Name: Shinokosu "The Gambling Man" Coldstone
Age: 24
Bounty: None
Species: Human
Occupation: Traveler / Entertainer
Allegiance: Neutral
Home Village/Ocean: Long Ring Long Land, Grandline
Appearance: Shinokosu has a pale complexion with bright lime green eyes and short black, messy hair. Over his hair he wears a black pinstripe suit hat. His outfit is a pale black suit with a tie and slick black dress shoes. Overall, he looks like a performer at a high class club or casino. Under his suit he wears a belt of many different dials and under his sleeves on his elbows are jet dials to increase the power of his punches and on his wrists are impact dials that can easily slide out to the palm of his hand to block.
History: Shinokosu was born in the strangest of places, on an island of entirely odd animals as his parents were vacationing there at the time. Coincidently, it was on this island that they found a strange fruit that Shinokosu accidentally ate when his mother and father weren't paying attention. They stayed there until he was two until his father, who was a marine was called away on business so his mother and him followed his father to his far away duty in the West Blue. The trip there alone took them two years to follow his father to the same island where he was stationed. They lived on that island in the capital town for 13 years until his father died in the line of duty fighting against pirates. His mother was deeply depressed but he wasn't affected by it much, he did love his dad but he just didn't care very much. Everyone eventually got past it and three years later, when he was 20, Shinokosu got a job as the entertainer at a local club on the island. He was so good that agents from other clubs came to recruit him. He moved to bigger club after bigger club until his promotions carried him off of the island and back to the Grandline. After a year of entertaining in the Grandline he got bored of the same old life and eventually just started traveling around, though every once and a while he gets a job entertaining to get some money.
Personality: Shinokosu is a very self confident man and never doubts his own ability or luck, you could easily say he's full of himself. He sees himself as above most people and never really takes anyone seriously. He seems to have a habits of always trying to be cool or be the center of attention, often in a fight more than anything else as he'll tend to start dancing as if his opponent wasn't even a workout or even pausing to compliment a woman on her looks. Also, on that note, he tends to be more interested in women than men most of the time but he does prefer fighting men. Then again, when he fights a woman he views it more as a "dance of heated passion" but that doesn't mean he would hold back against a woman since even more than women is chance and luck. He considers himself the luckiest man in the world, not in his money or life style, he just thinks he has more luck than anyone else. Because of this he will almost never go against chance, no matter what it dictates since he thinks his luck will carry him through unharmed.
Ship: None
Ship Flag: None
Devil Fruit: Neko Neko no Mi, Model: Maneki Neko
Type: Zoan
Effect: Allows the user to turn into a Maneki Neko (For more information see the
devil fruit sheet)
Special Abilities: Very lucky all around and has a certain charm that seems to attract women
Learned Techniques (Keep it 1-25): Okay, this is where it gets complicated...
Coin Flip-Heads: Will make the first attack
-Tail: Will only react after first attacked
Gamble Janken (Rock-Paper-Scissors)-Rock: Blocks an attack with his impact dial
-Paper: Attempts to dodges the attack
-Scissors: Counter-attacks an attack with his impact dial
Card Deck Shuffle-Diamonds: Attacks with his fire dial
-Hearts: Attacks with his poison dial
-Clubs: Attacks with his shock dial
-Spades: Attacks with his jet dial
Maneki Neko Transformation(When he transforms his dials don't seem to work)
(Only form where reactions aren't based on chance)-Maneki Neko Stance, Right Paw: Increases his own speed and power for 3 posts
-Maneki Neko Stance, Left Paw: Disorientates the opponent for 3 posts
(See devil fruit sheet for more details)Weapons/Items: Impact dial, Jet dial, Fire dial, Poison dial, Shock dial
Goals: To see where his luck carries him, since he knows his final destination will be a better fate than anyone else on the planet.
Note: All of the luck based moves will actually be made in real life (ie. For the coin flip, I will actually flip a coin in real life and base the character's response off of that). This character's fighting style is entirely based on chance. 
Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:40 pm
