Rayleigh Silvers

Rayleigh Silvers, also known as Right Hand of the Pirate King and Dark King, is a character from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
A ship-coating master in Sabaody Archipelago and former first mate of Gol D. Roger. Given the red baron "The Dark King" during his days as a pirate. During this time as a pirate, he acted as a supervisor of the crew, having a disciplinary role to Shanks and Buggy, especially when they argued. Having long since retired from piracy after Roger disbanded his crew, he hid in the Sabaody Archipelago and became infamous for coating ships, gambling, drinking, and partying with women. He is married to his business partner of twenty years Shakuyaku, and is good friends with Hatchan, who saved his life when he was a kid.
Rayleigh is light hearted, casual, and fun loving, much like his captain Roger was. In the past, he was shown to have been impatient with the antics of the younger crew members, and took the position of crew disciplinarian very seriously. However, he has changed his personality in his older years, becoming much more relaxed even when training Luffy.
Though he often has a serious air, Rayleigh enjoys going with the flow and appearing in unexpected places and in unexpected ways, especially given his status and age. He often comments on his age and how his body "does not work the way it used to", much like Garp. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* One Piece
* One Piece 3D2Y: Overcoming Ace's Death! Luffy's Pledge to His Friends
* One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0
* One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
=== Manga ===
* One Piece
* One Piece: Episode A
* One Piece: Strong World
=== Video Games ===
* Jumputi Heroes
* One Piece Bon! Bon! Journey!
* One Piece Bounty Rush
* One Piece Thousand Storm
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* One Piece: Burning Blood
* One Piece: Gigant Battle
* One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World
* One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
* One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X
* One Py Berry Match
== Trivia ==
* His name is similar to John Silver from Treasure Island and Sir Walter Raleigh, an English 16th-century explorer and privateer. It should be noted that Sir Walter Raleigh's name has been spelled in over forty different ways, in which also includes the spelling "Rayleigh" (note: the "y" would actually be pronounced as "i").
* It is possible that his name is related to the phenomenon known as "Rayleigh Scattering". In particular, when fighting Kizaru, Rayleigh was shown to be able to 'scatter' Kizaru's light attacks, which is a visual pun on Rayleigh Scattering, which involves the scattering of light.
* When Rayleigh fought Kizaru, he told him that if he were to get rid of his wanted poster, he could go into a peaceful retirement. This means that Rayleigh has an active bounty; the amount has yet to be revealed.
* Silver is traditionally considered the next most valuable metal after gold, and as the first mate, Silvers Rayleigh was the second highest ranked man in the crew after the captain, Gol D. Roger also known as Gold Roger.
** There is a theme of rare metals among the senior members of the Roger Pirates, as another member is named Scopper Gaban, as in "copper".
* He is the first former pirate known to still have an active bounty.
* In the 6th fan poll, Rayleigh ranked 38th.
* In the One Piece Blue Deep: Characters World databook, his relationship with Shakuyaku is written as that of friends, rather than husband and wife. As he was referred to as her "Uchi no hito" (person of my household) in the manga, their relationship as stated in the databook may be an oversight by Oda.
* His favorite food is boiled beans.
* He is the first person to teach Luffy about Haki.
* Rayleigh's epithet, Mei-Ou (dark king), is the Japanese word for Pluto/Hades, the god of the underworld in ancient Greco-Roman mythology.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Silvers Rayleigh at One Piece Wiki
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