Hildon was a bat-shaped Wild Zombie of Thriller Bark who looked like a stitched-together vampire. Acting as a courier for the island's Mysterious Four, he relayed news across the moving fortress until Gecko Moria drained its shadows.
Wrapped in bandages over a bat-shaped frame, Hildon could take to the air thanks to a deep purple cloak that served as both garment and wings. Talons let him hang inverted, and his mouth held sharp vampiric fangs. His features included red claws, a long stitched nose, pointed ears, and eyes that looked sunken or ringed by odd tattoo-like markings. The numeral 21 sat over his right eye, while a stitch ran from his left eye up to his hairline. On his back, when he first showed up, he hauled a tall, long-necked bottle that resembled liquor. The overall effect read as vampire-like.
In casual company Hildon usually came across as friendly and courteous. He showed devotion to Gecko Moria, reaching out to him once the Straw Hats began striking back against the zombies. A speech quirk gave him a lisp, swapping deshi for desu, a detail dropped from the English versions. As a zombie, salt was his sole weakness, and his huge bat wings carried him aloft.
When three of the Straw Hats slipped away from the Cerberus, Hildon proposed driving Nami, Chopper, and Usopp by carriage to Hogback's mansion. They agreed, and en route he poured Nami wine and praised Hogback as a celebrated doctor. As the pirates spotted zombies in the woods, he claimed they were imagining things. At the graveyard, he and the zombies hauling the carriage deserted the trio, and Hildon flew off to the mansion laughing at their predicament.
Inside, he offered to guide them to the bedrooms, but his earlier treachery made them refuse. After Luffy was captured, Moria dispatched Hildon to fetch Perona, Absalom, and Hogback so that Oars' body could be animated, and he also told Absalom that Brook had come back. Following Oars' revival, Hildon flew in to warn Hogback and Moria that Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji had woken and the crew was resisting with Brook's aid. He watched the Straw Hats topple Oars. Moria then unleashed Shadow Asgard, soaking up all one thousand shadows on Thriller Bark and reducing Hildon to a lifeless husk.

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Hildon is a bat shaped Wild Zombie of Thriller Bark, one of Gecko Moria's servants who works as a courier for the Mysterious Four until he is destroyed when Moria drains the island's shadows.
Hildon is wrapped in bandages over a bat shaped frame, with a deep purple cloak that serves as both garment and wings. He has red claws, sharp vampiric fangs, a long stitched nose, and pointed ears.
As a zombie, salt is Hildon's sole weakness.
Hildon offers to drive Nami, Chopper, and Usopp by carriage to Hogback's mansion, pouring Nami wine along the way, then deserts them at the graveyard and flies off laughing at their predicament.
Hildon is destroyed when Gecko Moria unleashes Shadow Asgard, absorbing all one thousand shadows on Thriller Bark and reducing Hildon to a lifeless husk.
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