Gecko Moria commands Thriller Bark, easily the world's largest pirate ship, and once carried a bounty of 320,000,000 Beli. His reputation comes largely from the Kage Kage no Mi, a Devil Fruit that lets him manipulate shadows—his own included—turning them into solid, physical objects. The exact limits of what he can do with this power remain unclear.
Moria's most notorious ability is stealing people's shadows. When someone loses their shadow, they slip into a two-day coma and disintegrate instantly if exposed to sunlight. Shadows function as a second soul of sorts, mimicking their owner's every movement and habit. He weaponizes this by implanting stolen shadows into corpses that his scientist Hogback has physically enhanced, creating an army of powerful zombie soldiers. The catch is brutal: if the original shadow owner dies, so does any zombie made from their shadow. That's why Moria keeps all the de-shadowed victims locked away on his ship—as long as they're alive, his zombie army stays intact.
He's a massive guy with a genuinely unsettling appearance, all horns and shadowy silhouette. Bartholomew Kuma is about the only other Shichibukai who comes close to his size, though Moria typically delegates to smaller shadow clones when he needs work done. In combat, he carries giant scissors for cutting shadows from their hosts, but even that's beneath him most of the time. His actual fighting style boils down to hanging back while his shadow double, Doppelman, handles everything using the fruit's full power. Moria's whole philosophy is "You do it!"—his go-to phrase that perfectly captures his laziness and refusal to lift a finger himself.
Weirdly unbothered by anything, really. Even watching his ship and crew get demolished doesn't shake him. He's got these X-shaped marks above his nose and below his chin that look suspiciously like stitches. His name plays on two jokes: his gecko theme and the Japanese word for moonlight, which fits his nightmare aesthetic perfectly. Like Luffy, Blackbeard, and Crocodile before him, Moria apparently harbors his own dreams of becoming Pirate King.
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