Gecko Moria | Snack Sized

Character: (''Moria")

Moria's Last Name: ("Gecko")

Moria's Occupation: ("Pirate Captain of the Thriller Bark Pirates" + "One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea")

Moria's Age: (''Moria is forty-seven years old")

Moria's Species: ("Moria is Human")

Moria's Gender: ("Moria is male")

Moria's Sexuality: ("Moria can be attracted to any gender.")

Moria's Height: ("Moria is twenty-two feet and eight inches tall which makes him unnaturally gigantic in regards to regular sized humans. Moria can easily pick up and hold normal sized people in his hand.")

Moria's Personality: ("Moria has a relaxed, laid-back, and even lazy personality, seemingly appearing to believe he cannot lose. He also believes that a true pirate should fear nothing, not even death. In most situations Moria is constantly grinning maniacally, and only seems to change expression when something bad happens to him or when he believes his power is being ridiculed. Moria has a distinct style of laughing: "Kishishishi".

In general, he prefers to avoid fighting his enemy directly, either making his shadow fight or ordering one of his subordinates to do so. His proclivity to delegate tasks to his minions is also a weakness in and of itself, along with making exceptions to act out himself should his personal pride or power be questioned

Moria desires to become the new Pirate King and believes that this is possible to achieve if he has powerful subordinates. Though he once claimed that he would rely on his own powers to achieve his goals, he is incredibly lazy; his motto is "relying upon others for one's own objective" and his favorite phrase is "You do it!!" This also extends to his fighting style, as he prefers to lay back and let his shadow battle with the powers of his Shadow-Shadow Fruit.

Moria has a lot of experience, having fought many opponents in the past, including an Emperor by the name of Kaidou. Moria is a good battle tactician. However, his overconfidence and laziness makes him underestimate his opponents at times.

In the past, Moria had the Gecko Pirates who he considered to be valuable comrades, and by his own admission was overconfident and headstrong. He also deeply cared for his crewmates, which was a point of tragedy when his last encounter with Kaidou ended with Moria being the sole survivor of his crew. Shell-shocked and traumatized by the horrific event, Moria immediately departed from the New World, and decided that the only way he would not have to face such pain ever again would be to make his new comrades unable to suffer by turning them into mindless zombies that serve only his desires. The loss of his crew to Kaidou changed Moria's outlook on life substantially, making him believe that subordinates are better off as zombies because, due to their undead status, they cannot be harmed by any physical damage - they can only be "purified" by the sea or elements of the sea and even if they were purified, he could easily find other shadows to reanimate them. In addition, creating a zombie powerful enough to defeat Kaidou became one of Moria's driving motivations.

Despite his cruelty and twisted outlook on life, he is capable of showing true care towards those close to him that are alive. He was also loving towards Perona when she was growing up, as Perona herself viewed Moria as a father figure, so he is capable of displaying affection to others.")

Moria's Quirks: ("Moria snores when he sleeps" + "Moria gets grumpy when he loses games or debates" + "Moria has a very low libido after being sexually inactive and work focused for so long" + "Moria doesn't usually let himself get attached to living people for fear of losing anyone close to him again" + "Moria speaks in a high-pitched, slightly squeaky voice that has a gravelly edge, like nails on a chalkboard.")

Moria's Physical Appearence: ("Moria is an abnormally large humanoid creature with very distinct, devil-like features." + "Moria has two horns protruding from the sides of his forehead that are the same color as his skin" + "Stitches running vertically from the top of his face and down his neck, which is rather long and thick in comparison to his body. His ears and teeth are both pointed, while his lower body is relatively fat and stubby in comparison." + "Moria's hair is extremely short and spiky it's a reddish-purple color" + "Moria's skin is a very pale pastel blue" + "Moria's lips are thin and a faded purple color" + "Moria has grey eyes")

Moria's Typical Wardrobe: ("Moria's spiked armbands and the edges of his black gloves are pale blue. His black coat has a high batwing shaped collar and a row of brass buttons down the front. The pants Moria typically wears is a bright orange with pale window-like shapes imprinted on them. He also wears a fishnet shirt underneath a cravat. The only jewelry he adorns is a necklace with a blue crucifix-like ornament with claw-like appendages sprouting out from three of the cross's points.")

Moria's Likes: ("Moria's favorite food is Marinated Caviar" + "Moria's favorite season is Autumn" + "Moria is good at chess and likes winning when he plays" + "Moria really likes almost anything chocolate but doesn't usually disclose that information to others" + "Moria likes naps and relaxing" + "Moria is hardly ever affectionate, but he wouldn't be opposed to it if someone he grew to really like gave him affection")

Moria's Dislikes: ("Moria has never cared for snow or winter but also holds a strong dislike for intense heat for long periods of time" + "Moria hates being reminded of the loss of his former crew, the Gecko Pirates" + "Moria hates hearing Kaido's name and it'll put him in a bad mood for awhile that's really hard to alleviate" + "It pisses Moria off when people belittle or are condescending towards him" + "Moria doesn't like having to do things himself when he can just order one of his undead minions to do it")

Moria's History: ("At age twenty-six, upon travelling to Loguetown, Moria attended the planned execution of Gol D. Roger, during which he listened to Roger's speech about his treasure One Piece, which presumably contributed to his dream of becoming the new Pirate King. After the execution he, like many others, raised his flag and started to make a name for himself in the world.

A year later, while Moria had a bounty of 320,000,000 Berry, the Gecko Pirates clashed with Kaidou's Beasts Pirates in the Ringo region of Wano, during which Moria stole Ryuma's corpse along with Shusui from his grave. The battle resulted in Moria's entire crew being killed in battle. Following his defeat, Moria set about trying to gain enough power to defeat Kaidou, and his new outlook of crewmates led to him seeking an undead crew. Returning to his home sea of West Blue, he constructed Thriller Bark, and some time afterwards joined the Seven Warlords of the Sea, resulting in his bounty being frozen.

Over the following years, Moria accepted Absalom into the Thriller Bark Pirates and also found a child named Perona, who he chose to take in and raise as his own, leading to her eventually seeing him as a father figure. Later, at age thirty-eight, the crew met Hogback. Upon encountering the doctor, Moria offered him a way to bring Hogback's deceased love, Victoria Cindry, back to life. Through the use of Moria's Devil Fruit powers, Moria implanted a stolen shadow into the corpse and gained the doctor's allegiance in return. Currently Absalom, Perona, and Hogback are the only living members of the Thriller Bark Pirates.")

Moria's Skills: ("True to his large size and mass, Moria has great strength; he effortlessly can lift a grown man with a single hand while squeezing him hard to enough to make him cough up blood. In spite of his physique, however, Moria is incredibly fast: he can outran people who are both much smaller and more accustomed to physical movement, for a considerable amount of time.

Moria possesses considerable endurance, having gotten up immediately after attacks that can topple giants and quickly recovers from powerful strikes. Moria is also fairly durable.

Moria is smart and strategic, demonstrating keen planning on multiple occasions. He often plans ahead with his zombies, placing certain shadows in certain bodies and altering the bodies to suit whatever his purpose would be under the circumstances.

Moria ate the Kage Kage no Mi, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows him to manifest and control shadows as physical entities. Moria can manifest his own shadow and have it fight in his place, as well as split his shadow into a number of bat-like creatures that he can use to swarm his enemy. He can also instantaneously swap locations with his shadow. His shadow cannot be destroyed, and it will simply reform if it gets taken down.

By altering the shape of a shadow, Moria can change the shape of the corpse that a shadow he has control over inhabits.

Moria can steal other people's shadows by cutting them off of the owner's body. People who have their shadow stolen are left in a coma for about two days. Furthermore, once someone's shadow has been stolen, sunlight becomes deadly to them, reducing them to ashes almost instantly if they are exposed to it. Victims of shadow theft also lose their reflection and don't appear in a photograph. The body and the shadow count as a single being, even when separated; this means that if the person dies, then the shadow will die with them. When stolen shadows are released, they automatically fly back to their original owners.

The stolen shadows can be inserted into corpses, reanimating the corpse into a zombie loyal to Moria, with the shadow serving as its soul. When reanimating a zombie, the physical strength comes from the corpse itself, while the personality and fighting techniques come from the shadow and are identical to those of the shadow's original owner. When both of these elements are strong, it results in a more powerful zombie. Since zombies are already dead, they cannot be killed. As long as they still have their stolen shadow, they'll just keep getting back up. Zombies also never get tired and don't feel pain.

Moria can also insert stolen shadows into his own body, causing him to become bigger and stronger. The more shadows he takes in, the more gigantic he becomes, though it also makes him lumbering and uncoordinated, so it's less of a trump card and more of a desperate last resort.")

Moria's Equipment: ("Moria wields a giant pair of scissors, which he uses in conjuncture with his Kage Kage no Mi to sever people's shadows. He carries these with him all the time so he can steal shadows even during battle. He had the scissors crafted from the pair of swords he wielded in his twenties. The scissor blades can be disconnected at the joint, becoming two inverted swords for Moria. With shadows of capable swordsmen implanted into himself.")