Gasparde

Standing tall and powerfully muscled, Gasparde keeps his dark-blonde hair combed flat to both sides while the rear sweeps outward, an arrangement that calls Crocodile to mind. His face carries sharp cheekbones, a heavy jaw, and eyes narrowed into a squint. For attire he favors an ornate Marine coat patterned after the one worn by Vice Admiral Doberman, thrown on over a brown shirt that bares his chest, the Marine crest on its back scratched out. Black trousers cinched by a belt with twin side buckles complete the lower half, rounded out by steel boots, brown gloves, and a purple scarf at his throat. He counts among the handful of non-canon figures that Oda sketched personally.

Fellowship and loyalty mean nothing to Gasparde. He turned on the Marines purely to feed his own appetites and refers to his crew as mere underlings, casting aside anyone who fails him like refuse while forcing the survivors of his raids into hard labor. Convinced that strength is the only thing that matters, he relishes cheating and deceiving rivals to come out ahead. He claims to despise the sea yet hungers for the power to rule over it, scoffing at the One Piece and at dreams much as the Bellamy Pirates do. Near the end of their clash Luffy brands him a fraud who merely plays at piracy without grasping what the word truly means. His familiarity with Shanks surfaces when he recognizes and stabs through Luffy's straw hat to mock him.

Gasparde and his crew proved strong enough to overcome the fish-man Willy, a onetime rival of Arlong, along with Willy's followers. The captain showed raw power of his own, battering Luffy with blows fierce enough to hurt the rubber-bodied teen and hurling him a great distance. Every Dead End Race he entered ended in victory, and though those wins came through rigging, they reveal a shrewd mind adept at fooling pirate crews and Marines alike. The source of his might is the Ame Ame no Mi. This rare Logia fruit turns portions of his body into a candy-like syrup. He can mold weapons from the transformed matter, trap enemies in its stickiness, and even copy the elastic rebound of the Gomu Gomu no Mi, wielding the substance in both fluid and hardened forms. Two flaws hold him back: flour cancels the ability outright, and his command of the fruit stays imperfect, as shown when Luffy caught him off guard to bloody his face and later drove a ship's mast through his back.