Momo Kahuna (DELETED)

Name: Momo Kahuna

Age: 26

Bounty: 0B

Species: Atlantic Salmon Fishman

Occupation: Navigator, Musician

Allegiance: Pirate

Home Village/Ocean: Fishman Island, Below the Red Line

Appearance: As a salmon fishman, Momo's appearance is different than that of humans. Momo is as tall as a tall human, reaching 196 centimeter while fully stretched, and weighting 99 kilograms. His body is well muscular, but he owns a somewhat chubby build, resulting in a wide waist line, slightly wider than his shoulder line. Since Momo is a salmon fishman, his skin is bright pink, with grey marks over certain areas such as his forehead, his elbows, knuckles, knees and back. He owns a pair of gills that are positioned on either side of his thick neck. Momo's has a medium-length, black shaggy-hair, and his pink eyes are usually partially closed, giving a sleepy look. He has no nose, but a pair of small holes above his upper lip instead of nostrils. He has a red tattoo of a four-petaled flower on his large muscular stomach, the symbol of the Flowery Tribe.
Momo's attire consists of Hawaiian styled clothes. He wears a sleeveless unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt, colored blue with various colorful flowers drawn on it. He also wears a pair of knee-low Bermuda shorts, colored black, that are tied around his large waists with a simple rope. On his feet, he wears a pair of simple wooden sandals. He has a flower necklace around his neck, going all the way down to his exposed chest, in addition to a couple of flower bracelets that are tied around his wrists. He usually carries his large brown Conga drum tied to his back with a rope.

History: Momo was born in Fishman island as Momo Stride. His mother was a Thresher Shark mermaid and his father, who was proud of his shark origins, was a Goblin Shark Fishman, who hoped he'll get a shark fishman for a son since both him and his wife were shark seafolks. To his dismay, his first born was nothing near to the shark he was expecting, it was a Salmon Fishman. He named his son Momo because of his pink color. Even though his mother never cared if he wasn't a shark fishman, his father did, and so Momo had to live his entire childhood to try and make up for his father's disappointment. When Momo was 5, his parents were blessed with another baby, a Reef Shark mermaid. Momo's new sister got more attention and love from his father than he did from the very first moment, only because she was shark-blooded and he was simply an inferior Salmon. Yes, even fishmen can have racist thoughts among them. When Momo was 9 he was given a younger brother, a
Tiger Shark Fishman, who also automatically loved by his father.

Momo decided to try and earn his father's respect, by touching what happened to be his father's second love: Fishman Karate. As a powerful Goblin Shark, and a soldier in Neptune's army, Momo's father was an expert practitioner of the fighting style. When he was 11, after he gave up on his hope of earning his father's respect in any other way, Momo asked his father to teach him Fishman Karate, to try and become loved. His father agreed, hoping that by teaching his pathetic son some soldier skills, he might earn his self-respect back. And so the training began.

Momo was no talent, and had no gift for Fishman Karate, disappointing his father once again. His father was constantly mocking him and taunting him for not being able to best his own skills back when he was young, "proving" that Sharks were superior to Salmons. Momo soon became frustrated with his lack of skill, but mostly since he was unloved by his own father. He tried his best not to hate his brother and sister for their luck, and his frustration was building up inside of him. His mother tried to help by reasoning with his father, but his proud dad's mind could not be changed.

This sad story stretched and stretched, with Momo trying to satisfy his father in any way possible, with no luck. Until Momo was 18. After his frustration and anger piled p inside of him, he finally decided it was enough. He obviously couldn't earn his respect at home, and so he decided to try and earn it by other means. He packed his belongings and promised his parents that he'll come back a different fishman, before catching a ride with a random ship out of Fishman island and up to the surface above water.

As a Salmon Fishman, Momo had a natural gift for navigation, and so he managed to navigate his way around the hostile Grand Line without any help. He used his limited Fishman Karate skills that he picked form his 7 years of training to protect himself from various harms, and buy his way into random ships to reach different islands. Migrating was imprinted in his blood, and he simply loved seeing new places. He visited an amazing amount of island in his first year in the Grand Line, before he reached an island named Kusabana island.

Kusabana island was a small island in the outskirts of the grand line, that was the home of the Flowery Tribe, a group of men and women who wanted nothing more than live in peace and maintain their ancient culture. Momo took a liking to their life style. They accepted him not only for being a fishman, but for being a salmon fishman as well! Something that even his own father failed to do. He stayed on that island for not less than 6 years. In this time he learned the peaceful and fun loving attitude of the Flowery tribe, and made it his own. He learned to play the Conga drums, which were the traditional instrument of the tribe. The tribesmen loved Momo for who he is and who he became, giving him the title of Kahuna for his drumming skills, changing his name from that day forward. Eventually, Momo's love for traveling outclassed his love for the island. He left after promising he'll come back as soon as he could.

Momo spent another year traveling, and finally decided to return to Kusabana island, the only place where he felt like home. Unfortunately, when he returned, the place was unrecognizable. In the year that passed, marines have taken over the island. It appeared that the island was rich with gold and other useful and rare minerals, which appealed the marines. The islanders were transported out of the Grand Line and over to the East Blue, effectively removing their culture, the culture that Momo felt so attached to.

Frustrated and angrier than ever, Momo left Kusabana island, after swearing that he'll return the tribe back to it's rightful place of origin. He began practicing his own fighting style: Drum Karate, after realizing that he couldn't protect the things he loved by playing nice and making friends. He announced himself as a pirate, turning his goals against the World Government and the marines after they destroyed his spiritual home and banishing his brothers.

Personality: Momo is a peaceful and fun-loving guy, just like the members of the Flowery tribe used to be. He enjoys the little things: The singing of birds and the movements of fish, the red of the sun and the blue of the sky. He likes to document happy events and different tings he finds to his liking in song, but even though he is an excellent drummer, his singing and writing skills are just poor. His Salmon blood makes him something similar to a traveling addict, making it difficult and boring for him to remain at the same place for too long, with the only exception being the old Kusabana island. Like a true Salmon, he swims against the mainstream, trying to go in his own path and not drag along after the mob. Even though he is a little sleepy and unfocused, he can be extremely emotional and active when the situation requires it, such when one of his friends is attacked or when his beliefs are being mocked.

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Special Abilities:

Fishman Prowess: As a Fishman, Momo is an amazing swimmer, capable of swimming in great speeds and practically against any natural stream, a gift that he received from his salmon traits. He is capable of breathing both above and under water, and is fully functional in both areas. He is also amazingly powerful, being 10 stronger than the average human. Thanks to his Salmon traits, Momo can perform extremely high jumps. Jumps that are used by his fish relatives to swim up waterfalls. He is also extremely hard to stop once he picks up some speed, a n ability that is greatly enhanced while he is underwater. He is also blessed with the natural navigation senses of the migrating Atlantic Salmon.

Natural Navigator: As A salmon fishman, Momo has been blessed with the salmon's mysterious ability to navigate through the ocean with his mind alone. An Atlantic salmon is capable of navigating back to his place of birth after only being there once in his life (Wen he was born) in order to mate. This ability isn't fully explainable. While most navigators use maps, compasses and Log Poses to navigate around the oceans, Momo can navigate with nothing but his mysterious hunch, not to mention that he visited an amazing amount of island around the Grand Line in his travels.

Musical Skills: Momo is an excellent drummer, and specializes in Conga drums. He is capable of producing great music out of anything tapable, including kitchenware and the likes of which. His singing skills and composing skills are best described as poor and insufficient.

Drum Karate: After watching Kusabana island being taken away from him, along with his brothers, Momo began polishing his fighting skills in order to protect the things he loves in the future. After mixing his years of training in Fishman Karate, and his drumming skills, Momo created this unique fighting style he named Drum Karate. Drum Karate takes advantage of Fishmen and their ability to manipulate water with different Fishman Karate moves, to turn any enemy into a living water drum. By performing different kinds of strikes and taps on an enemy's body, Momo can not only hurt them with his amazing strength, but also vibrate and move the water that is inside their bodies, thus causing internal damage as well.

Learned Techniques (Keep it 1-25):

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Upstream Rush: This move is not a part of the Drum Karate. Imitating his fish relatives' abiltiy to swim up waterfalls and against amazingly powerful water streams, Momo is capable of rushing with tremendous force, bulldozing almost anything in his path. While on land, this technique can be easily used to push back a crowd of people, but underwater, this can even be used to change the course of ships.

Weapons/Items: A large brown Conga drum.

Character Flaws: Momo is very laid back and sleepy, making it easy to catch him off guard and surprise him.

Goals:

• Visit every island in the world
  
• Restore the culture of Kusabana Island
  
• Earn is father's respect

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