Aether

**Aether** is the captain of the Soaring Pirates, one of the allied crews of the Everything Pirates. He is an active participant in the Underworld.

## Appearance

Aether is a rather short man with sandy blonde and unkept hair. His is rather fair-skinned and has a small amount of stubble on his chin for a beard. He dresses in a beige-colored flight suit with cream-colored fur-lining, yellow goggles, black gloves and boots, and a skintight T-shirt.

## Personality

Aether is a whimsical, mostly relaxed kind of person. He enjoys make jokes and doesn't let serious situations shake him. He's an adventurer at heart, preferring to steal and fence treasure as opposed to partaking in corporate espionage. Although, he is still plugged into the Underworld in order to help find fences for his stolen goods. While he acts coyly during business deals, he's not capable of turning this side of himself off, causing him to sometimes say inadvertently rude things in social situations. Although he's able to catch himself when he realizes that something he said might have been rude. The one thing he wants more than anything else, however, is safety, joining up with the Everything Pirates as he saw their crew as having the potential to give Aether the constant power and safety he desires, as he doesn’t think he can gain that power, himself. As such, even as an allied crew member, Aether is willing to report and take care of any discrepancies or issues with the Everything Pirates.

## Abilities and Powers

As the captain of the Soaring Pirates, Aether holds the highest authority within the crew. As an ally of the Everything Pirates, he also holds similar authority as an officer within that crew, being in charge of the supply shipments from certain islands. He is also trusted to make deals and arrangements on the Everything Pirates' behalf.

### Devil Fruit

*Further information: ACE*
Aether ate an artificial Logia Devil Fruit, known as an ACE. In Aether's case, his uses the element of wind. As with all ACEs, part of Aether's body was permanently transformed into his element, with it being Aether's Skylander wings in his case.

#### Busoshoku Haki

Aether is capable of using Busoshoku Haki, using it to negate the effects of Armani D. Lazuli's Devil Fruit, the Sabi Sabi no Mi, from affecting him after he realized what was happening.

### Weapons

Aether wields an Arkenite short sword, although his skill with it has not yet been seen. It is notably lighter, but equally as sturdy, if not stronger, than steel.

## History

### Past

At some point, Aether encountered Henry Avery and the Everything Pirates. While his crew was defeated by theirs, Aether, instead of cursing him, decided to join him, seeing the potential that Avery had to grow and continue to get stronger and wanting to stand beside that power to remain in perpetual safety.

### World Rend Saga

#### The Power of Science

On behalf of the Everything Pirates and the other members of their alliance, Aether made business arrangements with the Ru'aunda Company, meeting with Bubby, a proxy of Ragonda Majorum, in a neutral location. While Aether's more lackadaisical personality made a bad first impression, Aether quickly cut to the chase and explained the proposal he had come to offer: the alliance Aether represented would provide rare materials, such as Arkenite, to combine with the Bling Rock's Labemsteel, allowing them to continuously grow and mass-produce the rare materials. In addition, the alliance would provide protection for the island and protect both of their investments, but the alliance would have exclusive purchasing rights to newly grown materials. Bubby was skeptical of the arrangement, believing it wouldn't be beneficial enough to the Ru'aunda Company. Aether countered this by offering to reveal his source for how he knew about Labemsteel's self-replicating properties and to assist in keeping their secret a secret. Bubby seemed skeptical that this rumor could actually be detrimental, but Aether confirmed that his source had access to an untreated sample of Labemsteel, once again asking him if they had a deal.

### 1585

#### Iron Thieves

Due to his position and longstanding alliance with the Everything Pirates, Aether had been appointed as a liaison between the primary crew and the Everything Pirates members on Haran Island, picking up shipments of iron and other goods. Aether became aware that, not just their previous shipment, but several of the last shipments from Haran Island had been light, confronting the head of operations on the island, Blaine, in his office for this. Blaine assured him that they simply couldn't keep up with demand, but this was unconvincing to Aether. He left Blaine's office, saying that an adjudicator would be coming to inspect the island soon and that he would be back as well in a few days.

On his way out of the complex with his crew, Aether encountered Beewolf and the Wreckage Pirates. He enthusiastically greeted Beewolf before introducing himself as captain of the Soaring Pirates to Armani D. Lazuli, the captain of the aforementioned crew. Lazuli's touch initially caused rust to appear on Aether's hand, but Aether quickly used his Haki to stop its spread. Commenting on Lazuli's lack of control over her powers, Aether introduced her to his crew. While Aether believed his lack of tact was about to get him into trouble, he was saved by Aerbear, enthusiastically greeting Lazuli and asking her to introduce her own crew. This caused Lazuli to seemingly forget about the perceived slight and introduce her crew members. Relieved by this, Aether explained to Lazuli that the reason her crew was on the island was to celebrate their journey through Paradise and their imminent trip to the New World.

Just then, Aether noticed Beewolf became much less jovial. While he had already guessed it, he turned to see that Blaine had arrived and witnessed as the Everything Pirates' officer chastised his subordinate. After Blaine gave Lazuli crystal gloves and warned her not to rust their operation, Blaine told his subordinate, Sheera, to escort the Soaring Pirates out of the cave. Aether, however, said that he already knew the way and wanted to speak with Lazuli before he left, taking her out of of earshot as Blaine went back to his duties.

Aether told her about the recent theft of iron from Haran Island and that he'd be returning in a few days with an adjudicator. Explaining that the party would be a perfect time to sneak the iron off of the island, he asked Lazuli if she and her crew could figure out who the culprit was. However, Lazuli stated that she was only interested in repaying her debt to Avery and wanted to have fun at the party. Disappointed, Aether called for his crew and they left the island.

## Trivia

* Aether's image source comes from Hawks, from the anime and manga series *My Hero Academia*.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Prevailing Theories: Aether makes his debut.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Welcome to the Mines: Aether appears on Haran Island.