Before his arrest, Ian held the post of raiding captain among the Wetton Pirates. A non-canon figure tied to the Ruluka Island Arc, he was caught inside the Rainbow Mist and reappeared fifty years on, the first character in the series displaced ahead through time.
Tall and built with a wide chest, Ian gathers his long brown hair into a ponytail behind him. He covers his torso in a pale blue shirt whose collar is sewn with brown thread, and a bandana striped in blue and white crowns his head.
Ian gives the impression of being well versed in such matters, identifying the Rainbow Mist almost as soon as it came into view. Knowing what it was did nothing to calm him, however, and like so many of his fellow pirates he found the phenomenon frightening.
Some five decades before the present day, Ian backed Wetton in the chase after the Pumpkin Pirates, who had tried to steal the Tarielishin. Out at sea he was first to recognize the Rainbow Mist, and his dread of it turned out to be justified. The mist swallowed him along with the Pumpkin Pirates and held him for the next fifty years, during which the children took him prisoner aboard a derelict Marine ship. A sword hung at his side, though how well he handled it was never confirmed.
He won his freedom by fooling Rongo and dragging the boy off as a hostage. As the surviving Pumpkin Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates rushed to save Rongo, Ian hurled the child into the water, exploited the distraction to slip free, and made for Ruluka. Reaching it, he confused Lake with Wetton and embarrassed Flip by exposing that the man had wet himself often as a child. In the end the Pumpkin Pirates, now serving as Marines, returned and placed him under arrest together with Wetton, Flip, and Lake.

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Ian is a non-canon character from the anime-only Ruluka Island Arc, serving as the raiding captain of the Wetton Pirates. He is notable as the first character in One Piece displaced fifty years forward in time through the Rainbow Mist.
The Rainbow Mist is a mysterious phenomenon that swallowed Ian and the Pumpkin Pirates off Ruluka Island, holding them for fifty years and making Ian the first character in the series displaced forward through time.
Ian won his freedom by deceiving Rongo, a boy of the Pumpkin Pirates who had taken him prisoner, then hurled Rongo into the water to slip away amid the rescue attempt by the Straw Hats and Pumpkin Pirates.
Ian is ultimately arrested alongside Wetton, Flip, and Lake after the Pumpkin Pirates, now serving as Marines, track him down at Ruluka.
Ian served as the raiding captain of the Wetton Pirates, backing his leader Wetton in the pursuit of the Pumpkin Pirates over the stolen Tarielishin.
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