Bellamy

Towering and heavily built with sun-darkened skin, Bellamy keeps his blond hair short and messy. A scar marks his right brow, and eye-shaped tattoos decorate his arms. During the Jaya period he wore white pants, a marked green sash, and a pink sleeveless top beneath a captain's coat that tended to slip off whenever he sprang into the air. A wide grin and a taunting tongue completed the look.

The timeskip changed him drastically. He grew far larger, took to wearing black sunglasses, and gained a fresh scar slashing each cheek. Ditching the captain's coat, he switched to an open short-sleeved shirt bearing his crossed-out jolly roger on the back and Doflamingo's emblem inked across his chest.

In his early days Bellamy was a swaggering, vicious braggart who only picked fights he was sure to win. Convinced that bounty equaled strength, he and his crew talked themselves into believing he was destined for greatness, crowning him their "Big-Time Rookie." He embraced Doflamingo's idea of a coming "New Age" and mocked anyone, Luffy included, who chased dreams like One Piece. His epithet came from his hyena-like habit of robbing weaker pirates and laughing at their ruin.

His single defeat at Luffy's fist cracked that arrogance, and surviving Sky Island reshaped him entirely. The post-timeskip Bellamy is cold, quiet, and far more perceptive, no longer mocking others and even pledging never to laugh at Luffy again. He developed a streak of honor, disgusted by bribery and reluctant to obey orders to kill the man who cheered him on.

Above all he clung to a fierce, doomed loyalty to Doflamingo, the man he had worshipped since boyhood. Even after being beaten, betrayed, and puppeteered into attacking Luffy, he refused to renounce his idol, insisting that losers still keep their own principles. Only once Doflamingo fell did he let that devotion go, choosing friendship with Luffy and a quiet new life instead.

Born in the peaceful North Blue town of Notice, Bellamy grew bored of home, formed his crew with Sarquiss, and won Doflamingo's permission to fly the Donquixote symbol, swearing he would never lose. A rapid rise on the Grand Line earned him a 55,000,000 bounty and his rookie reputation. On Jaya he seized Mock Town's hotel and brutalized rivals, then staged a "test" on the visiting Straw Hats. When Luffy and Zoro simply walked away rather than fight over insults, Bellamy and his men beat them anyway. After his crew robbed Mont Blanc Cricket's gold, an enraged Luffy returned and flattened Bellamy with a single punch, exposing how far below true rookies he really was.

Word of that humiliation reached Doflamingo, who descended on Mock Town and used his strings to force Bellamy and Sarquiss into a death match before discarding the crew. Bellamy somehow survived, retrieved a gold pillar from Skypiea, and presented it to win a second chance among the Donquixote Pirates, attacking nations that crossed Dressrosa along the way. His bounty climbed to 195,000,000.

At the Corrida Colosseum he competed for an officer post, instantly recognizing the disguised Luffy and making peace with him. He tore through opponents like Tank Lepanto, Abdullah, and Jeet before Elizabello II's King Punch knocked him out. Ordered afterward to assassinate Luffy, he hesitated, then learned from Dellinger that Doflamingo had marked him for death too. Bartolomeo's barrier saved his life. During the Birdcage, a beaten Bellamy confronted Doflamingo, was used as a human shield and puppet against Luffy, and even when freed of the strings kept attacking on his own principles. Luffy finally downed him with a Haki-hardened punch, and Bellamy silently thanked him for calling him a friend.

His strength rested heavily on the Bane Bane no Mi, which turns his body and limbs into springs for explosive jumps and punches, and after the timeskip he wielded Armament and Observation Haki alongside daggers and his raw power. Once Doflamingo was beaten, Bellamy declined to join the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, kept a piece of Luffy's Vivre Card, and retired to apprentice as a dyer.