[hider=A fish][center][h2]Mizushima Isuza[/h2][/center]
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[center][h3][b]Basics[/b][/h3][/center]
[b]Name:[/b] Mizushima Isuza
[b]Epithet:[/b] Undecided.
[b]Race:[/b] Half-Fishman
[b]Age:[/b] Eighteen
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Appearance:[/b]
Isuza is not hugely impressive in stature, standing at a mere five foot one inch tall. She is thin, but lean and is best described as “athletic” in terms of build because of the dense musculature she possesses. Her skin is a soft tan in color, forged by days of working beneath the hot sun outdoors, with a plush texture that violates expectations of her shark heritage. With large, silver eyes and a round, youthful face, Isuza holds no great deal of intimidation potential despite the rows of jagged teeth that line her thin lipped smile. A long, silky mane of lavender colored haired spills down her shoulders and to the middle of her upper back, often kept tied into a ponytail in the back, and secured by a bandana in the front to allow her unblemished vision while working. She has a long grey fin that extends from between her shoulder blades as a testament of her heritage, as well as a pair of gills on her neck.


Her wardrobe is quite humble for the most part. Her upper body is guarded by a length of bandages across her upper chest to provide modesty, and often augmented with a large haori etched with the title of her father's shipyard on its back. She rarely secures it closed, preferring the freeing sensation of air on skin. Her lower body plays post to a large, baggy pair of fisher pants that allow freedom of movement without getting under her feet by virtue of their length, secured by a simple yellow scarf around her waist. She wears no shoes, even while at port, finding them uncomfortable and unnatural.

[b]Position:[/b] Shipwright
[b]Bounty:[/b] -
[b]Jolly Roger:[/b] 
A pair of shark fins circling a snaggletoothed human skull. The design was allegedly used by her mother, whose shark fins were black in color. Isuza’s fins are lavender.

[center][h3][b]Background[/b][/h3][/center]
[b]Ambition:[/b] 
Isuza wishes to find her mother for a variety of reasons, as well as see Fishman Island with her own eyes and learn about her people.
[b]Likes:[/b][list][*]Barbequed Seafood
[*]Woodworking
[*]Swimming Competitions[/list]
[b]Dislikes:[/b][list][*]Mint
[*]Dishonesty
[*]Abandonment[/list]
[b]Quirks:[/b] 
Her teeth, in part because of their shape despite a largely human mouth, often cause her to lisp. Nervousness causes them to grow in at an uncomfortable speed. While most humans might chew on their nails times of stress, this causes Isuza to literally pull her teeth out when anxiety takes her, often leaving trails of dozens in her wake.
[b]Personality:[/b] 
Isuza is an overall kind person. She values honesty, compassion, hardwork and “doing what's right” in most cases, and will go out of her way to ensure she lives up to the expectations she has of others, even if it disadvantages herself or her comrades. She is socially inept, unfortunately, in part because of the ostracization her heritage has caused her, leading her to be quite shy in the face of personal interaction by virtue of inexperience. Humble to a fault, she is often over critical of herself and her work and becomes incredible bashful in the face of praise. She is a stubborn individual whose value for dedication often drives her to uncompromising lengths when completing goals she sets for herself, or making good on her word, something she considers sacrosanct.

[b]History:[/b] 
Isuza was born in the aftermath of a battle, somewhere in the Grand Line some eighteen years ago. Her mother, a fishman corsair of some renown, was wounded during a clash with the Marines and left for dead among the tides. Her father, a shipwright working on a nearby island, happened to be the man who found her washed up along the beaches the following morning. A compassionate soul, he took the mercurial fish woman back to his dwelling to nurse her back to health and, as she would learn upon awaking, to hide her from the Marines who would soon be searching the island after spotting her jolly roger tattoo.

What information Isuza has managed to squeeze from her father over the years is scarce, but as far as she knows, this act of kindness stoked the flames of romance between the two. Rather than return to the sea once she was healed, Isuza's mother took to her father's bed and some nine months later, the the hybrid shark girl was born. The romance that created her was short lived, however, as for reasons left unknown to her, the girl's parents split before her second birthday. Isuza's mother returned to the turbulent Grand Line childless and her father, now responsible for an infant, moved to the much safer South Blue to raise his daughter.


Years of working within the Grand Line had drummed up a sizeable nest egg for Isuza’s sire, who used his money to fund a small shipbuilding business on the island of Derringer Cove. She grew with the business, toddling around the drydock to the sound of hammers and files, watching whole vessels spring up from fallen trees and iron nails. When she came of age, the young mutt even began assisting her father and his apprentices build and repair ships at the docks, spending her childhood darting around under the hulls of vessels where humans could not stay for long to patch leaks or scrape barnacles.


Helpful as it was, her origins had made life hard for the girl who, because of her appearance, always lacked for friends. Left alone to her devices, she often daydreamed about her mother, a figure she only learned of through the occasional bedtime story. Sailing the seas as a puckish rogue, digging up treasure and fighting evil pirates and monsters, and perhaps one day, coming home to be with her child and the man who fathered her. She idolized the idea of her mother, but as years ticked by, the childish fantasies evolved to disappointment and feelings of abandonment. It became more and more clear to her that no dashing heroine would come looking for her, that she had been tossed away just like her dad.


It was that realization that pushed Isuza to the sea. She liked her life on the island well enough; being the only shipwrights for several islands around, business was good at she wanted not for food or luxury. She had few friends, true, but she loved her dad dearly and many of the men who had worked for the business over the years saw her as a surrogate daughter of sorts. With the skills she gained both from instruction and hands on work, a promising career was ahead of her… but she couldn't abandon those fantasies. She had to know who brought her into the world. She had to find her mother and demand to know how she could leave them like that.


So she planned. Packed away money and food, prepared a letter for her father with her intentions and awaited her chance; for a crew of ragtag adventurers to land at their docks, looking for repairs. The type of folk she had seen hundreds of times. The type of folk who would fulfill her ambitions.

[center][h3][b]Combat Specialties[/b][/h3][/center]
[b]Skills and Abilities:[/b] 
[u]Physiology: [/u] As a half-fishman, Isuza is endowed with five times the strength of a normal human on land and even more in the water, as well as the ability to breathe beneath the waves. As a mako shark hybrid, she is uncommonly swift at sea and land even for her smaller size, and possesses a mouthful of sharp, serrated teeth that regenerate often.
[u]Shipwright:[/u] Isuza is a skilled carpenter and is capable of repairing, designing and creating seaworthy vessels when given the proper supplies and time. She is able to repair moving vessels from below thanks to her fishman genealogy.
[b]Devil Fruit:[/b] -
[b]Haki:[/b] -
[b]Gear:[/b] Isuza carries around a large toolbelt full of saws, hammers, chisels and all thr other necessities of her trade. 
[b]Fighting Style:[/b] Isuza is a largely untrained fighter, only knowing the kinds of brawling that she's learned by listening to tales of, and sometimes witnessing, brawls between the workers at her father's company. She uses her size and speed, in combination with her unnatural strength, to grapple or pummel her opponents into submission. Although she has no training in it, she has long dreamt of the incredible feats her mother was said to perform, and by virtue of replication has managed to copy a few “traditional” fishman karate moves.
[b]Techniques:[/b] 
[u]Rupture: [/u] Isuza launches a hard punch that unknowingly embodies the principles of Fishman Karate, causing the water in her opponent's body to rapidly shift, rupturing organs and muscle tissue.
[u]Uchimizu:[/u] Gained through repetition of practice and inhuman strength, Isuza launches a single droplet of water at incredible speeds.

[center][h3][b]Nakama[/b][/h3][/center]
[b]Crewmate Name:[/b] A description of how you get along with and what you think of your fellow crewmates. Copy and paste once for each member apart from yourself. Remember to work these out together collaboratively. Leave this section out altogether until all the crew have been approved and the captain/first mate have been voted on.

A pirate’s life for me.[/hider]