Benn Beckman

Benn Beckman is originally from the North Blue, and is the oldest of the Red Haired Pirates. Because of course he is. It's pretty much his job to keep this idiots alive, and yes, that has caused him to gray. Whose fault is that, Captain.

When the crew heard that one of them had been proclaimed an Emperor of the Sea, Shanks just assumed it was Beckman. They ALL just assumed it was Beckman. It took a very sober, very persistent barmaid almost four hours to convince them, no, this wasn't some "joke paper". Really! The government considered SHANKS a proper yonko (they had a banner made for the party and everything! At least the booze didn't go to waste.)

I believe it was a young man from the Island Of Anglo that once said, "Akagami Shanks is the sun, and Benn Beckman the moon!" (The rest of what he said failed to be transcribed due to.... The nature of the resulting activities.)

The crew calls Benn an "anchor" because he is like a steady presences that helps keep the crew in place. And also because he cannot swim. A rare trait in the world of first mates, since most captains are stupid enough to eat anything they can get their hands on, devil's fruits included (and it has taken Benn A LOT OF EFFORT to keep that from happening. His captain will eventually get bored enough to put just about any damn thing in his mouth. Like a toddler. A freakishly powerful, infamous the world over, pretty much able to do as he wishes without consequence toddler.)

Have you met Shanks and the rest of those morons? Yeah, Benn smokes. Maybe forgive him this one bad habit. Considering that crew, we're lucky he's not injecting black tar heroin.

I don't know if this is already apparent, but him and Shanks? They do fuck. On the regular.

Roronoa Zoro

Any publicly available information about Roronoa Zoro is half about swords. Not even necessarily HIS swords, just swords in general. It's like his Rider, only it's less something that he has written into a contract, more something that happens naturally as a result of him continuously making swords the sole focus of the people around him. Usually by pointing one at them.

Actually, in general, swords are awesome. Lots of captains go out and collect themselves awesome swordsmen as their Second In Command. Then everyone is all surprised when Zoro kicks their asses.

In dire moments, Zoro has acted like a vice captain. Also in non-dire moments. That's because he's the vice captain of the Strawhats.

Sometimes, Zoro is the voice of reason among the crew.

On an unrelated note: boy once fought a mountain by having himself hurled at bone crushing speeds at it while clutching a katana handle between his teeth. He won.

Zoro's strength, like his sense of direction, cares not for your country's borders. If he is there, he will find one thing and exactly one thing only, and that is a good fight.