Tack

Tack is a sniper who came from the West Blue, who moved to the Grand Line after his home island became inhabitable.

Appearance
Tack usually dresses in a white dress shirt with black pants and shoes, with a holster on his waist for his flintlock. His golden earplugs are always in his ears. He has black hair, green eyes, and a light complexion.

Personality
A calm and collected, no-bullshit man, Tack is usually the one to think through a situation before acting. He will take the job seriously when given, and is surprisingly not good at taking a joke.

Abilities and Powers
Tack is an excellent marksman, due to his firearm practice from as early as 10 years old. Although he is an excellent sniper, he finds gunslinging to be more exciting.

Physical Abilities
Tack has no extreme physical abilities, but has shown an above average tolerance to pain. It is hinted that this exists due to training during his childhood.

Devil Fruit
Tack ate the Nagi Nagi no Mi when he was 4 years old, causing him to become a Soundless Human.

Weapons
Tack only carries around 1 flintlock pistol. Other than that, he has no weapons.

Knowledge
From around the age of 12, Tack has taken an interest in navigation. While still choosing to devote his time to gunslinging, Tack has become an excellent Geologist and Climatologist.

History
On some old maps of the West Blue, you can see a crossed out name of a small island. Travelling to this location in the present day only leads you to a desolate swampy island in the middle of the ocean. In some places, the rotting logs almost look organized, but otherwise, there appears to be nothing else.

This swampland used to be an island of humble tidings. Small, yet with a jubilant population, filled with many smiling faces. Tack was born on this island, 22 years ago, to a kind mother and father.

Isolated from much of the world, this small island was rarely visited by pirates. The island numbered only close to 40 inhabitants. The last pirate to leave the island’s shores was 5 years before Tack’s birth, and while that pirate certainly did make a name for themselves, they never made it past the Grand Line.

It was quite a surprise when pirates showed up almost 4 years after Tack’s birth. Quickly desecrating the island, the band of pirates swiftly killed all of the elderly, sick, and disabled, while kidnapping every able-bodied man, woman and child.

Although Tack doesn’t remember much of his late father, his mother assured him that his father was a kind, honest man, who enjoyed studying the world and its mystical tidings. Unfortunately, due to his father’s weak leg, Tack never got to build a father-son bond with his dad.

While the pirate crew quickly loaded all of those kidnapped onto their fleet of ships, Tack observed one man, seemingly a captain, walk towards the center of the town. After a loud shout, Tack watched as his homeland was quickly transformed from solid dirt and stone to a swampy marshland, incapable of living in. Tack was unable to understand the importance of this event, but he remembers the screams and the tears of all of the other inhabitants of the island.

Quickly, the pirate captain jumped back towards the ship, launching himself with incredible strength into the air, and shouting towards the crew to set sail. In the rush to set out to sea, the crewmates failed to properly tie the knots of many of the children’s ropes, including Tack’s. As the ship set out to sea, Tack managed to fumble his way out of his bonds and begin making his way around the ship.

As Tack walked down the lone halls, he was suddenly flung into a room as the ship rocked violently. As shouts of “Cannonball” could be heard from above the deck, Tack steadied himself, when he noticed an odd box sitting upon a stand in the room. While the room was filled with trash and litter, this box was gold-rimmed and very clearly ornate. Walking over to the box and checking the lid, Tack was easily able to open it, for someone had left it unlocked. Inside sat an odd-colored fruit, a purple apple with an odd swirl pattern. Mistaking the apple for candy, Tack readily took a large bite, gagging at the horrid taste. Taking the rest of the apple with him, Tack walked through the rest of the ship, eventually finding the stairs to the upper deck.

As Tack made his way to the upper deck, the first thing he noticed was that, in addition to the fleet of pirate ships, there was now a much larger ship, with a sail flying an icon of a dragon. People were fighting all over the deck, but the one most interesting to watch was the fight involving the man who turned the island to swampland. Switching between a human body and something resembling mud, the man seemed to be deep in combat with 5 members dressed in long, green cloaks. Almost as it would seem that the swamp man would kill one of the cloaked fighters, a gunshot rang across the battlefield. The swamp man fell over, a bullet wound in his chest. The pirate crew immediately began screaming and freaking out, running around and easily surrendering to the cloaked men.

As a gaggle of the cloaked men started apprehending the pirate crew, a man with a golden tattoo on his face approached Tack.

“What’s your name, boy?”

“Tack.”

“Are you saying something?”

“Tack.”

“Speak up, boy."

“TACK!”

As Tack wore his lungs out screaming his name, it became more and more obvious that this man in front of Tack couldn’t hear him. Due to no one else on the ship turning towards the young kid throwing a temper tantrum, it was obvious that no one else could hear Tack either. As Tack was screaming and crying, the golden tattooed man began looking Tack over, noticing the object in his hand. As the man took the purple apple from Tack’s tiny hands, he laughed. He grabbed Tack’s hand as he led him onto the large ship with the Dragon sail.

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Under the Revolutionary Army, Tack was trained as a direct subordinate to the man with the Golden Tattoo in sniping and gunslinging. With access to the teachings and knowledge of the Revolutionary Army, Tack studied Geology, Climatology, and Navigation. Due to the nature of his Devil Fruit, Tack willingly chose to live as if he was deaf, acquiring a pair of golden earplugs with the wealth of the Revolutionary Army, as well as a flintlock pistol that he now uses as his main weapon.

As Tack learned of the tragedies of Ohara and Tequila Wolf, he came to an understanding that the Swamp Man and the pirate crew had destroyed his home island in order to cover up the action of taking all of the island’s inhabitants hostage as slaves. This furthered his resolve against the world government, and caused him to focus further on his studies and training.

As Tack grew up, he chose to deploy himself to the small kingdom of Drum Island, where he assumed a quiet life in one of the small villages of the island. With his devil fruit powers, he could easily catch a week’s worth of game in under 3 hours, which he would sell in the marketplace to make a living. He has taken to studying the climate and the geology of Drum Island and conducting experiments to maintain his interest in geology and climatology.

Trolley's Trade Arc
Trolley's Trade Arc

After being dispatched to Drum Island, Tack took residence on the snowy wonderland, earning a living by hunting for reindeer in the forests of the island. His Nagi Nagi no Mi assisted him, allowing to kill every reindeer cleanly and with ease.

When the ship that flew a pirate flag docked in the harbor, Tack assisted the town in threatening the pirates. As the pirates complied with the townspeople, Mullet and Tack mused over the ease with which capturing the pirates had gone.

Tack was in the Hiking Bear Lodge when the bomb exploded in the town square. A merchant from the Trolley Pirates had entered the Lodge, and began threatening the patrons. Tack quickly took care of the merchant, and assisted the patrons in hiding from the other merchants.

Noticing that the town guard was captured by the merchants, Tack quickly reasoned that the only way to save Bighorn was to contact the Royal Guard. Tack dashed towards the gondola loading zone that would lead to the castle atop the mountain, only to find it swarming with merchants.

Losing hope, Tack sat in an alleyway, before receiving a call on his Mini Den Den Mushi. Gold, his commanding officer from the Revolutionary Army, informed Tack of the Trolleys, the notorious pirate group that disguised themselves as merchants. Tack was quickly informed about the large explosives trade that was supposed to take place later that day. With the help of Gold, Tack formulated a plan to call the Royal Guard using a Den Den Mushi on the Trolley's ship.

Using his marksmanship and his devil fruit powers, Tack was able to infiltrate the Trolley's ship, dispatch the merchant guards, and call the Royal Guard of Sakura Kingdom.

A few hours later, Tack was recovering in the Hiking Bear Lodge. Kahn, his acquaintance from the Revolutionary Army, dropped in, reporting to Tack that he would be removing the explosives from the island.

Miscellanious
- Tack is not deaf. He pretends to be, and, according to him, he does so because he likes how the gold compliments his outfit.

- Tack is adept at reading lips.

- Tack enjoys venison and cookies.

- Tack's favorite fantasy novels are: Grudolph the Giant, Lord of the Fish, and Tales from Sniper Island.

- If Tack were not a pirate nor a revolutionary, he would be a meteorologist.