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Name: Blake D. Hunter

Alias: Redcoat

Appearance:

Hider [+]

Age: 24

Position in crew: Captain

Personality: If one had to describe Hunter, it'd be the Pirate-ist of Pirates. Obsessed with treasure and adventure, sordid enemy of marines, and speaks in an accent that nearly everybody is sure is fake. Despite being a dastardly pirate, he has a sense of honour to him. He won't kill those who surrendered, and would sacrifice even the most valuable of treasures to protect his crew. A relatively naive idiot, he is willing to trust anyone who loves adventure as a member of the crew.

Powers/Abilities: Hunter ate the Gun-Gun Fruit, a paramecia type devil fruit, that allows him to fire off bursts of energy from his hands and feet.
Techniques:
Magnum Finger - Quite literal finger guns
Shotgun Kick - A regular kick that fires off an explosive blast on contact.
Gattling Palm - A singular palm strike that sends 20-30 energy blasts into an opponent during the moment of contact.
Cannonhameha - by gathering energy for a few seconds, Hunter unleashes a blast that can level a building.

Background: The grandson of one of Platinum's rivals, Bartholemew D. Hunter, better known as Black Bart, the young boy grew up hearing about his grandfather's exploits. The descriptions of the islands in the Grand Line gave him a desire to see the world for himself.
When he was 18, he set sail on his own adventure... only to end up marooned on an island for 2 years. While he was trying to stay alive, he accidentally ate a devil fruit, and gained it's powers. Soon after, he commandeered a marine ship that was passing by, and headed off on a bunch of adventures in East Blue while collecting up a crew. Finally, they had reached Loguetown, where their journey would truly begin.

Other: Hunter is Left-handed.
Incredibly poor sense of direction

So if no one objects, I'll be creating a Gecko Logia-Type Devil Fruit user. Unsure of the position, possibly First Mate if no one else beats me to the punch.

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Gecko logia?

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Bad wording I suppose. It's a Logia-Type Fruit that grants its user the properties of a Gecko.

@LokiLeo789

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Oh! I see. I think you meant Zoan, because those are the ones for transforming into creatures. Logia type devil fruits grant the users control over elements and the ability to transform into said element. ^_^'

@jynmi88

The crew, how well do they know one another? Do we start first meeting or have we already met?

I'll post my character tomorrow. Not feeling so good today.

Throwing this up as a means of marking interest.

Mizushima Isuza WIP [+]

Name: Mizushima Isuza
Alias: N/A
Appearance:

Isuza [+]

Age: 18
Position: Shipwright
Personality: Isuza is a bashful girl, who lacks for confidence in herself and the social skills to leverage this confidence even if she did have it. Her awkward nature, in combination with her shyness, usually result in her avoiding others not out of disdain, but out of fear of their judgement. This fear is partially born of the ridicule brought on by her heritage during her younger years, a facet of herself that she is still quite sensitive about. Her lack of confidence, whist often causing her to doubt herself, does serve as a boon in some regards. It drives her ever onwards, on a constant quest for self-improvement, so that one day she may look upon herself with pride. Her friendship, as a result of her tendency to hide away from others, is hard to earn, yet once it has been earned, it is difficult to lose.

Powers/Abilities:
Being a hybrid of human and fishman origin, Isuza possesses physical strength five times greater than that of an average human, a trait doubled when underwater and further increased by years of physical conditioning. Although she lacks some of the finer finesse of the fishmen underwater, she is a powerful swimmer and can breathe underwater through a set of gills located along her shoulders. Her mouth is additionally filled with regenerating, serrated shark teeth, each of which is strong enough to tear through stone when combined with her jaw strength.

As a martial artist, she has dutifully honed her body since girlhood for the rigors of combat. Her form is toned and lithe, possessing endurance and stamina far beyond the norm and affording her a great deal of durability. Her greatest asset, however, is her speed. Isuza, like the species of shark that inhabit her bloodline, is incredibly quick, both on land and in the water. She leverages this against her opponents well, using her high speed to blitz enemies and unleash her unusual strength upon them while they're off guard.

The pride of Isuza's combat abilities is that of her Fishman Karate. Though she has only received little formal instruction in the art, she has learned through discipline and initiative several of the art's finer points. Using the water in her opponent's body, she unleashes powerful strikes that manipulate this essential substance to do immense damage to her foes in conjunction with her innate strength. She is capable of manipulating external sources of water as well, to a far more limited scope, to augment this fighting style as well, as seen with her Uchimizu technique.

Although she is far from a master, Isuza is also well versed in repairing ships and basic carpentry. She often uses her Fishman heritage to her advantage, working on seaborne vessels from below to complete upkeep and repairs without having to beach the vessel.

Techniques:

Hyakumaigawara Seiken (Literally meaning "Hundred Tile True Punch"): A hard punch that can send an opponent flying. It is claimed that this attack is so strong that it can break through one hundred tiles.

• Senmaigawara Seiken (Literally meaning "Thousand Tile True Punch"): A much stronger version of the Hyakumaigawara Seiken, this move is the "true essence of Fishman Karate". It can break through one thousand tiles, and kill a human with one shot.
• Samegawara Seiken (Literally meaning "Shark Tile True Punch"): A powerful straight punch similar to the usual seiken that transmits the force of the impact through the water in a person's body, enabling the strike to bypass a person's defenses; even those of devil fruit users.

Samehada Shotei (Literally meaning "Sharkskin Palm Block"): A simple palm block with enough force behind it to slap away a sword swing without injuring the practitioner.

Kaimen Wari (Literally meaning "Sea Surface Splitter"): Using a karate chop, the user can split the very ocean itself in order to send a shock wave to attack an enemy.

Uchimizu (Literally meaning "Water Shot"): The user hurls a simple droplet of water at their opponent, which can become a deadly bullet with the kinetic force created by their immense fishman strength.

Umidaiko (Literally meaning "Ocean Drum"): Once underwater, the user punches the water in front of them, pushing it at their opponent and sending a shockwave through it. The shockwave hits the opponent dealing great damage and leaving a pressure mark on their body.

Background: Isuza was born in the aftermath of a battle, somewhere in the Grand Line some eighteen years ago. Her mother, a fishman corsair of some renown, was wounded during a clash with the Marines and left for dead among the tides. Her father, a shipwright working on a nearby island, happened to be the man who found her washed up along the beaches the following morning. A compassionate soul, he took the mercurial fish woman back to his dwelling to nurse her back to health and, as she would learn upon awaking, to hide her from the Marines who would soon be searching the island after spotting her jolly roger tattoo.

What information Isuza has managed to squeeze from her father over the years is scarce, but as far as she knows, this act of kindness stoked the flames of romance between the two. Rather than return to the sea once she was healed, Isuza's mother took to her father's bed and some nine months later, the the hybrid shark girl was born. The romance that created her was short lived, however, as for reasons left unknown to her, the girl's parents split before her second birthday. Isuza's mother returned to the turbulent Grand Line childless and her father, now responsible for an infant, moved to the much safer East Blue to raise his daughter.

Other: Isuza is a half-fishman born to a human father and a fishman mother. Her mother's subspecies is that of a mako shark.

@LokiLeo789 Taking a look at your character, I figured I'd pop in and suggest that, since komodo dragons are a type of lizard, it might be worth calling the Devil Fruit Bahamut uses the Toka Toka no Mi, a.k.a. the Lizard-Lizard Fruit, since the Japanese word "tokage" means lizard, though obviously the Komodo Dragon is still the model. Just a thought, is all.

As for whether I intend to join this... I do have a character idea for a Logia user, but I also have a lot of RPs with levels of activity that sometimes take up a lot of focus, so I'm not convinced I could maintain sufficient activity for this one, at least for the time being. I may change my mind later on, or my circumstances may change at a later date. I'll probably keep an eye on this either way.

I'm not done her personality or background yet. Still thinking about what to add/how to wrap up her becoming a pirate.