Some characters make their first appearances after the timeskip. The characters (in the order they were reintroduced) are: Dracule Mihawk, Aladine, Yasopp, Shanks, Benn Beckman, Rockstar, and Stansen. Gally makes his first canon appearance. Sanji's family, the Vinsmoke Family, is formally introduced. His father, Vinsmoke Judge, is revealed as the one who sent bounty hunters after Duval in order to find Sanji, and later changed his bounty condition to "Only Alive." His family once ruled over North Blue, and Judge seeks to reclaim it. Though they no longer rule over land, the family can still attend Levely. However, due to Judge's attempt to ally with the Big Mom Pirates, the World Government would cut all ties with the Germa Kingdom in the following arc. Judge is a scientist and former peer of Vegapunk, and the pair had worked together on the Lineage Factor of living creatures (genetics). Judge has implemented this via Cloning an army for Germa 66, as well as by making his own children into Modified Humans with genetically enhanced abilities. Sanji did not receive these abilities due to his mother Sora's interference, as she wanted to keep her sons human. He was bullied by his brothers, who were successfully advanced and, in the process, lost their humanity while Judge neglected Sanji due to Sora's interference. Sanji's statement about growing up in the North Blue is confirmed and expanded upon. He grew up there in the Germa Kingdom, but he was imprisoned by his father for being a "failure." After his sister freed him, Sanji escaped from his abusive family at the age of 8, during an assault by the Kingdom in East Blue. It is revealed how he ended up on the Orbit. After Sanji saves his family from Big Mom's assassination plan and disowns his father, Judge finally relents and vows to never interfere in Sanji's life again nor harm Zeff. Sanji is revealed to have developed his chivalry from Zeff, whom he considers his true father. Big Mom and her crew are heavily revealed and much of their nature is elaborated. Big Mom rules over a 35-island archipelago known as Totto Land, where she seeks to house a population derived from all races living in harmony.Totto Land is inhabited by numerous anthropomorphic animals and objects known as homies, which have been ensouled via Big Mom's Devil Fruit, the Soru Soru no Mi. Big Mom has been married 43 times. She has 46 sons and 39 daughters, who together form the Charlotte Family. Lola is revealed to be one of those daughters, thus revealing that the Vivre Card she gave to Nami on Thriller Bark points to Big Mom. Due to Big Mom's Devil Fruit, the fragment of her soul within the Vivre Card is extremely powerful and can repel homies, unless Big Mom herself is present. Big Mom's 35th daughter and Sanji's ex-fiancée Charlotte Pudding is the first member of the Three-Eye Tribe to be shown in the series. Pudding has the potential, if awakened, ability to read Poneglyphs. Following Sanji's comment about her third eye during the Tea Party/wedding, Pudding has developed genuine romantic love for him along with an erratic personality disorder. Big Mom has an enmity with the Giant race due to unwittingly killing one of their heroes as a child, as well as unwittingly causing the mysterious disappearance of Carmel and the Sheep's House children. She attempted to amend relations with them through a political marriage between her daughter Lola and Prince Loki of Elbaf, but Lola ran away. Big Mom attempted to substitute Lola's identical twin sister Chiffon in her place, but the giants saw through the ruse, which only made tensions between them worse. Big Mom has since abandoned her efforts to befriend the giants, and has nursed a grudge against Lola and Chiffon ever since. No giants reside in Totto Land as a result of this enmity. Big Mom commissioned Caesar Clown to research artificial gigantism, so that she might convert members of her family into giants. Caesar blew off the assignment and embezzled the funds, so Big Mom sent her underlings to track him down from Dressrosa to Zou. Jinbe officially breaks off from the Sun Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates in order to join the Straw Hat Pirates. Prior to that, he gave Big Mom the Poneglyph he found during his journey. Wadatsumi joins the Sun Pirates. Luffy reveals two new forms of Gear 4: Tankman and Snakeman. Pedro is revealed to have once led a pirate crew called the Nox Pirates, of which Pekoms was once a member. The crew was defeated in Totto Land, and Pekoms joined Big Mom while Pedro had 50 years of his lifespan taken away. Big Mom has no less than three Poneglyphs in her possession: a Road Poneglyph and two regular ones, one of which she obtained recently from Jinbe. Brook manages to steal imprints of the text recorded on all three. According to Tamago, there are approximately 30 poneglyphs in the entire world. The Straw Hats Pirates capture Zeus to serve as Nami's slave. However, when the Big Mom Pirates later follow the Straw Hats to Wano Country, Big Mom intends to get Zeus back. Jinbe separates from the crew to help his former crew escape from Totto Land, and later as he planned rejoined the Straw Hats in Wano Country during the Wano Country Arc.