One Piece: Great Pirate Age RP: Sign-ups

[mauve]

Ooh, cool. I haven't watched the show in ages, but I know enough about the setting and storyline to know what's going on. Is that okay? I'd like to give this a shot, but if my lack of detailed knowledge on the show will be a setback, I don't want to get everybody's way.

[Aerozord]

dont worry about it. This is One Piece setting, not One Piece RP. all the big names and events will either not be here or be changed. Plus all of thats way down the road. you are starting off fresh into the Grand Line which should mostly be unknown to your characters anyways

[Menarker]

I read all of One Piece manga thus far, so if there is any questions, I'm pretty willing to help with the details anyhow.

Well, we (hopefully) got 2 merfolks (good in case our devil fruit users fall overboard or get caught in seastone), and a potential sharpshooter.

We could actually start getting some devil fruit users now without a problem. ^^ Logia or Parmencia types would be great since merfolks are somewhat like Zoan users.

[Premmy]

Putting my hat in, will figure out character later.

[Menarker]

I wonder how we're going to determine who is the captain. :3

It's not exactly something one just "trains in, get expertise and get hired for"

Of course, the easy way is to have an extra NPC who is nigh useless, but decides he/she/it is the captain because the ship is their ship. Cue a death of said NPC shortly after (like maybe after the first town or battle or heck, a mutiny!) and we can work out who is the captain based on the personality we see thus far. :3

BTW: (I doubt my character would be any good as a captain.)

EDIT: Good to see you too, Phil. ^^

EDIT: Also, for those of you intending to be Devil Fruit Users, you can only have 1 power via eating a devil fruit. In the One Piece story, only one is possible and anyone who tries to eat a second fruit dies.

[phil_]

Name: Carapi
Age: 20
Appearance: Carapi is tall and bony, with pale, translucent skin, making him look perpetually unwell. His long, black hair trails down his spine in a ponytail, interspersed with red beads. He usually wears a doctor's coat with karate pants and no shirt, which is kinda gross with his ribs showing. He wears a red bandanna tied around his left arm to show his affiliation to the Red Band Pirates.
Position: Doctor and nightowl watchman.
Weapons: if any indeed.
Devil Fruit: if any indeed
Techniques: Pirate Smashing Sacred Fist: Butt Punch: Carapi delivers a devastating blow to the opponent's butt. A man can train his muscles to be hard as steel, but no man can train his butt.
Pirate Smashing Sacred Fist: Butt Punch: Carapi slams his butt into the opponent, focusing his entire weight and strength into a single point. The point is his butt. Its sharing a name with another attack is completely unimportant.
Pirate Smashing Sacred Fist: Soothing Poke: A move developed by Tock. Carapi relieves minor aches and pains by poking pressure points. It has nothing to do with butts. Tock uses it much better.
Bio: Silly, tragic backstoryCarapi, a pearl fish fishman, has never been to Fishman Island. Instead, was raised in a martial arts dojo with two other orphans by the man who found him as a baby abandoned in a coin locker. Together, Carapi, Tock, and Rock were trained for one of them to succeed the Pirate Smashing Sacred Fist, a fighting art meant to bring peace to the sea by punching pirates. Carapi, however, didn't want to be a martial artist. He wanted to be a doctor. Doctors are awesome.

Anyway, for a long time it seemed secure that Tock would succeed their master, which was cool with Carapi. Tock was a cool guy. He could heal people with pressure points, which is almost like being a doctor, and he always got their master something nice on Father's Day. Rock, on the other hand, wanted to use the art to become king of the pirates instead of smashing them, and thus nobody liked him. This state of affairs came to a sudden end.

One day, while Carapi was standing under a waterfall, reading medical texts instead of meditating like he was supposed to, a giant log almost crushed him. Too engrossed in his book to notice, Carapi only survived due to Tock leaping into the way of the log, smashing it. However, the injuries Tock sustained in doing this made his succeeding the headship of the Pirate Smashing Sacred Fist impossible, and thus Carapi was named successor. Rock called bullshit on this, pointing out the obvious fact that Carapi wasn't even that good a martial artist, and said he should be head instead. In response, their master pointed out the obvious fact that Rock wanted to be king of the pirates so, by process of elimination, no.

Rock got all crazy mad, Pirate Smashing Sacred Fist-ed their master, burned down the dojo, and ran off to become a pirate. Tock went off to use the healing arts he'd developed to help people. Carapi, alone, decided he'd finally give being a proper doctor a try and leave all this martial arts silliness behind.

God, that's a long story for a joke only I'll get. Anyway, these days, Carapi is a more or less competent doctor who also happens to know a secret martial art. He's a nightowl and often has to be woken up when needed. He likes round things and his favorite food is sea cucumbers.

[Premmy]

Name: Dorian Soro
Age: 23
Appearance: A tall, Muscular man with a dark tan and shoulder-length wavy brown hair. He wears a red bandanna over his head, a short-sleeved black shirt, and brown pants. He keeps a pistol and a cutlass tucked into his belt most of the time, and a Grappling hook tied around his waist. He also keeps a large messenger bag with him with the pirate-crew's mark bearing a cross symbol on it's forehead.
Position: Doctor
Weapons: Cutlass, Flintlock Pistol, He also keeps a grappling hook on him at all times, though it's mostly a tool to reel himself back in if he strays too far from the ship in the air.
Devil Fruit:
Paramecia:
Power: Grants the ability to instantly make himself as light as air and back again.
Name: Float-Float Fruit

Bio:
Dorian is a master of medicinal herbs and healing from his old island. A young hoodlum envied the popularity he garnered from helping the locals and tricked him into eating the Devil Fruit by telling him it would grant him magical healing abilities. After delivering one HELL of an asshuping to said trickster, he set off to the Grand Line.

Dorian beleives that he can find an herb to cure devil fruit users of their affliction on the Grand Line, due to it being the home of the devil fruit.

edit:
Oooooh, now we've got a problem!
edit: Just saw you had dibs, I will conede the medic role and instead I will take CAPTAIN!

[Overcast]

Name:Kallow D. Vind
Age: 20
Appearance: A short, thin and lithe young man with short messy black hair and nearly black brown eyes. He is more often than not caught in his typical wear for working in the kitchen, preferring to always be ready to prepare the next meal for the crew. Though the chef outfit does look a little odd with the rapier and flintlock at his sides, but he cannot bring himself to part with them.
Position: Cook
Weapons: Steel rapier. Single shot flintlock pistol. The two are mostly there for the if all else fails, and he is more likely to be using his devil fruit.
Devil Fruit: Paramecia. Breathe-breathe fruit. The fruit allows Vind to take in and release incredibly large breaths, releasing them as ear shattering yells or forceful gusts of wind. Though that is about as far as he has explored it thus far.
Techniques:

• Blowhard: Take a deep breath and blow. A relatively simple item, he releases a pent up breath in one solid gust good for knocking people and items over, away, and into things. Also can be let out slowly, in case the sails aren't catching enough of a breeze.
• Screech: Rather than blowing, he takes a deep breath and lets out a hellish yell of ear-shattering volume. Good for a quick escape, a diversion, or letting everyone anywhere know that he is in deep shit and could use some help.

Bio: Vind was born as nobody. Made to be nobody. Though ended up as somebody through one bad decision. He was born to a pair of servants, serving a particularly well off family. He was to be raised to be the personal cook to the next heir, living the rest of his life to cater to the young man's culinary desires. One fateful day a particularly large purchase had gone down, a fruit of special sort known as a devil fruit. He was asked to prepare it for the son as his gift for becoming a man.

After all what better gift can you get for a boy than superhuman abilities?

The fruit was told by him to taste like all the terrible things in the world concentrated into one place. Hence his job was to find some way to mask that horribly disgusting taste from the pampered young master's delicate tongue.

What no one had told him was sampling it would render the massive purchase entirely worthless and instead leave behind just one terribly bad tasting fruit. So when he tested his best attempt to mask it(which while valiant was a complete failure) it turned out he was the one to get the abilities.

When after a few days they didn't cultivate in the boy they immediately blamed Vind, and he was locked up and prepared to be executed. During the final moments, still completely unaware of what he did wrong and having no idea of how to manifest his abilities he was put in front of a firing squad. He was laughing in a wreck, grinning like a fool, breathing in deep to try to get his mind under control, and when he let it out...

He blew the squad away.

Not keen to look a gift horse in the mouth he took off running at that very moment, taking a loose rapier from the young lord and a flintlock off one of his would be executors in case the gave chase. He got away, but was slandered by the family into a criminal of much greater caliber than he actually was. Desperate to find a way as far from them as possible, and finding not many options for an outlaw cook, piracy was basically the only way. So he joined the crew and sails on. Nowadays a great deal more aware of the madness he brought upon himself.

[Jagos]

Name: Gunther
Age: 22
Appearance: Tall (6'5), skinny (damn near emaciated), dark hair (cut short), brown eyes (kinda dead), red bandana (covers the mouth)

Wears no shirt (doesn't believe in them. They are demon clothes) and wears blue jean shorts mostly. Great with a long range rifle that he keeps oiled and maintained along with his back up weapon, Mr. Winner. Mr Winner doesn't like to talk about himself but once Gunther gets serious about a fight, he pulls out his second weapon to rain death from above. Blowtorch goggles are used for better aim, with the edges darkened. Tools are kept in a giant bag that never leaves his side. You mess with that bag prepare for a beating.
Position: Sharpshooter

Weapons: Custom Rifle and Mr. Winner. Toolbag carries a hammer, a frying pan, and a blowtorch on most occasions.

Devil Fruit:None

Bio - Having grown up in North Blue, Gunther was a boy that loved to practice his aiming skills. Eventually at 16 he learned how to shoot so effectively, that he could kill big game for his poor family that lived the peaceful life.

That changed when a pirate came and pillaged the town. Having ransacked everything, his father was the first to die by the hands of the new pirate. Bonnet the Red didn't know what hit her that day, but with the help of a few friends, he ousted the pirate. His skills were pretty sharp so eventually he joined a pirate crew and decided to sail and see the world. Having started in North Blue with one set of pirates, everything went downhill when he accidentally hit the captain with a grapefruit, knocking him out. He soon changed ships with some guys from an Eastern Sea who happened to be going to the Grand line instead of fiddling around with mountain bandits.

His main mission is to challenge his abilities in the open sea and get stronger. Also, he needs to get over his two left feet.

Techniques - Mr. Winner's Special Sundae - Mr Winner likes to win. That's acceptable. Mr. Winner does NOT like to lose. This is unacceptable. When this comes out, whatever Gunther has decided to shoot, it flies back 3 feet and is knocked down with a jalapeno bean to the mouth, followed with a cherry to add insult to injury. Gunther may like his jalapenos but... They're a little hot for most people. It's almost like a bomb in their mouth.

Accuracy - Currently able to hit a target half the length of a football field. Working to improve his aim to two lengths, but misjudges the wind.

Blowtorch Bananas - As a part of the Red Bandana crew, Gunther takes pride in being the best sharpshooter. He's even made a few bets on if he can make a shot burst into flames and keep it accurate. With this technique, he throws up his Blowtorch, aims a shot and fires, igniting the shot and possibly his target with the speed.

Personality - Gunther is so scared of combat, that he chooses his guns to fight for him. He makes huge boasts at distance and is a clumsy git that can't fight close up to save his life. The only time he'll run to someone is when he knows that they're safe to be around. He doesn't wear a shirt because it was actually burned off of him by an older brother who had a Heat-Heat Devil Fruit. Since then, Gunther has never eaten a fruit unless it's something he KNOWS can't hurt him.

Impetuous, Gunther can be a great guy on your side, but definitely can rub people the wrong way with his child like attitude sometimes. Superstition runs deep in his family and if you tell him something, he'll usually believe it without question. The only time that he's serious is when a fight breaks out. Then it's time for him to kick ass and take names. And he forgets names quickly.

[Menarker]

Just out of curiousity...

This IS a pirate RP.

When people think of pirates... they tend to think of treasure. :3 Swag, loot, bling, cash, and that sort of stuff.

Would we be required to keep count of stuff like food for journey, repairs, and weapon ammo and new equipments using whatever cash we get? (And of course trying to prevent thieves from taking our stuff)