Jorge

Jorge cut the figure of an old man, his lined face framed by a sweeping white mustache and beard. A purple cap matching his judicial robes sat atop his head.

Loyal to the World Government yet far from rigid, Jorge approached his duties with fairness and an open mind. Letting Tom proceed with the Sea Train suggests he weighed the wider benefit of Water 7, and once the railway proved a triumph he warmed to the shipwright and gladly meant to grant him a full pardon. Spandam dismissed him as a soft, sentimental old man, since Jorge honored Tom's dying wish to overlook his apprentices while still declining to clear him, a sign of the genuine respect he held for the builder.

A judge's verdict carried enormous weight, and Jorge held authority enough to condemn even a shipwright as renowned as Tom to death. He presided over Tom twice. The first trial, held at Enies Lobby, sentenced Tom to death for constructing the Oro Jackson for Gol D. Roger, but after hearing the plan for the Sea Train, Jorge spared him, asking only that the line eventually reach Enies Lobby, and let the work go ahead.

Fourteen years on, Jorge came back to Water 7 captivated by the finished railway and ready to absolve Tom for good. His vessel was then assaulted on Spandam's orders, using Cutty Flam's battleships to pin the blame on Tom and his apprentices. Jorge cleared Tom of the original charge but condemned him and his pupils for the staged attack. In a final bargain, Tom offered the Sea Train itself as recompense for that day's supposed crime and confessed to helping Roger, hoping to shield Franky and Iceburg. The judge consented, and Tom was led away aboard the very train he had created.