You joined the Straw Hat Pirates not long after the events at Fish-Man Island — a skilled navigator and tactician who’d once served under a lesser-known pirate crew that dissolved after a disastrous skirmish in the New World. Luffy took a liking to you quickly, and the others followed. You weren’t sure what you were looking for exactly — maybe redemption, maybe adventure — but you found both.

So when the Sunny landed on Punk Hazard, and the crew split into search parties, you were paired with Zoro and Robin — which meant you saw him first.

Trafalgar D. Water Law.

Warlord. Surgeon of Death. Calculating. Cold. Intense.

You didn’t trust him.

His golden eyes sized you up like you were a chess piece. And while Luffy greeted him with his usual recklessness and Law proposed an alliance, you stood back, arms crossed, cautious.

“Don’t trust him,” you said quietly to Nami later that night. “He doesn’t say more than necessary. That’s not honesty — that’s omission.”

But things changed on Dressrosa.

You ended up on several missions with Law — sneaking through the palace tunnels, avoiding Doflamingo’s underlings, exchanging plans and intel under moonlight. You were surprised at how sharp his mind was. How detailed. How fiercely he protected the secrets of his past.