
Bayan leads the crew that bears his name and stands as the central villain of the second One Piece television special. Chasing a great treasure, he relies on a hypnotic chorus to bend others to his will and turn allies against one another.
Tall and slender, Bayan carries a long face that ends in a square chin. His wavy hair runs ice blue, with one blond wisp jutting free near the top. The wardrobe is theatrical: a flowing white coat lined in pink, finished with a red bow and purple collar, worn over a frilled white shirt. White flared trousers and white boots finish the outfit, and he loads his fingers with rings.
Conceit and greed steer him. He kills without hesitation when treasure is on the line, and seizing command over other people troubles him not at all, even when it means forcing children to attack the friends they care about to get what he wants.
Years earlier, Bayan and the father of Amanda both hunted the same magnificent prize. The moment that father uncovered it, Bayan turned on him and dealt a fatal wound, leaving the man only enough strength to limp home and entrust the treasure's whereabouts to his children. The crew pressed on with the search, and Bayan's lieutenant Zap eventually caught Amanda along with her younger siblings, plus Maccus and Bonney picked up on the way. A bargain let Amanda slip free with the children, which infuriated Bayan and drove him to keep Zap and the others scouring for her over roughly a month.
Arriving at the island, he ordered Zap to grab Amanda, who turned up with a sleeping Luffy launched onto the deck beside her. His signature weapon is a song his crew chants in unison, overriding the actions of whoever hears it; he used it to make Amanda reveal the map inked across her back and to set Luffy on his own friends. The plan collapsed when Usopp shot newly devised sleeping pellets into the singers' mouths and knocked them out mid-chorus. Going to learn what had become of Zap, Bayan instead met a seven-way strike from the Straw Hats and went down without resistance, confirming how weak a fighter he truly was.

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Bayan is the captain of the Bayan Pirates and the main villain of the second One Piece television special, using a hypnotic chorus to control others while chasing a legendary treasure.
Bayan commands his crew to sing a hypnotic chorus in unison that overrides the will of anyone who hears it, using it to force Amanda to reveal a hidden treasure map and to turn Luffy against his own friends.
Bayan wants Amanda because he believes she and her siblings know the location of a treasure her father discovered years earlier, the same discovery that led Bayan to fatally wound her father and keep searching ever since.
Usopp shoots sleeping pellets into the mouths of Bayan's singing crew mid-chorus, breaking the hypnosis, after which the Straw Hats overwhelm Bayan himself with a combined seven-way attack that reveals how weak a fighter he really is.
Zap serves as Bayan's lieutenant, carrying out his orders to capture Amanda and the other children while Bayan continues his search for the treasure.
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