Sure sure, no need to hurry.

hey eve, when do you want to start the IC?

I was thinking about starting it after everyone has posted their characters, but if the two lasting persons (The Irish Tree and Hagura) don't mind it, we can already start it before their characters are ready. But first of all, I'd like to say one correction to the rules:

3 posts must be between your posts. Meaning that there must be a post from three other people in between of your last and next post. I'll try to explain it by an example:

Sable's post
Crimson's post
Link's post
Gravi's post
Sable's post

i get ya, i'm ok with that

Ok, im abit confused. Where are our characters starting off?

And are we posting in order?

i don't know ... eve?

I guess who posts first is getting first~ and like we said~ Eve and I are starting off near Lounge town to recruit our first member~ the lovely ship wright if i am not mistaken~~~ well then we try to get ne next and the next...and so on and so on....

Atleast i guess so

evemaid said
Thanks alot Crimson, I really appreciate your hard work. *smiles* And sorry for making you do it over again and again.Could you post the character again here, in an "updated"-version.

No prob. Gotta make sure she fits the rules. Now, as per your request, my updated CS:

-PICTURE OF YOUR CHARACTER (and maybe a description if you want to include it): Working on it, but I can't find any that I like, so here's a description: Vypera wears a black cloak, which is fastened sideways so that the front opening is over her right arm, rather than her chest. Vy has a nice bronze tan, an athletic build, shoulder length brown hair and green eyes. She also has a ring on her right middle finger with an emerald in it. She wears a green backless leotard, black pants, and white shoes.
(Update:) FOUND IT!!

But it's not perfect. The main differences are her age (this woman looks mid to late 20's and Vy is only 17) and their eyes (I didn't envision Vy as asian so her eyes are a bit wider, plus Vy's eyes are bright green), but the tan, hair, facial structure, and attitude are perfect. She even has a ring on her right middle finger! And sorry about all the pics and how freaking big they are. I don't know how large they are until I post them.
-Name: Snap Vypera or just Vy
-Age: 17
-Gender: Female
-SO: Bisexual but leans toward women mostly
-History: Vypera was born on Fang Island, a beautiful place that many would consider paradise. Born into a family that had long since guarded a "sacred treasure" to the village, Vy and her big brothers, Draco and Serpere, would often be told that it contained a wonderful power, one that must only be used to protect the island. So Vy grew up, did the things a girl did, pranking the townsfolk, trained to protect the treasure, often sparring with her brothers (Drake being the most powerful by far, but Serpere was definitely the smartest. Luckily for her she was quite agile), and lived life happy and free. But one day, something went bad. Very bad. Vy came home one day to find her house razed, Draco lay bleeding on the ground. Her parents and Serpere nowhere to be found. Panicking, she dragged her brother to a nearby cave, dressing his injuries quickly with the med-kit they kept there, before running to the shrine that held the treasure. Once she got there she was stunned by what she saw. It was Serpere... clashing swords with their father, while her mother was collapsed on the floor, bleeding out. Before she could figure out what was going on, she noticed the treasure box next to her feet. Finally taking notice of her, Serpere took the opportunity to impale their father. Realizing there was no option left, her mother screamed at her to open the box and eat the fruit inside, as Serpere turned to her and began to close in. Telling her to eat the fruit again, Vy reached down and opened the box. Inside was a dark green and black orb, with a scaly design. Looking up, she locked eyes with her brother, before she took a bite. Her last thought before Serpere slashed her right across the chest was that it was the most foul-tasting thing she ever had. She then blacked out.

When she came to, hours later, she noticed she was on the other side of the island. Following the trail she knew would lead back home, she tried to recall what had happened, but nothing came to mind other than the dark eyes of her brother. Why? Why? Why would he do this? She could find no logical answer. It took an hour but she eventually made it back to the village, only to find it destroyed. Everything she knew and everyone she loved... dead. Quickly, she ran back to the shrine, the pain in her chest forgotten. Only... there was no shrine. Well, not anymore. It was completely wrecked, but there was no mistaking the two mangled corpses inside. Her father... was half the man he used to be and her mother... her mother... her head... gone. Vy emptied her stomach right there. Backing away, she kicked something. It was an arm... still holding Serpere's sword. Where was the rest of him. She had to get away from the sight. Draco! She ran back to the cave she left her brother in... he was gone. There was nothing. As she investigated the village she found the same thing all around. Mangled, chewed, torn apart corpses... along with the tracks of some kind of beast. She didn't understand... what had HAPPENED!!! It wasn't until days later that she finally remembered. And it wasn't until months later that she recovered from the truth. By that time, she had left Fang Island, and was now living on the neighboring Claw Island...
-Personality: Vy is generally calm and collected, while being a bit of a smartass. But after being betrayed by her brother, she has a very hard time trusting people. but she has a harder time trusting herself. She knows she has no control over her full form. She would rather die than put anyone else's life in danger. (I'm not that good with personalities. They generally gravitate back to my own, so I leave them open like this, to give me some wiggle room)
-Other bio (for ex. your goal in life, and also include the info about how your character joined my crew): Vy's biggest goal in life is to find her brothers. She has no clue what happened to Draco and she KNOWS Serpere escaped the island. They were the only two bodies missing when she was able to go back and bury everyone. Serpere has to pay for what he did. And she also wants an explanation. She plans to leave Claw Island very soon to begin her search.

-Crew Position: Thief
-Weapons (if any): Various Kunai, Shuriken, and Caltrops. The occasional explosive (occasional!). Also a couple lengths of rope.
-Devil Fruit(if any): Here we go: The Dragon-Dragon Fruit (Ryu-Ryu no Mi): Power: This Mythical Zoan-Type Devil Fruit allows its user to transform into a Western-Style Dragon with focus on strength and power. It also allows her to fire energy beams. She can fire these beams in any of her three forms from either her mouth or palms. Her hybrid form mostly resembles her normal look except she’s not 6’ 8” instead of 5’ 6”. She gains one scale on each of her cheeks; her pupils’ slit, while her irises turn yellowish-green and her sclera turn black. She does gain fangs (that elongate for biting) and the rest of her teeth sharpen as well. She gains scales all down her back, running along her spine to her new tail which is about 6” thick at it’s base and about 5’ long, her forearms turn into those of a dragon, being scaly and ending in five clawed fingers. Her forelegs do the same, except she only has three front toes and one back toe. The scales on her legs continue up her outer thighs and create what can only be described as “scale panties”. She also has scales from the middle of her breast to the outside (to protect sensitive parts), which wrap around to her wings. Her wingspan measures about 7’, but she can’t fly with her wings, only glide. She stronger than normal in this form, but there are still plenty others far stronger than her. For some reason, her hair also turns red. Her full form is pretty big, about 20’ from head to tail (the tail being 6’ of that). Her tail ends in a double-ended blade. Her senses are also enhanced, particularly smell. Her fiery red hair also reduces to just a mini mane on the back of her head. There’s not much else to say about her full form. She’s a dragon, plain and simple. Now it’s time to turn our attention to the fruit’s weaknesses. Well, as a new user, Vypera has quite a few. Using her beams in her human form is dangerous to her. Her mouth beam can and will burn her badly, while her palm beams will burn her if she maintains an stream for longer than 10 seconds. The scales in her hybrid form negate this (yeah, she also has scales in her mouth… I kinda just added that part) because they are strong enough to block standard steel swords and bullets. However, it is in fact possible for a strong or skilled swordsman to knock them off, causing her pain and exposing the under-flesh. And while her scales are strong, her flesh is not. It is only as strong as a regular human. She also, as mentioned, can't fly in her hybrid form. As a new user, her chest muscles aren't strong enough to produce enough lift to get her body off the ground. Maybe one day. In her full form, she is a mindless berserker, completely unable to tell the difference between friend and foe. As a result, she has no idea to protect her underbelly, which has no scales on it and is very vulnerable. Her joints are also scale-less to allow movement. Lastly, thanks to her enhanced sense of smell, she can easily be over-powered by things like garlic. However, its highly unlikely Vy will use her full form, as she is terrified of it.

-Abilities: Vy has spent the past several months living on the outskirts of Claw Village (so, I'm not good with place names… sue me), stealing what she needs from the town and in general, living off the land. Some call her a menace, few call her a guardian, but no one has ever caught more than a glimpse of her.

Techniques:
-Rampage - Tying two kunai to two lengths of rope, Vy swings them around wildly in an orbital pattern with about an 8' radius. Useful for getting distance or as a defense.
-Crimson Rain - Leaping over her opponent's head, Vy unleashes a torrent of shuriken. (It get's it name from the blood flying from the wounds).
-Dragon Fang - Vy stabs an opponent with two kunai close together, then punches the knives as hard as she can, driving them deeper in the opponent's flesh.
-Ryu Rei - Vy forms her hand into a claw shape and fire a quick stream of energy from it. It has enough power to punch a hole in concrete.

Hybrid Tech:
-Dragon Barrage - Vy unleashes a multitude of slashes, punches, kicks, and tail slaps on a single target
-Ryu Rei - Same as above except Vy can hold the stream for longer. It holds a little more power than before.
-Zwei Rei - Fires a Ryu Rei from both hands.

-Other(if anything): Well, I found some pictures that should help give you an idea of what she looks like transformed.
This is basically her full form (despite how hard they look, her underbelly scales are actually quite soft. Plus her scales are easy to dislodge):



Now, I can't find any pics for her hybrid form, but there is a character from a manga I read that has a similar thing going on, so (while it's not IDEAL) I'll show a pic of her so you can get an idea of the basic concept (Just ignore the writing and the... pic in the bottom right corner. This is a very ecchi manga):



Not gonna lie, I want her roars to be fucking T-Rex roars:

i think it'd be funny if Vy had a crush on Narumi. XD

Link: Currently in Lougetown, working on a new boat for his new pirate crew of choice.
Ace: Somewhere in the South Blue (a few days away from Lougetwon most likely)
Crimson: Claw Island (Dragon Archipelago, South Blue)
Eve: Sailing in the East Blue
Gravi: Sailing with Narumi
Sableyezer: Still in the Grand Line as owner of the restaurant

This is an update to my previous post as to where everyone is. I still need to catch up, so if any of this is wrong, please let me know so that I may change it.

Another updated post for the crew positions taken.

Crimson: Theif
Eve: Captain
Gravislayer: Swordsman
Sableyezer: Cook
Link: Shipwright
Ace: Navigator

That's what I've got so far. Everything should be up to date in the "One Piece: A Whole New Generation Characters" link in my signature.

Also, I know Hagura is apparently in as the doctor, so that's good. And if they don't feel like being the doctor, I have another character all ready. If you would like to see it, it's in Link's One Piece Folder. Orzahva B. Lauren. From that, I'm pretty sure you can see where I'm going with it, but it isn't necessary for me.

One more thing....

About the bow and arrow/guns issue, I have an opinion about it.

As far as guns go, Flintlock pistols do pack a punch. They are very reliable, and it's easy to maintain them. Unfortunately, they take too long and too much attention to reload in the middle of a battle, which is where you're going to be using them.
Putting some logic on this, depending on the material that the gun is made of could also make the gun either better or worse; obviously you wouldn't use a wooden pistol. It's neat, but not safe. Using a more metallic pistol (let's say it made of steel, for example) would make safer, but increase in amount of time a care you have to put into maintain it. This is just with logic, and sense when has the universe of One Piece used logic to this point?

As far as a bow goes, it's very reliable, easy to reload, and like it was said before, you can put different tips on the arrows and effectively become Hawkeye from the marvel universe. That or The Green Arrow, I guess that's your choice. On the other hand, using a bow makes you more susceptible to attacks from behind, cuts off a huge chunk of your vision, and easily becomes warped if you don't take care of it. I know that because I own one. I haven't used it in 5 years, left it sitting in my garage open to the elements, and the damn thing was more like the letter U than a bow.
Also, the arrows are easy to hold, easy to reload onto the bow, and again, can have interchangeable tips. The down side to them is that you run out of arrow very quickly if you aren't careful. They can be retrievable, but always have that chance of breaking off in the thing you shot it into. Even so, they are worth it even to just carry around without a bow just because they can very easily be fixed and replaced.

Honestly, I myself would much prefer a bow and arrows over any other weapon given to me just because I feel more comfortable with it. Guns are handy and the bow is BA. I hope this somewhat helps in deciding which to use.

i am going to add to that and say a crossbow would be pretty cool to.

Sableyezer said
i am going to add to that and say a crossbow would be pretty cool to.

True. Much more punch behind every shot. Also, longer reload, but shorter and less attention than a fflintlock. And much high maintenance, but nothing that isn't easy.

Sableyezer said
i think it'd be funny if Vy had a crush on Narumi. XD

It's possible. Guess it just depends, ya know.

Another problem is the excessive force one need to pull a bow~ Many people do forget that but ever pulled an english longbow? Heck you know what a workout is if you then fire more than 20 arrow in a row~

Either way a flintlock is usually made of wood and metal. The barrel is naturally made of metal as well as the mechanism, the wooden parts are then the shaft as well as the decoration. If they are made of metal or not does not matter at that early state of technology.

I do give the point of a very low reloading time but here you can have multiple guns or more barreled guns~
On the other hand we now have an Green arrow like image of an archer.... well the problem here is the kind of technology. As far as i have seen it the only gas being used was by Cesar and other chemical compounds would be highly unlikely.... people do tend to forget that such things are needing ingredients.
Where do you get such? I mean each island is different from the one before.....and then when does he has time to create them? And if you are using gas...it could also hit your friends instead of foes, a sticky liquid needs first to be produced etc. etc.

Look at Usopp, he was using foul eggs and strange inflammable beans before, one could easily create them considering that nearly every dried seed has the same effect!
Lycopodium is rather common if you know that one but using such tricks on a bow? It is difficult, sure the arrow + rope trick works...also i think small glass-phioles are working which would then break on impact and so release something...but...the problem is how to create them? how to keep em flowing?

Seeds can be planted....but small pices of wood to craft the arrows, the steel heads.....it is more complicated.....
Bullets...well bullets can be purchased everywhere i guess, marines as well as pirates, sailors and merchant are needing thse but in One Piece i never saw someone selling arrows or using a bow....unless it was a snake....

I'm staying out of this. As I said, I had both, but I never worried about the logistics of these things. I know it adds to the realism, but to me it takes away the fun if you have to worry about things like that. Keeping track of how many arrows you have, remembering to reload your pistol after every shot. That's why I often use sword play and martial arts. Aside from minor upkeep (which can be glossed over) and training (which if you have a sparring partner can be real fun to write) it just bogs down the RP. I think it's called suspension of disbelief? Does that apply here? I'm not being a smartass, I really want to know.

yes it does, and i totally agree. this is a world where magic fruit can give you super powers, i think we can handle a little bow and arrow creativity.

Gravislayer said
Tell me why a flintlock is boring and a bow isn´t?

I wanted to make an archer because when there are really only like, 3 guns in the One Piece universe, I'd rather just get a bow instead. That and I have a thing for making primitive weaponry based characters.

Since I need to make the Archer, here, HAVE A BOSS FIGHT!