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The Butcher Bird is a One Piece fic, with an accompanying huge cast. The below list is by no means complete, but it is an attempt to categorize the more important characters that appear and give them some applicable tropes.

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Nightmare Pirates, collectively worth ฿1,798,000,000

     In General 
  • A Lighter Shade of Black: They may be Villain Protagonists but when compared to the corrupt and oppressive World Government and pirates like Big Mom, Kaido, and Doflamingo, it’s hard not to see them in a heroic light.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Some of the more dangerous of the crew are rather...eccentric. That doesn't stop them from being deadly.
  • Combat Pragmatist: As a crew, embodies this. The Nightmares do not care about fair fights, and will use whatever they have on hand to tip the odds in their favor.
  • Mook Horror Show: Inflicts these on everyone sent to fight them.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: See above.
  • The Remnant: As a crew, tends to collect these - the survivors of other conflicts and destroyed pirate crews often end up absorbed into their ranks.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Repeatedly.
  • Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Collectively of the opinion that killing slaveholders isn't actually murder. This attitude only intensifies after the crew expands following the destruction of Arcadia.
  • True Companions: While they are absolutely brutal towards their enemies, the crew members will always have each other's back.
  • Villain Protagonist: Unlike the Straw Hat Pirates, the Nightmares are a more classical breed of pirate, being more than willing to kill viciously, plunder their enemies, and generally fight dishonorably. They're still the main focus of the story.

     Grigori 'Alley Doc' Vinci, Captain/Surgeon, ฿550,000, 000 
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" A scientist makes the impossible reality. A researcher searches for that which nobody can understand. And a doctor...a doctor denies death, to the end! And that is what I shall do! That is my dream: I shall search out every secret and treasure of this world...and at the very end of it, I shall find a way to immortality for all mankind! What say you? Will you follow me, to a better future?"

The Captain of the Nightmare Pirates and a Mad Scientist who seeks to make the whole world immortal.

     Yoshimura 'Butcher Bird' Kaneki, First Mate, ฿600,000, 000 (Alive Only) 
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"How the hell am I the moral compass here?"
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  • At Least I Admit It: Invokes this against the Marines: Kaneki acknowledges that he's a brutal Blood Knight and that his Horror Hunger is undeniably monstrous, but he at least doesn't pretend to be anything else, unlike the Navy, which covers up its crimes while spouting about Justice.
  • Badass Longcoat: Acquires a white coat in the style of a Marine officer's Coat Cape. He replaces the 'Justice' (正義) insignia with 'Retribution' (冥罰).
  • Berserk Button: Is homicidally protective of people he considers 'his'. How homicidally? Upon hearing that one of his friends was a former slave, he slaughtered overnight every slave-dealer on the island, blew up the criminal syndicate profiting from it, and freed every single slave.
  • Body Horror: The manifestation of his incomplete kakuja form has this in spades.
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Doesn't refer to his kagune and kakuja by those terms, probably because he forgot them along with his original name.
  • Cannibalism Superpower: Has this due to being a ghoul - specifically, if he eats another ghoul, he gains their abilities.
  • Combat Tentacles: The main speciality of his rinkaku.
  • Die or Fly: After Kaneki's mental state starts deteriorating due to his Enemy Within getting louder, Vinci elects to put him through one of these in order to force him to accept his worst qualities and thereby develop a full kakuja. It works, but Kaneki is pissed about it and goes after Vinci for payback.
  • Draconic Abomination: His kakuja form.
  • The Dragon: Serves as this for Vinci. Becomes a literal case when he finally acquires his full kakuja.
  • Fatal Flaw: Wrath.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Downplayed. While he uses his kagune and kakuja abilities as needed, as he refines his techniques in Good Old Fisticuffs more, he prefers to use them.
  • The Fog of Ages: Most of his memory of the past century or more is forgotten or repressed, including his original name. It's implied that the BROB responsible for putting his mind in a ghoul body ensured he'd still remember One Piece canon.
  • The Gadfly: During the Warlord Saga, plays this role towards the Marines who have to tolerate his presence, and thoroughly enjoys it, continually acting dramatic, poking at the flaws of the Marines, and generally making a nuisance of himself, up to and including defacing one of their officer coats for his personal use.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: Tends to get his ass kicked more than most of the Nightmares, taking injuries that would be lethal to anyone without his Healing Factor.
  • Glass Cannon: Using his ukaku puts him in this state, relative to his 'normal' mode.
  • Healing Factor: One of his primary abilities as a ghoul.
  • Heroic Safe Mode: Whenever his brain is damaged, The Dragon takes over to kill whatever it sees as a threat.
  • Horror Hunger: Is a ghoul, and consequently has a hunger for human flesh.
  • I Am What I Am: One of the arcs in his story is trying to come to terms with his repressed ghoul instincts. He finally accepts them as part of who he is and unlocks his full kakuja.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: Has shades of this early on, but matures fairly quickly into being Necessarily Evil.
  • Incompletely Trained: In Ki Rata - he only mastered the basic breathing exercises before his master passed, and wasn't able to practice the actual techniques due to a lack of mastery rendering even the most basic ones Awesome, but Impractical. After reinforcing his bones with seastone, which keeps his limbs from exploding when using the techniques, he's able to gradually practice and master the techniques thanks to his Healing Factor. Tenzin offers to complete his training.
  • Innate Night Vision: Both he and the rest of the Oni have excellent night vision
  • I Want Them Alive!: The Elder Stars themselves want him alive for some unexplained reason.
  • Megaton Punch: Ki Rata techniques allow him to achieve this.
  • Must Have Caffeine: As it's the only thing he can drink that isn't water, he's developed a massive caffeine habit. Not getting that caffeine leads to problems.
  • My Blood Runs Hot: Has an extremely high body temperature, and it gets hotter the angrier he gets - when he enters Unstoppable Rage mode, his footprints char concrete.
  • No Place for Me There: During his Motive Rant to Smoker, he acknowledges that a just world would have locked him up for what he's done, and he's fine with that if that just world exists.
  • One-Winged Angel: His full kakuja state is this, taking the form of a man-sized dragon. It's enough to curb-stomp Vinci.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Sees this as his job.
  • Power Gives You Wings: Gains these after acquiring his incomplete kakuja and ukaku.
  • Red Baron: The eponymous 'Butcher Bird'.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Has this interaction with Vinci - Vinci, being impulsive and more openly reckless, is the Red to Kaneki's more mellow Blue.
  • Red Right Hand: His left hand and forearm take on a scaled, draconic appearance after his fight with Gripper as a result of his losing that limb, due to his Healing Factor being overstressed. This repeats with his right arm and his throat in other fights.
  • Slasher Smile: Just look at him.
  • Signature Laugh: Kyakahahahaha.
  • Stance System: Using each type of kagune. Three of the four have been explored thus far:
  • Superpowered Evil Side: The Dragon, an embodiment of his repressed ghoul instincts. Eventually it becomes somewhat more clear that the Dragon is less evil and more amoral and focused on survival at all costs.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Falls into these from time to time, particularly against those who've committed atrocities or enslave people.
  • Villain Protagonist: As with Vinci.
  • The Worf Effect: Lampshaded after the second occurrence of a relatively new crew member blasting him a considerable distance.
“Damn,” a voice said from over C’s shoulder. “Is it just me, or do all the officers have an initiation where they beat the shit out of Kaneki?”

     Rubeus 'Thundering Hammer' Jack, Bosun, ฿38,000, 000 
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"If this goes wrong, blame the captain."

     Bosque 'Berserker Hound' Herman, Blacksmith, ฿108,000, 000 
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"Shut up and do the thing."
  • Badass Boast: Gives one to Tashigi right before he thrashes her
Bosque: If you’ve got a problem with it, I don’t give a shit. I don’t care about your honor as a swordswoman, I don’t care about whatever sentiments you attach to useless relics. I don’t even care about your ambitions or dreams. Because at the end of the day, I am not a swordsman. I am Bosque Herman, blacksmith of the Nightmare Pirates, and my job is to break brittle steel to new ends.
  • Befriending the Enemy: How he joined the crew.
  • Berserk Button: Pointless violence.
  • BFS: Amakatta, a massive miao-dao.
  • The Blacksmith: Funnily enough, did not start out as this - he joined the crew as a Navigator, but never really fit the job, and found his calling during the Pirate City Arc.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Herman despises swordsmanship and does not follow the Honor Before Reason mentality many of the serious swordsmen in One Piece do, even melting down a graded sword to make a set of armor. In addition to this, he's more than willing to incorporate unarmed combat into his repertoire.
  • Dare to Be Badass: Gives such a speech to Tashigi.
Bosque: What a load of shit. Damn you, Marine, what happened to your pride? Your conviction? You’re too weak to fulfill your dream? Then grow stronger, and surpass me! Cut down those who say you’re wrong until you’ve made the truth of the world out of their spilled blood and guts! Stand up, damn you! Stand up, Tashigi, show me power and pride and conviction, show me something I can stand to match blade to blade rather than pointless petty anger! Get up on your own two feet, fight with every waking breath, because if you fold at this, what worth was your dream anyway?! Get up, Tashigi of the Navy. You want to prove yourself, prove you can break me? I have a pulse, so remove my skull. Hack me down, if you can, Tashigi of the Navy, and prove your cause just through the first resort of gods and kings! STAND! UP!”
  • Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: Has some skill in this area.
  • Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: After the disaster that saw the loss of Jack, two-thirds of the crew, and over half of Herman's own comrades among the Huscarls, he begins questioning his Blood Knight tendencies and resolves to find a new purpose to drive himself.
  • Evil Weapon: Amakatta is a cursed sword that devours the souls of unworthy wielders.
  • Expy: Strongly resembles Guts from Berserk in armor, choice of weapon, and fighting style.
  • Finger Poke of Doom: The Rivet technique is a derivative of CP9's Finger Pistol, and accomplishes the same thing, namely jabbing someone with an extended index finger so hard it acts like a pistol bullet.
  • Foil: To Zoro. A smith who wears heavy armor, explicitly rejects the tenets of swordsmanship, fights with one large weapon of Chinese design rather than multiple normal-sized Japanese blades, and who names his techniques as single, blandly descriptive words as opposed to elaborate puns or Buddhist-style cosmology.
  • Force and Finesse: Herman is Force in a world of Finesse.
  • Forging Scene: Gets a long one when he's reforging Shigure.
  • He's Back!: After the World Government tries to burn Arcadia and massacre everyone living on it, Herman decides to rejoin to crew to fight back against the World Government.
  • I Choose to Stay: After realizing the one thing he truly wants is a peaceful life, he chooses to leave the Nightmares and stay on Arcadia.
  • Magical Eye: Gains one of these thanks to carrying around Amakatta. It grants him perfect 360 degree vision that can see through just about anything.
  • Strong and Skilled: While straightforward, his use of the sword is advanced enough to cut steel and project wind blades.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: His fighting style initially was to just swing his sword at an opponent with as much force as possible. He eventually upgrades to Strong and Skilled due to training and finding a role he can fulfill happily in blacksmithing.
  • Warrior Therapist: To Tashigi, Bolverk, and many others as time goes on.
  • Wrecked Weapon: His Shatter technique allows him to inflict this on other people.

     Bertram 'Vodun' Lauren, Armourer/Gunner ฿98,000, 000 Dead, ฿308,000, 000 Alive 
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"You can keep your toys. These? These are elegant weapons, for a new age."
  • Badass in Distress: While she is perfectly capable of gunning down Mooks, most of her fights with stronger opponents end up with her needing to be saved by another crew member. This eventually stops being the case as she upgrades both her arsenal and herself.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Delivers this often, most notably to a particularly psychotic Zoan user while they had a member of the crew in a Neck Lift.
  • Bullet Time: Initially uses a serum for this, later gains an Augment that lets her do so at will.
  • Can't Catch Up: While her skills with firearms are impressive, they ultimately don't amount to much compared to the abilities of the rest of the Nightmares and the various enemies that they've faced. Lauren herself has acknowledged this, so she sold some of her designs to an arms dealer under the condition that they are sold under her name, so she can acquire recognition by proxy.
  • Cold Sniper: Forces herself to be this.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Takes a hybrid Augment from Vinci after some time, gaining Combo Platter Powers.
  • Foil: To Usopp. Both serve as the crew's snipers, and both have dealt with overcoming fear as part of their character arcs, but Usopp is a Cowardly Lion Friendly Sniper who relies heavily on a wide variety of tools and an unorthodox delivery method, whereas Lauren is a Cold Sniper who weaponizes fear and uses straightforward firearms to literally explode her opponents.
  • The Gunslinger: Lauren's main role in the crew. She is highly skilled in a large number of firearms, several of which she designed herself, and often carries multiple guns on her person. She was initially The Woo but her later creations have trended more towards The Vaporizer.
  • More Dakka: Can deliver this with a bolt-action rifle, firing so quickly a salvo of explosive rounds hits before the sound of the first gunshot reaches the target.
  • Mushroom Samba: Has a preference for using gas grenades to cause crippling fear and hallucinations in large groups of the enemy.
  • One-Woman Industrial Revolution: Single-handedly invents smokeless powder and thereby makes automatic weapons viable and sells both designs for said weapons and the formulas for the gunpowder to an arms manufacturer, ending the era of Ocean Punk technology.
  • Signature Laugh: Dakakakaka.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: In the global sense. Her selling her inventions leads to said new weapons having their first production run being bought out by Kaido, and the World Government's scramble to re-equip their entire army in order to not lose control of the ocean in the face of said new weapons results in them entertaining such things as cancelling the Pacifista project. Not bad for someone who Can't Catch Up.

     'Revenant' Gin, Bosun, ฿85,000, 000 
  • Ascended Extra: In the original manga he only appeared for one arc and hasn't made an appearance since, even in the mini arcs, here he's one of the main characters.
  • Death by Adaptation / Spared By Adaptation: Yes, both. The author's headcanon is that Gin died while trying to go into the Grand Line with another crew, which is why he hasn't made another appearance in canon. He avoids this fate thanks to the Nightmare Pirates though.
  • Dented Iron: He's lost a great deal of his strength due to the MH 5 poison gas exposure. He eventually gets cybernetic upgrades to fix this.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Accidentally eats the Bell-Bell fruit during the Spice Archipelago Saga .
  • Glass Cannon: Starts off as one of these when he joins the Nightmares due to the Trauma Conga Line he suffered in canon. Subsequent training after joining has been focused on remedying this, and eventually he undergoes cybernetic conversion to fix his remaining damage.
  • I Fight for the Strongest Side!: A downplayed case. After leaving Krieg, he joined another crew, but they proved too weak to survive Reverse Mountain, so he refuses to officially join the Nightmares until they can prove they're strong enough to follow. One Curb-Stomp Battle with Kaneki later and he joins the crew.
  • Sketchy Successor: After Jack dies, notes that he can't do alone all the things Jack was handling, and consequently appoints several other minor officers to split the workload.
  • Take Up My Sword: Takes on the bosun role after Jack's death in Arlen.
  • Vibro Weapon: Can turn his tonfas into these thanks to the Bell-Bell fruit. Later does the same with his kusarigama, both weighted and blade ends.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Generally portrayed as less strong than he was in canon for the same reason he was a Glass Cannon. Eventually rectified by his becoming a Cyborg.

     Subject 'Jabberwock' C, ฿77,000, 000 
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"JISHAKUKUKUKUKUKUKUKUKUKUKUKU...you're funny. I'll eat you last."

  • Beware the Silly Ones: Acts like your typical Cloud Cuckoo Lander most of the time, which is usually enough to make one forget that A) he's a ghoul, and B) he has enough power to levitate battleship-sized vessels casually and perform a discount Force Choke on people if they're wearing armor.
  • Magnetism Manipulation: Thanks to being Kid's clone, but only in one of his arms. He later loses access to his Devil Fruit powers with Kid's death, but apparently his Kagune has managed to retain aspects of the power.
  • Powers Do the Fighting: Primarily relies on his technically his Devil Fruit in combat, instead of a kagune, despite being a ghoul. Even after gaining said kagune, he still relies on its magnetic abilities rather than its use as a close combat tool.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Has a disturbingly childlike mentality at times, while still being a ghoul.
  • Took a Level in Badass: He finally awakens his Kagune in chapter 88.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Eventually puts himself on the road to maturing and looking past his Psychopathic Manchild tendencies, including refusing to kill.
  • You Are Number 6: Is named C because he's the third living subject of Vinci's investigation and experimentation: the first being Vinci himself (A), the second being Kaneki (B).

     'Songbird' Six, aka 6006, Cook, ฿84,000, 000 
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"Such is life."
  • Ambiguous Disorder: Given his experiences, his behavior - including dissociative episodes - maps pretty well to either Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (thanks to his experiences as a Necromonger cabin boy) or Schizotypal Personality Disorder stemming from the same.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: Normally is timid and reserved, but when he learns that Viktor ate the Vita-Vita fruit (the fruit that belonged to his original captain who used it to perform horrific experiments on him and others) he threatens to kill Viktor if he misuses its powers, and casually cracks a stone wall in the process of performing a Neck Lift on the scientist. When Kaneki is kidnapped, he becomes vastly more ruthless and short-tempered.
  • Charged Attack: He specializes in these thanks to the Tremble-Tremble fruit. After a few seconds of charging, he was able to punch Kaneki into a mountain.
  • Chef of Iron: Can punch someone across an island. Also an excellent cook.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: His former captain was a Mad Scientist with none of Vinci's morals or any actual sense of morality to speak of. Naturally, nothing the Nightmares can do even comes close to what he's used to.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Was a 'cabin boy' despite being in his early twenties.
  • The Stoic: Getting Six to show any kind of emotion on his face is usually a lost cause.
  • Weak, but Skilled: In terms of overall combat ability Six is among the weakest of the crew. However, he has a frighteningly comprehensive understanding of how his Devil Fruit works, which, combined with his lack of self preservation insticts, allowed him to slap Kaneki into a mountain, albeit while breaking every bone in his hand.
  • You Are Number 6: Was designated 6006 by his previous captain, and retained the name.

     The Oni/Rakshasa, Collectively ฿66,000, 000 
Kaneki's personal hit squad of berserk murder machines, numbering half a dozen - Marshall Eka, Charny Dui, Douglass Tina, Cara Percy, Tancred Pamca, and Cha Chandos.

     Gemina and Janus, aka GEMINI, Communications Officer 
  • All Genes Are Codominant: As a half-blooded ghoul, they have less power than a full-blooded one, but can still eat human food.
  • Bilingual Bonus: Speaks the One Piece equivalent of Greek (referred to as 'Greshic' in-story).
  • Conjoined Twins: Was born as this, but separated at birth with their Healing Factor covering the complications.
  • Lost Language: Exploited. Greshic (see Bilingual Bonus example) is used as a language by ghouls precisely because it's lost - it both remains impenetrable to others, and makes ghoul civilizations seem much older than it really is.
  • Hive Mind: Is really a singular intelligence within two bodies.
  • Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Has done this to people who have discovered they are a ghoul.
  • Talking the Monster to Death: Talked into joining the Nightmares when it becomes obvious they have no reason to fight.

     Prometheus, aka 'Theo' 
  • The Assimilator: Ate several Marine ships, most of the wrecks in Ivankinraion's Derelict Graveyard, and a literal army of ghosts in the process of making its body.
  • BFG: Is covered with these. Some of them fire shells that are "the size of three elephants stacked on top of each other".
  • Cool Boat: Definitely fits into this category: it's built on the bones of a incomplete Pluton copy, namely the power supply and sheer size, and comes with More Dakka for days.
  • The Dreaded: In terms of ship-to-ship combat, and with good reason. Prometheus is so absurdly overarmed and overarmored that it is the ship equivalent of a One-Man Army.
  • Eldritch Location: The Deep Corridors.
  • Ghost Ship: Technically is one. He's the spirit of the Ends Justified haunting a ship.
  • Mile-Long Ship: After the Razing of Arcadia, and the subsequent absorbing of even more wrecked vessels, he's over a kilometer in length and generally huge enough his interior can contain wildlife parks and entire towns worth of people in addition to the entirety of the crew.
  • More Dakka: In a technical document, the ship's secondary armament (ie, all the guns not part of the main batteries) is simply listed as Ork noises.
  • Poke in the Third Eye: The unnatural circumstances of his creation and the fact that he contains a lot of ghosts means that using the Psychic Radar aspects of Observation Haki on him is at minimum distracting and can actually be painful.
  • Sapient Ship: See Ghost Ship above.
  • Shout-Out: Strongly (very strongly) resembles The Major. This is later revealed to be a deliberate choice based off of Kaneki's memories of pop culture. The ship itself is based on the IJN Yamato.

     Saar Ferdinand, Commander of the Armsmen ฿20,000, 000 
  • Badass Normal: Is actively seeking this, specifically to prove to the rest of the Nightmares that ordinary humans can and will beat people like the Augments and ghouls on the crew.
  • Hat of Authority: Given one when the other Armsmen make him their commander.
  • The Dog Bites Back: His introductory scene is him seeing Gin reduce Don Krieg to a screaming, helpless mass via Cold-Blooded Torture, recalling exactly how much of a Bad Boss to his crew Krieg was, and knifing Krieg in the throat before taking the rest of the crew with him in a defection to the Nightmares.
  • Nonchalant Dodge: Does this to sniper fire.

     Minor Crewmates and Non-Officers 

Jagganoth Bolverk

Alpha

  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Alpha was subjected to extreme mental conditioning that gave him an almost mechanical way of speaking and thinking. He broke out of it after talking with Six, Kaneki, and Theo.
  • Child Soldier: Fifteen years old, and turned into an assassin for the World Government.
  • Combat Clairvoyance: Uses his Basilisk Augment for this.
  • Tyke Bomb: Raised to be this by Cipher Pol, as with all recruits to CP 9.

Alexis Castor and Alexis Pollux

  • Bodyguarding a Badass: Their job is to protect Vinci, though given that he’s a Mad Scientist with reality warping powers they usually don’t have much work to do unless he over exerts himself.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Aside from protecting him from enemies, their role as Vinci’s bodyguards also entails protecting Vinci from himself, as there is no telling what weird experiments he’ll try to perform if left unsupervised.
  • Undying Loyalty: Are completely loyal to Vinci, due to being freed from a lifetime of slavery by Kaneki.

Erebos Giul Janine

Erebos Giul Yisheng

     Archimedes Newsam, leader of the Immortals 
  • Body Surf: How his immortality works. His mind has become one with the Song, the Cog’s hive-mind, so even if his body is damaged beyond repair, he can transfer his mind into a new body.
  • Mad Scientist: Definitely one of the more classical examples on the crew.

     The Augments 
Vinci applied the improvements from his own augmentations, in significantly more limited fashion, to create multiple types of Superpowered Mooks. These are them. There are currently ten varieties: Wolf, Basilisk, Fae, Wraith, Cogs, Oni, Lycan, Raiju, Chimerae, and Hierophant.
  • Adaptive Ability: With exception of the Cogs and the Oni, the augmentations of each will gradually mutate and evolve to fit their user.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: The power of the Basilisks. It makes them exceedingly good snipers.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: The Fae prefer to wear three-piece suits. They're also highly skilled infiltrators.
  • Bilingual Bonus: Well, kind of in the case of the Cogs, as they speak Morse.
  • Bio-Augmentation: Chimerae are essentially biological Cogs, capable of modifying their own bodies.
  • Boring, but Practical: The Wolves embody this. They lack any of the odder abilities of the other Augment types, but they're immensely strong, highly effective soldiers nonetheless.
  • Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: The Cogs suffer from a variant of this - the pseudo-Hive Mind of the Song of the Machine and the dehumanizing nature of their cybernetics, as well as the Emergency Transformation nature of their initial creation, has made them...odd.
  • Emergency Transformation: The origin of the Cogs.
  • Everyone Knows Morse: Averted, most people don't understand a thing the Cogs are saying, except Vinci, Lauren, Six, and Vespucci.
  • Heel–Face Turn: The first Fae were originally Cipher Pol agents sent to spy on the crew, but changed sides after Kaneki inadvertently revealed the secret of the Empty Throne.
  • Hybrid Power: The Oni Augment has two functions - either it grants ghoul powers to humans, or it allows ghouls to eat human food (and with half-human ghouls, brings their C-cell levels up to those of full-blooded ghouls). The resulting Oni has all of the potential power of a full-blooded ghoul, with the Horror Hunger being minimized.
  • Kryptonite Factor: Vinci discovers that pure silver has the ability to shut down the more esoteric abilities of the Augments, like preventing a Wraith from teleporting or cutting a Cog off from the Song.
  • Mad Scientist: The Cogs, especially the Immortals seem to be shaping up to be these.
  • Next Tier Power-Up: The Hierophant augment is designed to be this. Unlike the other types, it is capable of being applied to any of the other augment types, barring Oni.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Several of the Augments - despite being all named 'heart', some of them do not actually take that form once complete - the Cogsheart, for instance, takes a final form as a gland in the brain.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted with the Oni Augment - the name is shared between the group of Kaneki's close friends and the Augment itself. The confusion resulting is pointed out.

     The Armsmen 
The human members of the Nightmare crew.

The Marines of the World Government Navy

The enforcers of Justice the world over, the Marines are the soldiers of the Navy. Most are Mooks, but a few stand out, and earn character entries here.

     Marine HQ Officers and Admirals 

Admiral Akainu

  • Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Suffers from recurring nightmares related to his Start of Darkness mentioned below.
  • Arch-Enemy: Is this to Vinci, as he killed his parents for refusing to join the hunt for Nico Robin (and did the same to the rest of the 13th Royal Flotilla.)
  • I Did What I Had to Do: His destruction of the city Emory, killing thousands is largely seen as this by the rest of the Marines - the town was going to degenerate into a city full of superhuman berserkers due to the center that produced and shipped the drug keeping them sane being completely wrecked, and it was better to destroy the entire city and its population rather than let them overrun the rest of the island and potentially leave to kill even more.
  • Start of Darkness: The second Decks of the World reveals that he used to be a noble Marine and genuinely good person, until his crew landed on an island whose people had been brainwashed by an Artifact of Doom. After said people took advantage of his kindness and killed his entire crew, he became the merciless Knight Templar he is today.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: While a murderous and/or outright genocidal General Ripper, Akainu genuinely believes that his actions, while often heinous, are necessary to keep the world safe.

Vice Admiral Garp 'The Hero'

     Smoker's Unit 

Commodore Smoker

Smoker: “It’s funny.”
Kaneki: "What is?"
Smoker: “For a second there, you sounded almost like Akainu.”

Ensign Tashigi

  • Badass Boast: Mentally gives one of these, at the end of the Arcadia saga.
And if no better options existed...she’d just have to make them, and to hell with those who stood in her way. Even if it was the Elder Stars themselves, she’d grow strong enough to defend the innocent from even them. And if in doing so she toppled them from their seats at the top of the world...so be it.
  • Can't Catch Up: As with her canon self, while she has taken several levels in badass at this point in the story, she still woefully outclassed by most of the major characters. She briefly suffers a breakdown about this during her fight with Herman. Herman promptly snaps her out of this and encourages her to subvert this .
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: Despite Herman casually fighting her without using Amakatta and breaking Shigure when he does use it, she proves capable of cutting through his Forged Body and leaves a sizable gash in his chest, while earning some respect from Herman in the process.
  • Determinator: Will ignore injury, fatigue, and pretty much everything else in order to save as many people as possible.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Smiles when doing her final attack during her fight with Herman. This is despite multiple broken ribs and various other injuries.
  • Wrecked Weapon: Shigure gets destroyed at the end of her fight with Herman.

     Arlen Garrison and Attached Forces 

Rear Admiral Goro Gripper

Captain 'Ship-Cutter' T-Bone

  • Adaptational Villainy: Relatively speaking. While T-Bone in canon was basically a Knight in Shining Armor, his appearance in this fic is as Akainu's hatchet man. Possibly Justified given that in canon his sole appearance was in support of a government assassination team.
  • Face of a Thug: Looks disconcertingly like a zombie. Despite that, is one of the more compassionate Marine captains out there.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: After being fatally wounded by Ichiji, wires himself with explosives and takes an incredibly dangerous combat drug to hold him off for a few minutes longer.

Lyudmilo Simo

  • The Gunslinger: A Trick Shot type, capable of ricocheting rifle fire off mountains.
  • Young Gun: Uses a sniper rifle...and is also a baby-faced kid and generally naive and inexperienced.

     Dogs of War Unit 

Rear Admiral William Ozawa

  • Beleaguered Boss: Marine HQ has made a habit of saddling him with the psychopathic, cowardly, or just plain incompetent among the Marines, largely because Ozawa has earned a reputation of turning problem cases into actually useful Marines.
  • The Gunslinger: Wields a pair of revolvers, with enough skill to shoot down incoming artillery shells.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: Upon seeing the Nightmares acquire what amounts to a haunted mega-battleship, he realizes his forces would all die even if he personally killed all the Nightmares.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Is demoted to Commodore due to the above entry.

Commodore Keurig Siegl

  • Combat Pragmatist: Rather than take on Kaneki in a straight fight, he instead lures him out over the ocean where Siegl can use his powers to his full extent.

Seki Walther

  • Curb-Stomp Battle: On the receiving end of two of these, courtesy of C and Prometheus. The second one ends up killing him.
  • Smug Super: Downplayed. He is incredibly confident in the abilities of his Rocket-Rocket fruit to keep him out of danger and allow him destroy his enemies from a distance. This cockiness gets him killed.

Captain Jagganoth Bolverk

See his entry under the Nightmare Pirates.

Ensigns Gemina and Janus

See their entry under the Nightmare Pirates

     Gripper's Nightmare Task Force 

Vice Admiral Richter

  • Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Richter believes that his Haki, Devil Fruit powers, and his twisted view of Right Makes Might are enough for him to easily take down the Nightmare Pirates. This gets him killed, as he spends the entirety of his fight with Kaneki believing that his victory is inevitable and only realizes otherwise seconds before Kaneki proceeds to kill him.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: After fighting a losing battle against Kaneki, Richter tricks him into lowering his guard and stabs him through the brain. This only unleashes The Dragon who decides to finish him off then and there.

Rear Admiral Maynard

Rear Admiral Kadar

Other World Government Employees

The World Government doesn't only have the Marines under its command - it controls a wide variety of organizations, ranging from the legitimate to the...less so. Those who fall under the World Government's command, but aren't Marines, fit into this category.

     Center for Disease Research and Prevention 

Akira Horus, Chief of CDRP Security

  • Ancestral Weapon: The Blackstaff, Horus's weapon of choice, is one of these.
  • Bio-Armor: Eventually acquires this: see Grigori Viktor's entry for more details.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Loves nothing more than a good fight.
  • Made of Iron: Took a Two-Point Ki Rata strike head on and survived. The armor he gets from Viktor makes him even more obscenely tough.
  • Token Good Teammate: Shares this role with Franz Josef.

Grigori Viktor, Head of CDRP Disease Research

  • Bio-Armor: Creates this from Kaneki's cells.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Apparently maintained a stock of a particular breed of apple that grows in an entirely different part of the planet just in case the current user of the Devil Fruit corresponding to it would die on the Grand Line and the fruit would reincarnate in his stock.
  • Life Energy: Eats the Vita-Vita Fruit, which allows him to restore the dead to life, keep people alive when they normally would've died, etc.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Elder Stars order his death alongside the rest of his family as part of their Sins of the Father policy, which means they force a brilliant scientist who just invented armored suits that let him, an untrained scientist, go toe-to-toe with Augments, turn to piracy, alongside a large number of base security and Marines who would have gotten killed alongside him (as his Devil Fruit was keeping them alive at the time).
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Viktor helps the local population with medical cases at times, pro bono - because it's a good way to get connections and gives him access to things he normally wouldn't be allowed into.
  • Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: His kagune-derived armored suits are unfinished prototypes but he puts them to use anyway.

Franz Josef, Head of CDRP Disease Prevention

  • Break the Cutie: First he's prevented from sharing details of the plague in Emory with Grigori Vinci due to Vinci being a pirate, even though Josef thinks Vinci's Augments could hold the key to stopping it. When he goes behind the back of the Marines to do so anyway, he finds out that not even Vinci can cure the plague without access to the archives thanks to those archives holding the records of the truth about the 'plague', namely that it's the result of a failed bioengineering project. He decides to help the Nightmares break into said archives, but it turns into a slaughter of people due to security responding. Vinci then activates a failsafe that will kill thousands of the afflicted in Emory solely to draw away Marine response, and gives him a Breaking Speech about how he doesn't care about the people in Emory compared to his own crew. Hopeless, and knowing he's gotten thousands killed and the World Government will do the same to him, Josef commits suicide in his office to prevent his family from being hunted down and killed as part of the WG's Sins of the Father policy.
  • The Idealist: Genuinely believes in saving people through medicine. Compared to the rest of the CDRP personnel, this is a markedly more caring and idealistic approach.

     Cipher Pol 

Jabra, Agent of Cipher Pol 9

  • Defector from Decadence: After his canon defeat, he, along with the rest of Cipher Pol, is approached to work for the Revolutionary Army.
  • Properly Paranoid: Is highly superstitious. Meeting Kaneki, whose existence is in and of itself a bit of a legend, validates several of his beliefs, and leaves him fairly well-prepared to fight him.

Ji Lun, Cipher Pol 9 Instructor

Other Pirate Crews

The other pirate crews encountered by the Nightmares. Due to how the Nightmares typically handle opponents, and the Anyone Can Die nature of the work in general, Death Tropes and the resulting Spoilers are unmarked. Spoilers for other plot-relevant tropes are still marked.

     Kid Pirates 

Eustass 'Iron Hand' Kid, Captain of the Kid Pirates

  • Adaptational Badass: In the source material, we haven't seen much of him fighting beyond taking out some Mooks and offscreen crushing of relatively weak pirate crews. Here, he's taken on armies and come out on top.
  • Adaptational Villainy: While by no means a good guy in the source material, Vinci cutting his arm off and giving him a Breaking Speech seems to have done a number on his already questionable sanity.
  • Arch-Enemy: To Vinci, and the feeling is mutual.
  • Coincidence Magnet: According to Word of God, Kid's pirate career prior to Sabaody consisted of him "running into steadily more powerful opponents who all had tailor-made weaknesses to his Devil Fruit abilities", making him an example of this trope.
  • Didn't See That Coming: Never expected Vinci to bring along the crews that he crippled, he never actually expected them to recover at all.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How he dies.
  • Magnetism Manipulation: His Devil Fruit allows him control over magnetic fields.

'Massacre Soldier'' Killer

  • Adaptational Badass: He was already a vicious and powerful fighter in the source material, here he's a ghoul.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Has a pair of pinwheel-like scythes that he wears on his arms.
  • Foil: Serves as one to Kaneki. Both serve captains of questionable mental stability, both are the more levelheaded side of that respective relationship, both wear masks, and both are ghouls.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: It is eventually revealed that Killer was partially human, rather than a full-blooded ghoul.
  • Impromptu Tracheotomy: How he dies, or at least is crippled enough to be Eaten Alive by Kaneki.
  • Mid-Battle Tea Break: He and Kaneki stop fighting on their first encounter and play a game of chess, after realising that they currently don't have any real reason to be fighting.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Despite Kaneki's massive advantage over him in a straight fight since Killer is only partially ghoul and Kaneki is both a full-blooded one and overall stronger to boot, Killer leverages his unique abilities well enough to leave Kaneki on the ropes for most of their fight.

     Gear Pirates 
  • Hope Spot: Survived the fighting at the Spice Archipelago and came out of it as a cohesive crew alongside the Nightmares, unlike the others. Then they ran into Eustass Kid...
  • The Remnant: The survivors end up becoming the first Cogs, with many of those going on to become Gin's Immortal bodyguards.

     Steel Shield Pirates 
  • Horny Vikings: Their general theme.
  • The Remnant: Their survivors end up incorporated into the Nightmare Pirates and form the core of Herman's Huscarl bodyguard.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: The first of the crews in the Spice Archipelago Saga to be wiped out in the fighting.

     Ranger Pirates 
  • The Remnant: The survivors end up joining the Nightmares and become the core of Lauren's Ghost bodyguards.

     Necromonger Pirates 

General

  • Body Horror: Courtesy of their captain, nearly every member of the crew is some form of twisted monstrosity.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": All the major members of the crew are simply referred to by their position, because their captain had destroyed all traces of their previous identities with his experiments and the positions they hold are the only identities they have now.
  • Reforged into a Minion: The origin of every crew member but the captain. They are either reanimated corpses or people who have been experimented on so much that can no longer be considered human mentally or physically.

Lawrence "Doctor Death" Keith

  • Deader than Dead: Vinci destroys his soul.
  • Evil Counterpart: Is one to Vinci, showing what he could be if he stopped valuing human life.
  • Life Energy: The Vita-Vita Fruit allows him to manipulate this, letting him reanimate corpses or allow others to survive injuries that would normally be fatal, the latter of which plays a major role in his experiments.

     Whitebeard Pirates 

Edward Newgate, aka Whitebeards

  • Papa Wolf: As in canon, a noticeable trait of his.

Portgas D. Ace

The Wild Hunt

An alliance initially composed of 23 pirate crews, founded by the Nightmares for the sole purpose of killing Eustass Kid. After Kid's death, they ended up swearing themselves to be subordinates to Vinci, with one notable exception.

Many currently appear to be Advertised Extra who have yet to have a main focus in the story, so much of this is Word of God.

     General Tropes 
  • A Lighter Shade of Black: Compared to most pirates. The Hunt is fond of Disproportionate Retribution, and often conquers islands, but it isn't out to Rape, Pillage, and Burn like most pirate crews and their members can be counted on to keep their word.
  • Badass Army: As a whole, the Hunt counts dozens of crews of hardened pirates.
  • Bio-Augmentation: Almost every Hunt crew has at least a few Augments in them.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: They started out as a pirate alliance - while dangerous, nothing too out of the ordinary. Vinci becoming a Warlord gave them enough legitimacy and breathing room to establish themselves in the Blue Seas, and in a few short months they've been able to kill Vice Admirals, absorbed dozens of other pirate crews, and generally become a top-tier threat.
  • Hero of Another Story: While hero is a bit of a stretch, each of the Hunt crews gets into adventures away from the main Nightmares and we usually see glimpses of these through the Decks of the World chapters.
  • Hired Guns: Hunt captains often hire themselves out as mercenaries.
  • Keystone Army: Subverted. As a minor captain points out to a Chief Petty Officer who is interrogating him, the Hunt is a movement rather than a crew. Most of the newer captains have never met Vinci and the man rarely gives direct orders, so taking him out would simply inconvenience the Hunt at best.
  • Lensman Arms Race: Kicks one off with the World Government, as the WG tries to counter the Hunt's initial technological advantages with new weapons of their own. Also kicks a coordination-based one off with the traditional Blues pirates, as they have to ally themselves with each other and communicate in order to survive the Hunt, causing the global situation to turn from kingdoms fending off random unaffiliated pirate crews to multiple blocs of alliances between pirates working against one another for territory and plunder.
  • Noble Demon: Varies depending on the crew, but the organization as a whole has an abiding hatred for slavery, seeing it as a violation of basic freedom that even pirates like them can't stand.
  • Only in It for the Money: As an organization, veers between this, Psycho for Hire, and Not in This for Your Revolution, depending on the specific crew involved.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: The Hunt, as an organization, cares mostly about getting paid for their work and living to see said payday. Hence, they keep to their contracts because that ensures people will deal with them fairly, and back each other up and coordinate rather than falling to infighting because that ensures they'll all make it home.
  • Privateer: The Hunt operates a lot more like traditional privateers than common pirates, taking on contracts to protect kingdoms or trade...or attack the same.
  • Shout-Out: Many of the named Hunt captains are nods to other series or properties.
  • Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Nightmares are of this opinion, and the Hunt takes their cue from their leaders in this regard. Hunt pirate crews attack slaving ports often over the course of the story.
  • Technologically Advanced Foe: Serves as this to the World Government and other pirates, thanks to the Cogs.

     Notable Hunt Captains 

Mavros 'Steel Plate' Thorakis, Captain of the Gothic Pirates (formerly Knightmare Pirates)

  • The Champion: Referred to as such by Six. Fits the Knight in Shining Armor archetype well, and was the first to swear allegiance to Vinci as Master of the Wild Hunt, inciting the others to do so as well.
  • Honor Before Reason: Despite the Nightmares being responsible for healing him and his crew, he tries to challenge them to a duel of the similar names of their crews. He puts this on hold when given the opportunity to get back at Kid, but insists on it once that's finished, and gets a Curb-Stomp Battle for his troubles.

'Knockout' Macdonald Junior, Captain of the Ringout Pirates

Drake 'Compass' Vespucci, Captain of Navigator Pirates

  • Achievements in Ignorance: He is somehow capable of understanding the Cogs to the point he was completely unaware that they didn't speak normally until it was pointed out to him.
  • Mistaken for Badass: Never wanted to be a pirate, but a series of events landed him as captain of a crew, with him being forced to play along out of a fear for his life.
  • The Navigator: The Map-Map fruit allows him to be perfectly aware of his location allowing him to navigate the Grand Line without a Log Pose.

Geneyda 'Beard King' Paulie, Captain of the Barber Pirates

  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: His response to learning Kaneki killed his brother? To raise a toast to his demise, because his brother 'FAILED AT MANLINESS'.
  • No Indoor Voice: “VOLUME IS A LIE OF THE CLEAN-SHAVEN TO OPPRESS THE MANLY.”

Trafalgar 'Surgeon of Death' D. Water Law, Captain of the Heart Pirates

  • Berserk Button: Mentioning his Doomed Home Town Flevance, Corazon, or revealing you know he is a D are all these for him. Vinci steps on all of them and it nearly gets him killed.
  • Deadly Doctor: Obviously.
  • Enemy Scan: One of the many applications of his Op-Op fruit.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Quits the Hunt when the others start swearing fealty to Vinci after Vinci becomes a Warlord of the Sea.

Lytros 'Priest of Anarchy' Jeremiah, Captain of the Redemption Pirates

  • Bomb Throwing Anarchist: A downplayed and rare positive example. He spreads anti-WG sentiments through his ideology, but given that the World Government is the The Empire its hard to see that as a bad thing. The only reason he hasn't joined the Revolutionary Army is because they consider him to be too much of a dick to recruit.
  • Magnetic Hero: Is an extremely charismatic speaker whose speeches inspire his near-religious conviction and fervor in those who hear him. He managed to convince entire armies to surrender and towns to open their gates to his crew through words alone.
  • Non-Action Guy: He has very little combat ability, preferring to use the power of his words. In combat, he becomes a Non-Action Snarker.
(Throws something at Kidd)
Kidd:"Is this a fucking pizza cutter?"
Jeremiah: “It is appropriate, as you appear to be all edge and no point.”
Lytros: The strong rule, that is true. But they can only rule because of their strength. Marines, Emperors, Warlords...they rule because they are strong personally. There is no morality in their actions, they slaughter and reave as they wish because nobody has the strength to stop them. Even the Navy. My creed is simple. No gods, no masters. Set the people free to gain the strength to forge their own destinies. That is what I preach, bosun.
  • Shout-Out: To This Bites!: Shares a name and most of a title with the other fanfic's protagonist, Jeremiah Cross.
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The sixth Decks of the World has a brief focus on him, after inciting what basically amounts to the The French Revolution on an island. Said revolution went immediately to guillotining people and mob rule, as he expected and welcomed.

Vickers 'Boiling Vessel' Wellington, Captain of the Teatime Pirates

Vulkan Lives, Captain of the Friend Pirates

  • Ambiguously Human: Has coal-black skin and glowing red eyes. Neither are the result of his devil fruit abilities.
  • Bear Hug: Seems to have a tendency to give these, and given his monstrous size and strength they can be quite painful to be on the receiving end. He later weaponizes this to "hug a magnetic storm to death."
  • Fluffy Tamer: His crew is composed mostly of animals, including a building sized satan-goat, which he recruited in only a few days.
  • Token Good Teammate: Seems to be this for the Hunt as a whole. While all the other members are pirates and are all a varying degree of murderous, Lives seemingly just wants to make friends.

Drogos 'Raider' Attila, Captain of the Nomad Pirates

  • Born in the Saddle: Would be this, but his Devil Fruit allows him to be a centaur instead.

Erasmus 'Remover' Carver, Captain of the Eraser Pirates

  • Bandage Mummy: His entire body is covered in bandages.
  • Heroic BSoD: His Dull-Dull fruit allows him to inflict downplayed cases of this on others by draining their willpower.

Manson 'Ravenhead' Havran, Captain of the Night Pirates

  • The Empath: His Emo-Emo fruit allows him to induce emotions through skin contact.

Euclid 'Determinant' Siegfried, Captain of the Equation Pirates

  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Through complex mathematical equations he figured out a method to use Wraith abilities for long-range and large-scale teleportation.
  • Defector from Decadence: He was originally a soldier who served a country whose leaders engaged in War for Fun and Profit, sending out their soldiers to fight and die in wars they had no stake in while their leaders profited. He defected after growing tired of this and eventually overthrows his former generals with the Hunt’s backing.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Apparently took Vinci up on his offer for Augmentation, becoming a Wraith.
  • The Strategist: He is known for breaking entire armies with just a single unit of infantry. During the fight with Kid, he puts together a strategy using Devil Fruit powers from multiple captains in minutes in order to even the odds against Kid's Magnetism Manipulation.

Diceros 'Charger' Keita, Captain of the Wealth Pirates

  • Brutish Bulls: Thanks to his Ox-Ox fruit Model: Buffalo.
  • Fallen King: He is actually the rightful ruler of the country the World Nobles gave to Wapol. He takes it back with the Hunt’s help.

Eshirus ‘One-Man Company’ Yeager, Captain of the Kabbalic Pirates

  • Actually a Doombot: His devil fruit allows him to create golems to act as his proxies. He's actually a Tontatta who hides within his golems to go unnoticed.
  • One-Man Army: A literal case. The entirety of his crew are golems created and controlled by his devil fruit abilities.
  • Shout-Out: His name and the nature of his abilities bring Eren Yeager to mind.

Makaik 'Wall' Kammak, Captain of the Fortress Pirates

Rapture 'Drill' Bubbles, Captain of the Shockwave Pirates

Mez 'Black Summer' Bubo, Captain of the Miasmic Pirates

Tyson 'Human Bullet' Crockett, Captain of the Patriot Pirates

  • Eagle Land: He has an American Flag tied around his cone-shaped head and his ship is named The MURICA MAXIMUS.
  • Like Father, Like Son: Turns out he is the illegitimate grandson of Don Chinjao, and he clearly inherited his grandfather's head and fighting style.
  • Use Your Head: His fighting style consists of jumping towards his opponent and letting his cone shaped head do the rest.

Baptist 'Concussion Priest' John, Captain of the Metalhead Pirates

  • Book Dumb: Implied, the official character sheet on Spacebattles says nobody on his crew can count past twenty one.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A nutjob who uses headbutts as his primary form of attack, talks casually when being used to perform Grievous Harm with a Body, and is prone to breaking tables with his head mid-conversation.
  • Use Your Head: His fighting style consists solely of this. He has literal nails hammered into his skull and claims his head is indestructible.

Invictus ‘Dawnbringer’ Helios, Captain of the Solar Flare Pirates

Baskonn, Captain of the Night Terror Pirates

Elric, Captain of the Daydream Pirates

  • Slave Liberation: Like Baskonn, how he became a pirate. He later pays it forward by attacking a slaver city and breaking it with the help of other Hunt captains.

The Conquering Host

Independents

Characters not affiliated with the World Government or with pirate crews, whether they are kings in their own right, wandering mercenaries, or other independent groups.

     Edwin Roberts 
  • Dishing Out Dirt: The power of his Devil Fruit.
  • Elemental Shapeshifter: His main power as a Logia.
  • Fat Bastard: Downplayed. While he was portrayed as this early on in the Spice Archipelago Saga, by the time Vinci actually fights him he's obviously been hitting the gym, and his intentions are far less obviously evil than originally implied.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: It's revealed his rebellion against the Doge was started because the Doge intended to withdraw from the World Government, an action Roberts feared would cause the World Government to conquer the Archipelago for the valuable minerals the island holds, killing thousands. His rebellion ended up with thousands dead anyway.

     Peace Main crew 

Dr. Jan Itor

Dr. Percival Redhill

Dallon Kelso

     Dayavin Tenzin 

Dayavin Tenzin, The Orange Hurricane

  • Cool Old Guy: In his grand total of three appearances, two have been spent demonstrating exactly why you don't mess with an Old Master, and the third was spent in calm discussion with the protagonist. And now he's looking for evidence of ghouls.
  • Dented Iron: Even though he is an incredibly powerful and skilled warrior, he's still an old man. Age has caused his body to become quite frail and has to use haki to fortify his body. He's still strong enough to take down most of the Nightmare's officers in a spar though.
  • Old Master: Becomes this for the Nightmare Pirates during their stay on Arcadia, helping them improve their fighting skills and abilities.
  • Retired Badass: Was once an infamous pirate known as the Orange Hurricane, and a master swordsman. Retired after having his sword broken and nearly being killed by what was heavily implied to be a corpse possessed by Amakatta, only being saved by a berserk Kaneki. Has dropped the retired part after meeting Kaneki.
  • Speed Echoes: With a combination of observation haki and Super-Speed he can dodge attacks with such speed and precision that it seems like the attacks just pass through him.
  • Warrior Monk: Turns out to be this in short order. He's a very old man, but he's still strong enough to take a leap from a monastery wall to smack a Zoan user in the face with a shovel, and also deadly enough to slaughter an entire pirate crew without taking a scratch.

     Arcadia 
An island that is separate from the Grand Line's magnetic fields and inhabited by a hodgepodge group of people. After the World Government tries to raze the island, the survivor flee the island with the Nightmares, with a large number considering joining the crew.

Vlatka

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“Maskil leassaf, lama Elohim zanáchta lanétsach, ieshan apechá betson mar’itêcha, Zechor adatechá caníta kédem, gaálta shévet nachalatêcha, har Tsión ze shachánta bo, Haríma feamêcha lemashuót nétsach, col herá oiev bacódesh…”

Kessler

Taki

  • I Just Want to Be Badass: He initially tries to join the Nightmares with childish enthusiasm and tries to convince Herman to train him, simply because he thinks pirates are cool. After the World Government tries to raze Arcadia and massacre everyone on it, he wants to gain the strength to prevent that from ever happening again.

Hondo

     Carpath 

INCUBUS

  • Combat Pragmatist: When Kaneki starts gaining the upper hand in their fight, he has several of his soldiers stab him from behind and then use the distraction to cut off some of Kaneki's limbs. Then for good measure he injects Kaneki with a potent toxin that causes him so much pain that he can barely move.
  • Didn't See That Coming: He never expected that there would be anyone who could completely neutralize his mind control abilities, or who had access to a substance that was extremely toxic to ghouls.

     Earp Island 

Governor Yuafu Taiji

Dynwared Cewell

     The Revolutionary Army 

     The Shopkeepers 
Six ancient and powerful ghouls that each run a mask shop in one of the One Piece world's six oceans. Apparently they are sextuplets. They are also the closest thing that ghoul society has to a ruling council. Their names are DAGON, COYOTE, PRETA, LOKI, LUCIFER, and APOLLYON.
  • Capital Letters Are Magic: Their names, like all ghoul names, are in CAPITAL BOLD.
  • Good Counterpart: To the Elder Stars. Like the Elder Stars they are the highest known authority of their societies, and they both serve a mysterious hidden figure, but unlike the Elder Stars, they legitimately care about their subjects instead of primarily being focused on maintaining their own supremacy.
  • Humanoid Abomination: Implied to be this - one of them is described as 'something in the shape of a man'.
  • Masquerade: Orchestrates one by keeping ghoul society at large hidden from the world.
  • Minor Major Character: Despite being some of the strongest ghouls currently alive and being the leaders of virtually the entire ghoul race, their appearances and direct involvement in the story have been minimal so far.
  • Meaningful Name: Each of their names fits the locatation of sea they live in:
    • Dagon is the name of a deity in Ancient Near East and DAGON is based in the East Blue.
    • Coyote is a common figure in Native American myths and COYOTE is based in the West Blue.
    • Preta is a type of spirit typically found in South Asian religions and PRETA is located in the South Blue.
    • Loki is the Norse god of mischief and LOKI is located in the North Blue.
    • Lucifier is the name of Satan before he fell and LUCIFER is located in Paradise.
    • Apollyon is the name of the archangel of the abyss and APOLLYON is located in the New World.

     Germa 66 

Vinsmoke Judge

  • Start of Darkness: He was originally a more kind person who genuinely loved his wife and was A Father to His Men. After his closest friends and generals were killed by an unknown force, he cloned them and implanted their memories into the new bodies. Years of watching them being killed over and over again wore him down and convinced him that Love Is a Weakness, causing him to turn the clones into disposable soldiers and becoming The Sociopath he is today.

Vinsmoke Ichiji

Vinsmoke Reiju

  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Downplayed. She, like the rest of her siblings, has been genetically engineered to be obedient to her father, though the effects are weaker than her brothers’. Vinci replicates the pheromones her father uses to give commands and gives her a new order, “Be free”.
  • Shrinking Violet: Is a great deal more cautious after being freed, largely due to unfamiliar circumstances and her not trusting the vast majority of people around her.

Baker

  • Replacement Goldfish: He and the other clones were cloned from the original Baker, who was Judge’s closest friend, and other fallen comrades. The first generations of clones had the original’s memories, until Judge decided just to make them all disposable soldiers.

     Minor Characters 
The various minor people the Nightmares and co. meet or charcters that are important to the story but have yet to have a major role.

Grigori Rasputi

He wished he could’ve seen what his grandson brought into the world with his own eyes.
He wished he could’ve lived to find out if the boy would be the one to undo the first of their sins.
He wished for so many things, but he was old, and his time was up.
Grigori Rasputi died facing the setting sun, baring blood-soaked teeth and a blackened soul to the heavens, daring them to judge him.
They did not.
  • Retired Badass: Turns out to have been a Marine intelligence officer who, among other things, trained an entire generation of spies and tacticians, including Vice Admiral Komei.
  • Shout-Out: To the Mad Monk himself with his name
  • Small Role, Big Impact: His asking Kaneki to carry a letter to his grandson Vinci kickstarted the formation of the Nightmare Pirates, and by extension the Wild Hunt.
  • Taking You with Me: After being cornered by Komei, releases an aerosol poison that kills them both, because Komei was the only one with the knowledge necessary to realize Vinci was up to something.

Charlotte Long, 21st son of Charlotte Linlin

  • Ascended Fanon: People began speculating on the Spacebattles Dot Com thread about whether or not Big Mom would have had a ghoul child, and the author responded by creating him.
  • Meaningful Name: Despite being a half-ghoul, he can’t eat most normal food, with the one kind of food he can eat being long pig hence his name.
  • Sibling Murder: According to the character sheet, killed and ate his triplet brothers shortly after being born.
  • Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Inverted. He's only appeared in the character sheet on Spacebattles, and hasn't made an appearance in the fic proper.
  • The Unfavorite: Is barely seen as a proper member of the Charlotte family, and is treated more like a servant and convenient method of body disposal than anything else.
  • Unseen No More: After only being seen on the story’s character sheet he finally makes his in story appearance in Decks of the World 11. This applies in-universe as well, as Big Mom is revealed to keep him locked up and out of the public eye (mainly because his ghoul nature would attract unwanted attention), and is willing to let him officially join the family if he can help convince the Nightmares to ally with the Big Mom pirates.

Gotz Helsing

  • Hunter of Monsters: His job.
  • Starter Marriage: Implied to have had this - his son, Akira Horus, retains his mother's family name and Helsing himself talks about having not seen him in years.

Reynolds

  • He Knows Too Much: Invoked and avoided. Reynolds, already in trouble because of getting mixed up in World Government business before, elects to leave the room when PRETA shows up to talk to Garp.
  • Shout-Out: He and his crew are a clear reference to Firefly.
  • Venturous Smuggler: A ship captain who's one of Garp's 'friends in low places'.

Konquay Shen XI

  • Shout-Out: He is described as having a birdlike appearance and having an ancestor who invented the cannon, making him a subtle reference to Lord Shen.

Douglass Bullet

  • World's Strongest Man: Not quite the strongest, but he is definitely one of the contenders for the title.

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