Diego

Large and tanned, Diego balances a heavy upper body on strikingly thin legs. White hair spills from under his red cap and down his neck, paired with white sideburns. He wears blue overalls cinched by a white tool belt at the waist, a loop of blue beads at his throat, and a brown cloak slung over his shoulders. The combination of age and grueling work leaves him plagued by a sore back.

Set in his ways, Diego holds tremendous pride in his wax artistry and in his son, who took up the same gift. Over a lifetime he ran into countless pirates, Shanks and Edward Newgate among them, and came to admire both the men and their hunger for freedom. As a matter of habit he molds, in wax, figures of those pirates he has crossed paths with and esteems.

Wax sculpting is Diego's craft, and he has used it to preserve a host of infamous pirates, among them Silvers Rayleigh, the Whitebeard and Red Hair crews, Zeff, Squard, Mont Blanc Cricket, and Whitey Bay. He finished half a figure of Admiral Kizaru and wished to sculpt Zoro one day, and he can imitate voices with eerie precision, nailing Borsalino's exactly. Once Whitebeard fell, Bilic took over the island and Regis signed on with the Marines in defiance of his father, severing their contact.

In Episode of Luffy, the descending Thousand Sunny smashed Diego's house. He shortly met Luffy, swapped pirate talk, and unveiled his collection. Deciding to deliver Regis the very first wax figure his son had ever sculpted, he let Luffy volunteer to carry it on account of his age. While the Straw Hats stormed the Marine base held by Bilic, Diego crossed paths with Koby, whose scheme used Diego's Borsalino statue to end Bilic's rule. Father and son met again, with Diego leaving Regis to settle his own course, and afterward he set to work on a statue made in Luffy's honor.