Name: House
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Rank: Rookie (Mercenary Corps)


Personality:
Due to his unique upbringing House is a very social and helpful guy, since his brothers and sisters in the gambler-family depended on each other to survive. He learned a great deal about the importance of camaraderie, friendship and teamwork through them, even though his carefree and laid back demeanor might not always convey it too well. He jokes around a lot and laughs about his own jokes sometimes, which can make him seem like a bit of a douche. He believes, that he has grown out of his boastful loudmouth phase, keeping his showing off to a minimum as well as suppressing his desire to be a joker or smart-ass whenever he can. However when a certain amount of booze or gambling is involved he will slip right back into his old self. Additionally House is very competitive, trying to one up anyone he feels superior to, which, when it comes to gambling, is just about anyone.

In his free time he either practices his card-tricks, prepares his throwing cards or tries to find people to play with and pass the time. His favorite food are chicken wings, although he'll settle for almost any poultry based meat and he can hold his liquor fairly well given his casino-bar filled youth. Finally, House had quite the womanizer reputation back at home, since he could be very charming and was nice to look at. He never actually understood where that reputation came from however, since usually the women talked to him first and he was pretty oblivious to the flirting until it became very apparent.

Underneath everything House has a very soft spot for children, especially orphans, and wants to potentially open an orphanage when he retires one day.

Background:
Born with an alcoholic gambler for a father and a dead mother the young Roger Kempton was basically by himself from the get go. Before he was even 8 years old he escaped his father on one of their casino-trips, leaving the old man at the slot machine and never coming back. While on the run Roger met a group of gamblers, misfits and former orphans just like him, that took him in and raised him as one of their own. They started teaching him about the world, taught him reading and writing and about the most important thing in the world: the art of gambling. Roger soon proved to be an exceptionally fast learner, he was smart and, unfortunately, he knew that. During these early years Roger would frequently boast about his winnings, while wearing his hubris on his sleeve. This lead to more than a few troublesome situations, through which he made it unscathed more often then not.

When Roger hit his early 20s he picked it up another notch, training his sleight of hand and dice tossing as well as his card counting and throwing on the side. He had soon made a reputation for himself as “House”, the man that never loses. At first he didn't know what to think of this nickname, but he soon grew to like it a lot more than his actual name, discarding it along with his childhood memories. By now he had become somewhat of a small celebrity among the casino belt, a group of islands in the West Blue, that is mostly treated as a permanent neutral-zone for the surrounding crime syndicates. The casino's were all owned by different criminals, that were always trying to out-profit each other, House however was a problem for every casino he visited, since whenever he showed up he would cost the casino and it's clients a lot of money.

One fateful day he won the absolute jackpot, without even knowing it. It was his 28th birthday and he went into a high-end casino to celebrate. After a long and successful day he packed up his winnings in his usual manner, stuffing it into a huge Santa-like sack, excused himself with his usual catchphrase, “It was a pleasure to play with you gentlemen, but never forget, that in the end: The House always wins!” and left the casino with a big grin on his face. Taking stock of his birthday winnings in the hide out later he noticed, that one of the assumed golden ornaments wasn't golden at all. It looked more like a very heart-shaped peach with a swirl pattern. Deciding, that he was hungry anyway and unaware of the existence of devil fruits, he gulped the fruit down in 2 bites. At first he was confused by the lack of a stone on the inside, but then he realized how gross the fruit tasted, making a mental note to never eat a fruit like that again.

Another 3 years passed and House was growing weary of the hustling and cheating lifestyle he flaunted. He had been growing less and less bashful for the past years and had finally gotten to a point where he realized, that his life wasn't going anywhere. After contemplating what to do with his life and hearing about the marine-fort's new hiring guidelines, he decided to make himself and his recently acquired powers matter, setting off towards the East Blue immediately. Signing up for the mercenary corps as soon as he reached the fort.

Skills:
Sutsu-Sutsu no Mi: The Suite-Suite fruit, a Paramecia type fruit that gives the user the ability to empower himself by invoking the four suits. Heart for defense, club for offense, spade for speed and diamond for vision.
True Gambling: Every gambler knows, that at a certain point in any game luck doesn't matter anymore. At that point speed, skill and perception are the only thing separating the big winners from the empty handed losers. If you didn't get caught, you didn't cheat, that's the rule of the casino world. House is able to roll a dice onto the number he wants and manipulate card-decks without most people ever noticing.

Techniques:
Cardslinger: Years of experience have lead to House being able to toss cards at enormous speeds and with amazing precision, giving him the ability to throw his cards like other people throw knives.

Suit-Style: Diamond Eyes: House activates one of his four sutsu-powers to enhance his vision ability and range, and turning his pupils into diamonds.

Suit-Style: Spade Surge: House activates another sutsu-power to increase his speed and reaction times, enabling him to use the Spade Spears.

Stats:

Perks:

• Sleight of Hand: His fine control over the movement of his hands makes House a formidable opponent in close quarters. He moves aren't exactly blinding, but are definitely subtle and to the untrained eye, are difficult to predict.
• Pickpocket: House's expertise in subtle hands movements has made him quite the capable thief when needed. When accidentally bumping into him, you better check the contents of your pocket. A firm handshake? Your watch might not be there anymore.

Inventory: 2 decks of cards with sharpened edges and a pair of red dice.

Name: Muramasa Neith
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Rank: Ensign (Marines)

Personality: Muramasa is the kind of guy who seems to be grumpy, the majority of the time. In many cases, this is true, but he is not all grumpy, just grumpy must of the time. He enjoys his passion, which is to create beautiful tools of destruction. He makes them for you and when they are gone, they are gone. However, Muramasa also has a soft spot for baked sweets of all kinds. He tends to take on strange requests lately as he longs to expand his craft however, he doesn’t really care what he does, as long as he can do what he enjoys. Other than that, he does not like being bothered.

As grumpy as he is, he isn’t a jerk. Well, at least not on purpose. He is blunt to a fault, because it annoys him to lie or to tell a lie. He is really a nice guy once you get to know him and if you bake him a cake, you will have him in the palm of your hands, if you are lucky enough to know that his weakness.

Background:
Muramasa is a man from the North blue and he is from a clan of smiths who specialize in making weapons. His family helps supply the new Marines with weapons. They are all very skilled in their craft, which is why the Marines offered to pay them for their services. However, there was one among the family who had shown skill above all others. This was, of course, the subject of this Character Sheet, Muramasa Neith.

As a young boy, Muramasa was enamored with making things. It was his dream to carry on his family’s business and become the best craftsman the world has ever known. As the years went by, Muramasa’s talent became more and more apparent as he worked hard to make a name for himself and, consequently, made his family’s name even more popular. However, like most geniuses, things eventually became boring for him. All of his family’s techniques were easily learned and applied. At times, he would go as far as to improve them to become more efficient. This caused him to become bored and with boredom came being jaded. Then it lasted for so long, that it became irritating how limited he felt for not being able to get better and improve his skills.

That is when he met Sanji, by chance. Though he didn’t know who the man in black was, Muramasa was swayed by the man to join the marines, purely because Muramasa could leave and raise his skills out on the season where all sorts of material were present and avaliablefor him to master and all sorts of weapons and armor and other works of art can be made.

Skills:
The Man Who Can Craft All: Even though his family is a family of smiths, Muramasa can craft all weapons from guns to swords and beyond. You give him a blueprint, and he will make it and make it better than you imagined it would be. He has somewhat of a special ability, I guess when making weapons as the material seems to “Speak to him” or so he says. However, this allows him to create to his heart’s desire. He can make all sorts of weapons of any material. “Its all about power and know-how.” That’s his family’s motto, even though its not nearly as simple as that to create what Muramasa can create. Its magical. This isn’t just a weapon crafting ability but also armors as well as other things made of various materials. Need an Adam wood spear with a seaston tip? Muramasa is your guy. This also is the reason why is strength is pretty high. Ya know, stoking the forge and all.

The Hammer-smith: Because of his skills as a blacksmith, he is proficient in using hammers as the hammer is the primary working tool of a smith of many materials. Because of this, he has developed a fighting style that utilizes hammers and their power. Of course, hammers would be his natural choice of weapon, He uses them for freaking………EVERYTHING!!

Techniques:
Weakpoint: His eyes are sharp, when it comes to weapons. He is able to hit weapons in a manner where you are disarmed.

Hammer Strike: An overhead strike with his hammer to the top of the head.

Hammer Smash: swinging the hammer towards the midsection of the body and strike.

Hammer Throw: Throw his hammer to strike a target from far away.

Stats:


Perks:
Friend of the Forge: With the right tools and material, Muramasa is able to easily create various weapons and armour. Occasionally, when inspired, he is able to make high tier equipment.

Repairman: Murmamasa is able to provide temporary repairs to most equipment. With ample time, he can repair higher tier equipment as well.

Inventory: His trusty sledgehammer: Forge (not a named weapon), other tools to make and repair weapons.