Name: Sengoku Kaien / 千石 海燕
Title: Blue Whale, The Drunk
Rank: Captain
Crew: Marines
Occupation/Skillset: Besides his swordsmanship, Kaien isn't known for much else. He is a decent navigator, but he wouldn't call it a skill that he has.
Age: 20
Age Appearance: 20
Allegiance: Marines

Personality: Kaien is a boisterous man. He is more likely to be found sharing sake with his crew, rather than to be disciplining them. That is not to say he is without a sense of right and wrong. He simply believes living life with and through laughter is better than to live through harsh words and punishment. This leads to him often being looked down upon by fellow marine offices, whose 'justice' might be a little more strict. Kaien doesn't mind. He knows his crew, and their loyalty lies with him. On the battlefield, he executes bis own brand of 'justice', which have been labeled 'drunken justice'. It is often said that the drunkard will spill the harshest truths. Thats his brand of 'justice. Truthful, but slurred.

Laugh: “Bru-hahahahaha”.

Birthplace: Marineford Town

History: Born in Marineford Town, Kaien is from a family of marine soldiers, having numerous former officers among them. Thusly, he grew up with one plan in mind, to become a marine, and follow in the footsteps of his forefathers.

Things went smoothly. He received more training than kids his own age would in ways of combat. At his eighth birthday party, his family laid out a number of weapons for him to choose from and train in. He immediately picked up a wooden kendo sword and that is now his weapon of choice. This choice delighted his father especially. For his family has been a family of swordsman for as long as they call can remember.

Things carried on. By age sixteen, he was familiar with the ways of the sword, having learn several family secret techniques. Sixteen also marked an important year. It was the year he officially enlisted as a marine. Of course, he chose not to have any sort of preferential treatment, based on the merits of his family. Instead, he started as the lowesst ranking recruit and steadily worked his way up, training and enduring every step of the way.

Presently, he is one of the younger captains stationed in the East Blue, at the Sixteenth Branch.

Goal: To be totally honest, Kaien doesn't hold himself to conventional goals and dreams. He has had enough talks from his family about reaching high and serving the world as it should be served.

What he wants the most is freedom. He enjoys the freedom afforded to him by being a ranked officer in the marines. He can travel as he wished, see the world as he would like, while occasionally righting the world of its wrongs.

Combat

Haki
Type of Haki: Armament
Control: Intermediate – able to cover his entire body in Haki, or focus it into a single area for greater protection in that spot.
Special Skills: He is beginning to learn to channel his armament haki into his swords. At current, it is very taxing to him and his available swordsman skills are greatly limited due to the amount of focus he needs to maintain to keep his blades coated.

Type of Haki: Conqueror’s
Control: Non-existent – A latent skill for Kaien. He has not yet tapped into it.
Special Skills: Nothing of note

Weapons/Equipment
Swords. Namely, two regular sized katana and one odachi.

-Meito, Senbonzakura (Named Sword, Thousand Sakura Blossoms): One of two katanas he normally carries. A family heirloom left to him by his forefathers. Though it is a named sword, the actual grading of it is unknown. Commonly drawn and held with his right hand.

-Meito, Mikazuki (Named Sword, Crescent Moon): His odachi. He rarely uses it in battle due to its size and burden it places on his body. Though it is a named sword, the actual grading is up for debate since it was forged by a long forgotten family member and passed down.

His other katana is a standard issue katana of no ranking.

Fighting Skills/Attributes
Kaien prides himself on efficiency. He moves with fluidity, and strikes with precision. He rarely wastes a motion when attacking. His prideful nature, however, can lead to him ignoring defense when facing an opponent.

Below are some of special techniques learned from his prior training

-Shidensen (Purple Lightning Flash): To use this technique, the user falls down, then he gives himself a sprint with his feet in order to dash forward, combining the strength of gravity from the fall with his own and resulting in an incredibly fast movement. As he moves like this, the user slashes his opponent with his sword from below, usually an unprotected spot.

-Narukami (Rumbling God): This technique is divided in three, precise movements, that must be performed when the target is in the right range of three steps (三歩の間合い Sanpo no Maai): First, there's the "Start" (序 Jo), where the user starts dashing towards the opponent, ready to spring, in order to catch his attention. When the enemy tries to attack, the "Crossing" (交 Ko) follows, as the user moves quickly sideways, out of the enemy's sight, apparently disappearing. Then before the enemy can react, the user finally cuts him to the flank (斬 zan) with a powerful slash.

-Kosen (Tiger Drill): It's a thrust performed while using the rotation of the whole body to increase the penetrating power of the blade, transferring all the strength to the tip and turning it into a drill. Thanks to this enhancement, the sword can now pierce even chainmail with ease.

-Ikkotsu (Single Bone): The user holds their sheathed sword with their non-dominate hand, pointing back, at about chest high. When their opponent gets into striking range, the user pressing their thumb down on the guard of the sheathed sword as hard as they can while simultaneously drawing their sword to strike. The pressure and the ensuing friction gets released as soon as the sword is fully drawn, resulting in a high-speed, whip-like, slash.

Fighting Style: Kaien aims to finish a fight as quickly as possible. He rarely holds back because he believes that the fight needed to happen for a reason. Since there is a reason for the fight, it then becomes something he has to finish. Combining his swordsmanship and the Soru technique from the Rokushiki, Kaien attacks with fluidity and precision.

Name: Karma Vincent
Title: Greyhound
Rank: Lieutenant
Nickname: Dog
Crew: Marines
Occupation/Skillset: Aside from being a strong combatant, Karma has some navigational skills. He's not the only navigator on his ship, but he is the best. His nose and ears can detect storms quicker than others and his far sight helps to spot markers on the sea.
Age: 20
Age Appearance: 20
Allegiance: Marines

Personality: As his nickname hints at, he's a man who loves to hunt down targets of the Marines. He's a very serious person who focuses on his assigned duties. He tends to fall on the more quiet side when he's on a stroll with nothing to do. He takes a more vicious tone when dealing with enemies. In his eyes, there are only two types of people. Enemies and allies. If they aren't helpful, then they're enemies. If there was one word to describe him, it would be wrathful.

He takes noticeable care to hide that side of him, but it comes out whenever he deals with pirates or other enemies. He has a personal justice he upholds close to his heart. It was fortunate that it coincided with the Marines' general style of justice, which is why he works for them.

Laugh: "Fuhahahahaha!"

Birthplace: West Blue

History: Karma Vincent was an orphan. From the very moment he could recall, he lived in a simple orphanage in the West Blue. It was a rough place where he had to focus on nothing but survival. He had no time to think about anything else. Nobody would care for a 7-year old boy in this place.

In a rush to struggle for a better lifestyle, he bumped into some small time crime family. Unfortunately for him, they made the excuse that he trashed their suit by walking into them and forcefully put him to work for their gang. The only reason they picked him up was because they were curious about his animal ears. They probably thought he had mink blood in him.

That was the kind of place he lived in. An island that didn't care about a child going missing. He adapted, worked hard, and managed to secure a position for himself in this family by the time he was 15 years old. Even with the bonds people forged with him in this family, he never forgot how he was forcefully conscripted into it.

So, he destroyed it. With his own hands, he set fire to the family base and ruined the leaders. The lackeys scattered throughout the West Blue and the leaders were caught and sent to prison by the local Marines stationed on the island. He bonded with the family. It wouldn't be strange for Stockholm Syndrome to set in and it may have happened a little bit. However, Karma turned on them with a savage reprisal and destroyed everything. The Marines commended him for a good job and recommended that he join them.

In his eyes, they were absolutely useless for not doing what he did. So, he joined them. At least to create a world where he'll never be oppressed like that again. He wants absolute control, which coincides with the Marines' way of justice.

5 years later, he is now a Lieutenant. His goal inching every bit closer with each promotion he earns. He's going to hunt down evil and uphold his personal justice.

Goal: Karma's dream is a world with zero oppression and zero freedom. Those two may sound contradictory at first, but he came to the conclusion that everyone has evil in them. He's no exception to this. With hard laws that ban any evil behavior and enforcers to destroy any violators of that law, people would eventually be too afraid to let that evil out. No freedom to commit evil and no oppression to force people to commit evil. That's the goal he made for himself, and he's going to do anything to make it come true.

Combat

Haki
Type of Haki: Observation
Control: Intermediate - Can sense the presence and intent of others when focused.
Special Skills: None

Type of Haki: Conqueror's
Control: Novice - Can put fear into animals and weaker-willed people. Can't direct its effects accurately, so it hits everyone in the area.
Special Skills: None

Weapons/Equipment
A single flintlock pistol with incredible stopping power. It holds 5 bullets and fires with strong recoil.

Fighting Skills/Attributes
Karma was blessed with a physically strong body. It might've been due to the mink blood running in him, but he isn't as naturally gifted as a full-blooded one and he also lacks the Electro they have. What he did specialize in however was his speed and accuracy. He learned the parts of the human body and he trained his speed to quickly dispatch his opponents.

Fighting Style: Karma fights calmly by using his Observation Haki to read his opponent and neutralize them efficiently. Usually with bullets to the limbs, or the chest/head if it's a job that requires killing. The instant he fires more than 10 bullets from his gun, he tosses it to the side and his demeanor shifts along with his fighting style. He takes a more savage stance as he readies his hands and closes in on his opponent with ferocity and swiftness.

Name: Nekane

Title: The Crybaby

Bounty: $1,500,000

Nickname: Nek-Nek

Crew: (Up for grabs, if anyone is looking for a lazy healer to have around! Otherwise he is just gonna' be hanging around until something sticks.)

Occupation/Skillset: Medic. He will never, ever call himself an actual doctor, but due to his Devil Fruit he is able to be a great substitute. He does have enough basic medical knowledge for treating things like a cold, scurvy, and a few diseases. He has a vague idea on how to do stitches too! But he hasn't gotten to give it much practice.

Age: 19
Age Appearance: Early 20's



Allegiance: Pirates, The Injured



Laugh: "Chichichi~"

Birthplace: Sabaody Archipelago, Paradise



Goal: To obtain a full name, to see the world, and just maybe try to become an actual doctor.

Name: Lt. Blueberry
Title: Yellow Eel

Occupation/Skillset: Aside from fighting and training, Blueberry doesn't really have that much talent. He can lift heavy objects, swim extremely fast, and communicate with marine life. When in sea, such a skill set will definitely be useful.

Age: Twenty Six
Age Appearance: Twenty Six

Allegiance: Marines
Personality:

• Straightforward
• Reckless
• Simple-minded
• Impulsive
• Hardworking
• Tactless
• Egotistic

Laugh: "Gorororororo."

History: It had been a brawl to remember. There stood Blueberry, the Yellow Eel, the Terror of the Sea, the Fist from District, the only fighter to have bested the Boss Samehada in a fair fight, and now the last man standing in Sharktank Tavern. What started as a simple bar bet of supremacy ended with four regulars, a shipwright, four marines, and six prodigies from the Ryugu Kingdom's army writhing against the shards and splinters of almost every bottle, mug, and chair in the building. Blueberry boasted and toasted in a drunken stupor his victory as he emptied his brew. No sooner had the defeated regained consciousness than the cries for double-or-nothing rang out. Blueberry was pleased at the prospect, but none could think of a bet bigger than the one he just conquered. Horrified at the damage to his tavern and desperate to avoid another brawl, the barkeep had an idea. As skilled as he was, Blueberry had never taken part in a real battle, never tested himself against the indiscriminate death and chaos of war. He proposed a wager to the fighter: seek out the biggest battle he could find, survive, and win it for whichever side he chose. The stakes? The next round of drinks. Although his face didn't show it, Blueberry was up to the a challenge. Turning to the battered and bloodied marines, he offered them an outstretched hand and an offer they couldn't refuse.

Goal: To be the world's strongest fighter.

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Combat

Weapons/Equipment: A large anchor that he can swing around with one hand.

Fighting Skills/Attributes

• Electric Eel Fishman - Aside from his superior strength, endurance, and swimming capabilities, Blueberry is also able to detect electric currents, produce and resist electricity, and possesses enhanced hearing.
• Fighting Prodigy - Aside from understanding fighting techniques faster than most, Blue was blessed with the ability to size up others based off their presence alone, giving him a rough idea of their capabilities.
• Blueberry Style - Believing that he'll eventually be named the world's greatest fighter, Blueberry decided to create his own fighting style; creativity wasn't his strong point. Although greatly influenced by, Blueberry's fighting style is not limited to the martial arts of Fishman Island. What other influences you may ask? That even Blueberry doesn't know, but he's ready to learn and plan to improve his ever evolving fighting style.

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Name: Makara
Title: Red Sea Makara
Bounty: $92,500,000
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Crew: Ash Pirates
Occupation/Skillset: First-Mate / The Best Face Puncher in all the Land!

Age: 25
Age Appearance: Mid 20's
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Allegiance: Pirate
Personality: The rebellious fighter who swears loyalty to another? What a conundrum! But it's true! The thing that drives forth this fishman is nothing less than to be loyal to his greatest rival, and person who gave him freedom from slavery. Perhaps it's an odd way to just hop from being a slave in an arena, to a different kind of servant. But he doesn't care. He's just here to fight, and be completely free when he's truly the strongest.
Laugh: MURAMURAMURA!
Birthplace: Fish-Man Island
History:


Goal: To make sure his Captain is the best he can be, and that anybody who tries to get in his way is killed.
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Combat

Haki

Type of Haki: Armament Haki
Control: Intermediate

Type of Haki: Observation Haki
Control: Intermediate
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Weapons/Equipment
None. He gave up on such things after leaving the gladiatorial arenas.
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Fighting Skills/Attributes
- Fish-Man Strength (Shark) - Men are weak. Humans are very very weak. Fish-men? They are titans. Monstrous beings that are stronger than even the strongest humans on record. According to them at least. A fish-man's starting point in strength is much higher than the average person, as such a single fishman grunt is worth more than a hundred human grunts. While this advantage is less obvious when the punching tier rises, an individual like Makara is still punching in a higher tier of strength than one might expect.
To put it in simple terms, he bench presses with ships.

- Deep Sea Diving - Yep, he can go pretty deep. He tends to go deep, so that when he surfaces, he brings with him treasure form the depths. Some of it valuable, some of it not.

- Fish-Man Karate - A martial art that is practiced by certain skilled members of the Fish-Man race; it is noted that humans can also learn the fighting style, as Koala apparently is able to use it despite being human. While deadly enough on land, Fish-Man Karate has a number of devastating underwater moves designed to be suitable with the Fish-Man strength and speed along with the mobility that goes while under water and, in some cases, a fish-man's personal adaptation.
Despite being enslaved, Makara learned the basics as a child, and since then has developed his own impressive suite of strikes that he learned with the help of several prison brawlers. It can be best compared to wrestling, with clotheslines, lowblows, and body slams. While less useful against other Fishmen, it's excellent against humans because of the size advantage.



(What else does your character possess that aids them in battle? Super strength? Stamina for days? Fastest man alive? Pinpoint accuracy? Best swordsman in the world? Let's hear it. Be as detailed as possible please. Put anything relevant to how your character fights.)

Fighting Style:

Name: Jager D. Kiro
Title: Jager D. "Red Star" Kiro
Bounty: Just so the bounties aren't all exactly the same, can I go with $93M?
Nickname: Red Star or Kiro or whatever mean names people come up with.
Crew: The Red Star Pirates
Occupation/Skillset: Captain! But he is also a great marksman with a bow and arrow.
Ate the Strong-Strong Fruit, and became a strong man. I imagine it being a lot like Deku from My Hero Academia's power. Where he has intense power, but using it all at once will break his body. Another sucky thing is that he's a glass cannon, and takes any attack like a normal human. He hasn't trained up much at all to this point to be able to withstand much of any attack.
Age: 21
Age Appearance: Looks... 21? XD
Appearance: (I drew this 6 years ago. lmao)
Allegiance: Pirate
Personality: Kiro is a gullible guy that will fall for most tricks, but he is also a trickster himself, so he might try and take advantage of you if you let him. He's a scaredy-cat, but will always stand up and fight if it means protecting his friends, but will definitely steer clear of danger if possible. Gets excited about cool and unique things. I'd like to think of him as a healthy mixture of Usopp and Luffy.
Laugh: KAKAKAKAKA. We'll go with that, yeah.
Birthplace: East Blue
History: Was the cabin boy for the famous White Star Pirates, and was sailing the seas to make his captain, Captain Tsu, king of the pirates. After an ex-crewmate came back, and defeated Kiro's entire crew in the Grand Line, killing his captain, the captain entrusted the boy to continue on carrying the legacy of the White Star Pirates, and find Roger's Treasure.
Goal: To be King of the Pirates, and find the One Piece!

Name: Hanma Y. Akita
Title: Hanma Y. "Shield Bearer" Akita
Bounty: $47M
Nickname: Really anything. A lot of times her Red Star companions call her "Navigator"
Crew: Red Stars
Occupation/Skillset: She's the Shipwright and spent quite a bit of time on Shipwright Island growing up (more in history). She is pretty good at hand-to-hand combat, but she specializes in using her buckler as a weapon as well as a standard shield. She also has a black Den Den Mushi she got while sneaking around the Gasu Pirates' (a famous pirate crew in the East Blue the Red Stars defeated) ship while looking for the rest of the crew.
Age: 20
Age Appearance: 20 and half
Appearance:


Allegiance: Red Star pirate
Personality: Akita a pretty friendly woman. She defends her friends to the core and has a strong loyalty to her crewmates. While they have become her family, she tends to keep her past a secret in fears of being unwanted. She is very strong-willed and tends to be the voice of reason.
Laugh: Shhshhshhshhip!
Birthplace: East Blue
History: Akita comes from a long line of Marine shipwrights. As a young girl she dreamed of becoming a Marine herself, even joining the Junior Marine squads to carry on the family tradition. She trained incredibly hard day-in and day-out in an effort to make her family proud. Just before becoming making a huge commitment to the Marines, Akita's parents left her on shipwright island. They didn't tell her why specifically and she trusted them enough to never ask. Akita learned more in-depth the complexities of building. Eventually, a Buster Call was called on Shipwright Island. She managed to escape with the help of a man named Genji. From there, she found herself joining the Red Stars and never turned back.
Goal: To build the most incredible ship the world has ever seen!