Name: Reath “Black Paw” Jones
Age: 21
Bounty: 0 Beli
Species: Human
Occupation: Captain & Doctor of the Red Cross Pirates
Allegiance: Pirate
Home Village/Ocean: North Blue
Appearance:
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Reath has a black paw print tattoo over his left eye and black hair, his hoody has black sleeves and white torso. His jeans are black and he wears black shoes and he wears white gloves most of the time to stop his power effecting his day to day life. Reath is 5ft 9 and weighs 9 stone.
History:
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Growing up in the North Blue in the middle of a war torn country Reath had to mature very quickly and was changed by the things he saw in his everyday life. His parents were scavengers and he grew up learning from them. Struggling to stay alive Reath nearly lost his life countless times due to him messing around or not paying attention to what was going on. Reath’s parents wanted to leave the island they were on so they could escape the war which plagued their lives.
By the time Reath was 8 his parents had scavenger together enough scraps to build a small raft for them to escape the island on. They tried leaving but before they managed to get more than a mile away from the island a large wave tore the raft into pieces and Reath was washed up back on shore and his parents weren’t seen again. Alone and scared Reath used what he had learnt from his parents to gather some supplies together and find somewhere to live.
After gathering some scraps of food and finding a ruined building to take refuge in for the night Reath was awoken the next day to discover he had been found by Marines. Reath was taken to a camp where many Marines were stationed and looked after. Reath began begging them to help him find his parents but the Marines told him it was too dangerous. Reath slowly begun to accept this and remained at the camp, as much as he hated it he couldn’t do anything about it. He couldn’t be moved anywhere safer as it was too dangerous.
5 years later when this war ended Reath was now 13 and his mind was ruined by the things he had seen in war. He had seen the odd few things when he was scavenging and back at the camp he saw the casualties arriving. As soon as the war had ended Reath was thrown back on to the streets and left to fend for himself again. It had been so long since he had been on the streets that he found his skills a little rusty and found it much harder to scrape together a life on the streets. The island was built back up into the beautiful place it had once been but now it was much more heavily guarded by the Marines.
Reath found that when he was often beaten up by bigger stronger thugs on the streets and had his day’s work of scavenging stolen from him. Due to losing all of his findings in the days he resorted to stealing money to buy things with as it would be easier to carry than food. But as he slipped his hand in a man’s back pocket to steal some Beli the man grabbed his hand.
Reath was busted.
He had never tried stealing before and it was harder than it looked, the Marines saw him getting captured and rushed in quickly to arrest Reath but instead the man refused to press charges and chose to turn Reath into someone useful for the country. The man was a rich well known man and seemed oddly familiar to Reath.
8 years later Reath had been turned from a petty thief into a doctor, not a well respected one but a doctor none the less. He now had a trade and could go out and get a proper job working among the honest earners in the world. Reath thanked the man for everything he did for him and was very grateful. In return for his help Reath offered to perform surgery on the man to benefit his life but he refused. Reath left the man’s home and headed into town where he bumped into a few Marines. They gave him dirty looks and Reath felt the same annoyance he had felt towards them years ago when he was caught stealing.
Reath didn’t want to remain here on this island and chose to leave in search of bigger better things. He climbed aboard a ship which was ferrying people to other islands and instead of paying his way he offered to work as a doctor aboard the ship for them to pay his way.
A few months after leaving Reath witnessed the chance to see Marine cruelty again, he saw Marines extorting money from some shop owners. He hated seeing it but knew it’s the kind of things which happened. Reath walked through the town seeing so many great deals on things he wanted but couldn’t afford so he headed into the woods to escape running into more Marines and seeing more stuff he couldn’t afford.
As he walked around the woods Reath noticed there was something strange about the ground he was walking on, it felt different. Reath stomped his foot down to discover the ground in the woods he was walking on was hollow. It felt like there was something below him. Curious he began stomping down on the ground and eventually fell through into a smaller room below. The room seemed to be somewhere a pirate chose to bury his treasures. Reath broke into the treasure chests and found some empty, and others full of a few pieces of gold. Reath pocketed the remaining treasure which seemed to have been moved until he found one small chest which had been missed. Opening the chest he saw something strange. Observing it Reath noticed it was some sort of fruit, he had never seen one like this before and sniffed at it.
Reath’s curiosity got the better of him and he began eating it to find out what it tasted like, unfortunately for him it tasted like crap and he threw up after consuming it. With little gold and a horrible taste in his mouth Reath headed into town for some food to get rid of the taste and to find some people who wanted to be pirates like himself, he had seen so much evil in the eyes of Marines and didn’t like it.
Personality: Reath is a dark minded person who likes relaxing and thinks things through carefully, he likes helping people but doesn’t feel any obligation to help people he doesn’t know or like. He likes the feel of power and enjoys being around happier people as they stop him remembering his horrible past, his past makes him angry. He likes learning new things and increasing his own strength.
Ship: N/A
Ship Flag: A black flag with a white outlined black paw print on it and a skull in the paw.
Devil Fruit: Nikyu Nikyu No Mi (Paw Paw Fruit)
type: Paramecia
effect: The user of this fruit gains paw shaped imprints in their hands. These are the physical representations of the powers.
These powers include being able to push anything material/physical, even air. However, these capabilities are limited by the user's own strength and while they could be used to block a sword-blow for example by exerting movement towards it, if the blow is stronger than your own strength, you'll still be cut, though with less strength. This fruit may push for example, air and by extension anything affected by the air, but NOT abstract concepts like "physical pain".
The Nikyu Nikyu No Mi grants a slight power boost in respect to the user's strength regarding the fruit powers, but not much.
Special Abilities:
Knowledge of the human body
Learned Techniques:
Repel-Reath repels the air around him, sending a devastating shock wave toward his opponent.
Repel Barrage-Reath first plants both feet firmly on the ground by means of a sumo-style foot stomp. Then, throwing his palms forward multiple times, Reath fires a vast number of "pressure shots" at the enemy.
Condense Bomb-Reath gathers air with his palms and compresses it into a giant bubble which resembles a paw-print. Once the bubble is compact enough to fit within his hands, he releases the compressed air and sends it toward his opponent. The air quickly decompresses, causing a massive explosion in the form of a bear paw.
Geppo-Using the paw prints on his hands Reath to launch himself into the air.
Denied-Reath grabs a physical attack of equal or less strength and repels it.
Weapons/Items: N/A
Goals:
1/ Become a strong pirate.
2/ Collect together a small powerful crew.
3/ Gain a large bounty.
4/ Become a Shichibukai or a Yonko
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