Pekoms

Roughly a head taller than Sanji, this lion mink carries a humanoid build topped by an afro-style mane. His small, beady eyes read as cute to onlookers whenever the sunglasses lift, even when he means to intimidate. His paws are oversized while his feet stay small enough to slide into snug boots, and he favors a stance with fists raised and his tongue hanging out one corner of his mouth. The standard look is a pink suit jacket over a salmon dress shirt and a dark blue bowtie, finished with black shades, a lone silver earring on the left, a sheathed sword at the right hip, and white-trimmed black high heels. Disguised as Nazoms, he darkens the suit and dons a luchador mask whose front shows a star flanked by two little horns. Reaching his Sulong state turns his eyes blue and swells the mane and tail tassel enormously while thickening his frame into something far more bestial.

Short-tempered and fond of obvious threats, Pekoms loses most of his menace because of those harmless-looking eyes. Big Mom frightens him so badly that he freezes when she calls, yet he admits openly to loving chocolate and keeps a running tally of wanted faces he spots on bounty posters. He warns that owning a Logia fruit makes nobody untouchable, and he holds a quiet pride about his Zoan powers, sulking a little when Luffy ignored his diamond-hard defense. Beneath the grumpiness sits genuine warmth: he broke down sobbing when Big Mom nearly drained Pedro's lifespan, and his deep attachment to Zou drove him to shield the Straw Hats and even lie to his captain on their behalf. As with many minks, he caps most sentences with a roar, his being a drawn-out gao.

Long service collecting candy across Big Mom's protected islands gave Pekoms a thorough grasp of all things Totto Land. In combat he moves with startling speed, slipping Soru-style past Caribou's scythe and answering with one Haki-loaded punch that flattened the rookie and snapped his weapon. As a mink he wields Electro, commands both Armament and Observation Haki, and can shift under the full moon into a Sulong form that magnifies his fighting power, though only Pedro's voice ever pulled him back from the mindless rage it brings. His Devil Fruit, the Zoan-class Kame Kame no Mi, lets him become either a full turtle or a turtle-mink hybrid; the shell it produces is said to rival diamond and shrugged off a barrage from a Gatling gun. He keeps a sword he has never drawn and once briefly held a flintlock without firing it.