Charlotte Katakuri

Charlotte Katakuri is the second son and third child of the Charlotte Family[3] and the elder triplet brother of Daifuku and Oven.[5] He is also one of the Three Sweet Commanders of the Big Mom Pirates[4] and serves as Totto Land's Minister of Flour (粉大臣, Kona Daijin?), governing over Komugi Island.[5]

Due to his actions and role, Katakuri is the secondary antagonist in the second half of the Whole Cake Island Arc. He, alongside his younger siblings Charlotte Brûlée and Oven, become temporary allies of the Red Hair Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates during One Piece Film: Red.Appearance Katakuri is an extremely tall, large and muscular man standing in at 509 cm [5] where he stands at nearly three times Monkey D. Luffy's height and is slightly taller than his younger triplet brothers, Charlotte Daifuku and Charlotte Oven, who are incredibly tall themselves. He has short spiky crimson hair (pinkish crimson in the manga/anime) and two symmetric scars on both sides of his face. He has long legs with his thighs being equally as long as his lower limbs.[3] His mouth, which is usually covered up, contains sharp pelican eel-like teeth and is capable of expanding to an enormous size.[8]

Katakuri has sharp and intense crimson eyes, highly arched eyebrows and prominent lower eyelashes under each eye. He wears a massive light feather ragged scarf that covers his mouth and reaches his shoulders. He also wears a torn leather vest with "CHARLOTTE" on the back that exposes most of his torso, dark gloves and pants, a belt with a skull-shaped buckle and spiked boots with spurs. His torso is very defined, having prominent abdominal muscles covered in pink tattoos and he wears spiked bracelets on his arms as well as knee pads with a single spike on them.[3]

In the anime, Katakuri wore a dark cloak when arriving at the Whole Cake Chateau.[2]

As a child, Katakuri wore a dark torn jacket and dark pants without a scarf. It was only after Charlotte Brûlée was attacked that he decided to cover his mouth.[9]Personality Katakuri is a calm, serious and diligent man who devotes himself to protecting his family and crew and achieving their objectives. He frequently uses his advanced Kenbunshoku Haki to quickly address any problems or threats that he foresees, and whenever possible he will work to change the future he foresees and stop the problem before it happens.[1] Katakuri makes sure to waste no time in accomplishing his tasks; when his older brother Charlotte Perospero was gloating to the captured Vinsmoke Family, Katakuri told him to hurry and shoot them immediately.[10] Katakuri is quite brutal when attacking opponents to ensure they are quickly neutralized and will use his weapons to inflict gruesome wounds with impunity.[1][11] Katakuri's haste to resolve problems can sometimes work against him, though, as his attempts to change the future may not achieve his intended result.[12] Katakuri is almost always calm even in the most perilous of situations, as it is necessary for his mind to be clear in order to utilize Kenbunshoku Haki.[13] If he is taken by surprise or foresees something terrible in the future, he is shown to lose color on his face and he may sometimes shout, but he does not panic.[14]

When it comes to judging his opponent's power, Katakuri is neither boastful nor meek and so will bluntly point out when an opponent is clearly inferior to him (to the point of encouraging them to flee while they can) [15][16] but will also notice if they pose a serious threat or are improving their abilities [17] and he will even commend enemies who demonstrate impressive strength or tactical maneuvers.[18][19] He takes care to never underestimate his opponents' abilities, and rather than entertain the activation of a new ability he is quite pragmatic and will prevent his opponent from activating it.[20] Even when his crewmates were confident that the Straw Hat Pirates would be killed by Big Mom before they could escape to their ship the Thousand Sunny, Katakuri took forces to lie in wait on the Sunny "just in case."[21] Katakuri also takes note of opponents' potential, and will specifically target enemies whom he feels could pose a more serious threat in the future.[22]

Katakuri takes his status as the strongest subordinate of Big Mom quite seriously and makes the effort to maintain the appearance of perfection that his siblings and crewmates consider him to have, particularly by never lying on his back in public.[23] However, he has been shown to silence siblings who are heaping excessive amounts of praise onto him.[24]To cope with the stresses of his position, Katakuri takes regular light meal breaks, known as merienda where he feasts on his favorite food of doughnuts and drinks tea. Katakuri has loved doughnuts since he was a child, to the point of eating them so often that he caused his mouth to artificially expand.[6] Eating doughnuts puts Katakuri in a state of bliss, and during his merienda he has been shown voicing his love for them out loud in very intimate language. Katakuri keeps his merienda extremely private as he lies on his back and relaxes during it, which is a stark contrast to his siblings' view of him as someone who never lies down. The merienda is a very important part of Katakuri's routine and so he will become quite annoyed if something keeps him from doing it at the allotted time. When his fight with Luffy made his merienda late, Katakuri became willing to forgo his usual diligence and attempted to quickly finish off his opponent by burying him in mochi, not taking the time to make sure Luffy had died. [27]

Another reason that Katakuri shrouds his merienda in utmost secrecy is that he is extremely sensitive about his pelican eel-like mouth, which he was bullied for as a child. Initially, he had no issue with just attacking his bullies in response, but after the bullies took revenge by attacking his younger sister Charlotte Brûlée, Katakuri took to wearing a scarf, covering his mouth at all times in public.[23] When his cooks accidentally saw his mouth in the Mirro-World, Katakuri completely lost his mind and used brutal force against them with murderous intent; he was so angry that he even misheard one of their pleas as a comment about his mouth.[27] However, Katakuri went on to take off his mouth covering during his fight with Luffy after acknowledging the latter as an equal, believing that Luffy was no more deserving of Flampe's scorn than he was.[25]

Katakuri has a habit of telling people around him what he foresees them saying or doing next.[1] This habit ended up backfiring on him during his fight with Luffy as his vocal premonition of Luffy's Gear 4 deactivating gave Luffy the chance to fly away from him before it did.[28]