Eustass Valve

* Eustass Valve
* Devil's Luck card game
* Manga

## Stats

**Eustace Valve** was the captain of the Steam Pipe Pirates. He served as the secondary antagonist of the first saga and the primary villain in Ragnar's backstory, being the man who raided his village and took his family. He was defeated and killed by the Devil's Luck Pirates in *Episode 8: "The Throne Room Battle"*. He is also the self-proclaimed father of Eustace Kid in the main series. Kid was only a baby when Valve was killed by the Devil's Luck Pirates.

## **Appearance**

Eustace Valve is an average-sized man. He has bright red hair, pale white skin and purple lipstick. He's normally well-dressed in steam punk garb. He's donned a top hat covered with gears and pipes, the outer rim shadowing over his green tinted goggles. Valve wears a flowing brown coat covered in gears, acting as light armor. Steam flows off his body, rapidly being produced by his unknown power. This could be inspired by Luffy's Gear Second ability.

## **Personality**

Eustace Valve is a very energetic person. He often spoke too fast to articulate his words properly.

Eustace Valve claims to value two things above all else: money and chaos. This explains his history with slave trading and pillaging. However, Eustace Valve is also shown to adore his alleged newborn son, perhaps more than either of the aforementioned desires combined.

He seems to enjoy battle and general cruelty. He stated that he loves to be hated and he clearly enjoys being considered evil. He actively participated in slave trading while he was the captain of the Steam Pipe Pirates.

## **Abilities**

#### Overview

Eustace Valve has several steam based abilities, playing off the steam punk aesthetic of his crew. It is likely that this is due to some sort of steam based Devil Fruit.

#### Named Attacks

**Steam Burst:** Blasts of steam are shot from Eustace Valve's skin. This attack is normally used at long range but it was attempted point-blank on Duros.

**Steam Rocket:** Eustace Valve was able to use steam to propel himself to evade attacks or for increased movement.

**Speed Manipulation:** An ability similar to Gear Second, Eustace Valve can power himself up in order to gain tremendous energy and speed. This also multiplied his damage so much, he was shown to attack Ragnar and Duros four times in a single turn.

## **Devil's Luck The Card Game**

Eustace Valve is a FIGHTER Might card with 2 power and the following quote:

"Money and chaos, that's all one needs in this life!"

Eustace Valve ia part of the PIRATE faction.

Artist: Dofumzo

## **Relationships**

### Positive

#### Eustace Kid

Eustace Valve is the self-proclaimed father of actual One Piece character: Eustace Kid. Valve loved his alleged baby son immensely, and regretted dying while he was still young. He had confidence that Kid would become a great pirate. His alleged son would later piggyback off of the success of an alliance to take down two yonkou and gain an inflated bounty to cover up the awakening of a certain fruit. Only to be utterly and completely defeated by a former apprentice of the Roger Pirate crew. Kid would also not share his father's love of slavery.

### Negative

#### Ragnar

Eustace Valve raided Ragnar's home village while he was away. He and his pirate crew also took members of the village, including Ragnar's wife and son, to sell into slavery.

## **History**

Eustace Valve's childhood is an unknown. He became a pirate at some point in his life and immediately began causing chaos and amassing wealth. At some point during his career as a pirate he claims to have fathered a little boy named Eustace Kid. If this is the case, then he fathered him in a certain country not allied with the world government.

He, officially the captain of the Steam Pipe Pirates, raided several villages. One such village was Ragnar's home town. Eustace Valve destroyed the village for fun and sold its members as slaves to the Tarako Kingdom.

He maintained good relations with the Tarako Kingdom, until one day he attempted an assassination on the current King Malachite's life. He was defeated in the throne room at the hands of the Devil's Luck Pirates. Valve's death was grizzly as he was ripped to pieces and had his head stomped to mush by Ragnar.

## **Trivia**

* Asides from mentions of Gol D. Roger, Eustace Valve was the first One Piece D&D character to ever reference someone who existed in canon.
* Valve died with a smile on his face
* If he was the actual father of Kid, then he would be the 4th father of a supernova to be revealed to be so. 5th if you include Kuma, although he was only introduced as such recently.
* Given that Kid's backstory and fruit's name were both only given in SBS's, Valve might as well be Kid's canon father. He has the jobbing skills to do so.
* In the Devil's luck card game his name was altered to be spelled Eustace instead of Eustass to avoid possible copyright.