Gecko Moria

Gecko Moria (ゲッコー･モリア, Gekko Moria) is a member of the Shichibukai who currently resides on the floating island, Thriller Bark. His former bounty was 320 million belli. He is one of the main major antagonists of the current arc. He is the one who stole Brook's, and various other beings' shadows with the use of the Kage Kage no Mi. For this an old man with a big wound requested from Luffy to defeat him.

Appearance
Moria is large person with devil-like features. He has two horns on his forehead and stitches running down vertically from the top of his face. His ears and teeth are both pointed and his neck is rather thick and long in comparison with his body. His lower body is relatively fat with stubby legs. His hair is red and his skin is pale. His lips, his armbands, and the edges of his gloves are blue. His shirt and gloves are black while his pants are bright orange. His overall design resembles a giant leek. Like every Shichibukai member has an animal theme, his is the gecko.

Personality
Moria is an incredibly lazy guy. His motto is "Relying upon others for one’s own objective" and his favorite phrase is "You do it!!" Like other characters in One Piece, he has distinct laughter which goes "Ki shi shi shi". He apparently wants to be the new Pirate King and believes that if he has strong underlings, he achieve anything towards this goal.

Abilities and Powers
Moria is able to steal a person's shadow with the Kage Kage no Mi which he ate. The loss of that person's shadow causes them to be vaporized if they come in contact with sunlight. Moria is also able create various zombies by implanting a stolen shadow into a lifeless corpse.

People who have their shadow stolen are left knocked out cold for 2 days. If they die the zombie with their shadow loses the shadow. Moria has recently been shown using his Kage Kage no Mi powers to fight Luffy. He creates a shadow duplicate and if the duplicate is destroyed then it can turn to tiny bats and attack the foe, then reform.

It has also been discovered in a recent chapter that Moria is a rather fast runner, as he is (So far) able to out run Luffy (although this wasn't Moria himself it was his shadow he made look like him so Luffy would chase it>0

Moria in genreal seems to prefer to avoid fighting altogether, either making his shadow fight or ordering one of his zombies to do so (this may or may not indicate he himself isn't a very pwerful, although it may just be his lazy attituded)

Past Story
Moria was once a pirate who became a Shichibukai. It is unclear of when these events happened, but Moria was beaten in the New World by a person by the name of Kaidou. After his defeat Moria set about trying to gain enough power to beat even Kaidou. Ten years before storyline, Moria, along with Absalom and Perona, met a man named Dr. Hogback and together they began creating zombies. They set up the ship called 'Thriller Bark' and travelled to the Florian Triangle where they bagan to ambush anyone who entered, looking for those with bounties such as pirates.

Then 5 year ago a skeleton they dubbed 'Hanauta' sailed onto Thriller Bark when his rudder broke. Looking to replace his ships rudder and sail off out of the Florian Triangle, he landed and boarded Thriller Bark. he was however captured, Moria stole his shadow. He was put back onto his ship and set sailing out of Thriller Bark, but unfortunatly for Moria the skeleton was able to retrace his steps when he woke up. To his horror, Hanauta returned to Thriller Bark and began to wreck havok there, destroying everything, in the process somehow discoverying the secret to taking down the Zombies.

Finally it ended when the Zombie Moria put Hanauta's shadow, Ryuuma, defeated him and set him running away from Thriller Bark from the shame of his defeat. Later Moria began to rebuild.

Present Story
After four days of sleep and some nightmares, Moria is awaken by his servants and told of the night attack to be commenced on the Straw Hat Pirates. With this he prepares for the attack.

As the attack commences, Moria apparently takes Sanji's and Zoro's shadows and apparently implants them in zombies. Later, Luffy brought forth before Moria. After a brief escape attempt by Luffy, Moria grabs ahold of Luffy's shadow and cuts it off with a pair of scissors. With this shadow, with it he intends to place it in the giant 900th zombie named Oz. A zombie he states would be the most powerful in history, strong enough to beat even Kaidou.

Currently, he has called forth Oz, who is now obedient, and commanded him to rampage through Thriller Bark, assemble the Straw Hats, beat them and put them on their ship. Then he ran away from Luffy, smiling. When Luffy finally catches him it is revealed that it wasn't even Moria, just his shadow.

Major Battles

 * Moria vs. Kaidou (10 years before current story)
 * Moria vs. Luffy