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[b]Name:[/b] Nikko the Red Lion

[b]Age:[/b] 19

[b]Starting Location/Current Location:[/b] East Blue

[b]Personality:[/b] How does one describe an interest? For Nikko, his life is the search for that next special interest. That thing he cares about deeply. That nips at that bud of inspiration and allows it to blossom. Even as a child he was like that, addicted to his special interest. In this case, Gold Roger. And while he was shamed for it, he never found a reason to stop caring about it. In short, he's a man who cares deeply, about the things that interest him. If they don't?
Needless to say, he has killed before. With disinterest in his eyes. It wasn't hard killing that disobedient pirate. It was just a thing to do. That is Nikko. A pirate who just treats anything outside his few interests as something... Irrelevant, or just outright boring. Killing is easy when you don't care about the life of the person you're shooting. Maybe that's why he seems so... Strange. Why he seems to lack empathy. But that's false. He's actually very empathetic, but only when it's related to something that interests him. Is it odd? Is it cruel? Yes. But that's just Nikko. 
At his core, he's an artist. A man who cares for the spectacle. A man... Who will fight for his dream. 

[b]Dream/Goal:[/b] What does a man like Nikko want? It's strange... But he wants to write the first, and only biography on the King of Pirates. Gold Roger. To do so, he plans to follow Roger's path, act as a pirate, and truly understand what made the King... The King. 

[b]History:[/b] The eldest child of Shiki the Golden Lion. A child of the greatest rival of the King of Pirates, and possible heir to the empire his father had designed for him. And yet, born in the North Blue, Nikko never had the same kind of interests his father did. He never had the interest to simply sit in ships, and fly around the world. He never saw the glory of his heritage. Instead... As a child he was always fond of somebody other than his father. Gold Roger. His father's rival, was the one who caught his eyes. Some days, he would follow his father about on trips, just in the hopes of seeing Roger. But he only saw him once, from a distance. That was also the day his father his injured by a steering wheel, which he adopted as a family crest of a kind. Thus why part of a steering wheel acts as a makeshift hair-tie. 
Shiki often insisted that his child, and heir should be special. More so than any pirate, and more than Roger. As such, he spent quite a fortune seeking out a Devil Fruit that he believed would make his son a powerful pirate. It took several years, but on Nikko's thirteenth birthday, he was gifted with a devil fruit. He didn't like it, but biting his lip, he swallowed his dis-interest in his father's ambition, and ate the fruit. The Taiyō Taiyō No Mi. A Devil Fruit sometimes known as the Sun Sun Fruit. It was a paramecia that embodied the eater with the power of the sun itself, but in a way that they possesses the heat and light, and not the flames. 
Turning fifteen, the boy's dis-interest with his father's plans reached a peak. He left to go visit his mother in the South Blue, a trip he didn't bother returning from. He had spent years with his father in the hopes of seeing Roger, and yet nothing came from it. As he was never truly a pirate, and he worked hard to bury his father's connection to him, Nikko was never a target by the World Government. Instead he took on other hobbies, like writing. Hoping to write stories about great pirates. 
Then... He was eighteen, and Roger died. His words sparking a cry to seek One Piece. And there... WAS THE SPARK OF INSPIRATION HE NEEDED! Nikko knew the story he wanted to tell. It was one he had failed to see as a child, but now as an adult? He wanted to write the Pirate King's Biography. But the king was dead. The only way to write such a story would be to go on the seas, and follow Roger's own path. Taking up a dingy, he vowed to recreate Roger's rise to power, without the influence his father would have offered him. 
Though... He has received letters from his father's former First Mate, asking him to consider joining up with the Golden Lion Pirates, despite his father's imprisonment in Impel Down. He has naturally turned down such offers. 

[b]Crew:[/b] The Red Lion Pirates. Not that it's a real pirate organization.

[b]Ship:[/b] None at the moment. He's mostly catching a lift from island to island.

[b]Specialty/Profession:[/b] Professional Writer / Ship Captain (A role he must fill in order to become adjusted to writing about Gol D. Roger.)

[b]Fighting Style:[/b] At the moment, his fighting style is primarily based around kicking. A style developed to protect his hands, because how can he write without them? His projection of fire, heat, and light is used to increase the impact of his kicks. As such, his style is un-refined, but is strong by virtue of the impact his devil fruit adds to each strike. 

[b]Weapons:[/b] A flintlock. Though that's not saying much. 

[b]Devil Fruit:[/b] [i]Taiyō Taiyō No Mi[/i] - A paramecia fruit, also known as the Sun Sun Fruit. This fruit is referred to as one of the Invincible Fruits, despite this though it's also considered one of the weakest of that bunch. Simply put, it turns the possessor into a Sun Person. Their body becomes a living nuclear core, that generates near endless amounts of heat, fire, and light. Because his body is running on its own 'exploding core' his body never needs to rest. This also means... the possessor will be restless. Constantly needing to burn off excess energy. At least they'll never had to worry about a cold winter's day. 
Through training, the user can focus and control his 'burning insides' for combat. By generating fire, heat, or bright lights to blind others around him. This control can come more naturally the longer one has practice with it, but those who aren't practiced have a nasty tendency to casually burn people while shaking hands. The heat generated can theoretically rise to 5,778 K, the heat of the sun. But because that might end up destroying the body, it is unwise to raise the temperature that high. Rather, it mostly just causes third degree burns on contact, but can drastically rise depending. 
With training, it is possible to fire beams of concentrated heat, fire, or light. Or even combine all three at once. For now, it is only possible for Nikko to generate excessive heat through his kicks, or blinding people with sudden flases of light. 

[b]Items:[/b] A pen, and a great deal of paper. 

[b]Bounty:[/b] 0 Beli

[b]Color:[/b] [color=f7976a]"This is a good color, right? It's f7976a."[/color]
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