The East Blue is a sea where many ridiculous ideas can bloom, free, for the most part, from pirates that constantly prey on ventures, or if they do, can be easily fought off. Many leisure facilities have attached hull and keel and sailed off into the Blue, the Baratie restaurant is just one.

Another is Big Dipper, the Floating Carnival. Almost big enough to be an island, the Big Dipper is everything a family day out needs. Candyfloss, rides, circus shows and more! Unfortunately, the place is so much fun, that occasionally, kids can never want to leave.

So it was with Zini, who simply refused to budge out of a ferris wheel booth until his parents gave in and left him to it. They fitted the booth with a kitchen and bed and promptly left their son to make his way as part of the Big Dipper. After about a month, the owner of the Dipper, "Round Moustache" Gurrel made his way to Zini's booth house and announced that, if he had to live on the ferris wheel, he would have to give back to the circus.

Gurel then started to train him to run the stalls, and incidentally, how to cheat horrible so the punters never won big. It became Zini's job to make sure one balloon was always dartproof, that the wheel would never land on the grand prize, and that the rat was simply too fast to be whacked. Round Moustache also taught him the use of Brick Bullet, the art of shooting a target by richocheting the shots off nearby objects. This also came in handy for the shooting galleries of the Dipper, as well as the rare pirate attacks.

Zini acquired the Wall Wall Fruit when an angry customer, having run out of normal tomatoes, threw the Fruit at his head for his supposed swindling. Eating it, Zini finally added his own attraction to the Big Dipper. Mazes that could be rearranged any way he pleased. Every day a new labyrinth with which to challenge the punters of the Dipper. Recently though, it's been drawing a lot of pirates with an eye to orienteering training, and this just keeps giving Zini ideas...

Zini is a short and stocky man, with square shoulders that you could balance a ball on without it rolling off. He stands so straight his spine could be mistaken for a solid pole. His mouth is near invisible when closed, a firm straight line, and this doesn't help his usually grim expression. It's quite a shock to the system when he starts speaking and his face bursts into motion and smiles and rapid talk. He still favours carnival suits as his primary wardrobe, anything bright and eyecatching. His trusty flintlocks always hang at his belt, ready to be used at a moment's notice.

Zini ate the Wall Wall Fruit, allowing him to create walls directly out of the floor around him, as well as the ability to effortlessly run along them. He mostly uses this as a means for his Brick Bullet shooting style, creating walls to bounce his shots off and hit his opponents from unexpected angles. He also likes creating mazes with his ability. If the enemy can't find you, they can't hurt you.
(Mechanically, Create Objects limited to vertical cuboids and Wall-Walking, later incorporating things like Shield, Force Field, Density, Immovable and such)

Zini often goes for long, long periods without moving, still as a wall, before suprising everybody by bursting into movement after minutes of unmoving silence.
His speech is deceptively quick and persuasive, from having worked at a carnival for so long.
He's ungodly good at mazes made by outside parties, but has a horrible tendency to get a little lost in his own.
Otherwise, he's slow to speak but friendly and calm and enjoys spending time with his crew and other friends, while quick to help others and even quicker to try and get a reward for doing so. The promise of treasure will easily turn his head

Zini dreams of one day creating what he will call Forever Lost - The Ultimate Labyrinth. Filled with threats , hazardous weather conditions, Sea Kings, and good old-fashioned twists, turns and dead ends. The ultimate test and training ground for pirates and punters alike.
Of course, to make the thing fair, he has to make sure these threats and twists can be survived first. He needs to test the threat. And where better could threats be found than on the search for One Piece?