Alvida

“Iron Mace” Alvida is the former captain of the Alvida Pirates, and the first enemy pirate Monkey D. Luffy encountered in his own pirate career. After her defeat by Luffy, she met and allied with Buggy to form the Buggy and Alvida Alliance, and for a time became the acting captain during Buggy’s entanglements in Impel Down and the Summit War of Marineford. Since then, she has remained with the crew throughout Buggy’s revolving fortunes, occupying high positions in both Buggy’s Delivery and the Cross Guild. Due to her actions, she can be regarded as the secondary antagonist of the Romance Dawn Arc and a tertiary antagonist in the Loguetown Arc.”Iron Mace” Alvida is the former captain of the Alvida Pirates, and the first enemy pirate Monkey D. Luffy encountered in his own pirate career. After her defeat by Luffy, she met and allied with Buggy to form the Buggy and Alvida Alliance, and for a time became the acting captain during Buggy’s entanglements in Impel Down and the Summit War of Marineford. Since then, she has remained with the crew throughout Buggy’s revolving fortunes, occupying high positions in both Buggy’s Delivery and the Cross Guild. Due to her actions, she can be regarded as the secondary antagonist of the Romance Dawn Arc and a tertiary antagonist in the Loguetown Arc.

After eating a Devil Fruit, Alvida has transformed by shedding the excess weight from her body. The Sube Sube no Mi makes Alvida very slippery and, aside from the cowboy hat she wears, Alvida looks totally different from her original form, being slim, well-endowed, with dark-green eyes (before brown), while maintaining her original hair. She still has her cowboy hat, but she now dresses in a pearl necklace, a bikini top, and tight Capri-length pants. She sometimes has a purple coat draped over her shoulders. She wore a pair of sandals (shoes later in the Post-War Saga in the anime), and now tends to wear shoes that can slip off easily so she can use her Sube Sube Spur technique with the slippery soles of her feet. She still wears lipstick, polish on her now shorter fingernails, and her toenails are shown painted as well (something that before was not visible before due to her shoes). During her appearance in Loguetown, she also had a cape-like, pink cloak with red hearts on it. Most people that see her actually fall in love with her (as seen in Loguetown, even women), similar to Boa Hancock. Delusional (or, most likely, in denial) about her former appearance, Alvida comments that the only change she experienced after eating the Devil Fruit was simply that it “made her freckles disappear”. After the timeskip, she replaced her cowboy hat with a red-and-white top hat, and capri pink pants.

She sees herself as the most beautiful lady in all of the sea, even when she had a much more rotund and neglected appearance. If someone would disagree, she would smash the offender with her iron mace. She does not like noise and dirty things, nor does she take to risking her life against overwhelming odds. She can be foreboding to men, especially subordinates, and is not afraid to put her foot down firmly on things that go against her interests. When pushed, she can be cruel above all else. Disliking filth and laziness, her crew was forced to clean the entire deck of her ship. If there is even a hint of dust, she would smash that person with her club. Before she found and ate the Sube Sube no Mi, people used to say that she was the most beautiful woman in the world just to avoid getting hit by her iron club. After she ate her Devil Fruit, their comments became genuine thanks to her new beauty, even though Boa Hancock and the Mermaid Princess have also been called the most beautiful women in the world. After eating the Devil Fruit, she also underwent a personality change. She speaks in much softer tones and is somewhat less prone to hitting her crew with her iron mace, despite the fact that her men (and any other men) are too distracted by her appearance to care when they are hit by her mace.

At first dismissive of Monkey D. Luffy, Alvida grew infatuated with the young pirate after experiencing her first defeat at his hands. However, unlike the obsessively protective Boa Hancock, Alvida retains enough distance (and possibly lingering hostility) to allow the Buggy Pirates to kill him, at most expressing slight disappointment.

Koby

She is the prime enemy of Koby, who has not forgotten the years of hard labor and abuse she put him through. He had boldly stated it was pirates like her that he wished to arrest when he declared his rebellious words to her.

Alvida ate the Sube Sube no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that makes her skin smooth and slippery, granting her the ability to make any physical attack harmlessly slide off her body, be it from weapons, hand to hand combat, or even large, heavy chunks of rubble. This power also allows her to “skate” along level surfaces on her bare feet, though she apparently requires a ramp to build up initial momentum. In addition, this power caused all the body fat to slide off of her, drastically changing her physique, eliminating her previous bulk, and giving her a perfect hourglass figure, making her beautiful enough to charm whole crowds of men on sight. This new physique has apparently not affected any of her physical prowess, as she is still strong enough to wield her Iron Mace with ease.

Weapons

Alvida’s trademark weapon is a heavy, spiked iron mace, which can easily maim or kill an ordinary man in one swing. She can also throw it with enough accuracy and force—at least from short distances—to shatter an entire wooden shack. Even after becoming slim, Alvida continues to wield the iron mace just as effectively as before, capable of knocking out several marines in a single swing and showing no exertion from the effort. In addition to the mace, she also carries at least one flintlock pistol at all times and was skilled enough to drive off a giant crab with one shot.

Following her defeat, Alvida began an obsessive search for Luffy, apparently without her crew. During this time, she found and ate the Sube Sube no Mi, a Devil Fruit that gave her slipping abilities and, as an aftereffect, made her slender and beautiful. Subsequently, she discovered the shrunken and defeated Buggy, rescuing him from a giant crab. After learning that he too was pursuing Luffy, she entered an alliance with him. Together, they to reunite with the rest of the Buggy Pirates, defeated the Kumate Tribe who were preparing to eat the crew, and reclaimed the missing sections of Buggy’s body that had been tied up by Nami.

Loguetown Arc

The Buggy-Alvida alliance made its way to Loguetown, anticipating that Luffy’s crew—like any East Blue pirates intent on the Grand Line—would pass through. Soon enough, Alvida found Luffy at Gold Roger’s execution scaffold, re-introduced herself, and proclaimed her love—much to his confusion, even after recognizing her. While the local police ineffectually tried to fight her and the Buggy Pirates, she challenged Luffy to “prove” himself against her new ally. Caught by surprise, Luffy was easily trapped atop the scaffold, facing execution at Buggy’s hands. Watching with Buggy’s men, Alvida ruefully accepted her “love’s” death, only for a sudden lightning bolt to strike down the scaffold, freeing Luffy and leaving every witness stupefied. As the Straw Hats fled Loguetown, she and Buggy tried to give chase, but were easily captured by Smoker and depowered by a seastone net. However, they escaped soon after (possibly by the sudden tempest that saved Luffy from the same fate), and resolved to keep pursuing Luffy into the Grand Line.

Sky Island Saga

Jaya Arc

She decided to stay with the Buggy Pirates, with her own crew nowhere in sight. After Buggy mistook a cave for the place where Captain John buried his treasure, only to find some diggers working in it, Alvida complained about the noise the crew made as they partied onboard the Big Top, and that they do not know where Luffy is. Portgas D. Ace appeared, offered his help, and helped himself to their food. Buggy explained his worry about messing with a member of the Whitebeard Pirates, and Alvida was impressed by his knowledge of Whitebeard.

Summit War Saga

Amazon Lily Arc

Sometime later, Buggy entered a Marine garrison thinking it was another cave with Captain John’s treasure and was captured and taken to Impel Down.

Impel Down Arc

After buying an Eternal Pose, the Buggy and Alvida Alliance sailed to the Calm Belt near Impel Down, where a Marine spotted the ship but did not recognize the Jolly Roger, so Vice Admiral Momonga decided to ignore it due to their tight schedule. The Buggy Pirates balked at the sight of a Sea King in the Calm Belt and begged for Alvida to help them rescue Buggy. They wished to complete their quest to find Captain John’s hidden treasure, but Alvida threatened to keep the ship for herself and to make those who wished to rescue Buggy take a lifeboat to do so. After convincing the rest of the crew that attempting to rescue Buggy would prove futile, the crew members called out apologies to their imprisoned captain and sailed away. It is unknown if the crew acknowledged Alvida as their new captain, but they did respect her judgment and looked to her for orders.

Postwar Arc

On an island in the Grand Line, the Buggy and Alvida Alliance reunited with Buggy. When the other pirates claimed that they never gave up on Buggy, Alvida pointed out that they abandoned him after his imprisonment in Impel Down. She commented on how many prisoners she recognized from their wanted posters. Buggy then showed Alvida the recently acquired treasure mark of Captain John, which left Alvida stunned and wondering how he got it.

Posttimeskip

After Buggy became a member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Alvida is currently allied with Buggy’s Pirate Dispatch Company.

Whole Cake Island Saga

Zou Arc

On Karai Bari Island at Buggy’s Pirate Dispatch Company, she was sitting behind Buggy at a feast with Mohji, Richie, Cabaji, and Galdino as they celebrated the defeat of Donquixote Doflamingo and the positive effect it had on their business. Mohji then revealed that Hajrudin and his crew had quit the dispatch company to align themselves under the flag of the Straw Hat Pirates. The following events are non-canon, and therefore not considered part of the canon story.

One Piece Stampede

She and the rest of the Buggy Pirates are attendants at the Pirates Festival in Delta Island. She and Galdino accompany Buggy on the search for Roger’s treasure on the island. Concludes non-canon section.

Wano Country Saga

Wano Country Arc

After the abolishment of the Seven Warlords of the Sea system, those on Karai Bari Island were confronted by a Marine fleet led by Stainless.

Final Saga

Egghead Arc

Crocodile led his own force to destroy the Marines’ ships in order to recruit Buggy and Buggy’s Delivery into his new company, the Cross Guild. Alvida and her colleagues from Buggy’s Delivery decide that from now on they will work under Crocodile’s orders.

In the live-action series, Alvida’s vanity is rewritten to focus on power and reputation rather than physical beauty. She interrogates some sailors her crew assaulted, asking them about the location of Roronoa Zoro. After asking them about the list of pirates that the bounty hunter had to capture, and if they saw if her name was on it, one of the sailors tells Alvida that her name was not on the list, which angers Alvida, who kills the man with a duck-shaped club. Like in the anime, Alvida’s encounter with Luffy happens on the high seas instead of on Goat Island. Instead of being warned by her subordinates, she and her entire crew discover Luffy aboard the Miss Love Duck during the night after he mistakenly rang a bell while everyone was sleeping. In her confrontation with Luffy, she ends up accidentally setting the Miss Love Duck on fire. Also, like in the anime, Luffy sends Alvida flying so that she falls into the water, although unlike the anime, where he hits her in the stomach, he hits her in the face like in the manga. Her way of meeting Buggy changes, with both of them meeting in a bar where they see that they share a grudge against Luffy after seeing his reward poster hanging in the establishment, and Alvida being with her original appearance instead of her appearance after having eaten the Sube Sube no Mi.