[OOC] One Piece - Legends Of The Blue Seas

[Prostagma]

It's not about whether you're fine with it, @Archmage MC, it's about what @samreaper wants to do, and whether he's fine with it. Nobody likes being forced into a role without consent.

So, @samreaper, what are you thinking about this?

[samreaper]

changing his ability at this point doesn't matter considering the char himself doesn't fit for this rp so just best to accept my cs as a no. I have a very particular backstory that makes him the way he is and a set goal he's aiming for, but it doesn't fit and pointless playing him as a one off villain

[Archmage MC]

changing his ability at this point doesn't matter considering the char himself doesn't fit for this rp so just best to accept my cs as a no. I have a very particular backstory that makes him the way he is and a set goal he's aiming for, but it doesn't fit and pointless playing him as a one off villain

@samreaper

Why not recreate the Medic from TF2 like I suggested, or a parody or something. I mean, did you watch Meet the Medic?

[Earnest Evans]

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Why not recreate the Medic from TF2 like I suggested, or a parody or something. I mean, did you watch Meet the Medic?

@Archmage MC

Roleplaying as the Medic takes a lot of narrowing down the character's personality, and doesn't work for every situation. Even in a setting such as One Piece, the Medic would stand out.

I'd probably take @Prostagma's idea and refurbish Erased into a superchemist who can buff himself up with all manner of drugs he has never tested before. It's a much more directed and understandable character focus than trying to play as The Medic.

[samreaper]

not to mention that in an actual battle situation other than guns. the medic would be a sole support char who on his own would basically be fucked and rather limiting.

[Earnest Evans]

Hey, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being someone who isn't a frontline fighter. What a lot of people seem to think is that freeform RPs are all about combat and powergaming, which is... rather short-sighted.

[samreaper]

Not my point. it isn't fun to have a char who is solely support that is only capable when having others around. Having to rely far too much on the other crew mates and if he ends up on his own somehow which in an adventure rp will of course happen makes him shit out of luck with a very limited set that's mainly for healing. especially as there's already a char with a df that can heal from just about any injury.

[Earnest Evans]

@Prostagma's chemist idea certainly wouldn't be defenseless. Why do you think he evoked Bane when explaining how helpful his drugs could be? Bane used drugs to make himself into BANE! Super-strength serums are a dime a dozen to characters with chemistry at their backs!

Heck, if you change his motivation around, a chemist that's trying to invent some new super-powerful serum would be a shoo-in for an adventurous party of heroes!

[Archmage MC]

I mean, I don't think you'll be the Monster Trio as a chemist, but you'll be around where Franky is probably.

So Hebi, how long til the next pair joins do you think?

[malmshodes]

I've got work, and I'll try to finish this when I get back.
WIP

Appearance: She's 5ft tall.


Name: Anat Lilium

Gender: Female

Nicknames/Aliases: Natty

Epithet: The Angel of Death

Age: 26

Bounty: 0

Hometown: East Blue, Orange Town

Marine Rank: Private

Role: Cabin Boy

Abilities & Skills: Anat is an expert with bladed weapons. She's also very good with stealth, agile, and ambidextrous.

Equipment: 2 double edged rapier style swords(One at her hip and the other on her back,) a flint lock pistol she keeps at her side.

Devil Fruit: [Put down the link of the canon Devil Fruit you want, or fill up the following sheet:] G

Devil Fruit Sheet [-]
Name: [Grim Grim Fruit]

Type: Mythical Zoan

Effects: The Gri-Grim fruit allows its user to turn into a grim Reaper like being. The user's tissue disappears so all that's left are bones. Over the bones is a long billowing hooded black cloak. Small glowing red embers take the place of the user's eyes.

Techniques:
Skeletal form- Despite the fact that there's no muscles the user's skeletal body is very strong, fast and flexible.
Death's Breath-The Reaper can blast freezing flames of the underworld from its mouth.
Scythe-A six foot stick with a long wicket blade at the end, the classic reaper weapon. Its supernaturally sharp
Death slash-The user slashes the scythe in the air and launches a blast of dark energy.
Reaper's cloak-The Grim-Grim Fruit's most versatile ability. It's primary function is to server as added protection to the skeletal body.
Flight-The Reaper's cloak can spread out and take the form of wings.
Shadow Merge-The Reaper's cloak allows the user to slink into shadow, and travel quickly along it. Cannot be used if there aren't any shadows.
CloakKinesis-The Reaper's Cloak disengages from the user's body, and can move freely. It can stretch out, and exert pulling/pushing forces. Basically its telekinesis, but with a limit of how far the cloak can stretch.

Weaknesses: The Reaper's body is incapable of feeling pain which can be both a gift and a curse. After the power is deactivated any wounds on the skeletal body appear on the user's skin, or deeper depending on the severity of the wound. Though the cloak greatly increases durability, the actual skeletal body is as fragile as a user's own body. The Reaper's cloak can only serve one function at a time.

Personality:
Abigail is honest to a fault. She won't hesitate to tell people how she feels, even if their of superior ranking. She's studied logic in her younger days, and knows what the ad homonen fallacy looks like. Its due to this honesty, and willingness to put what's right before what's commanded of her that's gotten her put down to such a low rank. That being said so long as an order doesn't violate her own code she'll fallow it to a T.

Anat is very dedicated to protecting innocents, animals and humans, and believes that the point of any government should be protecting the innocent as opposed to punishing the guilty. For the longest time she believed this meant that the goal of the military should be to only act on the defensive, but after the events at her home turf came to believe that anyone who stands outside the walls of order must be removed from existence. She's very confident in her abilities, but sees no point in bragging about them.

Anat has a bad temper and when she sees innocents being harmed can loose herself to a rage which won't quit until the target of her anger has been ripped to pieces.

She's a vegan, and doesn't "like" men


Biography: I'll get this up when I get back, but the short end is after she joined the military she went away and while she was out got intelligence that a raiding party was heading for her home village. She told her superiors but they told her to stand down. So she left, and arrived after everyone had already been slaughtered, while the perps were still in their tents, exhausted from the killing. In her rage she killed them all. When she was picked up by her bosses men she was demoted harshly.

Theme Song:

Other:

[Earnest Evans]

That's quite a lottery of powers you've given your character.

[Rin]

Whee~ It took me a while to figure out what to do with her powerwise, but then I realized since this is an AU and One Piece wouldn't feel right without this specific powerset, well... May as well grab it. ^^; Also I couldn't resist that particular epithet.

Marine

• Appearance: Pretty tall; about 6'5".
• Name: Nomiki Depalma
• Gender: Female
• Nicknames/Aliases: Miki
• Epithet: The Long Arm of the Law
• Age: 25
• Bounty: N/A
• Hometown: East Blue, Rogueport.
• Marine Rank: Captain
• Role: Captain? If not then First Mate.
• Abilities & Skills: Nomiki is an exceptionally skilled unarmed combatant, which is only enhanced by her Devil Fruit powers. She's also pretty strong and atheletic, although not superhumanly so (at least by the standards of the One Piece universe; compared to our world she'd probably pretty much be Captain America really), and was a rather accomplished swimmer before she ate the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Devil Fruit: Gum-Gum Fruit (Gomu-Gomu no Mi). Since we all know it I assume I don't really need to list the specifics of it, but I will at least note that she has not figured out the Gears yet and rarely if ever uses the balloon techniques due to having a personal distaste for them.
• Equipment: Nomiki's clothing is specially tailored to work alongside her Gum-Gum powers, ensuring that it is flexible, stretchy and does not rip whilst she is putting her powers to work.
• Personality: Nomiki is overly serious to a fault. She treats any task, no matter what, with a stern disposition and a solemn, deadpan attitude... Even tasks where acting in such a way would make her look somewhat ridiculous. Nomiki is in fact so serious-minded that she is unable to understand the concepts of sarcasm, and jokes tend to either fall flat to her or are taken completely seriously. She is utterly devoted to the law, and firmly believes herself to be acting in the name of justice by taking down criminal pirates, which to her is a rather redundant term because all pirates are criminals. Some may try and pretend they're actually good people, but this is clearly a clever ruse used to convince weaker minded people to aid them. Piracy is a crime, and all crimes must be put to the blade of justice (or in this case, the rubber fist of justice); however, she also believes that actually killing pirates should only be a last resort. After all, how can they pay for their crimes if they're dead? Gold Roger was an exception, of course; as the most infamous of all pirates, clearly he was also the most heinous criminal amongst them and death was the only fitting punishment. Despite her serious nature, Nomiki has one rather silly weakness aside from the ocean, and that is that she has a rather crippling body image problem. Specifically, she is easily embarrassed and flustered by anyone mentioning her wide hips and large bottom; she thinks it's weird and can easily be thrown off her guard if attention is drawn to it.
• Biography: Whilst it may not be her earliest memory, the first memory Nomiki made that really stuck with her was of death. Not any death, mind you, but quite possibly the most important death the oceans had ever seen, one that signalled the birth of a new era... For as a child, she was present amongst the crowds at the execution of Gold Roger. And in her eyes, this symbolized not the birth of the golden age of pirates, but a reminder of the eventual fate that awaits all pirates and their criminal brethren. Not even the famous King of the Pirates could escape the iron hand of justice, after all, and if the greatest of these lawless crooks could be made to answer to the law then so could the rest of them. This thought stuck with her as she grew up, eventually joining the Marines to enforce justice upon those who thought themselves outside the law, most notably the hated pirates. Her devotion to the cause of justice coupled with her serious, determined nature led to her quickly moving up the ranks, until one fateful day when she crossed paths with remnants of the Pirate King's old crew. Despite putting up a good fight, the marines were unable to apprehend them, but they did manage to seize some of their cargo... Amongst which was, curiously, a strange purple fruit whose skin bared a swirled pattern. Naturally, Nomiki brought this fruit to her at-the-time superior officer and questioned what to do with it, and in response he joked that she should just eat it. Before any of the assembled officers could tell her it was just a joke, however, she had already bitten into it and swallowed... And from that day forth, she was cursed with the power of the Gum-Gum Fruit, turning her body into rubber and granting her super-stretching abilities at the cost of never being able to set foot in the ocean again. She did not let this weakness deter her, though, as her career continued to progress rather steadily (somewhat faster than before, even, thanks to her newfound powers), and soon she was put at the head of her own crew.
• Theme Song: Whee.
• Other: Nomiki is gay. It's not really that important to her character, which is why it's just mentioned here rather than anywhere else, but there you go.

[Archmage MC]

@malmshodes Too many abilities for the start of the RP imo. And it just seems to be haphazardly put together with no real theme.

@rin Why'd ya take Luffy's power? Just curious.

[Earnest Evans]

Whee~ It took me a while to figure out what to do with her powerwise, but then I realized since this is an AU and One Piece wouldn't feel right without this specific powerset, well... May as well grab it. ^^; Also I couldn't resist that particular epithet.

Marine

• Appearance: Pretty tall; about 6'5".
• Name: Nomiki Depalma
• Gender: Female
• Nicknames/Aliases: Miki
• Epithet: The Long Arm of the Law
• Age: 25
• Bounty: N/A
• Hometown: East Blue, Rogueport.
• Marine Rank: Captain
• Role: Captain? If not then First Mate.
• Abilities & Skills: Nomiki is an exceptionally skilled unarmed combatant, which is only enhanced by her Devil Fruit powers. She's also pretty strong and atheletic, although not superhumanly so (at least by the standards of the One Piece universe; compared to our world she'd probably pretty much be Captain America really), and was a rather accomplished swimmer before she ate the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Devil Fruit: Gum-Gum Fruit (Gomu-Gomu no Mi). Since we all know it I assume I don't really need to list the specifics of it, but I will at least note that she has not figured out the Gears yet and rarely if ever uses the balloon techniques due to having a personal distaste for them.
• Equipment: Nomiki's clothing is specially tailored to work alongside her Gum-Gum powers, ensuring that it is flexible, stretchy and does not rip whilst she is putting her powers to work.
• Personality: Nomiki is overly serious to a fault. She treats any task, no matter what, with a stern disposition and a solemn, deadpan attitude... Even tasks where acting in such a way would make her look somewhat ridiculous. Nomiki is in fact so serious-minded that she is unable to understand the concepts of sarcasm, and jokes tend to either fall flat to her or are taken completely seriously. She is utterly devoted to the law, and firmly believes herself to be acting in the name of justice by taking down criminal pirates, which to her is a rather redundant term because all pirates are criminals. Some may try and pretend they're actually good people, but this is clearly a clever ruse used to convince weaker minded people to aid them. Piracy is a crime, and all crimes must be put to the blade of justice (or in this case, the rubber fist of justice); however, she also believes that actually killing pirates should only be a last resort. After all, how can they pay for their crimes if they're dead? Gold Roger was an exception, of course; as the most infamous of all pirates, clearly he was also the most heinous criminal amongst them and death was the only fitting punishment. Despite her serious nature, Nomiki has one rather silly weakness aside from the ocean, and that is that she has a rather crippling body image problem. Specifically, she is easily embarrassed and flustered by anyone mentioning her wide hips and large bottom; she thinks it's weird and can easily be thrown off her guard if attention is drawn to it.
• Biography: Whilst it may not be her earliest memory, the first memory Nomiki made that really stuck with her was of death. Not any death, mind you, but quite possibly the most important death the oceans had ever seen, one that signalled the birth of a new era... For as a child, she was present amongst the crowds at the execution of Gold Roger. And in her eyes, this symbolized not the birth of the golden age of pirates, but a reminder of the eventual fate that awaits all pirates and their criminal brethren. Not even the famous King of the Pirates could escape the iron hand of justice, after all, and if the greatest of these lawless crooks could be made to answer to the law then so could the rest of them. This thought stuck with her as she grew up, eventually joining the Marines to enforce justice upon those who thought themselves outside the law, most notably the hated pirates. Her devotion to the cause of justice coupled with her serious, determined nature led to her quickly moving up the ranks, until one fateful day when she crossed paths with remnants of the Pirate King's old crew. Despite putting up a good fight, the marines were unable to apprehend them, but they did manage to seize some of their cargo... Amongst which was, curiously, a strange purple fruit whose skin bared a swirled pattern. Naturally, Nomiki brought this fruit to her at-the-time superior officer and questioned what to do with it, and in response he joked that she should just eat it. Before any of the assembled officers could tell her it was just a joke, however, she had already bitten into it and swallowed... And from that day forth, she was cursed with the power of the Gum-Gum Fruit, turning her body into rubber and granting her super-stretching abilities at the cost of never being able to set foot in the ocean again. She did not let this weakness deter her, though, as her career continued to progress rather steadily (somewhat faster than before, even, thanks to her newfound powers), and soon she was put at the head of her own crew.
• Theme Song: Whee.
• Other: Nomiki is gay. It's not really that important to her character, which is why it's just mentioned here rather than anywhere else, but there you go.

@Rin

I think @Professor_Wyvern already created a Captain character for the marines.
Here it is!

Marine Dude

ppearance: Calixto M. Paredes is a fairly short man who stands at 5'5". He has a clean shaven face, and (dyed) blonde dreadlocks. Usually he wears his typical navy attire, sans shoes. Besides that he leaves his naval jacket open revealed a toned body covered in a variety of scars and tattoos resembling a Nautical Chart. On his back he always keeps a strange guitar case colored in tiger print, and has a pair of maracas on each side.

Name: Calixto M. Paredes

Gender: Male

Nicknames/Aliases: Captain C, Paredes of the Swift Stride

Epithet: N/a

Age: 42

Hometown: Ukkari Hot-Spring Island

Marine Rank: Captain

Role: Captain

Abilities & Skills: Calixto is a highly trained dancer, who is able to move at incredible speeds in order to perform magnificient dance moves, alongside being limber enough to perform the moves.
Calixto is rather good at manuevering through tight spaces and past various objects.
Through much training Calixto has trained his constitution to be able to take and dish out incredible amounts of damage to his body and be able to power through it.
Knowledge and recognition of Nautical Charts and knowledge of shipcraft and seafaring abilities.

Equipment: Iron Maracas - Yes they are playable but more adapt for hitting people
Gattling Guitar - It's a Guitar capable of shooting bullet rounds. The speed of the rounds being fired depends on how quickly the player strums it.

Devil Fruit: Door-Door Fruit
http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Doa_Doa_no_Mi


Personality: Paredes is a man of a jovial demeanor, even to his enemies; though despite his demeanor he holds his duties to the Marines seriously. He is fond of the art of dancing and poses, implementing flash and style when he feels it fitting. Whenever a fight occurs between the Marines and Pirates he always makes sure to keep the unarmed civilians safe at all costs.

Biography: Calixto M. Paredes was born in the Hot-Spring Island, where he lived a life full of joy and merriment. His father and mother were renowned dancers who taught the craft to their dear son. Calixto took to it quickly. Eventually a gang of pirates attacked and looted a section of the island and Calixto was caught in the cross-fire. He realized what an important role the World Government was, helping put these criminals away. And so, the boy trained to master his dance and fighting skills so that he could become a proper Marine. And that he did, as he would eventually rise up to the rank of Captain. Now Calixto seeks to bring down pirates to secure the safety of the civilians of the world.

Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofpS65p32qQ

Other: OLE!

[@Professor_Wyven]

[Rin]

@Archmage MCLike I said, a One Piece thing just wouldn't feel right without them around, and they're a pretty neat powerset all things considered. Although I was actually torn between it and Robin's powers, to be honest.

Also, it meant I could use that particular epithet, which was part of the reason why I want with Gum-Gum over Flower-Flower. XD

@Earnest EvansUm... But I had already asked Hebi if I could make the captain and they said it was fine. :\

[Prostagma]

Oh wonderful, you're starting with this already.

[Professor_Wyvern]

Just like to note this would be my first character. And that would be your second.

Wouldn't you want to keep a better track of your main character, the first one you made, rather than having to divert your attention to two?

[Earnest Evans]

Oh wonderful, you're starting with this already.

@Prostagma

Starting with what?

[clanjos]

Okay, so... apparently those lines went right over peoples' heads. I'm not sure how. But "If ye be a true laggard, I'd be a whoreson fer talkin' down of ya. Can't let ya go stickin' dubloons up yer nose or jumpin in' the water because ye see a pretty fish, so I guess I HAVE to come along" means:

"Man, if you're actually retarded, I'm going to feel bad for insulting you. I can't let you go sticking coins up your nose or jumping in the water because you see a pretty fish, so I guess I HAVE to come along."

I... kind of assumed that a lot of that could be inferred from him asking if Devil Fruits cause brain damage.

[samreaper]

@rin why not make that captain a vice admiral instead? considering there's several vice admirals