Dr. Vegapunk

Vegapunk was a lean, elderly man who stood just shorter than Jinbe, with red cheeks, a long sliced-looking head crowned by an apple-core fixture, and a tongue so absurdly long it hung down to his groin. A bald crown gave way to spiky white hair at the sides and a heavy mustache, and he dressed in a short white coat marked SSG, a red-spotted pink shirt, and purple trousers. His look stemmed from his Devil Fruit: the Nomi Nomi no Mi let his brain hold endless information but swelled his head ever larger as he learned, until at one point it neared the size of a giant's. To manage this, he carved out his cranium, stored it within Punk Records three years prior, and fitted an antenna in its place.

From boyhood Vegapunk was a giving soul devoted to his island's people, and Karakuri Island still reveres him and awaits his return. The truest window into his character is the set of six satellites he created, each embodying a single facet of him: Shaka his morality and pride, Lilith his thieving malice, York his greed, Edison and Pythagoras his thought and wisdom, and Atlas his temper. The conflict between these sides was real, yet at his core he was a man of deep compassion and conscience, which is why the upright Shaka led the others. Much like Dragon, he despised the corruption festering under the World Government's rule, though he chose to look away from it. His lifelong dream was to convert the world's boundless energy into usable power and so erase one of war's root causes.

Born sixty-five years ago in Baldimore on Karakuri Island, Vegapunk built robotic animals and dreamed up endless inventions as a child, once trying to warm the island with modified beasts before funds ran short. By fourteen he had eaten the Nomi Nomi no Mi, and by his mid-twenties he had already drawn the Five Elders' attention. He helped found the rogue research team MADS alongside Judge, Caesar Clown, Queen, and Buckingham Stussy, discovered the Lineage Factor, and produced a clone of Stussy. After joining the World Government he became famous for Devil Fruit research and for proving that Seastone suppresses Devil Fruit powers, oversaw Punk Hazard and Egghead, and stood second only to the Five Elders in command of the Pacifista and Seraphim. During the Egghead Incident he revealed his satellites and his vision of a free worldwide database and limitless energy, weathered Bonney's fury over her father Kuma, and was betrayed from within by York. As a government Buster Call leveled his life's work, Saturn impaled him and Kizaru struck the fatal blow. As his heart stopped, a message he had recorded began broadcasting to the entire world, promising to share a hidden truth, and his body was carried off by the fleeing Straw Hats. Though Stella, the original, was killed, his surviving satellites reconvened into a single rebuilt Vegapunk.