Pirate Apprentice

A Pirate Apprentice is an individual who resides on a pirate ship in order to learn the ways of piracy from more experienced pirates.

Role and Duties
Pirate apprentices are younger members of a pirate crew that possess the least authority on a ship, since their main purpose is to learn how to become a proper pirate from the rest of the crew. Their training usually involves partaking in habitual pirate activities such as raiding other ships.

Once apprentices are fully educated, either they become full-fledged members and maybe even officers of their respective crews, or leave to become captains of their own crews.

Upon the beginning of the Great Age of Pirates, the tradition of pirates taking on apprentices seemed to have fallen out of practice. However, some crews are known to have added children to their ranks if they've proven to be useful, such as the Donquixote Pirates, though they weren't referred to as "apprentices".

List of Former Apprentices

 * Both Shanks and Buggy were apprentices of the Roger Pirates since they were 9 until their captain chose to disband the crew. Afterwards, they both eventually became infamous captains of their own pirate crews.
 * Shanks built the Red Hair Pirates and became one of the Four Emperors.
 * Buggy built the Buggy Pirates and eventually became a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea before the system's dissolution, and then a member of the Four Emperors.
 * Kaidou joined the Rocks Pirates as an apprentice at the age of 15 before the crew's disbandment upon their captain's demise. He then went on to becoming Governor-General of the Beasts Pirates and one of the Four Emperors.
 * Marco was an apprentice of the Whitebeard Pirates before eventually becoming the crew's First Division Commander and subsequently led the remnants after the original captain's death.
 * Inuarashi and Nekomamushi both became apprentices of the Whitebeard Pirates at age 10 after sneaking aboard their ship, then 4 years later sailed with the Roger Pirates until returning to the Wano Country. Then after the tragic death of Kozuki Oden, they returned to their original home country of Zou where they became its rulers.
 * Marshall D. Teach became an apprentice of the Whitebeard Pirates at age 12. Serving as an apprentice for at least two years, his crew engaged in battle with the Roger Pirates, during which he encountered the apprentices Shanks and Buggy. After Teach became a full fledge pirate, he later murdered a fellow crew member before escaping the crew with a Devil Fruit he wanted. Creating the Blackbeard Pirates, the crew killed his former captain, allowing him to eventually take Whitebeard's position in the Four Emperors.

Trivia

 * All of the crews that once had apprentices were ones that existed during Gol D. Roger's time and are all now disbanded.
 * All known apprentices have ties with the Four Emperors; either they became emperors or served under them.
 * Monkey D. Luffy is currently the only Emperor who was never an apprentice.

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