Character from One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
The silent brother who broke his cover, his mission, and his body to save one dying child from becoming the next Doflamingo — and smiled through the gunshots because Law was finally safe.
Rosinante was an undercover Marine planted in his own brother's pirate crew, pretending to be mute for years to avoid slipping up. The mute act was sustained by his Devil Fruit — he could create zones of silence, which he used to hide conversations and, eventually, to hide a dying boy's screams from the people hunting them. He hated everything Doflamingo stood for but couldn't hate Doflamingo himself, which is what made the mission unbearable. When he found Law — a child with Amber Lead Syndrome, given three years to live, already so full of rage and nihilism that he wanted to destroy everything — Rosinante saw a version of himself that might still be saved. He stole the Ope Ope no Mi for Law, getting shot, beaten, and tortured across multiple islands in the process, dragging his broken body from hospital to hospital trying to find someone who would treat a White City survivor. He succeeded. Then Doflamingo found him and shot him. Rosinante used his last moments of silence to ensure Law could escape without being heard. He died smiling because the mission was never about the Marines. It was about one kid.
Very tall and lanky with blond hair, a fair complexion, and a gentle face that looks wrong on someone in Doflamingo's crew. Wears a dark feathered coat similar to Doflamingo's but black instead of pink. Heart-shaped lipstick or face paint, typically smeared. A Marine hat hidden beneath his clothes. Perpetually clumsy — trips over nothing, sets himself on fire accidentally, walks into doors. The clumsiness is genuine and endless. His smile is Doflamingo's smile filtered through kindness instead of cruelty.
Also known as: Corazon, Rosinante, Donquixote Rosinante, Cora-san