Rick

**Rick D. Astley** is the former captain of the Devil's Luck Pirates under a different name (as Rick had named it something different), and one of the founding members of the original crew. He was left barely alive during the shipwreck in Episode 1, but the crew unfortunately didn't realize and buried him alive. He was a close friend to William. He ran the crew behind the scenes before his death. This event forced William to learn to guide the crew properly. William originally met him in a bar one night and they became best friends. Rick also met Ragnar in a bar. He was also the one who found and recruited Verona to the crew. He owned a lot of bars and was quite wealthy before leaving to become a pirate.
Later on during Episode 57 he was brought back to life due to Seraph's Devil Fruit ability.

## **Appearance**

Rick had, and now has, ginger hair and a black suit jacket with a white collar shirt and a black and white striped undershirt underneath. He has white pants with a plain black belt as well. He also wears glasses.

## **Personality**

Rick seemed to be fairly non-charismatic but was intelligent enough to take care of the day-to-day leadership of the crew in its early days. He seems to have been fairly skittish by the sound of his voice. He killed Chip in a fairly cold-blooded way by poisoning him, although it may have been that he knew the rules of Limbo and presumed Chip did as well, so it could have been a kill or be killed situation.

## **Abilities / Powers / Equipment**

#### Overview

Rick was, and now is again, an intelligent and rich man. A bar-owning businessman-turned-pirate, he was most likely familiar with business administration and could make use of that experience, his knowledge of people and finances, to run a pirate crew. He is about the level of power of Chip, and was able to kill him using his intelligence.

#### Death Power

Rick allegedly had an ability where, if he pointed at someone and said 'Die', they would die. This could just be some manner of trick.

#### Intelligence

Rick ran the Devil's Luck Pirates before they gained that name behind the scenes, being the one who originally organized the structure of the crew and what roles each crewmember had.

It is also stated that he would have killed Chip, who was at full health, with his intelligence (Chip being a level 11 monk PC, with a maximum of 143 hp).

His general fighting style is using tools to kill his enemies. He has been compared to Usopp and Lindbergh by Tekking.

You could say if there is anything you need from him, all you have to do is say. If someone ever gets the crew down, there's always something he can do.

#### Tools

Ice Fun

Poison

## **Relationships**

#### The Devils Luck Pirates

Rick was good friends with the original members of the crew, those being William, Verona, Duros and Ragnar. Rick was also stated to be William and Verona's best friend.

After being brought back to life by Seraph's ability, Rick has resentment towards the crew for burying him while he was still barley alive and quickly starting arguing with his former crewmembers due William renaming his crew's name, telling everyone that he was actually the captain instead of Rick behind his back when Rick was still alive, and refusing to let Rick reclaim his former captain position. Rick begrudging agreed to help his former crew members in their current goal of taking down Blue blood due to him having nowhere else to go in such a dangerous place. he assisted the Devil luck pirated in the fight against the Black Knight but during The fight with the Yonko Blue Blood he ran away due to him not wanting to die.

After the fight with Blue blood William teleported Rick back to the palace just to punch him in the face and called out Rick for abandoning them which Rick in response called out William for abandoning him and leaving him to die in back episode 1 in which they were now even and after shaking hands Rick and William agreed to have no hard feelings.

Rick chose not to stay with the Devil Luck Pirates due to him seeing the crew as Psychopaths and by the time Tempest and Olaf arrived at Blue blood palace Rick was already long gone.

## **History**

### Past

Not much is known about Rick's past but it's very possible that rick had previous work with other pirates due to how strong he is and the fact that he had a bounty before his death

Rick owned a chain of bars and was a very wealthy man in life with a lot of influence and connections with many powerful people. Eventually he wanted to run away from that life to become a pirate, creating and structuring the original Devil's Luck Pirates (although it was called a different name at the time) somewhere along the way. Rick met William in a bar and the two founded the Devil's Luck Pirates together. Rick also met Ragnar in a bar at some point and recruited him. He was also the one to find and invite Verona into the crew.

Rick presumably died when the crew was hit by a typhoon just before the events of Episode 1.
Although it was later revealed that he was still a bit alive, but the crew buried him anyway. This seemingly involved Chip. Due to this, Rick was able to challenge Chip in Limbo, and kill him, thus taking him back to the world of the living. He was being a little bitch about not being the captain of a crew with a now different name, different flag, the second version of a different ship, more than half of the members recruited by William or Verona, etc. He compromised with William that he would fight with them rather than join the now foreign organization.

## **Trivia**

* Barry D. Brick, Action1528 and FrostingOrb1766 on discord all contributed to the meme which became canon, Rick D. Astley.
* Rick is either the third or fourth person in the entire story to have the Will of D, depending on whether or not Boss has it (it has been implied that he might).
* Rick's situation is like the Ship of Theseus thought experiment that has been mentioned before. While he was dead, several things happened to the crew that made it unrecognizable to him. Their flag, ship, crew composition, crew name, goals, bounties, and who they generally were as people all changed while he was gone.
* Rick's situation is also like being cucked.
* Rick is modelled after Rick Astley, an English singer-songwriter most famous for his 1987 debut single, "Never Gonna Give You Up". Rick's wardrobe is modelled after the one Astley wore in the music video for the song. The other song that Rick Astley is famous for is "Together Forever".

## **Quotes**

* "So William you can be the captain cause I don't really have charisma for it, I'll run things behind the scenes. Ragnar you're the shipwright, Duros you're the first mate and uhhh, Verona you're the navigator." (Not an actual quote)
* "I said I was never gonna give you up, I said I was never let you down, I said I was never run around and hurt you."