Rosward Rosward

Rosward is an aging man whose hair sweeps upward in the style traditional to Celestial Dragons. A curled black mustache sits above a fluffy gray beard, and he wears dark shades that shattered when Usopp landed on him. As with every World Noble, he dons a heavy white suit studded with medal-like knobs, a thick cape, and the protective bubble helmet that spares him from breathing commoners' air. He carries a walking cane that conceals a rifle, and in Mary Geoise he is seen with a mallet.

Though painted as the most level-headed of his family, scolding his children for their excesses without real anger, Rosward is in truth as misanthropic and elitist as they are, simply preserving the family's image of power. He takes immense pride in his Celestial Dragon bloodline and grew livid when Luffy dared strike Charlos. His cruelty runs deep, savoring the torture of an enslaved Bartholomew Kuma and prizing him precisely because the man could not scream or weep. His sense of untouchability blinds him to danger, reacting to threats with outrage rather than fear, and he holds contempt for fellow nobles like the Donquixote Family who abandon their heritage.

At Sabaody he first appears beside his daughter Shalria, looking down on a runaway slave, the captured captain Devil Dias, whom she shoots without remorse while the future crewmate Jean Bart looms behind them. At the Human Auctioning House he is displeased when Charlos bids 500,000,000 on the mermaid Camie. When Luffy punches Charlos, Rosward fires his cane-rifle wildly at the stationary pirate and calls for an Admiral, only for Sanji to kick the weapon away and Usopp to knock him out by tumbling off a roof onto his face.

Later, during the Levely, Rosward rode the rented Kuma to reunite with Charlos and boasted of the cruelties he might visit upon his "invincible slave." Across the Wano period he again accompanied his son's renewed attempt to enslave Shirahoshi, praising the feat before panicking as Sai and Leo battered Charlos to free her. With no combat ability of his own, missing a still target and being disarmed instantly, his power rests entirely on his wealth, political clout, and the authority to summon a Marine Admiral.