Buggy

Buggy is a man of average build whose look mimics a clown to match his epithet. His hair is long and blue, his eyes grayish, and the oversized red nose he sports is genuinely his own, while the blue tassels flanking his hat are really strands of hair shaped into twin ponytails. Clown makeup permanently covers his face, its patterns changing across his appearances. In captain's dress he wears a red-and-white striped shirt, white clown gloves, a waist sash, loose trousers, and a fur-lined orange coat hung from his shoulders beneath a hat bearing his Jolly Roger. Following the timeskip his untied hair turned spikier and he took to a large striped tricorn and a great cloak, using his fruit to make himself seem far bigger than he is.

Vain and self-important, Buggy hungers to be admired and feared, complaining even at age nine that the Whitebeard Pirates drew more newspaper coverage than Roger's crew. Rather than train himself, he recruits powerful underlings to do the heavy lifting, and any flattery, however undeserved, sends him spiraling into delusions of grandeur. A natural showman, he laces nearly every sentence with the word "flashy" and stages his actions for maximum spectacle. He is obsessed with treasure to the point of murderous possessiveness, and a map lost through Shanks during their apprentice days bred a grudge he has nursed for three decades. Intensely proud, he also tends to underestimate opponents he knows nothing about.

As captain Buggy commands his crew, a force that ballooned after he freed hundreds of Impel Down inmates whose bounties dwarf his own; learning of his Roger Pirates past, they came to revere him. That borrowed prestige won him a Warlord seat and later, through the Crocodile-and-Mihawk-run Cross Guild, recognition as an Emperor with a bounty of 3,189,000,000. In truth his fighting ability lags well behind most New World pirates, and he has endured mainly through lies, misunderstandings, and remarkable luck. His Bara Bara no Mi belongs to the Paramecia class and lets him break his body into floating pieces that he steers telekinetically and launches as ranged strikes, while leaving him immune to cutting attacks; only his feet stay grounded, and he still feels pain in any detached part. He also favors knives in combat.