Borsalino

**Borsalino** more commonly known as Kizaru is a admiral in the Marines.

Due to his actions he is a Minor Antagonist in the Marine Island Arc.

## Appearance

Kizaru is an incredibly tall, relatively slim man, roughly the same size as the other two ex-admirals Aokiji and Akainu. He is of middle age with a moderate amount of wrinkles on his face, short curly black hair, and a very thin beard. He is older than the other two admirals, a fact that is reflected in his looks.

Kizaru's standard outfit consists of a yellow striped suit with a Marine coat draped over his shoulders like a cape, with his arms not in its sleeves. Kizaru also wears pure white shoes, gold-amber tinted sunglasses, and a dark green shirt with a mauve tie under his yellow suit. There is a tiny Black Den Den Mushi on his left wrist, like a wristwatch, underneath the sleeve of his suit. He is generally seen wearing a relaxed grin on his face.

## Personality

Kizaru comes off as perpetually calm, equable, easygoing, and taking most things lightly no matter the severity of the situation. He talks in a calm voice suiting this demeanor: in a slow, sarcastically intonated manner with the last syllable of a sentence often drawn out.

He is prone to beginning sentences with a stressed "ooh", such as when observing something surprising or that piques his interest. With an ever-relaxed air in or out of combat, Kizaru is almost never shown losing his cool, raising his voice, or getting excited to prompt action. With his Logia intangibility, he can afford remaining apathetic to most enemy attempts to harm him, paying extremely sudden or surprisingly potent attacks little to no mind if they come from much weaker opposition, to the point of not visibly reacting at all when shot in the head.

This attitude of the admiral often lapses into absentmindedness, if not outright carelessness, that has him do things like repeatedly speak into a black Den Den Mushi meant not for talk but wiretapping or politely ask fleeing pirates who had just shot at him if they might help him find his acquaintance

Kizaru has also been shown irresponsibly using his abilities with no regard for collateral damage, acting oblivious to the mass destruction that he threatens to bring on. Additionally, Kizaru's casual attitude about whatever occurs around him may give way to the man leaving himself open to unsuspecting assault, such as watching his opponents unleash attacks without readying himself.

Kizaru has been seen mid-battle remarking that it is "scary" or "shocking" when encountering someone powerful, bold, or who unleashes a surprising ability; however, he typically retains a nonchalant face and tone, making him sound facetious. While acknowledging their strength, Kizaru has no issue with battling them one-on-one and, should they get in his way, will simply attempt to circumvent them.

In battle, Kizaru can be condescending towards those he deems weak, mocking them or those associated with them. Despite his high rank, Kizaru is not much a leader and prefers to follow orders, even if they come from subordinates (provided that they are close to him). Carrying out justice at his own pace and in a noncommittal way, his motto is "Unclear Justice" seemingly representing the gray area between Moral and Absolute Justice to allow Kizaru to operate with greater freedom.

By his own admission, the admiral considers himself like a "*cog in a machine*" who simply acts as ordered, allowing him to shuffle off personal responsibility and justify certain actions on his part as just him following orders. Indeed, with no qualms about carrying out any orders given to him. In general, Kizaru seems inclined towards missions that do not require significant work.

The admiral may shift objectives on a whimsical basis. Regardless, Kizaru acts disdainful toward pirates on a default basis and will not show them mercy. Yet, despite Kizaru's unconcern for most things to do with his profession, he does seem to harbor a degree of honor in battle, though it may be reserved for opponents whom he respects or can claim closeness to, as he showed no such inclinations towards pirates.

## Relationships

### Enemies

#### Jerry

He personally finds the fact he gave Jerry 160 life sentences funny. So funny in fact that he sent him to a island close to the one a old friend of his lives on to serve out those life sentences.

## Abilities and Powers

As with all admirals, Kizaru's physical prowess is immense. His melee attack style empathizes incredibly heavy kicks via his ability to move at the speed of light, allowing Kizaru to easily demolish entire buildings and incapacitate pirates worth over 100,000,000 Beri with single blows.

### Devil Fruit

Kizaru ate the Light Light Fruit, a Logia-type Devil Fruit that allows him to create, control, and transform his body into light. Among other things, he is able to move, travel, and perform kicks at the speed of light, shoot laser beams, and blind his opponents.

For offense, Kizaru can shoot powerful laser beams from his fingertips and the bottoms of his feet, which can easily pierce through flesh and/or set off massive, heat-based explosions. He can fire a single laser with pinpoint accuracy or unleash a massive gatling of laser bullets over a wide area.

By turning his body into light, Kizaru can move at lightspeed, allowing him to maneuver around the battlefield without his enemies able to keep up. In general, Kizaru can make his light body shift in place in order to instantly reposition himself at a different location on the battlefield, and can also send out a beam of light to merge with and travel on to reach an intended location; said light beam can only follow a straight line, though it can be reflected off of surfaces in a mirror-like fashion, allowing the beam (and thus Kizaru) to travel in zigzag. Alternatively, Kizaru may disperse his body into small globules of light to launch at a target destination in a volley, where he then instantly reforms himself.

By accelerating to lightspeed, Kizaru can massively enhance his melee attacks. By moving his leg at the speed of light (at close range or even flying away and then back in to accelerate), the admiral can give his kicks massive weight and momentum, greatly increasing their force and allowing Kizaru to deal tremendous damage to opponents with individual blows, as well as send them flying across great distances.

Additionally, Kizaru can stun and blind his opponents by emitting super-bright flashes of light, as well as, for close-quarters combat, "solidify" light into the shape of a massive sword to wield by hand against an enemy swordsman. Even more impressively.

### Haki

He has mastered both Armament Haki and Observation Haki

## History

### Pre-West Blue Saga

He stopped the attack by the cross guild on the marine treasure hideout. He eventually found Jerry where he gave him 160 life sentences as a joke and took the Static Static Fruit from him.

## Major Battles

* Whitebeard Pirates vs The Marines (Summit War)
* Cross Guild vs Marine Treasure Hideout