User blog comment:Onepiece2trill/Bartolomeo chilling like a villain/@comment-94.68.202.127-20130501124838

It is a nice idea indeed, but highly unlike.

When the big shots of the tournament officially introduced in chapter 706, there was not a single unkown character to be characterized as pirate.

The titles we saw are not their epithets, but their occupations. We have warriors, criminals, gladiators, brawler(s), army commanders, fighting "things", pirates etc, with the sole sensible exception being the Pyromaniac, which is not an occupation (hopefully).

One could argue if this is a solid proof or not, but even if it is not, I doubt Oda would introduce the characters that way if he had Bartolomeo Pirates on his mind.

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