Davy D. Jones

No portrait of Jones survives within the story itself. The closest visual is a casual sketch that Eiichiro Oda produced for a fan question in one of his SBS columns, drawn purely as an aside rather than as an official character design. Inside the narrative he exists only as a name, a reputation, and a body of seafaring legend rather than a figure anyone living has actually laid eyes on.

What the tales preserve of Jones paints him as a man devoured by avarice. His hunger for plunder was so extreme that, by the popular account, a demon singled him out and sentenced him to spend eternity gathering treasure at the bottom of the ocean, riches he could never spend. That reputation for obsessive greed became the spiritual core of the contest later named in his honor, where competitors pay him tribute and swear to honor its rules or risk being dragged down to his Locker.

Jones is said to have sailed more than eight centuries before the current age, and he stands as the founding ancestor of the Davy Family, a branch of the Clan of D. His descendants drew the lasting hatred of the World Government and were hunted across those eight hundred years, forcing the family into hiding under assumed surnames. The hidden 'D.' in his own name slipped out of recorded history as a result. A number of his bloodline eventually settled on God Valley in the West Blue, until the government discovered them there thirty-eight years before the present and marked them for the World Nobles' Native Hunting Competition.

His most fervent admirer was a distant grandchild, Rocks D. Xebec, who worshipped Jones openly and leaned on the Davy Back Fight to assemble the crew that became the Rocks Pirates. Xebec proclaimed that Jones had once been the King of the World before Nerona Imu and the World Government took that throne, a claim Imu furiously rejected. Jones' ultimate fate is unrecorded, leaving only the legend that the devil bound him to the sea floor, which is why the seabed is widely called Davy Jones' Locker and why anything lost to the waves is considered to fall into his keeping.