[OOC] One Piece~ The alternative Western story (Page 4)

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Name: Doc Raven
Age: 30
Gender: Male

Appearance:
Standing at 6 feet and 3 inches, Doc Raven is a tall, emanciated and rather unsettling figure. His lanky body is covered almost in its entirety by a one-piece black bodysuit, a tight-fitting garment made out of an unidentified material with full length sleeves and legs, as well as a built in gorget, helmet and boots, and seems to be completely sealed from the outside world and attached to Doc's body via sewing, nuts and bolts. The only detachable parts of the bodysuit seem to be the sturdy black gloves, which can also be sealed and attached to the suit to prevent even air or liquids from making their way to Doc. The only thing not pitch black in Doc Raven's attire is his mask, a stark white bird-like thing with a prominent beak and large round eyeholes that seem completely empty. The mask is strapped to the suit's helmet and can be removed. Doc's appearance is topped off by a black duster worn over his bodysuit which gives his figure some much-needed volume and a black wide-brimmed hat. So yeah, tldr a plague doctor.

Personality:
Despite his sinister appearance Doc Raven is a rather amicable man. Calm, polite and good natured, he takes his duties as a medic quite seriously and will gladly treat anyone that needs it. At the same time, he's also obviously unhinged. Doc Raven goes through life immersed in some kind of haze, prone to muttering to himself and marvelling at the strangest of things, as well as missing the perfectly obvious or forgetting things repeatedly. He also has a rather...nasty habit of engaging in dangerous experiments regarding his abilities and medical skills on whoever he deems deserves it.

History:
The records of who Doc Raven used to be have been lost to the public and possibly even himself. What little he will say and all that people know is that he apparently graduated from a Government-sponsored Academy of Medicine at some point in his life, which is at least somewhat credible going by his skills as a doctor. Whatever his past was, the truth is that the life of the man now known as Doc Raven was generally unremarkable until he consumed a strange Devil Fruit known as the Sick Sick Fruit, a powerful but double-edged Paramecia which allows its user to remove almost any kind of ailment from others at the cost of suffering it in turn.

Interested in the Fruit's potential and seeking to overcome its extreme drawback, a secret division within the World Government captured Doc and engaged in extremely unethical experiments with his body, seeking to create a human that would be able to absorb any kind of malady without adverse effects. Against all expectations, Doc's body survived the seemingly endless barrage of experiments and the research was deemed a partial success: Doc's body had gained the ability to absorb seemingly any kind of illness and even survive all kinds of traumatic injuries via accelerated regeneration. The reason it was only deemed a partial success was that though his body held together and always recovered to an extent, the process was limited and left Doc both exceedingly feeble and turned him into a breeding ground for toxins, viruses and bacteria of all sorts, a toxic wreck cursed to live in constant pain and forced to wear an especially developed isolating suit lest the ailments within him spread and infect others.

Who knows what would've happened to him had the Government's plans had come to fruition? Perhaps he would've been disposed of and his regrown fruit given to other test subjects, continuing the experiments until they were deemed a complete success. Or perhaps he would've been deemed satisfactory and subjected to some form of mind altering, to be used as an extremely effective doctor in service of the World Marshals. Whatever the case, it was not to be. An unexpected development occurred, an unknown variable that led to Doc's freedom and the facility's demise. As it turned out, the Sick Sick fruit not only grants its user the ability to absorb maladies but also allows him to project them outwardly in the form of Miasma, a poisonous gas. Though he was held in confinement, a few infected workers were enough to spread the disease across the facility, allowing Doc to escape.

What he's done ever since none can say. All that is known is that he's wandered the world acting as a doctor, his peculiar appearance garnering him his current name.

Bounty:
None, he's regarded as an upstanding if extremely odd and sinister-looking doctor by and large and the few people who know of his origins are either dead or work covertly so a bounty isn't posted.

Weapons:
None as such. He carries some supplies which could potentially be used in that manner, however.

Devil Fruit:
Doc Raven consumed the Sick Sick Fruit, which allows his body to absorb all kinds of maladies on contact as well as spread them to others by projecting them as Miasma, wispy emissions of black poisonous gas, making him a Disease Human. The Miasma is produced at will from the user's hands and can carry any kind of disease the user chooses, from a light fever to horrendous combinations of multiple poisons, but has its downsides as a form of transmission: it cannot spread far beyond the user, requiring close proximity to be truly effective, and the user lacks control over the Miasma, meaning any allies should take great care whenever it is released. As long as Doc wears his full suit he can only transmit diseases via direct touch, as the Miasma remains sealed within, limiting potential friendly fire incidents but further reducing the reach of his abilities.

Abilities:
-Medical skills: Doc Raven is an excellent doctor even beyond his ability to absorb illnesses, perfectly capable of treating any sort of problem he cannot just assimilate with his devil fruit powers and holding a great deal of knowledge on treatments of all kinds, from the most advanced offerings of the world to centuries-old traditional herbal remedies.

-Regeneration: Due to the strange experiments performed on his body, Doc Raven is capable of surviving conditions that would kill anyone else and recover from them without treatment. This is the key to the effectiveness of his fruit powers, as he can absorb any number of diseases with a certain level of impunity. The biggest issue with this power is that it's limited in its scope: Doc's body survives, yes, but it's ravaged by more maladies than any one person should ever experience, leaving Doc in extreme pain from which he can never escape and rendering his body exceedingly feeble, to the point where he needs a cane to walk and physical exertion is near-impossible for him. The ability also had the unintended side effect of turning his body into a treasure trove for medicine: his blood contains effective biological defenses against all manner of things, with more being added every time Doc absorbs a new disease. A skilled group of scientists with access to his blood could potentially create effective cures for any disease in his system.

Equipment:
-Medical bag: An all-black (what else) doctor's bag which contains all of Doc Raven's medical supplies including surgical tools.

-Suit: A byproduct or perhaps an integral part of the process that granted Doc Raven his regenerative abilities, the black one-piece suit he wears underneath his duster is not only completely sealed from the outside world except for his gloves, which can be unsealed and removed, but also seems to regenerate along Doc's body, perhaps to ensure that the diseases within his body don't spread.

-Mask: Doc's mask is his own design, a stark white bird-like thing with a prominent beak and large round eyeholes that seem completely empty, and worn strapped over his suit's helmet. The beak section holds a combination of strong-smelling herbs which act as an anaesthetic of sorts, somewhat relieving Doc of the extreme pain his body goes through every waking moment at the cost of leaving him...a little bit addled, so to speak.

-Cane: A sturdy black cane, Doc needs it to walk. Could be used as a weapon, but it's unlikely and it wouldn't be effective in his hands anyway.

That might be smart. Since there are only 5 of us, and only 3 are confirmed in Western-town, we can group up quickly, then instead of having recruitment arcs (unless you want to be recruited via arc, or would rather join, leave, then have an arc like Nami) we could have… Trust arcs. Arcs about each character learning to trust the others. I don't know about anyone else but Dani has a few trust issues. I didn't mention it in her history (mostly because I forgot about it and when I went to change it, I felt I had too much in there already) but when she was first made a Cyborg, her face was basically a bunch of metal plates. She had a frankenstein look going on and it terrified other children, so she was picked on horrendously. So she dived into engineering to fix herself and better blend into society as well as keep her cyborg…ness a secret. In fact, I'm gonna make that facial scar her berserk button. Like, she doesn't care about the others (otherwise she wouldn't run around in bikinis), but the one on her face is a sensitive issue. Bad memories and all that. That would also explain her attitude. She was already a tomboy, but got even tougher so the other kids wouldn't take advantage of weakness. Or something like that, I don't really know. I'll figure it out later in the RP, it won't be an issue in the beginning.

Man, I can't wait to get started! I haven't been this hype in a while!

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