Omatsuri

Baron Omatsuri is the main antagonist of the sixth One Piece movie and the captain of the Red Arrows Pirates.

Appearance
Omatsuri is a tall, lean man with broad shoulders, long limbs, and a thin waist. He has a triangle shaped head, long eyebrows, and a pointed nose. He sports a pointy black goatee and a mustache that curves up. His hair somewhat resembles a palm tree. He wears a dark purple suit with a purple brim, white collar and neckerchief, and it has orange-yellow flower patterns on it. He wears matching slacks and dark colored shoes. He also has pink goggles on his forehead.

When he was younger, he lacked his goatee and his hair was a lot shorter. Instead of his current jacket, he wore a typical dark colored pirate jacket and retained his goggles and neckerchief.

After Lily Carnation died, he turned into a plant that produced three yellow flowers and green leaves. His goggles sat around the base of his stalk.

Personality
At first, Baron Omatsuri appears to be an eccentric yet generous man, offering pirate crews the opportunity to indulge in the luxuries of his resort in exchange for completing the arduous "Trials of Hell". However, this is revealed to be a facade, first breaking when it quickly becomes apparent these challenges are purposefully rigged out of visiting party's favor.

He held deep respect and care for his deceased crewmates, as he relented to bringing them "back to life" by combining his fond memories of them with the powers of Lily Carnation. He was disheartened when his crew's lives were washed away, and it made him develop a jealousy driven hate for all Pirates in the Pirate Era, resulting in him becoming a bitter, hopeless man, who openly mocked the dreams of others.

Additionally, he appears to take immense pleasure in inflicting pain, both emotional and physical, on others. He goads the Tearoom Pirates while they argue after leaving Chopper at the mercy of the Lily Carnation, expressing that he enjoys witnessing crews fight amongst themselves and promptly becomes frustrated when they stop. In a similar manner, he taunts Luffy after painfully pinning him to a rock with several arrows while also attempting to dissuade him from rescuing his crew, who he further claims are beyond saving, with the intention of breaking the pirate's spirit.

Weapon
In battle, Omatsuri uses a bow with arrows, some of which are shown to be explosive, that home in on their targets. He is also capable of summoning massive arrow storms out of Lily's body and generating them from his bow, which suggests that these powers come from her.

Past
Omatsuri was captain of the Red Arrows Pirates, and they were dated back to the time when Gol D. Roger was still alive. The crew died in a storm, leaving Omatsuri to be washed ashore on an island, and left stranded alone. He grew bitter from the loneliness and sought to break the spirit of any pirate crew that came to his island. With Lily's help, he found that he could use her plant powers to create replicas of his dead crew mates from his memories, as well as make a massive army of servants for free.

Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island


He claimed to be the owner and founder of the resort on Omatsuri Island, a recreational island in the middle of the Grand Line. However, he always challenged pirates who came to his island to a test called "The Trials Of Hell" before he let them relax, in which they must take part in a variety of competitions, ostensibly to prove their strength. These games were, in reality, to see if they were suitable for feeding to his man eating plant, Lily Carnation, which grew out of his shoulder and seemed to exist in a symbiotic relationship with him.

The last pirate crew that he attempted this with was the Straw Hat Pirates, and after seeing their promising skills in the Trials, he used careful cunning to sever their emotional ties to each other and capture them, forcing Luffy to watch as they were absorbed. He was defeated when the father of the Tearoom Pirates shot an arrow through Lily, killing the plant and destroying the illusions on the island. Omatsuri mourned Lily briefly, but quickly turned to fly at Papa in an unrestrained rage. However, before he could take a step towards him, Luffy came behind him. With more hatred for Omatsuri than anyone else had ever provoked, he put all of his energy into an immensely powerful punch, striking the Omatsuri's face and ending his life. After his death, he truly reunited with his crew, who did not blame him for their deaths but wished that instead of living on as a bitter and vengeful shell, creating illusions of them, he had moved on and found hope from new friends, like Luffy had with the Tearooms and Brief when he thought he had lost the rest of the Straw Hats.

Nico Robin later spots Omatsuri's goggles laying next to a batch of flowers growing out of the rocks.

Major Battles

 * Omatsuri and Lily Carnation vs. Tony Tony Chopper and Tearoom Pirates
 * Omatsuri and Lily Carnation vs. Monkey D. Luffy, Brief, and Ochanoma Papa

Trivia

 * Omatsuri shares the same voice actor of Marshall D. Teach and Captain Joke.
 * Baron and his crew are said to have met Gol D. Roger, as said by Muchigoro.
 * His name, Omatsuri (お祭り), means "festival" or "gala".
 * Baron's past shares similarities with Brook.
 * Both were captains of a crew that have been around since Gold Roger was alive. They both lost their crew and became the only survivors which resulted in them suffering many years of isolation and sorrow for losing their crew.
 * The notable difference is that Brook did not give in to his despair and managed to move on where he eventually gains new friends, something which Baron's old crew told Baron to do in his final moments.

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