats the aril of the Gust-Gust Fruit. This makes her one of the strongest, if not the strongest member of the crew after Luffy, since he's the only member that's managed to access his Armament Haki.
• Unknown Rival: To Crocodile, who is well aware that she hates him and wants to kill him, but ultimately doesn't care for it. In fact, he goes out of his way to train Vivi during the Time Skip, because he intends to use the chaos the Straw Hats will cause when they finally enter the New World to rebuild his power base when the time comes.
• Voice Changeling: In Chapter 69, she calls the Auction House and sets herself up as part of the bidding audience by pretending to be a countess and changing her voice without using Soundbite's abilities, and in the end she manages to fool the House's operators. Though we never do learn exactly how she can do this-at least not yet.

Carue

Carue "the Duck"

A Supersonic Duck, a species of duck native to Alabasta as big as humans and capable of moving at great speeds. Vivi's pet, bodyguard, and best friend, who joined the Straw Hats alongside her.

As Vivi's confidant, he joins her in Alabasta during the Time Skip.

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• Angrish: Soundbite gave him Donald Duck's voice. He's had a few angry rants and squacks worthy of the voice.
• Ascended Extra: For similar reasons as Vivi’s.
• Berserk Button: He has a lot of pride in his captaincy in the Alabastan Military and as Vivi's lifelong bodyguard; mock his capabilities in either at your peril.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Carue was able to break the sound barrier and knock out the elephant sword Funkfreed with a single kick, but the effort broke both of his legs.
• Hidden Depths: Carue is pretty knowledgeable about psychology and the subconscious. He's read a few of Chopper's books on the subject in his spare time.
• Lovable Coward: Not as much as Usopp, but it's noticeable enough.
• Loyal Animal Companion: Emphasis on loyal; fear aside, he'll gladly give his life to protect Vivi.
• Sapient Steed: To Vivi.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Robin is about to give Vivi her first lesson in reading Poneglyphs, Carue ran off because his bodyguard duties explicitly exclude tutors.
• Super-Reflexes: As a Supersonic Duck, his brain can process visual information a lot faster than normal to prevent him from crashing into things no matter how fast he goes. It goes into overdrive when he gets an adrenaline rush.
• Super-Speed: He's a Supersonic Duck; it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
  • And when he starts Shaving, he starts throwing around sonic booms.
• Took a Level in Badass: Masters Shave to safely get him and his passengers past Rob Lucci.
  • And then he starts kicking the ground more times per second to go even faster.
• Weaponized Animal: Has taken to wearing armor with bladed wings and talons after joining the Straw Hats full time. It's tempered with sea prism stone in Chapter 53.

Lassoo

Lassoo

A bazooka granted life by the Mutt-Mutt Fruit, Model: Dachshund. Formerly the pet/weapon of Baroque Works' Mr. 4 pair, they gave him to Cross following the events in Alabasta. He ends up going to Serpent with Cross during the Timeskip.

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• Ascended Extra: Due to his ownership being transferred to the Straw Hats.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Can accurately guesstimate distances, trajectories, and fuse times in the space of a few minutes, all to ensure his shots land their mark.
• BFG: His original form.
• Blood Knight: The whole reason that Mr. 4 and Miss Merry Christmas gave Lassoo to Cross in the first place; they were planning on retiring, but Lassoo is a weapon, literally born for battle, and would never be satisfied with retired life.
• Bottomless Magazines: Stated to be part of his Devil Fruit abilities; just as a living body can produce blood, bile, and mucus, his ammo chamber can perpetually reproduce any ammo he uses without ever having to reload.
• Calling Your Attacks: 4 and Christmas didn't give his attacks names, so Cross remedies that.
  • Cani-Cannon: His basic technique, shooting bombs shaped like baseballs.
  • Cani-Slick: Courtesy of Usopp's upgrades, he shoots a spray of slippery octopus ink at his targets.
  • Cani-Plaster: Another of his upgraded ammo shots, he fires a glob of adhesive tar at his targets.
  • Cani-Screen: Another of his upgraded ammo shots, he produces a smokescreen, either for discombobulation or distraction to run away.
  • Cani-Palm: Taken from 'napalm', Lassoo shoots fire courtesy of a Flame Dial. Exceptionally deadly when combined with Cani-Plaster.
  • Cani-Blast: An upgraded shot courtesy of Conis, Lassoo fires a pillar of superheated air, like a Burn Bazooka.
  • Cani-Blank: A shell with compressed air that knocks back opponents.
  • Cani-Pyro: A variation using the flame dial where he coughs up a plume of gas which he ignites in a blue flame, turning him into a blowtorch.
• Combination Attack: Has two.
  • With Soundbite, he can perform the Gastro-Cani Combo: Bass Cannon and Bass Mortar, where Soundbite polarizes the volume of his bombs' explosions to make the sound hit like a physical force.
  • With Funkfreed, he can perform the Pachy-Cani Combo: Superhot Hell Riot, where the two fire their respective elemental Dial attacks (Cani-Palm and Pachy-Riot) to create a blinding cloud of steam vapor.
• Equippable Ally: Technically, he's Cross's weapon, but don't call him anything other than his partner.
• Gun Nut: He was extremely grateful when Conis provided them with a massive arsenal. Not surprising, considering that he's a gun himself.
• I Am Big Boned: When Soundbite and Funkfreed claim he's gotten fat while he's gorging on a steak, he vehemently claims that he's hefty. In truth, the reason he weighs more is putting back on the weight he had when he first joined Cross that Chopper and Usopp trimmed off.
• Lazy Bum: In a bit of Irony despite (or because of) him being a living weapon. He seems to be this whenever he's not in combat, even if it's in the midst of another sort of life-or-death situation.
• Living Weapon: Of course.
• Morphic Resonance: Modifications to his gun body show up in his dog form too; after Usopp upgraded his revolver chamber, it shows up as a patch of discolored fur around his midsection.
• Secret-Keeper: Keeps Soundbite's secret regarding Zoro, Nami, and Kuma safe.
• Signature Laugh: Soundbite gave him the "Hweehweehwee" wheeze-laugh of Muttley. During the Thriller Bark arc, he temporarily changed it to the "Reheeheehee" laugh of Scooby-Doo.
• Sneeze of Doom: Lassoo had a problem with sneezing up ammunition when in hybrid form. Usopp realized that his gun form's feather-sensitive trigger translated into sensitive sinuses, resulting in the perpetual cold. A modification corrected this flaw.
• Trick Bullet: Usopp integrated some of his trick ammo into Lassoo's upgraded revolver chamber.

Boss Dugong

"Man of the Sea" Boss Dugong — Bounty: ฿80,000,000

Chief Ship Guard of the Straw Hat Pirates, a seasoned and powerful Kung Fu Dugong that joins the crew at the end of the Alabasta arc. He dreams of learning every martial art in the world, to one day find and surpass his own traveling master, Sifu Dugong.

Alongside his apprentices, he is left in the Sabaody Archipelago during the Time Skip, much to their mutual disgruntlement, since there was no reason for Kuma to paw-blast them to end up exactly where they'd started from.

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• Almighty Janitor:
  • As a mere ship guard, he is technically not very high on the crew's pecking order, even if you take his bounty into account. But that hasn't prevented his strength from being compared to that of the Monster Trio's.
  • Even as a regular member of the Dugong tribe, he was this. Turns out, Boss was lying about his name being reserved for the second strongest Kung-Fu Dugong. It's reserved for the strongest one period. He always threw his fights against Chief and Lancer because he didn't want to be a leader.
• Blade on a Rope: Boss's weapon is a rope dart, with the rope made of seaweed and the dart made of both metal and coral. When it begins to wear out, he finds a new weapon in Mock Town: a cargo hook on a rope. He can even use it as a sling for long-range attacks.
  • This is upgraded to a Thermal Dart once Usopp gets his hands on a Heat Dial. And later with sea prism stone.
• Catchphrase: Boss has one whenever he exults about the glory of doing something awesome being "A Man's Romance". Lately, it has expanded into "A Man's Pride", "A Man's Duty" and "A Man's Dream".
• Calling Your Attacks: Boss and his 'Half-Shell Style', another blatant TMNT reference.
  • This also applies to his 'Full-Shell Style', his version of the Six Powers: Rip Tide, Tidal Swim, Squall Pistol, Shell Body, Nori Arts, Typhoon Lash and Six Oceans Gun.
• Cigar Chomper: Is very rarely seen without one.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: His Half-Shell Style and later Full-Shell Style, the latter being CP9's Six Powers adapted to suit Kung Fu Dugong physiology, which he also teaches to the TDWS.
• Heroic Build: Is absolutely ripped underneath his shell.
• Hidden Depths: Boss apparently knows Grand Line Standard Sign Language, such that he can communicate without Soundbite (at least to those that know it as well).
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Like several other Dugong tribe-members, he doesn't have any other name than his title. As a novice, his name was Apprentice. As Sifu's student, he was Disciple. And now, as the strongest Kung Fu Dugong of his generation, he is named Boss.
• Instant Expert: Boss claims he's devoted himself to learning how to learn, and it SHOWS. 10 minutes with a Six Powers cheat sheet, and he can replicate the entire martial art, including its ultimate attack.
• Made of Iron: Boss Dugong has been hardening his fists for so long that he can take cigar burns without even feeling them. Even more so when he gets the hang of Iron Body.
• Master of All: His driving goal, which is to learn and master every type of martial arts in the One Piece world.
• Meaningful Rename: Boss's original name was Apprentice, but he took the name Disciple while learning under Sifu Dugong, and just before joining the Straw Hats, Chief Dugong renamed him Boss, a name reserved for the strongest of all Kung Fu Dugongs.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Let's not forget that for all his manliness, fighting prowess and rock-cracking strength, he's still only a few feet tall.
• Sergeant Rock: Has the voice of a drill sergeant, if not the temperament (that only shows up when disciplining the TDWS).
• Sixth Ranger: His strength and skill put him in league with the Monster Trio. Eventually, Cross finally submitted to saying they had a Monster Quartet now.
• Testosterone Poisoning: Enamored that he is with "a Man's Romance", it's basiically his lifeblood.
• To Be a Master: Boss's dream is to learn every martial art there is, for the sole purpose of following in the footsteps of his own master.
• Took a Level in Badass: When his Half-Shell Style no longer becomes sufficient, Boss kicks it up a notch to the Full-Shell Style, his version of the Six Powers.
• Training from Hell: Both a recipient and arbiter of such.

TDWS

"Disciples of the Sea" Teenage Dugong Warrior Squad — Bounty: ฿45,000,000 ("Half-Shell Blade" Leo — ฿15,000,000; Mikey, Raphey, and Donny — ฿10,000,000)

Ship Guards of the Straw Hat Pirates, Boss's four Kung Fu Dugong apprentices that join the crew alongside their mentor at the end of the Alabasta arc. Though not related by blood, they have known each other all their lives and consider themselves siblings. They consist of Mikey, the funny one; Donny, the smart one; Raphey, the tough one; and Leo, the leader.

Like Boss Dugong, they were left in the Sabaody Archipelago during the Time Skip, much to their mutual disgruntlement, since there was no reason for Kuma to paw-blast them to end up exactly where they'd started from.

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• Anchovies Are Abhorrent: Donny's least favorite food is anchovies. The reason is mainly because the TDWS as a whole have pizza listed as their favorite food.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: All four of them give the others hell as only close siblings can, but after a week away from each other, and a little of Boss's prodding at how real men don't hold back their tears, all four of them commence a Group Hug as only close siblings can too.
• Ambiguous Gender: Even Soundbite couldn't tell that Raphey was short for Raphaella until she corrected him.
• Bring It: Upon realizing that guarding the Thousand Sunny at Sabaody for the next two years will result in them fighting a nigh-endless onslaught of attacks from newcoming rookies, both weak and talented, aiming to take the ship for fame, glory or fortune, after a moment of silence, they enthusiastically set themselves to "welcome" the rookies and possibly trim out the more wicked ones in the process.
• Catchphrase: TDWS has the group one of "GO, BOSS, GO!" whenever Boss does or says something awesome.
• Calling Your Attacks: The four students seem to name their attacks after the artists that they took their names from.
  • Leo's named attacks: Vitruvian Vindication, Cross of the Baptist, and Medusa Mitigation.
  • Raphey's sole named attack: Spear of St. George.
  • Mikey's sole named attack: Might of David.
  • Donny's sole named attack: Herod's Wrath.
• Don't Split Us Up: A non-adoption-based example — Boss (Disciple at the time) was their last hope for a master since none of the others wanted to take all four of them as students at once.
• Expy: The acronym alone should be enough to draw the links to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If it's not, we have the names (Mikey, Donny, Raphey, and Leo, references to Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo), the weapons (twin nunchucks, bo staff, twin sai, and twin katana, respectively) and the headbands (orange, purple, pink, and blue).
• Family of Choice: The four of them are not actually blood-related, but they've been together so long that they all consider each other siblings.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Phlegmatic: Leo
  • Melancholic: Donny
  • Choleric: Raphey
  • Sanguine: Mikey
• Got Volunteered: As the only other swordsman on the crew (at the time), Leo is quickly co-opted as Zoro's training partner (or sparring dummy). Chapter 53 has Mikey and Donny join him in getting volun-told as Sanji's sous-chef and Chopper's assistant respectively.
• Hold the Line: Said word for word by Leo when the TDWS decides to hold off the Just Eleven Jurymen to give the rest of the Straw Hats time to reach Robin.
• I Have Brothers: Raphey gives this as an explanation to why she's good at Shell Body.
• Inspirational Insult: Donny motivates Leo to learn to cut steel by suggesting that Mikey be his replacement. The student rivalry is what kicks him into high gear.
• The Lad-ette: Raphey to a degree. She likes fighting and training just as much as her teammates and does not consider herself a lady. But she will not let you forget she's female, either.
• Lost in Translation: Apparently, there's difficulty translating from water-based animal language to land-based animal language, enough so that Soundbite couldn't tell that Raphey was a girl.
• Off with His Head!: Leo uses a technique he calls "Medusa Mitigation" on Gecko Moria's Terrible Trio zombies just before they wake him up.
• Only Sane Man: The female Straw Hats frequently fall into this role, and Raphey seems to be no exception. But let it not be forgotten that she supports Boss's "Man's Romance" just as much as Mikey, Donny, and Leo.
  • When she loses her temper though, Donny, as The Smart Guy, usually fills the role instead.
• Pineapple Ruins Pizza: Raphey has pineapple listed as the food she dislikes the most. Since "Pizza" is listed as the TDWS's favorite food and everyone else's disliked foods are all pizza toppings, this is why.
• Pink Is Feminine: Just about the only reason the female Raphey's bandanna is pink and not red like her namesake.
• Ranged Emergency Weapon: The TDWS begins developing their longer ranges as they travel, and pick up secondary weapons to use as such:
  • Mikey goes Guns Akimbo with a couple of pistols.
  • Raphey uses a Fuuma Shuriken on a chain.
  • Donny goes with kunai.
  • Leo eschews other weapons and chooses to practice flying blade slashes as his ranged option.
• Smart Ball: Just before going to Thriller Bark, Mikey had the brilliant idea to sedate Gecko Moria to keep him asleep, much to the shock of his crewmates.
• "Super Sentai" Stance: For their wanted poster, they did a group photo. Much to Cross's dismay though, Soundbite taught them the Ginyu Force pose.
• Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats: Maybe not "mutant", but they definitely qualify.
• Training from Hell: Boss's own training aside, Leo has found himself his own personal hell on account of being the only other swordsman on the crew, cementing his unwanted position as Zoro's daily sparring partner.
  • This changes when Brook shows up.
• Wrecked Weapon: Leo pulls off the flying slash for the first time when he manages to defeat Long John Silverteeth, but his blades shatter from the force. Though John offers up his swords in replacement, Leo later gets his hands on a much better pair — Oto and Kogarashi, the Grade Swords of Shiki the Golden Lion.
• You Are Already Dead: Raphey and Leo's first demonstration with their weapons is reminiscent of either Zoro's Lion Song technique or Brook's preferred style.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: This is their general reaction to learn that they were sent flying by Kuma for three days, only to end up back at Sabaody.
  [WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT BUCKET OF BOLTS THINKING?!]

Nico Robin

"Devil Child" Nico Robin — Bounty: ฿99,000,000

Archaeologist of the Straw Hat Pirates, formerly the second-in-command of Baroque Works who Luffy allowed a place on the crew after Alabasta, who dreams of learning the true history of the world.

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• Achilles' Heel: Despite the versatility of her Devil Fruit, it has limits as to where she can sprout limbs: she can't create limbs on surfaces made of sea prism stone, surfaces that don't have enough room, or surfaces that can't be grabbed (which renders her powerless against Logia-eaters as she does not possess Haki).
• Action Girl: Robin is completely able to keep up with the Monster Trio (Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji) in a fight.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: She's a sea-faring pirate, former assassin, and the Straw Hat's resident well for information on all things historical. Notably though, she technically subverts this trope because she actually employs the methods and ideology of real archaeologists rather than the "Indiana Jones" methods; destroying ancient artifacts and sites is a major Berserk Button of hers and she spends hours quietly studying books about history.
• Almighty Janitor: Robin detests fighting, preferring to leave the dirty business to the Straw Hats that enjoy it and saving her Devil Fruit power for support purposes. If she is pushed however, her foes will quickly discover she is not to be trifled with, as her Flower-Flower Fruit's attacks are practically unavoidable and are aimed at ending a fight as quickly and brutally as possible.
• Badass Adorable: Despite her stoic demeanor, she is really cute, and more than capable of handling herself in a fight.
• Badass Bookworm: She loves nothing more than learning about history. She's also fond of the written works of such authors as Lovecraft and Shelley.
• Brain Bleach: Out of curiosity, Robin used her powers to peek on just what it is Nami does with the gold they have stored. Afterward, Cross notes she looked like she swallowed a lemon.
  Robin: My kingdom for a way to wipe my memory...
• Brainy Brunette: Has black hair and is an accomplished archaeologist. She's also one of the most intelligent members of the crew.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: In a much more subtle way than it's normally handled in fiction. Though it doesn't portray itself through the freakish physicality of Luffy, Zoro or Sanji, it's implied that Robin has some variety of Super-Strength. She's not only capable of breaking the bones of people with explicitly superhuman capabilities in a way that requires a bit more of an explanation than 'leverage and superior skill,' though that certainly plays a part.
• Code Name: As a Straw Hat confidante and thus privy to the New World Masons, she is given the codename Black Mamba.
• Combat Pragmatist: No one should ever expect a fair fight from her. She fights to win and does not care one bit how she does it.
• The Comically Serious: After her defrosting, a lot of humor comes from her trying to remain stoic in the face of the wacky antics of the Straw Hats. Especially since the crew (especially Cross) are less afraid of getting physical with her.
• Dark Magical Girl: While first appearing as a Dark Action Girl, an essential part of her Freudian Excuse for the more morally ambiguous things she did was the fact that she has been alone, hunted and constantly in fear of betrayal for about 20 years before the series began. The fact that the Straw Hats expressed unconditional love and friendship towards her made her into a better, less treacherous person.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Thanks to Cross's foreknowledge, the crew has less doubts about Robin, and that combined with Cross actively attempting to make her happy results in her seeing the crew as the place where she belongs by the end of the Skypiea saga.
• Devious Daggers: After Thriller Bark, Usopp and Franky craft her a sea prism stone butterfly knife, and she is very skilled with it. Robin justifies it as being from the West Blue.
• Eye Scream: In Strong World Pt. 3, one of her compact Ojos Fleur eyes is damaged by a blow from Scarlet the gorilla and her normal eye on her head starts to bleed because of it.
• Fingore: When she first approached the Straw Hats as Miss All Sunday, she held Cross and Soundbite hostage with her disembodied hands. Cross broke her thumb while Soundbite bit one clean off. Thankfully, she only experienced the pain of those attacks without actually losing any digits.
• Flower Motifs: Her Devil Fruit allows her to sprout extra body parts like budding flowers, and many of her techniques are named after flowers. Her voice actor stated that she is represented by the casablanca, signifying her devotion to her crew and her restoration of innocence after they saved her.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Robin's main color scheme is purple and many of her outfits (especially the earlier one), are purple.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Okay, so you can duplicate your body parts and make them sprout from anything you can see, I guess that's kind of cool, but how is that useful in a fight-OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR NECK?
• Lady of War: When fighting, she still remains composed and in control of herself. Her fighting style is both refined and serene, sprouting her body parts from any surface she wants to take down scores of enemies without moving an inch. Petals even appear when she uses her powers, adding to her grace in battle.
• Like Brother and Sister: She and Cross slowly develop this relationship, and it's cemented post-rescue.
• Long-Range Fighter: Robin is not very resistant, but her devil fruit is powerful and versatile. This means that as long as she stays out of reach of the enemy, she's able to quickly defeat them. Otherwise they beat her before she can snap their neck.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: It's easy to forget that such a pretty woman's powers involve sprouting extra body parts, including on her opponent, which are frequently used to break their spines!
• Morality Chain: Resolves to be this for Vivi, using her sea prism stone knife to keep her grounded and reminded of her mortality, lest the princess get Drunk with Power on her new Logia powers and become as bad as Crocodile or Eneru.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Her most common use of her Devil Fruit power is sprouting arms on her opponent(s) and putting them in submission holds, allowing her to fight with multiple limbs. Her standard badass/dramatic pose in most media involves flourishing fans of arms Kali-style.
• Petal Power: For some reason, pink flower petals appear whenever she uses her DF powers. This is explained from her Devil Fruit's name: Flower-Flower. The limbs sprout from the ground "like flowers". Don't think about that too closely, though.
• Perky Goth: Robin tends to wear dark clothes but, after mellowing down, tends to be very upbeat, if more subtly than the rest of the crew.
• Purple Is Powerful: Robin's main color scheme is purple and her Devil Fruit is a surprisingly mighty one. Not to mention that her knowledge of the void language makes her someone who can upset the balance of the world, knowledge pirates including the Four Emperors want and the World Government wants to either silence or possess.
• Secret-Keeper: Due to her Flower-Flower Fruit's ability to eavesdrop on everything around the ship, she becomes privy to the New World Masons' conversations in the ship. Cross formally adds her to the Masons during Chapter 59.
• Self-Duplication: Courtesy of the Flower-Flower Fruit, allowing her to bloom her body parts like flowers anywhere she sees.
• Signature Laugh: Normally her laughter is pretty normal, but when she finds something really funny, her side-splitting laughs become Saul's signature "Dereshishishishi!"
• Squee: If there's anything that can elicit this response from her, it's the chance of finally finding someone to teach her wealth of knowledge to, as shown with Vivi and Conis asking to learn the Void Language.
• Stern Teacher: Seems to be this case when teaching Vivi and Conis the Void Language. Although if you were to ask her students, especially after some of her punishments, she veers straight past Stern and right into Sadist.
• The Stoic: She starts off this way. Then the Straw Hats start getting to her.
• Tempting Fate: Has done this twice, when she says that things are returning to normal right as galleons start falling from the sky, and saying that they're home free when escaping from Enies Lobby only for Vice-Admiral Momonga to block them.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Eh, sorta. Her talk with Lil is what ultimately dooms the Accino wedding, sparking it into a massive brawl. Then again, the Accino kids wanted the Straw Hats to sabotage the wedding anyway; the only reason why it was going so well in the first place is that Vivi went into Bridezilla mode and tried to live her dream wedding vicariously through Lil's.
• Weak, but Skilled: Robin is no stronger than your average athletic human woman. However, skillful use of her Devil Fruit powers enables her to take on foes much bigger and/or much more powerful than she is.
• Winged Humanoid: She can sprout multiple arms from her back into two wings, giving her the ability to fly. For five seconds due to the strain of having to stay in the air.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Robin specializes in submission locks and her most common form of attack is taking down an enemy from a distance in this manner using her powers.

Conis

"Angel of Destruction" Conis — Bounty: ฿77,000,000

Gunner of the Straw Hat Pirates, a former citizen of Skypiea who befriended the crew upon their arrival. Their strength and their easygoing nature, as well as Cross's courage and tales of the Blue Sea, inspired her to set out to sea herself.

During the Time Skip, she is trapped on the island of Eden's Cinders, the home of the Jewel Tree, Adam, from whose wood the Thousand Sunny was constructed, and which is home to a Forever War.

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• Adaptational Badass: In canon, she could wield a BFG. In this 'verse, she can do it on the level of the White Beret's Captain.
• Alien Catnip: During her first transition from the White Sea to the Blue Sea, the overabundance of oxygen left her staggering and slurring like she was three sheets to the wind until she adjusted.
• Alliterative Name: Having received a formal rank from the White Berets before leaving, she is officially Commander Conis.
• Age Lift: She was originally 24 in this fanfic, but a Vivre Card Databook released the year after her introduction in the fic established her as 19 in the original series, making this a retroactive Age Lift. The authors edited and retconned the story to accommodate this.
• Ascended Extra: A supporting character during the Skypiea Arc, she became a full-fledged member of the crew.
• BFG: Conis wields one that's literally half her size and weight.
• Beware the Nice Ones: For all that she is a nice, demure, sweet girl, she is still the one carrying guns big enough to melt your face off.
• Cute Bruiser: Living 10,000 meters above the ground naturally makes one stronger due to the thinness of the air. During the G-8 arc, we see this in the form of Conis' physical strength having apparently multiplied by four due to the increased oxygen on the level of the Blue Sea. And who knows though how much that will increase over the time skip, training in the war-torn Eden's Cinders?
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Wiper gives her his Reject Dial after the Skypiea Arc. Even mounted into a bazooka, one use of it just about dislocates her shoulder.
• Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Chapter 53 has Usopp mentioning some special sea prism stone ammunition for him and Conis.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Conis was already in good physical fitness and an expert in a wide variety of exotic firearms, but traveling from the White Sea to the Blue Sea exposed her to greater amounts of oxygen and boosted her physical strength to four times its original level.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: While Conis is still as sweet as ever and plays her harp regularly, her taste in fashion changed on the Blue Seas. Upon leaving with the Straw Hats, she quickly discovers that she prefers masculine attire to feminine, not to mention the fact that she is, after all, their gunner. Much to Sanji’s despair as he literally shrieks in horror to see Conis in such attire instead of something to show off her curves.
• Gratuitous Latin: How she Calls her Sky Warfare attacks, specifically the dial-enhanced ones.
  • Pistol Lux: Flash Dial-mounted pistols.
  • Rifle Incendium: Flame Dial-mounted rifles.
  • Shotgun Palus: Swamp Dial-mounted Hand Cannon.
• Growing Wings: In Merveille, her vestigial Skypiean wings suddenly grow to enormous size in response to Su's suffering and due to all the SIQ-imbued bushmeat she'd been eating. However, due to her unfamiliarity in using them and a sudden bout of muscle strain, her flying is cut short.
  • Even after she gets used to them, Chopper says that since they're attached to muscles she's never used before, she can only glide with them until she gets enough exercise. But it’s very likely after the timeskip she will be able to actually use her wings for much more than just gliding.
• Hat of Authority: As a parting gift from Captain McKinley, Conis is deemed the commander of the White Berets: Straw Hat Pirates division, and receives a white beret as a signification of that.
• The Klutz: During her first time on solid ground in the Blue Sea, she needs a moment to get her land legs. After all, Blue Sea islands don't move with the wind.
• Pistol-Whipping: With some training from Boss, she can do this with a bazooka.
• Precision F-Strike: Her reaction to Soundbite's quote saying "How about… today is a good day to die?"
  Conis: Fuck that. It's a good day for someone else to die.
• Saying Too Much: She realizes too late that she landed Merry in hot water with Nami when she mentions how expensive the ammo for Merry's new cannon is.
• Secret Legacy: Her mother, unmentioned in canon, actually joined the Roger Pirates when they came to Skypiea.
• Super-Strength: Because her body adapted to very little oxygen while living in the White Sea, her muscles went into overdrive when she came down to the Blue Seas and the larger amount of oxygen there, giving her four times her original strength.
• Walking Armory: When you're the crew's gunner, are four times as strong as a regular human, and have access to a very large amount of firepower, this is the logical conclusion.
• Winged Humanoid: This is a given considering she's a native of a sky island. While on Mereville, they end up growing to the point that she's capable of flying.

Su

"Cottontail" Su — Bounty: ฿100,000

A Cloud Fox, a species of fox native to the Sky Islands. Conis's pet and best friend, who joined the Straw Hats alongside her. Although the World Government considers her the crew's pet, her role is more of powder-monkey/fox, with how she helps Conis with her weapons.

Like Conis, she was sent to Eden's Cinders during the Time Skip.

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• Ascended Extra: In canon, Su didn't really have a lot of characterization, mostly due in part to the fact that she spoke in Pokémon Speak. Here, she's snarky, crafty, and capable of handling herself in a fight.
• Break Them by Talking: To the Marines during the Enies Lobby arc.
  Su: Attention, Marine dipshits! To clarify your current situation, the reason you are fighting against a crew that your bosses know you have little to no chance of defeating is that you are what is commonly referred to in the business as fodder! For those of you who find the truth of your lot in life too disturbing to contemplate, I suggest that your next course of action be to curl up and kiss your asses goodbye!
• Can't Catch Up: Has this air after Thriller Bark, when she sees how much weaker she is compared to everyone else, even Soundbite. To this end, she asks Coo and his fellow gulls to look up something called "the Children of Inari".
• Little Miss Snarker: Arguably the most dominant part of her personality. But then, she IS a fox.
• Loyal Animal Companion: She's been this for Conis since the day she was born.
• Signature Laugh: "Tseeheeheeheehee!"
• The Sneaky Gal: She uses her small size and speed to great effect, whether it be for infiltration, retrieval or sabotage.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Due to ingesting Merveille's strength-enhancing toxins for a week, she becomes strong enough to down a huge mutant squirrel.
  • The knowledge Su requested on the Children of Inari is, doubtlessly, also intended for this purpose. And in the Denouement, it pays off, as Su becomes the first member of the crew to knowingly eat a Mythical Zoan class Devil Fruit.
• Underestimating Badassery: Downplayed. Even though she is inarguably the weakest Straw Hat, her status as, in the Marines' eyes, the crew's pet, sees her bounty on the low side even for the threat level she represents. However, unlike Chopper in canon, the Marines at least realize that even if she is just a pet, she is a dangerous pet and should be approached with caution.
• Unorthodox Reload: In battle, she runs around Conis's body, reloading her holstered weapons.

Funkfreed

Funkfreed

A saber granted life by the Elephant-Elephant Fruit. Formerly owned by Spandam, Cross acquired him by accident during the final fight on Enies Lobby, and with Lassoo's help, persuaded him to join him. Along with Soundbite and Lassoo, he joins Cross in Serpent during the Timeskip.

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• Ascended Extra: Due to his ownership being transferred to the Straw Hats in this story.
• Blood Knight: Just like Lassoo, Funkfreed is a weapon, literally born for battle, and was very unsatisfied with a coward like Spandam for a wielder, which made him more pet than weapon. Cross's emergency use of him on the Bridge of Hesitation was the first real sword fight he'd had in a long time.
• Calling Your Attacks: Thanks to Cross:
  • Pachy-Charge: Funkfreed goes from sword to hybrid form in a flash as Cross stabs with him, extending his range by a massive amount. Basically the quick version of his canon Ivory Dart attack.
    • Pachy-Pede: Pachy-Charge performed as fast as Cross can thrust him, resulting in a storm of stabs from tusks and sword-trunk.
  • Pachy-Riot: Thanks to some Dial modifications, Funkfreed sprays water from his trunk with the force of a riot hose.
  • Pachy-Shield: Funkfreed encircles Cross in his hybrid form which protects him from all ranged attacks.
  • Pachy-Cryo: In his blade form, a stream of water flows down the blade and then a Cool Dial freezes the water, turning him into an ice sword.
• Combination Attack: Has two.
  • With Soundbite, he can perform the Gastro-Pachy Combo: Treble Blade move, where Soundbite makes his extending blade vibrate enough to allow him to cut through anything.
  • With Lassoo, he can perform the Pachy-Cani Combo: Superhot Hell Riot, where the two fire their respective elemental Dial attacks (Pachy-Riot and Cani-Palm) to create a blinding cloud of steam vapor.
• Contrived Coincidence: How he ended up joining the Straw Hats. After Cross's baton was destroyed on the Bridge of Hesitation, he was forced to grab a discarded sword to defend himself. It wasn't until the Straw Hats were back at Water 7 that Cross discovered that out of all the swords, he had inadvertently picked up Funkfreed.
• Cool Sword: His original form.
• Equippable Ally: Just like Lassoo, he technically belongs to Cross.
• Honorable Elephant: Following joining Cross, he's shown to be a decent and friendly individual.
• Impact Silhouette: During Enies Lobby, he gets a dent of Carue's foot on his forehead to knock him out. Then at Skelter Bite, he gets another dent in the shape of Urouge's head during the Supernova Bar Brawl.
• Living Weapon: Of course.
• Mighty Glacier: Besides the raw power that comes from being an elephant, his hybrid form is made of steel just like his sword form. When he starts rapidly transforming in the blink of an eye, he goes into Lightning Bruiser levels.
• Morphic Resonance: Any sort of attire he possesses is from his sheath. When he got a new one, his old harness is replaced with plate mail armor.
• Nice Guy: He's very personable and polite, and given the voice he has only reinforces this.
• One Degree of Separation: The first half of the Long Ring Long Land arc reveals that Funkfreed's Elephant Zoan fruit was taken from the leader of the Full-Frontal Assault Pirates, the original crew of Groggy Monster Pickles before Foxy won him in a Davy Back Fight; the berserker pirate captain was killed and his Devil Fruit harvested to create Funkfreed about a month after Pickles was taken by Foxy.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Hawkins brings out Shichiseiken during the cage match between Cross, Brook, and Sir Bearington on Skelter Bite, Funkfreed flat out tells Cross that he had better run unless he wants to fight the Evil Weapon in question with the "no sword" style.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Even in canon, the main reason he was "evil" is that he works for Spandam, and that's pretty much it.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: See O.O.C. Is Serious Business.
• Secret-Keeper: Keeps Soundbite's secret regarding Zoro, Nami, and Kuma safe.
• Vibroweapon: Placing Soundbite on his sword form turns him into this.
• Vocal Dissonance: He's an elephant that sounds like a mouse. And given Carue and Lassoo's voices, there's only one mouse it could be.

Franky

"Cyborg" Franky — Bounty: ฿70,000,000

The shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates, an unholy cyborg fusion of Popeye and Ace Ventura from Water 7 and the head of the city's underworld, leading the bounty hunters and ship dismantlers known as the Franky Family. Formerly known as Cutty Flam, apprentice to the legendary shipwright Tom, he discarded his real name in order to remain incognito from the World Government. He became a fan of the Straw Hats long before they reached Water 7 thanks to the SBS. His dream is to build the greatest ship in the world and sail it to the end of the Grand Line.

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• Adaptational Heroism: While he wasn't necessarily a villain before, thanks to being won over by the SBS, the initial conflict between him and the Straw Hats in canon is avoided and he ends up being their ally from the start.
• Adaptational Intelligence: In the canon, the Straw Hats' plan to blackmail Franky into joining them depends on him only having one pair of briefs for them to take hostage. In this story, he initially laughs off their stealing his briefs by figuring out their plan and revealing that he has a spare set, and he's honestly insulted when even his own men admit they actually didn't think him smart enough to buy more than one pair. The plan still works because Merry helps steal the new pair.
• Berserk Button: People who don't take care of their ships or treat them as disposable, a trait he shares with Merry.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite all of his eccentricities, never doubt the genius of Franky's work.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: With his eccentricity and his tendency to shout "SUPER!" whenever he can, there's no denying he's an odd man.
  • Especially when you factor in all the personality changes caused by improper drink fuels.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite how he usually behaves, you really, really don't want to get into a fight with him, as Spandam (twice, even!) and assorted Marines found out the hard way.
• Cyborg: Obviously.
• Defiant Captive: He spends his entire time as Spandam's prisoner mocking his captor and telling him he's a dead man walking. Spandam eventually throws him out a window in retaliation...which allows him to escape and help the Straw Hats.
• The Dog Bites Back: Spandam was responsible for his mentor's death ten years ago. Present day Franky repays the favor during the Enies Lobby arc, with extensive interest.
• The Engineer: He's the one keeping Sunny in shipshape after all.
• Gentle Giant: It becomes apparent that beneath the hard metal shell of his gigantic body is a really soft center.
• Made of Iron: Both literally (due to being a cyborg) and metaphorically. Seriously, the guy was able to survive long enough to modify himself into a cyborg even after being hit by a sea train.
• My Greatest Failure: Franky failing to save Tom from the World Government.
• Power Fist: His right hand is mainly used for punching, especially when he reveals its metal skeleton. He later adds some sea prism stone brass knuckles to it.
• Power-Up Food: As in canon, his tech (including his attacks) run on cola, but one chapter has Cross explain that other beverages affect his behavior in different ways — tea and vegetable juice make him into a hippie and a farmer, respectively. The group then tries experimenting, showing off a couple of variants that weren't in canon — pumpkin juice makes him act like Michael Jackson, spinach juice makes him act like Popeye, ale makes him into "Ser Iron Ass the Blacksmith", grape juice makes him act like an ancient Roman, milk causes him to act like Brook, and diet cola makes him into an exercise nut. Naturally, he is not pleased with any of these.
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: His Strong Left-Right Combo, an upgrade he applied to himself mid-Enies Lobby that turns his arms into a piston-powered punching machine, inspired by hearing about Foxy's Gorilla Puncher #13 on the SBS.

Thousand Sunny

Thousand Sunny

The second ship of the Straw Hat Pirates, a three-masted barque built by Iceburg, Franky, Galley-La and Merry to be the King of the Seas, the throne for the King of the Pirates.

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• Adaptational Badass: In canon, Sunny is already an amazing and beautiful ship but here, he's even more impressive with a vast multitude of hidden features and even more weapons to counter any obstacle.
• Animal Motifs: The Lion, of course.
• Cool Boat: Even cooler than the canon version!
• Crazy-Prepared: What else would you call installed switches that drop specifically-placed pulleys for the sole purpose of delivering Dope Slaps?
• Hidden Supplies: During construction, Merry secretly installed a lot of hidden switches and spots around Sunny's body that activate a lot of concealable features, including ropes that can pull crew members all over the ship, a collapsible hibachi grill for Sanji and a Wall of Weapons for Conis, Lassoo and Funkfreed.
• Now You Tell Me: He kept Perona's presence in his hold a secret from Merry because he was following her example involving Robin.
• Razor Wind: The Leo Fangs, a series of Axe Dials mounted in Sunny's figurehead that can chop through anything directly ahead of it.
• Sapient Ship: Only just built, and already has developed a personality enough to communicate to a ship-whisperer like Merry.
• Wave-Motion Gun: The Gaon Cannon (just like in canon) is a blast of concentrated air powered by cola and simulates a laser cannon shot. Instead of using it during the raid on the Flying Fish Riders' stronghold, the story instead uses it to open a path through the Naval Blockade set up around Sabaody. It is as awesome as it sounds.
• You Don't Look Like You: Was a brig sloop in canon, but is now a three-masted barque thanks to Merry's involvement in the design process and Cross's intervention on Skypiea getting them enough gold to raise the canon budget to ฿400 million. Cross goes over the differences when he first sees him.

Brook

"Humming" Brook — Bounty: ฿33,000,000

Musician of the Straw Hat Pirates, a skeleton reanimated by the Revive-Revive Fruit, he was originally the acting captain of the Rumbar Pirates until they were wiped out and left for dead in the Florian Triangle 50 years ago. He dreams of meeting up with the Island Whale Laboon and playing to him his crew's last song. The Straw Hats met up with him when they entered the Florian Triangle and revealed their connection to Laboon.

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• Astral Projection: Is something he can do thanks to the Revive-Revive Fruit. This time, he figures out how to do it before the time skip instead of after. Mind you, it's still not a complete technique yet, as he gets significantly more absent-minded when not tethered to his skull, such as forgetting that the local animals can talk, that he's dead, and that he's a spirit.
• Dirty Old Man: Considering how much he's obsessed with ladies' underwear...
• Horrifying the Horror: Brook terrifies the zombies of Thriller Bark.
• Hurricane of Puns: Loves his bone and dead jokes. Unlike canon though, his crewmates are happy to join in.
• Ocean Madness: Much like in canon, being stuck for 50 years in the Florian Triangle alone in the wreck of the Rumbar Pirates' ship did no favors for his sanity.
• Ridiculously Alive Undead: Thanks to the Yomi Yomi no Mi (Revive-Revive Fruit), Brook is a living skeleton who can get bruised despite lacking skin. He also eats despite lacking a stomach, is shown frequently to be a Dirty Old Man, and like every other Devil Fruit user, he is weak to seawater.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: During the three-way battle royale between him, Cross and Sir Bearington at Skelter Bite. When Basil Hawkins crashes the fight by unleashing a straw dummy powered by Shichiseiken, he cuts through the cage and runs for it, and Bearington, Funkfreed, and Cross are not far behind.
• Sequence Breaking: In canon, he joined the crew when the Thriller Bark arc ended. Here, he joined the crew when the arc began.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: This is Brook before the time-skip; so he's dressed in a three-piece suit and a top hat. They were tattered from over fifty years of wear and tear, but Nami fixed them after he joined the crew.
• Sheath Strike: Usopp plans to temper his cane sheath with sea prism stone to give him an option against ability-users.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: His introduction. While the crew was singing Bink's Brew to keep up morale, his ship floated up to them unnoticed and he joined in the fun. It took Cross a Double Take to realize he was there.
• Surreal Humor: Loves making "skull jokes" about the fact that as a skeleton, he no longer has skin, blood or stuff like that.
• Tears of Joy: His reaction when Cross reveals the SBS transmitted his music to the whole world, which means Laboon and Crocus heard him and know he's alive and coming back.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Played with; the Grand Line is full of people with odd powers and Devil Fruit abilities, so Brook being a nine-foot tall living skeleton might not raise too many eyebrows. Still, many of the Straw Hats were unnerved meeting him at first until Cross pointed out that it was a Devil Fruit.

Billy

Billy

A hybrid between a peacock, chicken, and duck that was originally a creation of Dr. Indigo, capable of generating bioelectric shocks. Gentle and timid but powerful, he was a vital help to the Straw Hats against Shiki and afterward joined the crew at Nami's insistence.

During the Time Skip he is sent flying by Kuma with Nami to the Sky Island of Weatheria.

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• Ascended Extra: What sets Billy apart from the other TB! recruits is that he's the first movie character to join the crew.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Is completely loyal to Nami because she showed him nothing but kindness and saves her life twice in return. Though he did require a little "coercion" not to part ways with her when she left Merveille.
• Bilingual Bonus: Carrying over from the canon film, Luffy named him Billy in the dub because of his duckbill, but in the original version, his name came from 'biri', the Japanese onomatopoeia for an electric shock. Soundbite had a suspicion this was the case after hearing the name, but couldn't figure it out.
• Cowardly Lion: In spite of his cowardly status, he is courageous enough to save Nami twice in Strong World and becomes Luffy's mount to take on Shiki in the skies.
• Horse of a Different Color: Nami plans to ride Billy as a mount the same way Vivi rides Carue.
• Lovable Coward: Timid but affectionate.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: A bird with red plumage, the head of a duck, and long tail feathers of a peacock.
• Shock and Awe: His bioelectric shocks are potent enough to slay half a dozen of Merveille's monsters in one shot without breaking a sweat.
• Spider-Sense: Developed his survival instincts to such a razor-sharp point that he can sense danger approaching. This comes naturally as he was born and lived in Strong World.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Billy initially protests staying with the crew due chiefly to how cowardly he is. Nami reinforces that although he ran in fear, he came back and was instrumental in defeating Shiki, proving his merits to be a Straw Hat.

Unofficial/Temporary Members

Other Transponder Snails

Pinky, Brain, and Gif

Transponder snails of the Straw Hat Pirates. Pinky and Brain are Baby Transponder Snails that Cross and Soundbite bought in Loguetown, to give the rest of the crew ways to communicate without Soundbite's powers. Later, Franky rescued a Visual Transponder Snail from Shiki's flying base and named her Gif, and her capabilities allow the SBS to have both audio and visual components.

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• Expy: When the first two Transponder Snails act on their own volition, one's a Cloudcuckoolander with a cockney accent and the other is an intellectual megalomaniac. Is there any other reason they were named Pinky and the Brain?
• Helicopter Pack: Franky upgraded Gif with one to allow her better angles and maneuverability to get the perfect shots.
• Meaningful Name: Gif is a Visual Transponder Snail, which is the One Piece equivalent of a camera.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: No-one knows how two baby transponder snails filled the Going Merry with enough Booby Traps to capture nearly all of the Straw Hat crew, but they did.
• The Power of Rock: How Soundbite chose Pinky and the Brain: while looking through the selection of Baby Transponder Snails in Loguetown, Soundbite burst into a guitar solo, and those two were the only ones enjoying the music instead of hiding in their shells.
• Spear Carrier: As far as the story is concerned, unlike most of the other Talking Animals of the Straw Hat crew, Pinky and the Brain are only used for their main purpose as communicators and little else. They virtually have no lines outside of their one scene where they were named.
• The Speechless: Visual Transponder Snails don't have a vocal language, and Gif is no exception. However, she is very expressive. Heck, she speaks in Emoticons!
  Gif: ( ﾟ▽ﾟ)/
• The Starscream: Played for laughs, Brain attempted to usurp Luffy's position as captain, but Soundbite put a stop to that.

Isaiah and Terry

Isaiah Swagger and Terry Bear Glove

Two South Birds recruited in Jaya to help the Straw Hats navigate to the Knock-Up Stream, who stick around with the crew for the rest of the Skypiea saga due to their enjoyment of being able to speak.

They choose to remain at G8 following the Straw Hats' escape.

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• Expy: They're blatant references to Terry Crews and Isaiah "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" Mustafa, two muscular and hammy spokesmen for Old Spice who more than doubled the company's revenue with their advertisements. At one point, the two of them starred in the same commercials, Isaiah promoting the Swagger scent (and Timber, but that's not important here) and Terry promoting the Bear Glove scent.
  • Cold Ham: Mustafa's trademark is being cool, calm, and suave, primarily speaking to the ladies while promoting his own attractiveness. Isaiah of the Swagger tribe is much the same.
  • Large Ham: Crews' trademark is having No Indoor Voice and doing over-the-top and very impossible stunts that typically involve him shouting out "POWER!" Terry of the Bear Glove tribe is much the same.
• Ham-to-Ham Combat: Virtually every time the two open their beaks.
• Plucky Comic Relief: They were valuable allies for the Straw Hats in Skypiea and Navarone, but this was undoubtedly their biggest role.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • The birds ultimately are unable to cope with the Straw Hats' insanity and choose to stay in Navarone at the end of the G-8 Arc.
  • They left Skypiea for a similar reason, as according to Soundbite, the South Birds up there didn't really care about the "power" of their tribes, due to simply being much bigger than them.

Perona

See her entry on Dog/Puppy under the Zodiac of the Damned here.