Roy

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Reincarnation and the Boin Archipelago

Roy was an orphan and an ordinary salaried worker in his previous life. After dying on Blue Star, he was protected by its will and sent into the new world. His soul grew stronger through repeated damage during the journey, but his infant body could not withstand that strength, forcing most of it to be sealed before birth 1 77.

At eight, pirates attacked during a pleasure voyage with his parents. His father placed him in a barrel and threw him into the sea; Roy subsequently awoke on the Boin Archipelago with his previous-life memories. He initially believed he had taken over another boy’s body, only learning much later that he had inhabited it from conception 1 77.

He survived for three years among giant insects and man-eating plants, befriending the plant Pea. Energy-rich food and constant physical training strengthened his body, while newspapers obtained from passing News Coos helped him identify the historical period. At eleven, he swam after a merchant ship and earned passage toward Sabaody by agreeing to work aboard 1 2.

First Companions and the Roy Pirates

On Sabaody, Roy encountered Tesoro, saved Stella, and obtained a Devil Fruit taken from a Celestial Dragon. His early successes made him overconfident until Sengoku and Rayleigh’s battle exposed the gulf between him and the world’s strongest fighters. He survived with grave injuries and newly awakened Conqueror’s Haki 3 11 12.

Roy then sought dependable companions rather than joining an established crew. He approached Bullet with an invitation to leave his small war-torn country, fought him without a decisive winner, and began sharing Haki instruction and training with him. Gravity manipulation became a means of developing the entire group rather than merely improving Roy’s own attacks 13 24 25.

On Kuraigana Island, Saga corrected Roy’s dependence on Fruit-enhanced swordplay. Roy trained alongside Mihawk, reached the swordmaster realm, and eventually persuaded him to join the crew. After four years of preparation, the Roy Pirates departed with advanced Haki, coordinated mental communication, and island-scale telekinetic power 43 44 45 47.

Challenging the Strongest

In Birka, Roy secured the Rumble-Rumble Fruit for Tesoro and gave Enel the Cloud-Cloud Fruit, supplementing the gift with Six Powers and Haki training methods. He subsequently challenged Roger to learn Conqueror’s Haki Coating through direct exposure 52 54 55 59.

A later near-fatal confrontation unlocked another portion of Roy’s sealed consciousness. Against Zephyr, he combined his own powers with Bullet’s frontal assault and Mihawk’s swordsmanship, using Planetary Devastation, Mental Storm, and a Conqueror’s Haki-coated Gravity Singularity to wound the Admiral 77 87.

Building an Independent Power

Roy established an alliance with Kaido and a research base in Wano, where he also taught Yamato and the younger Beasts Pirates. His training infrastructure combined gravity, lightning, physical techniques, Haki, and Internal Forging 131 143 144 146 225.

His ambitions increasingly brought him into direct conflict with the World Government. The attack on Enies Lobby marked an open confrontation; he later infiltrated Impel Down and helped Golden Lion and the Red Count escape. He also formed an alliance with Dragon, recruited Crocodile and Kuma, and protected Rouge in fulfillment of a promise to Roger 188 210 223 255.

After establishing himself on Hachinosu, Roy reorganized its defenses. Over a month, he moved eleven uninhabited islands into position: ten formed a double pentagram of Five Star Fortresses and Five Star Outposts, while the larger Trial Island became the crew’s training base. He ordered fortifications, undersea communications, and Sea Train links 236.

Roy also rescued Ohara scholars, Robin, Olvia, and Saul from the Buster Call. He openly valued both the scholars and their research, rejecting the destruction of knowledge by force 250 254.

Mary Geoise and Telekinesis Awakening

Roy recruited Golden Lion, the Red Count, Kaido, and Dragon for a raid on Mary Geoise timed around Fisher Tiger’s slave liberation attack. Bullet, Mihawk, and Tesoro accompanied him; the remaining crew stayed behind because he considered the operation too dangerous for weaker participants 281 282.

During the withdrawal, Roy’s group remained behind to confront Sengoku, Zephyr, Kizaru, and Aokiji while Dragon, Karasu, and Fisher Tiger escorted the rescued slaves away. Golden Lion, the Red Count, and Kaido guarded against outside interference 295 304.

Despite extensive development, Roy struggled for a long time to awaken his Telekinesis Fruit. The Red Count persuaded him to stop treating every activity as a forced attempt at a breakthrough. Roy resumed a more balanced routine before eventually awakening after another three-day battle 367 368 372 373.

Pure Gold, Recruitment, and Expansion

Roy pursued Pure Gold through a lead concerning Lord Lanternfish, agreeing to cooperate with Kaido while retaining doubts about his reliability. Inside the creature, he found Olga and explained that her father had created Pure Gold to cure her illness, helping her reconsider her resentment toward him 404 417.

His expeditions also brought back space pirates’ ships, energy weapons, shields, and other equipment for Hachinosu’s scientists. He continued recruiting specialists and matching Devil Fruits to their strengths, including Lafitte and Burgess 445 457.

On Sabaody, he joined Shanks, Jinbe, and others in rescuing captives from an auction house. Hancock and her sisters subsequently traveled with him, alongside more than a dozen rescued slaves who chose Hachinosu as their destination 499 524 525.

Roy later revealed that Tesoro had converted stolen Heavenly Tribute money into food, medicine, and weapons for resistance movements across the Four Blues. During a journey with Dragon, he visited Shimotsuki Village and became acquainted with Koshiro, Kuina, and Zoro 555 558 562.

Pluton and the New Generation

Using blueprints obtained from Tom, Roy sought the original Pluton so his researchers could study technology they could not reproduce from drawings alone. He and Kaido uncovered the battleship in Wano, and Roy raised it with Telekinesis as rival pirate fleets and the World Government moved to seize it 585 593 596.

By 1520, Roy had spent nearly twenty years building his power on Hachinosu. His preparations included Pluton, Pure Gold rings, the Iron Balloon enhancement, and agents or arrangements involving the Shichibukai and Whitebeard 620.

He captured Blackbeard after deliberately testing how the Dark-Dark Fruit suppressed his powers. At Sabaody, he also helped arrange the Straw Hats’ separation into locations suited to their individual training, creating a crisis intended to expose their weaknesses without destroying their future 643 659.

Roy later acquired the Soul-Soul and Dark-Dark Fruit powers himself. He encouraged his officers to choose complementary Fruit combinations carefully, while continuing to guide Luffy through severe trials—including imprisonment in Udon so he could develop the Haki needed to hurt Kaido 742 752 754 810.

Battles Against the World’s Rulers

While fighting Sengoku and Garp together, Roy deliberately pushed the Soul-Soul Fruit toward Awakening and achieved it mid-battle. Against transformed Imu, he unveiled an indigo fusion of soul power and Telekinesis, though Imu’s Conqueror’s Haki disrupted his domain control 855 856 909.

Roy also resisted an assault within his consciousness that blurred his memories and sense of identity. He anchored himself with the declaration that he was Roy 917.

At Laugh Tale, he challenged incomplete explanations of the Void Century, questioning why the World Government still feared Joy Boy and why Roger had declared his arrival premature. After Luffy absorbed Nika’s essence, Roy accepted another sparring challenge and gained an early advantage through gravity and mental attacks 935 941.

In his latest documented confrontation, Roy revealed that the Dark-Dark Fruit could nullify abilities rather than merely devour them. Possessing Davy Jones’s source power, he severed the bond sustaining the nineteen ancient rulers and rendered an elder mortal 974.

Appearance

• Build: Exceptionally tall and muscular from childhood, reaching 2.8 meters at sixteen 1 25 47.
• Hair and eyes: Long golden hair, worn loose at twelve and tied back at sixteen; black eyes 25 47 86.
• Early clothing: A grass skirt while stranded, followed by borrowed sailor’s clothes and then a purchased suit on Sabaody 2 3.
• Established pirate attire: A black cloak over his bare chest, green military trousers, and boots. Later appearances favor tailored black casual clothing or a simple black coat, with Shusui at his waist 47 556 755.
• Full-power changes: His muscles swell, blue-black veins appear beneath his skin, and golden flames seem to burn within his eyes 301.

Personality

Roy is ambitious, curious, and determined to experience the world without being powerless before it. His initial fascination with adventure develops into an explicit desire to uncover the world’s history and change its political order. He rejects passively waiting for Joy Boy and is willing to oppose even the former Roger Pirates if they obstruct him 13 43 183 321.

He combines genuine attachment to his companions with calculated recruitment and long-term planning. He keeps written objectives, targets promising future figures, and constructs training systems around each member’s abilities. He regards companionship as an answer to both loneliness and the limitations of acting alone 13 204 265 531.

Roy can be playful, vain, and deliberately provocative: he initially pursues swordsmanship partly because it looks impressive, teases children, and antagonizes enemies such as Akainu and Shamrock. Beneath that manner, he carefully studies unfamiliar powers rather than assuming strength alone makes him safe 31 524 562 700 701.

His opposition to oppression does not make him gentle toward enemies. He rescues slaves, protects scholars, and values keeping families together, but also orders defeated pirates killed and proposes forcibly removing rulers and nobles who block reform. When Prince Carl asks him to spare innocents and the merely foolish king, he agrees 17 201 202 250 254 295.

Abilities & Skills

Telekinesis-Telekinesis Fruit

Roy’s principal Fruit gives physical form to his mental power and lets him manipulate objects within his Observation Haki’s range 24.

• Object manipulation and flight: Moves people, ships, islands, and Pluton without requiring the initial touch associated with Golden Lion’s Float-Float Fruit 17 24 236 593.
• Barriers and shockwaves: Condenses mental power into defensive screens and concentrated impacts 24 731 856.
• Bodily manipulation: Repairs his shattered sternum during the fight with Zephyr 87.
• Spatial control: Develops spatial displacement, light-warping invisibility, and precise control throughout his awakened domain 531.
• Limits: Greater range and more simultaneous targets increase the burden. The power consumes both stamina and mental energy; powerful opposing Conqueror’s Haki can disrupt his domain 24 909.

Gravity Manipulation

An extension of Telekinesis used for both combat and systematic physical conditioning 24 25.

• Gravity Domain: Applies area-wide suppression and establishes separate training zones at different intensities 45 144.
• Singularity / Gravity Singularity: Concentrates gravity against a single target; can be combined with Conqueror’s Haki Coating 45 87.
• Planetary Devastation: Traps Zephyr during a coordinated crew attack 87.
• Hundredfold Gravity: Staggers Luffy during their post–Laugh Tale rematch 941.

Mental Abilities and Command Techniques

Roy possesses extraordinary spiritual strength independently of his Fruit, although the Telekinesis and Soul-Soul Fruits greatly amplify its applications 1 24 753.

• Mental Shock and Mental Storm: Attack the mind, interrupt movement, disrupt judgment, and create openings against physically powerful opponents 23 86 340.
• Mental Link: Connects crewmates for silent communication and coordinated attacks 47.
• Knowledge transmission: Sends training methods directly into another person’s mind and lets students experience the sensation of Haki 19 24 52 131.
• Commands: Techniques such as “Halt,” “Stillness,” and “Disperse” impose effects through spoken orders. Their underlying principle is described as temporarily rewriting rules 131 146 158 700.
• Resistance: His spiritual presence makes even the Red Count wary of attempting to read his mind 212.

Soul-Soul Fruit

The Soul-Soul Fruit substantially enlarges Roy’s mental reserves and allows independent divisions of his spiritual power 752 753.

• Multithreaded control: Assigns separate portions to Observation Haki, barriers, ordinary Telekinesis techniques, and his awakened domain simultaneously 752.
• Soul perception: Detects distant sensations and emotions with heightened clarity 752.
• Awakened attacks: Produces soul-powered punches, slashes, and shockwaves capable of injuring Garp and Sengoku 856.
• Power fusion: Combines soul energy with Telekinesis through Shusui against Imu 909.
• Limits: High-intensity multithreaded operation consumes enormous spiritual power 752.

Dark-Dark Fruit

Roy uses darkness to suppress Fruit abilities, supporting rather than replacing his primary Telekinesis fighting style 754 777.

• Fruit sealing: Binds Bullet and suppresses the White Tiger power sustaining his giant transformation 754.
• Ranged suppression: Experiments with a black sphere and mist; Bullet demonstrates that Conqueror’s Haki can expel this particular application 777.
• True nullification: Severs the supernatural connection sustaining the nineteen ancient rulers 974.

Haki

Swordsmanship and Physical Combat

• Swordsmanship: Develops from improvised practice and imitation of Rayleigh to formal training under Saga, then Fruit-integrated great-swordsman-level combat 19 43 44 152.
• Close combat: Combines fists, palms, fingers, kicks, gravity shifts, and mental interference into an unpredictable style 86.
• Six Powers: Selects Soru for his own early movement training and uses his mental control to master Life Return 19.
• Physical enhancement: His body incorporates Oni, Giant, Lunarian, and Buccaneer traits, along with Charlotte Linlin’s Iron Balloon 941.
• Non-Fruit strength: Blackbeard’s suppression test confirms that Roy retains physical strength and Haki even when his Fruit-powered applications are blocked 643.

Leadership, Research, and Training

• Designs individualized regimens combining gravity, sparring, Haki, and Fruit development 144 204 265.
• Uses knowledge from his previous life to identify valuable recruits, resources, and unexplored ability applications 1 204 265.
• Directs scientists, craftsmen, and administrators while delegating daily operations to trusted officers 236 258 755.
• Emphasizes complementary abilities and personal fundamentals rather than collecting powers indiscriminately 194 265 742.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Frost Snow — Early sword purchased on Maple Leaf Island. The seller claims it is a Skillful Grade Sword; Roy uses it through his swordmaster breakthrough and battle with Roger 19 44 55.
• Clear Spring — A light Great Grade Sword taken from Comil. Roy stores it after deciding its weight does not suit him 101.
• Red Rock — A heavy Great Grade Sword from the same spoils, favored over Clear Spring 101.
• Black Blade Shusui — His established later weapon, used in the Mary Geoise operation, against Imu, and against the ancient rulers 282 909 974.
• Storage bag — Supplied by Pea; carries raid equipment, captured spacecraft, and large quantities of recovered technology 282 457.
• Encrypted Den Den Mushi — Prepared for the secret Mary Geoise raid 282.
• Pluton blueprints — Obtained from Tom and retained for research into reproducing the Ancient Weapon 585.
• Pure Gold rings — Among his accumulated strategic assets before Luffy’s departure 620.
• Ships — Initially travels aboard the White Dove, later replaced by the gold-and-lightning-powered Ark Maxim 31 91.

Relationships

• Tesoro — First subordinate and a trusted core officer. Roy guides his Haki, gives him the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and entrusts him with supplying resistance movements 25 52 555.
• Stella — Early companion and navigator whom Roy saves. She becomes central to Hachinosu’s administration and handles daily affairs in his absence 11 19 258 755.
• Douglas Bullet — Recruited rival, training partner, and frontline fighter. Their relationship begins with repeated challenges and develops into close cooperation and mutual testing 24 87 754.
• Dracule Mihawk / Hawk Eyes — Fellow student under Saga, core crewmate, and regular swordsmanship partner. Roy recruits him by promising opportunities to challenge powerful swordsmen 43 47 368.
• Pea — Companion from the Boin Archipelago whom Roy returns to collect. Later serves as quartermaster and provides storage, plants, food, and healing support 1 32 33 47.
• Saga — Swordsmanship instructor who forces Roy to master fundamentals without Fruit assistance 43 44.
• Rayleigh — Early rescuer and respected senior. Their friendship includes sharp disagreements over the old generation’s refusal to act 11 12 183 659.
• Gol D. Roger — Senior rival who helps Roy grasp Conqueror’s Haki Coating. Roy later protects Rouge and attends Roger’s execution to witness the change of eras 55 59 203 223.
• Red Count / Redfield — Escaped prisoner turned crewmate, adviser, and trusted defender of Hachinosu. Helps Roy overcome his fixation on Awakening 255 368 593.
• Kaido — Long-term ally in research, military operations, and resource acquisition. Their initially interest-based partnership develops into explicit mutual respect 225 404 764.
• Dragon — Revolutionary ally who coordinates rescues and receives material support. Trusts Roy enough to expose Revolutionary Army outpost locations in his presence 223 295 555.
• Yamato — Student who asks him for the strength to oppose Kaido; receives Six Powers instruction and gravity training 131 143.
• Portgas D. Rouge and Ace — Roy protects Rouge, supplies her household, and watches Ace grow from a wary toddler into an enthusiastic admirer 223 369 570.
• Monkey D. Luffy — A younger pirate whose growth Roy deliberately cultivates through protection, arranged crises, and direct challenges 659 810 941.
• Boa Hancock — Wants to join his crew. Roy first encourages her to become Amazon Lily’s empress, then takes her and her sisters toward Hachinosu 499 525.
• Kuina and Zoro — Young swordspeople he meets at the Isshin Dojo; offers advice, teases Zoro, and discusses powerful female fighters with Kuina 558 562.
• King Riku and Dressrosa — Formal allies after Kyros and Scarlet join the crew. Roy promises that Dressrosa’s affairs will be treated as the Roy Pirates’ own 175.

Notable Quotes

“Join us, Bullet! This country is too small. Come with us, and you’ll see a wider world and meet stronger opponents.” 24

“I’ll uncover the truth of this world in my own way, and then... change it.” 183

“Remember, abilities are tools. The person using the tools is what matters.” 265

“I am Roy.” 917