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I guess my comfort zone is "eccentric side character."

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Name: Los Tiburon, The Shark of the Land

Age: 33

Gender: Male

Role on the ship: Food Procurement Specialist (Fisherman), Cooks assistant.

Weapon/Devil fruit: Sea Wrestling, a style of wrestling similar to Fishman Karate of his own invention.

Appearance: 7ft tall, well muscled and tan. Never wears a shirt, but does wear swim trunks and shoes that can be easily kicked off. Is never seen without his mask, which is stylized to look like a sharks face complete with fin on the top of his head.

Personality: A loud and boisterous man with a passion for the dramatic. The type of man who would never open a door when he could kick it down, and would never consider the door at all if the opportunity to burst through the wall arouse. A complete Face, he would never betray someones trust or use dirty tactics during a fight, but his tenancy to showboat and not end things right away can come back to bite him.

Is not a smart man, but is a passionate man.

Background: Hailing from Lucha Island, somewhere in the archipelago of your heart, the boy who would become Los Tiburon was not the shining example of masculinity he is today. Indeed, he was quite small and scrawny. Looking to become something more than a simple fisherman's son he sought out a great wrestling master that lived on an out of the way cape. The master took pity on this small, sad, scrawny, stupid looking boy and said yes, of course he would train him. His first task was to go out into the shallows and catch fish with his bare hands so as to improve his hand eye coordination. So the boy would go out, day after day catching fish, the master always promising that the next day they would start for real.

This was not true. The old master merely wanted dinner.

He died before he told Los Tiburon this.

Refusing to be deterred, and taking the old mans only lesson to heart, Los Tiburon has been wrestling fish ever since. Many types of fish, and he has grown strong doing so. He has vowed to defeat everything that swims in the ocean, and was in the process of this quest when he suplexed a tiger shark up out of the ocean and onto the deck of the ship before calling for someone to do a count. He's been on the ship ever since.
Name: Los Tiburon, The Shark of the Land

Age: 33

Gender: Male

Role on the ship: Food Procurement Specialist (Fisherman), Cooks assistant.

Weapon/Devil fruit: Sea Wrestling, a style of wrestling similar to Fishman Karate of his own invention.

Appearance: 7ft tall, well muscled and tan. Never wears a shirt, but does wear swim trunks and shoes that can be easily kicked off. Is never seen without his mask, which is stylized to look like a sharks face complete with fin on the top of his head.

Personality: A loud and boisterous man with a passion for the dramatic. The type of man who would never open a door when he could kick it down, and would never consider the door at all if the opportunity to burst through the wall arouse. A complete Face, he would never betray someones trust or use dirty tactics during a fight, but his tenancy to showboat and not end things right away can come back to bite him.

Is not a smart man, but is a passionate man.

Background: Hailing from Lucha Island, somewhere in the archipelago of your heart, the boy who would become Los Tiburon was not the shining example of masculinity he is today. Indeed, he was quite small and scrawny. Looking to become something more than a simple fisherman's son he sought out a great wrestling master that lived on an out of the way cape. The master took pity on this small, sad, scrawny, stupid looking boy and said yes, of course he would train him. His first task was to go out into the shallows and catch fish with his bare hands so as to improve his hand eye coordination. So the boy would go out, day after day catching fish, the master always promising that the next day they would start for real.

This was not true. The old master merely wanted dinner.

He died before he told Los Tiburon this.

Refusing to be deterred, and taking the old mans only lesson to heart, Los Tiburon has been wrestling fish ever since. Many types of fish, and he has grown strong doing so. He has vowed to defeat everything that swims in the ocean, and was in the process of this quest when he suplexed a tiger shark up out of the ocean and onto the deck of the ship before calling for someone to do a count. He's been on the ship ever since.
I've always been fond of the Reckless Disregard
I am always prepared for high seas adventure. What's the power level going to be here at the start? East Blue? Grand Line? New World?
Aya let out a quiet sigh of relief when it turned out it really was Jackson she'd talked to. She raised an eyebrow in concern and looked from Mu to Nate when the younger boy asked to kill the other. Ah. This was why people didn't like Mu. She turned back to Jackson when he asked where the third brother(?) was.

"Kuro's the one with the power to move around on the other side, right?" she asked "I can take you to–" her offer was cut off when suddenly a human skeleton landed at her feet. An actual skeleton. If that wasn't bad enough, it then started moving. Aya did what any rational person would do, and freaked out.

She let out a strangled yelp and stumbled backwards, knocking into Nate. The skeleton the proceeded to look at her with its empty eye sockets and wave. Aya wasted no time in drawing back her foot and punting its skull. It flew off of its spine, ricochetting off of Mu's prison and flying away over their heads. The body was still waving.

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@Subject Zero


Or at least it was until a dune buggy ran it down, scattering the bones before breaking of a halt. Then, almost sheepishly, it backed up until it was right in front of the the strange scene. There was a very pale man sitting in the drivers seat and dog seated in the passenger. Zach pointed at the girl, asking Jake. "Wait, is this her? I remember you two being together when...when...when...urrrghhhhhhhh." He groaned, holding his head again and laying it on the steering where, the horn letting out a long sustained honk. What was it that kept him from remembering? Was it part of the Paradise Meta's power? Or was it just him? "I'm going to need a minute anyway. There's an icepack under the seat." He reached down and pulled the icepack from under the seat, applying it to the top of his head.
Zachery stared over at the mock battle





"I can think of a few reasons." He said, watching the insanity going on down the beach with a mixture of disbelief and quiet wonder. Was that I pirate ship? "This could be someones idea of a good time, but if that were the case you'd think we'd remember being brought into it. Someone might be trying to protect us from something. This might be meant to keep us complacent while something happens to us in the 'real world.' Like..." He felt another one of those headaches come on as a brief flash of red and pain fluttered through his head. "Urgh, like, perhaps we were in an accident and are in recovery somewhere. I've heard of a hospital in New York that uses a meta to create shared dream states between comatose patients and their doctors. Or we could be on the move, being transported from one place to another. Worst case scenario, someone might being doing something to our bodies. Oh, but there are so many. There are so many people here, how would you even get all these people? We don't even know if all of them were real."

He knew at least one other person here was from real life, Max. Jake was able to add the huts to the beach, so that meant he was real as well. "I don't think we should go around telling everyone that they might be stuck in the Matrix, you know? It could catch the attention of whoever put us here, but I'm going to at least try and warn my friend. You have anyone you want to tell? We could take that." He says, pointing to the buggy. "The keys are in the ignition, and it's super fast."




Only when his suspicions where confirmed did he take a moment to glance around at what he'd described. The pier sat out in the water, colorful jetskies bobbing up and down in the surf. A elaborate sandcastle stood next to a multicolored beachball. Am empty smoothie shack stood next to the huts, the machines spinning the drinks in the back.

These things all existed. These things, of course, has always been there. You just had to notice them. At the same time, however, they had just come into existence right at this moment. He was tinkering with something here, but decided to push his luck. "I don't suppose you noticed that dune buggy abandoned over there before?" He said, pointing behind them at an old, beat up dune bugging whose yellow paint job was either faded or flecking off. "Or that this section of beach is made up of special singing sand that sounds like bells when you walk on it." He jumped up and brought his feet down, a bell like ringing echoing down the beach. "Oh look, a whale!" He shouted, and at that moment a whale breached the surface of the ocean. "A white whale." The whale was indeed white as it splashed down and vanished under the waves.

"That's why I couldn't remember seeing the jungle. It wasn't there yet." He muttered. "Nothing here exists until you establish that it does! Either deliberately or unconsciously, this world is shaped by what we decide it is. The beach is just a foundation, everything else is just building on that!"

He hunched down to think, the sand noisily shifting as he did so. He thought about Jake's theory. "Despite your free pass into Heaven, lets labor under the assumption that this is some sort of power we're stuck in. If we're dead, we're dead and we can't do anything about that." Same for the idea that this was all some insane delusion of his. If he was insane there was nothing he could do about it. "If we're alive that means someone put us here for some reason."
Zachary didn't know how he had gotten here either. That was strange. But this whole place was strange. And it only seemed stranger the more Jake thought about it. What kind of tropical island had squirrels? This island seemed almost too good to be true. The pessimist in Jake thought that is something seemed too good to be true, it probably was. He started to worry then that he would wake up at any moment and this beautiful island with its magnificent beach would be gone. And Jake would find himself on some filthy street corner in the pouring rain once again.

"Hey Jake, did you notice? That hut on the end is some kind of smoothy bar."

Jake looked up at Zach as he was asked a question then turned to look in the direction the man was looking. "I can't say I did" he replied "But then I can't say I really pay much attention to anything with fruit."

@GentlemanVaultBoy


"But it is there, correct?" He side, keeping his voice steady but never moving his eyes from the dog. Deliberately not looking where he'd indicated the bar was. "And further down this beach, there's a long wooden pier where you can rent jet skies? And right behind us, over to left, is a large striped beachball next to a sand castle? Jake, I think something very odd is happening. I apologize if this sounds crazy, but please look around and confirm that these things exist."

There were people in the world that possessed abilities far greater than his own, and he realized in that moment that he couldn't recall his own. Why was that? He knew he had one. What could possibly make him forget? It was like forgetting your hands, or sight. These little dissonances that kept welling up, what were they? "This place...there's something wrong. There might be some sort of ability at work."
If the "normals" had a problem with the orphanage they would have tried to get rid of it a long time ago or kept it from being opened in the first place, legally. Just because the majority of people there had super shitty parents doesn't mean the general populous go out of their way to be obscene dickheads.
For a moment, Jake simply stared at the sunblock sitting in the sand, pondering what possible use he could have for such a thing. He couldn't put it on. He had no hands. And even if he could, he'd only end up with a sticky or matted coat. Maybe both. He considered picking it up in his mouth and taking it back to Zachary but that would surely only inhibit his ability to speak...Or would it?

He thought about that for another moment. How exactly could he talk now anyway? It wasn't like he had a human mouth. He wasn't sure if a dog being able to speak was even physically possible. Maybe it wasn't physical though. Maybe there was something else going on here. His head ended up hurting from thinking about it too much and he decided to try an experiment.

Snatching the sunblock up between his teeth, careful not to apply too much pressure, he followed after Zachary. "Hey...um..." he called out to the man, surprised by the fact that he sounded the same. Well that answered that. He continued "This might sound stupid but...I have no idea how I got here. Or even where here is. You wouldn't happen to know, would you?"

@GentlemanVaultBoy


Zach looked down and saw Jake talking without without moving his mouth and decided that, yes, he really did need to get out of the sun. Still, even if he was hallucinating and hearing his own thoughts from the mouth of a dog, Son of Sam style, that dog was actually making a lot of sense. You could bounce ideas off a mirror. "Well, this is a beach. I, I, I woke up here. I can't recall...I have a friend here. He's the lifeguard. I must have come to see him and then...I took a nap? I must have. I must have taken a nap in the shade."

He cast a long look around the beach, then turned back to the huts. The huts he hadn't seen before. The huts that he'd just not seen until he needed them. Were they closer now? They seemed too close. He'd only just started walking, he shouldn't be that close yet. Like they had jumped toward him, because he wanted them. He stopped walking, gripping both of his arms. It hadn't been that hot, had it? He hadn't had a problem with the heat while he'd been walking. It had only gotten hot when the dog had worried about it...

Despite the heat there was a sudden chill in the air. Something was wrong here, but he couldn't place it. He looked beyond the huts to the jungle behind them. Had that been there, before? He couldn't recall a jungle from the beginning of his walk. It would be hard to mistake, wouldn't it? A whole jungle was a pretty big thing to miss. He tried to recall what else could have possible been there, but the jungle had always been there. But he couldn't recall seeing it when he woke up. It hadn't been there, but had always been there.

He looked back over to the huts, glanced down to Jake, and asked, "Hey Jake, did you notice? That hut on the end is some kind of smoothy bar."
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