Arlong

ℹ️️**Notice**This character is a **crossover character** and thus is **not canon to Glad you Came**

**Arlong the Saw** is a sawshark fish-man. He was the captain of the all fish-man crew (excluding Nami), the Arlong Pirates, a former member of the Sun Pirates, and the older half-brother of Madam Shyarly. He is also a major inspirational figure for the New Fish-Man Pirates.

## Statistics

### Epithet:

"Arlong the Saw" (ノコギリのアーロン, Nokogiri no Āron?) (English versions: "Saw-Tooth Arlong")

### Bounty:

~~20,000,000~~~~~~### Japanese VA:

Jurota Kosugi

### English VA:

Chris Rager~~~~

Following the death of his former captain, Fisher Tiger, Arlong was captured and sent to Impel Down, but received a pardon thanks to his comrade Jinbe becoming one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Once freed, Arlong set his sights on conquering the East Blue, settling himself on the Conomi Islands alongside his crew and racketeering the local population. He is also the man responsible for killing Bell-mère, Nami and Nojiko's foster mother. Arlong then had Nami become his subordinate, taking advantage of her cartography skills to one day conquer all of the Blue Sea.

He had the highest bounty in the East Blue before being defeated by Monkey D. Luffy. Due to his actions and role, he is the primary antagonist of the Arlong Park Arc.

## Personality

Arlong considers humans to be inferior beings and is very cruel to them. He thinks nothing of killing a town full of humans, although he seems to prefer controlling people with money and deals (like Nami and Nezumi).

Because of his love for money, he is known to be very cheap, as Hyouzou refused to join his crew because Arlong refused to compensate him for his service. He does not seem frightened by anything, and his fish-man strength made him extremely confident that he and his crew were virtually invincible. After Marine Captain Nezumi rejected his invitation for a drink out of fear of being seen in Arlong Park, Arlong simply offered to kill anyone who dared report him.

He has an eye for spotting exploitable talent that he can use for his ambitions and is an excellent planner. He spent eight years using Nami and her maps to plan his conquest of the East Blue. Nevertheless, any promise about money he makes, he keeps. The best example is when his crew urged him to keep Nami even if she gathered 100,000,000. However, even though Arlong states he cannot go back on his word, he has no qualms about exploiting loopholes in his deals to get his way unfairly. He said he would free Nami's village if she brought him 100,000,000, but was more than willing to cheat her by having corrupt Marines confiscate her money to keep her in his services.

He gets angry rather easily, as he nearly went on a rampage after being attacked by Usopp and had to be dragged back to his base by his crew to prevent him from destroying Cocoyasi Village. During his fight with Luffy, the boy's constant fighting back made Arlong deeply angry. Arlong had expected Luffy to die quickly, but his anger made him reckless and destructive, causing him to seriously damage his own headquarters and map collection while attacking Luffy.

He has been ill-tempered since his younger years. However, he was not always entirely brutal. During a battle with the Marines, Arlong told Jinbe to leave the unconscious Marines alone. However, he became more arrogant over time, to the point that he completely lost any sympathy for humans. The circumstances behind Fisher Tiger's death led to his hatred of the human race greatly intensifying. He also failed to understand Tiger's reason for letting humans that they attacked live. As a result, when Arlong led his own crew and committed murder, humans came to view him as a monster. In the end, he enslaved humans just as the humans once enslaved many fish-men.

Though his opinions and ideals were extreme, he displayed a high level of brotherhood with his crew and even towards Nami despite her the divide between their species. Arlong looked after his subordinates, and even though he betrayed Nami, he did so because he did not want to lose her talent. On top of this, in the final moments of the battle with Luffy, he stated that Nami was his crewmate and would be forever, and while he never displayed any regard for her as a friend, he was prepared to fight to keep her in the crew. If humans insulted their group, Arlong would become enraged, resulting in officers attempting to keep his temper under control. When weaker members of his crew were hurt, Arlong would seek revenge on those responsible. He cared for his crew to a level that when Luffy used one of them as a shield, Arlong became extremely angry.

Ironically, Arlong is a hypocrite, having accused Koala of being raised to look down on fish-men and think of humans as better than everyone else, when Arlong looked down on humans and preached fish-men superiority himself, making him no better than the humans. According to Hatchan, despite his hatred of humanity, Arlong would never harm his fellow fish-men no matter the circumstance.

Like many other One Piece characters, he has his own unique laugh, which is "Shahahahaha".

## Relationships

### Crews

#### Arlong Pirates

He cares for his own crew (shown when he apologizes for accidentally biting them and becoming enraged at Luffy for using one as a fish-man shield), while many of his crew share his ideals. They would call him "Arlong-san" while Arlong would call his crew his "brethren". He can be very angry when someone hurts his crew, rather similarly to Luffy's feelings towards his crew. However, this is exclusive to fish-men.

#### Sun Pirates

In their youth, Arlong and Jinbe were both friends who grew up together as orphans in the Fish-Man District. They once saw each other as brothers, but they later became rivals when Arlong became a pirate and Jinbe became a soldier. While Arlong apparently wanted to be on friendly terms with him, Jinbe, who hated pirates, often argued with him. When Fisher Tiger took on the World Government, Arlong and Jinbe teamed up and got recruits from the Fish-Man District and joined the Sun Pirates. The circumstances of Jinbe letting Arlong loose into the East Blue are revealed to be a fight that took place between the two of them, with Arlong expressing distaste towards Jinbe for becoming a "government dog", seeing it as an insult to Fisher Tiger's memory, accepting sanction from the people who orchestrated their former captain's demise, so he ultimately wanted to separate from Jinbe's crew and reform his former Arlong Pirates with the intention of becoming the "rage" of the fish-men. Arlong's relationship with Jinbe ended on bad terms.

Arlong looked up to Fisher Tiger as a hero and a big brother; in fact, Tiger's hatred of humans may have rubbed off on Arlong. Despite this, he and Tiger often had arguments about this; Arlong wanted to slaughter the humans they came across to make the world fear fish-men, while Tiger did not want to kill anyone because they would be stooping to their oppressors' level. When Tiger was betrayed and killed, a heartbroken Arlong cried and attempted to get even by attacking the people who committed the treason, and lying to the Marines about how Tiger's circumstances of death in order to preserve his big brother's honor and reputation. Despite his enormous respect for Tiger, Arlong was unable to fulfill his final wish of being at peace with humans; if anything, Tiger's death is what led Arlong's relationship with humans to corrode even further. Tiger was the only reason why Arlong remained in the Sun Pirates, as when Jinbe took over and became a Warlord of the Sea, Arlong departed.

### Enemies

#### Marines

As a pirate with a bounty, he is the enemy of the Marines and had the highest bounty in the East Blue until the Straw Hat Pirates were announced to the world. As he had been paying off the Marines to keep quiet, it's likely that his bounty did not fully reflect all of his crimes nor his true power/threat level. Also, during his time with the Sun Pirates, he fought against the marines many times, including rear admiral Kadar and his crew and Borsalino (being a vice admiral at that point).

### Humans

When dealing with Nezumi, Arlong told him that he does not like humans, with the exceptions of Nami, due to her navigation skills, and those who understand how to do business, like Nezumi. However, Arlong's hatred for humanity is harsh, as he did not sympathize with Koala's past as a slave. When humans betrayed Fisher Tiger which led to his death, Arlong noted the true colors of humans, and tried to kill the ones who committed betrayal.

### Other

#### Hody Jones

During his childhood, Hody Jones looked up to Arlong. While Hody was growing up in the Fish-Man District, Arlong preached to him and his friends about fish-men superiority and taught them to hate all humans with extreme prejudice. Thus, Arlong's influence was one of the factors that shaped Hody into a monster. Hody did not join Arlong when he first wreaked havoc on the seas, since Hody was very young at the time.

Hody Jones mentions at the time when the Straw Hat Pirates defeated the Arlong Pirates that he was gathering strength at Fish-Man Island in order to be his right-hand man. Hody claims to have learned from his hero's mistakes, dismissing Arlong as a barbarian and that the "Arlong Pirates" are nothing more than an empty symbol for the unity of fish-men who hate humans.

#### Seia

The two strongly dislike each other. Seia loathes Arlong because of his actions. Arlong dislikes Seia not just for being human, but for interfering with his ambitions to eventually rule the world