Uta

A performer of medium build, Uta has bright purple eyes and hair split down the middle of her scalp into two clean colors, white running along her left side and red along her right. She gathers the strands into a pair of long ponytails capped with round braids, with matching circular braids near the top of her head, and the white portion drapes over and hides her left eye. At times feathered wings sprout behind her, the one on the right pink and the one on the left white.

Her usual costume is a short white dress reaching her upper thighs, trimmed with a frilled neckline and closed down the front by a black bow and a row of buttons. A light blue sleeve covers her entire left arm and carries a childhood drawing by Luffy of Shanks' own straw hat. Golden cone-shaped headphones banded in pale blue sit over her ears, and on occasion she has worn a multicolored jacket scattered with various designs.

Bright, self-assured, and idealistic, Uta has adored music since she was an infant and delights in sharing her voice with everyone nearby. She prizes human connection above almost all else and will go to any length to lift up the people she loves. Once she began performing and gathering followers, she lived for their encouragement, and that devotion grew into her plot to abolish the Great Pirate Era so the suffering pirates caused her fans would vanish. Even after she discovered her father and his crew had not cruelly abandoned her, she pressed ahead for the sake of her audience.

Her vision of peace was shaped by an adolescence spent in isolation on Elegia, leaving her ignorant of much of the world and willing to go to extremes her own fans found unsettling. Her New Genesis plan called for slowly killing herself so that nearly everyone alive could dwell forever in a dreamworld. Confidence frequently tipped into arrogance, and she feared neither the Marines nor the Celestial Dragons, striking at Saint Charlos without hesitation. As Sanji noted, her steady intake of wake-shrooms eroded her emotional control, and during her final clashes she swung between fits of laughter and rage. After Tot Musica was beaten, remorse overtook her, and she chose to free everyone trapped in Uta World rather than save her own life.

Nineteen years before the present, pirates raided Uta's hometown and killed her parents, then seized the toddler. When that crew crossed paths with the Red Hair Pirates and lost, Shanks found the two-year-old hidden in a treasure chest and, recalling how he himself had been discovered as a baby, raised her as his daughter. She became the crew's musician and, before turning nine, ate the Uta Uta no Mi. The pirates set up at Foosha Village, where she met and befriended a young Luffy through a string of childhood competitions.

Later the crew brought her to Elegia, where she unknowingly released the demon Tot Musica, which leveled the island. To shield her from the blame, Shanks publicly took responsibility, left her with the survivor Gordon, and departed with the treasure, leaving Uta convinced she had been betrayed. Over the following decade she became a worldwide singer, and using salvaged Den Den Mushi she broadcast her music and devised New Genesis. At her first live concert she pulled listeners into Uta World and reunited with Luffy, but his refusal to abandon piracy turned her hostile. After summoning Tot Musica and being consumed by it, she was freed when an alliance led by Luffy and Shanks destroyed the demon. She then sang everyone back to reality, reconciled with Shanks, and departed aboard the Red Force, her ultimate fate left unknown.