Noko

Built like a seahorse, this creature sports a vivid orange frame dotted everywhere with red stars. Two rounded eyes of blue sit on his face, and they flush red the instant he places a target under hypnosis. Once his Last Resort move has run its course, his body balloons into a far bigger, rounder shape, swollen with all the memories he has swallowed.

Cheerful and single-minded, Noko fixates on his ambition to become a Sennenryu, one of the thousand-year dragons. His outlook runs deeply selfish and unhinged, since he genuinely believes that growing huge and drifting into the air is enough to count as a dragon.

Where his powers come from depends on the medium. The video game version eats the Nemu Nemu no Mi, a Sleep-type Paramecia fruit, while the anime never accounts for the source of his gifts, though he keeps the knack for swimming either way. Across both versions he stays alive on dry land in spite of his aquatic nature. The fruit lets him snare sleeping victims inside a dream realm, drain their memories to strengthen himself, reshape that dream space using what he steals, and even seize command of someone trapped there. In the anime his repertoire covers lulling targets to sleep, soaking up their dreams and recollections, and puppeteering them, although any solid hit causes the stolen memories to leak out and flow back to their owners. Drim plays him like an instrument to pull in the memories of nearby sleepers, producing a low, mournful note. He hypnotizes by gazing into a victim's eyes, a trick worked on both Zoro and Drim. He can also exhale a cloud of purple smoke that conjures figures from a target's past. His finishing technique, Last Resort, sends out a blue-white wave that paralyzes everyone caught and strips away every last memory, after which he inflates and floats off while proclaiming himself a dragon.