Fisher Tiger

Before leading the Sun Pirates, Tiger was an adventurer and a respected figure in the Fish-Man District. Jinbe and Arlong knew him before his return from the journey that preceded the attack on Mary Geoise.2

Hancock recounts Tiger's raid in chapter 521. He freed captives, and his actions brought him into conflict with the World Government. The Sun Pirates then gave former slaves a place among their crew.1

The crew's sun emblem could cover the Celestial Dragons' slave brand. The mark Luffy remembers on Hachi is the Sun Pirates' symbol, distinct from the original brand on Hancock's back.1

Tiger had himself been enslaved at Mary Geoise. He reveals that experience to his crew near the end of his life, explaining why he could not abandon the people still imprisoned there. His public reputation as an adventurer and liberator concealed the suffering he had personally endured.3

In his conversation with Neptune, Tiger describes slavery as an immediate horror he cannot ignore. That urgency puts his actions alongside Otohime's longer campaign for coexistence between humans and fish-men, while exposing the pain that makes reconciliation difficult for him.4

Fisher Tiger died from his wounds after a Marine ambush following his return of Koala to her home island. His crew escaped aboard a captured Marine vessel, but Tiger had lost too much blood and needed a transfusion.56

There was no suitable donor among the crew. Human blood was available on the ship, and his companions urged him to accept it, but Tiger refused the transfusion. The decisive refusal was Tiger's own, rather than a lack of human blood that could save him.3

Tiger's years in slavery left him unable to overcome his resentment toward humans, even though he recognised that kind humans existed. Faced with a transfusion, he could not accept their blood in his body. His final words reveal the conflict between what he understood and what he could emotionally bear.37

Tiger also asked that his suffering and anger not be passed on to Fish-Man Island. His death closes the story of a man who freed others while remaining deeply wounded by his own captivity.7

The transfusion decision and its aftermath are covered in chapter 623. His earlier liberation of Hancock and her sisters is recounted in chapter 521.31