Law
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| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Trafalgar D. Water Law 26 284 |
| Gender | Male |
| Affiliation | Heart Pirates 85 301 |
| Occupation/Role | Pirate captain and doctor 85 306 336 |
| Status | Alive after the fall of the Throne 341 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 3 |
Background
Law came from Flevance, where he suffered from Amber Lead Syndrome as a child. His parents sought medical evacuation for the town’s children before it was sealed off. The World Government had known for a century that the syndrome was not contagious, but the children were denied evacuation despite available space 85 290 291.
Donquixote Rosinante, operating undercover as Corazon, searched for a doctor willing to treat Law. After hospitals repeatedly turned them away, Rosinante stole the Op-Op Fruit from a World Government deal and gave it to him. Rosinante hid Law in a treasure chest and kept his cries silent while Doflamingo shot him 85.
Appearance
Law wears a spotted hat and has a beard and tattoos, including letters on his hand 302.
Personality
Law is guarded and direct, particularly when dealing with people he distrusts. He challenged Sengoku over the Navy’s decision to make Doflamingo a Shichibukai despite knowing he had killed Rosinante 285.
As a doctor, Law refuses to treat official records as proof that a patient is dead. He rejected a demand to confirm the deaths of sixteen unexamined patients, even though doing so cost him his authority over the White Swallow 316. He also insists that patients be recognized as people rather than property or samples 306 311.
Abilities & Skills
Op-Op Fruit and ROOM
Law uses the Op-Op Fruit to create a ROOM, within which he can manipulate objects and perform medical procedures 85 285 321.
- Transfer and exchange: He transferred a fake Marine and a Den Den Mushi onto Drake’s boat, and later swapped a lift’s control lever with a hospital bed 290 329.
- Examination and surgery: He examined the structure of a biometric lock and, with assistance, exchanged tissue to remove a stone connected to Dragon’s heart 309 321.
- Shambles: He redirected three beams aimed at Lami, but the brief use left him bleeding from his nose and ears 334.
- Limits: Distance prevented him from directly transferring Rosinante’s coat to the Polar Tang, while a seastone ring stopped his ROOM at a landing craft’s hull 285 321.
Swordsmanship
Law fights with Kikoku. He cut through Doflamingo’s strings at the old port and later used the blade with ROOM to sever Imu’s last Life Line 329 341.
Silent Sanctuary
The Sky Screen granted Law one use of Silent Sanctuary as a reward connected to Rosinante. While fighting to fulfill Rosinante’s final wish, it can nullify one fatal ranged attack and conceal Law’s presence for three minutes 85.
Equipment and Items
- Kikoku — Law’s sword, used in combat and alongside his Op-Op Fruit ability 85 341.
- Rosinante’s coat — A memento containing a record of Rosinante’s final moments. Law arranged for it to be sent to the Polar Tang 285.
- Polar Tang — Law’s submarine, used by his crew during the search for Lami and the operation at the old port 285 290 329.
Relationships
- Trafalgar Lami — Law’s sister. Believed lost after Flevance’s destruction, she was found alive in an observation case and reunited with him 292 302.
- Donquixote Rosinante / Corazon — The undercover Marine who saved Law, gave him the Op-Op Fruit and died protecting him. Law later chose to hear the full record of his death 85 285.
- Donquixote Doflamingo — Rosinante’s killer and Law’s adversary. He secretly paid to maintain Lami’s observation bed and later tried to use her against Law 85 298.
- Bepo — Law’s subordinate aboard the Polar Tang, who supported him as the Sky Screen revealed Rosinante’s death 85.
- X Drake — An ally who, like Law, was saved by Rosinante on Minion Island. Drake helped investigate Flevance and seize the old lift beneath the Holy Land 288 312 329.
- Chopper — A fellow doctor who treated Lami and worked with Law on the patients connected to the White Swallow 302 321 336.
- Trafalgar Miiru — Law’s maternal uncle and the White Swallow’s captain. Law questioned him about the transfer of Flevance’s children 304.
- Wa Tie'er / Trafalgar D. Water — Law’s paternal uncle and a God Valley survivor whose medical records had been falsified 311 319.
- Monkey D. Luffy — Law fought alongside him against Imu; their combined attack broke the Throne’s final Life Line 341.
Story Role
Corazon’s coat and Flevance
After the Sky Screen exposed Rosinante’s death, Law claimed his coat and chose to listen to its record in full. A note inside led to the discovery that Rosinante had also helped Drake escape Minion Island 85 285 288.
Investigating Flevance’s evacuation records, Law found that Lami’s death status was incomplete. Her medical case had been kept cold and its occupant repeatedly used for blood and bone-marrow extraction. Law refused a Transfer Station handover that would have made him responsible for Flevance’s debts and authority over her death 291 292 294.
Chopper gradually warmed Lami, and she eventually woke and recognized Law. When the Medical Department tried to seize her observation bed, Law carried her off it after she chose Kuma as her recipient 298 302 307.
God Valley and the Throne
Law traced his parents’ history through the White Swallow and its hidden wards. He found Wa Tie'er, refused to confirm the death of another patient and awakened that patient as Monkey D. Dragon 309 312. He later submitted a document listing sixteen unexamined patients as missing rather than dead, causing the handover system to revoke his authority 316.
With Chopper, Vegapunk and Lami assisting, Law removed a stone from Dragon’s heart that contained part of the route to God Valley. The Five Elders then ordered a worldwide manhunt for Law 321.
At the old port, Law, Drake and Kuma seized the lift beneath the Holy Land from Doflamingo. Law and Lami later reached the tower, where Zero handed over the patients’ records and a stabilizer for Lami 329 332.
Fall of the Throne
Law authenticated a Trafalgar family record revealing that deleted patients’ remaining lifespans flowed into the Empty Throne. Reverse Surgery could separate those lifespans, but its operator would lose an equal number of years 336.
Law decided to perform the operation and confronted Imu. In the final battle, Lami used Dragon’s heartbeat to help Law find the rhythm needed to cut the membrane around Imu’s heart. Law severed the last Life Line as Luffy struck Imu, breaking the Throne. Law survived, although his heartbeat was irregular afterward 338 341.
Notable Quotes
“She doesn’t belong to you.” 306
“Being hurt by your father doesn’t mean you have to deny his existence to prove you’re innocent.” 289
“A doctor is only responsible for saving people.” 339