Gaimon

Gaimon's face takes an unusual pear shape, crowned by green hair and a heavy single brow. In youth he stood at ordinary height with a thin, scrawny frame. A mishap soon after he reached the Island of Rare Animals crushed nearly all of him down inside a chest; only his skull, his hands, and his feet stayed loose, and a single tooth was knocked free. Over the twenty years that followed, a wide beard and an even larger afro grew in, giving him the look of a walking shrub.

During his pirate days, greed defined Gaimon, and plunder was nearly all he cared for. Long stretches of solitude wore that hunger down without ever erasing it, teaching him to prize calm and companionship above any riches. He still guards fiercely whatever he labels treasure, which leaves him wary and hostile toward strangers at first. Once a person earns his trust, though, he turns remarkably warm and helpful, especially toward others who have been marooned.

Gaimon once sailed aboard the Machina Hallelujah among a crew of roughly two hundred. Chasing reports of buried riches, they searched the Island of Rare Animals for three weeks and found nothing beyond one empty chest. As his captain prepared to leave, Gaimon climbed the steep cliff the crew had ignored and discovered five chests waiting at the top. Turning to call out the news, he slipped, dropped into the empty chest below, and was knocked senseless; he woke to find the ship gone and his body trapped in the box. Posing as the island's guardian, he drove off newcomers for twenty years and befriended the rare animals living there. When Luffy shrugged off his pistol, Gaimon finally met a group he could not scare away, told his story, and watched Luffy scale the cliff only to confirm all five chests were bare. He declined the chance to sign on with the Straw Hats, choosing instead to look after the animals he treasured, and later found lasting company in Sarfunkel, a woman likewise stuck inside a barrel.