Fanfic / A Gamer In South Blue

A Gamer in South Blue is a One Piece pseudo-Self-Insert Fanfiction by LordVishnu.

Jack Parker and Kiwi the Sparrow

Jack Parker went from dying in the real world to waking up half-drowned on a peaceful backwater isle in the South Blue with a Sudden Game Interface. It's been about a year since then, and about 20 years since Gold Roger's execution. Jack isn't involved with the Straw Hats. He's not involved with the story of One Piece canon. He's half a world away from all that insanity and quite frankly...he's fine with that. But when he's invited to tend a simple mercantile ship on a business trip to another island, he's savvy enough to recognize the Call to Adventure; the world of One Piece has plenty to marvel at outside of the Straw Hats' spotlight.

It can be found on FanFiction.net and QQ.

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Tropes contained in A Gamer in South Blue:

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• 1-Up: Jack learns the hard way that he has multiple lives—5, to be exact—returning to the last 'auto-save' when his health hits 0.
  • He loses his first life against a former pirate-turned-mafia enforcer named Blackjack, learning about the system in the process; it's through cunning and skill that he wins the immediate rematch.
  • He loses his second life when he bites off more than he can chew with going after the Kid Pirates himself for revenge. The rest of the crew, he can take...but Kid is too far above him. This time, he grudgingly retreats from the rematch until he's ready.
  • At one point, he's offered a boon of gaining an extra life, but he's forced to turn it down in favor of one of the other offered boons.
• Absurdly High Level Cap: Mastery of the Six Powers caps at 50 per art. The [Bladed Weapon Mastery] stat caps out at 150.
• Adaptational Villainy: Technically canon character Tomato Gang turns out to be the Admin of the Game, a Reality Warper who picked Jack on a whim. Meanwhile, Pandaman is another Reality Warper who is apparently so determined for Jack to not interfere in Luffy's journey that he has Kiwi killed.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: The navy tries to pull this on Jack after he politely turns down several increasingly generous offers to join by freezing his ability to collect bounties if he doesn’t accept the latest one.
• Anti-Grinding: The LUK stat can only be increased through specific special events and achievements, neither of which are known ahead of time. In addition, when Jack hits Level 65, the experience he gains from defeating enemies drops drastically.
• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • In Chapter 28, Jack goes up against Garrick Osier Hornigold, the highest bounty in the South Blue. While said person is monologuing and setting the stage for a grand battle, Jack takes the chance to [Observe] him, sees that he has laughably low dexterity, and decapitates him as he's doing his pre-battle gloating.
  • Downplayed with Kid himself when Jack catches up to him on Sabaody. Despite Jack attacking him by surprise in the middle of a fight with an Impact Dial loaded with three Rokuogans, Kid manages to survive just long enough to activate his Conqueror's Haki. It doesn't save him, and he fails to hurt Jack, but it's still fairly impresssive.
• Armor-Piercing Response: Invoked by Jack when Luffy attacks him, asking why Jack killed Kid:
  Jack: He burned my nakama alive.
• Badass Boast: At the close of Chapter 15:
  Narration: As far as South Blue is concerned...I'm calling an end to this 'Great Age of Piracy'.
• Berserk Button: Jack learns that Vice-Admiral Dalmatian hates getting hit in the nose.
• Big "WHAT?!": Tashigi's furious reaction at the end of Chapter 39 when she finds out that her bosses gave away one of her treasured swords to the now-Warlord Jack.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: 'Red Witch' Mira-jane has powers that allow her to brainwash sea kings to do her bidding. Though thought to be a Devil Fruit power, it's actually tied to a magic sword she carries...which is knocked into the ocean in the final battle.
• Bond One-Liner: Once he starts his crusade, Jack does this a lot.
• Boxed Crook: In Chapter 39, Jack succeeds in becoming one of the Seven Warlords, but Kong warns him that they'll be putting him on probation for half a year.
• Call to Adventure: Jack recognized the likelihood of this when he got a quest that got him to leave his home island, but he was still ambivalent about it. Then he realized that his [Gamer] powers are very useful for bounty hunting...
• Charles Atlas Superpower: From the earliest days of his new life, he invested in his STR stat making him far, far stronger than he appeared. It remains his biggest asset throughout the story.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Chapter 20 ends with a couple of well-established bounty hunters attempting to kill Jack for refusing to stop his crusade.
  • Chapter 29 ends with Jack accepting a job from Lindbergh of the Revolutionary Army to hunt down one last bounty in the South Blue, a rogue Revolutionary, whose price will complete Jack's goal of 1,000,000,000 beris worth of bounties.
  • Chapter 34 ends with PX-3 confronting Jack.
  • Chapter 35 ends with Jack, having returned to a past island with Kuma's help, recruiting Braxton Berwynne in a mission to try saving Ace.
  • Chapter 38 ends with Commander-in-Chief Kong once again approaching Jack (by proxy) to talk, most likely about his Warlord application.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Jack's battles turn into this after a while. Justified, in that his mastery of the Six Powers effectively make him an elite fighter by the standards of the Grand Line. So of course people in South Blue wouldn't be able to match him in a fight.
  • Especially notable in the case of Hornigold, the most wanted man in South Blue. Jack beheads him with a single slash of his sword, without even using his strongest techniques.
  • His second battle with Eustass Kid is this. Jack interrupts the fight between Kid, Luffy, Law, and the Marines by crashing into his target, using an Impact Dial charged with three Rokuogans to hit him, and a bullet to the head to finish the job. Then he proceeds to do the same to Kid's crew, killing two in the process.
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: When Kowalik goes One-Winged Angel with his Adam Treant form, Jack has the chance to run away. Instead, he pushes himself to his limits, risking a Heroic RRoD, because he has to know before he commits to running away whether or not he has a chance of winning.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: At one point, Jack encounters a painter with a Devil Fruit power that lets him turn his paintings into rugs selling to a crowd and notes the novelty of a Devil Fruit user applying their powers to business instead of combat.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Turns out that Hornigold, the most wanted pirate in the South Blue, lived on Baterilla at the time of the government's inquisition and lost his mother to their raids. He became a pirate because he wanted to prevent the Government from having such free rein in the South Blue again.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • In canon, 'Gashed' Albion was a ruthless pirate from the South Blue whose bounty nearly hit 100 million, who tried joining the Fake Straw Hats in Sabaody. Here, Jack goes out of his way to kill him before he grows into his prime, even when Albion is begging for his life.
  • Later on, Jack kills Eustass Kid on Sabaody.
  • In Chapter 37, Jack manages to kill Vasco Shot and Doc Q.
  • In Chapter 39, thanks to Vergo's arrest, Doflamingo is in a foul mood, which omits the leniency that let Gecko Moria escape him in canon.
  • In Chapter 39, Jack begins his Warlord career by killing Scratchman Apoo.
• Diabolus ex Machina: Jack is holding his own against the Marines, even including more than one Vice Admiral. Things quickly go downhill when Admiral Kizaru kicks him in the face.. Justified since Kizaru was likely summoned by Pandaman.
• Diminishing Returns for Balance: Jack is rightfully worried about this for a long while, wondering when his growth in the South Blue will slow down. He finally gets his answer in Chapter 20: as soon as he hits Level 65, the experience he gets from South Blue Mooks decreases dramatically, with particularly low-leveled individuals no longer yielding any experience.
• Dragon-in-Chief: The strong and silent Nash, Hornigold's right-hand man, is strong and skilled enough to be able to give Jack an actual challenge. Hornigold himself, though, got his bounty from his threat level, not his strength level; he's no slouch, but no match for Jack.
• The Dreaded: Jack slowly becomes this for South Blue pirates as time goes on, to the point some of them have an Oh, Crap! moment when they realize Jack Sparrow is coming for them.
  • Played for Drama later on, when Jack becomes known as the "Monarch Killer". As his powers make everyone believe he's a rogue Cipher Pol agent, everyone starts looking at him with fear, and even the Revolutionaries have doubts regarding his identity.
• Embarrassing Nickname: His nickname, much to his chagrin, comes from his name and his Animal Companion: Jack Sparrow.
• Eye Scream: In Chapter 27, when Jack learns that one of the pirates he's fighting—Captain Fumori—has the Calm-Calm Fruit, he blinds him with a Rankyaku before killing him.
• From Bad to Worse: Chapter 31 ends with Kiwi, Jack's primary mode of transportation and dear friend, being killed. Chapter 32 ends with Jack acquiring a 230,000,000 Beri bounty after murdering the king who killed Kiwi and two Vice-Admirals are after his head.
• Get Out!: When Berwynne finds out that Jack knows who he is, he immediately orders him to leave the island, an opinion that he never retracts. But much later, when Jack does return to the island, it's to recruit him for a mission to save Ace, and Berwynne immediately drops everything to join him.
• Genre Savvy: In Chapter 37, Jack recalls an important piece of advice from fiction that helps him kill two of Blackbeard’s crew.
  Narration: And a life time of media has taught me an important rule. It’s always faster to just switch to your secondary [weapon].
• Gotta Catch Them All: At the end of Chapter 15, fresh off of losing his second life to Eustass Kid, Jack resolves to hunt down every big-name criminal left in the ocean. Simultaneously, he gets a new quest: capture or kill wanted persons in the South Blue whose bounties total at least 1,000,000,000 Beri, with the rewards of 99,000 EXP, +25 LUK, and one mystery reward. He kills the last big-name criminal at the end of Chapter 28, and at the end of Chapter 29, he takes off after a rogue Revolutionary that will provide the last push he needs to hit one billion.
• Green Thumb: 'Oaken Fist' Kowalik is one of the top three on the South Blue's most wanted list. He has the Paramecia Wood-Wood Fruit that functions like the Wax-Wax Fruit, generating large amounts of wooden constructs as well as super-powering his ship's wooden paddles to ensure that nobody ever catches him. His ultimate technique has him drain an entire island of its nutrients and plant life to grow into a Treant of Adam wood.
• HA HA HA—No: Jack's reaction to a Quest to go deep-sea diving for Dials...three miles from Sea King nesting waters.
• Hammerspace: One of the [Gamer]'s features gives him a massive Inventory that keeps its contents in chronostasis. He usually passes it off as a Storage-based Devil Fruit.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: When Jack uses a skill book to learn one of the Rokushiki at random, the one he gets is Kami-e, and he initially is disappointed, calling it "the lame one." But, since he has it, he practices with it until he can use it reliably in combat. Once he integrates it into his fighting style, he decides he loves it.
• Hope Spot: When Jack sets out to rescue Ace from execution, he managed to briefly get ahold of him. Even a confrontation with an enraged Vice-Admiral Dalmatian doesn’t fully stop him. A surprise attack from Admiral Kizaru on the other hand…
• Horse of a Different Color: Super Sparrows are this along with being giant flyers.
• How Do I Shot Web?: When Jack maxes out his WIS stat to 100 and chooses the path of self-discovery (instead of world-discovery), his reward is gaining the [Seimei Kikan], or Life Return ability. This comes with some exceptional passive perquisites, but for the active applications...well, he himself explains it at the beginning of Chapter 14:
  Narration: Do you recall the first time you ever whistled? Think back now. For years of your younger life it was something that others could do, but not yourself. You would purse your lips out, try your hardest, and end up disappointed as you spat out useless unmusical air. Then one day, perhaps rather unceremoniously, you simply did it. Maybe it was by accident. Maybe it was on purpose. But one day you simply figured out the trick. Suddenly you just knew how. There was nothing wrong with you before. You were always physically capable of whistling. All the tools required to pull it off were under your direct control the entire time. But you just. Didn't. Know. How. This is the crux of [Seimei Kikan].
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Jack decided early on that he really didn't want to be in the center of all of the insanity that the Straw Hats are causing. But he reflects at the end of Chapter 9 that getting sucked into canon may be inevitable.
• Impossible Task: The quest Jack gets right after meeting Kuma qualifies, at least in Jack’s estimation. The [Game] seems to agree given that the offered rewards include 10 free levels and +200 LUK.
• It's Personal: At the end of Chapter 14, Jack decides that he no longer cares about leaving canon intact after the Kid Pirates burn down and kill half of his village, and flies off for revenge.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Jack doesn't always give his victims the luxury of finishing their last words.
• Knowledge Broker: Bill, the bartender of The Cracked Pearl in Caeba Kingdom, works as this, and he makes it clear at the outset that he doesn't pick any sides: he gives information to whoever can pay for it. This despite the fact that Jack's [Gamer] abilities inform him immediately that Bill is an undercover agent of CP5; this is just a side job while he accomplishes whatever his true objective is.
• Legion of Doom: When Jack's crusade goes far enough and the Navy starts pouring resources into the South Blue—this overlapping with Crocodile's arrest and termination from the Warlords—Garrick Osier Hornigold, the most wanted pirate in the South Blue, gathers all of the rival crews he can and mobilizes them in a final effort to fulfill his life's work: keeping the Government presence in South Blue properly checked. Hornigold's right-hand man, Nash, is the only one who can give Jack any challenge; Hornigold himself is decapitated before he can begin to fight, and his fleet goes down in flames.
• Loophole Abuse: When Jack begins planning for his inquisition of the South Blue, he goes to Master Chief Petty Officer Mori for help tracking down outlaws.
  Jack: The Marines keep track of pirate sightings don't they? A written record of who's been seen where and how long ago? You all then use that data to coordinate ship movements and chase the bastards down.
  Mori: Yes. Obviously we keep our logs as up to date as we can. But... I can't let you see them though. That's way against protocol."
  Jack: Is there any protocol against you calling a friend on the phone and 'warning' him about what pirates have been sighted where? Just so that friend could be sure to, you know, 'stay away' from those places?
  Mori: Well...technically no...
• Loyal Animal Companion: At the close of Chapter 13, Jack tames a South Blue Super Sparrow that he christens Kiwi.

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• Major Injury Underreaction: The unnamed and very angsty user of the Doppel-Doppel Fruit has this reaction when Mori lands a lethal blow on him. His last words are as follows:
  Doppel-Man: Ah....well that wasn't supposed to happen. I.. I hope Captain Valerie doesn't find out. She'll..She'll be mad at me. I don't want.. to be punished.
• The Mole: Lieutenant Jorgen recruits Jack for a sting operation on the Masserida Crime Family in Chapter 6. Chapter 7 reveals that he's the Don's nephew.
• The Musketeer: Jack prefers hand-to-hand combat, but by way of necessity, he's become proficient with both guns and swords.
• My Way or the Highway: Jack's crusade in the South Blue draws a lot of Marine attention, and it turns more than a bit sour when he's forced to reveal that he can use the Six Powers. Someone capable of using those abilities being autonomous is not a desirable option, so they start giving him offers to join the Navy. He continues refusing, and it soon gets to the point where the Navy refuses to pay out his bounties unless he joins them. After Jack kills Hornigold, the highest bounty in the Blue, they cease stonewalling him, possibly at the orders of Kong himself.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Jack is this to Eustass Kid, once he finally catches up to him on Sabaody. He does not bother announcing his presence or monologuing about who he is and why he is there; he doesn't speak a single word. He just ambushes Kid and goes straight for the kill.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: The Grand Line may be on the same planet as the four Blues, but the power difference is easily enough to count for this trope.
  • "Oaken Fist" Kowalik journeyed through the Grand Line twice in his life. Both trips were disasters, so he invoked this trope by using the powers and the strength that he gained to make a living in the South Blue instead.
  • Jack also counts, as his Gamer powers have allowed him access to some techniques that only Grand Line elites can learn, like the Six Powers and Life Return. As of Chapter 29, as his crusade draws to a close, he finds that there's nobody left in the South Blue who can challenge him.
• No-Sell: When Eustass Kid unleashes Conqueror's Haki against Jack in Chapter 34, affecting plenty of others around him, Jack doesn't even flinch. Why? Because he hates Kid so much that the idea of cowering against him is unthinkable.
• Not Quite Flight: Jack unlocks Geppo out of sheer will and determination in Chapter 10. And knowing its versatility, he trains it to Level 17 in Chapter 11.
• The Omniscient: It's mentioned only once, in passing, at the end of Chapter 21, that there's an [Admin] responsible for Jack's [Gamer] abilities. Jack will earn the right to a meeting with him if he fulfills the seemingly impossible Quest of saving Bartholomew Kuma. Later, though, said admin reveals himself as a technically canon denizen of the One Piece world: Tomato Gang, the nemesis of Pandaman. Both of them are ascended beings, lesser than gods but greater than anything natural in the One Piece world.
• Only in It for the Money: Rowan and Towa, a pair of bounty hunters and Devil Fruit users native to the Grand Line, who confront Jack at the end of Chapter 20 to tell him to stop his crusade because he's killing business for the rest of them. When Jack refuses on moral grounds, they resign themselves to killing him. With no concern whatsoever for the fact that they're in the middle of a city and surrounded by civilians. Jack kills Towa while Rowan gets blasted who-knows-where by Bartholomew Kuma.
• Power Incontinence: Whenever Jack unlocks superhuman abilities, there's a trial and error period before he gets the hang of them.
  • The Six Powers are measured from Level 1 to Level 50 and start with a failure rate of 80%, which only drops to 0% at Level 17 (5% less per level).
  • The first time he uses his [Seimei Kikan] powers, he literally gives himself a heart attack, and the second time, he increases his arm's size...without knowing how to reverse it.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In Chapter 34, an interesting instance: despite all the buildup, Jack isn't talking to Eustass Kid when he deals the coup de grâce, and doesn't even say the line aloud.
  Jack: Course correct this, you Panda-faced son of a bitch.
• Reality Warper: The Admin, a.k.a. Tomato Gang, as well as Pandaman. Only natural when he was able to give Jack the [Gamer] abilities in the first place.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Commander-in-Chief Kong. In Chapter 29, when a Cipher Pol agent gives Jack a snail to speak with Kong directly, the man starts his recruitment pitch by apologizing for the implication that he'd be branded rogue if he didn't accept the offer. Then he offers a captain's coat and letter speaking about what his position would be, tells him that he wants him in the Navy, and requests that he call back with a "yes" the following morning; it's explicitly insistent but not implicitly threatening.
• Red Baron: Jack Sparrow named after the giant bird he flies on. Jack himself is not amused by the unintentional Shout-Out.
  • Once Kiwi is shot dead and Jack kills the king of Yateron in revenge, his fame grows exponentially. Sadly, this is due to the World Government placing a bounty on his head and giving him a new epithet in the process: Monarch Killer.
• Reformed Bully: Barker was Kivuruk island's delinquent who used spray paint to try livening up the dullness of the town. After the Kid Pirates kill half of the village, he dedicates himself to training to protect against future threats, more than doubling his strength in less than three weeks.
• Retired Badass: Jack helps an old man named Mr. B with spreading flowers in a cemetery on Baterilla. It's only after he sees that the grave he's paying special attention to belongs to Portgas D. Rouge that he Observes the old man, and finds out his name is Braxton Berwynne, a retired Roger Pirate who's about triple Jack's level.
• Revenge: This is Jack's driving force for most of the story.
  • In retribution for the Kid Pirates burning down his home village, he goes after them. When he loses a life against them, he reluctantly retreats, channeling his vengefulness into training by starting a crusade against every other outlaw in the South Blue, planning to rematch the Kid Pirates afterward.
  • When his crusade finishes, he gets a bounty for killing a king who killed his bird, only to later learn that Pandaman, who is an ascended being comparable to the one who brought him to that world and gave him his powers, arranged it to ensure that he couldn't interfere in Luffy's journey. Revenge against that person becomes his new driving force; almost as soon as he finally avenges his village by killing Eustass Kid and most of his crew, he turns his attention towards destroying the path of Luffy's story by trying to save Ace and Whitebeard. He even lampshades how that endeavor is "half-baked, not-smart, colossally dumb, and just plain stupid" and is perfectly aware that he's only doing it out of spite. But he still does it.
  • He fails in this, because Pandaman arranged for Kizaru to intercept him and delay him enough that he couldn't save them. He kills Vasco Shot and Doc Q as a consolation prize and then, in preparation for the future, speaks directly to Sengoku to request a Warlord position, telling him of Vergo's treachery in the process. He accomplishes that and is immediately eager to get back to hunting.
• Riches to Rags: Jack accumulated a small fortune that would last him for about ten years through the first dozen chapters. It all gets wiped out when he pours it into repairing Kivuruk from Kid's attack; he doesn't mind the funds going to a worthy cause, but it does mean he's got more bounty hunting to do.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • After the Kid Pirates attack his village and kill half of the population, Jack goes after them for revenge. After he fails and loses his second life, he turns his attention to every other outlaw left in the South Blue.
  • Happens again when the king of Yateron kills Jack's companion Kiwi. Not even learning that he’s a Logia with poison powers stops Jack from exacting his revenge.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • At the end of Chapter 12, Jack had just finished his time with the Revolutionary Army and was about to head back to his home island. He ran into Mr. 6 on the way to the ship heading to his town and used Geppo to flee the area immediately, not wanting anything to do with Baroque Works, and took a ship heading for Baterilla instead.
  • This is Trafalgar Law's reaction in Chapter 34 when Jack shows up out of nowhere and easily kills Eustass Kid (a pirate worth a lot more than both Law and Jack), casually withstanding a point-blank blast of Conqueror's Haki in the process.
• Shout-Out:
  • In Chapter 4, he explicitly references Tubalcain Alhambra, a.k.a. The Dandyman as the inspiration for his outfit.
  • Looking over the personalities of the South Blue Super Sparrows in Chapter 13, he sees several terms that are blatant references to Pokémon Natures: Quirky, Brave, Timid, Jolly, Rash, Docile...
  • In Chapter 18...well, it was inevitable. His name is Jack. He's riding on a South Blue Super Sparrow. So rumors start calling him Jack Sparrow. Which he tries to undo as soon as he hears about it. To no avail.
  • In Chapter 22, he gets the perk "Spark of Celerity." Once every six hours, for exactly 40 seconds, he can multiply his DEX by 3.15 by harnessing a fragment of the Speed Force. The Omniverse is mentioned.
  • In Chapter 39, Jack compares the new sword he acquires, Fragarach, to the Sword of Triton from Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
• Sudden Game Interface: A key premise of the story.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: The main reason why Jack follows the path of learning the ancient language when it pops up despite having other options that will provide greater immediate benefits is because he’s already started the process. Jack recognizes that he has a serious problem with this trope, but he just doesn't quite have the willpower to resist it.
• Super-Empowering: At the end of Chapter 7, a defeated Jorgen gets a second wind when he eats the Devil Fruit he had been gifted: the Ape-Ape Fruit, Model: Orangutan.
• Tempting Fate: At the end of Chapter 18, we have this exchange:
  Mori: Jack.. you need to stop treating this so flippantly. I get that you're strong. I'll admit you've exceeded just about..every..expectation I've had but this is serious work. Getting casual will get you killed.
  Jack: (grinning) Mori I just met a giant monster actually from the Grand Line. Two minutes later I had it running away with its metaphorical tail tucked between its metaphorical legs. What's the worst that could happen?
  • The comments call him out on it, but the author says that the universe's retribution will be slow. Like the slow realization that just as he was afraid of, the World Government is turning decidedly more hostile attention on him due to his now-documented usage of the Six Powers.
• That Wasn't a Request: Jack's quest to net a billion in bounties grabs the attention of other bounty hunters mad at him "over-hunting," and two track him down to request that he scale it back. When Jack refuses, they immediately try to kill him. Jack kills one of them, and Kuma sends the other to parts unknown.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Chevill, a pirate worth 15 million, has this reaction after he's painfully blindsided and recognizes the one responsible as Jack, well aware that he's about to die.
• Time Skip: Five weeks pass between Chapter 28 and Chapter 29.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: The death of Kiwi leads to Jack awakening first Observation and then Armament Haki in his need to take revenge.
• Truce Zone: Nobody is to start any sort of hostilities in the vicinity of Briss Kingdom during one of the celebrations, not even against pirates. A Lieutenant attempted to use the carnival to catch a pirate crew three years ago, and while the operation was nearly flawless, the King was livid and ended the Lieutenant's career.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Jack isn't unskilled, per se, but in matters of brawling, he's nothing special; he relies on his ludicrous STR stat to make up the difference. Chapter 28 shows Captain Hornigold's right hand, Nash, actually gain the upper hand against him for a bit.
• Unstoppable Rage: Jack completely loses his mind when Kiwi is killed, and only calms after he's murdered the one responsible.
• We Will Meet Again: Jack loses one of his lives to Eustass Kid, but with his dying words, he vows this:
  Jack: I want you to know Eustass... That you will never be King. And that someday...someday I'm going to be the man who kills you. Even though you won't remember this...I want you to know that I swear it on my soul.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: A rather justified reaction from Jack at the end of Chapter 34, when PX-3 shows up, and his [Gamer] abilities show the latter as having no Level.

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