Character from One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
The Fish-Man hero who climbed the Red Line bare-handed to free every slave in Mary Geoise — then died because he couldn't accept a human blood transfusion and wouldn't pretend the hatred was gone.
Fisher Tiger is the tragedy of One Piece's racial allegory made flesh. He climbed the Red Line — a feat of physical will almost beyond comprehension — to free every slave in Mary Geoise. Not just Fish-Men. Every slave, including humans. Because he believed in liberation as a principle, not a tribe. He founded the Sun Pirates and branded every member with the sun mark to cover the slave brands, erasing the distinction between slave and free. And yet. And yet he could not love humans. He knew intellectually that hatred was wrong. He told his crew not to kill humans. He preached coexistence. But when he lay dying and a human blood transfusion could have saved him, his body rejected it — not medically, but spiritually. The hatred the World Nobles had burned into him was deeper than his ideals could reach. His last words were a confession: he could not stop hating them. He asked his crew to tell no one. They loved him too much to let his death be meaningless, and the lie they told — that humans refused to give blood — fueled the next generation of hatred he'd tried to prevent.
Large and imposing Fish-Man with red skin, sharp features, and the powerful build of a sea bream. Wild dark hair. Wears simple clothing — he was never about appearance. The most important physical detail: the brand of the Celestial Dragon's hoof on his body, the mark of a slave. He was branded during his years of captivity. The Sun Pirates' jolly roger — a sun symbol — was designed by him to cover the slave brands of his crew, so no one could tell who had been a slave and who hadn't.
Also known as: Fisher Tiger, Tiger, The Adventurer