 The man Pedro placed his bet on, I'm gonna keep Straw Hat alive, so prepare yourselves because there is no one left in the world who can stop my rampage. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down everyone and everything in the One Piece world. Today, we are going to be delving into the life and times of the ever loyal pecoms. Pecoms is a suave and stylish lion mink who made his first appearance in the series at the tail end of the Fishman Island arc, and immediately his personality was quite strongly characterized by his ferocious lion-esque temper. However, pecoms also retains another trait generally attributed to lions, which is that of loyalty. Pecoms exhibits extreme devotion to those whom he considers comrades, or to those he feels indebted towards. And unfortunately for pecoms, this sense of honour can plague his decision-making at certain points in the series. But for now, at the time of his introduction, pecoms was a relatively high-ranking member of the Big Mom Pirates, led by the Onko Charlotte Lynn Lynn. However, prior to this association, pecoms was a member of the Nox Pirates, a group of mink explorers captained by pecoms' sworn brother Pedro. The purpose of the Nox Pirates was to locate the Ponyglyphs scattered throughout the world, and they achieved a relative success, but they would be met with a dire situation of grave injuries and low morale, which prompted pecoms to take everyone who could no longer continue the journey and leave the Nox Pirates in search of safety. And this endeavour resulted in pecoms and the Nox Pirates arriving in Tottenland, the territory of Charlotte Lynn Lynn, and the whole crew subsequently pledged their allegiance to the Big Mom Pirates in exchange for the opportunity to start new lives amongst the 35 islands controlled by the Emperor. Meanwhile, pecoms gradually worked his way up the ranks within the crew, and even eventually owned the trust of Big Mom herself. Now, it's not clear how many years passed between these events, but pecoms would come to be reunited with his former captain Pedro one day when he appeared in Tottenland in search of the Ponyglyphs held by Big Mom. However, Pedro and his only remaining comrade Zepo were convincingly defeated by the overwhelming might of the Big Mom Pirates and subject to the punishment of Horuletwil, which claimed the life of Zepo, and were it not for the interference of pecoms pleading with Big Mom, it may very well have meant the death of Pedro as well. Instead, the Emperor took 50 years of Pedro's lifespan and allowed him to leave Tottenland safely. After which, Ponyg becomes resumed to business as usual with the Big Mom Pirates and was often paired with fellow crewmate Baron Tamago to conduct important operations. Pocoms proved so efficient in the art of piracy that he even caught the attention of the well government and was issued a bounty of 330 million berries. And one such mission he was sent on was to collect a candy tribute from the citizens of Fishman Island after Big Mom had offered to protect their territory following the death of Whitebeard. There was a slight hitch here, though, and that was that by the time they arrived on the island, all of the candy had been consumed, and it was Monkey D. Luffy who claimed to have eaten all 10 tons of it. Now, naturally, this threw pecoms into his trademark state of pure rage, as Big Mom has killed or maimed trusted subordinates for failing far less than this. However, in an uncharacteristically clever move by Luffy, he offered the Big Mom Pirates a ton of treasure in payment for the candy and successfully focused her wrath onto him. This allowed pecoms and Tamago to leave the island with something of worth, although it wasn't before we caught a glimpse of exactly why pecoms had risen so far within the Big Mom Pirates as he came into conflict with a rookie pirate named Karabo. Initially, pecoms proved completely immune to his machine gun attacks, thanks to the power of his own devil fruit, the Kame Kame No Mi, which is a zomantuck fruit that allows its user to transform into a turtle, making pecoms essentially a lion turtle. And despite being up against a Loki user, pecoms incapacitated Karabo with a single strike, demonstrating his ability to use armor mentality in the process. But with the Straw Hat Pirates essentially having declared war on the Big Mom Pirates, pecoms would now be sent to actively pursue them, making a brief appearance in the waters surrounding Dressrosa, but later following half of them to his very own home island of Zo. Unbeknownst to pecoms, the Ming tribe had recently suffered an attack directed by Kaido, another of the four emperors, and it was the members of the Straw Hat Pirates, along with an abducted Caesar clown, who were responsible for saving the lives of his people. In accordance with his sense of honor, pecoms offered his deepest gratitude directly to Sanji, however the sense of honor would also lead to great conflict within pecoms, and he found that he had no choice but to allow the Straw Hats to go free and suffer the wrath of Big Mom. He would not get the chance to do that though, as his partner on the mission, Capone Gangbej, promptly shot him and abducted both Sanji and Caesar Clown. Thanks to activating his devil fruit powers at the last second, pecoms managed to survive the onslaught of Beja's bullets, although he was unable to nullify them completely this time around, and so pecoms spent the following days recovering on Zo, and when the other half of the Straw Hat Pirates arrived, they formed, how shall we put this, a non-consensual alliance with pecoms, forcing him to take them to Holcake Island in order to rescue Sanji. Quite notably, one of the members of this retrieval team was pecoms' former captain Pedro, who felt indebted to the Straw Hats, but who also joined because he was the only one capable of dealing with pecoms in his Sulong form. Sulong being a transformation granted to the Ming tribe, accessible by staring into a full moon. This transformation is considered to be the true form of the Ming tribe, although very few members are able to master it, and many let their primal urges take control, embarking on a mindless rampage, which can very potentially lead to death. Now pecoms happens to fall into this category, and only the voice of his sworn brother Pedro is able to get through to him in this state. But onwards to Holcake Island, pecoms' role in the opening stages of this new adventure was fairly simple. He got captured by Caponegang Bej, and was subsequently shot by him again, but this time pecoms was saved by the Sun Pirates led by Jinbei. He would later come to discover that Pedro sacrificed his life for the sake of the Straw Hat Pirates, which led pecoms to honor the wishes of his former captain, and betray the Big Man Pirates in order to assist Luffy in escaping Totaland. He did this by entering the Mirror World, and carrying Luffy out after his victory over Charlotte Kartakuri. Although so is not to be recognized by anybody, pecoms donned a disguise and named himself Nuzoms. However literally everybody, including Luffy actually, recognized him instantly, because you know how many talking lions are there in the world. In order to ensure Luffy's safety, pecoms entered his Sulong transformation. However before he could cause any major damage, pecoms was subdued by Charlotte Oven, as well as his other siblings, who came up with the idea to gouge out his eyes to deactivate the Sulong form. But whether or not they were successful in this act is currently unknown, and this would be the last we saw of pecoms during the whole cake island arc. Some more fun facts about pecoms. In the anime adaptation, pecoms' time in Sulong form was significantly extended, to include a flashback of him in the form with Pedro, as well as a conflict with the Charlotte decouplets and even a brief skirmish with Sanji, after which point pecoms saw Luffy and was able to briefly gain control of himself. As with much of the Big Man Pirates, pecoms bears a resemblance to a certain character from Alice in Wonderland, in this case being the Mock Turtle. Pecum's name may be a reference to the Japanese word peco peco, which roughly translates as hungry, and would be fitting with the general theme of the Big Man Pirates, being named after food and food accessories. And finally, a truly useless fact. Whenever pecoms wants to seem particularly intimidating, he will remove his sunglasses. However, this often has the opposite effect, as everyone who sees his eyes just immediately thinks of how adorable he is. But that pretty much does it for pecoms. 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