Fausto Galliard

Ray Chase (English)

Ruchira Khachicharoen (Thai)

Fausto Galliard is the deuteragonist of Golden Ocean. He is a mobster and the leader of his own squad within the powerful Neapolitan gang, Smeraldo.

Sent out to track whoever attacked Leaky-Eye Guy and debuting as Tiziano Terro's opponent, Galliard becomes the first to lend meaningful support to Tiziano in his ascension in Smeraldo's ranks.

## Appearance

Fausto appears as a mid-sized man with a slim build. He has black chin-length hair with straight-cut bangs covering his forehead. His hair is adorned with a braid going along the top of his head and a hair clip surmounted on each side of his bangs.

His attire is composed of an all-white suit covered in small black spoon-like symbols, with an open chest similar to Tiziano, and zippers in random places alluding to his ability. Underneath his jacket is a lace top, which is seemingly portrayed as a tattoo in the TV anime.

His appearance seems to have stayed consistent since childhood with no particular differences outside his height and clothing.

## Personality

Fausto’s most important character traits are his righteousness and his natural kindness. Fausto is dedicated to taking the most honorable course of action, even if he puts his life at risk. For instance, at the age of seven, Fausto chose to stay with his father when his parents divorced as he thought he should support the one parent who suffered from this separation. Moreover, Fausto overtly rebelled against Ikaris when the Boss clearly wanted to kill his daughter, Corinna Sala, resulting in his premature death. Fausto is loyal to the civilians of his territory, being considerate with them accepting their requests for help, and is generally nice to the people he meets.

Fausto respects and upholds several values such as having resolve, commending Tiziano's resolve in their fight, selflessness as he is prepared to sacrifice himself for his beliefs and his duties, and family loyalty, being outraged that Ikaris would dare hurt his own child. Like his team, Fausto believes that resolve involves risking one's own life for a just cause, a standard he constantly holds up to by putting himself in danger and betting on the enemy's lesser resolve to prevail, until his climactic self-sacrifice against Ikaris. During their first fight, Ikaris even praised how Fausto kept his consciousness and tried to counterattack despite an open chest wound. He also readily admires this same resolve whenever it shows up in an opponent, noting that Tiziano and Calamaro (temporarily) have such resolve. According to Tiziano, Flavio believes in individual freedoms, and that people are free to die however they wish.

## Abilities

**Intelligence**: Fausto is a remarkable fighter in a fight; having mastered the versatile power of his ability, he can easily use the environment to his advantage, restrain his enemies, swiftly evade incoming attacks, and attack from blind spots. His natural selflessness means that survival is not among his priorities, thus his actions will easily surprise his opponents. Fausto is also a perceptive fighter, having been able to quickly deduce the weaknesses of Time Erasure abilities despite being fatally injured and proceed to take advantage of them. He is able to analyze his opponents' fighting styles and perceive their strengths and weaknesses.

**Lie Detection**: Fausto is able to know if someone is lying simply by looking at them, claiming that when a person lies their skin glistens due to sweating. He can also taste a person's sweat to distinguish them as a liar, claiming that the sweat of a liar tastes sweeter than normal.

**Physical Strength**: Despite his slim build, Galliard is likely one the strongest humans in the series. The best example of his brute strength kicking Gambero so hard he nearly shattered a train window. Other examples include, killing two adults with a knife at a young age, having the likes of Verulo fear and respect him, and overpowering Tiziano to the point of drawing blood.

**Undead**: During the events at Giorgio Maggiore island, Fausto was given a lethal blow by the boss and was subsequently healed by Tiziano's Life Giver ability. Galliard eventually reveals that his life had ended at that time, however, his body continued to move only through the "life energy" that Tiziano had given him. In this undead state, Fausto lacks bodily functions such as breathing, a heartbeat, or the ability to feel pain. However, it also allowed him to be immune to the effects of The Day, and although the decay of his body gradually made him functionally blind and deaf, he could still converse with others through the ability to observe and feel what individual souls thought.

**Cryokinesis**: As Cryo Vision user, Galliard can manipulate ice, snow and mist, specifically the obscurity of mist, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve swift strikes and movements performed in a unique pattern that obscures the opponent's senses and surroundings as if the battlefield were enveloped in mist.

* **Zippers Manipulation**: Galliard Elemental Ability can create zippers on any surface it touches with its fist, which it can remotely open or close at its leisure. For example, Galliard can hit a wall, unzip it to create an opening and go through it, then close the zipper. Galliard can even create zippers that cut through the entirety of objects, allowing him to dismantle them. With this ability, he can separate enemies into multiple pieces and even perform a cutting attack by detaching something and then canceling the zipper. How harmful the detachment is portrayed inconsistently.