Among One Slice's Straw Hat Pirates, Brook is ane of the most overlooked by fans. This goofy pun-loving skeleton is withal the one afforded the least amount of screentime, and, to exist off-white, his "perverted" antics practise get dull. However, to say this ninety-yr-quondam skeleton musician has no depth and can only play one tune would be a nifty misunderstanding of the graphic symbol. Brook isn't without his flaws, but this skeleton has center, and his backstory is one of the almost heartbreakingly sad amid the Harbinger Hat Pirates.

The Harbinger Hat coiffure is first introduced to this goofy skeleton at the start of the Thriller Bark Arc, and he makes quite the first impression. The skeleton says he died 50 years ago, but thanks to eating the Revive-Revive Fruit, he was given a second hazard at life. The manga proceeds to reveal his backstory in a not-linear fashion, gradually revealing the full motion picture of who this jovial pun-loving skeleton really is.

fifty years before Luffy starting time set up out on his journey, Brook was a crew member and musician of a merry band of pirates called the Rumbar Pirates, hailing from the West Blue. While out at sea, the crew stumbled upon a lost infant whale, so to elevator the child's spirits, they played i of their most jovial shanties, "Bink'due south Sake." After that, the infant whale started to follow the Rumbar Pirates on all their adventures, and they gave him the proper name Laboon.

Brook and Laboon became very close, simply eventually, a hard conversation needed to be had. The Rumbar Pirates' next voyage was to the Grand Line, and a sea as chaotic and dangerous as that is no place to bring a baby whale. After two months at the Twin Capes with Laboon, they left the young whale behind with the lighthouse keeper Crocus, promising Laboon that they volition come back in a few years when they end sailing around the world. Laboon takes this promise to heart so the Rumbar Pirates say their goodbyes to the youngest member of their crew with the promise they will return through Reverse Mount.

Three years later, the whole Rumbar Pirate crew was dead except for Beck, all alone as their ship floated through the Florian Triangle. Chapters 487-488 of the manga do well making readers empathize with Beck, as the chapters intercut The Rumbar Pirates' voyage and skeletal Brook alone in the Florian Seas. The in one case jovial lively sea vessel is at present a painfully empty and placidity ghost ship, with only one skeletal passenger left trying to preserve his sanity.

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It's like shooting fish in a barrel to write off Beck as an annoying grapheme, and his sense of humor is certainly non for anybody, only his backstory conspicuously shows how he became this way. How does 1 manage to stay sane alone on a ship for 50 years? Brook did it by trying to brand himself laugh. It'south heartbreaking watching Brook doze off then see his crew alive and well, merely for reality to set back in as he wakes upwardly from his dreams. Beck needed a way to cope with his loneliness and that manifested in a sense of humor that hasn't adapted to existence around other people in five decades.

So what exactly befell the balance of the Rumbar Pirates? Half the crew, including Captain Yorki, contracted an incurable illness and left the transport so that the remaining men would not fall victim besides. With Brook condign the acting helm, things were smoothen sailing until an enemy pirate assault in the Florian Triangle. After the firefight, the remaining crew met their tedious deaths from poisoned weapons, regretfully unable to keep their promise to Laboon.

Withal, knowing that Brook's devil fruit could still revive him, the coiffure spent their final moments recording the whale'southward favorite song, "Bink's Sake," and then Beck tin can still take it to Laboon anytime. The scene of the pirates singing to their concluding jiff is as heartfelt and heartbreaking. The anime adaption of this scene is even more distressful than the manga version, showing the quintet of musicians collapse one after another in tempo, leaving behind just Brook to behave the accompaniment.

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Beck wasn't even certain Laboon was nevertheless waiting for him until Luffy told him, simply he still planned on coming back to the Twin Capes regardless. When Luffy told him, all the dry skeleton could practice was cry his centre out and be grateful that he'southward alive to proceed his promise.

Brook is a human being who values a promise in a higher place all. He cherishes the promise he made to Laboon to return to after sailing entirely around the world, he honors the promise he made to his former crew to give the final song they played together to that very whale and he upholds his hope to Luffy to be his loyal musician and assistance him reach his goal of becoming King of the Pirates. Brook's trustworthiness and reverence for his friends are what makes him worthy of being a Straw Hat Pirate, and far more than circuitous than his jokey demeanor might imply.

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