Brook

About Brook

Brook is the Straw Hat Pirates' musician, a living skeleton who came back from the dead thanks to a Devil Fruit. He waited alone on a ghost ship for fifty years, holding on to a promise made to a friend he left behind. A master swordsman and violinist, Brook brings music and terrible skull jokes to the crew, and asks every woman he meets the same rude question.

Appearance

Brook is an extremely tall, thin skeleton with an afro he is fiercely proud of, his hair roots survived where nothing else did, dressed in a gentleman's suit, top hat and a cane that hides his sword. His skull has a crack from a long-ago injury, his grin is permanent, and he moves with surprising speed and lightness, able to run across water. In battle his soul can leave his bones entirely, appearing as a ghostly green wisp of himself.

Personality

Brook is a cheerful, theatrical gentleman with terrible manners, he asks women outrageous questions and burps at dinner, then apologises like a lord. Comedy covers real depth: Brook endured fifty years utterly alone among the remains of his friends, and music is how he survived it. He is brave, courteous to enemies, and sentimental about promises. His dream is modest and enormous at once: to sail around the world and play one song for an old friend who has also been waiting fifty years.

Background & Story

Brook was the musician and fencer of the Rumbar Pirates, who sailed the Grand Line fifty years ago playing music for everyone they met, including a baby whale, Laboon, who followed their ship and was left at the Twin Capes with a promise to return. Poisoned weapons killed the whole crew mid-voyage; Brook's Revive-Revive Fruit brought his soul back, but it found his body only after it had rotted to bone. His ghost ship then drifted into the Florian Triangle, where his shadow was stolen and he waited alone for decades, until Luffy's crew found a talking skeleton singing to himself in the fog, and asked him to join before even hearing his story.

Powers & Abilities

• Revive-Revive Fruit: Brook's fruit gave him a second life after death; as his soul mastery grew, he learned to leave his body, pass through walls and chill the world around him.
• Soul Solid: Brook channels the cold of the underworld through his cane sword, freezing enemies with the chill of the dead.
• Master fencing: Brook is a brilliant swordsman whose speed and lightness let him cut opponents before they realise he has passed them.
• Music of the Soul King: Brook's playing can lift allies' spirits, lull enemies to sleep and, in his Soul King concerts, move crowds of thousands.

Key Relationships

• Monkey D. Luffy: His captain, who invited a strange skeleton aboard on sight, Brook has never stopped being grateful for the end of his loneliness.
• Laboon: The whale who waited fifty years at the Twin Capes for the Rumbar Pirates; Brook's whole journey aims at keeping their promise to him.
• Yorki: Captain of the Rumbar Pirates and his dear friend, whose dying wish was that the crew's final song be carried to Laboon.
• Nico Robin: A crewmate he treats with old-fashioned courtesy; the two share a taste for the macabre that unsettles everyone else.
• Sanji: His fellow gentleman aboard ship, the two compete in chivalry and impropriety alike.

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