Barony Zozo

Barony, otherwise known as 'Rotting Man' Barony, is a Pirate sailing in the New World and a member of the Horsemen of The Coming Steeds. Known the world over as a sham doctor and mad scientist, Barony carries with him the pride of a medical professional and a strangely noble dream of a Grand Line free of illness. His method of turning everyone into a Zombie to rid the world of sickness is viewed as mad, and for good reason.

Appearance
Barony is a tiny Dwarf, no larger than a bird, and wrapped from head to toe in bandages and wrappings. He wears a proper but battered black velvet top hat, similarly wrapped, and a cloak of black cloth and feathers to cover his body. Around his neck, he carries a pacifier-shaped bottle filled with a strange liquid. He is rarely seen without one of his animated creatures that accompany him wherever he goes. These zombies are similarly clad but come in all different sizes and races.

Personality
Barony is a man of few words and vast action. While a full member of the Horsemen, he is content to let his more powerful brethren crush those enemies in front of him and reap the rewards of the dead. Barony revels more in the aftermath of the crew's passing, spreading disease, plague, and the animated dead among the helpless populace rather than direct confrontation. He is an avid collector of rare races and interesting features and will not hesitate to tear apart people for their unique features.

Powers and Abilities
Being the incarnation of the Horseman of Pestilence, Barony has mastered all forms many forms of science, medicine, and plague.

Busoshoku Haki
Despite his small size, Barony is adept in wielding and imbuing Armament Haki. He can force the activation of Haki into his puppets as well, as long as the corpse was able to wield Haki to begin with.

Kenbunshoku Haki
Barony is also able to use an advanced for of Kenbunshoku Haki called Radar Haki, able to sense the presence of others around himself and any of his Pestilence-controlled puppets.

Devil Fruit
The Kishu Kishu no mi Model: Pestilence allows the user to become the Horseman of the Apocalypse that brings about Pestilence. He is able to turn himself into a toad-faced humanoid constantly spewing disease-carrying viruses.



When using his Zoan abilities, his strength, size, and power are increased, and the viruses he spews can be controlled and directed at will. Once inhaled, the spores will animate dead tissue and bring it under Barony's control, and can cause rapid physical deterioration in living targets, causing rapidly increasing symptoms such as headache, vertigo, fever, hallucinations, highs, and internal bleeding before causing his targets to succumb to their illnesses. Conversely, he can cause opposite reactions within his targets as well, effectively balancing illnesses to 'cure' them, peddling his abilities as a cure while simply giving false hope.

Wherever he roams, sickness and plague will ensue. He can infect his targets using deadly winds full of pestilence virus, or spread his infections through living dead invasions.

Awakening
Barony has awakened his Devil Fruit through manipulation of his own body and vitality. How his Devil Fruit has changed since awakening has not yet been seen.