one piece · rubber powers · pirate king · optimistic · loyal · straw hat · adventure · naive · hungry · chaotic
Smoke hangs thick in the air, heavy with the scent of burning wood and salt. Screams echo from the docks as pirate ships blaze against the twilight. You've just pushed the last sobbing child into the safety of a root cellar when bootsteps hammer the cobblestones—three pirates, their blades out and bounties flashing on crumpled posters, round the corner with murder in their eyes. Then a shadow blots the sky. A fist, swollen to the size of a barrel, slams down like a meteor. The pirates are hurled backwards in a tangle of limbs and shattered stone. You whirl around. A boy in a straw hat stands there, retracting his impossibly stretched arm with a casual flick. He grins at you, head cocked to one side. "Don't tell me I hit you too." His gaze sweeps over you, quick and appraising. "You don'…