Gyro Pirates

The crew answers to Gyro, a South Blue captain whose Crab-Hand epithet shapes everything about them. On their banner sits a crimson skull, four legs trailing off each side and two pincers hanging at the lower corners. That same crustacean styling defines their vessel, which mounts an enormous scarlet crab as its figurehead. One pincer thrusts from either flank, four crab legs run down each hull, and a plated steel bottom sits beneath twin masts. The lower forward sail flies their mark, with GYRO stitched above it, and before slipping under the waves the ship received a resin coating for the dive toward the underwater kingdom.

By the numbers, these were capable sailors. Since only about three ships in ten complete the plunge to the seafloor city, simply reaching it set them apart from most crews that try. Their captain's wanted price stood at 73,000,000 Berries, and years spent surviving Paradise, including earlier scraps against fish-men, gave him hard-won judgment. When he chose flight over a needless brawl, it reflected shrewd command rather than fear, and that instinct kept his people breathing more than once. None of it withstood Hody Jones. He wrecked the entire group using nothing but his jaws, and no failing on their side explained it. Four Energy Steroids swelled his power, his fish-man body already doubled a human's, and the aquatic setting multiplied his output tenfold, stacking up to roughly 320 times his ordinary baseline.

Gyro stands as the crew's one figure of note, a veteran who had fought fish-men before and guided his people from South Blue clear through Paradise and past a slumbering kraken toward the ocean floor. When the New Fish-Man Pirates cornered them and demanded they either serve as enslaved followers or watch their ship sink, he faked compliance while quietly refusing. The rest of the hands go unnamed; one is remembered mainly for hoping to see the Mermaid Cafe, a wish Gyro dismissed by placing their survival above any outing. During Hody's rampage the captain's left arm was severed, and the fish-man spared the wounded on purpose, bubbling their ruined ship back up so the survivors would broadcast, to everyone above, the terror those New Fish-Man Pirates had inflicted.