Derek Thorne

**Derek Thorne** is a marine captain who has a personal vendetta against Jerry and the Secret Pirates

Due to his actions he is a minor antagonist in the Marine Island arc and the main antagonist of the Harbor Reach Island arc.

## Appearance

Captain Thorne is a tall and imposing figure with a muscular cyborg body. His skin is a tan with a reddish tint, and his left arm is a sleek, black mechanical limb, adorned with various combat enhancements and sensors. His left eye is also augmented, featuring a red cybernetic eye. He has a rough hair cut in his dark blue hair, parts of his hair covering his cybernetic eye. Thorne wears a marine uniform despite not needing to at his rank, he also wears his coat hanging over his shoulders adorned with various medals. He also wears a Marine cap with a skull on one side and the marine seagull on the other, he also wears matching chains one of each symbol.

## Personality

Thorne is a stern and unwavering marine captain, dedicated to maintaining order and justice in the world. He possesses a strong sense of duty and is unafraid to make tough decisions for the greater good. Thorne has a deep-seated distrust of pirates, especially those who use Devil Fruits for evil purposes, driving him to pursue them relentlessly. He is also very quick to anger and violence when Pirates are involved

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Elara Vael

Thorne has been friends with Lieutenant Vael since she was a child and he saved her village and they became partners in the marine with Vael serving as his number 2. When Thorne was punished he was incredibly grateful to Vael for sticking with him despite them Vael being given the option to Abaddon Thorne. Vael was the only person to show compassion to Thorne when his family was executed even though Thorne wasn't showing any emotion. Vael and Thorne have a tradition where they eat a pie while drinking wine at the end of the week to unwind despite the secret pirates interrupting this tradition they have done it for the 20 years they have been partners.

### Enemies

#### Jerry

Thorne showed Jerry compassion and Jerry betrayed this compassion by escaping and Thorne has hated him for it ever since. Thorne has attempted to kill Jerry twice since that incident once when Jerry first escaped and another time in Harbor Reach when he tried to kill all the secret pirates but was stopped by Vice Admiral Petra D. Knight. He even defied the marines for the first time since his punishment when he yelled at Fleet Admiral Akainu to let him chase Jerry into the grandline.

#### Secret Pirates

He hates the secret pirates because he hates Jerry but he also has a great dislike for what Rori has become despite being a cadet under him and his great example of undivided justice.

#### Petra D. Knight

He despise Vice Admiral Knight because she intervened in his attempt to kill the secret pirates for a dumb reason in his opinion.

## Abilities and Powers

Thorne is very resilient as his body has been modified to be and his stature helps him as well. He is also very powerful physically being able to demolish a marine watch tower with one punch. He also has fantastic will power being able to withstand Petra D. Knights conquerors haki without a reaction.

### Fighting Style

Throne's fighting style is mostly focused on firing laser beams from his metal arm but he does also use his physical strength and devil fruit quite often

### Weapons and Equipment

Thrones arm is his main weapon having multiple features like seastone knuckles which are the one part he cant transform, Laser beams and sensors that can detect people by their scent within 10 kilometers and display it. His eye is also cybernetic which features a display he can use to pull up information and a advanced targeting system

### Devil Fruit

Thorne has the logia type devil fruit the Spore Spore Fruit which allows him to turn his whole body into swirling purple and green spore balls poison the target. Alongside its special upsides it has the normal upside of a logia which makes it impossible for anything not haki based or in his fruits case heat based to hit him

## History

### Pre-West Blue Saga

Captain Thorne was a human marine serving as a cadet under the vice admiral Monkey D. Garp, during a storm Thorne was thrown off of the ship. Thorne washed up days later on an island that looked deserted entirely except for one tree in the center, Thorne traveled to the tree to find it grew apples and had mushrooms on the roots.

He spent 20 days on the island training his body and surviving off the tree's fruits and the mushrooms without any visitors until a crew of pirates arrived. The pirates taunted him asking what a kid marine would do. He responded by dispatching the whole crew with just his fist as their captain just watched from the back lines.

Their captain looked at Thorne in the pile of dead pirates and asked him if he was done. Thorne, insulted by the comment, attacked him but the man’s body turned into green and purple spore balls around his fist. His fist started swell as it was poisoned by the spores, the pirate captain explained he ate the spore spore logia type devil fruit which means that no matter how hard he tries there's no way to harm him. They fight for hours with Thorne losing as the man barely attacks but Thorne still becomes incredibly injured from the spores.

The captain says that he is done playing with him since it's been fun but he’s got other plans, he goes to charge an attack by placing a foot back but he puts it on the edge of the cliff not realizing where he is. At the same time Thorne uses his fist to break the grond, dropping the captain into the water below not giving him a chance to react. After about 6 minutes a mushroom near the tree formed into the Spore Spore Devil Fruit, Thorne grabbed it right before he passed out.

Thorne woke up in a med bay on a marine base and was told a marine ship was tailing the pirates and found him there, they also explained that they had to amputate his arm and take out his eye due to his injuries. Thorne insisted that he be put back together by any means necessary so he can serve the marines.

They ended up giving him very basic metal prosthetics which he modified to be cyborg parts, he also ate the devil fruit when he was alone. Within 7 years he managed to climb his way to captain becoming a feared marine in the paradise half of the grand line because of his tendency to not arrest criminals but instead simply kill them.

In his 8th year of service he was on sabaody archipelago when a celestial dragon attempted kill him for not giving up his seat Captain Thorne was immune to the bullet because of his logia powers and despite his attempts to stay cool he lost it and killed the Celestial Dragon in front of a restaurant of people.

After this he was sentenced to death or he would have to take a position monitoring one of the entry islands to the grand line. so he took the job monitoring the entry island for the west blue but the world government, not satisfied with his punishment, also killed his entire family despite this he is still very loyal to the marines stating it was a fair punishment. He has served as the monitor for 16 years before the beginning of the story.

### West Blue Saga

Thorne hears that there is a pirate from the cross guild with 160 life sentences being held on Marine Island so he gathers Vael and Rori and takes them to Marine Island where he meets Jerry and shows him kindness by having the bases captain unlock the cuffs while still leaving him in the cell. After this Jerry escapes with Sol Min and Rori on his boat and Throne attempts to kill them with a large laser but their ship barely swerves out of the way.

He then has a conversation on a Den Den Mushi with Petra D. Knight which goes as follows: “What captain?” - Knight “Vice Admiral your son is being held captive by pirates” - Thorne “What did you say to me Thorne i must have misheard you i could swear you said that my son is being held captive despite your orders to keep him safe” - Knight “You didn't mishear me ma’am he is being held captive by pirates specifically Jerry of the Buggy Pirates and a Skypiean” - Thorne “Did you atleast obtain the fruit i asked for the real Static Static Fruit” - Knight “No ma’am it was on the ship they stole” - Throne “You are the most incompetent babysitter ever thorne i except those pirates dead before they reach the grandline and Rori reprimanded and if he defects to those pirates or has eaten the fruit….. Kill Him” - Knight “Okay Vice Admiral” Thorne hangs up

Thorne then returned to Harbor Reach Island where he worked as normal until 5 days later when Jerry showed up on his island and he got in a fight with him. As he was about to blow away Jerry and the rest of the Secret Pirates he was stopped by Petra D. Knight who told him to not report this incident and load up the secret pirates ship with supplies.

After complying he called New Marineford which went as follows: Thorne slams his desk with his human arm before picking up his den den mushi and calls New Marineford “Connect me to the fleet admiral, this is Captain Thorne with a important message” - Throne. The Den Den Mushi beeps for a couple moments before Akainu can be heard from the other side “What do you need captain, i hope you're aware that this type of call from your rank is not typically permitted but i took it as i was about to go for break anyway” - Akainu. “There is a pirate crew named the Secret Pirates who have caused numerous problems across the west blue and i would like your permission to pursue them into the grand line despite my punishment” - Throne. Akainu can be heard audibly scoffing over the Den Den Mushi “Thorne why would i allow you to do that your punishment is so severe your lucky your not executed along with your family” - Akainu “Fleet Admiral you believe in absolute justice so why did you allow Vice Admiral Knight to stop my mission of killing this crew and cutting them off here” - Thorne. “I have no idea what you're referring to Thorne vice admiral Knight is to be sworn into the position of admiral tonight and gain her codename there is no way or reason she would be in the west blue” - Akainu Thorne slams his desk again angry but trying to keep his composure “You want absolute justice Sakazuki you wont get it with inaction let me chase and kill these pirates” - Thorne. There is a sigh from the otherside of the phone “Fine Thorne” - Akainu

## Major Battles

* Marines vs Jerry, Sol Min and Rori
* Thorne vs Jerry