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Vivre Card XXIV
Name:
Esdeath
Codename:
Shirokami
Epithet:
Bloody Bitch (pirates)
Marine Princess (those in the Navy who simp for her)
Age:
27
Affiliation:
Marines
Rank:
Admiral
Home Island:
Unnamed island in the farthest northern reaches of the North Blue
Devil Fruit:
Human-Human Fruit, model: Skaði
Devil Fruit Type:
Mythical Zoan
Bounty:
N/A
Brief History:
Born on one of the most northern inhabitable islands in the world in the far reaches of North Blue, Esdeath was the daughter of the island's Chieftain who was taught to hunt and kill from an early age. Due to the island's dangerous wildlife and inhospitable climate, Esdeath's clan adopted an extreme interpretation of the concept of survival of the fittest with victory at all costs and defeat as a sign of weakness.
As such it was instilled into Esdeath from a young age that the strong lived while the weak died, so if you wanted to live you had to be strong to never become one of the weak. It was that believe which she took to heart, compounded by her mother being eaten when she was a child, that above all else has shaped her personality.
While little is known about her formative years, it is believe, based on her own testimony, that when she was around 13 her home was attacked by pirates. By all accounts she was the sole survivor having survived due to having been on a week long's hunt at the time of the attack thus missing it however she returned in time to watch her father die and admit that he was weak. It should be noted that Esdeath seems to show no sadness at the loss of both her parents and her whole tribe at such a young age.
It wasn't just the loss that didn't affect Esdeath but she was also unaffected by the aftermath as she spent the next year living alone on the island hunting and eradicating many of the beasts there. It is believed that during this year alone Esdeath found her Devil Fruit and awakened her Conqueror's Haki, the latter almost certainly as a means of survival, as she appears to have possessed both prior joining the Navy at age 14 though she has not been forthcoming on the details of her time alone.
Whatever the case with her abilities may be, it was after a year alone on her home island that Esdeath finally came into contact with other sentient life when she was found by the Navy during an investigation into piracy in that part of the North Blue. It was decided to bring her with them as the commanding officer at the time believed that a 14 year old girl should not be living alone the way she was. However, Esdeath only came in after a fight and even then she defeated scores of marines before the commanding officer, Commadore Budo, was to subdue her and talk her down.
Thankfully she hadn't killed any marines in the fight and upon learned of the wider world and that the Navy was the main force in protecting the world from violent and strong pirates and criminals under the auspices of the World Government she enlisted on the spot. It was the best chance for her to get stronger and fed her love for life or death battle after all so to her it was a no brainer to sign up with the Navy.
Given her clear talent, Devil Fruit powers, and at the time untrained Conqueror's Haki that she'd shown off during the attempt to subdue her, her willingness to enlist was seen as a massive boon for the Navy. It was due to all this that she was fast tracked for future leadership shortly after she officially became a marine.
Quickly Esdeath established herself as a ruthless and efficient Marine, earning a commission in less than a year and becoming a rising star within 18 months of enlisting when she defeated the pirates who'd slaughtered her tribe. Additionally, she did so without any vengeance but rather as a matter of her duty to dispense justice as a marine, which was seen by many as a good sign for her future as a leader.
That said there were some marines like Vice Admiral Garp, the now former Admiral Zephyr, and a few other high ranking marines who had their reservations about Esdeath. This was due to her of eradicating whole swaths of enemies with her Devil Fruit powers, something she refused to reveal the name of, and habit of going for the kill rather than the capture. However, as she was an effective and highly skilled leader and marine, especially with a sword, many overlooked what were perceived to be minor flaws in how she dispensed justice.
It was because of her ruthlessness that an aid to a Celestial Dragon took an interest in her when she was climbing the ranks and persuaded the Celestial Dragan that he served to gift her the Supreme Grade rapier Bloodletter upon her promotion to Vice Admiral. This notoriously brutal and picky Supreme Grade sword will only let someone who lives for battle and thirsts for blood to the point of wetting Bloodletter with blood every time it is drawn to wield it, conditions that Esdeath easily met and she tamed the blade quickly. With a blade of the highest caliber added to her arsenal Esdeath became even more deadly.
It was due to all of these factors and her own personal justice, Final Justice, that she became a favorite of the hardliners within the Navy who saw her as one of the epitomes of Absolute Justice and she swiftly ascended the ranks. As a result she became a Vice Admiral at the young age of 18 only 4 years after joining the Navy in what is considered by many to be either an unprecedented rise, a reflection on the current situation within the Great Pirate Era, or a mixture of both.
Regardless of the reasons for Esdeath's rise no one could say that it was unearned and 5 years later she would go on to defeat several other candidates and fellow Vice Admirals such as Najenda, Budo, Arcadios, and Enji just to name a few to secure the open Admiral spot. With her promotion she would became the first woman to hold the rank along with the youngest in history at the age of 23. Due to her powers, porcelain skin, and heritage she was assigned the codename Shirokami upon becoming an Admiral.
It should be noted, however, that a major factor in her promotion was her closeness with the Celestial Dragons who saw her as a useful tool to maintain world order as she is brutally efficient in her duties even if her actions in doing so would be considered war crimes had they not been done under the auspices of the Navy. Her promotion was also the catalyst for Najenda's betrayal and defection from the Navy so Esdeath's first order of business was to bring her old friend in but Najenda managed to escape Esdeath minus her right arm and eye which lost to Esdeath in the process.
Since then Esdeath has served as an exemplary Admiral known for her generosity to the troops under her command, well those who survive at least, along with many successful subjugations of rebellion in that time. She has even created her own personal special forces unit, the Jaegers, under the command of the reinstated Vice Admiral Liver. Her only blemish in this time is the fact that she fell in love with a notable rookie pirate, the Adaptive Monster Tatsumi, during a martial arts competition that she was officiating and which he won.
Based on reports it seems that Esdeath took him under her wing right after the competition, not realizing who he was at first, and with the intent on grooming him to be an Admiral and her husband. However he would escape a few days later and returned to the Night Pirates before his identity was revealed thus preventing the Navy from finally detaining him.
Even after learning Tatsumi's true identity and the what his Devil Fruit was, Esdeath's love seems to have intensified and she has encountered him one more time before the War of the Best but again he escaped. Despite her ongoing love for Tatsumi and the scandal that it could cause, she has refused to use her influence to increase his bounty or change it to 'Only Alive'.
In fact she is constantly thrilled whenever his bounty is increased and praises him for managing it whenever it happens and how it deepens her love for him. So between the fact that Tatsumi's bounty hikes usually occur when he slaughters countless marines and the whole being a Navy Admiral in love with a rookie pirate to a disturbingly obsessive level, this aspect of Admiral Shirokami is considered to be a deep embarrassment to the Navy. Hopefully this will end as soon as Tatsumi is killed or captured but as of right now that seems to be unlikely.
Lastly, it should be noted in Esdeath's file that after 13 years of speculation the name and nature of her Devil Fruit has finally been revealed to not be the ice or temperature Paramecia type she has let the world believe it to be. Rather it a powerful Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit known as the Human-Human Fruit, model: Skaði that grants her the power of an ice goddess.
This was revealed during the War of the Best when she fought Tatsumi and he deduced the true nature of her Devil Fruit, something that she confirmed to everyone in the Navy's shock. The fact that she was able to keep it's true nature a secret until now, and that it's known that she'd not shown the full power of it as she's never shown her hybrid or beast forms, only adds to the assessment of her power levels. As such Admiral Shirokami is one of the strongest weapons in the Navy's ongoing war against evil and will be for some time to come.
