Fisher Tiger

ℹ️️**Notice**This character is a crossover character and is therefore not canon.

**Fisher Tiger**, known as the **Adventurer**, was a sea bream Fish-Man and the founder and original captain of the Sun Pirates.

A well-known explorer, Tiger became a slave for the World Nobles at some point in his adventures. After managing to escape his captors and return to Fish-Man Island, Tiger climbed back through the Red Line to Mary Geoise in order to free his fellow slaves. This act granted Tiger infamy among humans and admiration from his fellow Fish-Men, particularly his long-time friends Jinbe and Arlong.

Tiger died from blood loss after being ambushed and shot by a squad of Marines at Foolshout Island, following his delivery of a young former slave back to her home town.

## Statistics

### Epithet:

"The Adventurer" (冒険家, Bōkenka?)[1]"Hero of Slaves" (奴隷解放の英雄, Dorei Kaihō no Eiyū?)

## Personality

According to Boa Hancock, Tiger was a reckless person and very brutal, as he was believed to have challenged Mary Geoise and burned the entire city down to free all Fish-Man slaves. However, this was only due to Hancock's first impression, and contrary to it, Tiger was compassionate and very merciful. He did not approve of senseless violence, as he ordered Jinbe and Arlong not to kill any humans. He was very idealistic, making the principles of liberation and freedom the basics of the Sun Pirates, and worrying that Queen Otohime might have compared him to the bloodthirsty and cruel Arlong.

Before he attacked Mary Geoise, he appeared to be friendly, greeting Jinbe and Arlong as close friends after returning to Fish-Man Island from an adventure. After the attack, he got more serious, yet remained friendly enough to treat others with respect.

While Queen Otohime wished for interspecies cooperation between Fish-Men and humans, Tiger, up to the moment of his death, seemingly believed that Fish-Men and humans should remain separate. Even though he hated humans, according to Hancock, he did not discriminate against them when it came to slavery, and liberated every one of them during his raid of the holy city. He also did not believe in revenge on humans for their discrimination, thinking that it would only cause more hatred and resentment. His compassion to humans was further demonstrated when he vowed to take a child who was a former slave back to her hometown, going as far as to mark her with his own jolly roger to lift the burden of slavery off her back. Tiger did smile happily when Koala was reunited with her family, and it was an immensely symbolic final act for a man who had lived such a dualistic life as adventurer, hero, slave and pirate captain, as the town gladly accepted Koala back while condemning Tiger to death and betraying him to the Marines.

There was also a darker side to Tiger's personality, as he claimed that the "demons" residing inside him were the most terrifying ones; a statement which left Jinbe blank, suggesting his crew did not know about this trait of him. This, along with the depths of his personality, were all revealed in his deathbed: after being captured and enslaved by the World Nobles and escaping, he saw the "madness" of humans, and grew to hate them for it. Despite this, he agreed with Otohime's ideology of improving relationships between the two races and regretted making it difficult with his own actions. He tried to befriend humans, but being betrayed by Koala's townspeople drove him to realize that no matter how much effort he put in, he could never love a human. To this end, he refused a transfusion of human blood due to it being tainted with hatred for Fish-Men. Since he could not accept humans despite trying his hardest, his last hope on changing the interspecies relationship was the next era, such as Koala, who does not know about the hatred, and asked his crew not to reveal the tragedy that befell the Sun Pirates, nor their hatred towards humanity.

## Relationships

### Sun Pirates

Tiger was very respected by his crew the Sun Pirates. Due to his actions of liberating the slaves at Mary Geoise, he was respected and idolized by the crew as a hero to both the Fish-Men race and slaves as a whole. Some of his crew members, such as Arlong and Jinbe, knew him since their younger years at the Fish-Man District and respected him long before he founded the crew. Although Tiger cared for his crew, he never allowed any of them to murder any humans while they were part of the crew, citing they will fight but not kill humans due to him not wanting to continue the cycle of revenge. Jinbe, in particular, was the closest to Tiger in the crew, serving as his vice-captain. Tiger also was able to open up to Jinbe at times more than anyone, confiding the "demons" that dwell inside him.

Upon Tiger's last moments of his life, he revealed to his crew the truth of his past and his actions at Mary Geoise due to him being a slave. He tearfully begged his crew not to tell anyone the truth about his death to ensure their people will not learn of their tragedy or their hatred of the humans. Although his crew begged him to live, Aladine tearfully acknowledged Tiger would be remembered by all of them as a hero. Hearing this, Tiger tearfully thanked his crew before passing away, leaving them all to mourn the loss of their captain.

However, not all of the crew respected Tiger's wishes, as Arlong left some time after his death, acknowledging the only reason he followed him was solely because he respected Tiger, not his beliefs.

### Friends

#### Fish-Man Island

Even before becoming the captain of the Sun Pirates, Tiger was well respected by his people who enjoyed his tales as an adventurer. After his attack on Mary Geoise to free the slaves, the people of Fish-Man Island were both shocked and amazed by his actions.

Even years after his death, Tiger was regarded as one of the most influential and respected people of the island.

#### Neptune

Tiger was very respectful to King Neptune as he personally visited him before his raid on Mary Geoise to warn him beforehand of his actions. Although Neptune was shocked by his actions, he nonetheless supported his quest. After his death, Neptune was told the details by Jinbe, who was touched by Jinbe choosing to join the Seven Warlords of the Sea to protect both the Sun Pirates and Fish-man Island, stating this is what Tiger would have wanted.

#### Otohime

Although Tiger respected her as his queen, Tiger did not always agree with Otohime. While Otohime believed in promoting peace between their people and humans, Tiger believed it was better to keep them at a distance. Even still, Tiger personally talked to her and Neptune about his desire to free the slaves. On his deathbed, Tiger acknowledged that Otohime was right.

#### Koala

Koala was among many of the slaves Tiger freed during his raid on Mary Geoise. When they met later, Koala thanked him while requesting to travel with him to reunite with her family. After seeing how traumatized she was, Tiger branded her back with the mark of the Sun Pirates to help her forget about her pain and encouraged her to cry, letting her know she was safe. Seeing Tiger was honest, Koala finally broke down. Koala came to deeply care for Tiger and tried to hold his hand while reuniting with her family. As they said their farewells, Koala tearfully said goodbye saying she would never forget him. Although Tiger was betrayed by Koala's people, he never held ill towards her, knowing she had nothing to do with it and knew she would not harbor discrimination towards fish-men due to their positive influence toward her.

### Enemies

#### World Government and Marines

Due to his actions against the World Government in freeing the slaves from the World Nobles, Tiger made an enemy out of the government and Marines and received a bounty on his head. However, despite being enemies, Tiger refused to kill any Marines that came after him and his crew, choosing to just plunder them while letting them live, refusing to stoop to their level of cruelty.

After Tiger returned Koala to her family, Tiger was sold out by her people to the Marines and attacked by Vice Admiral Strawberry. Because of their ambush, Tiger suffered grievous wounds that led to his death.

#### World Nobles

Due to his time as a slave, Tiger came to hate the World Nobles. He was a slave for many years until one day he managed to escape. However, with all the other slaves they had, Tiger was unwilling to leave them behind and freed as many slaves as he could, making the World Nobles furious in the process.

### Other

#### Humans

Due to the time he spent as a slave, Tiger came to see the cruelty and insanity of the human race through the World Nobles. Having spent many years as a slave, Tiger came to hate humans, being unable to accept them. However, despite his hatred for humans, he refused to kill any, citing he would not lower himself to their level of cruelty. Furthermore, as stated by Hancock, Tiger hated humans but did not discriminate towards slaves, freeing as many human slaves as he could when raiding Mary Geoise.

Despite the fact that he could have lived if given a blood transfusion, Tiger refused due to it being human blood, stating that he rather die than accept their blood. Because of his hatred of humans overpowering his will to live, Tiger died unable to accept humans into his life, choosing instead to place his faith in the next generation, such as Koala.