Doffy

Biodata

Appearance

• Blond hair and sunglasses: Introduced as a small blond boy already wearing his characteristic sunglasses 2.
• Fine features: Doffy and Rosy are described as notably good-looking among the Holy Land’s inhabitants 18.
• Celestial Dragon clothing: Wears a bulky white spacesuit during the nursery confrontation and continues wearing that style of clothing while attending school 9 42.

Personality

Doffy is proud, vindictive, and intensely concerned with his reputation. After newborn Longinus urinates on him, he treats the incident as a disgrace that must be avenged before Charlos and their other acquaintances lose respect for him. When Longinus defeats him instead, Doffy refuses to admit it to their mother and later claims that his injuries came from fighting agents 8 9 10.

His rivalry with Longinus mixes resentment, jealousy, and affection. He envies his youngest brother’s physique, intelligence, and elite guards, and hopes that introducing him to the colosseum will restore his own authority as the eldest brother. Nevertheless, he threatens Charlos for calling Longinus a monster, helps supply milk during Longinus’s life-threatening crisis, and vows revenge when Garling appears likely to execute him 12 13 15 16 29.

Doffy accepts slavery and gladiatorial combat as ordinary privileges of Celestial Dragon life. He regards the arena as an entertainment superior to reading and initially cannot understand why Longinus is so determined to protect Hector, whom he considers “just a slave” 18 20.

History

Longinus’s Birth and the Nursery Fight

Doffy and Rosy stay beside Liana throughout the night of Longinus’s birth. When Homing introduces their new brother, Doffy calls him ugly; Longinus responds by urinating on his face and subsequently dousing Rosy as well. Doffy leaves shouting that he hates Longinus 2.

Three days later, Doffy leads Rosy and several CP Agents to the nursery. He orders the agents to guard the entrance and prevent anyone from intervening, then confronts Longinus over the humiliation. Longinus’s combat-strength trait activates during the attack, allowing the infant to strike Doffy in the abdomen and thoroughly beat both older brothers 8 9.

When Liana arrives, Longinus makes himself appear to be the victim. Doffy accepts the resulting reprimand rather than confess that a newborn defeated him. At the colosseum afterward, he boasts to Charlos that Longinus will be bedridden for three days and attributes his own visible injuries to a fight with agents 9 10.

Longinus’s Haki Crisis

During Longinus’s uncontrolled Armament Haki episode, Doffy angrily defends him against Charlos’s mockery. He and Rosy remain with Liana despite Garling’s repeated Conqueror’s Haki bursts, watching as Garling concludes that Longinus cannot be saved 12.

After milk proves capable of replenishing Longinus’s depleted energy, Doffy collects two additional bottles and hands them to Liana. Longinus survives, and his condition leads their parents to postpone leaving the Holy Land 13.

North Star Colosseum

By eight, Doffy attends the Celestial Dragons Academy and has held a grudge against Longinus for several years. Hoping both to satisfy a wager and to reassert his seniority, he persuades Rosy to help obtain their parents’ permission to take Longinus out 15 16.

The wager begins after Doffy loses a gladiatorial bet against Charlos with all his savings at stake. Rosward declines to collect the money and instead offers a gladiator with nineteen consecutive victories if Doffy can bring Longinus to the North Star Colosseum. Doffy succeeds, unaware that Freck has arranged the situation to draw Longinus into a larger scheme 20.

At the colosseum, Doffy introduces Longinus to Mjosgard, Freck, Rosward, Charlos, and Shalria. He subsequently agrees to lend Longinus the newly won gladiator in exchange for sharing the winnings or entry cost. The gladiator turns out to be Hector, Jessica’s father—not the pirate captain Doffy had assumed he was 18 19 20.

Doffy protests when Rosward reveals Freck’s manipulation and challenges Rosward’s claim of innocence after he had encouraged Longinus to enter Jessica in the match. Following Longinus’s victory, Doffy celebrates his anticipated share of 1.525 billion Beli 20 23 27.

After Augustus and Freck shoot Longinus’s slaves and Longinus kills the two nobles, Garling arrives to intervene. Believing his brother endangered, Doffy vows to become stronger than Garling and avenge him. When Longinus emerges alive, Doffy and Rosy leap up and cling to his neck 27 29 30.

Later Family Life

Doffy supports Longinus’s warning that abandoning Celestial Dragon status would expose the family to retaliation from commoners. Homing consequently reconsiders his proposal to leave the Holy Land 31.

Rosy later reveals that Doffy suggested they ambush the young Figarland boy together. The disclosure earns both brothers the boy’s anger, though Doffy is elsewhere on his way to school 42.

After Longinus’s duel with Figarland, the three brothers spend an evening grilling meat at Doffy’s residence. Longinus imitates recordings of Doffy’s future speeches and laugh; Doffy dismisses the performance as embarrassingly childish, unaware that the words are his own 44.

Original Future Described by Jinbao

Jinbao outlines a future that Longinus’s intervention subsequently changes. These events are predictions based on the original story, not events Doffy has already experienced in the novel’s present 3 16.

Abilities & Resources

Physical Combat

• Attempts to fight Longinus with his fists, but is decisively defeated by the three-day-old infant’s enhanced strength and crawling speed 9.
• Claims that he fought agents to conceal that defeat; the claim is a cover story, not a demonstrated feat 10.
• Expresses a desire to surpass and fight Garling, but has not demonstrated comparable strength 29 30.

Noble Authority and Persuasion

• Commands CP Agents and threatens disobedient attendants with being thrown into the sea 8 9.
• Has his own residence, slaves, and access to private colosseum viewing boxes 15 18 44.
• Uses Rosy’s closer relationship with Longinus to help persuade their parents to approve the outing 15.
• Recognizes the value of the Hoffman Squad and envies Longinus’s access to guards normally reserved for the Five Elders and Holy Knights 15.

Relationships

• Longinus / Lu Ye — Youngest brother and rival. Doffy resents being surpassed by him but defends him against outsiders and shows genuine relief at his survival 9 12 15 29 30.
• Rosinante / Rosy — Younger brother and frequent companion. Doffy orders him around, recruits him into schemes, and is regularly exasperated by his literal-minded remarks 8 15 16 42.
• Saint Homing — Father. Doffy agrees with Longinus’s objections to Homing’s plan to abandon their noble status 2 31.
• Liana — Mother. She reprimands him after the nursery fight, and he later seeks her permission for Longinus’s outing 9 15.
• Charlos — Friend and gambling rival whose teasing repeatedly provokes him 10 12 20.
• Garling — A figure Doffy fears but also vows to surpass after witnessing his treatment of Longinus 29 30.
• Freck and Rosward — Fellow nobles who use Doffy’s gambling losses and rivalry with Longinus to lure his brother into the colosseum scheme 20 23.

Notable Quotes

“This is no time for jokes! Charlos, if you dare call him a monster again, believe it or not, I'll kill you right now!” 12

“One day, I'll be stronger than Garling. I'll avenge Longinus. Our Donquixote Family will never forget this hatred!” 29

“Justice will prevail? Of course it will. Only the victor is justice!”
— A recording of Doffy’s future speech played by Jinbao 40