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Perona | One Piece | Reserved
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Character
Name: Peorna
Series: One Piece
Timeline: Exactly after Zoro leaves with Luffy and Sanji to meet up with the crew and escape Sabaody.
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This shows Perona’s strength and capability to overcome, despite being so out of her element. She’s an extremely determined and out-spoken young woman, ready to put her foot down and tell anyone off, regardless of who they are or how much stronger than her they may be, if they so happen to upset her or say something she doesn’t agree with. She speaks her mind and doesn’t pull her punches in the slightest. While she may have calmed down to a degree while living with the two swordsmen, Perona still has her little outbursts if she’s annoyed enough. These are usually set off by Zoro’s unaccommodating nature or, say, Sanji’s overzealous and rather perverse invasion of her personal space when she met with the Monster Trio (Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji) on Sabaody. She laid the smack-down on the poor man for just going a bit too far, and didn’t hesitate one little bit to do so.
Even though she has her moments, Perona really is a well-balanced individual. She’s capable of being kind, sweet, even nurturing. Though not much is known of what happened during the two years she spent with Mihawk and Zoro, it’s seen that she does care about the latter of the two very much, even though they butt heads more than two angry mountain goats. She was rather upset, even depressed, when Zoro had to leave her to rejoin the Straw Hats on their journey. Perona detests being alone, and even though Zoro was her enemy back on Thriller Bark, she grew fond of him over time, and misses him when he’s not there with her. She was also put in charge of nursing Zoro back to health by Mihawk when she and Zoro first arrived on Kuraigana Island and met with the older man.
While there is no evidence physically seen of Perona feeling the same towards shichibukai Dracule “Hawkeyes” Mihawk, I believe she shares a similar bond with him, though not quite as personable. If anything, Perona treats Mihawk with slightly more respect. “Slightly” being that she still tells even him off at times, and berates him for being unsympathetic and just plain mean to her. Though, over time, I believe Mihawk acted as a calming agent for Perona’s hot and cold attitude, and she feels more at peace with the shichibukai than she does with Zoro, who tends to rile her up a high percentage of the time. And while Perona may not have allied herself with Mihawk and instead is more of a free-roaming pirate, I doubt she’d allow for anyone to badtalk the man while in her presence and thinks of him fondly.
The Straw Hats are a different story entirely. Barring all but Usopp, Perona treats them with a cool sort of indifference. She doesn’t care what they do, how they do it, or why they do the things they do if it doesn’t directly involve or affect her. In the past, she may antagonize them just because it’s fun or she’s bored or something, but now that she’s aged, Perona really doesn’t care at all for most of the Straw Hat pirates, showing that if she doesn’t have interest in a person or thing, she usually just ignores it or them. She can get along with the Straw Hats much better than she used to, though Usopp alone is the one person she hates with every part of her being. He is the only one to have ever defeated her outright, and gave Perona her very first loss. She holds the largest grudge against him than any person possibly could hold. There’s no doubt at all that Perona would try to attack or challenge him if she happened to get in contact with him. Or, at the very far end of the spectrum, scream at him as much as she can without getting too physical.
All in all, in regards to the Straw Hat pirates, Perona really doesn’t care much about them other than Zoro, but Usopp is the one person she hates more than anything else, and her furious nature would certainly flare up if she were to meet him again. She is extraordinarily unforgiving in that sense, considering she held her grudge against Usopp for two years when he beat her back on Thriller Bark.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Physical: Perona’s physical strength is rather lacking, to be completely honest. As a young human woman, she’s really not anyone to look at twice in terms of muscle strength. She of course has her episodes of “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” as is protocol in shounen manga/anime (basically being able to clobber those – usually men – thousands of levels stronger than her when she’s angry enough), but she’s no Hercules or anything of that sort. What she is good at, however, is being very flexible and acrobatic, even while being incredibly fashionable. Seriously, you try doing a backflip in four inch heels and sticking that flawlessly without batting an eyelash. She’s very aware of what she can and cannot do as well, in terms of her own strength, and knowing that her special abilities won’t come into play in Route will deter her from really getting into a fight she can’t win. She’d much rather run away to save her own skin than risk a battle she may lose. And she can run pretty fast, too.
Other skills Perona has that aren’t exactly muscle prowess or physical strength include the ability to sew and make simple to moderately detailed clothing, cooking basic dishes, and a lot of experience with first aid and its application. She tended to Zoro’s wounds on Kuraigana island for two years, and her knowledge of medical practice and application obviously improved over that time. In the beginning she was sloppy and did a terrible job at just bandaging the poor guy, but now that she’s grown, she knows her stuff pretty well, and definitely aid someone who needs quick medical attention if she has supplies on hand.
Mental: Despite her misgivings as being bratty and insolent, Perona is actually very intelligent. She was not made a key player of Moria’s crew when he was still alive for nothing, and it certainly shows in her battle style. Perona always goes into battle with a set plan in mind, and can come up with a new plan with relative ease. She knows how to use her powers as well as her wit in the best possible ways, when to use them, and how to utilize them to gather the best results. Perona may be “pompous” as she’s referred to by Zoro, but she is not an idiot. Her battle tactics are actually frighteningly effective, and build up to the point where she starts to get physical.
These tactics include Perona using planning, as I’ve said before, and mainly intimidation and scare tactics to warp her opponent’s mind. A frightful and jumpy opponent cannot think straight or make rational decisions – which is exactly what she aims for. Perona uses her opponent’s fear to overpower them mentally before getting physical with whatever’s available (normally that would include her devil fruit powers, but as they’re nonexistent in Route, they’d be replaced with her Pokemon). Her strategies are ones that attack the mind and spirit first and foremost. She acts cocky, confident, and so sure of herself that it, in effect, intimidates her opponents. If her foes think they cannot win, then she’s achieved one goal, and can further her ploy of getting them to surrender or defeat them. Confidence in any battle can play a great role in the outcome.
Perona herself was also the main player in gathering information for Moria when she was still his crewmate via her “Ghost Network” (the ability to create her ghosts and have them span large areas as spies. Because she sees and hears what they do, they make Intel work very easy for her) and the information she gathers with her skills was vital to the role of her captain and all of the other members of her crew. Because of the power restrictions, however, Perona would not be able to use the ghosts she could have created for this purpose, but if she can manipulate her pokemon to gather information for her, especially ones that can go invisible or hide especially well, she will use them in such manners. Perona actually enjoys gathering information through reading, newspapers, or eavesdropping with her hollows ghosts or in person and usually scowls when she’s out of the loop on things happening in the real world. She doesn’t like being left out of anything, so she gets pretty miffed when people are discussing things she doesn’t know, and makes it her own personal obligation to get the scoop on what’s going on.
Emotional: Perona’s emotional strengths are fairly basic. She has a very well balanced set of emotions. She knows how to keep a level head more so now that she’s aged than she used to in the past. She can keep calm better than she used to, and she’s usually rather poised in most situations, keeping a straight face and an open mind. This doesn’t mean that she’s emotionless, though! Not at all, Perona is often prone to her little outbursts of frustration, irritation and depression, and she’s still capable of being happy, overjoyed, and even excited over some things. She just knows how to better control her emotions now than she did in her youth, which may be attributed to her age and the two males she was living with, both of whom either negated her emotional rampage and put her in her place (Mihawk) or, on the other hand, set it off entirely (Zoro).
Let it be noted, however, that Perona does have a temper, and it’s not all that difficult to rub her the wrong way, it just takes longer for her to actually explode (but when she does, look the fuck out). She thinks extremely highly of herself, and she won’t allow for anyone, anyone, to disrespect her in any way at all. She’s very open-minded and loud-mouthed. She’ll stand up for herself, even if her opponent could potentially squash her like a grape – there is nothing she hates more than being at the short end of the stick. And if her temper flares, she won’t hold back in the slightest. Meaning that yes, if she is angry enough, or someone has done her wrong in a way she deems is unforgivable, she may take the path that leads to someone’s death. She may be a lady, but she will always be a pirate.
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Physical: It just so happens that Perona’s greatest strength, her Devil Fruit powers, is also her greatest weakness. Because Perona has eaten the Hollow Hollow Fruit, she has become unable to swim or be submerged in any large body of water. This is her greatest and most well-known physical weakness, the weakness of all Devil Fruit users. And while her powers in Route will be void, I will keep her the consequence of her being a Devil Fruit user in game. If she is placed into any body of water substantially deeper than her, she will ultimately sink like a rock and she will drown and die. For the purpose of the game, however, she won’t immediately sink link a stone when the water level goes over her head or something similar. She’ll be much like any normal person who can’t swim – flounder around wildly while screeching like a fruit bat before ultimately going under. She won’t, however, sink to her death if she has a form of floatation to keep her up. A pokemon that can swim/use Surf, an inner tube, or another person rescuing/swimming with her will keep her up.
This also means she’s weak to a canon-centric item called seastone. It’s a certain kind of stone, said to be a solidified form of the sea itself. This stone is the One Piece equivalent to kryptonite – it sucks away a Devil Fruit User’s powers and leaves them weak and fatigued. Using this stone on her, or anything similar to it, will leave Perona literally powerless. She would not be able to create ghosts, nor would she be able to remove her spirit from her body. If she was placed inside a seastone cage, or had handcuffs made from this stone placed onto her, Perona would immediately become just like any normal human being. Again, for the purposes of the game, and even if canon-centric items such as this wouldn’t appear, because Perona is a “norma human” in the game without her powers, the stone would just suck away her energy until she probably passes out from fatigue and stress on her body. She wouldn’t die from the stone, however, just be gravely ill and suffering until she got out of it and had time to get her head on straight.
Mental: Perona’s mental weaknesses haven’t changed much over her two years. It’s assumed she hasn’t fought much, if at all, during the two years she spent with Zoro and Mihawk, so Perona’s personality remains more or less unchanged. It can then be assumed that she also retained much of her weaknesses as well. Being the strategist that she is, Perona doesn’t do well when the plans she creates begin to unravel, though she can control herself much better than she once could. Instead of immediately panicking like her younger counterpart may have, Perona would merely grimace, possibly bite her lip, and work hard mentally to think of a new plan. In extreme cases, she could very well panic and revert to the mentality of her younger self, but it’d have to take a very dire, very dark situation to do such.
Perona is also stubborn, and this stubbornness, as well as perhaps her own overconfidence, clouds her judgment when the situation turns sour for her. The fact that she also has a well-defined “panic state” does not help matters either. Couple that together with a bit of naiveté and some gullibility and it’s easy to overpower Perona when she’s literally freaking out, or trick her if you’re a good enough actor/liar.
She also has an extreme phobia towards most insects. She can tolerate what most people are afraid of, however, that being spiders. She loves the little creepy crawlies, since they play well into her gothic Lolita aesthetic. And she also likes the “cute” side of bugs as well – lady bugs, bumblebees, butterflies, etc. are fine and don’t set her off at all. Things that are basically just gross and wiggly will set her into an immediate panic. Cockroaches are her number one insect fear, and despite any previous mental state, she will lose it completely if she has even one on her or something. Other bugs she dislikes are ants, worms, centipedes, grubs, beetles, and pretty much anything else. To be blunt, if the bug looks gross and scary, she will hate it and run the other direction flailing, or hide behind someone, orjump into their arms akin to Scooby Doo style.
Emotional: Perona wears her emotions on her sleeve, even if she’s able to control them better now that she’s older. She still freaks out and gets upset and sometimes even vengeful and violent. She may be older, but she’s still just a young woman, and her emotional attachments and bonds with others can sway her decisions. Perona hates being alone or left behind, and enjoys being not necessarily the center of attention, but she likes to be noticed and paid attention to. If she is disrespected, Perona usually gets upset, sometimes only mild irritation and other times pouncing on a person with pure, untamed anger.
More often than not, Perona’s emotional tirade usually builds until she breaks, and she usually just leaves before things can really blow up, but in those cases where she cannot escape her feelings, or has nothing to distract her or deflect her emotions, Perona usually snaps, and it’s not pretty. She can attack with full force or break down into tears at her lowest state, even if it may take a bit more to reduce her to such a state. She has grown, but Perona is still a human deep down inside, and her heart has always been good, despite her upbringing being a “bad guy” in the series for most of her life.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer.
Starter: Teddiursa (male, if we’re allowed to choose, please!).
Password: Ginger Snaps! Yum.
Samples
First Person Sample:
[Well, this is certainly a new experience. Perona was sure she was either drunk or dreaming when she woke up in such a strange, new place, but seeing the others (and being accosted by a few as well) wandering around just as dazed and confused as she was a little reassuring. Or, well, it at least told her she was sober and very much awake. The thing it didn’t tell her was just what was going on. After getting her bearings, and an actual and adorable baby bear creature, she begins to fiddle around with the device in her backpack.]
--ike a denden mushi? Eh, it’s recording… Hello? Hello, can anyone hear me?! I want to know what’s going on! What island is this? And where’s the nearest port? I want answers immediately! If this is some idiotic game, or…o-or if anyone thinks they can make a human slave out of me…! [Oh, she knows very well about the human market on Sabaody. And the thought is sickening. Perona instantly checks herself for an explosive collar, wrist band, or anklet.] I-I won’t forgive you imbeciles if you think I can be trapped and sold so easily! If anyone can tell me what’s going on, do so immediately! Don’t think just because you gave me a cute animal that you can do as you please! Send me back right now, I have things to do!
[Though she is definitely going to keep the little bear. In fact, he’s hanging lazily from one of her arms, as she holds him tenderly. He’s so much like her stuffed teddy bear, which she was mortified to find gone when she woke up. Someone’s going to pay for this… Once Perona figures out how to contact Mihawk, she’s going to demand he come and get her from…from wherever place this is!]
Third Person Sample:
This was madness. Absolute stupidity and Perona still didn’t really understand it – she wanted to believe it was just some kind of strange dream she was having, really. Why else would there be cute little animals everywhere? Still, was being so self-aware commonplace in a dream? And how could she be dreaming when she was so certain that she only left Zoro moments ago? Can it really be possible this was all real? It didn’t make any sense at all, though! And trying to wrap her head around just what was going on – and coming up short on several instances – was so infuriating!
As she walked, holding her new…pokemon, was it? As she held her adorable little bear cub in the place she’d usually hold her stuffed teddy bear, Perona was deep in thought about her predicament, and how to get out of it if it was real. Just as she was thinking to try calling someone she knows on that weird denden mushi-like thing (hey, it’s worth a shot), her thoughts were derailed when her foot caught on something spattered on the ground. With a shriek, Perona dropped her Teddiursa and fell on her face.
“Weeeh, what happened?! What did—“ She spots the perpetrator that tripped her, a pair of pants sprawled on the ground. And, after some more glancing about, she sees there’s a trail of spilled items, following after someone. Growling, Perona picks herself up, dusts herself off, and grabs the offending garment to stomp toward the…barefoot idiot, carrying a pink creature that had a slow, distant, and possibly drunken look that matched his own. “OI! You! Idiot boy! These are yours, aren’t they?!” She shakes the pants in the imbecile’s face, eyes zeroing in on his open bag, hanging limp and nearly empty. “Close your bag, you ignorant toad, I almost hurt myself tripping over what you spilled! And I almost hurt my little Bearsy, too! …Are you listening to me?!”
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