Gecko, Moria

ゲッコー･モリア

Moria is the captain of the world's largest pirate ship, Thriller Bark, and holds a former bounty of 320,000,000 Beli. He apparently possesses the ability to turn people's shadows (including his own) into solid objects through the power of the Kage Kage no Mi (Shadow Shadow Fruit), though the full extent of his powers remains unknown. He is the one who stole Brook's shadow, along with those of various other beings. Losing one's shadow causes the victim to fall into a two-day coma and be vaporized upon contact with sunlight. The shadow functions as a second soul, duplicating its owner's movements and mannerisms. Moria creates zombies by inserting a shadow into a lifeless corpse. Combined with physiologically enhanced bodies engineered by Hogback, he is able to create powerful and obedient zombie warriors. However, if the original owner of the shadow dies, the zombie created from that person's shadow will also die. Consequently, Moria keeps the de-shadowed people on his ship and removes them from Thriller Bark.
He is an extremely large man with a devil-like appearance, primarily due to his horns and shadowy figure. His size is equivalent to that of fellow Shichibukai member Bartholomew Kuma, but he creates smaller (though still impressively large) shadow clones to handle his work. He wields a pair of gigantic scissors, which he uses to cut the shadows of his victims from their bodies upon seizing them. He is a very calm person and is not even bothered by the fact that his ship and crew are being destroyed. He also has X-like marks above his nose and below his chin that may be stitches. Moria's motto is to rely on others to reach his goals. His favorite phrase is: "You do it!", reflecting his slothful personality and tendency to leave all work for his underlings. This also extends to his fighting style, as he prefers to lay back and let his own shadow, Doppelman, who he can switch places with at any time, battle with the powers of the Kage Kage no Mi.
Trivia
* Like many other characters in One Piece, Moria has a strange laugh (kishishishi).
* His name is a double-pun on his animal theme gecko and the Japanese word for 'Moonlight' (月光, 'Gekkou'), given his nightmare theme.
* Like Luffy and a few other characters in One Piece (including fellow shichibukai Blackbeard and Crocodile), Gecko Moria wants to be the new Pirate King.