Basil Hawkins

“The Magician” Basil Hawkins · alive · captain, Hawkins Pirates · ฿249,000,000

Arc-by-arc updates

Wano Country — Onigashima Castle interior (Ch. 1052)

• Wounded in Onigashima Castle with Drake and Apoo; recounts foreseeing the alliance’s victory and that he sided with Kaido out of fear of death; his divination gave a “certain man” a 1% chance of surviving until tomorrow — himself (pp.4–5).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid, third floor (Ch. 1029)

• Holds Kid’s straw doll to route all the damage he takes onto Kid; states the rule outright — “All of the damage I take goes straight to Kid, as long as I hold his straw doll within my body!!!” (p. 11). See Wara Wara no Mi.
• Loses his left arm when the transfer fails — Kid has no left arm to receive it, so the wound lands on Hawkins himself (pp. 12–13).
• Draws “Death, upright / The Tower”; uses Beheading Claws; insists his straw-man will revive “as the cards dictate” — but is defeated by Killer’s Spin & Sonic (pp. 14–16).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid, third floor (Ch. 1022)

• Vs Killer. Reveals he has bound his own life via a straw doll to Eustass Kid himself — so the only way Killer can finish him is to personally inflict the killing wound on his own captain (pp. 7-9). Has already exhausted nearly all his other captive “lives.” Taunts Killer to “put on a show.”

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1011)

• Intercepts Kid and Killer on the third floor: “Move.” (p. 9). Notes he too was betrayed by Apoo; fortune-tells Killer a 92% chance of dying, calling him “poor Hitokiri Kamazo.” Clashes with Killer once Kid runs off (pp. 9-11).

Wano Country — Onigashima raid (Ch. 990)

• Urged by Drake to turn traitor while Onigashima is in chaos; refuses (“don’t make me laugh”) (p. 7). Reads a card: “One percent” — the odds of “a certain man” surviving until tomorrow (p. 7). Stays with the crew (“We’re going to Queen!!”) rather than follow Drake (p. 9).

Wano Country (Ch. 950) — visual identification; name not lettered on-page

• Drawn as the figure interrogating the captured Law near the Flower Capital: “Once he speaks, it will be over very quickly… the job is simple.” (p. 17).

Wano — Udon (Ch. 945)

• Stationed at Udon; has captured Trafalgar Law’s Heart Pirates (Bepo, Shachi, Penguin) and caged them where Law can see them (pp. 7–8).
• Reveals his Straw-Straw power’s defensive rule: he holds “FOUR lives” — three stored in his subordinates plus his own — and can only be killed for good once those proxy lives are spent (p. 8).

Wano Country (Ch. 936) — the Flower Capital bathhouse raid

• Identified as “the Headliner from the Animal Kingdom Pirates”; sent in to handle “the small stuff” at the Flower Capital bathhouse raid while the Tobi Roppo X Drake hunts “Soba Mask” (Sanji) (p. 10).

Wano Country (Ch. 934) — reported (news); not shown

• Reported to be in Wano, “in the same alliance” (Kaido’s), per the news Law’s group reads off a “Smail.”

Wano Country (Ch. 929) — in the Flower Capital as the Tobi Roppo close in

• Operating under the Animal Kingdom Pirates; appears alongside Sanji (undercover as the “Soba Cook”) and Trafalgar Law in the Flower Capital as the Tobi Roppo (X Drake, Page One) arrive to kill the soba cook (p. 17).

Wano Country (Ch. 924) — “Straw Sword” pins Law; reveals Wano is the source of sea-prism stone

• Stops Law with “Straw Sword” — drives a tiny sea-prism-stone nail through his straw voodoo-doll (Wara Wara no Mi) to pin and disable a Devil-Fruit user; explains that “the sea prism stone throughout the world… was born here, in this country” and that only Wano’s artisans can fashion it small enough to make a nail (pp. 3, 7). See Sea-Prism Stone, Sea-Prism Stone Originates In Wano.
• After Law slips away: “Well, we’ve caught one. That is enough!! He shall not escape, but I will track him down.” (p. 7).

Wano Country (Ch. 922) — steers Kaido’s rampage with a lie

• Serving Kaido as a Headliner of the Animal Kingdom Pirates (“Ain’t that the Headliner…?”, p. 10).
• Verbally manages Kaido’s drunken rampage with a deliberate lie — no fortune cards are shown — claiming Luffy and Law are hiding in the ruins of Oden Castle, framing the razing of the empty ruins as “two birds with one stone”: venting Kaido and addressing the “legend approaching” / Orochi’s fears (pp. 10-11). He privately notes “it’s merely a lie to contain his rampage.” See Eerie Light At Oden Castle Peak Stokes Orochis Fears.

Wano Country (Ch. 918) — fights Trafalgar Law at Bakura Town

• Confronts and fights Trafalgar Law at the Bakura Town entrance; recognizes his tattoos and power and survives a cut by redirecting it onto a subordinate (Straw-Straw power — the victim cries “Held meee!!” before being cut in his place) (pp. 7-8).
• Recognizes Law from Sabaody and reasons the Worst-Generation pair came as an alliance: “It IS possible… they had an alliance, after all!!” (pp. 7, 10).
• Reports up the chain that the brigands defeated Master Holdem and are on the run (p. 10).

Wano Country (Ch. 916) — arrives at the Bakura Town gate

• As Luffy’s rescue brawl tears through Bakura Town and a fire spreads, Holdem is told “Captain Hawkins is at the gate” (p. 19) — the Headliner closing in on the disturbance.

Wano Country (Ch. 914) — named in Okiku’s intel notebook (not shown)

• Named in Okiku’s intel notebook as one of three Headliners — “Hawkins, Holdem and Speed” — stationed near the officials’ town of Bakura Town (p. 15).

Wano Country (Ch. 913) — Devil Fruit named; fights Luffy & Zoro

• As a Headliner of Kaido’s Animal Kingdom Pirates, confronts the disguised Luffy & Zoro in the Kuri wasteland; warns them not to “sightsee” in a country ruled “from the shadows” and reads their one-month survival probability at 19% (p. 2).
• His Devil Fruit is named at last: the “Straw-Straw powers” (Wara Wara no Mi, Paramecia). He infuses his subordinates’ spirits into straw stand-in dolls (“strawmen”) so all damage is redirected onto them — “when I have ten infused… I can die ten times.” Each clean hit registers as “Minus one life” (pp. 7–8). See Basil Hawkins Today I Will Not Die Survival Power.
• Fights via a tarot “game,” drawing cards that expand the strawman’s power at inherent risk: The Fool reversed (in-fighting), Card of Pursuit, The Hierophant reversed, The Tower (“Tower Climb”), nail attacks, and a Card of Reinforcements / “The Hierophant” (pp. 9–14).
• Battered by Zoro (“Nigiri”) and Luffy (“Ripple”), who destroy the strawman; the trio escapes on Komachiyo. Hawkins is left standing, lives spent — his footmen ask, “Sh-shall we go after them…?” (pp. 12–14).

Wano Country (Ch. 911) — revealed a Headliner of Kaido’s crew

• Re-enters the story serving Kaido as a “Headliner” of the Animal Kingdom Pirates (title-card p. 20) — the first Supernova shown to have joined an Emperor’s crew, and the first on-page naming of the Headliner officer rank.
• His footmen patrol the beach of Kuri for illegal arrivals; on learning a pirate group has landed, Hawkins orders the lost signal not be relayed to Kaido yet and declares, “I will go” (p. 20).

New World — the three-crew Supernova alliance goes public (Ch. 699) — newspaper photo

• Front-page news: allies with the Kid and On-Air crews (p. 18), surfacing in the same news cycle as the Law–Luffy alliance; the Supernovas branded the “Eye of the Storm” of the past two years. See Eleven Supernovas, Worst-Generation Rookies Form Simultaneous Alliances Eye Of The Storm.

New World — the Worst-Generation alliance summit (Ch. 677)

• Attends the summit; bounty now ฿320,000,000 (p. 6). Coldly dismisses the bickering (“This is puerile…”; “I will be leaving now.”) and nearly walks before the alliance purpose is stated (p. 6). See Kid Apoo Hawkins Three-Crew Worst-Generation Alliance.

Post-War (Ch. 594)

• In the New World, reads the imitator pirate Brownbeard’s fortune from his cards — “I hate jokes… the shadow of death is on your face today” — counting down (“Two…”) before striking (p. 18). See Basil Hawkins Today I Will Not Die Survival Power.

Post-War (Ch. 581)

• Reads the cards on Luffy and is disturbed: “Straw Hat Luffy’s survival rate won’t go to zero… no matter what I do” (p.4). See Basil Hawkins Today I Will Not Die Survival Power.

Sabaody Archipelago (Ch. 510) — survives Kizaru

• Targeted by Admiral Kizaru’s light attack; draws a card and his straw voodoo-doll power transfers the lethal damage onto his own crew (who collapse, “PLOP”) so that Hawkins himself is untouched (pp. 5-7). On-page demonstration of his damage-redirection Devil-Fruit power (Fruit unnamed on-page; devil_fruit left blank). Pays off his “Today… I will not die” (Ch. 507) — see Basil Hawkins Today I Will Not Die Survival Power.

Sabaody Archipelago — “Demon Face”; survives a Kizaru hit (Ch. 509)

• Uses a technique rendered “Demon Face” (p. 14); takes a direct Kizaru hit and survives with his body intact — Kizaru notes he “doesn’t seem to be a Logia type” (pp. 15-16). His crew fears he’ll “really die” from further damage (p. 17).

Sabaody Archipelago — faces Kizaru; fruit mechanics shown (Ch. 508)

• At Grove 24 Hawkins is targeted by Kizaru. His card-reading mechanic is shown explicitly — Battle: defeat 100%; Flee: success 12%; Defend: avoidance 76%; Survival: chance of death 0% (pp. 7-8) — and he survives the admiral’s blows via straw-doll damage redirection (“He started bleeding from the head all of a sudden?!”; “KRACK PLOP!!” a straw doll) (pp. 10-12). His Devil Fruit is shown in action but unnamed on-page (devil_fruit left blank).
• Caught between admiral and Warlord — “A navy admiral to my front and a warlord of the sea behind me…” (p. 13).

Sabaody Archipelago — faces Kizaru with a death-reading (Ch. 507)

• Faced with Kizaru, states his fortune-telling tell: “Don’t worry, today… I will not die” (p. 19).

Sabaody Archipelago — a calm fortune (Ch. 504)

• Coolly reassures his crew using his fortune-telling — “I didn’t get a reading that today is the date of my death” (p. 3).