Buggy the Clown

Affiliation

Captain of the Buggy Pirates, Fake Leader of The Cross Guild, Former Warlord of the Sea

Personality

"Egotistical" + "Cautious" + "Insecure" + "Vain" + "Showman" + "Greedy" + "Flashy" + "Perceptive" + "Clown" + "Over the top" + "Agressive when mentioning his clown nose" + "Obsessed with Treasure" + "Outwardly Agressive" + "Nice at Heart" + "Cowardly" Buggy is extremely sensitive about his big red nose and will immediately execute anyone who points it out, usually by blowing them up with a Buggy Ball. He frequently tends to mishear people as talking about his nose when in reality they are talking about something completely different, and sometimes he even mistakes his own speech as referring to his nose and gets angry at people around him for it. Buggy is a showman, and his actions are frequently designed to bring attention to himself. He injects the word flashy into almost every sentence he speaks. In addition to wanting followers, Buggy loves to find treasure and spends most of his time following maps leading to great riches; when he was on the Roger Pirates, he stated that the most important thing to a pirate is the physical treasure they find. Buggy is extremely possessive over the treasure he takes and will kill anyone who attempts to steal from him. Buggy is incredibly prideful, often underestimating his opponents due to his own over inflated ego. Despite his prideful and vain attitude, Buggy is aware of the many dangers of the Grand Line and typically does not commit rash actions that would put him in trouble, to the point of acting cowardly. He is easily frightened and intimidated by perceived threats, often running away before ever even attempting to fight. When Crocodile and Mihawk confronted him for his unintentional usurpation of presidency of the Cross Guild, he showed tremendous cowardice by crying and pleading for mercy, even offering to lick their shoes clean, and upon being made figurehead leader under the two superior pirates, he became worried for his future.

Appearence

Buggy is a slim blue-haired man with an appearance resembling that of a clown, as to mirror his epithet. The big, red nose on his face is, in fact, his real nose. Buggy's face is always covered with makeup, just like a clown, and the motifs change from time to time: in his first appearance he had crossbones going down his face forming an X; he also had two blue lines near both of his eyes, red lipstick and his jolly roger on his hat. In his pirate captain attire, he dons a striped white and red shirt with short sleeves, white gloves reminiscent of the ones worn by clowns, a sash around his waist like many other pirates, and a pair of loose pants reaching to his calves, just above a pair of striped socks and pointy shoes. He also has a scarf around his neck. Hanging from his shoulders there is an orange, fur-lined captain's coat. On his head he has an orange hat with his jolly roger on it, over a neckerchief with the same pattern of his shirt.

Abilities

As captain of the Buggy Pirates, Buggy has authority over his crew, which grew exponentially during the Impel Down Arc after he freed hundreds of powerful prisoners from Impel Down whose individual bounties are much higher than his own. However, despite his high bounty and once being an apprentice with the renowned Roger Pirates, Buggy has never achieved the great strength and combat skills of his crewmates, particularly his fellow former apprentice and emperor Shanks. Buggy mainly gets by with his craftiness; he frequently devises plans to unexpectedly overwhelm his opponents with his weapons and Devil Fruit. Buggy possesses notable physical durability, as he quickly recovered after being hit by a Muggy Ball that Dracule Mihawk rebounded back toward him in Marineford. Buggy has a notable amount of physical strength, which is aided by his Devil Fruit allowing his hands to detach and fly.Buggy ate the Bara Bara no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows him to split his body into pieces and reassemble them at will. This power also makes him immune to slashing attacks. With the exception of his feet, Buggy can make his disassembled body parts levitate and control them telekinetically. He can launch his body parts at high speed, allowing him to strike a distant target with strong force.He can also split his body to dodge opponents' attacks by detaching the section of his body that would have taken the attack and making it fly out of the way.

Backstory

Buggy the Clown is the captain of the Buggy Pirates as well as the co-leader of the Buggy and Alvida Alliance, and a former apprentice of the Roger Pirates alongside Shanks. Shortly after the Summit War of Marineford, he became a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea and the leader of the pirate dispatch organization "Buggy's Delivery". He later lost his Warlord title when the system was abolished but was then recognized as one of the Four Emperors following the downfalls of Kaidou and Big Mom and the creation of the Cross Guild, of which he is publicly recognized as the leader. After the war, when Buggy became a Warlord, he borrowed a large sum of money from Crocodile to start his Buggy's Delivery services. When the Warlord system was dissolved and Marines sent a fleet to arrest Buggy, Crocodile came and sank them, so he could make Buggy repay his debt and start his own company, the Cross Guild, while expressing surprise that Buggy did not flee. When Buggy revealed he could not pay, Crocodile offered to sell him into slavery, and did not spare him any mercy, in which Buggy desperately replied to offering Buggy's Delivery to be used as a building foundation for Cross Guild. When Crocodile and Mihawk confronted him for his unintentional usurpation of presidency of the Cross Guild, he showed tremendous cowardice by crying and pleading for mercy, even offering to lick their shoes clean, and upon being made figurehead leader under the two superior pirates, he became worried for his future. Buggy is often beaten and used by Crocodile and Mihawk, his crew and his own company's resources utilized to run the Cross Guild, him having no say in the matter. Although, despite his cowardness he ultimately spoke up against Crocodile's goal and criticized him deeming it not a way a pirate should go and wishing to achieve his desire go to the top and become Pirate King after learning Shanks had finally joined the race for the One Piece, something that both Crocodile and Mihawk

Hates

Any Reference at All to His Nose, Red Haired Shanks, Shanks, Being Insulted, Crocodile, Mihawk