Ikaros Much

Being a squid-type fish-man, Ikaros reaches an enormous height that dwarfs the rest of his crew, and he sports eight arms. Each pair lines up with one of the four pairs of pectorals shown across his chest. White skin, a bulbous nose, and a full beard with a mustache round out his face. Swirling tattoos mark both his uppermost forearms and his belly, while the crew's own Jolly Roger sits inked across his right shoulder. Concealed under his helmet, his hair forms a spear shape he saves for a final-resort attack. The helmet itself is round with goggles and a dark band across the top, and a large hoop earring hangs from each ear. He goes shirtless, with suspender-style straps running from his shoulders to his waist, fastened to rings that hold a light apron-like cloth; dark trousers stop below his knees, and he wears sandals. Bolted bands sit on each wrist, and every hand grips a long, tasseled spear. As a youth he had no beard, fuller lips, and rounder eyes, wore a fancier crested helmet without goggles paired with a plain vest, and carried only one polearm rather than eight. After the Energy Steroids ravaged him, his body turned old, frail, and very thin, his hair greyed and grew to his neck, and his beard lengthened further.

He tacks the word "Much" onto the ends of his sentences. Echoing Hody Jones and his fellow officers, he embraces Arlong's worldview, loathes humans, and rejects Queen Otohime's message, going so far as to bully Fish-Man Island's residents into trampling her fumi-e. Concern for allies barely registers with him; he speared one of his own subordinates without hesitation for using fire nearby, though he did worry over Hody during the captain's steroid overdose, suggesting his disregard applies chiefly to low-ranking crew. A childhood trauma left a lasting mark: after his giant squid companion Daidalos perished from dehydration near the sun, Ikaros developed a crippling fear of fire and instinctively folds backward when flames appear, evoking a dried squid. The same reflex triggers at other shocks, such as Nami suddenly dropping her invisibility, and he bristles whenever dried squid is brought up, growing annoyed when Luffy kept calling the kraken Surume.

His officer rank grants him authority over the crew's lower ranks, and his willpower runs deep enough that Luffy's Supreme King Haki left him untouched. Born a fish-man, his baseline strength runs roughly ten times that of a human and doubles again underwater, and his officer status plus his massive squid build likely push him beyond even that baseline; islanders treated his species alone as something to fear. His many arms let him batter foes with rapid, repeated blows, and as a squid he can produce and shape ink, forming ink doubles to deceive enemies. His signature moves include Ikaros no Tsubasa, a barrage of spit aimed at an opponent, and Ikasumi Bunshin, the squid-ink clone. His hidden trump is Usubon no Yari, performed by removing his helmet to expose the spear-shaped hair, which glows and can reportedly pierce undersea mountains, though it never connected with Franky. He fights with eight spears called the Surume Ika no Yari, each tipped with a dried squid that drains the moisture from whatever it stabs; the weapon proves useless on foes carrying no bodily moisture, the skeletal Brook and the armored Franky among them. Like the whole crew, he downed Energy Steroids to overpower the three princes, each pill doubling his strength while cutting into his lifespan, which is what later left him aged and powerless.