SBS 4!
Yes, this isn't a chapter. But I have college applications to write this month, so it leaves very little time for free writing. Please read these character profiles in the mean time.
EDIT: I've added the previous profiles and added them to here. For those of you who do not like it when I do this, this is the last time.
Enoch Vaughan Stats
Epithet: Blood King.
Age: 27.
Birthday: November 8th.
Height: 5"11.
Hair: Black.
Eyes: Red-brown.
Blood Type: Varies.
Sea of Origin: West Blue.
Favorite Season and Island: Winter on a Spring Island.
Favorite Food: Cherries.
Least Favorite Food: Rare-cooked red meats. Too bloody (irony abounds).
Abilities: Sniper, swordplay, Kenbunshoku and Busoshoku Haki, user of the Chi Chi no Mi (Blood Blood Fruit).
Fun Facts
*I actually originally created Vaughan for a different story idea a couple years ago. That Vaughan was older and way more evil than the one you came to know last chapter. The current Vaughan is a jerk bounty hunter, but he's not evil. He's just doing his job.
*In case you can't tell, I based some aspects of the Blood Blood Fruit loosely off Crona's abilities from Soul Eater and blood-bending from Avatar the Last Airbender. Obviously, Vaughan isn't limited to just his own blood and he can do way more with blood than Crona can, and he is more versatile than any mere blood-bender. You'll see.
*I know Oda usually has some deeper meaning or allusions with the names of his characters, but for me and Vaughan... not really. I just put together two names I thought sounded cool. Enoch is a man in the Bible, and he was Noah's ancestor (a fact I didn't know till after I created Vaughan. And I'm a Christian, so I'm a little ashamed of myself). But that doesn't really have anything to do with Vaughan. Vaughan's first name I picked out (back when he was older and eviler) because it sounded, well... evil. And vampire-y. Also, I thought it was pronounced Vaw-Han, so there was a factor of me liking how it sounded.
*Vaughan has had that medallion since he was little. It's a family heirloom and he considers it to be a good luck charm.
*Vaughan used get really upset as a kid when others called him a vampire. He stopped caring in his teens. (Not to say he appreciated Runo saying "bleh, bleh" every time he walked into a room. Tossing the male member of the Creepy Duo overboard straightened out his attitude.)
*If Vaughan were to have a voice actor, it would be Newton Pittman. He's the guy who plays Gray Fullbuster in the Funimation dub of Fairy Tail.
Erity Stats
Epithet: Gauntlet.
Age: 29 (or so she claims...)
Birthday: January 7.
Height: 6"1.
Hair: Blonde.
Eyes: Teal.
Blood Type: X.
Sea of Origin: South Blue.
Favorite Season and Island: Spring on an Autumn Island.
Favorite Food: Pork Soup with Spices.
Least Favorite Food: Anything with octopus in it.
Abilities: Rokushiki, another form of martial arts that has yet to be identified.
Fun Facts
*I believe I thought up 30 different versions of Erity before I came up with the one that appears in this story. I actually originally created her just to make a fourth bounty hunter (more people to fight), but she turned out more important than I originally intended. Who knew?
*Erity is a Japanese name meaning "One Who's Special." Once again, I only learned this after I created the character.
*Erity doesn't really need the gauntlets she wears. She just uses them to enhance her Shigan and to scare people.
*Erity is the one who made Runo and Vaughan's lunches. She actually doubles as the Carrion Bounty Hunters' cook.
*Erity only got the mohawk around the time she joined up with Carrion, roughly 6 months after Vaughan got on board. Before that she had long hair in a braid, but cut it under the suggestion of a friend.
*If Erity were to have a voice actor, it would be Christine Auten. She plays Izumi Curtis on Fullmetal Alchemist.
Baba Yari Stats
Epithet: Last Nerve.
Age: 25.
Birthday: May 11th.
Height: 5"5.
Hair: Light violet.
Eyes: Bright green.
Blood Type: F.
Sea of Origin: Grand Line- Paradise.
Favorite Season and Island: Autumn on a Summer Island.
Favorite Food: Sour foods.
Least Favorite Food: Sweet foods.
Abilities: Swordsmanship, Kenbunshoku Haki, inhuman strength, user of the Shinkei Shinkei no Mi (Nerve Nerve Fruit),
Fun Facts
* The name game is fun to play with the One Piece world, but Yari's... I thought I had made it up, but it turns out its a real name and kind of fits her! It's a girl's name that means 'calm,' which she is, at least compared to that brother of hers. Her surname though is a reference to Ali Baba from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Alabasta carries a lot of traits from Egypt and the Middle East, so I thought the name fit.
* Yari's powers are not just limited to the sensation of pain. She can also affect the nerves that cause pruritis (commonly known as itching- I'm taking Anatomy this year!) and the nerves that register pleasure sensations. She prefers not to touch the pleasure ones with a 39 and half-foot pole though. Last time she did it, things got... awkward.
* Yari is actually an old OC from the original story idea I had for the eviler-and-older version of Vaughan. That version of Yari was much younger; roughly 13 or 14. She had long black hime-style hair and was still Lolita, but wasn't a swordsman. She also didn't have the Nerve Nerve Fruit, instead of having a devil fruit called the Ningyō Ningyō no Mi... or in English, the Doll Doll Fruit. It was similar to Sugar's powers, but it only did dolls and nobody forgot the the victims. She could also turn herself into a doll and invoke a pocket space called Doll House. Obviously, that power didn't make it into TRD, but her love of dolls did. Now she just makes them by paralyzing her victims so that they can't move and she can play with them.
* Yari, like her brother, grows bored with her dolls after awhile. Once that happens, she un-paralyzes their nerves and lets them go, thanking them for the fun times. This usually happens every three or four days, and Carrion pays for the former dolls' therapy sessions provided they aren't pirates.
* Yari actually misses Alabasta more than she lets on.
* Yari's sword has a name. It's Shinkei Kattā (Nerve Cutter).
* Yari's English voice actor would be Lindsay Seidel. I like the condescending voice she used for Angel in Funimation's dub of Fairy Tail, so I thought it would be perfect for Yari.
Baba Runo Stats
Epithet: Dancing Haze (HATES this epithet with the burning passion of a thousand white-hot suns).
Age: 25.
Birthday: May 11.
Height: 5"7.
Hair: Light Violet.
Eyes: Green.
Blood Type: F.
Sea of Origin: Grand Line- Paradise.
Favorite Season and Island: Winter on an Autumn Island.
Favorite Food: Freeka (soup made from whole wheat and chicken broth).
Least Favorite Food: None. He's not picky.
Abilities: Hand-to-Hand Combat, triple jointed, inhuman strength, Kenbunshoku Haki, user of the Saimin Saimin no Mi (Hypno Hypno Fruit).
Fun Facts
* I know Runo is a real name, but I couldn't find any meanings that agreed with each other. Some sites said it was Kenyan, others said it was Nordic. In any case, I finally gave up and gave him the name because I liked the way 'Baba Runo' sounded.
* Runo's powers run on basis of sight and sound. You need to be able to both see and hear him for him to fully hypnotize you. If you can only hear him, all he can do is put you into a light trance. The trance is stronger if all you can do is see him; he just wouldn't be able to give you a command. Also, Runo needs access to both the eyes to hypnotize someone. Blind people, one-eyed people, or people who wear glasses/sunglasses are immune to the sight aspect of his hypnotism. And as previously stated, a trance cannot be broken unless he either says so, somebody figuring out the release phrase (if there is one), or if the victim is clocked directly on the right temple. But what are the odds of that happening?
* Unlike his sister ('supposedly', for her anyway), Runo misses Alabasta dearly. He still wears Alabastan-style clothes everyday because of this.
* Runo is described to look feral because his clothes are always a little torn up, his hair is messy, and he always has a wild look in his eye.
* Runo came out of his mother's womb a full ten minutes before Yari did, so he considers himself to be her 'older brother'. Yari thinks this is stupid and that because they are twins, no twin is older than the other.
* Runo likes to use contortion to freak people out. He's something of a psycho, in case you haven't noticed.
* Runo, for all his psychotic and creepy tendencies, doesn't like hypnotizing people to kill themselves or others. He can do it, as seen with Tattoos, but prefers not to. He claims it "takes the fun out of everything." He has no issues killing people personally, however. He is a bounty hunter after all.
* If Runo had an English voice actor, it would be Josh Grelle. Josh Grelle previously played Wanze in Funimation's dub of One Piece, but I don't want Runo to sound that annoying. No, his voice would sound more like Kuronosuke (when not cross-dressing) from Princess Jellyfish.
