Gerd[3] is a giant from Elbaph[1] and the doctor of the New Giant Warrior Pirates. She was formerly an S-Class ranked mercenary for Buggy's Delivery.[2]
She is a major ally of the Straw Hat Pirates during the Elbaph Arc.
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Appearance
Gerd is a slender and taller than average giantess with long blonde hair, part of which is kept in two braids on the sides of her head. She has light blue eyes. She wears a revealing one-piece purple fur garment with a neckline that goes down to her stomach and which leaves the sides of her legs completely exposed. She also wears a very long black and yellow striped stocking on her left leg that nearly goes up to her waist, as well as an eggshell cape with tatters on the bottom and fur boots.[2]
As a child, she had shoulder-length hair and she wore a light blue long-sleeved dress, and has her hair arranged in two braids under a yellow checkered kerchief.[1]
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Personality
During her childhood, Gerd seemed to be an amicable little girl, as she readily talked to Charlotte Linlin despite sometimes being afraid of her. Like Linlin, she loves sweets, particularly semla, which she explained to Linlin with great enthusiasm. She cares about her village, as she immediately reported to Mother Carmel when Linlin was going on a rampage through it.[1]
Gerd is incredibly kindhearted, as she tried to help the relationships between the Sheep's house children and the giants.[3]
By her own accounts, Gerd adores Humans and thinks they are cute; although she is quick to stress that she is nothing like her crewmate Road, whom she greatly dislikes, on that regard. Gerd is comfortable enough around humans to carry them around on her breasts.[5]
Though Gerd was deeply traumatized by Linlin's rampage at Elbaph, she overcame it to become a strong warrior.[3]
Relationships
Hajrudin
Gerd knew Hajrudin since both their childhoods, as she watched him train to be a warrior.[1] Upon growing up, she joined him in order to spiritually revive the Giant Warrior Pirates, and left Buggy's Delivery to integrate their crew into the Straw Hat Grand Fleet instead.[2] The one disagreement she had with him was allowing Road into the crew.[5]
Road
Compared with her other crewmates, Gerd outright states her dislike of Road, considering him to be a "weirdo" and that he was the real "Shame of Elbaph" rather than Loki.[6] Later, she outright attacked him alongside Goldberg as revenge for his mistreatment of the Straw Hats.[5]
Goldberg
Gerd and Goldberg get along well enough, and she appears to trust him enough to share her thoughts with him about Road.[6]
Piper
Piper is Gerd's pet owl. She appears to have trust and faith in it, having decided to investigate Road's house based off of what it told her.[6]
Straw Hats
Upon first meeting the crew, Gerd apologized profusely for Road's treatment of them. Like with most regular-sized people, she considered them all to be cute, and was comfortable showing them around her homeland.[5]
Charlotte Linlin
Gerd came to know Charlotte Linlin since their childhood, and the two seemingly got along amiably. However, at times, Gerd was somewhat afraid of Linlin's uncontrollable strength. Gerd explained the traditions of the Winter Solstice Festival to Linlin, particularly the semla that they would be eating before the twelve days fasting.[7]
However, upon the seventh day of the fasting, their relationship would break down when Linlin's eating disorder for semla caused her to rampage throughout the Elbaph village, engulfing the area in a sea of flames while injuring many giants, including delivering a dishonorable and fatal injury to the elder hero, Jorul, scenes that Gerd watched in utter horror.[8] Decades later, Gerd openly acknowledges that she used to be friends with Linlin, but that Linlin's actions were considered unforgivable by Elbaph.[9]
Abilities and Powers
As a giant, Gerd likely possesses a large amount of physical power. She was an S-Class member of Buggy's Pirate Dispatch Society, being recognized as one of the organization's top money earners.
She has some skill in communicating with animals, as she understands everything Piper tells her.[6]
Medical Expertise
As the doctor of the New Giant Warrior Pirates, she likely has some degree of medical expertise.[2]She is shown to be skilled enough to tend to Loki's life-threatening injuries and give a diagnosis on how long until he fully recovers.
Craftsmanship
Like Road, Gerd is a skilled artisan, able to craft detailed and delicate human-sized clothes despite being a giant.[10]
Weapons
Gerd wields a single-bladed axe.[2] She is strong enough to knock Road unconscious with one hit alongside Goldberg.[5]
History
Past
Sixty-three years ago, Gerd witnessed the arrival of Charlotte Linlin to the Sheep's House, and the two little girls became friends.[1] She often played with Linlin and taught her about Elbaph's traditions.[7] When Linlin went on a rampage due to her craving sickness, Gerd called Mother Carmel to the scene and watched in horror at the destruction Linlin caused.[11] After Linlin fatally injured Jorul, Gerd witnessed Carmel creating Pandora out of the flames started by Linlin.[8]
22 years ago, Gerd, Hajrudin, and Goldberg traveled to Ohara a few months after its destruction and salvaged the books that had been thrown into the lake. Afterward, they transported the books to Elbaph.[12]
During the Timeskip
Many years later, Gerd joined Hajrudin in his goal to revive the Giant Warrior Pirates alongside three other giants and became the crew's doctor. The crew became mercenaries for the pirate dispatch organization, Buggy's Delivery. During the duration of their service, the crew became the five top earners of the organization, as well as earning the rank of S-Class soldiers.[13]
Whole Cake Island Saga
The Stories of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Grand Fleet
Hajrudin pledged his crew's allegiance to the Straw Hat Pirates, and when he returned to Karai Bari Island, the New Giant Warrior Pirates informed Mohji of their resignation from the Pirate Dispatch Organization,[13] before setting out to sea in the Naglfar as members of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. Furious at their sudden departure, Buggy added every member of the crew to his organization's deserter list.[2]
Final Saga
Elbaph Arc
After being informed of the Straw Hat Pirates' kidnapping by Road's pet, Muginn, Gerd and Goldberg made their way to Road's house to intercept them. Gerd was annoyed by having to deal with Road, and decided she would report him to Jarul after finding the Straw Hats.[6] Not long after, Gerd and Goldberg began to chase Road back up the bridge to the rest of Elbaph. At the same time, Goldberg carried the Thousand Sunny with them.[14] While still running down the bridge, Luffy suddenly made a reappearance from the Underworld, to the great surprise of the pair. Gerd adored Luffy and apologized profusely for Road's treatment of him and his crew. The pair then brought Luffy to meet with his crew, but not without knocking out Road beforehand as revenge for his antics. After making introductions, Gerd and Goldberg proceeded back to the village.[5]
Upon arrival at the Western Village, Gerd met the rest of the Straw Hats. While Luffy was being praised as the one to have apparently beaten Big Mom, Gerd commented on the latter's former residence on Elbaph and on her "unspeakable" actions. She later piloted a Svarr to take the Straw Hats down to the Warrior's Spring for a meeting with Jaguar D. Saul.[15]
Although she was attending the banquet, Gerd chose to make an early exit in order to treat a couple of injured guards from Aurust Castle, which were brought to her by Road. She quickly deduced that something was up from Road's skittish behavior, and assaulted him to force a confession. After learning that Luffy and Zoro planned to free Loki, Gerd and the rest of her crewmates quickly took a svarr down in an attempt to stop them. However, as svarrs don't function outside of the Elbaph's Sun World, the entire vessel plummeted. Fortunately, they were saved from their deaths at the last moment by Luffy, but were too late to stop he and Zoro, as Zoro had just undone most of Loki's shackles. All watched in horror as Loki rose to his feet, and proceeded to equip his hammer.[16] Loki proceeded to issue a threat to kill everyone in the Sun World, and to make his threat clear, struck Elbaph's Tree Adam using his hammer, causing a fire.[17]
Loki once again issued a demand to be freed, threatening to make the fire worse if his captors didn't follow through. Although Gerd and her crewmates were prepared to give in to his demands, Luffy called Loki's bluff with a simple attack, which easily put the former giant prince down. Zoro mentioned that Loki wasn't far from death, however Luffy was completely against the idea, and begged Hajrudin to save his life. In the end, Gerd tended to Loki's wounds. She gave an official estimation of months before he would be fully healed, and mentioned that his current whereabouts of being exposed in the wild wouldn't help in his recovery.[18] In order to improve the situation a bit, the Zoro, Sanji, and a couple of Gerd's crewmates went on a hunt for supplies, and eventually returned with food and provisions. After the food was ready, Luffy, in his haste, attempted to feed Loki a large piece that was still practically burning, causing the giant further pain. Although Gerd at first objected, she allowed Luffy to continue with his antics, to the point of silently approving of when he burnt Loki with boiling soup.[19]
Trivia
- Her name is possibly taken from Gerðr (modernly anglicized as Gerd), a goddess in Norse mythology.
- Aside from being a goddess, Gerðr was also a Jötunn, who, while not actual giants, were often mistaken as such.
- Gerd is the first canon named giantess to appear in the series (the female member of the Giant Squad during the Marineford arc, like several of the male members, is yet to be named).
- She is also the first shown giant doctor.
- Gerd's adult design could be based on Nami's unused design with a battle axe.
- Gerd's favorite foods are Hamburg steak and macarons.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 86 Chapter 866 (p. 7) and Episode 836, Gerd is introduced.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 90 Chapter 901, cover story: The Stories of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Grand Fleet Vol. 32 and Episode 885, Gerd is reintroduced in the present day.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Vivre Card - One Piece Visual Dictionary (Card #1111), Gerd's Vivre Card entry.
- ↑ SBS One Piece Manga — Vol. 90 (p. 102), Gerd's age revealed.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 One Piece Manga — Vol. 111 Chapter 1132 (p. 8-13).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 One Piece Manga — Vol. 111 Chapter 1130 (p. 4-5).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 86 Chapter 866 (p. 10-13) and Episode 836, Gerd and Linlin play and talk.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 86 Chapter 867 (p. 5-7) and Episode 837, Carmel uses Geburtstag.
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Vol. 111 Chapter 1133 (p. 6-11).
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Chapter 1135 (p. 9-10), Gerd gives Robin, Franky, Brook and Jinbe Elbaph-style outfits.
- ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 86 Chapter 866 (p. 15) and Episode 836, Gerd scream for Mother Carmel.
- ↑ One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 106 Chapter 1066 (p. 9-11, 13) and Episode 1097.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 80 Chapter 803 (p. 11) and Episode 752, The New Giant Warrior Pirates' rank in Buggy's Delivery is revealed.
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Vol. 111 Chapter 1131 (p. 12-13).
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Vol. 111 Chapter 1133 (p. 6-11).
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Chapter 1141 (p. 6-7, 13-17).
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Chapter 1141 (p. 12-14).
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Chapter 1143 (p. 13-20).
- ↑ One Piece Manga — Chapter 1145 (p. 5-8).
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