Odama

Odama is a weathered, tan-skinned old man marked by deep wrinkles, a lengthy nose, heavy black brows, and graying hair swept beneath a white headband. He dresses in a brown cross-hatched shirt pushed up at the forearms, beige pants, a blue jacket, a dark blue apron, and black geta, with kabuki-style makeup applied across his face.

A permanent scowl mirrors his stony, prickly nature. To strangers he comes across as curt and unwelcoming, and he treats his craft with a blunt, matter-of-fact seriousness. He does hold affection for his family and those near him, but he rarely lets that warmth show. His attitude toward outsiders eases only when they prove their worth, as Usopp did once he found a way to fire the Ball 205.

Following a trade handed down across generations, Odama crafted fireworks each year for the island's festival alongside his granddaughter Kodama and her parents. A year before the Straw Hats arrived, that work turned fatal when Kodama's parents perished attempting to launch the Ball 205, leaving Odama as her only caretaker. He has taught her all she knows of the craft while remaining harshly strict, even rapping her with his pipe whenever she grows arrogant.

When Usopp came asking for gunpowder, Odama waved him off and stayed buried in festival preparations. The young pirate trailed him indoors and was stunned by the enormous Ball 205. After cracking Kodama over the head for boasting and sending her out to ready the mortars and wagon, Odama ordered Usopp to assist her. The launch team then told him of Kodama's secret plan to fire the Ball 205, and he forbade it, judging the very shell that had killed her parents far too hazardous. Once she ran off upset, Usopp proposed that a tower on the shop could double as a launching platform for the firework. At the close of the festival show, on Usopp's cue, Odama touched the great shell alight with his pipe and leapt clear as it soared into the night, and watching it bloom he grudgingly told the young pirate to help himself to all the gunpowder he wanted.