Nite "The Paper Knight" Strider (Finished)

Name: Nite "The Paper Knight" Strider

Age: 24

Bounty: N/A

Species: Human

Occupation: Commodore, Swordsman

Allegiance: Navy/Marine

Home Village/Ocean: North Blue

Appearance:

History:

Nite was born in the North Blue, his father and mother both working in the Navy and Marines as small time Soldiers. None of which had respectable talent or strength in their abilities, however, they were regarded as any ordinary soldier you would encounter during a war. Their salaries were enough for them to keep the baby healthy, and allow him to grow with a decent life. His Father and Mother both looked like the type of mother and father, with his father being the kind but strict parent, and his mother the gentle and understanding parent. It was true Nite had grown up in an environment most would consider paradise; in a remote village where everyone knew each other, surrounded by marines that pretty much kept the village safe and sound. Nite at first was naturally distant to other kids, while everyone else had their wooden toys and expensive food, he could only afford to have food good enough to eat; his mother adding spices she could find to make the cheap food taste better. Nite never argued or even asked why he never got the more expensive toys, instead he started developing the habit of creating replicas of their toys made of paper. With this he was just as satisfied as the other kids. Although he was laughed at whenever he brought back a paper form of a toy someone bragged about the day before, his thoughts gave him a small smile while he played with it.

As the days passed Nite started to grow in height, he was given clothes his father had when he was younger and so saved them enough money to get him an actual jacket, the most expensive one they could find on the store since it was guaranteed to stay intact for many lifetimes. On his 18th birthday, in celebration of him becoming a man his parents gave him the jacket which cost them his entire entertainment budget in his lifetime, its white glimmering substance was almost impossible to get permanently ruined, any clothing shop would fix it easy. Now his parents asked him the important question of whether or not he wanted to join the Marines, Nites answer of course was yes. Wanting to become a Marine was in his genes. His strength was ordinary, in fact is was so painfully ordinary most if not all marines were stronger then him. Immediately after recruitment Nite was put in training, his chances of saying goodbye were already made in his house. Once he started he barely passed the physical having made the average mark on everything save swordsmanship, where he gained a decent reputation for being better then most. With that he was given a sword and given the chance to patrol other islands.

Years had passed, and he had turned 20. His last few missions had given him a rank up, but he was still down in the gutters when it came to marine rank. His parents were still higher then him as an example, and they were considered normal among the Marine ranks, yet he still continued his duties and gave his parents his weekly check; since he was always on duty he would not have needed it. One day his mission involved taking over an island for once, he was being led by a lieutenant in this battle. The marines launched the attack going completely on the offensive, Nites squad was stationed on the sides of the battle as to sneak attack their holy temple, probably making it a base in case the war would drag on. At first there was resistance, having the pirates of the island attempt to stop their sudden sneak attack; as expected there were very few of them. once the battle was over less then half of the marines in the squad were killed or wounded in combat, Nite was now stationed to go inside the temple and investigate for monks or survivors of the pirate raid; if they didn't return in an hour the Marines would all barge in and assume they were all killed, which would strip them of their rank if it wasn't true. Nite took his duty seriously. He walked inside the temple, only to find monks moving around, his sword was still unsheathed as he walked around the suspecting monks, each of them amazed someone would dare bring a weapon inside a temple of their god. Nite made his way to the area where a fruit was placed on the alter, it looked very much like a white pineapple with black leafs on the top. Reaching his curiosity, and realizing his hunger was settling in, he took the fruit and ate it whole. The monks of course gasped at the man, their expressions filled with sheer horror. They each took a weapon placed on the walls and screamed the unthinkable. "He is now a DEVIL!! Kill him!!". nite tried to outrun them, since he was only an ordinary fighter not some monster with a sword. Once he reached a corner he had hoped his friends of the marines would help him, but he only saw the crowd in front of him.. they must've ran already. Just as a man attempted to strike Nite as if by instinct, he took out his hands to shield himself only to have paper appear from thin air and guard him, blocking the steel blade. Nite's face was amazed, the monks got so terrified they left the area leaving him with his own thoughts. His personality was already distant, now he was truly a freak. The next four years he worked on developing his Devil Fruit techniques, and even earned quite a few ranks up in those eventually earning himself the Commodore rank. His jacket remains his pride and joy, being the only thing he cares about other then his family back home. His current position is located in the grand line.

Personality: Nite has a distant personality, often at times he is quiet and avoids social gatherings. His only means of smiling or smirking are through his creations made by paper, he love creating them by hand since they mean more to him that way. His love is divided into Four categories, the people, his family, his paper made objects he considers a hobby/art, and his jacket which he always keeps safe. He is the type to take into consideration other options, and hates to lead any battle for fear of messing up and costing lives. He does what he can to save others from dying and prefers to have everyone live then have anyone die; this often results to him trying to negotiate before a battle so that both parties may win. Hates to get wet, since it ruins his art and turns it into mush. Feels awkward when getting talked to, since he's not used to conversation outside his family.. this usually leaves to his face becoming red. His facial expression never leaves what his appearance shows, since he never really budges when it comes to negative or positive emotions directed at him, his ideal is positive.. yet his personality is not. Enjoys reading and taking notes of things happening, in his room you could find packs of notebooks he wrote and likes to enjoy reading.

Ship: Standard marine ship

Ship Flag: Marine Flag

Devil Fruit: Pasa Pasa no Mi
Type: Logia
Effect: Allows the person to control and create paper. The paper can explode; has a weakness for fire as well as standard devil fruit weaknesses. He can apparently control the density and sharpness of it as well. Getting the paper wet makes it damp and unable to be sharpened or hardened, but he'd still be able to control that mush, just unable to harden it or turn it sharp.

Special Abilities:

Paper Mashae: Nite can shape his paper into many forms, ranging in size from an ant to a dragon (if used enough paper).

Swordsmanship: Nite has become rather talented in his swordsmen skills. This also comes with his increase in strength and speed, which makes him a rather fast individual without a sword, with a sword his attacks can be deadly. His punches on their own can send an average person flying 5m, through wooden walls in the way.

Quick Access to information: Nite can read a book and memorize its contents in an instant, merely looking at the page or gazing through it. So far this has led him to learning a lot about tactics, and even stories from the past.

Cool head: Nite will never be in actual pressure, his face remaining as it is in appearance. Being calm like this also allows him to think more clearly, even in hostile situations.

Learned Techniques:

Paper Cut: This technique is among his most basic, it gives the paper he creates a Sharp edge to them sharp enough to cut through steel. (When wet this technique does nothing.)

Paper sword: One of his most favorite techniques, this enables him to make a sword out of paper hard enough to block the hardest of metals, and even cut through them. (When wet this technique only creates a mush around Nites hand.)

Sword Wind slash: With this Nite makes his favorite and only sword move, swinging his sword and cutting through the wind to try and cut through his opponents in half. This is a wind cutter technique so it goes for long distances.

Paper Shield: This is his main defense technique, he creates a shield out of hardened paper to the point of steel. Its weight makes it extremely easy to carry it around. (when wet it just turns to mush around his arms, only good for stopping one above average physical attack and making it stick to it.)

Paper Wall: This technique allows Nite to create a wall in front of him as hard as steel made of pure intensified paper. (When wet this wall becomes a mush that instead tried to absorb physical attacks, since Nite can still manipulate its affects and pull the person inside of it if he/she makes contact.)

Paper Bombing: Allows Nite to make paper(s) explode. (does not work if paper is wet)

Paper Parade: Allows Nite to create many papers around him, close to 8 feet surrounding him and controls them willingly. (When wet these things floating become mush, but continue to stay on the air).

Paper Ants: Nite creates these ants while he is standing still (made of tiny paper), moving underneath his pants to the ground are the ants, these ants are tiny and are unrecognizable by normal eyes. The person would need extreme vision to notice small ants moving around the field in average quantities. The purpose of these ants are to try and strike the foes skin and cause severe pain while being controlled by Nite. Nite makes sure to keep 10 of these ants pre-poisoned in his pants, putting small doses of poison on them and letting the tiny paper dry off for him to use. The color of these ants are purple, while the other hundreds are white and only cause painful bites. (When wet this technique disappears practically, since the small amounts of paper turn to mush and become worthless, the poison is washed off from the small ants by this point.)

Paper Spider: This is more of a routine search and rescue stealth mission move, with the paper spiders fangs being dipped in poison before the battle in case it ever got caught. The spider is usually controlled by Nite while he is looking far away with a telescope, since its only one small piece of paper needed to control the spider he can control this technique for up to a mile away, with him looking at it somehow or more precisely where it is, if ever it were to lose coordination with Nite it could still be moved around as long as it would stay within the 1 mile radius, but Nite would have no idea where it would be. (When wet the spider turns to mush, and the poison washes away neutralizing it)

Paper Umbrella: Nite creates an umbrella made of paper, its made for rainy days, The top part turns to mush but Nite continues replacing it with paper to ensure the water doesn't seep through. It's made to withstand 4 gallons of water at one shot, it can however keep emptying the water in the sides of the umbrella so water stacking to 4 gallons through rain wont work, it would have to be all at once. (If this technique goes beyond the four gallon mark it would turn to a big pile of mush.)

Paper Snake: Nite allows a snake made of paper to slither down his pants (inside of it) as he creates it, when it does he makes sure to add his head being as sharp as a sword and his body as hard as steel so it could easily smooth underground, this would usually be done away from the opponents vision. The snake would usually tunnel stealthily underground and attack the opponents leg, the attack is made specifically to hinder the opponents leg movements less effective, since his leg would have been pierced or cut deeply. (If it got wet the snake would turn to mush, its sharpness and hardness would be gone).

Paper Tsubame: Nite turns his paper into birds giving them the ability to fly in incredible speeds close to bullets. These birds have the ability to explode when Nite wants them to, or to allow them to become sharp enough to cut through flesh easily. All of the Tsubame birds must share the same ability, and he can create 15 at maximum. (When wet the techniques turn to Mush, and lose their speed.)

Paper platform: Nite creates paper underneath his feet he can ride like a surfer would a board, he can also make them separate into each of his legs so he could move around more freely (like skates). The paper used underneath his feet are as hard as steel, its speed can go up to the speed of a bullet. (If it gets wet it turns into mush, with this it becomes a lot harder to control but the grip on his feet helps the balance maintain itself, it also looses its hardness.)

Mush Tentacle: Nite uses the mush created from paper like a tentacle, able to grab people (If caught) like prisoners. This technique is hard to break through by fists, since the much only absorbs the persons punch. This is not relevant if the person has super human strength, then it would be relatively easy to break through it since the amount of force given to it is more then it could muster in. (This technique can only be made with Mush around the battle field, he cannot create mush willingly unless his paper gets wet.)

Mush Orb: Nite creates a maximum of 5 orbs of mush around 1-2.5 feet in radius, the effects of taking in enemies that touch it is still given to it. Then Nite controls the orb and sends it towards his enemies in fast speeds, if a body part touched the orb it would latch on to it not allowing the person to get it off without some kind of strong technique. (This technique can only be made with Mush around the battle field, he cannot create mush willingly unless his paper gets wet.)

Paper Dragon: Nites best technique, He unleashes a Huge quantity of paper and shapes it into a serpent-like dragon around 10m in height. Each of its scales are made as hard as steel and are sharp enough to cut through steel. This technique requires his utmost concentration since its size and weight are enough to crush a normal individual and leave a giants print where he lands. Its teeth are its greatest offense, since it can cut through even the hardest of metals. (If this technique were to get wet it would last one post prior to turning into mush; since its massive size prevents the effect from taking effect instantly. After the post the dragon turns into a huge amount of mush weighing around 1 ton if concentrated on one area, the effects of it spread out would be more like 200 pounds. This technique Can't explode wet or dry.)

Weapons/Items: A bottle of poison.

Character Flaws:

Negotiating: Before trying a battle Nite will often attempt to negotiate first. The only exception being if he knew they were evil.

Captive: Nite has often been pressured when a captive is used against him, since his motives believe in saving every life he would do what he could to save the life, as long as it wasn't against his orders.

Goals: To become a hero

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