The objective is for him to be a Shichibukai around the time of the series' start.
I don't like when SIs get personal, so the guy's going to have amnesia (know nothing about himself, except for being pretty sure he's not supposed to be there) he will have all the knowledge from the wiki (I'm going to use it, might as well just give the knowledge to the character). It's more of an OC with a SI's meta knowledge.
I don't understand what is going on. I went to bed like every other day. On my own bed, at my home.
So, HOW THE HELL AM I ON A BEACH?!
I took a quick look around, sand as far as I could see to both left and right, dense woods at my back and the endless ocean before me. Truly, it was a wonderous sight.
If I was on vacation! Not when I went to sleep in the middle of a large city at... the city of...
Shit, where was I from?
Wait, I was from... I was called... Ah, crap.
Falling on my ass, I looked at the ocean. What the hell is going on? Who am I? Where am I? And what is that fruit?
Wait, what?
Preferring to focus on the closest thing to me rather than my lack of memories and incoming existential crisis, I took a look at the strange, green with curly dark brown designs fruit.
Taking it in my hands, I stared at it, not really knowing what to expect, but hoping to get something out of it, trigger a memory maybe. It was the only thing close to me besides sand, maybe I know it or something like that.
Unfortunately, it did not seem to want to to cooperate, so I gave up on getting the answers of the universe out of a fruit.
After 2 more minutes of staring at the ocean while trying to remember something, I decided to check out the forests behind me.
Mostly to do something, anything, and see if I can get the panic from all the many unknowns around me -from who am I, to where am I- out of my mind.
The first 30 to 40 minutes were a normal, if boring, walk through the park. The vegetation was dense and rather large, various fruit trees, all very tall and with the fruits very out of my reach. Vines crisscrossed a little above me and the ground was covered in fallen leaves and branches.
I tried looking for food, mostly hoping to find some recent, still ripe, fallen fruit. I might not understand much, but I'm almost sure that I'm stranded alone here, and I know if that happens you need to guarantee a food and a water source.
Unfortunately, I ended up spending all the said time sorting through rotten fruit after rotten fruit, none really edible looking. Though give it a few days of hunger and I'm sure I'll change my tune.
I also took the time to look at what I could see of myself without a mirror. I was wearing a simple sleeveless white shirt, brown cargo shorts full of pockets and some rather comfortable slippers.
There was a nagging on the back of my head that I shouldn't be wearing such clothes, and I hoped for a second that this nagging on the back of my head could trigger a memory, but it seemed that it was just a feeling.
After some more walking, diving ever deeper into the forest, I finally found something different. Unfortunately, it wasn't ripe fruit or a river stream, instead it was a huge, three armed, dark maroon monkey/gorilla thing.
I couldn't say if it was aggressive or not, or even how it's face looked like, as it was thankfully facing the other way, chewing on something in the ground and I decided that I wasn't letting that chance go and bailed out of there before it could see me.
Making my way back, firstly as quietly as I could then as fast as possible, I arrived back at the beach to see the sun going down.
No idea if I was at the same spot as I had woken up at, there hadn't been anything remarkable around besides a large group of rocks very far away. Which were still there and very far away, so I guess I was close enough.
I thought about gathering some wood or something for a fire and/or shelter, but I had no real knowledge of survival. I think I watched some videos about it? A few scenes passed through my head, but it was all too vague to be useful.
Tired from a mixture of the walking and the panic of both waking up without memories and seeing a gigantic three armed gorilla, and slightly scared of going back to the forest while getting dark, I decided to just sleep here at the beach for today and think about a better shelter tomorrow.
There was not a cloud in the sky, so I might as well eat the fruit already have with me and deal with whatever is going on tomorrow. Hopeful it's all a dream and I don't have to.
Not even thinking about peeling the strange fruit, I doubt getting food will be easy enough I'll be able to worry about such thing for much longer anyway, I take a bite.
And then try really hard to not puke out the bit of food that I have with me.
Hooooly crap this tastes bad.
After a few more deep breaths to make sure that I wouldn't throw up, I take a look at the fruit, its strange, green interior and juice not looking very appetizing.
I take a look at the fruit, and a look at the forest, another look at the fruit, another at the forest.
I think about the monstrous gorilla and compare it with the terrible taste, and decide that eating the fruit is still better than going back to the forest, by a small margin.
Taking an even deeper breath, I try to swallow the fruit as quick as possible, and in three bites it's gone. Then I'm rolling in the sand trying to keep the only food I'll get today to stay withing me.
A loud boom gets me out of my revelry, and I sit up just in time to see a gigantic eel like head go back under the waves, a shark at least 8 times my size hanging from it's mouth.
…WHAT THE FUCK?!
After calming down, or at least realizing that running in circles while screaming isn't helping anyone, I decide to do the most reasonable thing I can think of right now.
"All hail C'thullu, the Great Old One of the Deeps!" Seeing no reaction I tried again "What is Dead may never Die!" and again "Hear me Poseidon, great god of the seas!" and again...
Well, that was useless. I thought as I laid -fell- down on the sand, tired after screaming at the sea for help from whatever eldritch creature may answer for however long it has been. Though I think it was mostly me venting by screaming at the ocean.
I really just wanted a bed right now.
That and answers. But, though both were unlikely, a bed seemed more possible. Or more mundane at least.
As I laid there with my eyes closed, I imagined a soft, perfect bed beneath me, instead of the rough sand. I was focusing so much on it that I could almost feel it.
Except when I raised my arms to stretch, I actually felt some strange, soft texture, not at all sand like.
Sitting up once again, I'm left baffled as I look at the mysterious green material that made a bed around me.
Running my hand through it tells me that it's soft and silk like, just like I wanted for my imaginary bed.
Getting an idea, I closed my eyes again and pictured/hope for a phone, I concentrated really hard and... nothing. Okay, I apparently can't create things. Maybe this is some natural super fast growing sand moss?
Sitting on the strange new bed, I heave a sigh as I recline back and- jump back as my back hits something solid.
Looking at what I hit I see a large, green, hairy chair back? Yeah, it seems like growing from the ground behind my was the back of a rather large hairy chair.
Running my hand through it, I could identify this material, it was more recognizable than the silk like bed, it was made of leaves.
The strange chair wasn't hairy, it was instead covered in a grass leaf like material, that was so thin and covered it so thoroughly that it seemed like it was hair/fur.
Ripping a chunk of the grass-fur also revealed the wooden like structure beneath it.
Getting a new idea, I closed my eyes and imagined a tree this time, an apple tree to be more specific, growing in front of me.
I did not even have to think that hard on it. I could feel a small pull inside of me, and opened my eyes to a small, flourishing apple tree, or at least an apple-tree like tree. Including apples.
Raising my hands to grab the eye level fruit growing from the just created the tree's branch, I take one of the apples and bite it. And it does taste like apples, normal apples. I quickly eat through three more of the fruits, that shitty tasting fruit from before hadn't been very fulfilling.
It had been surprisingly simple to make it, just... wanting it. It's weird to explain, it was like how you get your arms to move, you just will it. After I finished eating, I spent some two hours making a mixture of trees and wood/leaves structures around the beach. Testing this strange power.
Using it does tire me out a bit, and it makes me quite hungry, but I feel surprisingly fine and energized after eating a bit, and most of the things I created were various variations of fruits that I remembered, which I would then eat to recover what I spent to created. It was quite the efficient system.
Still, being able to remember what's a pineaple but getting nothing on what's my name was irritating.
Well, at least food won't be a problem anymore, I think to myself while eating a banana, though it was purple and came from a some odd spiky bushes growing by my side, while sitting in a large vine between two trees growing in the sand. All, of course, created by this weird -Wood Release like- power of mine.
Housing is not that big of a problem either, I thought while looking at the large box of wood covered in grass/fur.
I was still trying to think on how to get drinking water, but I can sleep thirsty for today.
I didn't really freak out or question the power much. This whole situation was weird enough already, I wasn't about to freak out about the only thing that's been beneficial for me so far.
So, now that I have guaranteed a food source, I should focus on the second point of interest for anyone stranded. How the hell do I get to civilization?
He ate the Mori-Mori no mi (Forest-Forest Fruit), a Paramecia which makes him a forest-man, with the ability to control/create plants and fungi.
This takes place around 12 years before the start of the series. The SI has a One Piece character body, which means logic and biology may get out through the window.
This story will eventually include OCs. I'll probably use One Piece born characters from other anime, as it gives an outline for me to write and something for the readers to recognize. I'm taking suggestions, for example:
Kimimaro [Naruto]: Nihilist, overly loyal sole survivor of mercenary clan turned pirate that terrorized the West Blue for centuries. Very proficient with CQC, ate the Paramecia Bone-Bone fruit.
I WON'T add any foreign mechanic or power, just the characters name, form and general personality to create a One Piece native. If it barks like a Kimimaro and walks like a Kimimaro, it's a Kimimaro. And my naming sucks, better just put in the same name than making a cheap copy named Steve Steveson Steverino, The Steven.