Toko

Toko is a tiny child with an outsized head and dark eyes, framed by short pink hair that tapers into points at the cheeks beneath a straight, blunt fringe. A wide grin sits more or less permanently on her face. She dresses in a red kimono fastened with a purple obi that is dotted in pale blush pink, knotted at the waist with a small yellow bow.

The faulty SMILE she once ate stripped away her capacity for any negative feeling, so she laughs without pause, even during her father's execution and even with Orochi's blade at her throat. Genuine warmth still shines through, however. She is friendly and quick to show gratitude, as she did when Sanji fed her soba, and she loves joking about her own name. Her naivety and impulsiveness run deep: on hearing that her father faced death, she bolted for the Flower Capital without weighing the danger, and afterward she clung to the belief that Usopp's toad oil might bring him back.

As an infant Toko was orphaned in Ebisu Town, where Yasuie, then the local daimyo, discovered her and brought her up as his own; having lost her real parents so early, she never realized the two shared no blood. After a defective SMILE robbed her of every expression but laughter, she was sold into work in the Flower Capital, becoming a kamuro to the courtesan Komurasaki, secretly Hiyori, and sending her wages home to support Ebisu Town. Her uncontrollable laughter at Orochi during his banquet drew his fury and cost Komurasaki her apparent life, after which the shogun hired the assassin Kamazo to hunt the girl; Zoro stepped in and shielded her. When Yasuie was executed at Rasetsu Town, Toko's grief was overwhelming yet trapped behind her smile, and she risked everything trying to revive him until Zoro and Sanji carried her clear. With Orochi dead and the Beasts Pirates defeated, she returned to live happily alongside Hiyori in the Flower Capital, later honoring her late father during the Fire Festival.