Gild Tesoro

Tesoro stands tall and powerfully built, his slicked-back green hair crowning a pink suit. A large star-shaped scar spans his back, deliberately masking the slave brand beneath, the Soaring Dragon's Hoof. Jewelry covers him heavily: rings sit on every finger save his left ring finger, earrings shaped like stars hang at his ears, and a star-tipped chain clips to his right shoulder. Winged sunglasses rest on his face or atop his head, and he sometimes adds a top hat. For concerts with Carina he dons a gold button-down beneath a white star-patterned jacket bearing a rose, gold trousers, and a white top hat. As a child his hair was unkempt and his shirt tattered; in young adulthood it was a touch shorter above a cerulean collared shirt.

Singing was Tesoro's childhood joy and his dream pointed toward show business, but poverty pushed him into crime. He briefly reformed for a slave girl named Stella, hoping to buy her freedom, only for a World Noble to purchase her; her death two years later broke him and sent him back to crime. From then on he became insatiably greedy, fixated on hoarding enough riches to unseat the World Nobles and stand as the mightiest figure alive, certain that money alone brings success. His suffering twisted him into a sadist who calls others' pain "entertainment." Wielding total control over Gran Tesoro, he developed a god complex, showered visitors in gold dust to encase them at will, and drove guests into impossible debt. He loathes anyone laughing without his permission, killing over it, and often repeats the line "I decide who laughs," the very words his old master once used. Despite hating the wealthy after his enslavement, he revels hypocritically in his own riches and keeps beautiful women like Carina near him as displays of power rather than out of affection.

As proprietor of Gran Tesoro, the world's largest entertainment city-ship, Tesoro held sway over everyone aboard it. His fortune made up roughly a fifth of all money in circulation, his "Tesoro Money" reaching 500 billion, and the World Government treated his vessel as an independent, neutral nation that sometimes bowed to his requests. His clout reached the Underworld through his old partnership with Doflamingo, and Koala likened his power to a World Noble's. He brought Bill and the Silver Pirate Alliance to heel, demanding tribute in ore and captive pirates, and his crew once fought the Donquixote Pirates to a standstill. His reflexes are startling, letting him drop, slap the ground, raise a gold wall, and counter-punch before Gear 2 Luffy could recover from a single failed strike. Having eaten the Paramecia-type Goru Goru no Mi, he freely manipulates any gold he has touched, raising fountains of liquid gold, trapping foes, infusing victims with gold dust to turn their skin to metal, forging armor, and even piloting his central skyscraper as a golem. Through awakening he extended this control, using all the gold of Gran Tesoro as a sensory web to detect intrusions and unleashing concentrated beams of light or bursts of force able to destroy a warship. He can also use Armament Haki in the game Burning Blood, and remains a gifted performer who sings and dances in concert.