Baburu

Baburu is a small, kindly-looking old woman whose hair is gathered up into a bun. She wears round little glasses, a poncho, and a robe printed with uneven, blotchy polka dots.

Warm and fiercely protective, Baburu cherished her grandson Gaburu, and because Caribou struck her as so like him, she felt driven to shield and aid the pirate however she could. She knew perfectly well he was a notorious criminal rather than Gaburu, yet treated him with the same tenderness. Despite her age she can turn surprisingly aggressive, though she has little real strength and was brushed aside with ease by Scotch. She is a skilled baker of meat pies, a treat both Gaburu and Caribou relished.

After Caribou washed ashore on her homeland, Baburu tended him back to health and dozed off at his side. He repaid her by stealing her food and jewelry, but she woke and still pressed a meat pie on him for the road. Revolutionaries mistook him for Gaburu and accosted him, and she chased them off before seeing him to the harbor. Once Caribou had witnessed the misery inside the weapons factory run by Kaidou and the island's stirring revolt, he came back to find her house ablaze with her trapped inside. Taking him again for her grandson, she begged him to flee and fight no more, only for Scotch to blast her house and send her flying. Scotch then seized her as a warning to would-be rebels, but Caribou returned with his crew, posing as the revolutionary Gaburu, and crushed Scotch's forces while wrecking the factory. When X Drake arrived and dragged Caribou away, Baburu looked on, and Caribou talked Drake into sparing her and the other townsfolk. She handed him a final meat pie and watched his ship depart. Later she knelt at Gaburu's grave and thanked Caribou for defending the island, having understood all along that the two men were not the same.