Heart Pirates

Where most bands from Law's home sea fly a skull with crossed bones, this one chose a grinning face instead. Six points spread outward from that mark, leaving it much like the Donquixote emblem yet free of the cancel stroke Doflamingo lays across his. Read as a quiet tribute to Rosinante, who once asked Law to hold onto an image of him smiling, the grin stands in pointed contrast to a brother's cruelty.

The roster runs to twenty-one. Setting aside the captain and navigator, each crewmate wears a lilac boiler suit bearing the badge above the left breast. Freed from bondage, Jean Bart began in nothing more than a plain black shirt, and only after the two-year gap did he switch to the shared uniform. Padding the on-screen tally are a handful of faces treated as non-canon, among them the recurring gag character Pandaman.

Merely arriving at Sabaody proved their worth, and signing on the famed Jean Bart honed it further. Gathered at the Human Auctioning House, every member weathered a surge of Rayleigh's Conqueror's Haki, though Shachi confessed he nearly fainted. Like their fellow Supernovas, they escaped Kizaru and reached Marineford as the great war raged. Since Law would later occupy a Warlord seat, the crew's fame and force are assumed to have grown alongside his.

Icy seas suit them. Raised beside chilly northern harbors, they thrive in fights waged on and below the surface, an advantage that lets them hold the line against heavyweights such as the Blackbeard Pirates in open water. Their teamwork is tight, with attacks and guards launched in concert. The submarine they call home carries a complete operating theater, matching Law's gift as a surgeon. Toppling Kaidou and Big Mom in Wano raised their standing still higher, yet an Emperor's crew outmatched them at Winner Island, where Blackbeard's forces broke them despite grave wounds dealt in return, Bepo shielding Law as they slipped away.

Law hoists this banner after a bitter youth. From the age of ten he rode with Doflamingo on raids while Amber Lead Syndrome gnawed at him, staying on until he turned thirteen and departing once Corazon was slain. He fled to Swallow Island, sheltered with the scientist Wolf, then met a bullied mink named Bepo whose tormentors were two young toughs. After Shachi and Penguin turned on him and lost, all three attached themselves to Law, and that knot of friends grew into the crew that fought through Paradise to Sabaody.

As navigator, the polar-bear mink Bepo is Law's oldest ally, and Shachi and Penguin fill out the founding three. Jean Bart, a liberated slave and onetime captain, is the sole member outside the crew's cold-weather naming pattern; Ikkaku, Uni, Clione, and Hakugan take their names from a narwhal, a sea urchin, a sea slug, and a snow goose. Named the Polar Tang, the sub served as both refuge and ride, once outracing Aokiji's Ice Age and dodging Kizaru's light before Blackbeard's crew wrecked it. Of that last rout, only Law and Bepo are confirmed survivors.