King

King the Conflagration is an All-Star of the Beasts Pirates, Kaido's three closest confidants known as the Disasters. He is part of a yet-to-be-identified race that is otherwise considered extinct.

Appearance


King is a huge man who towers over normal humans, though still being a fair bit shorter than Kaido and Jack, being of similar height to Queen. While less widely built than his fellow All-Stars, he is better-proportioned than either, being well-muscled and broad in the shoulders (but not overly top-heavy like Jack) with long limbs. Notably, a plume of fire ever rises from his back, befitting his epithet.

King's natural looks are a mystery, seeing as he keeps himself clad in an all-dark uniform that bares no skin — resembling a cross between biker and BDSM wear. The bottom layer is a form-fitting, almost gimp-like bodysuit made mainly of black and dark-bluish leather, with white-studded leather bands of a lighter blue tied variously around. Visible of such garment are the head and neck areas, the latter showing a zipper in the middle and two of said bands left and right. The head portion, a full-faced mask, leaves only two holes for King's narrow, reddish eyes (being fully black around the eyes, otherwise dark blue). Below the eyes is leather of flame-esque shape flanking a central, triangular strip of light blue to mark off the nose, mouth, and chin section (also beset with studs). Above the eyes are blue-lensed, gray-rimmed goggle pieces and on each side of the head, connected by a studded base, is a large, black spike akin to a horn. Five more such spikes, only smaller, are located further on top upon a light-blue band that runs coronally into another one positioned like a headband, and crossing yet another that goes sagittally, with airholes around. Otherwise visible of the suit are the legs, each having three studded leather bands wrap around their upper halves plus a ring of the same material on each knee, and going inside black, high-heeled boots (once again with studded straps) whose high shafts end with jaggy, studded fold-overs. On top of the bodysuit is a dark-blue, double-breasted leather jacket, ten-buttoned in gold with notch lapels that have red, square skull patches sewn on, and wherefrom white ruffles emerge. Running straight down each side of the waist are two columns of yet more studs, and flat, two-part shoulder pads (black and double-trimmed with studs) are present on each side, down the upper arms with three curved spikes atop either (the outer ones the biggest). The tight sleeves of the jacket (each with two additional, stud-covered bands topping thinner strips along with three very small, white spikes above the wrists) are cuffless, ending in black gloves.

Finally, King has a pair of large, black-feathered wings sprout from his back. Though it is unconfirmed if they are natural, their disappearance with King's pteranodon transformation may imply that they are.

Personality
Like Queen, King is extremely rude and critical of his crewmates, constantly deriding Queen and especially Jack for their accomplishments. However, despite their rivalry, he and Queen seem to have a mutual sense of disdain towards Jack. According to Queen, King is a "torture-loving pervert".

He shows initiative and is seemingly good at making big decisions under pressure, personally engaging with Big Mom and her crew to keep them from entering Wano despite not being ordered to do so by Kaido. Likewise, he is not intimidated by Big Mom, bluntly refusing her offer to join her.

Crew
King is extremely rude toward his crewmates, but his subordinates are loyal to him.

Kaido
As one of Kaido's three right-hand men, Kaido has great trust in King and his powers. In turn, King is very loyal to Kaido, always ready to execute missions on his behalf. When Big Mom and her children arrived at Wano Country, King was swift to attack and knock her ship into the sea, seemingly on his own initiative rather than Kaido's orders. Kaido, though seeing King as one of his most trusted men, did not hesitate to give the lower-ranked Tobiroppo a chance to challenge any All-Star of their choice to take their position, as the crew's hierarchy is determined by an individual's power. King, on the other hand, did not complain.

Another sign of King's loyalty to his Governor-General was when King bluntly and immediately refused Big Mom's offer to join her crew, in spite of her willingness to forgive King's transgressions against her.

Queen
King and his fellow All-Star, Queen, have a rivalry with one another, and they also share a mutual sense of disdain toward their fellow All-Star of seemingly lower status, Jack. After escorting Big Mom to Onigashima, Queen furiously blamed King for Big Mom's remaining presence in Wano, since King had been the one to prevent to the Big Mom Pirates from entering the country prior.

Jack
King seems to view his fellow All-Star Jack as incompetent, as shown when he scolded him alongside Queen for the low offerings of the Wano region he is in charge of, calling him "foolish Jack" (ズッコケジャック).

Tobiroppo
He has a rather hostile relationship with the Tobiroppo Sasaki and Who's Who, being aware of their ambition to become All-Stars and acknowledging that they would likely ignore any summons order they knew came from him. When they expressed their aforesaid ambition before him and Kaido, King disdainfully told them to know their place, and when Kaido asked him and Jack if they would object to the Tobiroppo being granted a chance to fight one of them for their All-Star post, King said that he had none, showing confidence in his superiority over them.

Big Mom Pirates
Since Big Mom is a rival of his Governor-General, King sees her as an enemy. King personally kept her and her children out of Wano by knocking their ship into the ocean as they tried climbing Wano's waterfall. He was later surprised to see that she survived once she was brought to Onigashima by Queen. Big Mom stated she would forgive his transgression on her if he joined her crew, since he is part of a unique, thought-to-be-extinct race that she wanted in Totto Land, but he bluntly refused.

Charlotte Perospero also expressed his intention to get his revenge on King for how he had dealt with his crew and mother.

Abilities and Powers
As an All-Star of the Beasts Pirates, King holds great authority in the crew, second only to Kaido's. Befitting his epithet, King can produce fire in his humanoid and pteranodon forms.

Devil Fruit


King ate the Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Pteranodon, an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit whose power allows him to transform into a pteranodon-human hybrid and full pteranodon at will. In transforming, King gains the ability to fly and, in his full-beast form, can perform extremely strong physical attacks from midair, such as when he casually knocked back the Queen Mama Chanter, one of the largest ships seen so far, with enough force to throw off Big Mom herself.

Weapons
King carries a large katana on his hip, befitting his size. It sports a plain-round, golden tsuba and matching gold kojiri, with tsuka-ito of dark-orange color forming traditional rhombus gaps, showing the lighter-orange same. Twenty years ago, King was also seen wielding a sword that may have been the same.

Past
23 years ago, King fought against the Gecko Pirates alongside his the rest of the Beasts Pirates.

20 years ago, King was involved in Beasts Pirates' total takeover of Wano through the final battle against Kozuki Oden, then-daimyo of Kuri. When Oden and his retainers, the Nine Red Scabbards, were on their way to Onigashima, a thousand members of the Beasts Pirates cut off and confronted them in the Udon region. In the ensuing battle that would last five days, King was seen fighting against the Scabbards, including Raizo and Ashura Doji (the latter of whom he seemingly dealt the defeating blow to when the samurai was distracted).

In the end, Oden and his allies were overwhelmed and crushed. Later on, King, Queen, and Jack were present when Kaido set Oden Castle ablaze following Oden's execution, to kill the rest of the Kozuki Family.

Wano Country Arc
In the present on Onigashima, King was first seen alongside his fellow All-Stars. Along with Queen, he reprimanded Jack for how low the amount of offerings from Kuri was and then asked him if he knew where to go for their next trade deal now that they could no longer rely on Doflamingo. While discussing it, he pointed at Queen and mentioned how Queen was already incompetent, causing the two of them to engage in an argument.

When the Big Mom Pirates attempted to enter Wano by climbing its waterfall on the Queen Mama Chanter, just as they were about to reach the top, King flew in and attacked, causing the ship to flip over and fall back down, and sending Big Mom into the sea below.

Around two days later, Queen brought Big Mom from Udon to Onigashima and scolded King for not having been thorough in eliminating her. Big Mom told King that she would forgive him for what he had done to her if he joined her crew, as she recognized him as one of the few races that were not part of Totto Land, but King refused her offer.

Prior to the latest Fire Festival beginning, King heard that the Numbers had returned to Wano, of which he informed Queen. Later, during the beginning stages of the festival, King appeared before Kaido to confirm that it was he who had summoned the Tobiroppo in Kaido's name, for the purpose of having them find the latter's son, Yamato. Kaido then offered to let the Tobiroppo challenge the All-Stars for their positions should they succeed, to which both King and Jack had no objection.

Later, King appeared beside his fellow All-Stars as well as Kaido himself on the Live Stage of the Golden Kagura, as Kaido declared his intention to "liven up" the execution of Momonosuke with the announcement of the "New Onigashima" project.

Major Battles

 * Beasts Pirates vs. Kozuki Oden, the Nine Red Scabbards, and Shinobu
 * King vs. Raizo
 * King vs. Ashura Doji

Trivia

 * Like his fellow All-Stars Queen and Jack, King is named after the playing card rank, fitting with the card-based naming scheme of the Beasts Pirates.
 * King, with his Devil Fruit and fire abilities, might be inspired by Rodan, a popular pteranodon kaiju that resides in a volcano, and of whom one specific incarnation is the "Fire Rodan".
 * King's first anime appearance is in the opening OVER THE TOP. Originally in it, his wings were shown as white, but this was soon corrected to black.

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