Lacuba

A tall figure, Lacuba dresses in a brown coat and matching hat. Long black hair frames his face alongside a beard, and his crew's emblem is inked across his chest. The tip of his tongue is left flattened after he bit it in his suicide attempt.

Pride defines Lacuba above all else. Faced with a future of enslavement and degradation, he judged death the preferable outcome and acted on that conviction.

Lacuba earned his fame through tactical skill, marking him as a capable strategist, and as a captain he commanded his own crew. At some point he was seized and delivered to the auction house on the Sabaody Archipelago. Refusing to accept life as a slave, he made a stand on the auction stage, biting down on his own tongue in a bid to end his life, which left him collapsed and unconscious.

He survived the ordeal and was seen again among the captives when Franky tossed the keys to the imprisoned slaves, freeing them. By then his tongue bore the permanent flat mark from his earlier act, a detail later confirmed in the author's question-and-answer columns.