Shino Iburame

Name: Shino Iburame

Age: 23

Bounty: 13,000

Species: human

Occupation: Shipwright/Blade-master (same thing as a swordsman, but whit the difference that his pride allows him to use more than one form of bladed swords)

Allegiance: The red eyes pirates (no other pirates, thus specific)

Home Village/Ocean: West

Appearance:


What the picture doesn't show is his some what tanned body, or his skull tattoo on his back, which is in perfect symmetry. He also changed it so that he had the left eye of the tattoo suit the flag of the ship that he will join, a glowing red eye. He wears a katana on the left and another one on the right side of his waist, the knives are worn on the same ways and his five trowing knives is on a patch of cloth similar to a belt you can wear to keep up your pants but modified for other use. The belt start on his left shoulder, down to his right waist and up across his back until it ends where it began. He wears denim pants, a simple t-shirt and a unbuttoned sleeveless jacket.

History:

The Legacy
The Iburame follows a set of guidelines, well they are really laws of the family but they like it. well most of them. The Iburame child learns the art of shipwright from their parents and also learns their chosen fighting skills to hold their weight in a battle. When they have understood the meaning of being born an Iburame and learned all of which their parents could teach about shipwright the Iburame child is seen as an adult, no matter the age of the person. The Iburame adult is now kicked out of the ship and will have to find or build a ship to share a connection whit, it doesn't suffice whit any boat no matter how you built it or how it looks like it is more about the spirit of the ship, a feeling. When the right ship is found the Iburame adult have three duties toward it: the first one would be to protect it, the second duty is to repair it and the third is that if they ever where to have a child they where to teach it about their family and teach them shipwrights.

The Family
A female Iburame found her ship, mated whit one of the crew and got two kids. The rest of the crew became like a family to her and she was given a nickname to be used for their ships crew only, "Mother" as she would feed them, tend to their wounds, listen to them and love them. Her kids, that she gave birth to, has a 5 year difference: her first born was a daughter she named Shiro and her second child was a son named Shino. Shin and Shiro was always competing on who was the better one, the better one at what? everything, but most important the shipwright and fighter parts. Their competitiveness brought their learning curve up to a totally new level and learned stuff rather quick at their mothers dismay, she would want them to stay a bit longer. Shiro was the first one to leave and she did so at the age of 12, to be viewed as an adult at that age...

The ship
When Shino had his 15 birthday he was ready to leave, he was three years older then what his sister had been when she became an adult. As a parting/becoming adult/birthday present he was given a tattoo on his back, it was that of a regular pirate flag which he could modify when he found a ship (more about the tattoo in the appearance). Shino landed and found a place where he could work whit his shipwright skills. He always heard terrible rumors about his sister, according to rumors she was breaking taboos of the Iburame family, she was ship jumping and while doing it the ship always ended up broken and her so called crew mates where either killed or captured by the marines. Those rumors where pissing Shino of, there where no way that that was the truth after all she was his sister and did receive the same teachings as he did but he ignored it thinking that it wouldn't be good to kill or attack people and get a bounty on his head before he found his ship.

He did meet his sis, apparently she wanted to find her brother and see how he was doing, must have been a terrible scheme from her part since she explained that the rumors where true. Of course now that he knew that the rumors where true he attacked her and see easily dodged and escaped. Whit all this happening he had an additional goal, kill this thing that used to be his sister and remove that black stain of off the Iburame name and history. Five years had gone rather slowly when you dedicate your free time to training but he finally added the finishing touches for his ship. When that day turned into night he laid down on his back and took a breather before he was going to admire his work but he didn't had the chance of doing that before he felt that special connection to the boat. He had bee septic about his mothers teachings but it was either true or the fact that he worked his hardest to complete it and always spoke to it as if it where a person. The next day on his way to the ship he saw some pirates standing next to the boat... He used shadowstep to get there faster and positioned himself in a protecting stance between the boat and the pirates "I will always be this ships shipwright and heal (repair) her if needed, if you want her you will have to take me with you"

Personality:

The Iburames
Most of the Iburames share values and personality traits, most of them is dictated by how they live their lives. Learning shipwright will allow them to earn an income, learn how to fight and you can defend yourself and your ship, leave your home and experience the world this is the way to become an adult, finding a ship is as much about finding yourself as finding that special connection to the ship and the three duties will teach you your version of right and wrong (when no one tells you how to do your stuff you will learn how to do it your way). Break the laws of the clan and you will be punished by death, break the laws of others and no sane Iburame would care. The guidelines are a set of values learned from doing and Shino learned them well.

I am me
He may be an Iburame but there are more to him than that. He is interested in new stuff, to tinker whit it, what he is not interested in is laws, rules and traditions of outsiders. He is loyal, kind and easily to befriend, as long as the boat has accepted you. Others he doesn't care for and can be seen as cold toward strangers, most likely because he can see the death or any other heinous act toward strangers and not care or even be fazed. He acts the same way toward enemies as he does whit strangers, what the slight difference or addition that he takes an active watch over them and usually he gets into guard dog position, which is; he is watching them closely until they attack and then he defends his home. All strangers are seen as enemies when getting to close but even in guard dog position he can act calm until something happens

Ship:

Ship Flag: its a skull whit a red eye

Devil Fruit: N/A
Type: N/A
Effect: N/A

Special Abilities:
Master shipwright
Blade-master
Super Speed
Super Reflex

Learned Techniques (Keep it 1-25):

Shadowstep - to others it seems as if he stand still and then appears somewhere else, usually used as a precaution or a threat: he usually go for two vital spots and in most cases its the neck and the spine (in this case he would use knives) and stand behind his target.
Blade skill - he have mastered any type of regular bladed weapons (such as katana, dagger, broadsword, throwing knives)

Weapons/Items:
* 2 Katana
* 2 Knives
* 5 Throwing Knives

Character Flaws:
* Afraid of not being able to continue his and his family's legacy (more on this in the history, later)
* Afraid of not reaching his goals (best shipwright/blade-master)
* Loyality/stubbordnes... (due to his family... more on it in the upcoming history)

Goals:
* Be the best Shipwright
* Be the best Blade-master
* continue his and his family's legacy whit a son or daughter
* Kill the stain of Iburames name and history, also known as Shiro, Shinos sister

Shadowstep seems sort of like Soru, just with a sort of... lack of delay. Could you explain exactly what happens with this, and I could approve you right afterwards.

well he lift his rightfoot and stomp/pushes back (on the ground) to give him the speed

So it's Soru, but not in name?

Approved.