Raise Max

Max stands quite short and scruffy, with overgrown green hair, a hat in tatters, and oversized spectacles that broke apart when he tumbled into a giant fan. An orange number seven marks his left cheek. His chest shows through an open coat, and he rounds out the look with striped trousers and shoes that taper to a point.

He began as a daring and self assured champion, but a crushing defeat inside Gran Tesoro broke his spirit and left him quietly accepting his captivity. Luffy's stubborn resolve eventually stirred something in him, restoring enough drive that he was ready to gamble his own life so that the captain and the others could break free.

Max carries striking power and toughness. He managed to brake an immense, rapidly turning fan by jamming his body against the wall and gripping a single blade. Even after being flung about by the spinning blades, he steadied himself and pulled his way along one of them. He had served the Revolutionary Army before a ruinous bet at Gran Tesoro got him locked inside a vault filled with nothing but gold.

When Luffy and Franky dropped into that gold chamber, Max explained where they were. He pointed them toward a chamber of seawater piping that could melt the gold encasing Luffy's arms, reachable through a nearby pipe, and although the odds of crossing it were thin, Luffy pressed on with Franky and the prisoners trailing behind. The group beat back a swarm of bats in the piping, then hit a vertical shaft with a fan whirling beneath them. Luffy ignored Max's warning to retreat and was knocked aside, and the display of grit moved Max to leap into the fan himself. He clamped onto a blade, crawled to the wall, braced his back against it, and forced the fan to slow until his inspired subordinates jumped in to halt it entirely. The flood Gild Tesoro unleashed then carried the whole group up out of the fountains. In the final clash, Max rallied his fellow prisoners against Tesoro's forces, and after Luffy's victory he reunited with Sabo and Koala and sailed off from Gran Tesoro.