Three-Eye Tribe

The defining trait sits dead center on the brow: a so-called third eye placed level with the ordinary pair, giving members a row of three. Beyond that extra feature they look fully human, at least in the case of mixed-blood members, and whether any deeper biological differences separate them from regular people has never been confirmed. So far no purebred has been shown at all, with Charlotte Pudding standing as the lone known carrier of the bloodline, born half human and half Three-Eye. Vegapunk has hinted that only a handful of the line still survive.

The article frames the tribe through the prejudice they endure rather than a shared temperament. Pudding grew up enduring cruelty over her central eye from grown-ups and other children alike, even from her own mother and across the mixed population of Totto Land, because many found the eye repulsive. She learned to keep it covered and braced for Sanji to recoil the same way, so when he instead called it beautiful she broke down in happy tears. The mistreatment shows how an outsider feature can shape a person's entire sense of self.

The forehead eye can reach what the tribe calls a true awakening, and reportedly that state lets the bearer perceive the Voice of All Things. That perception is the key to deciphering Poneglyph script, which makes the tribe extremely valuable to anyone chasing the secrets those stones guard, on top of every other use the ability grants. How the awakening is actually triggered remains a mystery. Pudding suspects that half-bloods such as herself, while still possessing the eye, may never reach that awakening at all.

Notable members are scarce, since Pudding is the only confirmed person carrying the lineage. The race is also one of just four land-based peoples left off the slave price list, alongside the Lunarians, Buccaneers, and Kinokobito, a sign of just how rare they have become.