John Rierdan (Snow Pirates)

Name: John Rierdan

Age: 34

Bounty: 46,000,000

Species: Human

Occupation: Doctor for the Snow Pirates

Allegiance: Pirates

Home Village/Ocean: Ulgane Town/North Blue

Appearance: John is 5’11”. He wears a black jacket, gray pants, and black boots. All of the visible parts of his body are covered in bandages. His eyes are blocked from view by a large pair of sunglasses. He wears a tanto at his right side.

History: John is very secretive about his past. What is known about him is that he was accused of murdering an entire island’s population (581 people) in the course of one night single handed. Because of this the Marines slapped a bounty of 31,000,000 on his head. John traveled from island to island, never staying in one place for too long.

John stopped at a port town called Zymot. He saw the Snow Pirates there in the midst of a battle with some bounty hunters. At first, John stayed back, not wanting to get involved, however when a couple of the bounty hunters recognized him and started to move in, John was forced to fight back and he decimated the bounty hunters, leaving no trace of them. He then escaped and was going to leave the island when Alice approached him. She wanted to thank him for helping them out. John told her not to bother and he was about to leave when Alice stopped him, asking him his name. John told her and she recognized him from his bounty poster. She asked him to join her crew and although he was at first hesitant, he ended up agreeing thinking that he would be safer with some backup.

Personality: John is a quiet, unobtrusive person. He tries to stay out of the spotlight as much as possible. While he is not someone who normally approaches people, John will speak his mind when he thinks it necessary. John is a loyal follower. If he receives an order he will follow it to the letter. However, John will not do anything that will put him unnecessarily into danger. He puts his own safety above all others.

Ship:

Ship Flag: The skeleton of a beetle.

Devil Fruit: Mushi-Mushi no mi (Insect-Insect Fruit)
Type: Paramecia
Effect: This fruit gives its user the ability to control the minds of insects as long as they have come in contact with them first.

Special Abilities:

Endurance: It takes a lot of hits to beat John. His body is so damaged that he has become used to pain and does not flinch away from a punch or two.

Learned Techniques: N/A

Weapons/Items:

Tanto

Insects
Humming Killers: This insect is about the size of a small pebble. It lives in a colony of several thousand of its kind. These insects can strip a human being down to the bone in seconds. Fortunately these insects are herbivores, but John manipulates them to attack his enemies. Unfortunately for the insects, their bodies cannot handle meat and they die soon after eating, so John has to use them sparingly. He carries an entire colony of these creatures on his flesh, but they are hidden from view by his bandages.

Komakai Shiroi Chiyu (Small White Cure): An incredibly small white creature that many would not even consider an insect. It is only as big as a red blood cell. No one knows exactly what it looks like because it dies if it stays in air for more then five seconds and it whithers away in ten seconds. This creature can heal cuts and wounds by fill in the cut with a grayish fluid that it produces in its body. A small cut, like a paper cut, takes a minute (one post) to heal back up. A medium sized cut, like a stab wound from a knife, takes about two minutes (two posts) to heal up. A big cut, like a sword slash, takes three minutes (three posts) to heal up. Just because it can heal wounds does not mean that it replenishes blood that is lost and it will not heal wounds to the lungs. (Remember? It dies if it stays in air for to long.) Of course, if the Ken's heart or some other vital organ is hit, he can still die unless he can somehow survive long enough for the creatures to heal him. It will also destroy germs in the body so most diseases will not harm someone who has these creatures in them. It will link itself to the body and multiply like cells, but it will only multiply as much as the body can take. Lastly, as these creatures join with their host's body, the host will slowly produce fewer white blood cells until they do not make any white blood cells at all.

Goals: He wants to survive for as long as he can.