User blog comment:Pandawarrior/Thriller Bark Chibis/@comment-4889755-20120501220912

Absalom was born into a family of gravediggers. At a very young age, he was out to work as a grave digger, but dreamed of becoming more. All his life, he adored lions, and wanted to become one to get out of his wretched life. He even found a devil fruit, looked it up, and realised it was afruit that made him invisable. He thought he could hide from his father, who made him work countless hours with little pay or food, if he just could turn invisable. His father became wise to Absaloms powers, and kept a constant eye on him. Throughout his life he just continued digging graves, untill he met the pirate Gecko Moriah, whos crew had been wiped out, and had recruited Doctor Hogback. Absalom told Hogback of his love of lions, and Hogbacked propsed a sergury, where he could remove part of his face, and replace it with a lion. Absalom was overjoyed, and agreed to the sergury, as long as he pledged his heart and soul to working for Moria.