Maybe he grew up witnessing the various West Blue crime families potentially destabilizing after Don Marlon perished at God Valley and went on to take advantage of the chaos, along with spreading some of his own, to put himself at the top of the heap.

There's also a chance Mr 0 Crocodile might have taken some mafioso inspiration from Marlon, although I always leaned more towards him being inspired by Du Feld.

So, obviously, Crocodile is heavily believed to be AFAB. Now, I know about Empress Toritoma and how Croc couldn't have been the missing empress but that doesn't mean he has NOTHING to do with Amazon Lily.

Right now, I'm thinking Croc was born there, as the child of Gloriosa and Xebec, and was later taken to be raised elsewhere. Where he was raised, I'm not 100% certain but my current timeline headcanon is as follows:

Born on Amazon Lily

Taken to be raised either on Xebec's ship or somewhere else

Taken by Stussy to Du Feld after the God Valley incident

I can’t help but look for Morgans in every general view panel...

I just love this corrupt Big Bird XD

Du Feld, though...