Gyogyo

Heavyset and bearded, this fishman-trade veteran is marked by thick lips, freckled cheeks, and a rounded, swollen nose. Tribal designs run across both upper arms. For clothes he favors a tank top stamped with the words GREAT MAN, suspender trousers, and a cowboy hat.

His bond with Kuma started badly. As a boy he flung rocks at the oversized child, sure that no one could truly be only nine, and only after Kuma eased the wounds Ginny had inflicted did the two grow close. Many Sorbet boys were drawn to Ginny, and Gyogyo was no exception. Loyalty to Kuma defined him most: when Kuma was unjustly imprisoned for speaking out against the enslavement of townsfolk, Gyogyo stirred up unrest in Castle Town.

His full combat strength remains unrecorded, yet Conney called him a fighter whom rival pirates and even sea beasts fled on sight. He has twirled a rope like a lasso, though his skill with it is unclear, and he proved no equal to the Blackbeard Pirates. Raised in Sorbet, he and Totts once pelted the nine-year-old Kuma until Ginny beat them both; Kuma then soothed their pain, and the four became companions who hauled wood to sell.

Twenty-five years back he carried fish to Kuma's church as a present for Ginny. Years later he joined her doomed jailbreak attempt and was arrested with the rest, freed only when Monkey D. Dragon and his Freedom Fighters deposed the corrupt monarch Bekori. He afterward hunted for doctors when Ginny's daughter Bonney showed Sapphire Scales symptoms, coached her through her Toshi Toshi no Mi, and joined her ninth birthday celebration. Asked by Conney to shield Bonney from the World Government, he rebuilt their fishing boat into a pirate vessel and put to sea with her.

At Sabaody he calmed Bonney while she emptied a restaurant's larder and saw her clash with both a Celestial Dragon and the Marines. He failed to console her at Marineford after Squard's betrayal of Whitebeard. The crew pressed into the New World, where the Blackbeard Pirates beat and tied them up, leaving Akainu and the Marines to take them into custody. In the non-canon film Stampede he attended the Pirates Festival.