Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background / History
- 3.1Service to the Tartarus Family
- 3.2Departure and Training
- 3.3Kent Island
- 3.4Rocks Pirates and Family
- 3.5War and Later Service
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Gluttonous Beast Fruit
- 6.2Devouring and Physical Reinforcement
- 6.3Recovery and Endurance
- 6.4Taotie Space
- 6.5Poisonous Mist and Baleful Aura
- 6.6Haki and Close-Quarters Combat
- 7Equipment / Weapons / Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Trivia
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Titan (提坦); also known as Taotie and Taotie Titan 100 1231. |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Fourteen when assigned to accompany Hades; two years older than him 4. |
| Affiliation | Kronos Kingdom; Tartarus Royal Family; formerly the Rocks Pirates and the Pluton Pirates 4 6 100 144. |
| Occupation/Role | Hades’s bodyguard, enforcer, and traveling companion; later a leading fighter for the Pluton Pirates and a safeguard of the Kronos Kingdom 4 19 45 285 339. |
| Devil Fruit | Gluttonous Beast Fruit, a Mythical Zoan 4. |
| Height | Nearly five meters at fourteen; over six meters after training on Rusukaina; over seven meters at seventeen 4 39 100. |
| Status | Alive; a leading protector of Hades and the Kronos Kingdom 1121 1232 1237. |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1, “Tartarus Hades” 1. |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Gluttonous Beast Fruit acquired | 4 | Accidentally ate the Mythical Zoan at six. Its devouring abilities complemented his innate strength, physique, and enormous appetite. |
| Armament Haki awakened | 34 | Already awakened a year before his training with Shakky and Nyx; the awakening itself is reported retrospectively. |
| Metal-reinforced physique | 30 | Consuming large quantities of precious metals made his body impervious to ordinary blades and bullets. At this point, he was tougher and stronger than Hades. |
| Observation Haki awakened | 34 | Nyx’s sudden shadow attacks supplied the danger needed to trigger it. Initially worked only sporadically. |
| Growth through beast consumption | 36 | Fighting and devouring Rusukaina’s beasts replenished his energy, strengthened his skeleton, and intensified his savage aura. |
| Able to briefly withstand Beast Kings | 37 | Repeated challenges under Nyx’s direction improved his Armament Haki, resilience, and full-beast-form combat sufficiently to hold his ground temporarily. |
| Beast King victories | 39 | Defeated the island’s Beast Kings before Hades did. Overpowered the fire-wielding lion king without using poisonous mist or his mastered baleful aura. |
| Vice Admiral defeats | 57 58 | At sixteen, killed Rear Admiral López and Vice Admirals Henry and Casillas during the Kent Island battle. Used Heavenly Capital: Tiger Hunt to catch Henry. |
| “Taotie” reputation | 100 | By seventeen, his exposed powers had earned him the epithet “Taotie,” a bounty approaching 400 million Beli, and a reputation that surpassed Hades’s. |
| War-era strength and conditioning | 124 144 | By nineteen, progressed to dragging a battleship while wearing Seastone handcuffs. At twenty-one, Storm Dragon judged Titan stronger than himself and feared being worn down by his defense and stamina. |
| Era’s “Strongest Creature” | 285 | Regarded as one of the Pluton Pirates’ strongest fighters and, at the time, the seas’ Strongest Creature, with vast Haki reserves and the endurance to wear down opponents in direct combat. |
Background / History
Service to the Tartarus Family
Titan was born with monstrous strength, an unusually powerful physique, and an appetite large enough to consume food for a hundred people at each meal. He and Zoro were regarded as the finest talents of their generation and prospective pillars of the Kronos Kingdom 4.
His potential made him a possible future commander-in-chief and leader of Hell, Underworld Prison’s military branch. That path was abandoned because his personality did not suit work in the shadows, and Hell already had a promising successor. Instead, the royal family assigned him directly to Hades to cultivate his loyalty 4.
Titan was already serving Hades during Nyx’s last period in the kingdom. Hades later explicitly counted both Titan and Zoro as family, despite placing the greatest trust in blood relatives. After choosing to follow Hades, Titan was granted the Tartarus surname 6 20 104.
Departure and Training
Titan first appears watching Hades fight a gigantic elephant, reassuring Zoro that the prince is unharmed. When Hades decides to leave the kingdom, Bane chooses Titan to accompany him while Zoro remains behind to train 1 4.
During the departure, Titan stores the party’s provisions, training equipment, and wealth inside his devouring space. He travels with Hades to meet Nyx, then trains aboard the Kuja Pirates’ ship under Nyx and Shakky. Although he witnesses the Kuja’s killing and plundering, he does not participate 19 20 32.
On Rusukaina, Titan initially overwhelms ordinary beasts through toughness, endurance, and consumption. His confidence collapses when he encounters two fighting Beast Kings: their projected Armament Haki injures him before he can approach, forcing him to flee. Nyx subsequently directs him to challenge Beast Kings every few days, turning repeated defeats into a sustained training regimen 36 37.
Over two years, his recovery lets him return to opponents that had beaten him the day before. The Beast Kings eventually recognize him and sometimes cooperate against him, but he grows strong enough to defeat them. His victory over the fire-wielding lion ends with the animal lowering its head in submission 39.
Kent Island
Shakky provides Titan and Hades with navigation aids and sends them toward Hachinosu to earn admission to the Rocks Pirates independently. On Kent Island, Titan wears a conspicuous gold pouch at Hades’s instruction, baiting pirates into a confrontation intended to publicize their arrival 42 43.
At Hades’s command, Titan attacks with his enormous hammer, devastating two streets. He then uses his twin hammers to kill wounded and fallen enemies while Hades immobilizes would-be escapees with Conqueror’s Haki. Some victims had merely been caught in the designated area rather than participating in the confrontation 45 46.
The destruction makes auction attendees wary of approaching them and contributes to the Marines’ assessment that the pair require a substantial encirclement operation. Their local opponents do not retaliate; Nyx’s warning and the Kronos Kingdom’s influence also deter the island’s Underworld powers 47 48.
When Marines attack on Kent Island, Titan kills Rear Admiral López and Vice Admirals Henry and Casillas. Sensing Hades’s anger, he resolves to kill every Marine in his path. After the battle, he conceals his beast form in poisonous mist and swallows Navy warships at the port. Hades has him reveal and launch only a small boat for their escape, keeping the extent of his storage ability secret 57 58 60 61.
Rocks Pirates and Family
On the way to Hachinosu, Titan kills pirates who test or provoke Hades. More than ten pirate crews fall to his twin hammers. Once among the Rocks Pirates, he continues training under the pressure of being surrounded by exceptionally strong fighters 69 76.
By seventeen, Titan’s powers and reputation have earned him the name “Taotie.” After growing familiar with Charlotte Linlin through shared missions and time on Hachinosu, he is subjected to a scheme that leaves him feeling deeply humiliated. Their twin sons are later born: Titan takes the younger, Tyr Tartarus, to raise with Hades’s side, while Linlin names and raises the elder, Typhon Charlotte 100 101 102 103 104.
Titan names Tyr in the hope that he will become a mighty warrior for the Tartarus Family. The brothers later meet and repeatedly clash at Swordsmanship Tournaments, pursuing a rivalry without hostility despite their different homes 104 287 1231.
War and Later Service
As a leading fighter for Hades’s Pluton Pirates, Titan transports extensive war supplies inside his devouring space. During the war against the Allied Forces, he destroys the garrison and nearby supply lines at G-38 Fortress while the principal battle draws attention elsewhere. He later raids Marine Branches, using poisonous mist to kill their personnel and swallowing valuables and ships. His theft of warships and transports helps cripple Allied troop movement and supply deliveries 123 136 140 144.
Titan also diverts the flying Army General Storm Dragon to let the Farazul escape. Storm Dragon, who has fought him before, concludes that he cannot defeat Titan in a sustained battle. At G-5 Fortress, Titan attacks the assembled Allied Forces in beast form and carries Newgate into the assault 143 144 160.
After Hades’s return to the Kronos Kingdom, Titan remains one of its foremost fighters. He earns Elbaf’s respect by fighting through its warriors while delivering a royal invitation, though one powerful giant swordsman stops him. Years later, he receives Prince Loki’s diplomatic delegation and agrees to a future spar 234 244 339.
Titan accompanies Hades to Paros Island when Tyr and Typhon fight publicly. As a stray cannon blast threatens the island, Titan stands ready to devour it, but Kasa redirects it first 1232 1237.
Appearance
- Human form: Initially a burly, somewhat plump youth approaching five meters tall. After Rusukaina, he exceeds six meters and has thick black hair falling past his shoulders; at seventeen, he stands over seven meters tall 1 4 19 39 100.
- Beast form: A massive, muscular creature that dwarfs the giant lion king, with strange patterns covering its skin 39.
- Head and eyes: Dark, black-hole-like pupils, two additional eyes beneath his arms, backward-curving horns resembling those of both a bull and a ram, and an enormous mouth lined with sawlike teeth 39.
- Limbs and appendages: Tiger claws, a bony tail, and fleshy, ear-shaped wings on either side of his body 39.
- Presence: Radiates a sinister, baleful aura that can frighten animals before he attacks 19 39.
Personality
Titan’s loyalty centers on Hades personally. He considers protecting him his duty and treats his orders as absolute. Hades’s rapid improvement worries him—not because he objects to his lord becoming stronger, but because falling too far behind might leave him unable to remain at Hades’s side 36.
He is straightforward and prone to overconfidence. Early victories on Rusukaina lead him into danger beyond his strength, while his extraordinary recovery later encourages increasingly reckless challenges. Nevertheless, he persists through repeated defeats rather than abandoning his training 36 39.
Titan is comfortable with gruesome violence. While finishing off enemies on Kent Island, he feels excitement rather than disgust. His fruit-enhanced appetite also makes eating beasts raw seem ordinary to him; he needs only seasoning and suffers no digestive discomfort 46.
Though his education was deliberately limited, Titan has sharp combat instincts and becomes a practiced raider. He feels Hades’s fury as his own and will attack those Hades marks as enemies without needing an explanation 57 69 140.
Abilities & Skills
Gluttonous Beast Fruit
A Mythical Zoan whose devouring power reinforces Titan’s already exceptional physical gifts 4 30.
- Transformation: Can assume a full gluttonous-beast form, called Taotie, for combat, greatly increasing his size and physical advantages 37 39 60.
- Flight: Can fly, though he is not particularly fast 43 143.
- Flame resistance: In beast form, is completely immune to the lion king’s flames 39.
- Awakening: Extreme-pressure beast-form training is described as helping him toward awakening; a completed Devil Fruit awakening is not confirmed 37.
Devouring and Physical Reinforcement
Titan can consume any substance, including steel, and incorporate useful properties into his body 19 30.
- Devoured rare metals reinforce his muscles, bones, and skin; ordinary bullets leave at most faint marks 30.
- Beast bones can strengthen or refine his skeleton, while their savage auras intensify his own ferocity 36.
- Reinforcement increases his body weight, but this causes him little difficulty 30.
- Gains are not unlimited: consuming more of familiar materials eventually stops improving his body, and beast bones offer only minor refinements once his skeleton is sufficiently hardened 37.
- His devouring power optimizes the materials it absorbs, incorporating what is useful without requiring him to design bodily modifications himself 376.
Recovery and Endurance
Consumption converts food and other substances into energy and life force, allowing Titan to recover during prolonged training and combat 36 37.
- Can replenish energy even by eating dirt 37.
- Stored beast carcasses function as readily available recovery supplies 37.
- Can recover quickly from otherwise fatal wounds by eating, provided he is still alive 34.
- His defenses and recovery sometimes exhaust Beast Kings attempting to beat him, allowing him to return fully recovered the following day 39.
- His endurance remains a major threat as an adult: Storm Dragon fears Titan could wear him down in a real fight, while Titan is later noted for nearly limitless stamina and vast Haki reserves 144 285.
Taotie Space
Titan possesses an internal devouring space that appears almost endless, also called Taotie Space 19 42.
- Stores food, daily necessities, training equipment, gold, treasure, and Beli 19.
- Keeps Eternal Poses safely inside it 42.
- Carries enough supplies that only a small portion is used during the two years on Rusukaina 43.
- Can swallow and preserve entire warships, as well as the supplies required to sustain a pirate fleet. His later theft of Allied Forces warships and transports turns the ability into a weapon against their logistics 60 61 123 144.
Poisonous Mist and Baleful Aura
His fruit grants a sinister aura and a corrosive poisonous mist with a powerful devouring pull 19.
- The mist can corrode steel 19.
- His presence instinctively intimidates the Kais Eagles used during the departure from Kronos 19.
- By the end of the Rusukaina training, he has mastered his baleful aura but defeats Beast Kings without using either it or the poisonous mist 39.
- Can conceal his beast form and the swallowing of ships inside the mist. In later raids, he uses it to kill Marine Branch personnel rapidly 60 140.
- Hell Roar: Fires a blast from his mouth that combines devouring power, poisonous mist, and energy 143 160.
Haki and Close-Quarters Combat
Titan combines immense physical strength with Armament and Observation Haki 34 39.
- Armament Haki: Eventually matches the lion king’s Haki quality while surpassing it in skill of application 39.
- Observation Haki: Awakens under Nyx’s attacks; initially unreliable, with further training needed for control 34.
- Combat limitations: Before awakening Observation Haki, Shakky’s agility and experience expose his comparatively clumsy movement 34.
- Hammer attacks: A single strike on Kent Island caves in the ground and devastates two streets. Heavenly Capital: Tiger Hunt lets him pursue and crush the fleeing Vice Admiral Henry 45 57.
- Physical conditioning: Progresses from dragging a battleship to dragging one while wearing Seastone handcuffs 124.
Equipment / Weapons / Items
- Twin hammers — Heavy weapons used for the Kent Island attack and subsequent executions. One is later fitted with spikes that pierce Rear Admiral López 45 46 57.
- Training weights — Wears weights heavier than Hades’s during his Rusukaina training 36.
- Eternal Poses and maps — Supplied by Shakky for the journey toward Hachinosu; Titan stores navigation equipment in Taotie Space 42 43.
- Gold pouch — Deliberately displayed at his waist to attract pirates as part of Hades’s debut plan 43.
Relationships
- Tartarus Hades — Lord and closest companion. Hades regards him as family and welcomes his growing strength; Titan’s determination to remain a capable protector drives his training. He receives the Tartarus surname after choosing to follow Hades 6 36 39 104.
- Tartarus Bane — Royal authority who assigns Titan to accompany Hades when he leaves Kronos 4.
- Nyx — Respected as “Princess Consort”; later his protector and demanding instructor, responsible for triggering his Observation Haki and directing his Beast King training 20 34 37.
- Boa Shakky — Sparring partner and instructor whose agility tests his weaknesses. She later equips him and Hades for their independent journey 34 42 43.
- Zoro — Fellow royal retainer and leading talent of their generation. Titan reassures him during Hades’s elephant fight; their duties diverge when Zoro remains in the kingdom 1 4.
- Charlotte Linlin — Former Rocks Pirates associate and mother of his twin sons. Titan feels humiliated by the scheme that leads to their relationship; afterward, they raise one son each 100 101 103 104.
- Tyr Tartarus — His younger twin son, whom Titan names and takes with him to be raised on Hades’s side. Tyr remains close to him and identifies with the Kronos Kingdom 104 287.
- Typhon Charlotte — His elder twin son, raised by Linlin. Typhon and Tyr develop an enduring, non-hostile rivalry despite belonging to different crews 104 287 1231.
- Prince Loki — Elbaf’s prince, who respects Titan’s strength and seeks a proper fight with him 244.
Trivia
- Titan’s conversion of consumed beasts into life force inspires Hades’s development of the Death-Death Fruit’s life-stealing ability 36.
- Shakky speculates that his storage space might contain warships; Titan later demonstrates that it can hold entire Navy warships 43 60 61.
- Typhon inherits Titan’s baleful aura, vitality, regenerative power, monstrous strength, and abundant stamina 104 366.
- Hades later supplies Titan’s firsthand memories of the Golden Land for Andor’s staged worldwide broadcast 1017.