-The Gourmets, who are a mercenary group in most of my AUs, are a pirate crew in One Piece. The original three of the crew are Cremini(the captain and cook), her adoptive brother Sage(a musician), and their friend Burrata(a carpenter and the shipwright), and they became inspired to become pirates after the Straw Hats liberated their home country of Alabasta. on their way to the New World, they picked up Mille(a trans girl who found her way to Kamabakka Kingdom who became their navigator), Tira(a shipwrecked young nonbinary teen who’s their lookout), and the twins Agave and Stevie(i havent fully fleshed out their backstory yet but Agave is the ship doctor and Stevie is one of the main fighters of the group). they eventually ally themselves with the Big Mom pirates, but after the events of Whole Cake Island, they follow Jinbei’s lead and desert, instead joining the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. Cremini and Sanji have a romance arc as well!

-The Nova siblings are all a part of the Revolutionary Army. Calli and Coco, instead of being separated by someone adopting Coco like in other AUs, were separated on Sabaody Archipelago by a World Noble taking Coco as a slave. Sascha, who was already a Revolutionary at the time, witnessed the event, and took Calli under his wing and protected her after Coco was taken. Coco met Izzy while enslaved in the holy land of Mariejois, and both were freed when Fisher Tiger liberated the land. it took a few years for Coco to reunite with Calli, but when she did, she joined the Revolutionary Army, mostly to help protect her sister. Coco’s dream is to restore their ancestral homeland, an island in the North Blue called Andromede that was razed by Germa 66 before the girls were born. She ends up falling for White Hunter Smoker, the Marine, after a series of unusual circumstances that bring the two together, though they dislike each other at first, and have many disagreements over politics.

-Calli has a Devil Fruit! the Nuru Nuru no Mi, a Paramecia type fruit that gives her the power of nullification. she can temporarily nullify things like traps, defenses, and even other Devil Fruits(although she can only do that for about two minutes at a time, and it takes a lot of energy out of her). she mostly uses it to prank people, especially poor Inazuma and Ivankov(and later Sabo when he gets Ace’s devil fruit). She dreams of being a historian and wants to make sure that the events of this era don’t disappear like the Void Century did. because of this, she is very close to Nico Robin during and after her stay with the Revolutionaries during the timeskip. Robin even began teaching her how to read poneglyphs, though this is a secret that only the two of them know. Not even Coco is aware.

-Sascha is more or less exactly the same as he is within most AUs: his personality is unchanged, and he has little to no real memory of his past. he’s been with the Revolutionary Army since childhood, and fully believes in their dream to liberate the world from the World Nobles. The Nova Siblings in general tend to work most on breaking up slave trades, so they travel around in their own ship, under the guise of being a traveling music group(Calli plays guitar, Sascha does percussion, and Coco sings and dances), and investigate areas where lots of people tend to go missing. They’ve met the Straw Hats all together one time, between Thriller Bark and Sabaody, while the siblings were investigating an island where a trafficker had set up base.