Iove started off on Midnight Ocean under the name Apples. He met Zarathrusta and was asked to join his crew because of his swordfighting skills. After Zarathrusta was banned for taking advantage of the Kraken's Blood Bug the crew fell apart and soon after Apples moved to Viridian. Apples joined Kisso's crew Kisso's Mercenaries. After Kisso left to pursue other interests, Apples created his own crew, "Crew." Apples trained under Imperfect to perfect his sword-fighting technique and to learn about the mechanics of the game. Apples got sick of the attention he was getting from opposing crews and pirates. So he created a new pirate and named this one Iove. Iove didn't join a crew for a long while because he wanted to go unnoticed while playing the game. Eventually he created a joke crew with h