Toto

In healthier days Toto was a stout but sturdy old man, yet three years bereft of water reduced him to a shriveled husk through hunger and thirst, with little of his old frame left. His aged face carries a thick, fuzzy mustache; a white cloth circles his head and a grey band crosses his forehead. He dresses in black robes torn here and there, a green robe lined in dark red beneath them, a shirt striped vertically in black and white below that, and a blue-spotted turquoise sash.

Once past the timeskip he appears restored, if not as heavy as in youth, and has grown a modest goatee. He now wears a pale wrap on his head, a dark robe, and a buttoned, light striped garment underneath, set off by a sash of light color.

Kindly and openhanded, Toto would assist anyone passing through Yuba on a whim, even with the town starved of water. He is stubborn to a fault, holding fast to his convictions and staying put while every neighbor fled, refusing to concede that the place was lost. A committed monarchist, he backed his king across the years building toward revolt and dismissed the rebels, his own son among their number, as fools and degenerates. So fierce was his loyalty that he twice volunteered his own life, once to answer for Koza and once to keep his town from dying.

Thirteen years prior, Toto was a plain villager whose home had withered. When Koza barged into Cobra's palace at Alubarna to demand the king act, Toto raced over to apologize and submit to whatever punishment awaited. Rather than punish anyone, Cobra pledged to safeguard the drought-hit villagers and to house them temporarily in Alubarna. Among the royals, Toto watched the king mix freely with commoners, and his early dread of Cobra ripened into genuine friendship. The two then settled on a scheme to plant Toto and his people at a western oasis and build a commercial crossroads they would name Yuba, a task Toto eagerly took charge of, vowing to make the town help the kingdom flourish.

When false evidence painted Cobra as the thief of Arabasta's rain, Toto would not accept it and pleaded with Koza's rebels to halt. Crocodile's manufactured sandstorms then battered Yuba, drying the oasis and emptying the town, but Toto alone stayed to dig for water until his body wasted away. Three years on, the Straw Hats arrived hunting the rebellion, and Toto recognized Vivi among them, tearfully begging the princess to stop the looming strike on Alubarna. Luffy joined his digging that night and the pair struck water together. After Crocodile fell and rain returned, Yuba refilled with people and Toto reunited with Koza, roaring with laughter at Vivi's address to the whole nation.

Later Toto reunited with his brother Goro, who surfaced riding a giant mole, and the family helped open a lavish hot spring resort that drew the Arabasta royals. Past the timeskip he stood beside Koza, by then the kingdom's Environmental Minister, and saw off the Nefertari family bound for the Levely. In the Egghead Arc, Toto joined fellow townsfolk in viewing the global broadcast delivered by Vegapunk, then watched in silence after it was abruptly cut.