Kaido and Big Mom are Locks’ crew members, so Kaido calls Brooke the vice-captain.

Brooke was born in the West Sea. When he was young, he was originally the leader of a certain country's guard group. He later joined the Rumba Pirates and became the group's fencer and musician. Later, because Captain Youqi contracted the plague and left the pirate group, he became Acting Captain. 52 years ago, he made a promise to reunite with Rab the Whale in the Twin Gorges. The reward at that time was 33 million berries.

Later the Lombard Pirates encountered enemies in the Magic Triangle and were attacked by poisonous weapons, and the ship's doctor was also dead. The crew members, including Brooke, held a large ensemble on the ship and then the whole army Submerged and the last to die in the ensemble, Brooke tasted the loneliness and fear of his companions dying one after another before he died.

Due to the ability generated by eating the underworld fruit during his lifetime, when the soul walked out of the underworld and prepared to return to the body, it got lost in the thick fog of the Magic Triangle for a year. The body he found had turned into a skeleton, but it exploded. His head still existed (he himself said it was because his hair roots were strong). From then on, he could only live in a skeleton state on the ship, burying the skulls of his companions, and spent more than thirty years in loneliness.

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Brooke's favorite song is "Binshi's Wine" (Japanese: ビンクスの水); this is also the favorite song of everyone in the Rumba Pirates and Whale Rabu songs. Robin said that this is a "pirate song" that originated from the Western Sea and is a song that was included in "ONE PIECE" a long time ago. Brooke has a "music shell" in his possession, which preserves the "Guns' Wine" played by his partners in the Lombard Pirates on their deathbed 50 years ago, and it is now stored in his skull.

"The Wine of Guests" is the original song of "ONE PIECE". Four to five years before creating the horror barque, the author Eiichiro Oda had asked the animation music master Tanaka Toei to compose the music for this song; The lyrics were composed by Oda himself and were first announced in Chapter 488 of the manga. So since Brooke first appeared, the song has been completed. The lyrics also feature Brooke's signature "yo ho ho" laugh.