Straud

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**Stephen Straud** is currently one of the 8 Warlords of the sea, rotating his location between **Clearcoat Island** in the South Blue and **Blood Drop Island** in the Paradise side of the **Grandline**, and he is heavily protective of his citizens

Before becoming a Warlord, **Stephen** spent most of his time ruling over his islands, protecting them from Pirates and Marines alike that tried to take his land. He had been running that song and dance for sixty years before he received this offer, which he then gladly accepted

## Appearance

**Stephen** is a pale skinned white haired man, standing at a fierce 9 feet 11 inches tall, he always dresses very dapper, choosing between an assortment of black suits with different dress shirts beneath, normally opting for a purple shirt and occasionally choosing red.

**Stephen** has Red iris's and catlike pupils, his body almost never scars when he takes damage, the only exception to that is a scar he received as a child that nearly removed his left eye

## Personality

**Stephen** is a very peculiar man, having lived for over 100 years he does his best to seem hip and cool to his younger crew mates. This attempt however makes him seem very odd and out of touch, he regularly will use slang from anywhere within the last century in the same sentence, however when angered he drops that way of speaking and reverting to his normal speech patterns.

He is highly protective over his kingdoms, he charges no cost to live there except for one thing, A single vial of blood per month for everyone above the age of 15. Due to this the kingdoms crime rates are very low due to the fact that the cost of living is so low, however he is still respected and even feared to those who mean his citizens wrong, even threatening to kill the Marines that arrived on Blood Drop Island if they even thought about harming someone.

## Relationships

### **Bishop Knight:**

**Bishop** and **Stephen** have a Father and Son type of relationship. They bicker about a lot of trivial things near constantly and have done so for the majority of the time they have known each other. But **Stephen** places immense trust into **Bishop**, enough to make him his first mate and he has served in that spot for 9 years. **Stephen** trusts **Bishop** with his entire being and will and has murdered people for him, before he was the first mate **Bishop** served as one of the crews Navigators

**Duke Rooke:**

**Duke** and **Stephen** have a strange relationship, **Duke** views him as an anomaly of the world, interested in the strange biology caused by his devil fruit's immense regenerative abilities. **Stephen** on the other hand views **Duke** as an important asset to his crew. He might be able to regenerate but his crew mates cannot do that, so he allows **Duke** to experiment on his blood and the rest of his body in exchange for him working as the lead doctor on his crew.

### **Scarlet Vampires:**

The rest of **Stephen's** crew are very dear to him, **Stephen** loves them all like family in some regard, most of them see him like an Uncle that they don't want to piss off. Otherwise they love him, he takes care of them and they take care of him.

## Quotes

* "I Can Freely Feed On Any Criminal Bozo"
* "As the great Sonic D. Hedgehog says. YOUR TOO SLOW"
* "I am totes thirsty yo"

## Trivia

• The Scarlet Vampires were originally titled **The Coffin Pirates**, but it was later changed due to that already being the name of a crew

• In the alternative timeline Noah Kinetic becomes Strauds Sugar Daddy, why is unclear but it did happen in that alt timeline.