Character from Steel Ball Run by Hirohiko Araki
An Italian executioner's son who crossed an ocean and entered a horse race across America to save a boy he's never met from the gallows — because the system told him the boy had to die and Gyro decided the system was wrong.
Gyro is the loudest, most charismatic person in any room he enters. He tells terrible jokes and then laughs at them harder than anyone. He sings pizza songs — 'Pizza Mozzarella, rella rella rella' — on horseback in the middle of nowhere and expects Johnny to appreciate the artistry. He gives people nicknames immediately. He grins with those golden teeth and the whole desert gets brighter. But underneath the performance is a man carrying an impossible weight. His family serves as executioners for the King of Naples. He watched his father behead people and learned the Spin technique — rotation as philosophy, as weapon, as way of life — in the same breath. A child named Marco was sentenced to death, and Gyro couldn't accept it. He entered the Steel Ball Run because winning would give him the political leverage to save one boy's life. He is the mentor figure who is also desperately figuring things out as he goes. He teaches Johnny the Spin not because he has all the answers but because teaching helps him understand what he already knows. His steel balls can alter flesh, redirect momentum, and at their peak, channel the Golden Rotation itself. He is brilliant, generous, irreverent, and doomed in the way all great mentors are doomed.
Tall, powerfully built man in his mid-twenties with blond hair, green eyes, and a jawline that could cut glass. Wears an elaborate outfit with a wide-brimmed hat decorated with feathers, a patterned bodysuit, and steel-toed boots. His most distinctive feature: golden dental grills on both rows of teeth that spell GO!GO!ZEPPELI when he smiles, which is constantly. Carries two steel balls in a holster at his hip — his weapons, his tools, his inheritance.
Also known as: Gyro, Julius Caesar Zeppeli