"No, sixteen it is," he says with a shrug. "Right in that weird transition period in my life where I decided blending in with everyone else might be worth trying instead of keeping away from them all the time. Except I still did plenty of that too. Never really wanted to work with animals as a job, though, especially not that young. At twelve I wasn't really... up for thinking that long-term, yet."

If his teenage years were weird, preteen years were even weirder. In any case, he doesn't fault Will at all for answering the way he did, it was a good guess.

"Besides, I remember my brother found cigarettes back when we were younger and I thought they smelled really gross. Put me off 'em for a few years extra," he says, shaking his head. It's sort of a funny memory to be honest, Doflamingo strutting around like an idiot with cigarettes at ten. Those years were awful, but there were still parts that make him laugh if only because they were so ridiculous.