Marco

Marco is a tall, lean, muscular, blond-haired man with a rather sleepy look on his face and some stubble around his chin. He wears an open purple jacket and a light blue sash adorned with an elaborate golden-yellow belt around his waist. He has dark gray knee-long pants and black sandals, and on his left leg he wears what appears to be some sort of straw decoration. He has the cross and crescent moon mustache symbol that resembles a black silhouette of Whitebeard's Jolly Roger tattooed on his chest. Robin and Luffy believe that Marco's head looks like a pineapple. Marco is generally calm and level-headed in the face of adversity or challenge. He also demonstrates himself to be acute at detecting power, able to quickly notice the presence of Red-Haired Shanks' Haki before anyone else aboard the Moby Dick. He clearly cares for his crew as he warned them to stay back from Shanks' Haki. Marco is on Whitebeard's ship which is called the Moby Dick. Having been a member of the Whitebeard Pirates for at least thirty years, Marco has an extremely high degree of experience with exposure and combat inside the treacherous New World. He appears to be somewhat playful, pretending to be hurt from Admiral Kizaru's attack with obvious sarcasm, though he can also quickly become serious. Marco seems to appreciate raw talent, even if it comes from someone whom he had never met before. When he was an apprentice, he appeared to be a cheerful person. He was also encouraging as he cheered on Oden when he came close to passing Whitebeard's test to join the crew. He showed a playful side when he noticed Oden being close to Toki. In general, Marco always conducts himself in a level-headed, polite and dignified manner. He is very kind and selfless. Marco has a very particular speech habit, which is a simple tic without meaning, ending his sentences with "-yoi": e.g. ("thanks-yoi") or ("wait-yoi"). Being a division head of Whitebeard's crew, Marco has a very strong bond with Whitebeard. This can be indicated by Marco's position as 1st division commander. Marco, along with his crewmates, consider Whitebeard their "father" much in the same way the great pirate considers them his "children". Marco also has a very strong bond with the other commanders as well as the rest of the crew. He and Ace seemed to have a close friendship, due to him explaining to Ace the bond between Whitebeard and his crew. Marco detests the World Government for its tyrannical policies, specifically the Heavenly Tribute as he notes many nations do not become affiliated with the political entity because they cannot pay the massive tax that is demanded by the World Nobles to obtain access to resources to protect civilians from crime and poverty. As the 1st division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Marco holds authority over the 1,600 crew members lower-ranked than him, while enjoying particularly deep trust by Whitebeard as his "right hand". A veteran of the crew, Marco had been part of it for at least thirty years. Marco's status in the world is well-established, especially thanks to his massive bounty of Beli 1,374,000,000. In battle, Marco is shown to be a very powerful combatant. Marco is shown to have a strong will, remaining unfazed by the Emperor Shanks' Supreme King Haki as it was knocking his lower-ranked crewmates unconscious by the dozens. Since childhood Marco has been very intelligent, supporting his crew with more than just battle power by providing knowledge and insight. He had enough medical knowledge to act, assisted by his powers, as a ship doctor. Marco possesses immense physical strength. He could clash with marine admirals. Marco seems to prefer an off-the-ground, kick-emphasizing style of attack supplemented by his phoenix transformation. Aerially in his hybrid form, he has been seen delivering hard kicks (and even knee strikes) using his human legs or with his feet as phoenix talons, to deal slashing damage. Marco is extremely fast and agile, especially while flying. On top of his self-regeneration, Marco has exhibited great endurance. Marco ate the Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Phoenix, a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows him to transform into a phoenix and a human-phoenix hybrid at will. He has a very well-developed mastery over his transformation, allowing him to alter select parts of his body as he needs to. This power is the source of his nickname "Marco the Phoenix".

As a Zoan, Marco enjoys a great boost to his physical abilities, gaining strength enough to restrain two extremely powerful Ancient Zoan users at once. Furthermore, as a bird-type Zoan, Marco gains wings that allow him to fly in both his hybrid form and full phoenix form, as well as taloned bird legs that he can use to perform powerful kicks or slash enemies with.

Marco can freely create his "Blue Flames of Resurrection" from any part of his body, even without actually transforming, and they always cover him while transformed. These phoenix flames are stronger than normal fire and possess tremendous healing properties; while shrouded in the flames, Marco can rapidly self-regenerate from nearly any physical damage he receives, like a phoenix being reborn. It is noted, or at least implied, that no matter what injury he is dealt, he can recover by flame (even injures that he suffered while his powers are nullified). Such immense power of recovery allows Marco to ward off extremely potent attacks with little issue. Marco can also share his healing flames with others, allowing him to mend them as well, even multiple individuals at once. However, his flames are less effective on anyone other than himself. During the first few days that Portgas D. Ace came to spend on Whitebeard's ship, Marco tried to befriend him. Marco explained to Ace the kind of fatherly relationship Whitebeard had with his crew members. In fact, it was Marco who told Ace to leave the ship and start from scratch again or bear Whitebeard's mark as one of his sons.

Marco's birthday is October 5th. He is 43 years old. He is 203 cm tall.