Rocks D. Xebec

Standing tall and powerfully built, Rocks kept fairly ordinary proportions next to some of his enormous crewmates. His blue-and-white hair stuck up in wild spikes, with one slim lock draped across the right of his face and a tattoo shaped like a purple bolt of lightning running beside his left eye. His features closely echoed those of his son Teach, including the bulbous nose, full-lipped mouth, and chin stubble grown into a beard, though Rocks kept a complete set of teeth. He wore a black feathered coat over his bare chest, cuffs of red at the wrists, black trousers bearing a gold chain down one side, a fur-trimmed red belt, gold earrings, and black boots.

Once Imu turned him into a demon, Rocks swelled far larger, looming over subordinates like Newgate and Linlin, gaining protruding fangs and blazing eyes while lacking the horns common to other demons. His coat seemed to spread into great bat-like wings shaped by flame across his shoulders.

Driven by boundless ambition, Rocks longed above all to rule as King of the World, and his greed knew no limit, leaving him brutal and destructive with no regard for who or what he wrecked. For all his violent selfishness, he stayed honest about his desires and followed a personal code of honor. Whitebeard recalled him as careless and easily sidetracked, often wandering off out of boredom or amusement, and Rocks himself claimed he was not a man who would accept a refusal.

Beneath the cruelty lay genuine loyalty toward those he respected, a contrast with his son. He angrily defended his friend Harald, demanded Imu spare the giants of Elbaph, and as a father and husband sent his wife Eris and their child to God Valley for safety, openly valuing their survival above his own life. When Imu forced him into a demon and made him believe he had slain his own family, he pleaded with the pair to kill him rather than submit. Curious and anarchic, he even infiltrated Mary Geoise, learned of Imu's existence, and proclaimed himself a worshiper of his ancestor Davy D. Jones.

Hailing from God Valley within the West Blue, he came from the hunted Davy Family and adopted the surname Rocks to bury his lineage. Fifty-six years before the present, he stormed Mary Geoise during the Levely, struck down a Marine admiral, seized five kings as hostages, and pushed into the Room of Flowers to come face to face with Imu. Unmoved, Imu let him leave, and Rocks departed with a vow to return one day. Fleeing the castle, he clashed with King Harald of Elbaph in a violent Supreme King Haki exchange, after which the two traded names. Over the following years Rocks built his infamy, using Davy Back Fights to recruit powerful pirates, and after seizing the outlaw haven of Hachinosu the Rocks Pirates formally came together with future Emperors Whitebeard, Big Mom, and Kaidou among the ranks.

His reign ended at the God Valley Incident. Having married Eris and fathered Teach in secret, Rocks raced to the island chiefly to protect them when the World Nobles staged their Native Hunting Competition there. The Roger Pirates, Garp's Marines, and the Knights of God rose against him, and after sending Eris and Teach to flee, Rocks overpowered Figarland Garling before confronting Imu directly. Briefly aided by Kaidou, Linlin, Newgate, Garp, and Roger in striking at Imu, Rocks was impaled and subjected to Domi Reversi, which transformed him into a demon bound to Imu's will. Believing his family dead after Kuma whisked them away, Rocks used the Voice of All Things to plead for Roger and Garp to end him. The two battled him for hours and finally broke through by pouring the peak of their Supreme King Haki into one combined strike, reverting him to himself just before Garling ran him through. God Valley then collapsed into the sea, and the World Government credited Garp alone for the victory, celebrating him as the Marines' great Hero.