Purgatorio Alexandre

Purgatorio "Twilight" Alexandre is the captain of the Tephron Crew, and one of the current Shichibukai.

His crew currently only consists of a handful of members, however they are people that Alexandre both loves and trusts with all his heart.

Alexandre works just as efficiently without his crew, though, and in fact he becomes even more aggressive and volatile a fighter when away from his crew, who hold him back as he doesn't wish to accidentally harm them in his attacks, particularly those pertaining to his devil fruit, which he often uses to spread ash across the battlefield, suffocating and malevolent as he maintains control over it from afar.

Alexandre has a strong foundation of Busoshoku and Kenbunshoku Haki, though neither have reached full mastery in any capacity. It is believed that he has latent Haoshoku Haki, however this has gone unconfirmed due to his lack of display of the ability. What he has displayed however, and to devastating efficiency, is his mastery over Hirushoku Haki, to a point where he has been known to passively emanate an aura around him that completely negates all forms of haki around him, something that in combination with him having consumed a Logia fruit becomes a terrifying antagonist. His Haki-Negation aura is a technique that he coined known as **"Whispers of The Fall"**, or shortened to **"Whispers".**

He is the former Vice-Captain of the Popsmoke Pirates.

## Equipment

Alexandre's hat serves as his Spawn Conduit, and when active manifests itself as a set of returning daggers, of which there are thirty. They are tiny, however easy to pitch at targets and sharp to boot, making them a deadly thorn when imbued with Busoshoku Haki, though about halfway through their flight they lose this coating, this half of time generally being the returning phase so that they do not injure Alexandre himself. While during the day they appear as regular daggers, at night they become pitch-black in appearance, their visibility warped to their surroundings.

## History

Alexandre originally hails from the Horon Empire, and was a student of Aokoto for 14 years starting from the age of five. During his Branding Ceremony, however, mere moments before he took the mark symbolizing eternal gratitude and loyalty to the Empire, he went on a burst of rampage, killing nearly all members of the Temple present within the hall, with the exception of some of his fellow students. He felt an urge of rebellion, and a hatred for his homeland and what it had put him through, and he had been waiting for that very moment during the Branding Ceremony to emphasize his opposition to the practices and beliefs of the Temple, and soon after he escaped the Empire, he quickly found himself a place onboard a pirate ship as a recruit.

However, this ship was crushed mere days after his embarkment onto it by one of the current Admirals at the time, Amaterasu Yume, who had simply been passing through the area on patrol when she caught sight of the pirate ship. Alaxandre found himself in confrontation with the Admiral, and he knew full well who she was, yet Yume relented when facing Alexandre, even though she had already destroyed the ship and subsequently slaughtered, intentional or otherwise, much of the crew onboard. Alexandre distinctly remembers seeing an almost pitying look in her eyes as she looked at him, before she turned away and simply left.

After this, Alexandre spend a couple years wandering around as a travelling nomad, with nowhere left to call home, and many of those in the surrounding sea resenting him for his heritage as a child of Horon. Daggers and glares just as piercing everywhere he went to seek refuge, he eventually decided that if here wasn't a place he could call home, that he would simply go somewhere else. Thus, he travelled to the New World, where he once again became a pirate, this time under his own banner, and set sail upon the seas.

This too was short-lived, however, as his fledgling soon found itself in conflict with the Fleet Admiral Izanagi Katsuo himself, who easily made short work of all of Alexandre's crewmates that attempted to drive the man off. Knowing he couldn't win the fight, Alexandre made a desperate call for his crew to abandon ship and try and retreat, yet by the time the words had escaped his mouth all of his newfound compatriots were lifeless, just like before. This crippled Alexandre's mental state, as he collapsed in a psychologically withered mess onto the deck. Katsuo took Alexandre and brought him to a prison in the New World without any resistance from Alexandre, who cursed his existence, or rather, saw his existence itself as almost a curse. A pained childhood, an even more painful life beyond when he actually attempted to free himself from the shackles of his homeland, yet to no avail.

Some months after being imprisoned, one of his fellow prisoners, Akuron Brook, a pirate who had consumed the Hai Hai no Mi, invited Alexandre to break out of prison with him and a few others who were being held there. Alexandre initially declined, however something in Brook's eyes somehow lit a candle within him, invigorating him to press on even in his near-crippled state, and days later he, alongside Brook and several other prisoners, escaped their confines and Alexandre found himself setting sail anew, and for the third time.

This crew, named the Resilience Pirates, lasted much longer, with Brook as Captain and Alexandre as First Mate, and they travelled far and wide across the New World, seeing what the world had to offer, and enriching their own lives by treasure and fun as they sailed across the Grand Line. Though this wasn't without conflict. They sailed during the Golden Age of the Marines, a time when pirates were scarce, and those soldiers within the Navy were fiercer than ever before, spearheaded by a cast of some of the most powerful Admirals in recent history, alongside perhaps the greatest Fleet Admiral of all time. It was bound to occur, that their notoriety as pirates would eventually catch up with them.

It was a year later when this infamy did end up catching up, as the crew found themselves face-to-face with Echo Fairie, perhaps at that time the second strongest person in the world. There was little competition to be had in this quarrel, and the same thing happened all over again. Alexandre was much stronger now than ever before, yet it was still meaningless. To Fairie, he was still weak, and here, he saw for the third time the sight that plagued his past. This time, it was not he alone who managed to escape, however. With their ship and crew all but demolished, both Alexandre and Brook managed to escape, hiding out on a nearby island seeking what refuge it could provide. Fairie soon followed them though, and there was little opportunity, or time, to run away. In a twist of fate, Brook utilized his devil fruit ability to knock Alexandre unconscious, stabbing himself and smearing the blood on Alexandre's body to forge the appearance that he had killed him himself. Fairie was aptly convinced, with Alexandre not breathing and covered in blood he was by all visible means dead, and without allowing her to inspect further, Brook faced her alone. It was in vain, but he provided enough fight to draw her attention away from Alexandre, causing her to forget about him in the moment, though Brook himself was unable to last for long.

When Alexandre woke up days later, he saw two things that drew his eye. One was a strange black fruit sitting by him upon the ground, appearing to have fallen from a tree nearby. And the second, was the body of his Captain, the closest person he had ever had in his life, lying lifeless on the ground, not even a speck of blood soaking the soil, as a pained expression showed in his cold, dead eyes, having been cut clean through in a single strike.

## Trivia

img - Edmond Dantès from fgo (Fate/Grand Order)