Basil Hawkins

Hawkins is a tall figure marked by three thin triangular symbols above each eye, red irises, and golden-blonde hair falling to his hips. A black cross pattee sits inked low on his throat. Before the timeskip he favored a white ruffled coat, purple boots-tucked trousers, a fur ornament around his waist, and a voodoo-doll-pommeled sword at his hip. After the timeskip his coat shifted to a checkered weave of blue, green, and black reminiscent of a Scottish kilt, and during the Wano arc he donned a long cape, a ruffled-collar shirt, and checkered trousers. In the raid on Onigashima, Killer severed his left arm.

Cultivating a noble, mysterious air, Hawkins stays serenely composed even when faced with a Marine Admiral, only rarely letting brief flashes of shock or cruelty show. He is humorless and strictly pragmatic, disliking jokes and unruly conduct, which nearly drove him from the alliance with Kid and Apoo. His decisions flow from cartomancy: he constantly reads tarot to weigh the odds of any outcome, and he calmly justified joining the Beasts Pirates because every alternative came back at zero percent odds of survival. Beneath the calm lies a ruthless fighter willing to slaughter entire crews and to hold others' lives hostage through his straw dolls, though he will honor a bargain and release those lives once his terms are met.

As a captain of the Worst Generation, Hawkins endured Paradise, the opening stretch of the Grand Line, and earned recognition as a serious threat, his bounty rising to 320,000,000 after the timeskip; he crippled Brownbeard and even scratched Zoro. His Devil Fruit, a Paramecia known as the Wara Wara no Mi, lets him generate and command straw, forming armor, weapons, and a towering scarecrow effigy. By crafting straw voodoo dolls linked to up to ten people, he can divert any harm done to him onto those victims, the doll shedding once it absorbs enough damage. His tarot deck functions as a combat tool, with each drawn card unleashing effects that may help or hurt him depending on whether it falls upright or reversed. He fights with the straw-formed Warabide Sword, a flexible whip-like blade, and commands both Armament and Observation Haki.