Accio APP Smoker

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CHARACTER
Name: Smoker
Canon: One Piece
OU/AU: OU
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Birthday: March 14th

History: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Smoker // Canon point: Chapter 660
Personality: At first glance Smoker is gruff, rough around the edges, and your typical tough-guy marine. He's got a variety of growls, glares, and scowls to spread around a whole brigade worth of men. He swears frequently, doesn't shave much, and has a violent streak a mile wide. He drinks rum (brand: Rhum) on the job, as well as beer, and flagrantly disobeys the dress code, wearing jeans and customized leather jacket.

Among the marines he's famous for ignoring orders, despite being in an organization that almost wholly relies on obedience, and even some pirates have heard of this tendency as the loose hound of the marines. His official nickname, however, is the White Hunter, in part, a play on his Devil Fruit (which allows him to turn into smoke, all of his attack names likewise start with the English word "White", and his birthday is on the Japanese holiday White Day) but also because of his reputation of being able to hunt down pirates. He seems to live for hunting pirates, and even when he's doing something else, he stops to "clean out the trash" he meets along the way. He apparently even goes to pirate bars for the express purpose of finding more pirates to get rid of.

He's generally tense, irritable, and grumpy, and little things seem to easily set him off. From marines talking too loudly, to Tashigi forgetting to wear her glasses or trembling from weak legs, and especially to when he thinks people are trying to tell him what to do. Smoker loathes anyone giving him orders, even his own bosses, and this got him in trouble quite a number of times. However, Smoker has developed his own bad habits about how to relax over time and smokes two cigars at once (although this is certainly also because of the devil fruit), drinks alcohol even at lunch time, and makes himself at home in his office: sitting with his boots up on his desk and reading a newspaper, even when he has visitors or someone talking to him. He even goes to the extent of "borrowing" his friend's private ship without permission and making himself at home on board, his only means of apology being that he flipped a coin for her to call heads or tails and when she picked the wrong one, Smoker decided this meant the argument was over and she'd have to suck up and deal with him being the way he is.

However, for all of Smoker's outwardly rough, gruff, and stern behavior, he has a much sweeter side. He's kind to his second in command: Tashigi, and while he yells at her, it's more out of tough love, because he believes her to be capable of being stronger. He's very obsessed with always moving forward, always getting stronger, and so for someone he cares about like her, he won't let her or himself fall behind. He bought a little girl ice cream, and in the anime, he frequented a nearly empty bar on a regular basis to make sure it still had clientele since he'd arrested all the pirates it usually catered to. His moral convictions in true justice make up the majority of Smoker's character, and even though he hates all pirates, and seems incapable of forgiving them for it, he let the Straw-Hats escape him so that they could fight a bigger enemy (Crocodile) while he hunted down proof of misdeeds.

While Smoker is extremely ambitious, he wants to do everything on his own terms. This apparently got him into trouble frequently at the academy and his best friend Hina had to bail him out a lot. He's strong and capable of being one of the toughest marines, but his refusal to suck up or play political games held him back in his career for a very long time. Despite his obvious skill as a hunter and perhaps the best tracker within the marines, they assigned him to the weakest ocean in the world to his hometown Loguetown. And despite having grown up in Loguetown and even having seen Gol D. Roger's execution when he was twelve (which deeply affected him, more on that later), the citizens of the birthplace and execution of the pirate king feared Smoker and resented his strength. They called him a monster, which always upset Tashigi, due to his devil fruit and because he drove away any business they used to get from pirates headed to the Grand Line. However, Smoker didn't care what they thought of him, so despite his intimidating reputation and aura, he continued to follow true justice always.

While many marines encourage absolute unquestioning obedience from their own marines, Smoker instead preaches true justice, and that they should each follow and develop their own senses of true justice. He tells Tashigi to trust her own justice, but it's also his trust in her that allows him to leave his men in her care. He does seem to care about his men a good deal, telling them to stand down when Ace got in the way, knowing that they wouldn't be able to handle a Whitebeard division commander. Moreover, he appears to keep their safety in mind, even when fighting and while pride might lead him to want to fight all the pirates on his own, he worried about Tashigi's legs and treats her more like a friend and trusted advisor, even pouring her coffee on one occasion despite how normally it would be her job to fetch him coffee.

Smoker's sense of going his own way extends to his clothing uniform. He's one of the only known marine officers to wear a variation on the justice emblem jacket, and instead of wearing the standard suit underneath, Smoker goes otherwise topless and wear blue jeans. He also doesn't restrict Tashigi's uniform and lets her wear whatever she wants, though others in his marine corps division usually follow the uniform dress code. His clothes expressly fit suggested motorcycle clothes for safety, which is apt since Smoker has a 3-wheeled motorcycle he calls the "Billower Bike" (variation: Biroa Bike) that runs on his smoke devil fruit.

When Smoker canonically ate the Moku moku no mi (smoke devil fruit) is unclear. However, it does seem to affect Smoker a great deal. He smokes two cigars at a time, and is definitely addicted to them, since he stops to light up, even right after getting kicked through several walls. Before even bothering to figure out what was going on or where the pirates were. It's doubtful that Smoker himself suffers any negative effects from the smoke because of his devil fruit both letting him become smoke and control it surrounding him. But he does realize the smoke isn't good for his men in the high doses he enjoys (when first seen, Smoker's room is so thick with smoke you can barely see anything) so he opens a window to air it out and while walking in town, seems to keep the smoke away from his marines (though that could be due to his height, since he towers head and shoulders over most of his marines.)

When Smoker is first introduced in the series, he's busy stacking rounded rocks on top of each other on a table. It's not completely known why he was doing this, but it's widely believed to be an exercise in patience, balance and stability. It's also become a running gag in the One Piece fandom that Smoker always gets them knocked over (usually by Tashigi who is known to be very clutzy, or his other marines who tend to be excitable) and has never been able to reach a height of ten.

Smoker keeps up on current events in the world, knowing even the newer big name pirates, and reads the newspaper. He seems to have a good interest in the workings of countries and told Tashigi at one point to watch how the events in Alabasta turned out because things like this could make or break a country, but either way, it would change the shape of things and it was important to watch. He seems to understand the rippling effects Luffy has on the world and even though he knows how politics is, he refuses to take part in it himself, trying instead to just cut straight to the point and stick to his ideals.

Smoker has a tendency to think and listen rather than speak, except when he has something important to say or it's about justice. However, he'll still joke around with Tashigi and Hina, making a pun about cleaning up the act of some pirates dancing around and mouthing off, and telling Hina he likes always getting his own way (of course). He crosses his arms and puts fists on his hips and is a dead giveaway for body language. Even when he's bluffing, his face tends to be a little bit of a giveaway (although criminals don't seem to be able to tell.) When Smoker does talk, he tends to be snippy and interrogatory, asking questions even of his own men and often phrases things in rhetorical questions.

Aside from just keeping up on daily events, Smoker aggressively investigates things, as part of his job, but also as part of his tunnel vision. He seems to have a knack for predicting Straw Hat Luffy's destinations, though this is part from experience and skill, and sometimes because Luffy literally has told him where he intends to go. However, when the Straw Hat Crew began heading to Punk Hazard, Smoker was thrown for a loop, though rather than waste time figuring out the how and why, he just set sail in that direction.

Smoker has a bad habit of tapping quite a few phone conversations, and so nearly anytime the Straw Hat Crew use a den den mushi, Smoker has the line tapped, just waiting to hear word about them. Which is beyond obsessive. Given the right circumstances Smoker can be a wealth of information, as is shown when he gave the Straw-Hat crew information about seastone and Nico Robin. While he has tunnel vision for Luffy, he still arrests other pirates that come into his view, and as is the case with Ace in the Spicebean in Alabasta, he hates to let a single pirate go, even if he might be outmatched. Likewise, he keeps tabs on other enemies. He knew more about Daz Bones: aka Mr. 1, than even the Straw Hat crew, and he was investigating Baroque Works at the same time the Straw Hat crew ran into trouble with them.

Even though Smoker refused both the promotions for himself and Tashigi, he has the position forced onto him and foreshadows that for the both of them to make it in the New World they both need to get much higher ranks. This dream is realized when he took over G5 and after going after extremely tough pirates and proving himself in the two years following Marineford; achieved rank Vice Admiral. Despite having been warned about the difficulties with G5 -- that the men were unruly and the base itself was riddled with problems, and even had the worst reputation among the marine bases, that is the one Smoker requested. This is fitting with Smoker's ambition and thirst to prove himself, as well as his intense desire to always keep getting stronger and race ahead.

During Marineford, Smoker mentioned that there was something wrong with "justice" in the fight; because the marines had become bloodthirsty. Both the Whitebeard pirates and the marines, had lost sight of their original goals (to kill or rescue Ace and Whitebeard) and were just needlessly lashing out at each other, spiraling into pure chaos, as wars often do. While this could also hint at awakening haki, much like with Coby, it certainly shows that the actions by Akainu and other marines following Absolute Justice didn't sit well with Smoker.

Smoker is often disrespectful, towards the brass, his fellow marines, and even his close friends. He holds extremely high standards, of himself and others, and by the time he's show in the New World, he's downright contemptuous of his men, who are pyromaniacs and torture pirates when they're not too busy leering at Tashigi. In spite of that gruff attitude, however, he lets them call him "Smo-yan" and worries quite a deal about them, going so far as to get riled up at the fellow G5 vice admiral who was working for pirates all along and left the men out there to die.

Abilities:
Smoker is a moku moku devil fruit user which means he can turn into and control smoke around him. It also means he can't swim or he will drown, he's weak to seastone, and he's cursed.

Smoker is an extremely strong fighter, and having reached the rank of Vice Admiral, it means he must have mastered control over haki which allows him to fight logia users (elemental devil fruit users like himself) and to resist other people using it as well. Likewise, all the vice admirals have been shown as being familiar with rokushiki. And while Smoker does not appear to wielder of it himself, he would have to, at minimum, know of the techniques and means to deal with them. For instance: Geppou (moon step) lets a person kick the air and ground enough to "fly," however, this means little to a man who can turn into smoke and lasso people anyway.

He's shown to be an extremely strong and fast fighter even without his devil fruit or additional "superpowers." He's skilled with the jitte and his style favors apprehending criminals rather than arresting them, as fitting his justice.

Best/Worst Subject: Best: Transfiguration. Smoker's smoke logia acts a lot like transfiguration and he's good with tangible things. Also Laws & Justice. Worst: Charms. He's bad with people, doesn't care about whether they think he's a monster or not, and isn't good with "flighty" things.
Requested House: Gryffindor (bravery & justice) or Hufflepuff (truth & hardworking).
Anything Else? JUSTICE! Also he really will require a steady stream of cigars >> No one wants to see this man in withdrawal. No one.

SAMPLES
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2. Bracket/Action Tag post sample

[Smoker's downing a bottle of rum, and it's pretty clear, he's already had a few.] You know, in my world they say the best alcohol comes from wherever you grew up. A few years on the Grand Line and I guess that's true. I still prefer East Blue lagers or Rhum brand rum. Why is that, you think? Does anyone find that's true for them? Is it a homesickness thing? Because I don't miss Loguetown at all.

I wonder if it applies to coffee and tea too. All beverages, or just alcohol? Anyone know?

[A pause, yeah he's rambling.] Or maybe I should stop. [He doesn't stop drinking though. Nope, he takes another sip.] I'm definitely sure it doesn't apply to cigars though. That is just a matter of where the tobacco is grown and the type of paper and rolling. [Yup, aficionado here.]

All right, I'm going to get off and go stack some rocks. [How that follows is anyone's guess.]

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