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Lovely Land
Accino Family
Accino Family
A family of bounty hunters who inhabit an icy labyrinth, they treat pirates so that they are docile when they hand them over to the Marines and keep their flags as trophies. Following an encounter with the Straw Hat Pirates, Don Accino accepted an offer from Vivi to become one of Alabasta's royal guardians, leading his family to relocate there.Members: Don Accino, Campacino, Brindo, Arbell, Salchow, Hockera, Lil, Burrato Hiruno- Affably Evil: In the original filler, Accino is this. In this story, the 'evil' part is mostly absent.
- Arch-Enemy: Hiuo Hiruno enrages him just by existing.
- Arranged Marriage: One of these between Lil and Burrato Hiruno is the driving force of the arc's plot in this fic.
- Ascended Extra: In canon, Don was a one-shot filler arc villain from the anime. Here, his Devil Fruit is one of Alabasta's ancestral weapons, and he migrates to the kingdom after the arc is done. He still becomes a bit of an extra, but he still shows up occasionally while the viewpoint is showing Alabastan business.
- Badass Normal: Aside from their patriarch, none of them rely on Devil Fruits or overwhelming brute strength, and they still manage to win the first round with the Straw Hats without said patriarch's help.
- Expy: They employ The Penguins of Madagascar. Their boss, Skipper, is an old rival of Boss'.
- Happily Married: Arbell and Salchow.
- Heel–Face Turn: Burrato Hiruno turns against his family and joins the Accinos thanks to the Straw Hats.
- Kryptonite Is Everywhere: Thanks to being favored by the Marines, they have sea prism stone in abundance. In this story, it's expanded further- the Marines have been selling the stuff at a discount in order to combat the losses sustained when the Supernovas went on their rampages during Eines Lobby, including Bege robbing them of a quarter of all liquid assets.
- Magnetism Manipulation: Campacino and Brindo's Combination Play—which is not Devil Fruit-based—allows them to magnetically attract or repel each other no matter how far away they are.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Even if they were ready to escape soon after and the Accinos had prepared specifically for their crew, they captured every last one of the Straw Hats without outside help. Considering what they've pulled off by this point and the Adaptational Badass nature of the crew, that is one hell of a feat.
- One Degree of Separation: Don Accino's Hot-Hot Fruit is also known as the Rage of Alabasta, one of the Kingdom's Royal Guardian Devil Fruits.
- Playing with Fire: The Hot-Hot Fruit that Don Accino ate allows him to manipulate heat energy, to the point that they could build a tropical paradise in the middle of an icy labyrinth.
- The Patriarch: Don Accino.
- Sadistic Choice: Don Accino finds himself in one when dealing with the Hiruno Famiglia; either he marries his daughter to a family he absolutely despises, or let his family's bounty-hunting lifestyle disintegrate when the pirate crews around get too strong to capture. Luckily, Vivi gives him a third way out: his Devil Fruit is an Ancestral Weapon of Alabasta, and if he becomes a Royal Guardian of the seceded kingdom, his family would be set for life.
- Suddenly Sober: Thanks to his powers, Don Accino can enact this by flaring his temperature and boiling all the alcohol from his body, as demonstrated when he went to meet the Hirunos on their arrival, with the mechanics explained by Vivi a little while later.
- Underestimating Badassery: Perhaps they grew overconfident when they caught the Straw Hat Crew the first time, but after Accino makes his deal, Cross has no trouble turning the tables when he reveals the crew broke out and is ready to rumble right under their noses.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Like in canon, the Don doesn't wear a shirt. Vivi explains this is because his base level temperature is so high, the sweat would evaporate and be caught in his shirt, making him very uncomfortable.
Hiruno Famiglia
Hiruno Famiglia
Original characters, a family of bounty hunters known for extreme sadism. The Accino Family is regularly at odds with them.- Abhorrent Admirer: Pavarotto Hiruno lavishes attention on Arbell, who is already Happily Married. While her husband is present.
- Abusive Parents: Hiuo is not kind to her younger grandson.
- Arch-Enemy: Don Accino.
- Arranged Marriage: Between Burrato and Lil Accino.
- Asshole Victim: In Chapter 77, it's revealed Madame Hiruno is now jailed in a brand new cell on a tower in Impel Down's Freezing Hell in order to use her Cold-Cold powers to make the level even more punishing. Then in chapter 78, Whitey Bay kills her and claims the Cold-Cold Fruit for herself.
- Big Brother Bully: Pavarotto hits his brother openly.
- Circling Vultures: Invoked and weaponized. The Famiglia has trained vultures working for them who circle over the ships of their bounties while carrying mirrors to reflect sunlight on the ship and cook the crew for added psychological torture.
- Cowardly Lion: Burrato may be a stuttering mess, but there's a reason the Hirunos keep him around: the final brawl has him laying out everyone who comes near him or Lil with one punch (and apologizing with each hit).
- Establishing Character Moment:
- Hiuo mocks Don Accino, kicks her grandson for stuttering, and nearly freezes Vivi's arm off while noting her bounty. This all happens within minutes of arriving.
- Pavarotto comes in acting as a total sleaze to Arbell, in complete defiance to Salchow.
- Burrato is introduced trembling and stuttering in fear before getting hit by his grandmother.
- Evil Laugh: Hiuo's Signature Laugh. "Tsurarara."
- Evil Matriarch: Hiuo Hiruno.
- Foil: Hiuo is literally built from the ground up as Don Accino's polar opposite. They're both bounty hunters, but whereas Don Accino is Affably Evil and prefers to subdue his prey with relative gentleness, Hiuo is a spiteful old bag who sadistically relishes the suffering she can inflict on others. Despite his fearsome temper, Don Accino loves his family unreservedly, and they love him back, whereas Hiuo treats her offspring with contempt and they loathe her back. Don Accino is a towering bear of a man, whereas Hiuo is a tiny little lady. Even their Devil Fruits are literally polar opposites; both have consumed temperature-manipulating Paramecias, with Don Accino eating the temperature-raising Hot-Hot Fruit and Hiuo consuming the temperature-lowering Cold-Cold Fruit.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen/Humiliation Conga: Hiuo Hiruno has had a rough time during and after the failed Arranged Marriage. Being completely humiliated by her grandson Burrato's calling her out as well as abandoning the Famiglia, one side of her is completely melted due to having a bubbling cauldron of caustic punch dropped on her, her ship and livelihood destroyed in the aftermath of the wedding. That much, we see onscreen; offscreen, however, when it became clear that she was no longer capable of bounty hunting, Pavarotto turned her in for her bounty, and she wound up in Impel Down's Level 5. Even though she is treated slightly better than other prisoners in exchange for using her abilities to intensify the cold of the floor, it's a foregone conclusion she won't have much to live due to her half-melted condition and age. And then Whitey kills her to steal and eat her Cold-Cold Fruit.
- Hunter of His Own Kind: In Chapter 77, it's revealed that Madame Hiruno has a bounty for unknown reasons. Due to bringing in other bounties, however, she was excused and allowed to remain hunting them. Until the Straw Hats came around in Lovely Land...
- An Ice Person: Similarly to Aokiji, thanks to the Cold-Cold Fruit, Hiuo can freeze things just by touching them, and uses this ability to nearly rot off Vivi's arm via frostbite. The difference is that her fruit is a Paramecia, like Don Accino's Hot-Hot Fruit, so she lacks the Elemental Shapeshifter powers granted by Aokiji's Chilly-Chilly Fruit.
- Instrument of Murder: Pavarotto has a string quartet retinue that owns instruments made of metal (with sharpened violin bows to boot).
- Miniature Senior Citizens: To provide more contrast to Don Accino, Hiuo Hiruno is a three-foot-midget.
- Nervous Wreck: Burrato, justified given his grandmother.
- Nightmare Face: Let's just call Hiuo Hiruno's expression when the final brawl breaks out "ghastly" and leave it at that.
- One Degree of Separation: Two of the vultures working for the Hirunos are first cousins to Miss Friday, and so share a beef with Cross despite their claims otherwise.
- Running Gag: Through his stuttering, Burrato ends up using the wrong word from what he wants to say two times before getting the correct word, only to be hit by one of his family members before he can finish his sentence.
- Stutter Stop: Burrato drops his stutter when Lil prompts him to take a stand and refuse to get married.
- Token Good Teammate: Burrato, who in the end abandons his family for the Accinos.
- Vile Vulture: As a dark Foil to the Accino Family's fierce penguins, the Hiruno Familiga has trained vultures who help torture their bounties in exchange for eating the corpses of the Familiga's victims who don't have bounties.
Neo-Marines
In General
Neo-Marines
An organization formed by former Admiral "Black Arm" Zephyr, after the War of the Best, formed from ex-Marines who were implicitly disgusted by the corruption in the ranks of the Navy.
- Ambiguously Evil: They were an Anti-Villain group in canon, and have been seemingly influenced for the better by the Masons and the SBS. Time will tell how they act.
- Badass Creed: Zephyr gives one hell of a speech.Zephyr: "MARINES! What is our duty on these glorious seas?"Neo-Marines: "TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT AND PUNISH THE GUILTY, SIR!"Zephyr: "And has our flag upheld this duty thus far, Marines?"Neo-Marines: "SIR, NO, SIR!"Zephyr: "What crimes do you levy against our flag, Marines?"Neo-Marines: "BLINDNESS TO CORRUPTION! INDIFFERENCE TO INJUSTICE! PARDONS FOR THE UNFORGIVABLE!"Zephyr: "Heavy crimes indeed! And what does this make our flag?"Neo-Marines: "GUILTY, SIR!"Zephyr: "Indeed so... a terrible tragedy indeed. And worse yet, for having sailed under this flag, so too are we guilty of these self-same sins. Sins that can never be forgiven, nor forgotten. So I ask you, Marines! What would you guilty, damned souls do with your lives?"Neo-Marines: "UPHOLD OUR DUTY, SIR!"Zephyr: "Even should you yourselves be judged? Even at the cost of your own lives?"Neo-Marines: "SIR, YES, SIR!"Zephyr: "...Then so be it. Henceforth, let us quit the purity of white, and don the black cloak of the damned! Henceforth, we shall venture into the deepest of pits, the darkest of nights, and we shall fight! Until our last breath is spent! Until our last drop of blood is shed! UNTIL THE BLUE SEAS RUN DRY! WE, THE NEO-MARINES, SHALL NEVER SURRENDER, UNTIL THE SCOURGE OF SIN IS CLEANSED FROM THIS WORLD!"
- Early-Bird Cameo: Zephyr's Number Two, Captain Ain, appears during the Dead End Race, listening to the SBS at Navarone with Jonathan and Drake (G-8's Drake, not X Drake).
- Start My Own: After seeing just how corrupt the Government (and to a lesser extent, the Navy) is, and the War of the Best crippling the Marines, Zephyr and his men decided to form their own faction without the Government overseeing them.
Zephyr
Zephyr
A former Admiral who retired years before canon to become an instructor, who decided to return to the seas after the battle of Marineford... this time leading the Neo-Marines, a breakaway force of Marines who reject the World Government.
- Badass Normal: Like Garp, Zephyr has no Devil Fruit powers; he was offered (and accepted) the position of Admiral because of his overwhelming physical ability.
- Badass Teacher: He taught Aokiji, Kizaru, and Akainu, among others, and he's an ex-Admiral.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He lost his wife and son, and later a division of Marine cadets and his arm to pirates, all of which contributes to his hatred towards them.
- Handicapped Badass: He lost an arm to a pirate in the past. It didn't stop him from kicking Kid's ass.
- Retired Badass: The key word in "retired Admiral" is "Admiral". Eustass Kid may be one of the strongest Supernovas, but when he attacked Blackarm Island, he nearly got ripped in half.
- Secret-Keeper: He has become disillusioned with the Navy and Government, which led Jonathan to offer him a place in the Masons. While he declined the offer due to their affiliation with pirates, he respected their ambition and so keeps their secret.
- Spanner in the Works: If Eustass Kid hadn't attacked Blackarm Island and renewed his hate for all pirates, he might have joined the New World Masons.
- That Man Is Dead: Subverted. In the movie, Zephyr renamed himself "Z" to cement his rejection of the Marines and his former ties with them. But in the Denouement, his new Neo-Marines still refer to him as "Fleet Admiral Zephyr".
- Tragic Bigot: He hates all pirates, except maybe Luffy and the Straw Hats, but he has plenty of good reasons for it. Amidst whatever other horrors he's seen over his long career, he lost his wife and son to a pirate in the past, and more recently he lost an arm and almost all of his cadets to another pirate. And while the SBS had been on the verge of changing his mind, the Kid Pirates attacked his training grounds and reaffirmed his hatred during Enies Lobby.
- Villain Respect: While the "villain" part is currently ambiguous, he genuinely respects Luffy after his speech during the Strong World incident.
Gran Tesoro
Gild Tesoro
The "Casino King" of Gran Tesoro and possibly the wealthiest man in the world, his gleaming exterior hides a very dark interior - a former slave of the World Nobles who lost the woman he loved to them as well, he became far too similar to them later in life.
- Fiction 500: He's got wealth that likely rivals that of the World Nobles.
- Villain Respect: He's never shown as not having at least some regard for the Straw Hats.
Other Characters
B.R.O.B.
Bastard Random Omnipotent Being
The Bastard Random Omnipotent Being responsible for sending Cross to the world of One Piece, an ambiguous entity that only cares about its own amusement.
- All-Powerful Bystander: It has a handful of significant appearances/roles, and several cameos purely or mostly for comedic purposes, but for the most part, it stays Out of Focus, just watching the story unfold for its entertainment.
- Ambiguous Gender: Appearances thus far hint toward it being female, but there's no way to be sure.
- Cheshire Cat Grin: Its most common way of appearing in reality.
- Deal with the Devil: A somewhat downplayed version. In Chapter 38, Cross resorts to appealing to B.R.O.B., having exhausted all other options for keeping his promise to save Merry's life. It agreed to give Cross a chance if he provided enough amusement in Enies Lobby. But if he didn't, it would only give him the intervention to keep his promise at the cost of a Gender Bender.
- Didn't See That Coming: In Chapter 82, B.R.O.B freely admits to Cross that it plucked him for shits and giggles and fully expected him to die in Loguetown at the earliest. When that didn't pan out, it continued to amp up the difficulty, so to speak, just to see how far Cross would go. By its own admission, and the one thing that snaps Cross out of his Heroic BSoD, is that it never anticipated Luffy saving Ace, especially since, if B.R.O.B is to be believed, Ace's death was meant to happen and could not be stopped.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: On the receiving end. Luffy was NOT happy to learn it ripped Cross to his world for kicks and considers the Straw Hats as a source of fun.
- Dramatic Irony: During the Accino wedding, Cross expresses his doubt that the Straw Hats will ever have to deal with a politically arranged wedding again, causing B.R.O.B to hijack Soundbite and voice its laughter knowing that Cross is in for a surprise, come the Whole Cake Island arc.
- Everyone Has Standards: After the Alabasta Rebellion ends, and Cross's Rage Against the Heavens, B.R.O.B. concedes that it might have gone a little too far, and gifts him with the Snail Transceiver, though it warns him not to expect any more favors until after his future knowledge expires.
- The Faceless: No name, no face, even the voice that it used in its second appearance was borrowed. Only the personality is clear.
- Flipping the Bird: When Soundbite tries to goad B.R.O.B. into taking direct action, it causes a tree branch to fall on top of Soundbite's shell, with several of the twigs in his field of vision suspiciously looking like they're all giving him the finger.
- Implied Death Threat: During the Rainbow Mist special, Jones (who read This Bites! before the start of her adventure) gets the idea to warn Cross that Ace was still captured despite his warnings. Before she can say anything, B.R.O.B. drops a note for her that dares her to try and spoil its fun before the note burns away.
- It Amused Me: Pretty much its entire personality. Lamshaded by the thing in Chapter 82, where it tells Cross it picked him for no reason.
- Jerkass God: It's in its title.
- People Puppets: Downplayed; when Soundbite says some out-of-universe thing he doesn't remember saying, it's usually B.R.O.B. hijacking his feed for a second or two.
- Wowing Cthulhu: The reason it delivered that Rousing Speech to Cross at the end of Marineford Misery; Cross had beaten the odds so many times, changed the world, and even altered events that it never expected to ever change, like the deaths of Going Merry and Ace, that B.R.O.B. is looking forward to what Cross will do next, and will not let him beat himself down with despair.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Surprisingly is the one to not only give one to Cross, but also snaps him out of his Heroic BSoD. It let Cross know that originally, it expected Cross to die in amusing fashion, but repeatedly he had not only survived but also challenged fate and help improved the lives of so many people. Cross become more than what B.R.O.B was expecting, and it's looking forward to more from him.
The Unluckies
Mr. 13 and Miss Friday
The Otter and Vulture pair of Baroque Works who served as sketch artists and internal affairs for the organization. They had a very unhealthy fixation on Cross for much of the story's first half.
- Adaptational Badass: With a dash of Related in the Adaptation. In the Water 7 arc, they reveal that they were born on Kuraigana Island, currently home to Dracule Mihawk and tribes of warring Humandrills.
- Clip Its Wings: The Franky Family offers this as an alternative to killing them while still reducing their overall threat level. It's implied that the Unluckies escaped before it happened.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: After all Cross put them through, they are determined to take him alive so that they can do this to him.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Pretty much the reason why they hate Cross's (and Soundbite's) guts. After they were captured in Alabasta, Cross and Soundbite visited them every day before leaving so Soundbite could recite Vogon poetry to them.
- Cool Shades: They both sport pairs.
- Cycle of Revenge: While they technically started the antagonism by virtue of being part of Baroque Works, Cross and Soundbite definitely escalated things, causing them to fixate on him. A
Deleted Scene later shows them finally letting go of this. - Didn't Think This Through: During the ride to Enies Lobby, they break out of wherever the Franky Family was keeping them and storm into the train car of Rocket Man to attack Cross... and realize too late that most of the Straw Hats are also in there with him.
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear: In Little Garden, Cross gets rid of them by tricking them into a cave of troodons.
- Feathered Fiend: Miss Friday.
- For Want Of A Nail: The whole reason they were able to become recurring antagonists in the first place? Cross changed the events of Little Garden to the point that Sanji didn't take them out like in canon.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Played with. While Mr. 13 is more melee-focused and Miss Friday is more range-focused, they have no trouble at all mixing it up.
- Hyperspace Arsenal: Mr. 13 at least seems to keep weapons on him that are too big for him to carry discreetly given his attire.
- Made of Iron: Par for the course given that this is the world of One Piece, but the amount of punishment they can take is more than their relatively small sizes would imply and is arguably more than Cross or Soundbite could live through.
- Not Worth Killing: An interesting variant. In Water 7, Cross freely admits that killing them would save him future headaches, and he knows he can't get away with not killing forever, but he refuses to let these two be the ones to drive him to it and certainly not in cold blood.
- Playful Otter: Terrifyingly inverted with Mr. 13.
- Professional Killer: Started out as this. Now it's just personal for them.
- Recurring Boss: Cross faces them multiple times.
- Villain Respect: A canonical Deleted Scene during the Sabaody Revolution arc shows them return and admit this. Previously, the Unluckies hated Cross and Soundbite for being a couple of weaklings that kept escaping them with dumb luck, dirty tricks, and hiding behind more threatening individuals, a hatred comparable to the typical sentiment towards World Nobles. But Cross and Soundbite grew past that as they fought Enies Lobby, the Hiruno Famiglia, Thriller Bark, and especially Strong World, where they held their own against some of the worst pirates in Paradise; that level of strength is something the Unluckies could respect losing to. They acknowledged their offenses against Cross, not quite apologizing, and Cross satisfied them by responding in kind.
- The Voiceless: Subverted. They don't speak much, but they're perfectly capable of it (provided Soundbite is translating, of course). Once they catch up to him at the Franky House, they become a lot more talkative.Miss Friday: Suffer.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Their last appearance in the main story was shortly before Enies Lobby. But a canonical Deleted Scene set in Sabaody Archipelago showed them clearing the air with Cross and Soundbite.
- Worthy Opponent: A canonical deleted scene shows that they've grown to respect the real power that Cross and Soundbite have cultivated on their journey. Their last words before departing imply this trope specifically:Mr. 13: If we meet again, it'll be nothing personal. Just business.
Miss Friday: Although...it would be a lie to say we don't want to fight you again.
Wyvern
Wyvern (AKA Jeremiah Cross)
A future version of Cross who appears in "The 1000th Review Spectactular!" bonus chapter, appearing before the present-day Straw Hats courtesy of B.R.O.B.- Bandaged Face: His face is entirely wrapped in bandages.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Boards the Bleeding Hearts bounty hunters' ship by himself. By the time the Straw Hats deal with the ones boarding their ship and make their way over, Wyvern's standing over their beaten bodies looking none the worse for wear.
- Gratuitous Foreign Language: When Wyvern wakes up after being dropped into the present day by B.R.O.B. and sees someone (Cross) standing over him, his first instinct is to grab him by the throat and say something in Greek.
- Never Shall The Selves Meet: Averted. Wyvern and Cross interact with each other without any problems.
- One-Steve Limit: To avoid any confusion between him and his younger self, Time Skip Cross opts to be called "Wyvern" rather than Jeremiah.
- A Taste of Power: Wyvern essentially offers Cross a glimpse of how strong he'll become during the Time Skip. He's not accompanied by Soundbite, Lassoo, or Funkfreed when he shows up, but he manages to single-handedly take down an entire ship's worth of bounty hunters.
- Training from Hell: If his bandages were any indication, Cross is gonna have a hell of time reaching Wyvern's level during the Time Skip.
Sifu Dugong
Sifu Dugong
The most powerful Kung Fu Dugong in history, the former sensei of Boss Dugong, and the former bearer of the name 'Boss.' A nomadic warrior of New World-grade strength, surpassing him is Boss's ultimate goal.
- Eccentric Mentor: He's the guy who Boss learned his teaching methods from, after all.
- Genius Bruiser: He's seemingly learned how to speak the human language without Soundbite's aid, though it's very uncomfortable for his throat.
- Walking the Earth: His hobby.
- World's Strongest Man: He's the strongest Kung Fu Dugong in the world, and is capable of going seemingly toe-to-toe, or at least very close, with Garp. The TDWS implies that he's the strongest Dugong in the history of their species.
The Obelisks of the Florian
The Obelisks of the Florian
The Florian Triangle itself, its consciousness manifested into three titanic yet featureless entities. They absorb and reflect the emotions displayed within their domain, menacing to menaces but friendly to friends; thanks to Soundbite conveying this, they become allies and protectors of Skelter Bite.- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Cross describes Thriller Bark as being "the size of a gnat" compared to them at full size, and the people on it "gnats on a gnat's ass".
- Dark Is Not Evil: They are scary and powerful, but they're only seen as scary because of the Eldritch Location nature of the Florian Triangle causing a feedback loop, especially after Moria brought Thriller Bark there. They're happy to help keep Skelter Bite safe after its founding in exchange for all the positive feelings created in the process.
- Domain Holder: They rule the Triangle absolutely, and the already strained physics in the Grand Line seem to have given up entirely where they are involved and want it that way.
- The Dreaded: The Emperors, for all their power and influence, fear stepping foot into the Triangle (even without knowing about the Obelisks) and are the only reason Charlotte Linlin hasn't gone all-out in recapturing and killing Lola.
- Eldritch Abomination: They have Voluntary Shapeshifting (one grew an arm and waved at Vivi) and judging by how two of them somehow "shrunk" to follow Lola around on Skelter Bite, they don't seem to obey the conventional laws of physics (even more than usual on the Grand Line, that is).
- Eldritch Location: They're the embodiments of the Florian Triangle, so they both rule it and are it.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: The only noteworthy feature that they have, though how much they're actually 'of doom' depends on their emotional state at the time.
Takoyaki 8
Takoyaki 8
A restaurant founded by Hachi, one of Arlong's former Co-Dragons, Keimi the mermaid, and Pappug the starfish. Later on, Chew and Kuroobi, Arlong's other two Co-Dragons, were also released by Jimbei on Hachi's request and joined as chefs.- The Atoner:
- Hachi is making every attempt to make up for what he did, and facilitated Kuroobi and Chew's parole in hopes that they'd see the light too. He outright prostrates himself to Nami in Chapter 63, but it isn't until after she witnesses him take a bullet meant for Cross that she's finally convinced he's genuine.
- Kuroobi and Chew take longer to get to this point, but after witnessing the lengths the Straw Hats were willing to go to tear down the slave industry on Sabaody, they decide that while there’s a good chance they can never atone for the hate they spread alongside Arlong, they’re going to try.
- Beware the Nice Ones:
- Keimi, the kindhearted, ditzy mermaid, gets an instance of Tranquil Fury when she confronts the Macro Pirates. With the confirmation that they would have sold her into slavery, which they did to other merfolk and fishpeople before her, she shows no hesitation in personally condemning them to a Fate Worse than Death.
- Hachi himself counts; it's easy to overlook that he was the one who fought Zoro back in Arlong Park, which is pretty conclusive evidence that he was second only to Arlong. It's made clear by the fact that he keeps Kuroobi and Chew under control single...or, well, six-handedly.
- Chef of Iron: Hachi, Kuroobi, and Chew, naturally. Keimi may count as well; she's no fighter, but she still has the natural physical superiority of merfolk.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Kuroobi and Chew were both horrified when they learned from Cross that their "preaching" to Hody Jones and the other New Fishman Pirates indirectly led to the death of Queen Otohime.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite everything Cross did to prevent the disasters from canon, two unpleasant things still occurred, albeit differently:
- Keimi still gets kidnapped and sent to the Human Auction House. However, because the kidnappers left Hachi, Chew, and Kuroobi alone (with them being fishmen and prized slave material), Cross realizes this wasn't normal and that she was kidnapped as bait for the Straw Hats.
- Hachi still gets shot by Charloss in the Auction House, but it was due to Taking the Bullet for Cross. Thankfully, the fishman is still alive.
- Man Behind the Man: One of the reasons why Hachi is so terrifying to Kuroobi and Chew? Aside from the fact that he was Arlong's second, Hachi has Jinbei's snail number on speed dial, since Jinbei is basically their parole officer.
- Senseless Sacrifice: Subverted. Whereas Hachi Taking the Bullet in canon was pointless, since Luffy's Rubber Man powers make him Immune to Bullets, here he does it to save the much squishier Jeremiah Cross. The Heroic Sacrifice nature of it this time around is lampshaded in the final chapter of the "Sabaody Revolution" arc, where Chopper confirms that if Hachi hadn't taken the bullet for Cross, Charloss could have killed Cross with that shot.
Family & Friends
A general group consisting of the civilian and non-pirate families of the Straw Hats (and the Barto Club) themselves, in both the East Blue and the Grand Line (and in Sanji's case, the Germa Kingdom and his sister Reiju).
- Beware the Nice Ones: Makino bought a shotgun after the incident with Higuma, and is willing to use it to keep order in her bar.
- Defiant to the End: While many of them had faith that the Straw Hats would be able to defeat Shiki, every one of them immediately started to arm themselves after the "Strong World" broadcast started and the revelation that Shiki's beasts were going to be released on the East Blue.
- Laugh Themselves Sick:
- After hearing about Afro Luffy over the SBS, Makino promptly cracks up. Hard.
- Mayor Woop Slap of Foosha Village (Luffy's hometown) spends most of the story, up through Enies Lobby, disparaging anything to do with pirates. But then this trope ensues when he hears Garp get zinged over the SBS, and he officially changes his opinion about the program.
- Papa Wolf: All of the parental figures are protective, but special mention must go to Cobra, who seceded his entire country from the World Government in retaliation for the World Nobles putting a bounty on his daughter and forcing her to go on the run.
- Ship Tease:
- Just like in canon, Usopp and Kaya are implied to have feelings for each other. Usopp's familiarity with economics and other high-class topics is credited to Kaya's tutelage (which Dorry and Broggy soundly tease him for), and Kaya is shown cheering him on several times while listening to the SBS.
- Kohza and Vivi. It's remarked that the main reason why no one has any interest in Vivi romantically (except for Sanji, for obvious reasons) is that they know she's already (unknowingly) spoken for.
Water 7
The city/island of Water 7, known as the home of the greatest shipwrights in the world, and the focus of several of CP9's agents for the last five years.
- Hammerspace: Where Paulie keeps all his rope.
- Not So Above It All: When he sees the Gaon Cannon about to be deployed on the SBS, Iceberg is pretty clearly overjoyed.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Tilestone, Peeply Lulu, and the Square Sisters vacate the premises quickly when Cross tells them that his truth could make them go mad.
- Secret-Keeper: Iceburg, Paulie, and Zambai know Cross's secret about being from another world.
Yamato
The son of Kaido, and a "Self-Proclaimed Kozuki Oden", Yamato was inspired by the hour of Oden's death as a child, and has been at odds with his father for years as a result, dreaming constantly of leaving Wano like Oden himself - a goal, sadly, that is blocked by both the explosive handcuffs on his wrists and the fact that Kaido would never let him leave alive under his power.
- Abusive Parents: Kaido is this to him.
- Determinator: He's been imprisoned under Kaido's thumb on Onigashima for nearly his entire life, with explosive handcuffs set to go off if he ever tries to escape - but despite this, he's never given up hope that he'll be free one day.
- The Ghost: He only appears in Part 4 of Marineford Misery, and is briefly mentioned in the Denouement.
