Diego

Diego is a craftsman of wax modeling on Hand Island and Regis' father.

Appearance
Diego is a large tanned man with disproportionately narrow legs. Under his red cap, he has white hair that extends down his neck, as well as white sideburns. Diego wears a set of blue overalls, a string of blue beads around his neck, and a white tool belt around his waist. He has a brown cloak is draped over his shoulders. He suffers of backache due to his age.

Personality
Diego is a stubborn craftsman, really proud of his wax modelling skills and of his son, which inherited his ability. In his life whole life he met a lot of pirates as Shanks and Edward Newgate and began to admire them and to share their will of freedom.

Regis
He is Diego's son. Due to Regis' will to be a Marine and abandonment of the wax modeling profession, they lost contact with each other until the events of Episode of Luffy.

Coby
Diego respects Coby very much, for him being a Marine that admires Monkey D. Luffy, despite being a pirate.

Edward Newgate
He seems to respect Edward Newgate, who is the man who protected Hand Island until his death during the Whitebeard War

Monkey D. Luffy
After the events of Episode of Luffy, he made a wax statue in Monkey D. Luffy's honor.

Abilities and Powers
He's a skillful wax modeler who made a lot of infamous pirates' wax statues. He also made half of an Admiral Kizaru statue.

Past
In his whole life he had met a lot of pirates, such as Silvers Rayleigh, the Whitebeard Pirates, the Red Hair Pirates, Whitey Bay, Squard, Zeff and Montblanc Cricket, beginning to admire them and their will of freedom. Creating wax statues in their honor, he educated his son with the same principles.

When Whitebeard died, Bilić took the control of the island and Regis joined the Marines, against Diego's will.

Episode of Luffy
When the Thousand Sunny falls on the island, it destroyed Diego's house. Later, he meets Luffy and they start to talk about pirates.Diego then decides to saw Luffy his wax statues.After Luffy has a flasback,Ussop and Chopper come in and Ussop spots the first wax figure that Regis made.Diego then decides that he will deliver the wax figure to his son but due to his age,Luffy offers to make the delivery.



While the Straw Hat Pirates attack Bilić's Marine base, Diego meets Coby, who had an idea for put an end to Bilić's tyranny. After Luffy defeated Bilić, Coby uses Diego's statue of Borsalino to claim the end of Bilić and his deportation to a court-martial. Then Diego and Regis meet again, but this time the craftsman let his son decide his way. Later, Diego starts to model Luffy's wax statue.

Trivia

 * Diego's collection is similar to a wax museum among which London's Madame Tussauds is one of the most famous.
 * When Luffy learns about Diego's wax modelling skills, he asks him if he know about "that three-guy".
 * Luffy's expression and position on his wax statue resembles his Bounty photo.

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