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Player: celen
Contact: pm, celen @ plurk
Age: too old, tbh
Current Characters: n/a
Character Name: monkey d. luffy
Character Canon: one piece
Canon Point: post-wano, pre-egghead
Age: 19
Crime: TREASON. Because that’s what you’re charged with when you tell your sniper to shoot the flag of the World Government and declare war on them on behalf of your crewmate who is about to be imprisoned for the crime of existing.
Background: https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy/History
Personality:
Monkey D. Luffy is strange. Unique, one might put it – he marches to the beat of his own drum, is brutally honest, and seems to lack all common sense. He views the world like no one else, and doesn’t seem to realise that his own ideals and views conflict with those of others – or, if he does realise it, he certainly doesn’t care about it. The only logic he follows is his own, one that no one else aside from the crew’s first mate seems to grasp; he easily disregards any arguments that don’t appeal to him, does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, not listening to anyone else.
Most people who meet him are flabbergasted by the way he doesn’t hesitate to speak his mind, or by his childlike enthusiasm; but most also grow used to his Luffy-ness very quickly. There is a certain charm to his simple way of speaking and thinking, and certainly to the way he is quick to smile and laugh, spreading his enthusiasm around him like it’s contagious.
Now, due to his childlike behaviour and the fact he doesn’t seem to grasp many common concepts (physics, weather phenomena, medicine, marriage, to name a few), it might be easy to think of him as dumb – and though he’s certainly not book smart, he’s hardly stupid. However, his intelligence manifests itself mostly in his innate ability to see to the core of whatever matter is at hand, be it the inner feelings of a person, or a country in crisis. Luffy has a strange way of relating to people, realising how they feel and figuring out a way to help them – sometimes by taking a tower-confined mermaid princess out to visit her mother’s grave, sometimes by defeating a country’s evil tyrant to help free his friends.
This ties into another core characteristic: loyalty. Luffy is someone who makes friends easily, and when you become his friend, someone he cares about, there is little he won’t do for you. His loyalty to those he counts as “his” will never waver, and he is extraordinarily selfless, putting his life (and the lives of those in his crew) on the line repeatedly for his friends – because, to Luffy, being friends means risking your life for each other. He never does good deeds to be thanked for them or for recognition: he often says he’s not a hero and doesn’t want to be considered as such, happy to leave his accomplishments unacknowledged, the only thing mattering to him that his friends are happy and safe.
Even though he’s a pirate, Luffy is very righteous, and despises evil people. In fact, the things he hates the most are being cowardly, and betrayal – he can’t stand people who betray those they should be loyal to, nor can he stand by and watch when people are unfairly cruel to others, even if it means punching a World Noble and incurring the wrath of one of the Marine Admirals.
Another thing that makes Luffy unique is his unwavering belief in not just himself, but his friends. As Usopp puts it in Punk Hazard, it might be easier if Luffy was someone who’d run away from danger, but because he never stops believing in himself and his own capabilities, and because he also believes unconditionally in his friends and their capabilities, he ends up inspiring others to actually live up to his expectations.
When it comes to himself, Luffy is fearless, and doesn’t fear death at all. However, that doesn’t mean he has no fears. Luffy’s worst fear is being alone, something that he was before he met his brothers at the age of 7; in fact, he tells Ace that death isn’t worse than being alone. As such, and especially after losing Ace and being separated from his crew, Luffy takes loss very seriously, and this knowledge of the permanence of loss shapes his actions in the post-timeskip arcs.
Luffy is also unsubtle, annoyingly persistent (and sometimes just purely annoying), often doesn’t think before acting, which is something that drives others mad, like his crew when he eats their emergency rations, or Law when he deviates from their plans for the nth time. He’s stubborn and unyielding (when he says he will refuse to eat until Sanji comes back, even if it means starving to death), absolutely reckless (breaking into Impel Down to save his brother) and undaunted by authority (prior to becoming one of the Yonkou, he speaks to eg. Whitebeard as equals).
In the end, there really is no one else quite like Luffy – which is probably a good thing, as one of him is almost too much for the world to handle.
Abilities:
oh dear lord. i am so, so, so sorry. if you want to see the wiki link for any additional information for his powers, it is here.
devil fruit powers. Luffy has eaten what was thought to be the gum-gum fruit, giving his body rubber-like qualities that he uses in various different ways:
haki. In the world of One Piece, there is a power called haki, a spiritual energy that can be harnessed in three different ways. Luffy is one of the few who can use all three types:
instinct & charisma. Luffy has a charm to him that somehow causes him to make friends almost anywhere he goes. His honesty, forthright nature and his easy manner cause most people to like him and trust him to a degree that almost seems unnatural; multiple characters remark on the fact that he “draws people into his pace” without even trying. A part of this are also Luffy’s equally unnaturally good instincts: almost without fail, Luffy is able to tell whether someone is a good person or not, trustworthy or not, even without knowing much of anything about them.
poison immunity. Due to having almost died in Impel Down as the warden Magellan defeated him with multiple different poisons, Luffy has become immune to them.
general strength. Even outside of his haki and devil fruit abilities, Luffy has extraordinary strength, endurance and durability, partially due to having grown up fighting large animals in the forests of his home island, partially because he was brought up and trained by Garp, and then again later trained by the first mate of the Pirate King, Silvers Rayleigh. His recovery time is insanely fast, and he can grow back bone just by drinking milk, or get back to fighting shape after eating meat.
Inventory: the clothes he’s wearing, his straw hat. that’s it.
Samples: tdm top level ; abraxas tdm thread
Contact: pm, celen @ plurk
Age: too old, tbh
Current Characters: n/a
Character Name: monkey d. luffy
Character Canon: one piece
Canon Point: post-wano, pre-egghead
Age: 19
Crime: TREASON. Because that’s what you’re charged with when you tell your sniper to shoot the flag of the World Government and declare war on them on behalf of your crewmate who is about to be imprisoned for the crime of existing.
Background: https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Monkey_D._Luffy/History
Personality:
Monkey D. Luffy is strange. Unique, one might put it – he marches to the beat of his own drum, is brutally honest, and seems to lack all common sense. He views the world like no one else, and doesn’t seem to realise that his own ideals and views conflict with those of others – or, if he does realise it, he certainly doesn’t care about it. The only logic he follows is his own, one that no one else aside from the crew’s first mate seems to grasp; he easily disregards any arguments that don’t appeal to him, does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, not listening to anyone else.
Most people who meet him are flabbergasted by the way he doesn’t hesitate to speak his mind, or by his childlike enthusiasm; but most also grow used to his Luffy-ness very quickly. There is a certain charm to his simple way of speaking and thinking, and certainly to the way he is quick to smile and laugh, spreading his enthusiasm around him like it’s contagious.
Now, due to his childlike behaviour and the fact he doesn’t seem to grasp many common concepts (physics, weather phenomena, medicine, marriage, to name a few), it might be easy to think of him as dumb – and though he’s certainly not book smart, he’s hardly stupid. However, his intelligence manifests itself mostly in his innate ability to see to the core of whatever matter is at hand, be it the inner feelings of a person, or a country in crisis. Luffy has a strange way of relating to people, realising how they feel and figuring out a way to help them – sometimes by taking a tower-confined mermaid princess out to visit her mother’s grave, sometimes by defeating a country’s evil tyrant to help free his friends.
This ties into another core characteristic: loyalty. Luffy is someone who makes friends easily, and when you become his friend, someone he cares about, there is little he won’t do for you. His loyalty to those he counts as “his” will never waver, and he is extraordinarily selfless, putting his life (and the lives of those in his crew) on the line repeatedly for his friends – because, to Luffy, being friends means risking your life for each other. He never does good deeds to be thanked for them or for recognition: he often says he’s not a hero and doesn’t want to be considered as such, happy to leave his accomplishments unacknowledged, the only thing mattering to him that his friends are happy and safe.
Even though he’s a pirate, Luffy is very righteous, and despises evil people. In fact, the things he hates the most are being cowardly, and betrayal – he can’t stand people who betray those they should be loyal to, nor can he stand by and watch when people are unfairly cruel to others, even if it means punching a World Noble and incurring the wrath of one of the Marine Admirals.
Another thing that makes Luffy unique is his unwavering belief in not just himself, but his friends. As Usopp puts it in Punk Hazard, it might be easier if Luffy was someone who’d run away from danger, but because he never stops believing in himself and his own capabilities, and because he also believes unconditionally in his friends and their capabilities, he ends up inspiring others to actually live up to his expectations.
When it comes to himself, Luffy is fearless, and doesn’t fear death at all. However, that doesn’t mean he has no fears. Luffy’s worst fear is being alone, something that he was before he met his brothers at the age of 7; in fact, he tells Ace that death isn’t worse than being alone. As such, and especially after losing Ace and being separated from his crew, Luffy takes loss very seriously, and this knowledge of the permanence of loss shapes his actions in the post-timeskip arcs.
Luffy is also unsubtle, annoyingly persistent (and sometimes just purely annoying), often doesn’t think before acting, which is something that drives others mad, like his crew when he eats their emergency rations, or Law when he deviates from their plans for the nth time. He’s stubborn and unyielding (when he says he will refuse to eat until Sanji comes back, even if it means starving to death), absolutely reckless (breaking into Impel Down to save his brother) and undaunted by authority (prior to becoming one of the Yonkou, he speaks to eg. Whitebeard as equals).
In the end, there really is no one else quite like Luffy – which is probably a good thing, as one of him is almost too much for the world to handle.
Abilities:
oh dear lord. i am so, so, so sorry. if you want to see the wiki link for any additional information for his powers, it is here.
devil fruit powers. Luffy has eaten what was thought to be the gum-gum fruit, giving his body rubber-like qualities that he uses in various different ways:
- His body stretches like rubber, he can inflate his body parts to act like a balloon, he can bounce back bullets and cannonballs.
- His attack forms are Gear 2, Gear 3, Gear 4 and Gear 5. In Gear 2, he pumps his arms/legs to circulate blood faster so he can move faster and hit harder. In Gear 3, he superinflates his body parts into gigantic proportions. In Gear 4, he has two forms, boundman and snake-man; Gear 4 combines the speed of Gear 2 and the inflating of musculature of Gear 3, giving Luffy more explosive power and better defensive abilities.
- Gear 5 is his awakened technique, meaning that the rubbery qualities apply to also the environment around him, making it possible for him to manipulate other objects like his body, like grab lightning out of the sky, lift a part of the ground to use as a shield, bounce on the ground like it’s a trampoline, etc. It’s called “the most ridiculous power in the world”, and it really does look like that. When using Gear 5, Luffy’s hair and clothes turn white and his eyes turn reddish-orange. Gear 5 is activated through the beating of his heart, called the drums of liberation, so those around him will be able to hear the drums. The drawback of Gear 5 is that he can’t use it for long, and he will look like an old man after using it until he recovers.
NOTE: Luffy will not activate Gear 5 unless the opponent is tremendously powerful. Also, One Piece is famous for Oda always finding distractions for Luffy to be in a different place than the Big Bad of an arc so as to not end it too early, and I am more than happy to come up with ten thousand contrived reasons for him to not be fighting if need be!
haki. In the world of One Piece, there is a power called haki, a spiritual energy that can be harnessed in three different ways. Luffy is one of the few who can use all three types:
- Armament haki: the ability to harden parts of your body until it is hard as steel, to use both defensively and offensively. In Wano, Luffy learned the type of armament haki known as ryuuou, which allows the user to project the haki out of their fist when punching, thus actually hitting the opponent without touching them directly. Luffy uses armament haki in conjunction with his devil fruit attacks, especially in Gear 3 and Gear 4.
- Observation haki: the ability to sense the presence, intentions and feelings of others. Luffy can use this to predict and dodge attacks, as well as sense where other people are. He learned an advanced form of observation haki after his fight with Charlotte Katakuri, and can now “see” a few seconds into the future if he tries – he uses this to know in advance where someone is going to hit / what their attacks are going to be.
- Conqueror’s haki: the rarest of all the haki types, this is the spirit of the user that can be inflicted on others. A burst of conqueror’s haki can intimidate large beasts into obedience, make people feel faint, and even knock out those with a weaker will. Luffy can infuse his attacks with his conqueror’s haki, something he learns in Wano and uses when fighting other conqueror’s haki users. His Gear 5 form makes use of his conqueror’s haki more than the other two types.
instinct & charisma. Luffy has a charm to him that somehow causes him to make friends almost anywhere he goes. His honesty, forthright nature and his easy manner cause most people to like him and trust him to a degree that almost seems unnatural; multiple characters remark on the fact that he “draws people into his pace” without even trying. A part of this are also Luffy’s equally unnaturally good instincts: almost without fail, Luffy is able to tell whether someone is a good person or not, trustworthy or not, even without knowing much of anything about them.
poison immunity. Due to having almost died in Impel Down as the warden Magellan defeated him with multiple different poisons, Luffy has become immune to them.
general strength. Even outside of his haki and devil fruit abilities, Luffy has extraordinary strength, endurance and durability, partially due to having grown up fighting large animals in the forests of his home island, partially because he was brought up and trained by Garp, and then again later trained by the first mate of the Pirate King, Silvers Rayleigh. His recovery time is insanely fast, and he can grow back bone just by drinking milk, or get back to fighting shape after eating meat.
Inventory: the clothes he’s wearing, his straw hat. that’s it.
Samples: tdm top level ; abraxas tdm thread