Hody Jones

Built like the predator he is, Hody starts out heavyset around a belly that bears the crew's emblem on one side and a long scar on the other. Thick muscle lines his arms and legs, his glaring eyes carry oddly long lashes, and rows of sharp triangular teeth crowd a mouth beneath a stubby nose. Curly black hair drapes across his face, while dense tattoos cover the left arm: the flag of Arlong's old crew rests just above the wrist, with looping circular shapes climbing toward twin skulls near the shoulder. A duel with Roronoa Zoro adds a fresh diagonal gash running down his chest.

His everyday wardrobe combines a pink newsboy cap marked by a tiny trident, a huge fur scarf taken from a white dog-like beast, an open red shirt, blue shorts, a pink sash at the waist, and sandals. Once he begins abusing Energy Steroids, his body changes drastically. The paunch disappears, veined muscle bulges until he matches his bulkiest officers, and his hair pales toward white. With his fury and the drug both climbing, the whites of his eyes turn red and his jaw swells, his shirt tearing as he grows to the princes' scale. After his capture the steroids extract their toll, shrinking him into a stooped, balding old man with a mustache, a cane, and dull square teeth where fangs once sat.

Even among his own kind, Hody is an extremist, arguably the most rabid believer in fish-man supremacy alive. Proud and savage, he needs no genuine reason to despise humans, attacking them mercilessly and treating them as throwaway tools rather than granting the grudging tolerance Arlong extended to those who paid him tribute. He has persuaded himself that heaven picked fish-men to render judgment on mankind and armed him to enforce it, yet his hatred is empty at its core, planted in childhood by Arlong's preaching and by news tales that turned Fisher Tiger into a legend, all without a single personal injury from any human.

Anyone who hopes for coexistence draws his special venom, Queen Otohime most of all, and he worked relentlessly to bury her dream. Loyalty holds no value for him; he has shielded himself with his own officers and was willing to sacrifice a hundred thousand followers for the sake of vengeance. So fearless he borders on insane, he gulps Energy Steroids by the fistful while fully aware they cut his lifespan short, and his overwhelming arrogance blinds him to the might of Luffy, the World Government, and the Emperors. He still proved sly enough to frame a human for Otohime's murder and to court Vander Decken IX as a partner of convenience. His laughter rings out as a cutting Jahahahaha.

As a boy Hody idolized Arlong and trained to become his second, but after Luffy crushed the Arlong Pirates he discarded the man and kept only the doctrine, branding Arlong's tactics primitive. He signed on with the Neptune Army solely to learn how to fight, won praise as a gifted soldier, then betrayed the realm without a flicker of guilt. From the shadows he shot Queen Otohime dead, framed a human smuggler for it, and pilfered Energy Steroids from the royal stores. Convinced that Princess Shirahoshi's power to summon Sea Kings made her dangerous, he allied with Vander Decken IX to have her slain, then launched a coup against the Ryugu Kingdom, drowning the palace, capturing Neptune, and preparing to behead him until Luffy stepped in.

His raw shark strength dwarfed that of an ordinary fish-man and doubled underwater, and through Fish-Man Karate he could turn water droplets into killing projectiles, though both Luffy and Jinbe judged his skill crude. He regrew lost teeth instantly and armed himself with tridents plus a fin blade he called Kirisame. Despite all that, Zoro cut him down badly beneath the waves and Luffy overpowered him everywhere, pushing him to swallow steroid after steroid until he could bite through Luffy's Armament Haki. His last desperate move was to stab Decken so the colossal ship Noah would fall and crush the island, but Luffy defeated him and turned him over to the Neptune Army. The drug then aged him into a feeble old man, and even broken he kept howling for a rematch with Luffy, drawing only Neptune's pity.