Sabo

**"Flame Emperor" Sabo** is the Revolutionary Army's chief of staff, recognized as the No. 2 of the entire organization and outranked only by Supreme Commander Monkey D. Dragon. He is also the sworn brother of the notorious pirates Monkey D. Luffy and the late Portgas D. Ace.

Raised in nobility by his parents Outlook III and Didit in the Goa Kingdom, Sabo ran away at the age of 10 with the intention of becoming a pirate and writing a book about his travels and met Ace and Luffy while living as a vagabond in Gray Terminal. He tried to set sail just a few months afterward to get away from his family, but had his ship destroyed by the World Noble Saint Jalmack. He was saved by Dragon but lost his memory in the process, and so devoted his life to the service of the Revolutionary Army. However, his memories would return 10 years later after hearing about Ace's death. Two years after regaining his memories, Sabo would reunite with Luffy and also carry Ace's legacy by consuming his Devil Fruit, the Mera Mera no Mi. He currently has a bounty of 602,000,000.

He acts as an ally of Luffy during the Dressrosa Arc, as well as the movies *One Piece Film: Gold* and *One Piece: Stampede.*

## Statistics

### Japanese VA:

Junko Takeuchi (young)Toru Furuya (Adult)

### English VA:

Morgan Garrett (Young)Johnny Yong Bosch (Current(

## Personality

Sabo is devoted to his dreams to the point that he agreed with Ace that the two of them had to kill Luffy so that he could not tell anyone about their treasure, though neither Ace nor Sabo knew how to kill a person nor had any experience, implying some degree of innocence despite their profession. He is very ashamed of being a noble, and even stated that he wished that he had not been born as one.

According to Luffy, Sabo is a nicer older brother than Ace. He acknowledged Luffy's powers, and even encouraged his improvement. He helped Ace and Luffy get along when they were fighting, thus being the nice, diplomatic one of the trio.

Sabo's dream involves traveling around the world as a pirate. This is in order to write a book containing the story of everything he would see and every place he would visit during his journey. One of the reasons behind all this could be the "segregation" that envelopes so much of the Goa Kingdom, a thing that could easily stir a freedom-loving spirit like Sabo's to ask himself what the world was really like outside the walls of High Town, and outside the island itself. However, he was ready to cast aside his dream for the sake of his loved ones. Sabo was loyal to his friends and, in this case his two "brothers", to the point that he would give in to the demands of his father, becoming miserable and "alone" in order to save both Luffy and Ace. After reawakening his memories, Sabo did not leave the Revolutionary Army to resume his dream as a free-sailing pirate, as he seems to remain convicted to the Army's causes.

Despite being the son of a noble, Sabo does not act like a stereotypical noble would act, nor does he consider himself to be a noble. He does not look down on the less fortunate nor does he put on airs about his status. This is in stark contrast to the rest of the citizens of noble birth in Goa Kingdom including his family, who see their status as more important than anything else and will do whatever it takes to raise their social standing or maintain their current status, as well as look down on anyone they consider to be inferior. Sabo rejects these values completely, and even went as far as to say that he feels ashamed of his status as a noble. This can be seen as the reason why he ran away from home and went to live in the Gray Terminal, forfeiting his noble heritage. Since a child becomes a full-fledged noble at the age of eighteen, Sabo intended to leave the Goa Kingdom at the age of seventeen, to escape the idea of being recognized as the thing he hated the most. He even refers to the nobles as "smelling worse than Trash Mountain, as they are people rotten to the core".

At age 22, Sabo has retained much of his old personality, although he appears to have adapted many mannerisms from Luffy, including his brother's tendency to mispronounce the names of others. Moreover, his tendency to hang up the Den Den Mushi in the middle of a call rather annoys his comrades. He has also displayed an immensely fierce protective streak towards Luffy, to the point where he will disregard everything he is currently doing if he feels that Luffy is in any sort of danger, including his duties in the Revolutionary Army. This is largely contributed by Sabo's inability to save Ace from death before the timeskip, a fact that Sabo still regrets to this very day. This is ironic considering that Ace himself had gained a very similar protective-streak after Sabo's presumed death.

#### Outlook III

Outlook III, Sabo's father is a stereotypical noble, treating Ace and Luffy as trash, and panicking about being contaminated when Bluejam got their blood onto him during a beating, claiming that he needed to be decontaminated. He also desired for his son to become his heir, believing that children must always adhere to the parents' wishes, and threatened to kill Ace and Luffy if Sabo did not comply. He ordered Sabo to marry a princess when he grew up, which is one of the reasons he ran away. In essence, Sabo had no right to freedom of choice in his father's eyes. What is worse, Outlook had no confidence in him, despite wanting him to return, going as far as to adopt a stepson of higher status in order to have a backup heir.

Outlook did have a look of shock on his face when Sabo was seemingly killed by Jalmack, though he may have been more surprised that his son would incur a World Noble's wrath.

#### Didit

Didit is Sabo's biological mother. Like her husband, she has the stereotypical personality of a Noble, and only seeks to further her family's status. This was clearly seen when her son got into a fight with a noble boy of a higher status who used a weapon on him and she apologized to the family while comforting the other boy, completely ignoring her own son's injuries. She also acted in a rather insensitive manner when Sabo was dragged back from his runaway, giving her son a somewhat rude welcome back.

Like Outlook, she appeared upset when Sabo seemingly died, though it may have been for a more selfish reason.

#### Sterry

While Sabo cared greatly for Luffy and Ace, he absolutely did not care for his adopted brother, Sterry, who came from a higher nobility than Sabo's family and is arrogant and cowardly. Sterry is, in short, a complete opposite to Sabo. To this end, Sabo was willing to assault Sterry in order to learn about the plan to burn down the Gray Terminal.

Twelve years later, Sabo posed as a guard at the Levely and reunited with his adopted brother while the latter was unaware of his identity. Sabo was silently amused by Sterry's fear of the outside world and assured him to maintain his cover.

#### Monkey D. Luffy

At first, when Luffy was secretly following Ace and had been caught, Sabo was worried that Luffy would reveal the secret stash that he and Ace had hidden, they suggested that they would kill Luffy for knowing. However, after seeing Luffy resist Porchemy and refusing to tell the secret stash, they inducted him into the group and treated him like a brother. Luffy also thought of Sabo as a kinder elder brother than Ace. Unlike Ace, who'd often mock Luffy's Devil Fruit powers or hit him in annoyance, Sabo encouraged Luffy, believing his powers to be handy and never hitting him. Prior to his departure from Goa, Sabo sent a letter to Ace, telling him to take care of Luffy as their younger brother.

Although he had amnesia for ten years and forgot Luffy and Ace. When Sabo regained his memories after Ace's death, Sabo resolved to protect his remaining brother at all costs.

After twelve years of separation, when Sabo meets Luffy, Luffy at first did not recognize him. When Sabo boldly stated that he will win the Mera Mera no Mi, Luffy went mad and said that he will win it. However, when Sabo reveals his identity and mentions the day they became brothers, it greatly shocked and surprised Luffy. After he realized that Sabo was in front of him and alive, he started crying out of joy, thinking that he had died more than a decade ago. Luffy quickly embraced Sabo, while Sabo thanked Luffy for surviving the Summit War of Marineford. Luffy then let Sabo take up his disguise as Lucy to enter the finale in the Corrida Colosseum, allowing Sabo to take the Mera Mera no Mi and inherit Ace's power after talking it out with Luffy. Sabo later told Rebecca and Bartolomeo that Luffy will be the future Pirate King showing that he, like his deceased brother Ace, supports Luffy's dream.

It is shown that Sabo has gained an overprotective attitude towards Luffy as he held off Admiral Fujitora and told him that should Luffy ever need help, he would be there for him, having refused to ever lose another loved one ever again. He also came to Luffy's aid when Jesus Burgess attempted to kill Luffy firmly telling the Blackbeard pirate that Luffy is his brother, and he has to go through him to get to Luffy. In return, Luffy was very happy to see his brother again and was pleased to see that Sabo had inherited Ace's power.

Upon his departure from Dressrosa, Sabo visited Luffy again and gave the Straw Hats Luffy's Vivre Card, of which he took a piece, and entrusted Luffy's well-being into their care similar to what Ace had done. After Dressrosa, Sabo happily updated Dragon on Luffy's progress. Later, Sabo was very proud to see Luffy's new bounty poster.

After he read the newspaper detailing that Luffy had become the "Fifth Emperor of the Sea", Sabo was so proud of his younger brother that he smirked and grinned until his cheeks hurt.

Luffy has great faith in Sabo's morale and ideals of someone fighting for freedom, refusing to believe the newspaper article of him killing Nefertari Cobra. However, unknown to him, Cobra tells Sabo that Luffy and Vivi needs to learn about the Will of D. as they bear the same initials, meaning that Sabo has to find Luffy as he witnessed Imu's knowledge of the name.

#### Portgas D. Ace

Ace, being a fellow child who wants to be a pirate, was a good friend of Sabo's. In fact, they were like brothers, and Sabo was willing to forsake his dreams to save Ace and Luffy from his father's wrath.

Although Sabo had amnesia for more than half of his current life and forgot about Ace and Luffy, after reading about Ace's death in a newspaper article, Sabo regained his memories of Ace and the rest of the memories he had lost. This event, combined with the fact that he discovered that Ace had died all at the same time, put him into a coma for three days. Two years after Ace's death, Sabo deeply regrets that he was not there to try and save his brother's life, and not a day went by where he did not agonize over what Ace's final thoughts might have been. He visited Ace's grave and left three cups of sake next to Ace's gravestone in the memory of their brotherhood, and pinned a newspaper article to the gravestone to indicate that Luffy is doing fine. Despite his regret, Sabo still remains determined to inherit Ace's power by obtaining the Mera Mera no Mi. He later looked to his late brother to watch over him as he entered the arena. Sabo obtained and then ate the Mera Mera no Mi, and the first attack he used with his new abilities was Ace's signature move, Hiken. Despite Sabo's grief, he took it upon himself to protect his remaining brother Luffy in Ace's stead and vowed to never live with any regrets ever again—as he believed Ace would never have forgiven him for it. Like Luffy, Sabo does not take too kindly to people insulting Ace as shown when Burgess insulted and mock his deceased brother, with Sabo unleashing a brutal fire attack on him despite him never intending to kill 'the Champion' in the first place.

### Revolutionaries

#### Monkey D. Dragon

In the past, Dragon spared his time to listen to Sabo's story. He was openly affected by Sabo's morality and sympathized with the noble child for his refusal of his heritage.

He later rescued Sabo, who had his boat blown up by a World Noble named Jalmack, and brought him to the revolutionaries to treat his wounds. Because Sabo lost his memories of Luffy and Ace after this incident, Dragon was not aware that Sabo was a sworn brother to his son. He permitted him to join the Revolutionary Army after the boy begged them not to send him back to his parents. After Sabo joined the revolutionaries, Dragon personally trained him, enabling him to rise through the ranks until he became the Revolutionary Army's chief of staff. Because of Sabo regaining his memories during the aftermath of the Marineford War and the revelation of Luffy's heritage, it can be presumed Dragon was made aware of the relationship between Sabo and his son while Sabo learned of Dragon's relation to Luffy.

Sabo refers to Dragon as "Dragon-san" and is loyal to him and is trusted enough to lead the Revolutionary Army's investigation of the Doflamingo Family's weapons trade. Even after regaining his memories, Sabo did not leave the revolutionaries to resume his dream of being a free-sailing pirate, showing a firm conviction to Dragon's cause.

After Doflamingo's defeat, Sabo personally told Dragon how Luffy was doing when giving his report.

#### Koala

Sabo is on friendly terms with his subordinate Koala, having worked with her since they were both young teenagers. As a result, she became very upset and cried over the thought of Sabo leaving the revolutionaries after regaining his memories and knows about his history with Luffy and Ace and his regret about not being able to be at the Summit War of Marineford. Koala is happy for him when he finally reunites with his remaining brother, and also attempted to comfort him over any lingering feelings of regret he may feel over his inability to protect Ace, showing some closeness between the two. She also attends his battle at the Corrida Colosseum. However, she is constantly frustrated with his selfish attitude in regards to disobeying orders as seen when she berates him for potentially drawing the ire of the Marines by fighting one of their Admirals.

#### Hack

Sabo also works closely with Hack in the Revolutionary Army. However, he along with Koala, are occasionally at odds with Sabo over his tendency to leave his post during missions. After being rescued by Dragon, Hack briefly trained amnesiac Sabo in martial arts. However due to Sabo already being a skilled fighter due to his training alongside Ace and Luffy, there was little Hack could teach him, so Dragon took over Sabo's training personally.

#### Revolutionary Army Commanders

Sabo seems to have a causal relationship with the commanders despite being their senior officer. When Lindbergh informed Sabo that he and the other commanders would be late for Dragon's mobilization conference, Sabo was not worried and was only concerned they are safe. When Sabo returned from his mission at Mary Geoise, he excluded the other commanders from his meeting with Dragon and Emporio Ivankov of witnessing Imu's sitting of the Empty Throne, in fear that all their lives would be at risk should they come to know.

#### Bartholomew Kuma

Sabo appears to be close to Kuma as he referred to him as gentle. He was enraged at the news of Kuma's enslavement and torture by the Celestial Dragons. Sabo insists on amending the Revolutionary Army's mission of infiltrating the Levely to rescue Kuma despite the risks.

### Friends

#### Curly Dadan

When Sabo was introduced to Dadan at first, she seemed annoyed of him. She even said that she had heard bad things about him. Sabo responded by saying that he had also heard bad things about her too. However, she was content with Sabo living with Ace and Luffy. Dadan was also stricken by Sabo's presumed death.

Years later, Dadan read of Sabo being still alive and a member of the Revolutionary Army, but she became distressed when the news alleged of him killing King Nefertari Cobra of Arabasta Kingdom.

#### Bartolomeo

Initially, Bartolomeo was hostile towards Sabo when the latter told Luffy he would not allow him to have the Mera Mera no Mi only to be pushed aside. When Sabo revealed himself as a brother to Luffy, Bartolomeo started to treat Sabo with great respect, referring to him as "great senpai." Though Sabo respects Bartolomeo enough because of him aiding them, he found Bartolomeo's obsession with the Straw Hats to be irritating.

Even after Doflamingo put a price on Sabo's head during his survival game, Bartolomeo did not betray the revolutionary and continued to assist him.

#### Rebecca

Sabo seemed to sympathize with Rebecca and her family after seeing Doflamingo's actions on Dressrosa. However, he wouldn't allow her to have the fruit of his late brother while she noticed he wasn't the same "Lucy" that she met.

However, Sabo ordered Bartolomeo to protect Rebecca from Diamante in the final match and saved her after he destroyed the arena. Sabo later introduced himself and revealed his connection to the Lucy from before, as she was surprised by these facts.

#### Straw Hat Pirates

Following Doflamingo's defeat, Sabo met some of the Straw Hats and they were shocked to learn that Luffy had another brother before listening to Sabo's story of losing his memories. Before his departure, Sabo entrusted Luffy's care into the crew's hands to which they accepted with Zoro even remarking that Sabo's words were similar to what Ace said. Though a portion of the crew had not met him yet due to being forced to depart for Zou, it was later established that they (with the exception of Sanji) are aware of his existence and his connection to Luffy. Eventually, when news of Sabo allegedly killing King Cobra, the remainder members of the crew (Sanji and Jinbe) know of the connection.

##### Nico Robin

Sabo appears to have developed a very friendly relationship with Robin, who was rescued by the revolutionaries just prior to the timeskip. He and Robin exchanged warm greetings with each other upon reuniting in Dressrosa.

#### Nefertari Cobra

Though the two only interacted briefly during their short encounter in Pangaea Castle when Sabo attempted to save Cobra from Imu and the Five Elders when Cobra learned of the former's existence, Cobra after impressing Sabo by stating Luffy had previously saved his life, willingly sacrificed himself to help give the revolutionary time to escape. Before his death he imparted his final words for Sabo to locate and inform Vivi that the Nefertari Family bears the Will of D. and states the contents of Nefertari D. Lili's letter for Sabo to also pass down to Luffy and Vivi. Sabo was still crying when he remembered his failure to save Cobra.

Though Sabo was framed for Cobra's murder, he reluctantly decides to maintain this facade to help maintain the "flames of revolution".

### Enemies

#### World Government/Marines

Due to Sabo being a part of the Revolutionaries, he is an enemy of the Marines, but more specifically, the World Government. As such he stopped Admiral Fujitora and his forces from advancing after Luffy. A majority of them were surprised to learn that Sabo, Ace, and Luffy were brothers before they watched Sabo clashing with Fujitora.

Despite this enmity, Sabo wished Issho good luck with his dangerous gamble to leave Doflamingo's defeat in the hands of pirates. However, they later have another confrontation at the Levely when Sabo and his comrades attempt to rescue Bartholomew Kuma from his enslavement by the World Nobles.

After the chaos in Big Mom's territory, the Marines became aware of Sabo's connection to Luffy.

#### Nobles

Having personally witnessed the cruelty of the nobles from his home in the Goa Kingdom, Sabo bears deep hatred towards them. Having learned of their attempt to kill all the people in the Gray Terminal, Sabo was the only person in the whole kingdom to try to save the people living there and was shocked and disgusted to see that the nobles in the kingdom knew what was happening but did nothing to help. He himself even told Dragon how he was ashamed of ever been born as a noble. Sabo left his home to make sure he never become like them.

Despite his grudge he expresses sympathy and cooperation with nobles who care for their subjects as demonstrated by his first conversation with Rebecca during the Corrida Colosseum tournament.

##### World Nobles

His loathing of nobles extends to the World Nobles as well, as during his departure twelve years ago, Saint Jalmack tried to kill Sabo solely because he crossed paths with his ship.

Sabo fully supported Dragon's intent to declare war on the World Nobles during the Levely, showing that he is not afraid to openly oppose them despite their privilege of summoning a Marine admiral for protection. He was furious at the Celestial Dragons abusing Bartholomew Kuma as a slave, and together with his comrades, launched an attack against Mary Geoise to both declare war and rescue Kuma.

###### Imu

When Sabo found his way into the chamber with the Empty Throne he unintentionally discovered the existence of Imu and was both stunned and abhorred by the fact there was a sovereign that ruled the world from the shadows. Angered by this turn of events Imu and the Five Elders tried to kill Sabo with extreme prejudice, but he escaped Pangaea Castle and made his way to the Red Port, however he was later framed for the murder of King Cobra afterwards. Now that Sabo knew the government's greatest secret, Imu made it their top priority to silence him. Imu even went as far as to wipe out an entire kingdom just to kill Sabo.

#### Jesus Burgess

As Jesus Burgess is a member of the Blackbeard Pirates, who turned Ace over to the World Government, Sabo holds him and his crew accountable for his death and the Marineford War 2 years ago. Despite this, he claims that he would not bear a personal grudge against him or his crew for this but made it perfectly clear that he will protect Luffy to the end when Burgess attempted to kill him and take his power. Burgess in turn desired to kill Sabo and obtain the Mera Mera no Mi. However, he fails to kill him and is horribly injured by Sabo's Fire Fist, though he manages to survive and stowaway on board a ship that takes him to the Revolutionary Army's base at Baltigo, informing Laffitte and Shiryu he had discovered the Revolutionary Army's base. As a result, the Blackbeard Pirates later attacked Baltigo, presumably in retaliation for Sabo's actions and his possession of the Mera Mera no Mi.

#### Donquixote Pirates

Sabo despised their rule on Dressrosa as he viewed it as similar to the injustice in his hometown. Sabo also sought to obtain the Mera Mera no Mi from them and took up Luffy's disguise as Lucy to do so and fought against Diamante for the fruit. Sabo infuriated the crew by actually consuming the fruit that they did not plan to give away. In response to his actions and other things, Doflamingo included Sabo in his list of "criminals" that he wanted the citizens to hunt down during his Birdcage game. Sabo was shocked to see he was included in this list.

### Other

#### Monkey D. Garp

It is unknown how Garp and Sabo thought of each other, but Garp was once shown "training" him like Ace and Luffy. Sabo also mentioned to the Straw Hats that Garp kept him, Luffy, and Ace on a short leash and said so in a fond way, suggesting he did not mind Garp.