Peyote Diaz

Peyote Diaz is a fictional character in the manga and anime series of Shaman King. He is a shaman from Mexico and is one of Hao's followers.

Appearance
Peyote is usually seen wearing a Mexican poncho. He is also commonly seen hiding his face with a sombrero, scarf and jet goggles. He wear long black boots, with a knee plate saying Hao and long black pipe like gloves, with knuckle plates that has Hao written on them. He wears black clothing decorated with bones and a skull on his scarf and when not used he constantly wears his guitar on his back in a strap. He has a long smooth red hair and is clean shaven in one half of his head. Later on Peyote gains a thin beard around his mouth.

Personality
At first he appears as a very cruel and emotionless man who will do anything to follow Asakura Hao's orders, without a question, even using the Boz brothers beaten bodies for oversouls. He also believes that one should have a reason to fight otherwise would one die as a loser and ones story will be a losers story. However towards the end of the manga he appears very sensitive and even questioned Asakura Hao. He even cried saying that because he loved Hao the much he was also the one who hated him the much.

Abilities and Powers
He doesn't appear as a very strong Shaman and because of his low amount of fights it is unknown how capable he is. However he is also a guitar player and appears as a very good one as he can control his oversouls with it. As explained by himself his powers allow him to play with the dead and he can make souls vibrate to some of his music. He was also the lead guitarist of his former mariachi band.

Spirits

 * See More: Peyote's Mariachi Band

Peyote's spirits consists of his old Mariachi band that was killed during stupid and meaningless bar fights. The spirits are Carlos, Juan (friends of Peyotes), Antonio, Jose, Pancho, Miguel & Zapata (all mariachi players). Carlos and Juan were gunned down by angry saloon clients while Antonio, Jose, Pancho, Miguel and Zapata died in fights. He uses caravela dolls and even his own two teammates, the "Boz" brothers, as medium for his oversouls, giving him an offensive and defensive strategy.

Past
Peyote is shaman from Mexico and was born on September 11, 1970. He was once part of a Mariachi band considered the best in the whole country and famous for the brawls they started. Apparantly were two of them owners of a saloon. They where best friends and all of them acted like true men, however all the members except him was killed in stupid brawls or gunned down because of an unhappy saloon client.

When he was 21 he was found by child Asakura Hao, while sitting in a bar and was apparantly suprissed by the child. It was then he was recruited.

Shaman Fight Second Round
He was first seen together with Hao's team as Chocolove McDonell talked about them in the Patch Village. He made his first official appearance during the first fight of the Shaman Fights in Tokyo with the Boz Brothers as the "earth" Team who were who fighting Team "Ren" but his team was defeated and knocked out of the fight.

Betrayal
Eventually, after being defeated yet again, Peyote becomes disillusioned and acts rather mad, and turns on his comrades. His power seems to have drasitcally increased, as he easily kills Hang Zang Ching and Big Guy Bill and severely wounds Blocken Meyer with his Oversoul. Screaming that he loves Hao the most, yet he also hates Hao the most, he takes his own life as well the lives of the shamans in Team Flower.

Anime/Manga Difference
In the 4Kids dub,he was given a Méxican accent. and his name was changed into Ramiro.

Trivia

 * "Peyote" is the name of a small spineless cactus native to México and the Southern United States of which a hallucinogenic drug is prepared