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SHANKS

Shanks Le Roux is the captain of the Red-Haired pirates, and one of the members of the Four Emperors. The man who inspired Luffy to be a pirate. Seen as the man who inspired Monkey D. Luffy to follow his dream to become the King of the Pirates. He gave Luffy his treasured straw hat as a promise between them that he would one say become a great pirate and return it to him.

Shanks is easily recognized by his red hair and three marked scar over his left eye. A mark that was given to him as a young pirate by Blackbeard. He also lost his left arm to a sea monster when saving the life of young Luffy from drowning. He has a rather bohemian appearance for a captain of a whole pirate crew. Always wearing a white unbuttoned and untucked shirt, long patterned shorts, sandals, and a draping black coat over his shoulders.

Shanks primarily fights with a single sword, but is also known to use the ability called Haki. This power can cause people much weaker then he is to pass out in his presence and has been shown to have the ability to cancel out any of the Devil Fruits powers. Besides this, Shanks has shown to have no super powers.

His power and influence as a pirate is known world wide as a member of the Four Pirate Emperors.

BOA HANCOCK

Boa Hancock is the Empress of Amazon Lily and member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. She ate the Love-Love Devil Fruit that allows her to change people into stone.

Boa Hancock possessed the powers of the Paramecia type Devil Fruit called the Love-Love Fruit (メロメロの実, mero-mero no mi). Many of her powers require her to first entice her victims with her charms. Any with impure thoughts will be turned to stone. So far, Monkey D. Luffy has been the only person immune.

Love-Love Fruit Techniques

• Love-Love Beam: The Love-Love Beam (メロメロ甘風[メロウ], Mero Mero Merrow) attack is one of Hancock’s most favored attacks. By first striking an alluring pose, she plants the seed of lust in either men or women. She then forms her hands in the shape of heart and fires a beam that changes anyone it hits into stone. This can only be undone using the Mezameyo (目覚めよ, Mezameyo) technique. This is used by blowing a kiss from her hand toward the person she froze in stone.
• Pistol Kiss: The Pistol Kiss (銃[ピストル]キス Pisutoru Kisu) technique is used when Hancock kisses the tip of her finger and blows a kiss. This creates a small floating heart that she then pierces with her finger and fires as she would a gun.
• Slave Arrow: The Slave Arrow (虜の矢[スレイブ･アロー], Sureibu Arō) is similar in use to the Pistol Kiss. The Slave Arrow attack is form by blowing a kiss to form a much larger heart, it’s stretch and grabbed like bow. She draws back on the rear of the heart. Once release, it created a barrage of arrows that turns all they hit into stone. It’s powerful enough to even stop a cannon ball in mid-air.
• Perfume Femur: The Perfume Femur (芳香脚[パフューム･フェムル], Pafyūmu Femuru) attack requires no activation and it used with her close combat skills. With this technique, it causes anyone she kicks to turn to partially stone in the general area of the strike, but doesn’t spread to the rest of the body. The infected area become brittle and prone to cracks and crumbling.

The powers of Haki (覇気, haki) were a mystery for much of their time in the One Piece series until Rayleigh revealed they are somethign innate in every human. Those who have attained fame in the world are those with the most powerful Haki. There are three forms and each person tends toward the form that suits them best. Few can master all three, even with training. Boa Hancock, has been shown to know how to use two Haki forms. The powers of Haki are well known on Amazon Lily, but most citizens are unaware of the Devil Fruits.

• Armament Haki: is an attack power that is famous for it’s abilities to cancel out even the most powerful of the Devil Fruit powers. It can also be infused into weapons such as arrows, and in Hancock’s Pistol Kiss attack.
• Conqueror’s Spirit: is the power to command and control the wills of others. A wave of force will overcome all within an area. The weak of willed will pass out, and some stronger enemies will be tamed into temporary submission to the will of the user.

PORTOGAS D. ACE

Portgas D Ace was the former 2nd division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, and adoptive brother of Monkey D. Luffy. Son of the Pirate King Gol D. Roger.

Ace holds the powers of the Flame-Flame Fruit (メラメラの実, Mera Mera no Mi). This is one of the powerful logia-type devil fruits. This has altered the make up of his body into a living flame. This also makes him immune to physical based attacks. Punches, swords, and even gunshots will pass through his body leaving him completely unharmed.

• Sun Flare: The Sun Flare (陽炎, Kagerō) technique is used when Ace first clashed against Smoker. A stream of flames pored from his hands and enveloped Smoker’s cloud. The two attacks canceled each other out. The FUNimation dub called this attack Heat Haze.
• Fire Fist: The Fire Fist (火拳, Hiken) attack is one of Ace’s more favored techniques, and is the source of his nickname “Fire Fist Ace”. With this technique, Ace fires a giant column of pure fire from his fist. It’s powerful enough to destroy several giant ships in a single strike.
• Fire Gun: The Fire Gun (火銃, Higan) attack is use when Ace holds out his hand like a gun, the tip of him finger becomes a flame, and he shoots out a bullet made of fire.
• Flame Commandment: The Flame Commandment (炎戒, Enkai) is a technique Ace uses to summon large amounts of fire in preparation for a powerful attack. One of these is the Fire Pillar (火柱, Hibashira) attack. It creates a destructive pillar of fire that can be fired straight up or down.
• Firefly: The Firefly (蛍火, Hotarubi) technique is another preparation skill for another attack. Ace creates numerous, small glowing orbs of fire that silently surround his opponent. Their greenish glow makes them look like fireflies. However, when Ace then triggers the Fiery Doll (火達磨, Hidaruma) attack with this technique. These balls of super hot flame converge on the target and set their body instantly aflame.
  

  Haki

  Haki (覇気, Haki) is a power that is possessed by all people, but few can actually use it. It’s often unique to those with a strong enough will to control. This power is even strong enough to cancel out the powers of Devil Fruit users, but even they can use this skill. There are three basic forms of Haki, and Ace has only been seen to be able to use one.

  • Conqueror’s Haki: The skill known as Conqueror’s Haki (覇王色, Haoushoku Haki) is one of the rarest forms of Haki.It’s an intimidation tactic that is not to be abused, because it will effect all that surround. When used it an cause people surrounding the user to pass out or even control the person’s will for a short time. Ace was completely unaware he had this power, and he only used it once as a young boy to stop Bluejam from killing Luffy.

NAMI

She is the first member of the Straw Hat Pirates to appear (in the anime), but the third to align herself with the crew, and the fifth to actually join. Possibly one of the best (or even the best) navigators currently sailing the Grand Line, she has the ability to recognize and analyze even the slightest changes in the weather through sheer intuition, thus saving the ship and the crew from the very unstable Grand Line weather on multiple occasions.

Nami has a tattoo on her left shoulder (a homage to her past), where she used to have a shark tattoo for being a member of Arlong’s Crew. The new tattoo represents mikan (a fruit commonly know as tangerine) and pinwheels

She respects Luffy’s qualities as a leader, but often gets angry of his irrational thinking and short attention span, even so she trusts him with her life. Despite the fact that Nami has deceived the crew, Luffy still trusts her enough to allow her to safe-keep his precious straw hat. She is almost always the one who gives orders on the ship (much to the Zoro’s resentment) because of Luffy’s usual lack of common sense. She often comically beats or hits her other crewmates for their nonsense, which occurs quite often. Robin is actually the only person Nami doesn’t try to boss, and she refered to her as the only person who understands her, though in a comical fashion. She is very manipulative as well and can even turn an entire conversation in her favor when necessary, often putting on disguses and tricking the enemy. Acting as the “mother” of the crew, Nami doesn’t understand or approve of the boys’ often macho attitudes and principles. These are the only situations where Nami doesn’t get the final word.

Nami’s two favorite things are money and tangerines. She is greedy and will do anything, aside from abandoning or killing her friends, for money. Due to her past – After having gathered money for 8 years (and even before that often stole things), Nami is naturally accustomed to it, but thinks of her friends as more important. She is very manipulative, and often takes advantage of Sanji for his devotion to her and Usopp to maintain her weapons. Roronoa Zoro tries not to fall for her schemes, but ends up a victim like the rest, usually due to debt and blackmail. Nami also tries to avoid fights, and is one of the less adventurous and brave members of the crew. However, since the invention of her Clima Tact (A weapon that forms weather patterns), she is now seen fighting her own battles instead of becoming the ‘easy target’, as she doesn’t want to be the one being saved anymore.

SANJI

Crew Position: Cook

Distinguishing Marks: spiraled eyebrow

Favorites: women / cuisine

Specialty: cooking / unarmed combat / chivalry

Dream: Find the All Blue

First Bounty: 77,000,000 (Beli)

Current Bounty: 77,000,000 (Beli)

Sanji is the Chef of the Straw Hat Pirates. He’s a chivalrous fighter who loves women to an almost extreme degree. A top of the line chef who will never use his hands in a fight. He is a character who is obsessed with women and worships the females onboard the ship.

Sanji is tall and slender. He is most often formally dressed and wearing a tie. He is a top of the line cook that can make fine cuisine out of almost anything. Sanji is a rather cool personality. Though his love for beautiful women shows a drastically different side of himself. He’s quick to fall love sick for any woman he comes across.

His blond hair is always combed over his left eye and only been seen in rare anime episodes. He’s also sensitive about the spiraled shape of his eyebrow.