Rick

Rick D. Astley is a former member of the Devil's Luck Pirates and one of the founding members of the original crew. He died in a typhoon before the campaign began. He was a close friend to William. The old quartermaster, he ran the crew behind the scenes before his death. This event forced William to learn to guide the crew properly. William originally met him in a bar one night and they became best friends. Rick also met Ragnar in a bar. He was also the one who found and recruited Verona to the crew. He owned a lot of bars and was quite wealthy before leaving to become a pirate.

Appearance
Rick had ginger hair and wore a black suit jacket with a white collar shirt and a black and white striped undershirt underneath. He wore white pants with a plain black belt as well.

Personality
Rick seemed to be fairly non-charismatic but was intelligent enough to take care of the day-to-day leadership of the crew in its early days. He seems to have been fairly skittish by the sound of his voice.

Laughter Style
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Overview
Rick was an intelligent and rich man. A bar-owning businessman-turned-pirate, he was most likely familiar with business administration and could make use of that experience, his knowledge of people and finances, to run a pirate crew.

Death Power
Rick had an ability where, if he pointed at someone and said 'Die', they would die.

Intelligence
Rick ran the Devils Luck Pirates before they gained that name behind the scenes, being the one who originally organized the structure of the crew and what roles each crewmember had.

The Devils Luck Pirates
Rick was good friends with the original members of the crew, those being William, Verona, Duros and Ragnar. Rick was also stated to be William and Verona's best friend.

Past
Rick owned a chain of bars and was a very wealthy man in life with a lot of influence and knew many powerful people. Eventually he wanted to run away from that life to become a pirate, creating and structuring the original Devil's Luck Pirates somewhere along the way. Rick met William in a bar and the two founded the Devil's Luck Pirates together. Rick also met Ragnar in a bar at some point and recruited him. He was also the one to find and invite Verona into the crew.

Rick presumably died when the crew was hit by a typhoon just before the events of Episode 1.

Trivia

 * Barry D. Brick, Action1528 and FrostingOrb1766 on discord all contributed to the meme which became canon, Rick D. Astley.
 * Rick is either the third or fourth person in the entire story to have the Will of D, depending on whether or not Boss has it (it has been implied that he might).

Quotes

 * "So William you can be the captain cause I don't really have charisma for it, I'll run things behind the scenes. Ragnar you're the shipwright, Duros you're the first mate and uhhh, Verona you're the navigator."
 * "I said I was never gonna give you up, I said I was never let you down, I said I was never run around and hurt you."