🕯 General HCs: Mr. 3 | Galdino (OPLA) 🕯

author’s note: first place in my latest poll with 50% taking the lead, so here we go, Mr. 3 fans! this is my first piece about Mr. 3 aka Galdino from One Piece, specifically the LA adaptation! i am so excited to write for him! i hope this batch of headcanons suffices as a surface-scratching preview of future things for this character, because i have tons more thoughts about him! i’m always ready to blab about him! this batch is a bit short, but that’s because i have other pieces with him in mind in the works as well!

OPLA SEASON 2 SPOILERS AHEAD!

ENJOY!

🕯 First thing’s first: let’s talk about getting a mere preview of the deep waxy well of untapped potential Mr. 3 possesses! He made a whole ass little cottage for himself just because he could, and he’d rather not be out in the open in a prehistoric jungle, thank you very much. No, this is a man of refined tastes who prefers something practical but pretty; still, knowing him, whatever he makes will more than likely reflect his own pretentious persona. The cottage was a temporary settlement, sure, but holy shit the attention to detail! Mr. 3’s sentiment about the loss of individual artistry and personal satisfaction that comes when you “forget to be baroque” rings true: he fully immerses himself in the ornate detailing of this universe’s Baroque period, taking into account the use of motion and sparing no expense for grandeur. Mr. 3 is a pompous prick, we all know this and take it at face-value, but damn it, is this man not an art connoisseur? Artiste’s kiss!

🕯 Mr. 3 is sensitive to extreme heat and extreme cold. Given his waxy complexion and other such innate features as some of the more lasting effects of the Wax-Wax Fruit, he has to maintain homeostasis as anyone else, but to a new degree. Extreme temperatures will either thrust a searing, melting agony upon him (heat), or is akin to the feat of fully submerging him in arctic waters, pulling him back to the surface only to watch as the icicles encase him in a jagged web of wintry entrapment (cold).

🕯 Mr. 3 is a man who’s all about tea – my guess is he probably has a sensitive palette, so his tea-brewing preferences will cater to it. As far as flavors go, I’m gonna be completely self-indulgent and say he likes the sweeter, fruitier or floral options – the rarer, the more exquisite and sought-after it is for his culinary collection. Oooh, add a drop of honey to certain brews, and he’s a gooey glob of contentment! All in the name of maintaining homeostasis through consumption, yeah. Also as a treat to himself! While his attitude is brittle and presumptuous to put it lightly, he believes himself to be a man who deserves indulgence in the finer, softer, delicate offerings life has to serve.

🕯 On that note, Mr. 3 is also someone who’s actually very careful about what he consumes, and would much rather be the one to make his own beverages and food for himself. This is because you can’t always be trusting when strangers – or even one’s own colleagues – offer you a drink or a bite to eat, no matter how unassuming the whole thing comes across. That said, he’s still a big-game shit-stirrer in that he clearly has no problem poisoning anyone else he deems a threat just to get them out of the way of whatever plan he’s concocting. So if he offers you a drink under the guise of having a civil sit-down discussion about how things will play out, drink at your own risk. Don’t be too surprised when you reach the bottom of the waxy floral cup to find a cheekily macabre inscription: You’ve been poisoned.

Me: shame I don’t find Mr 3 attractive there is fic potential here

*end of S02xE05*

Me: I take back everything he is hot

Baby itty bitty galdino

Based on the headcanon that his mom is giolla thus making him a donquixote family member during childhood

New theme who this

(most likely will change when season 2 comes out)

Mr 3 ✨ Ms All Sunday 💜

onepiecenetflix: Somewhere between genius and madness, Mr. 3 prepares his next masterpiece. 👓 Pray you are not his model. 🕯️

I don’t think I need to mention it, but wax play with Mr. 3 thanks to his Devil Fruit.

Mr 3 ✨

This looks so good in a goofy way but what makes it work so well is that he may be unnaturally pale in a way that harkens to 18th century powdered faces to make him look like a fop, which matches his personality and his elaborate hairdo, but it’s not actually powder makeup. It’s wax.

Baroque Works 🔥✨

David Dastmalchian as Mr. 3 in One Piece

I miss them

I’ve got a notion there’s no emotion

i feel like there might actually be two reasons Oda didn’t bring Sanji to fight Mr. 3 in Little Garden along with the rest of the crew: the obvious one being the Mr. Prince stuff, the second is him being like a natural counter to Mr. 3’s fruit. Sanji has been fire resistant since as early as Baratie so he could just take his lighter/matchbox, melt the wax, and then go kick Mr. 3’s arse just like he did later in Alabasta…

OPLA 👀

A Tease of MR 3 👀

FROM:

This is from a set of photos posted by the Premier of the Western Cape, Alan Winde, who visited the Set of OPLA Season 2 in December 2024.

The MR 3 and LUFFY Figures above is from this specific photo (you can see them on the left; they are very tiny):

Other Photos:

From Premier Alan Winde Official Twitter/X Account

Alabasta Arc Part 2

Chapter 158

And here we have another wonderful example of why the WG sucks. Smoker has nothing on Ace other than he’s part of Whitebeard’s crew. The crime is being a pirate - but in One Piece that doesn’t mean the same thing as in our world. It does have no moral implications, you can have Shanks or Kid, Ace or Blackbeard just as you can have Smoker or Sakazuki.

And I love Ace calling it out as it is: a dumb reason.

immediately followed by Luffy accidentally taking down two logia users because they were busy with each other.

Your baby brother, who else?

We only have Ace for a few short moments in the manga (and then the cover story), but Oda does so well it make him absolulty loveable. I’m so used to series that kill of characters all the time and then get pretty much forgotten rather soon, but Ace to this day is missed and that’s so real and painful and wonderful.

The entire bit. Ace has a higher bounty than Luffy, a high position on Whitebeard’s crew and Smoker is like: nah, I got beef with the Strawhat. To be fair he only wanted to arrest Ace on principle, but still.

That poor guy. Also a decent summary of what Luffy gets up to. Go places, eat everything, make a huge mess, do not pay and run off to free the country.

The first time Tashigi isn’t clumsy at all and then this.

Am I a fan of the character trope of a simping, pervy guy? No. But this is an acceptable level, not really my humour, but it’s not Toei making Sanji lust after children.

And it’s a reasonable, doable bit, he got them very beautiful outfits that show quiet some skin. They do get the job of disguise done and we don’t know if Sanji knew they were dancer outfits.

Nami that was mean.

Who else would it be? Luffy is missing, you know he’s missing. Who else could it possible be?

This is just the coolest panel this chapter. The flames, the outfit, the pose.

Chapter 159

This cover story is just so lovely and if the anime would have adapted it, there surely would be more fanfictions about these two.

But seriously Jango coming back for Fullbody after such a short time of knowing each other encaptures perfectly what Bon Clay said: it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been friends.

And now for some contrast. Here’s a terrible person.

didn’t even wait 5 seconds

And now for the tears:

He’s the perfect older brother to look up to. Stronger than him, there for him, grew up together, absolulty love and support each other.

Even if Marineford didn’t happen they wouldn’t have needed to fight. Newgate got what he wants, his family.

Smoker with all his (part of the navi, they are the attack dogs of the wg) faults, has very good judgement when it comes to the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Because it fits for near all of them.

Crocodile with the Baroque Works, Mihawk doing whatever he wants, Doffy working for Kaido, Moria on Thriller Bark making a Zombie army, Hancock doing whatever she wants, Jinbei already imprisoned for (rightfully) not following the WG.

And Kuma is neither a pirate not does he have a choice. And before him Hanfuda was working for Kaido.

this already hits so bad. honestly in hindsight Ace had no chance of survival. the build up of amazing big brother Ace had to lead to a tragic ending. And that we get his vivre card here without even knowing what it is and how much pain this little piece of paper will cause.

And he didn’t even need to go. But he wanted to do the right thing. It’s also another great piece of setup for Blackbeard in the future.

Fuck.

And then they met Sabo later on.

The next time they see each other will be his end.

This was the first meeting in three years and then they only got a few minutes with each other.

Chapter 160

The compositon is really nice, but I want to point out the shading of Vivi’s dress going down, and it highlights her emotions perfectly. With her head bend down and the crew listening, her hand fisted in her dress.

I just like Bananawanis.

Some have resting bitch face, he has resting annoyed face.

All hail our bigender saviour.

People tend to forget about that.

Crocodile doing his best to stay anonymous, in the shadows, calm and collected (and annoyed!) and then there are the people who work for him.

Teenager doing teaparties, guy who throws boggers, no one can miss Dance Practice, casual back massage and most of them end up still working in this cafe later as if they didn’t activly work on destorying this country.

1. The fact that Bon Clay is saying this to Mr. 1’s parter
2. Bon Clay showcasing his character, not being afraid
3. First panel is talking about Mr 1 and shows Mr 2’s swans, second panel has Mr 2 and in the background is Mr 3’s hair and then in the third panel there is Mr 3. I love this so much

Little Garden Arc Part 2

Chapter 118

the paneling is wonderful here, the dark unknown in the foreground, the cast white nothing Luffy and Vivi and in and the incredibly textured neverending forrest in front of them -it showcases perfectly that there is someone, but they have no clue who or where

We learn that it’s the Baroque works and I like how we see Mr. 3’s power already, without being told what exactly they are, but it’s nice to get some old enemies we’ve wiped the floor with back, because while it makes sense that explosive rum was from the guy that can make stuff explode, because he just got defeated so hard last time, you don’t automatically think of him. It’s a simple and great trick.

Chapter 119

We may actually get a mirror of this.

Sun God Nika.

His priorities are just great. It’s not about the stupid 100 year fight, it’s that this isn’t fair. They should be free to do what they want and they can’t because someone else went inbetween them.

Honestly having it start off with Mr 3 and the fact that we’re not facing enemies who don’t just throw fists at you is great, also lowkey horror vibes:

Usopp gets it.

It’s also why the fight between Luffy and Usopp is incredibly important and needed to happen.

Chapter 120

and it’s not earned

Mr. 3 does not get it. Not at all.

Loyalty is such a big point in One Piece, but it always amazed me how simple and effective it is.

We have early example like Chouchou protecting the store against an overgrown lion and Karoo refusing to back down all the way to nothing happening to Zoro and Killer eating a smile.

He’s a terrible person, but he has style.

Chapter 121

The realisation in Brogy’s face is so good. Panel after panel he gets it. He shouldn’t have won. And Mr. 3 is there not caring about a fair win, just a win in contrast.

It’s clobbering time! (Fantastic four three theme starts playing)

Chapter 122

What I do find interesting is that this isn’t seen as a battle, although it technically is one. But because Mr. 3 snuck up and tricked around it doesn’t quality.

Is it a terrible plan -obviously. Is there any other plan -not really.

and it’s also not about that -it’s about not giving up, even when it looks hopeless

Chapter 123

I love how basically no one but Vivi take the situation seriously.

And then there’s Galdino’s utterly wrong assessment of Luffy (quick reminder those two will break out of Impel Down together in like 3 months).

This is very cool. All of it.

Mr. 3 learned nothing, Luffy however did.

What a way to end the chapter. She’s been so much in the brackground you basically forget about her and then she just gets Luffy offscreen.