Kuzan

Kuzan is a strikingly tall, lean man whose muscle hides beneath a long, narrow build, reaching 298 centimeters. Chin-length black curls flare at the ends, framing tanned skin and a youthful face that belies his rank. In Marine service he favored a white buttoned vest over a navy shirt, white trousers, a yellow tie, and a sleep mask pushed up on his brow. After leaving the Marines his look shifted to a blue bandana, a white V-neck, dark trousers, a long greenish trench coat, and cowboy boots, paired with a thin mustache and beard. A duel on Punk Hazard left him scarred down the right side of his body and missing part of his left leg, which he now replaces with a prosthesis of his own ice.

Easygoing to the point of seeming idle, Kuzan calls his creed Lazy Justice and rarely shows surprise, a demeanor that leads others to underestimate a man of his power. He acts decisively only when a matter truly warrants it. Beneath the relaxed manner runs genuine compassion: he ferried Tonjit across the sea, and as a younger officer he let Nico Robin slip away from the Buster Call on Ohara. He holds that the meaning of justice shifts depending on where a person stands, and he loathed the brutal methods of his rival Sakazuki, ultimately dueling him over the Fleet Admiral post rather than serve beneath him.

Trained by Monkey D. Garp, Kuzan rose through the Marines to become the admiral known as Aokiji, wielding a Logia known as the Hie Hie no Mi, which lets him generate and embody ice. His might was counted among the World Government's greatest military assets. During the Ohara Incident he reluctantly froze his friend Jaguar D. Saul yet quietly spared the child Robin. As the antagonist during the Long Ring Long Land events, he overwhelmed Luffy's crew with ease and crushed Luffy in a one-sided duel.

At the Summit War of Marineford he fought aggressively, trading blows with Whitebeard and defeating Jozu. Sengoku later put his name forward for Fleet Admiral, but he lost a grueling battle against Sakazuki on Punk Hazard and resigned rather than answer to him, departing with severe wounds. Wandering afterward and disillusioned with the World Government's corruption, he eventually aligned with Marshall D. Teach, taking a place among the Blackbeard Pirates' Ten Titanic Captains, as captain of the crew's tenth ship.