Name: Mikio Antle "Mechanical Beast"
Age: 28
Bounty: 0
Species: Human
Occupation: Animal Trainer/Shipwright
Allegiance: Blizzard Pirates
Home Village/Ocean: Grandline
Appearance: His face basicly look like what it has on the picture. His hair the same style, same color, same eye. Though sometimes, the pupils would turn into slits, when angry or threaten in anyway. His canines are a bit more pointed than regular humans as he adapted them from living with animals and dinosaurs for most of his life. His hair also get a bit more messier than it already is too, sticking up just a little. His height is 6'1 ft tall. He's pretty skinny but nonetheless have an impressive set of muscle on his body. He does look a little young to be at the age of 28 huh? One of the top handsome guys in the crew.
Casually dressed; he would've worn a black mid-sleeve shirt (like the one on the picture), dirty green baggy capris and flipflops or just barefooted. He is rarely seen wearing something like this though. His hair, being long enough as it is, is usually tied up in a stubby ponytail.
On mission or on anydays when he knows that he have to be prepared, usually he's wearing a black mid-drift, sleeveless shirt with a turtle neck collar. For the rest of his lower torso, it's (most of the time) covered with bandages, though you could clearly still see his shaped torso, to hide claw marks and scars that he had (the reason why he hid them is because it usually scare the heck out of people for some reason or another). He's also wearing brown think gloves, the knuckles made of hard iron and steel. Pretty heavy too might he add. He's wearing brown, long, baggy pants belted around him tightly as they were tuck in the black combat boots (he rather go barefooted though at times). Under his baggy pants though, there were dark brown shorts which looked like that they could be longer if it wasn't for the rips at the ends. His hair is mostly down during this time unlike when he was casual.
Each piece of clothing is at least.....hm... to say maybe 15-25 pounds each? Maybe more? Even his casual clothing, they are weights for him to train to. Though lighter than his working clothes (for at least 5-10 pounds for each).
History:
Through most of his life, Mik (a nickname of his most of the time) lived in Little Garden. Yes, Little Garden, a place where Dinosaurs ruled and man-eating carnovoires are always around the corner. Heh, it's really a wonder how he survived. But let's go back to the beginning, of when his life suddenly took a large turn.
At a young age, Mik's parents died by the government hands; but since he was so young, he never felt an resent about not knowing his parents. But it was the starting point of his resentment towards the World Government.
At that time, for the rest of his childhood years (well, the few childhood years that he had), his snobby, irritating, mentally ill (from his point of view), violent, idiotic grandfather took him in- who is usually being the source of the blame of how Mikio could never have childhood anymore because of that man. His grandfather once worked for the World Government, but soon after quit when he heard of things that are never ment to be heard from someone low rank like his gramps. He hoped to easily quit and take this secret to his grave, but apparently, the found out about him and started to hunt for his neck. At the age of 24, his Grandfather has quite a bounty on his head for a first timer, making many bounty hunters and many marines after him. The same as the pirates. He heard this story countless of times, to the point that he could even recite the words percisely as his grandfather would say them. It did get him a thrown into an almost bottomless pit a few times so he stopped.
Well, in another other case, his grandfather was strict, a person with amazing instincts and knows how to survive the world from point A to point B. It was in their blood. The Antle clan was a clan that specialized in animal, any kind really. Even seakings. They can easily understand what an animal is saying, and when at a top level, they can even talk to animals and can listen to what they say as if it was another language. His Grandfathers escape from death is usually because of his animal friends that stick around him. He traveled the sea because of his seaking friends. And the animal helped him get food and water so that he would live for another day.
One day, he went to a village lead by his animal friend and found a woman... Soon after that, Mik didn't really listen since it's about how he feel in love and the fact that his grandfather is making weird, creepy motions so he really didn't want to find out what he's have been trying to say.
Anyway, the have Mik's mother, and they lived their life peacefully in that same village. Till there were officals snooping around and so they left soon after.
Well, let's not get too much into detail about the whole story.
They've been traveling from places to places and blah blah blah. Mik mother's then found a man in one of the island they were visiting and fell in love as they get to know eachother for the past few days. And there was another love story that Mik tuned out.
Anyway, mom ran away to marry off his father, despite gramps protest (he was such a daddy's girl), through grandma gave her the go.
Another hour of Grandpa rants about how he despite the man who took his daughter.
And so forth, the man, Mik's father, was a shipwright and a spy in the revolutionary, and his mother accepted to go with him willingly (with a ghostly face from the old man).
They some how got capture and was put to death immediantly. Grandma died on the same day, and Mik was only a baby then when he was put into his grandfather's arm. Even when only a child Mikio can remember how much his grandfather cried on that day. But he wasn't able to cry again later.
And now, for his younger years with his grandfather;
They ended up living in an uninhabited island where there are all kinds of animals that ruled in any kind of different domain. This place was in the grandline, surrounded by seakings of one way or another that is waiting for prey to fall down into the water.
This is also known as Mik's living hell.
As soon as he was at the age of 7, he was thrown into a lion's den, have to fight off a pack of wolves, sweep off by birds (courtsey of his gramps), dropped from high cliffs, kick out of the house and have to live in the jungle, thrown into a bottomless pits, thrown into a volcano, chased by carnovoires with a juicy steak on his back and worse of all, have to face the "deathhug of love" and the "fist of love". Also, an added bonus, the "kick of love" if he had been oh-so good. All in one month. The training was also repeated the next month, only organized differently.
It seemed that his younger years before he was 7, when he only have to run with weights around the island 23 times, do 125 push ups and 234 crunches while studying various things all at once, seemed just like a dream.
Why is his gramps doing this? Well, it's very simple answer. If Mik remembered it correctly, it was something like this:
"You, still have the blood of an Antle like myself (insert gramps shining here), but still. (Insert gramps pointing at Mikio accusingly) YOU STILL HAVE THAT BAS- MAN WHO TOOK MY DAUGHTER AWAY!! WE'LL HAVE TO OVERCOME THAT EVIL BLOOD THAT THE MAN HAS INSERT INTO YOU!!!"
Yeah, something riduculous like that.
He wanted to be a shipwright, not an 'Antle' or whatever his grandfather decided. It's not because his father was once a shipwright; it's because that he was curious about the ships that he would see that would try to get away from the island- wondering how they float or how they work and such. But maybe it is because of his father. He remembers that his grandfather actually complimented his father but only for his shipwrighting skill. He had said that his father had made the most amazing ships for the revolutionary he was in and it somehow completely tranced Mik in wonder.
But of course, when he mentions it to his grandfather, his grandfather goes ape on him; literally.
Well, at the age of 13, after 6 years of doing all of his grandfather's riduculous training, he gathers and earn the respect of all the animal -and some of the sea king that were around- and began to become friends with all of them. Sadly, his grandfather was not please with the development. Even he has gone beyond with what any of his family or ancesors have done.
Usually, anyone in his family were just vets who taken care of the animal that they have, but Mikio is obvious a lot more different of a vet. Just quite the opposite. He became the animal himself. As he bonded with the animal over time, their traits, movement, ability, and instincts were passed onto him, making him as firece and graceful as a jungle cat, light as any kind of bird soaring through the air, strong as an elephant and possibly more, and quick as a predator, making its quick finish towards his prey.
Well, it still isn't enough for his dear old gramps.
".....You're what...?" Mikio has to question once again as he twitched his eyebrow slightly due to the fact that he found his grandfather utterly insane.... wait, he was insane before. Now he's beyond insane and crazy- but saying that would also be an understatement too.
"I'm sending you to Little Garden!! It's a nice quaint place where you would have a lot of fun-"
"Save the excuses geezer, I already know about Little Garden. The dinosaurs there are anything bit 'little'."
But before Mikio could say anything more, he was knocked out in an instant. Before he knows it, he found himself, tied up, being thrown into the dinosaur's land.
He was left on that miserable place for years.
And when his grandfather came to visit him at last, while he was on the age of 17 living under a roof made out of dinosaur bones, Mik was surprised to see how fragile looking and how pale that his gramps have become.
But sadly, his ego is still attached.
"hahahah! You're still living??"
"Yeah, no thanks to you, you old geezer!"
Then, for the first time in his life, Mikio felt his grandfather patting himself on the head in a loving manner, making the teen flinch in surprise.
"I'm glad you haven't gone so cold. You still have a love for beings human or animal, huh? Like that one time you found a man wash up on shore when you were twelve. It was pretty funny to see you carrying that man up to our house in the upper hills."
Mikio raised an eyebrow in question as he watch as his grandfather laugh as if it was only yesterday.
"Oi, don't sound like as if you're dying."
Mikio felt himself shiver as he saw his gramp's eyes snapped open instantly, only for his eyes to smile again.
"Mikio, change your last name. That's all I ask."
That is the last thing that his grandfather ask for him, leaving him with a box that said not to open till he 'disappear'. He thought his grandfather meant when he left the island, but he didn't open it. There was no need to rush, right?
After 3 more years, when the newpaper came (he can get all the news from his pelican friend), he immediantly rips it to pieces.
His grandfather was finally found after all these years, and was put on instant death. The last member of the Antle family.
Heh, what blabber. He himself is the last member of the Antle family.
Being in Little Garden in all these years, he learned how to survive, how to strategize, how to fight, how to be a leader, and how to make himself decrease, and how to get what he wanted.
The little spark that started out as his disgust for the world government, has turned into a bright, unflickering flame.
Two more years of marking Little Garden as his world and territory, also his home as he somehow also befriended some of the dinosaurs, he set out to sea on his own from the first time. He had some help, for the seagulls tell him about what they know so far when they watch pirates, sailors, and others sailing their boat. Despite that his sailboat is small and homemade, it was finely furnished, and for a beginner like him; it was rather pretty good. It even have a wheel and a rudder that he made by hand. He couldn't help but be proud of it.
And so, he sailed.
Even so, he was still a newbie at the world ahead of him.
His clothes were ragged and dirty, despite at how healthy he looks. He might be a bit handsome for someone his age, but the clothes made a lot of people look at him in pity, though he never did interact with anyone unless it was nesserary.
Then, one day while walking at night in a middle of a storm docked on an Island called Water 7, looking for shelther at same time, he saw a couple of shipwrights being harrassed by some pirates and by the look of the, the pirates were stronger than them...
Usually, he would mind his business and just walk away....
But...
Grumbling, he set down his bag that he had and walk towards them, intending to stop and help the shipwrights since they don't see to be in fault of their conversation.
After that, he had been known throughout Water 7 for his strength and do-gooding apparently.
And just when he was about to set off to sea, he was met with a Shipwrighting- who has been in charge with all the other shipwrights here in Water 7.
"What a lovely sail boat." He had said, which made Mikio a bit more proud of his sail boat he had made.
The Shipwright, Herb, saw the look and smiles.
"You built this?" Mikio looks rather surprised but nodded, answering to the shipwright. The other grinned.
"Haha, you must be somewhat experience. How many boats have you made in your lifetime?"
"....This is my first one..?"
Mik wasn't sure whether to think when he saw the expression on the shipwright's face. It was then at that moment he was employed by the same shipwright.
From there on, he was accepted into being in the top shipwright crew that there at an instant- of course after a quick course on tools and some other things that are necessary for shipwrighting but he had learned quickly as if it's second nature to him and everyone was happy and glad to have him around. Though at first, he was regarded as scary but still, they learned to warm up to him when they figured out that he doesn't know how to react to many things. People interaction are new to him. The transition from building a small boat, which was a one time thing in the first place, to these huge monsterous ships- most made for fighting and such. It was incredible to think that his father was always around these things. For 6 years, he have been working for the very same shipwright company, enjoying himself and making incredible things that made many pirate crew beg for him to join though he never did and when they decided to threaten him instead, he always end up beating them up and making them fly to the next island.
After five years in Water 7, he decided to move to another island to continue his training in a more private yet unique stance. The islander were friendly to him- especially after convincing the animals to leave them alone and make a pact with the humans. While upping his skills with animals, and helping his fellow shipwrights make a shipwright village, he was quickly infamous (or famous) on that island.
He was happy there and he didn't plan on moving till he met one person.
Roko Cloud.
"Hey, Join my crew!"
Mikio can only stare at the other as if this isn't the first time someone told him that before going back on his project, which is a war ship. He had no time to prattle with another pirate. But except being offended like most pirates, he just laugh it off by the fact that he was brushed off and say he would be back to get him. And he did came back but Mikio just ignored him when he had to do an errand for his boss. But he came back.. and back and back and back and back and back and back again.
This has been going on for a week now and Mikio simply doesn't understand the other's frequent visit. There are many other shipwrights around on the island- why is he targeting him? He doesn't have that much experience with ships unlike others who have years and years of experience. He's not really the best either, though to him. He didn't know the rumors that his co-workers are spreading about him, though it's hard to say whether he would think of them as good or not.
He asked him why one day and this was the answer he got.
"Because I want you to join!"
Mikio could only stare at the other in distaste. His reasoing was completely unlogical and had made no sense at all. He wasn't even sure if there is even a reason! Did he just think that he sounds cool and decided for him to join? Probably. This guy seemed like a person. Yet, the other dared to look confident as if he knows that he'll join him...
But even Mik admitted that he's getting attracted towards the pirate. The guy was really persistant and on those very persistant day (some of those days including how he would bring his crewmates and such), he would stay up with him till very late at night or all night and even through 3 days without sleep. Even if Mik insisted for the other to go to bed, since he's not going to move from where he's at, the other was stubborn and told him that he wasn't going to go to sleep without him.
After another half of a week with him, Mikio insisted that the other should give up on him and just take someone else or continue his adventures again. But the other shook his head and insisted and Mikio have to be the one. Even Roko's crewmates even insisted for their captain to give up on him.
Mik just doesn't understand the other's insistance. He's nothing special.
"Why not go with the boy?" His boss had asked him once with an amuse expression. By now, everyone in Water 7 knows of his predictament and would hold an entertaining expression whenever he pass with the other following him like a little chick.
"I have no reason to."
"Well, it seems that he does."
"His reasons are not my concern."
The boss just grinned as if he knows something, which Mik couldn't help be wary of.
The next day, Roko practically dragged him to his ship so that he could 'party on it' as the other put it. He wasn't sure what a party is or how they party but most of the time, Mik just decided to watch them make a fool of themselves; Which consist most of the time in the duration of his visit on the ship. Everyone seem to be happy to have him though most try to scoot away from him because of his seemingly scary disposition; but since their captain seem to like the guy, they saw no reason not to like him back. Though it's hard since he seemed to be antisocial.
"Tomorrow, we're going to take a tour of docking 1!!!" Roko then announce, making Mik do a spittake at the suddenly announcement. "This guy here is going to give us a tour!"
Of course, Mik protested but in the end, he gave the whole crew a tour of Docking 1, the place where he worked and where the best of all the shipwrights in Water 7 reside.
It was about two week and Mikio is starting to wonder if the other had anything else to do other than bother him. He had work to do and he couldn't even do half of it with the other breathing down his neck.
"Join us."
"No."
This isn't the first time the other demanded him to join. Probably the 189 times he did.
"Join us."
"No."
190 times.
"Why should I?"
"Because I want you to join us." He said with a grin, telling the unlogical reason to Mik once again. The Antle sigh.
After another week with the Blizzard pirates (during that week, the captain decided to entertain him by telling him about his crew and the pirate he runs with), he decided to give up and go along with the happy-go-luckly pirate. For some reason, everyone seemed to be expecting that to happen anytime.
It was then that he finds out that the people he had saved six years ago were now in the crew with the Blizzard pirates (now that he thought about it, he never really did see them again) and they mentioned him for some reason or another (he had no clue to any extent that he really saved their lives from being destroyed) and so, the captain wanted to meet him and thanked him. But for some reason, it turns into this.
"Why did you finally decided to join?"
"Because."
Roko laugh at the reason but seemed rather content by it.
Though he wasn't sure of the reason why he joined (or the reason why Roko wanted him in the first place) but he supposed he'll figure it out when he's out at sea with him.
Personality:Mik is a very hard man to try to understand.... well, it seemed that way to people who only just look at him from the outside. Because of his usual everyday battles back then in then in his younger days (sounds like an old man, huh?), his face is usually tense or either stoic, making him seemingly unapproachable. It was a rare for him to smile at all, for he wasn't really sure how to smile. And when he forced himself to, it looked more like a beast smiling at you instead. But when he gives you a real geniune smile, it could be compared to a million dollars to many women. Or rather cute if it was somewhat shy at times. Well, sometimes, he accidently found himself smirking, in a smug kind of way, making many others think of him a stuck up. It's not like he means to, he's still new to society in a way.
But, because that he's trying to make himself look presentable to society, he automaticly just become emotionless most of the time. Only the people who knows him the longest and the ones that tried to get to know him knows his true self.
Well, his true self is a bit different in a way.
Mikio is actual a very easily embarrassed guy, who would blush often if he hadn't try to escape behind his long bangs or snuggled into his turtle neck collar. But he trained himself to be composed everytime or so. That, or he'll snap at you out of embarrassment. When he did snapped, it's almost a funny development seeing him stumble at many words as he tried to blurt out a comeback. But his embarrassment can quickly be over like that, since he's a person who adapted quickly to his surroundings.
Overtime when he was in Water 7, the Shipwright Island and with the pirates, he became more accustom to being organized and was always serious at any of his job. Even if it's only a small job. Goofing around to him is like giving yourself away to death (he lives with dinosaurs, it's perfectly normal)
Mikio is an easily adaptable guy. Meaning that he could get use to whatever in a second. If he saw a three head giant with 9 toes, wearing six pants and has flaming hair; he would only be shocked for at least three seconds, before shrugging it off as if what he saw was completely normal.
To friends, Mikio find them quite enjoyable. He wouldn't admit it, but ever second he have with them, he was always happy and grateful, even though he never shows it, embarrassed and such. But he would find himself laughing sometimes, at the end it sounded like a chorkle. He would protect them, and even give his life for him. They're pretty much the only thing he have that his close to "family". Well, he rather die and said that out loud. It seemed to embarrassing to him.
Oh, and he's short tempered. VERY short tempered. He wouldn't do much harm, but he can easily snap if he found something disapproving, which is many things at some times.
Ship:
Ship Flag:
Devil Fruit: Limited to only three devil fruit users per person
type: (only if you have a devil fruit)
effect: (only if you have a devil fruit)Special Abilities: A few Rokushiki
Animal talking Animal training
Martial arts (Karate, Judo, Chinese Kenpo, Muay Thai).
Amazing agility
Animal-like reflex
Animal-like instincts
Incredible heighten senses
Ability to use any animal's traits and movements
Ability to use any surroundings to his advantages
Inhuman strength
Knowing how to build ship
How to build weapons
Learned Techniques (Keep it 1-25):
Feline Imitation: He shifts himself to act like a feline (while able to keep his human mind intact in some way). With this, his body is more agile and more flexable. He also have more balance, able to fall down landing on his feet. If he took his glove off his hand, you can also see that his nails also completely sharpen, making them a dangerous weapons, as also as his fangs that comes along with the sharpen process. Now only if he have a set of ears and a tail....
Bird Imitation: In bird imitation, he was able to jump much more higher in the air than most people, but also was about to look like he's floating in the air also. Using this imitation would help him fight battles that are usually in air, swift and free as a bird would. But to imitate on how a bird's beak would usually do when attack their prey from above (nuts, fruit, or small living creature), he would stuck his arm out, while in mid-air, either having his hand into a fist, straighten out, or claw like figure, he then dived towards the target in an incredable speed to punch/puncture/rip out whatever they were aiming at.
Gorilla Imitation: In this form, he gets better at climbing and is more agile and flexible, able to use his feet for grabbing stuff even. His strength increases also.
Canine Imitation: Here, he shift himself to act like a dog or a wolf or anything to that relation (still having human mind). His speeds increases as well as his sense. He can hear things more clearly. He can track as much as he can with his sense of smell, fortunely or unfortunely. His eye are much more sharper. His taste buds too as an added bonus. He seemed to have more energy in this imitation too.
Sealife Imitation: In this form, he can hold his breath underwater much more longer than normally what humans can do, almost comparing to penguins or seals or something familar to that. His swimming and movement in water is also faster.
Beast Form Level 1: In level one, he tooks off his shirt, which is a material to keep him down a more calmer. At this level, he becomes 2 times fasters, but his movements aren't like any animal. The movement are almost unpredictable, the strength is not controlled or even the speed. In this form, he seemed to have attack mostly at random at times. He seemed more uncontrolled. In his beast form, his mind is a bit hazy, where he have to only rely on his animal instincts.
Beast Form Level 1/2: This is where he is only taking off his shoes. Because talking off his shoes, he feet would touch the ground. And he'll be able to sense the vibration of the earth a lot more easier, predicting his enemies and going one step ahead from them. Without those heavy boots too, he'll be able to move quicker on his feet too. His feet are very rough, so, like some kind of monkey or insects or something like that, he would be able to run (not walk) up in rough surfaces like trees and sometimes tall buildings depending on what they're made of.
Beast Form Level 2: With his shirt taken off, his shoes and his beast like trait showing through, he would be able to have an enough mind, if he wanted to, to drop his gloves, which made his fist much more faster too. And because that his hand is rougher than the glove, he would be able to grasp things more better.
Beast Form Final Level: In final level, this is where Mikio would totally lost himself to his beast side. To trigger this, he'll have to drop his pants (as strange as it sounds, don't worry, he has another pair of pants, which is lighter than anything he ever worn. Just regular cloth). When his body is fully releases of every single heavy clothing he got, only a beast would be left from Mikio's body. His fangs have gotten even sharper than it usually is in Canine mode or in Feline mode. He's dangerous to everybody, even to his comrade. He won't even be himself anymore. He would be just like a ruthless animal killing everything and everyone in it's path. Looking for blood, wanting to taste blood. This is a trait that he develop during his time over at Little Garden. When he's trying to survive not to get eaten by dinosaurs. He have to become one himself. Merciless, and cruel. If he ever came too, he wouldn't even remember going to the final form. He won't remember what he actually did, until he actual stop. There is one way to stop him.... and that is scratching him behind the ears... no joke. As simple as it sound, and riduculous in a way, it's pretty hard when you're trying to get close to a rampaging man that could just kill you with a swipe.
(Note: Beast Forms are rarely used and extremely dangerous for Mikio. Only in desparte situation would he ever use these kind of moves)
The Soru (剃, Soru?, literally meaning "Shave") allows the users to move at extremely high speeds in order to avoid attacks, as well as to attack at higher speeds and with greater power, as being faster than the speed of lightning.
Weapons/Items:
Brown gloves like the one in the appearance description with the knuckles that have steel and iron on it, making a great effect if ever so punch someone out.
His clothes may consider as weapon since they were pretty heavy (look in appearances).
Special animal whistle (works underwater too).
Knife.
Some throwing Knifes.
Throwing Needles.
A belt full of tools (that could be used as a weapon if he wished).
Goals: To protect the Blizzard Crew and to bring down the government's dirty deeds
Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:22 am