Bounty of Goldberg – credible but non-canon

Goldberg was born on Elbaf sixty-three years ago, on the exact day the island's twelve-day pre-solstice fast traditionally begins — a calendar coincidence his own crewmates still bring up at every feast, and one he closes out himself every year by cooking the meal that ends the fast. A former S-rank mercenary hired through Buggy's agency, he now serves as the cook aboard Hajrudin's Giant Warrior Pirates, a role with a built-in irony for a man whose birthday marks the start of twelve days without food.

His weapon, a mace, comes paired with a shield named Nash, turned into a homie by Charlotte Linlin's own power and able to resize itself on the spot to absorb an incoming attack — a piece of Big Mom's repertoire recycled far from Totto Land, in the hands of a giant who never sailed a day for her. Heavyset, unhurried, never eager for a fight, Goldberg cuts against the belligerent-giant image Elbaf usually gets handed — and of the three former mercenaries who rallied to Hajrudin, he's the only one who grew up on the island itself rather than arriving as an adult under contract.

No bounty targets him, and none rules him out. The World Government has simply never had reason to open a file on an independent mercenary turned cook for a crew formed too recently, on an island it has never watched from the inside — the silence here isn't a threat quietly measured and withheld, it's the plain absence of a case that was never opened.