Outlook III

Outlook is a man of middle years sporting long black hair, a slender mustache, and a sagging double chin. His wardrobe runs entirely to blue: a suit, matching trousers, and a top hat banded in silver trim. A flower decorates his right lapel, while a feathered blossom sits on his left lapel and another on his hat. Beneath the jacket of his suit he wears an ascot.

Outlook embodies the arrogance shared by Goa's nobility, holding nothing but disdain for anyone beneath his rank and labeling such people trash. Cleanliness obsesses him to the point that he would demand immediate disinfection should a commoner's blood touch him, and he insisted Sabo be scrubbed clean the moment the boy came back home. Money serves him freely, whether bribing officials or hiring pirates to recover his missing son.

In his view, because parents grant a child its life, that child owes total obedience and must satisfy every parental expectation. His chief ambition is to wed his children into the Goa royal family, thereby raising his own wealth and prestige. Their happiness means little to him beyond what he grants as reward for compliance: he tore apart a drawing young Sabo had made and struck the boy for defying orders. So fixated is he on noble status that he could not believe Sabo would willingly walk away from it, blaming the influence of Ace and Luffy instead. Even through his son's continued defiance, Outlook spent the family's resources to trap him, certain the boy would eventually yield.

Twenty-two years before the present, Outlook III had Sabo with his wife Didit. The couple regarded the child purely as a means to wealth and prestige through a royal marriage, caring nothing for him as a person. After Outlook destroyed one of his drawings and ordered him to study, a five-year-old Sabo fled home, and his parents assumed him dead. Later they adopted Sterry, the son of another noble house, believing his prospects strong. Five years on, Outlook spotted Sabo dashing through the streets of Goa beside Luffy and Ace. He recognized the boy at once and called out, but Sabo bolted. To recover him, Outlook hired the Bluejam Pirates to capture all three boys in Gray Terminal, intending to drag Sabo home while abandoning Ace and Luffy to the pirates. Sabo, however, agreed to come quietly on the condition that his friends went unharmed.

At a checkpoint, Outlook pressed his son into telling the guard there that Ace and Luffy had forced him into crime, threatening to set the pirates on his friends. When the boy held firm, a bribe to the official became necessary to keep his record clean. Back at the mansion, Sabo was introduced to his adoptive brother Sterry, and Outlook hinted that the newcomer might replace him should he disappoint the family. The next morning, having learned of the plot to burn Gray Terminal, Sabo ran off again, sending Outlook's servants searching. He came back the following day to be told he would never escape and ought to mend his ways, yet the day after that the boy departed by sea from Dawn Island, never to come back. In the anime, Outlook and Didit watch in horror as their son's boat is shot down by Saint Jalmack, a World Noble.