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Monkey D. Luffy || One Piece || Reserved
Player Name: SM
Preferred Contact Methods: AIM: Essemwolf
Other Characters: N/A
CHARACTER INFO
Character Name: Monkey D. Luffy
Series: One Piece
Canon Point: Right after his fight with Don Krieg (End of chapter 66)
History Link: HERE!.
AU/OC History: N/A
Game Import: N/A
Personality:
To anyone who meets him Luffy will probably come off as an impulsive, happy-go-lucky idiot with naïve dreams of becoming the next Pirate King. However, once most people get to know him… not that much of that changes. But while he might be incredibly simple at first-- sometimes perhaps even an idiot-- this is only true to an extent. Luffy isn’t so much “dumb” as he is someone who lacks a lot of basic knowledge that most people would know from school or being around fellow towns people. While Luffy spent the first six years or so of his life around regular people in Foosha Village. The rest was spent mostly in the forest, around his brothers, and mountain bandits. All of this was great for his ability to be able to survive in the forest, or against wild animals, but it did very little for his thinking skills. While he was fighting bears he wasn’t doing much strategy wise. Instead, he focused entirely on instinct and reflexes. Even his Granddad, Monkey D. Garp, would put him through harsh training such as throwing him down bottomless pits, in dark forests, etc.
This didn’t do much for him as far as thinking goes, but it did give him a near unbreakable will. After surviving everything he’s been through new challenges come as nothing more than a new obstacle he has to conquer rather than a life-threatening experience. He’s been through so many of those that he has developed this confidence in himself that he believes he won’t die from what’s thrown at him and he can muscle his way out alive. Not to say he doesn’t know the risk. He knows it’s a possibility he will die each time, but he’s just stared death in the face so many times that trying to conquer it comes much more natural to him than most people. Zeff even comments on his fearlessness during his battle with Don Krieg. During said battle he punched his exploding spear six times to break it. He also wasn’t afraid to punch into the spiked sheet that Don Krieg put around himself.
Now, while admittedly (even admitted by Luffy himself) thinking isn’t his strong suit, it should be noted that he does think. And can actually be surprisingly perceptive when he needs to be. He has even been known to be serious and offer words one might not expect from him in certain circumstances. When Usopp asks if Luffy and the others were pitying him when they said they would help protect his island against pirates Luffy looks at him seriously and says “Who would risk their lives out of pity?” While Luffy’s ability to think sometimes might seem idiotic, there is usually some logic behind it. Like during the end of the Buggy arc. Luffy tells the villagers that they’re pirates and that they knocked out their mayor right away because it was the truth. While this might have seemed like a very dumb thing to do, later when they’re running he tells Nami that they’re good people. And that they would’ve attacked them no matter what because they care about their mayor. This also shows his high perception of people in some situations.
Now, all that being said about the positive sides of his thinking, now we’ll get to the negative: in short Luffy is simple. He thinks in a simple way about things since he knows he won’t understand anything past a certain level. So his outlook stays simple and sometimes tunnel visioned. He’s a guy whose spent most of his life fighting animals and hanging out with bandits. He really doesn’t need to be the one to think anyway. But sometimes his line of thinking is overly simple to a fault. Like the fact that he’s spent ten years or so training to become a pirate—and has the muscle to prove it—but no real knowledge of simple stuff he should know if he wants to travel out at sea. This is another one of Luffy’s problems; not thinking things through all the way. He spent all that time getting stronger, but Nami is actually surprised that neither he nor Usopp knew anything about scurvy. This was a bad way to go about his pirate journey since at first he started out alone, and because of that he wouldn’t know the right foods to eat to prevent himself from getting sick. Knowledge that could possibly save his life.
But still Luffy is an overall great guy. He’s usually happy and fun to be around. He’s also very trusting of new allies which, of course can be a fault with the wrong people (Nami took advantage of this). But surprisingly this works out well for him as the moment he makes a friend he’s willing to go through extreme lengths to protect them or the people they care about. In a lot of ways it’s a great way to earn friends and loyalty. He has even been shown to give his trust to otherwise shady characters that most people wouldn’t fool with. The guy very rarely care about the person’s past as long as he himself deems them as a good person (He didn’t care to hear about Nami’s past, and Zoro was a pirate hunter before he joined his crew). And despite being a pirate he’s most of the time fair and at times even responsible. After accidentally firing a canon ball into the Baratie, Zeff orders him to work there to pay off his debt and he agrees without hesitation. Even if they have a hard time coming to terms with exactly how long he would work there. In addition he was willing to fight Mohji and his giant lion, Richie, just because they burned down Chouchou’s owner’s pet food store. He returns to him a bag of pet food which was all that was left of the store.
That isn’t to say everything about Luffy is swell and amazing. There are some parts of him that may come off as him being a jerk or even cruel in some cases. When Kuro asks him why he’s getting involved with something that isn’t even his business he replies with “There’s someone on this island I don’t want you do kill.” Which implies he really only cared about saving Usopp out of everyone. On top of that, he knocks out Boddle the mayor just to keep him out the way, tells Kuro’s men that he will kill them just because they laughed at Usopp. And in a SBS it’s actually revealed the reason he doesn’t kill villains is not because he doesn’t want to, or can’t bring himself to do it. It’s actually because in the One Piece world, watching your dreams destroyed is a fate worse than death. And that is why he lets them live. Not that he ever seems to really hold back. His enemies are most of the time just strong enough to endure his onslaught and only get knocked out by his finisher. In a more light-hearted example, he puts a bugger in Zoro’s water because they were eating out while he was “slaving” as a chore boy.
When it comes to piracy he constantly claims to know what a pirate is and etcetera when really he has only been out at sea for a month or so probably. Often times he is seen telling his enemies that he would never lose to a “pirate like them” when really he probably hasn’t even met that many pirates outside of Shanks’ crew. This is probably because compared to a lot of more simple pirates that likely plague the East Blue sea, Shanks— a powerful yonko—and his crew seems leagues above everyone else. And his crew is how he rates more pirates since he compares them to those guys. He has this strange perception when it comes to most things that have to do with pirates. Despite not actually have been a pirate himself for that long, he knows what it means to be a pirate and the dangers that are involved with it. When Buggy and his crew tell Nami to kill him with one of his Buggy balls she gets nervous. And Luffy explains to her that she shouldn’t have gone against pirates unprepared. If you want to go against pirates you have to be willing to risk your own life. This shows a level of maturity he has gained over the years, as before he thought he could become a pirate by proving he was really tough. And that’s how he got the scar under his eye. From stabbing himself there to prove he was tough to Shanks and his crew.
And lastly, there is Luffy’s hat. While it might looks like an ordinary straw hat to most people, this is Luffy’s most prized possession. Because it was the last (and perhaps even only) gift he got from Shanks before his departure. It also signifies the promise he made to him. Despite coming well known as “Straw Hat” to a lot of people, the hat isn’t actually his own. It’s Shanks’. And he wants to return it back to him one day when he has finally become a great pirate in his own right. Whether that day will be after he obtains One Piece itself, or later in the series when he has sailed many seas has yet to be seen.
Powers:
Luffy’s most obvious power right off the bat is his rubber abilities! After eating the Gomu Gomu no Mi fruit, Luffy’s entire body became made of rubber. This gives him the ability to stretch himself to extreme lengths, and become immune to any physical damage that isn’t Haki imbued since the rubber absorbs the impact.
In the One Piece world it is possible to gain things like super strength or extreme speed with enough training. And Luffy shows mostly the former of the two but a bit of the latter. Strength wise he’s incredibly strong, able to lift a giant lion over his shoulder and slam him into the ground with enough force to KO him. Speed wise he probably can’t match up to Sanji, but he’s still much faster than any normal human being. Usopp—a person who used to run through his village everyday and was able to outrun a fishman—couldn’t even keep up with him.
Other Details: N/A
SAMPLES
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