Randolph (Non-Canon)

A scar runs across Randolph's chest, a souvenir of his Marine years. When he is not performing, he dresses in a yellow shirt under a black waistcoat, blue trousers, and black shoes, with bandages wound around his ankles, and his gray hair stands up wildly without the hat he wears on stage.

For his play he puts on the costume of a mustached Marine officer, a uniform styled quite differently from the ones real Marines actually wear.

For much of his life Randolph nursed a fierce loathing of pirates, which the Straw Hats gradually overturned by showing him that some pirates could be good. He is principled and dutiful besides, having once reported a corrupt fellow Marine despite the man being one of his own.

Randolph once toured with his family as part of an acting troupe until pirates attacked them and killed his loved ones. He enlisted in the Marines to hunt down those responsible, and after achieving that goal he returned to the stage, traveling the Grand Line to comfort audiences who had likewise lost family to pirates. His service left him with a chest wound that would eventually rob him of his voice as he aged.

Planning one last show before retirement, he was left short-handed when three troupe members quit, and the Straw Hats stepped in to fill the roles. Midway through, Randolph learned Luffy was a pirate and tried to pick a fight, but the brawl was postponed. He was then arrested by his former subordinate, Commander Governor, who sought to frame him over a past grievance. Luffy rescued him and the crew held the Marines back so he could finish the performance. Moved that pirates had come to his aid, Randolph rewrote the play's closing lines, and as the Straw Hats departed he had come to regard them as friends.