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Kamikaze Pirates
General
The protagonists are mostly from another world, while the others are original characters. The former are all martial artists with baffling and destructive styles, with the entire crew often leaving a trail of destruction in their wake wherever they go—though it isn't always their fault that it happens (and they certainly think it never is).
- Action Girl: All of the women in the crew can pack just as much a punch as the men, and two of the men can even turn into girls—and are no less formidable for it.
- Battle Couple: For a generous interpretation of the trope. Ranma is either engaged (if only technically) or simply desired by Kodachi, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Nabiki, and they eventually agree to try being "boyfriend and girlfriend(s)", whilst Harumi eventually becomes a couple with Miriam. All parties involved are skilled fighters and work easily together on the battlefield.
- Combat Pragmatist: The concept of "fair play" is utterly foreign to them. Yeah, they're pirates, but, well, "Anything Goes".
- Create Your Own Hero: The other-worlders had no beef with the World Government initially, but the Marines decided they were pirates—when, in truth, they were actually trying to hand some actual pirates over to them for a bounty—and fired the first shots.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Despite calling themselves "pirates", they have no interest in pillaging or plundering innocent civilians. On the other hand, beating up anyone stupid enough to pick a fight with them and then robbing them is fair game. Deliberately attacking the Navy is probably the most "pirate-y" thing that they do, and that's largely because they're convinced that the Navy is a brutal enforcer for a corrupt and despotic regime (which, let's be fair, isn't inaccurate). Lampshaded in Chapter 25, when Commodore Sukumvit notes that the Kamikaze Pirates are a puzzle to Navy intelligence for always attacking Navy targets and leaving civilians alone.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: It's called out that the easiest way to tick off Kodachi, Shampoo, Ukyo or even Nabiki is to attack Ranma.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: The other-worlder members of the crew initially barely tolerate each other, but as they adventure together, they come to form a sincere bond with each other. This in no way stops them from teasing, mocking, pranking, or brutally brawling with one another in their off-time, but if you attack one of them, you can be sure the rest will come running to their defense.
Ranma Saotome
Ranma Saotome
Current Bounty: 95,000,000 (Male Form) and 30,000,000 (Female Form)
Heir to the Saotome School of Anything Goes and the reluctant love interest of Kodachi Kuno, Shampoo, and Ukyo Kuonji (and possibly Akane Tendo, although he's unsure of that), Ranma Saotome was the unwitting impetus behind the events that led to the future Kamikaze Pirates being stranded in the East Blue. He was subsequently nominated for the role of captain, given his past experience in leading their rare group alliances and the obedience he can compel from Kodachi, Shampoo, and Ukyo. Despite not wanting the position, he resolves to do his best to live up to the responsibilities, striving to keep his friends safe on their journey to find the One Piece and return to their world.
- The Ace: As in canon, Ranma is largely considered the strongest, fastest, and most skilled fighter of their group, although Ryoga would dispute it.
- A Father to His Men: It's made repeatedly clear throughout the fic that as much as the other Kamikaze Pirates may variously aggravate, frustrate or intimidate him at various times, he still thinks of them as his friends and that his role as their captain means that keeping them all safe is his top priority. In Chapter 18, on the final night before their Black-Tie Infiltration, he even mentally promises that their safety means far more than completing the mission. In the same chapter, when pretending to be a nobleman, he nearly dislocates an obnoxious merchant's nose for the Fantastic Racism he shows to Miriam.
- An Ice Person: Thanks to his training in the Soul of Ice, Ranma has an untrained affinity for icy ki. He can emit a frigid Battle Aura that can palpably chill bystanders and kill nearby plants through frostbites. When facing off against Gasparde, in a moment of desperation he combines this icy aura with the energy projection techniques of his Moko Takabisha, creating the fundaments of a freezing ki blast. He later creates a dedicated wide-area icy aura/explosion called Mourning Mist.
- Berserk Button:
- Child abuse, or at least abusive mothers, is a major one for Ranma. Learning Harumi's mother not only approves of but ordered her son's regular beatings enrages him to the point where he declares he's going to enjoy hurting her, despite his usual reservations about striking girls.
- It's mentioned in passing that Ranma takes a very dim view of people insisting that being an Involuntary Sex Shifter means he must "obviously" want to be a woman permanently.
- Big Eater: Manages to eat 180 oysters, albeit with difficulty, for an eating challenge. It's mentioned in passing that he is one of the largest eaters on the crew, second of course to Miriam. It's at least partially because of how physically active he is, after undergoing some training herself Nabiki is actually surprised that he's not eating more, with him replying that the cravings get weaker as one gets better at tapping their ki.
- Celibate Hero: Played with. Ranma does his best to ignore the rather blatant sexual offers of Kodachi, Shampoo, and Ukyo, but he's well aware both of what sex is as a whole and that they are interested. He just chooses to refuse them because of the tangled web of honor they are involved in. It's also why he ignores Nabiki, even though he admits that he thinks she's physically attractive.
- Covert Pervert: He's apparently had fantasies of having sex with multiple members of his "harem" at the same time, though he's never dared to admit that.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique:
- The unnamed "grow into a giant" technique used by Happosai, Genma, and, in the anime, Soun. Ranma has never practiced or studied it before but attempts to use it in Chapter 15. It exhausts him so badly that he is left Asleep for Days and is told upon awakening that it could have killed him if he'd been less lucky. He promptly resolves to never use it again until he's actually spent some time practicing.
- His experimental fiery ki blast, the Red Sun, has the downside of creating intense localized temperatures, which sap Ranma's stamina. He even notes that there is currently a distinct limit to how hot he can make the ki blast without the backwash temperatures burning him.
- Glory Seeker: Ranma admits to himself in Chapter 18 that he wants to be respected as a pirate because in Nerima his own actions were always overshadowed by his curse and father's legacy.
- I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Invoked by Ranma during the crew's first game of truth or dare when he is put on the spot about which girls he finds attractive. Finally deciding to seek Refuge in Audacity, he gives them a rundown on what he thinks are their sexiest traits, pointing out that, even if he doesn't have dishonorable intentions, he still can't help noticing they all have physically attractive elements, simply because he's a straight guy and they're all both hot and willing to flaunt what they have.
- Kamehame Hadoken: As in the canon, Ranma can convert his sheer confidence into a concussive force blast of spiritual energy called the Moko Takabisha. He subsequently begins experimenting with Elemental Powers-based variants of the technique, creating an as-yet nameless ice blast and a fire blast called the Red Sun.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: Per design discussion on the Spacebattles forum, Ranma's fire blast technique is a series of moves named "[Color] Sun", with different colors denoting different temperatures and thus different potencies. As of Chapter 25, Ranma is only able to use the Red Sun, which is the coolest and weakest of the family. The eventual progression will be Red Sun, Orange Sun, Yellow Sun, Blue Sun, and finally Black/Dark Sun.
- Locked into Strangeness: The red hair of Ranma's female form is called out as extremely unusual for somebody who is, as far as everyone is aware, a pureblooded Japanese. Ryoga privately wonders if it's an aspect of the curse.
- Only Sane Man: Privately, Ranma views himself as the sanest, most sensible member of the crew.
- Playing with Fire: After experimenting with icy ki blasts, he becomes fixated on the idea of experimenting with fire ki. He eventually learns to generate fire through his spiritual energy... but he initially can't do so without setting himself on fire in the process. In Chapter 24, he finally creates a basic ki blast of ki-spawned flames, which he calls the Red Sun.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: Invoked in Chapter 22; he notes that the childhood he had with Genma wandering all over Japan taught him to eat just about anything he can get his hands on because the alternative was starving. As a result, he doesn't even flinch when Ukyo presents him with a Masochist's Meal of bugs, rats, snakes, and offal.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Zigzagged. Ranma admits he doesn't particularly like fighting girls, but he is willing to do so if he must. In Chapter 9, he has no problem with sparring with Shampoo, but insists on fighting defensively when confronted by Captain Chaser, if only because she looks so much like Kasumi. In Chapter 16, he flat out declares he's going to enjoy hurting Harumi's mother due to her child abuse.
- You Are in Command Now: Ranma finds himself abruptly shoved into the role of captain when the crew accidentally becomes pirates.
- You Fight Like a Cow: Ranma has a really solid knack for getting under his opponents' skins with his insults and mockery.
Ryoga Hibiki
Ryoga Hibiki
Current Bounty: 20,000,000
The First Matenote
The Eternally Lost Boy of Nerima, Ryoga Hibiki loathes being stranded in the Grand Blue because it leaves him more cut off from his beloved Akane Tendo than he has ever been. To his surprise, he found himself designated as the ship's first mate, largely because of his neutrality in their greater relationship tangle.
- Big Damn Hero: He saves Nabiki from being raped by a corrupt Marine captain.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: Invoked in Chapter 16, where he proclaims that being P-chan has seen him attacked by a wide variety of hungry animals and people, including "wild dogs, bears, wildcats, hawks, snakes, campers, bandits, and even one very large and very cranky salamander".
- Nepotism: Invoked and subverted. Ryoga's default attitude of "simmering hostility" towards Ranma and indifference towards the girls is actually called out as the best reason to make him the First Mate; he can work with Ranma, but he won't simply blindly listen to Ranma either. The fact he won't try to laud his power over the rest of the crew is a further bonus.
- Sarcastic Devotee: He's usually the most hostile towards Ranma's ideas, cynical about his latest scheme, defeatist about the odds, and quick to remind Ranma of his failures. But he still follows Ranma and does his best to get the crew through trouble, even after being given a chance to retire to a peaceful island in Paradise and wait for them to succeed in their goal.
- Super-Strength: It's unclear who is stronger; Ranma or Ryoga. But Ryoga's strength is absolutely enormous, to the point he can compete on equal terms with, if not outmatched, the wotan Miriam — who is roughly three times his size and (partially) from a race that averages about ten times the strength of a human even when they are man-sized.
- Super-Toughness: As in canon, his Bakusai Tenketsu training makes his skin superhumanly durable. By Chapter 25, his idea of advanced training to figure out how to use it on metal, in which he repeatedly beat himself against a heavy piece of solid metal scrap, has made his skin so tough that rifle shots bounce off of him.
- Too Desperate to Be Picky: Invoked in Chapter 22; like Ranma, a childhood spent wandering all over Japan on his own taught him to be less than discriminate about his meals. Though he complains that just because he can eat gross things like rats or snakes doesn't mean he likes eating them.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Ryoga's fighting skills are a little less polished than Ranma's, and he relies more on brute strength and endurance. He's still second only to Ranma in terms of the ship's fighters, and a very close second at that.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Despite his protests, Ryoga is the closest thing Ranma has to a friend aboard the crew, and ironically without Akane Tendo to come between them, that "abrasive friendliness" is more on display.
Post-Chapter 16
Ryoga's Female formnote
- Amazonian Beauty: In Nyanniichuan form, Ryoga is tall and has visible muscles as well as ample curves, but is described as being so beautiful that even Ranma Saotome, who is a) straight, b) Ryoga's rival, and c) serially engaged, is disturbed to realize that he thinks Ryoga's girl form is hot. When the Kamikaze Pirates decide on a Black-Tie Infiltration, Ryoga attends the party as one of Kodachi's handmaidens and promptly gets hit on by half a dozen men. She doesn't like it very much.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: It's noted that Ryoga's female form is the tallest, bustiest and strongest woman on the ship, saving the Giant Woman Miriam.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: The first time Ryoga looks down after gaining his female curse form, she knocks herself unconscious with a nosebleed on seeing her new body.
- Locked into Strangeness: Female Ryoga has blonde hair, something that she cannot help but find weird since there's no Caucasian ancestry whatsoever in her family.
- Made of Iron: Captain Kiyoshi collapses a building on top of him while he's in his (comparatively) weaker female form. It does no damage whatsoever.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: After the Distracted by My Own Sexy nosebleed incident, Ryoga fondles her breasts and asks Ranma if they're supposed to be that soft.
- Sex Shifter: Has Umok magically altered his curse to replace it with a Nyanniichuan curse in Chapter 16, arguing that it's less of a crippling weak spot than becoming a defenseless miniature pig whenever splashed with cold water.
Nabiki Tendo
Nabiki Tendo
Current Bounty: 0
Whilst Nabiki Tendo had always enjoyed the opportunity to watch the madness and mayhem of Ranma and his various rivals and lovers from the sidelines, she was less than thrilled to get an up close and personal look at the matter. With no combat experience, she was shuffled into the position of the ship's quartermaster.
- Badass Normal: Slowly grows into one after much hard training over the first twenty-five chapters, though it's called out that she's still the weakest of the crew due to their far greater years of Training from Hell.
- Balloon Belly: Stuffs herself so full of desserts, sweets, and pastries in Chapter 8 that she ends up with an almost pregnant-looking pot-belly, much to the amusement of the rest of the crew.
- Big Eater: A trait inherited from her anime incarnation is that she can put away a surprising amount of food for such a slender teenage girl. In Chapter 8, she singlehandedly devours over a week's worth of desserts in a single sitting, largely out of pride and stubborn anger. It gets more pronounced once she starts actively training.
- Big Sister Instinct: She's absolutely furious when she learns that Ryoga is P-chan, and is surprised when the rest of the crew declares their belief that she would have tried to profit from it rather than simply tell Akane.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: In Chapter 8, Ranma points out that Nabiki has used a rather impressive Battle Aura several times in the time that he's known her, despite her admitted lack of martial arts prowess. The potency of her aura suggests that either she was at least as trained as Akane but gave it up, or else she's a natural prodigy who's simply never bothered to develop her skills.
- Chapter 19 shows her mastering the Chestnut Fist in six days. Ranma admits it's not the most complicated training method in the world but is nonetheless impressed.
- Can't Catch Up: While she has some natural skill once she actually starts training, the other Nerima martial artists are still miles ahead of her due to having years of experience ahead of her. As a result, she starts seriously considering seeking out an appropriate Devil Fruit to help bridge this gap due to seeing how much Shampoo improved from hers. Come Chapter 26, she succeeds.
- Cornered Rattlesnake: Subverted. When Captain Kintaro tries to rape her, she slaps him. All this does is piss him off and put her in greater danger.
- Damsel in Distress: Due to her lack of combat skills, Nabiki represents an obvious target. She complains about it in Chapter 13, noting that normally it would be her little sister Akane whom people would attempt to hold hostage.
- An Ice Person: A minor example, but when she gets hit by a bounty hunter in Chapter 28 she unconsciously causes hoarfrost to form on the deck in her Tranquil Fury.
- Magikarp Power: Defied. Nabiki begins contemplating eating a devil fruit to bridge the massive gap in power between her and the others that training won't do. As such, she notes it has to be one that gives an immediate huge boost, or there wouldn't be any point compared to normal martial arts training.
- Mirror Character: It's called out at several points that Nabiki has more in common with Akane than she normally likes to show, and in the One Piece world, those Akane-esque traits, such as a willingness to physically assault somebody if they push her rage-breaking button, are coming out.
- Mundane Utility: In Chapter 18, Nabiki uses the Chestnut Fist to pickpocket nobles.
- Non-Action Guy: Zigzagged. Nabiki is the only Neriman crew member with no combat-related skills or abilities. Recognizing that this makes her a weakness on the Grand Line, Ranma is slowly trying to correct that problem.
- Not So Invincible After All: Downplayed, non-fatal version. In canon, Nabiki never got into trouble, no matter what harebrained stunts she tried or how much she provoked the other martial artists; even when it did make them angry, she usually ended up being saved (often by Ranma). In this fic, Nabiki finds she is very much no longer untouchable when she ends up being dragged to prison on accusations of being a forger/dine-and-dasher, sexually assaulted by a corrupt Marine, and finally physically injured after a plan goes particularly wrong. And then Ranma actually bonks her on the head and verbally chews her out for getting them into this latest mess.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Nabiki openly considers herself the smartest person on the crew, despite being the weakest of them all.
- Sweet Tooth: Nabiki loves sweet foods, another anime incarnation trait, and will most readily exhibit her gluttonous side when presented with candy or pastries.
- Took a Level in Badass: Invoked but downplayed in Chapter 8; Ranma (and to a lesser extent the rest of the crew) actively want to make Nabiki less of The Load in combat, but they're outright focusing on her speed and evasion skills above all else. By Chapter 18 she's able to take down low-level Marines on her own. Then she gets a Devil Fruit in Chapter 26 and becomes an Empowered Badass Normal.
Post-Chapter 26
- Absurdly Sharp Claws: Nabiki gains talons that are so sharp she can effortlessly disembowel a bear in her Hybrid form.
- Bat People: Her "Beast" form looks like Nabiki with bat ears in the Little Bit Beastly style, bat wings in place of arms, and restructured legs that are "bat-like", having a more arm-like level of flexibility and with taloned, prehensile, hand-like paws instead of feet.
- Blood Is the New Black: By the time her rampage ends, Nabiki is caked in blood and viscera.
- Blood Knight: Nabiki goes on a rampage right after gaining her powers, cheerfully slaughtering massive insects and even mutated animals.
- Bloody Murder: Her Mythic Zoan's special power is to manipulate and shape blood into a weapon, which she displays in Chapter 27. She can exude blood from her skin to fashion it into physical shapes, including projectiles.
- Boxing Lessons for Superman: To deal with the problem of her being Unskilled, but Strong, Ranma and the others are adamant that Nabiki continues her martial arts training, which she reluctantly accepts.
- Breast Expansion: Her breasts, even in her normal human form, grow two to three cups in size after she eats the Vampire Zoan Devil Fruit.
- Cast from Hit Points: It's established in Chapter 28 that Nabiki's Healing Factor and Bloody Murder abilities aren't fueled infinitely by her Devil Fruit, like many of the other users with Elemental Powers, but instead tap into an internal reserve that must be replenished with blood she consumes. If she overuses her reserve, she shrinks into a "Chibiki" form, trapping her in a tiny version of her beast form until she replenishes herself.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Nabiki engages Shampoo in a sparring match, thinking that her new powers make her invincible. The vastly better-trained and more experienced Shampoo defeats her effortlessly, then gives her a spanking to humiliate her.
- Cute Little Fangs: As a Vampire Zoan, she sports fangs, which are normally described as cute little glimmers in her mouth when she is in her hybrid and beast forms. But when she gets angry, they stop being so cute and little.
- Eating the Enemy: Devours Nosferatu during their final struggle in Chapter 31. It's a little ambiguous as to how much of that was intentional and how much was Nosferatu actively forcing itself down Nabiki's throat with the intent of consuming her from the inside out. It turns out that a blood-based bacteria doesn't survive well in the stomach of a blood-consuming Mythical Zoan.
- Elemental Baggage: Because Nabiki is a Mythic Zoan and not a true Logia or a Paramecia, the downside of her haemokinesis is that she has to physically consume and store blood in order to tap into it for her abilities that require spending blood. Whilst carefully reabsorbing the blood she uses in her attacks can "extend" this pool, it can run dry, so topping up and staying aware of her reserves are weaknesses of her Devil Fruit. That said, there doesn't seem to be any real physical limit to how much blood she can store.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Eating a Mythic Zoan Devil Fruit in Chapter 26 turns her from the unquestionable weakest of the crew, despite her much-improved martial prowess, into a genuine super-powered badass.
- Everyone Can See It: By Chapter 27, despite Nabiki's desperate assertions that she has not fallen in love with Ranma like her rivals and that she does not care for him as a person, all of them can easily see that she's lying through her teeth.
- Eye Scream: In Chapter 28 she gets shot in the eye. Luckily her Devil Fruit's Healing Factor fixes it.
- Game Face: It's mentioned that Nabiki's teeth have a tendency to turn into an array of needle-like fangs when she's feeling emotional.
- Healing Factor: Whilst Zoan Devil Fruit users are stated to gain Super-Toughness and augmented healing as part of the package, her Mythic Zoan abilities go beyond that. In her first battle, a mutant bug impales her through the torso with its bladed forelimb. She simply rips it out and regenerates instantly, with the gaping wound visibly knitting back together before Ranma's eyes. Chapter 32 shows just how strong her Healing Factor is: Nabiki gets decapitated... then gets back up and puts her head back on like nothing happened! And this is before undergoing Devil Fruit Awakening!
- Lecherous Licking: Licks Ranma's cheek whilst "drunk" on her newly acquired power after first transforming in Chapter 26. Lilith explains in the next chapter that this is a result of the increased hormones she received from her Devil Fruit, which tend to strongly boost aggressiveness and lower inhibitions until a Zoan learns to get them under control.
- Magic Pants: Averted. Her boots are torn into shreds when she first assumes her beast form much to her annoyance. Like Shampoo, this is presumably a matter of inexperience.
- Man Bites Man: As a Vampire Zoan, she has no shame about biting in a battle.
- Mighty Roar: Nabiki unleashes a feral, high-pitched shriek after her transformation is finished that dazes everyone within earshot.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: It's mentioned in passing that when Nabiki gets aggressive, her teeth shift into an array of fangs.
- My Instincts Are Showing: After eating the Bat-Bat Fruit, Model Type: Vampire, Nabiki starts experiencing new instincts, such as massively heightened aggression, that leads to her suddenly biting Ranma's neck and nearly killing him by drinking his blood. She starts training afterward to get her new instincts under control to prevent something like that again.
- Our Vampires Are Different: Her Mythic Zoan is the Bat-Bat Fruit, Model Type: Vampire, which allows her to assume two forms; an "anime vampire girl" inspired Hybrid form with Pointy Ears, claws, and Cute Little Fangs, and a "werebat" inspired Beast form with bat ears, prehensile talons for feet, and bat wings for arms. She has the supernatural ability to psychokinetically manipulate blood, but she has an aversion to bright light and loud noise, which most physically manifests as getting sunburn really easily.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Devours Nosferatu, a sapient bacteria that causes hemorrhagic fever, that itself was uplifted to humanoid status by eating a Human-Human Zoan and then sought to infect as many people as possible.
- Prone to Sunburn: Nabiki is highly sensitive to sunlight, getting a severe sunburn while training on the ship's deck despite being in a shadow and the day being relatively cloudy.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes go from dark brown to crimson red when she takes her hybrid or beast forms.
- Sleep-Mode Size: Nabiki has a limited supply of blood which is consumed when she uses it for weapons. If her supply gets too low, she shrinks into a foot-tall version of her Zoan form until she can feed.
- Super-Speed: She is shown moving so fast after transforming that she has time to admire the individual beats of a mutant mosquito's wings before she swats it.
- Super-Strength: Turning into a Mythic Zoan is shown to boost her strength to ridiculous levels. She literally backhands the head off of a wolf rat, casually eviscerates a bear, crushes an assassin bug the size of a tank with a diving stomp, is shown easily carrying Ranma away in her prehensile feet, and cuts off the leg of a six-meters-long Slaying Mantis with a swoop-kick.
- Unskilled, but Strong: The Devil Fruit gives Nabiki a massive boost to her strength and speed, sufficient to even put Ranma on the back foot. However, her lack of skill and experience allows Shampoo to easily beat her.
- Unusual Ears: Her ears are described as becoming elongated and elfin in her Hybrid form.
Word of God states they were inspired by Lilim in Monster Rancher — specifically, her appearance in the 2nd game and the anime, where Lilim looks a lot like a blue-skinned Nabiki. In her full Beast form, she has the typical Petting-Zoo People ears, but in bat flavor.
Kodachi Kuno
Kodachi Kuno
Current Bounty: 0
The inadvertent cause of their transportation across the worlds, Kodachi Kuno is unrepentant. To her, this is a dream come true, both for her love of the adventure and also because it has granted her an unprecedented opportunity to make inroads into Ranma Saotome's heart. As the only one of them with any practical knowledge about sailing, she became the defacto helmsman and navigator.
- Adaptational Badass: In Voyages canon, she's actually fairly skilled in the use of both guns and swords. The swords she justified by pointing out that her brother is a) a samurai otaku b) overprotective of her, and c) actually quite skilled for all his dimwittedness, so naturally he taught her how to use a sword himself. Her gun skills are just something she took a personal interest in.
- Adaptational Intelligence: More like "adaptational sanity", but the trope still applies. When saving Kodachi from a giant squid, the cold seawater transforms Ranma into a girl while she's in his arms and looking directly at him, and she immediately realizes what just happened. This is a stark contrast from her behavior in the manga, where - just like her brother Tatewaki - she suffered from a cognitive block that made her utterly incapable of comprehending Ranma and the "Pigtailed Girl" were the same person even after he transformed right in front of her . (Anime Kodachi never witnessed him transforming.) It becomes all the more ironic when she demands to know why he never just told her about his curse, and when he says it was because that didn't work with Tatewaki, she angrily demands he accredits her with slightly more common sense than her brother.
- Big Eater: Manages to eat 180 oysters, albeit with difficulty, for an eating challenge.
- Clothing Combat: Kodachi's specialty is the use of her gymnastics ribbon as a whip to entangle, ensnare, blind, drag, strangle, flog, and otherwise lash at her foes. In Chapter 7, after she loses her ribbon, she switches to an actual whip.
- Cloudcuckoolander: As in canon, Kodachi is one of the more flamboyantly eccentric members of the crew. Of them all, she takes the most readily to the more theatrical aspects of being a pirate.
- Combat Pragmatist: The dirtiest fighter in the crew, bar none. When it comes to combat, Kodachi will stoop to anything to gain the advantage.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Kodachi seems pretty... silly, given her preferred fighting style is Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics. But, just like in canon, she takes that silly-sounding style and shows she can absolutely wreck shit with it. She's also quite skilled in more conventional fighting methods as well.
- Dual Wielding: As part of developing her Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics to real-world dangers, Kodachi takes to wielding two weapons simultaneously, choosing from a whip, a sword, and a pistol as the situation calls for. This allows her to alternate between mid- and short-range combat.
- Hidden Depths: Despite previously being dismissed by her companions as "that loony Kuno girl", Kodachi is smarter than her behavior suggests.
- She's the only one of them who initially knows how to handle a sailing ship, knows how to surf thanks to her father, as well as details on the marine life native to Hawaii such as tiger sharks.
- She can reference Gulliver's Travels, indicating that she's somewhat well-read.
- In Chapter 22, she mentions that she's used to more "exotic" foods. Apparently, having bizarre dishes prepared was one of the ways rich people liked to show off just how much money they made, meaning such fare was often served at the upper-crust parties she attended.
- She's shown to be familiar with both Greco-Roman and Medieval European mythology. During a discussion with Nabiki about the potential of a Devil Fruit upgrade, she brings up the obscure bonnacon. After they defeat the Foxy Pirates in a Davy Back Fight, she draws them a new flag bearing the holy symbols of the Greco-Roman Gods Poseidon (god of the sea), Nike (goddess of victory), and Dionysius (god of festivals), citing that these three are clearly the Foxy Pirates' patron gods based on their modus operandi.
- She's implied to be something of an Elvis Presley fangirl, even knowing how to make the Fool's Gold Sandwich that, according to legend, he would eat two of each night.
- Leg Focus: When Ranma has to point the girls' best feature, he declares Kodachi wandering in a leotard puts a lot of emphasis on her legs.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: In Chapter 8, Kodachi concludes that, for all her skill, Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics is too sports-centric to be safe to depend on in the increasingly hostile environment of the Grand Line. So she intends to develop a new, more combat-focused style building on her developed skills.
- Martial Arts and Crafts: Kodachi dubs her new style "Buccaneer Style Ninjitsu". It largely combines the acrobatics and ribbon techniques of her Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics, plus her trademark black rose bombs, with the use of swordplay and pistols.
- Master Actor: Downplayed when the Kamikaze pirates invade a Navy Commodore's birthday party, as she manages to play herself as haughty, aloof royalty because she basically was raised as such.
- Missing Mom: Her mother walked out on the Kuno family when Kodachi was too young to remember her, and the gymnast noticeably hurts as she's admitting this.
- Mythology Gag: Kodachi's interest in firearms is an homage to an anime-exclusive story where she is seen wielding a Boys anti-tank rifle.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: As in canon, Kodachi makes use of grenades disguised as bouquets of black roses. Initially, she only uses paralysis and sleep powders, but she shows she is fully capable of preparing conventional explosives, using her knowledge to produce time bombs to disable navy ships. Over their month spent dry-docked and training in Chapter 22, she's hinted to be establishing a garden of poisonous and toxic plants aboard the Stormbringer, for use in creating a broader array of grenades. During the Davy Back Fight, she reveals a new move called "Roses of Hell", which uses tiny but powerful firebombs disguised as individual black roses.
- Whip Sword: Come Chapter 22, she upgrades from using a whip and sword akimbo to rebuilding a shattered Great Grade Blade called Blooming Garden as one of these, allowing her to combine the effectiveness of both her whip and her sword into one package whilst also dual-wielding it with a pistol.
Shampoo
Shampoo
Current Bounty: 35,000,000
Shampoo's Chinese Amazon pride means she probably would have become a pirate even if she had been brought to the Grand Blue on her own. But given the opportunity to win infamy and glory under the flag of her beloved Ranma, and prove herself to him? Well, she leaped at the chance. As the only one of their initial team with anything approaching a medically trained background, she was chosen to be the ship's doctor.
- Animorphism: Thanks to her Jusenkyo curse, she suffers Involuntary Shapeshifting into a house cat whenever she gets splashed with cold water. In Chapter 6, she eats the Rabbit-Rabbit Fruit, a Zoan type Devil Fruit with the powers of a rabbit, which permanently alters her animorphism abilities.
- Big Eater: Manages to eat 180 oysters, albeit with difficulty, for an eating challenge.
- Bi The Way: Casually admits in Chapter 32 that, whilst she prefers guys, she's not unattracted to girls, and even goes so far as to say that she thinks Kodachi, Ukyo and Nabiki are all attractive.
- Can't Catch Up: Shampoo admits in Chapter 17 that she feels insecure pursuing Ranma because he's so much stronger than her even though she knows he doesn't care about that. She's been spending more time in her Zoan forms because she feels it puts her closer to even footing with him, though she also feels ashamed at having to use something other than her own strength.
- Combat Medic: She's the crew's doctor, and also an experienced ass-kicker in her own right. Zigzagged in that she admits that she's not a master doctor, she simply has a better knowledge of healing techniques than anyone else in the group.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Whilst Shampoo speaks in the same Hulk Speak patterns as in the English translation, it's made clear that this is due to her imperfect understanding of Japanese. Her thoughts instead use very formal, articulate, and precise wording. Word of God is that this is an attempt to evoke a Mythology Gag, homaging how Shampoo's Verbal Tic in the original Japanese (and the Chinese translation of the series) is her use of Antiquated Linguistics.
- Foreign Queasine: Mentions in Chapter 12 that she enjoys eating rat meat, something that grosses out her crew mates. In Chapter 22, she eagerly devours monkey and snake and claims that there's a saying in her village that "anything whose back faces the sky is for people to eat", which is actually based on a real Chinese saying.
- Full-Frontal Assault: In Chapter 13, she mentions wanting to steal herself some new clothes before they fight to free Warship Island, having just lost her clothes when the Milka was sunk. She ends up having to fight in the nude anyway.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: As a victim of Jusenkyo, Shampoo is forced to assume the body of a cat when she is splashed with cold water, and can only return to human form with hot water. After eating the Rabbit-Rabbit Fruit, and becoming a Zoan Devil Fruit User, she no longer is forced to change from splashes of cold water, such as rain. Only if she is debilitated by sea prism stone or immersion in deep water does she revert against her will to her cabbit form, and she can immediately return to her "human" forms once removed from the de-powering agent.
Post-Chapter 6
Shampoo's Cabbit hybrid formnote
- Bunny Girl: Gains the power to turn into a literal Usagimimi, or "bunny girl", in Chapter 6. However, due to her Jusenkyo curse having fused with her Zoan fruit, she also becomes a literal Cat Girl as well.
- Corporal Punishment: She gives a newly transformed Nabiki a spanking as punishment for the latter's arrogance in thinking that being a Mythical Zoan makes her invincible.
- Empowered Badass Normal: After gaining her Zoan Devil Fruit power-up in Chapter 6. Precisely how she's been empowered is still something of a mystery, as the fic hasn't focused much on her abilities. Some of the traits she has (seemingly) gained are:
- Super-Strength/Super-Toughness/Super-Speed/Super-Reflexes: Her physical attributes have with all increased to an unknown level, as is all but ubiquitous with Zoans. Defining how much they have increased and which attributes have been given a boost is more ambiguous.
- Super-Senses: Whilst she clearly has some level of Super-Hearing, her sense of smell is also established as having improved, to the point she can track Ranma by his scent.
- Tunnel King: She can dig with considerable speed, although she hasn't really explored this ability yet.
- In a Single Bound: A specific manifestation of Super-Strength is in her legs, allowing her to leap massive distances with great ease. And considering that Shampoo was capable of Roof Hopping before, that's saying something.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Shampoo's opinion on the Rabbit-Rabbit Fruit. Yes, it's not as obviously powerful as even Eric's Sickle-Sickle Fruit, and there are certainly cooler Zoan fruits out there. But it cures her of her Involuntary Shapeshifting curse and it means she no longer triggers Ranma's ailurophobia, so for that alone, it's a big step up from where she started!
- Instant Expert: Manages to figure out how to properly use the Moonwalk technique that was giving Ranma trouble after seeing his attempt and skimming through the stolen manual once.
- Kick Chick: After becoming a Zoan with the Rabbit-Rabbit Fruit, Shampoo finds her kicking strength and speed are vastly increased compared to her original talents. Word of God also establishes that she now has a Ranma-like "natural talent" for learning kicking and jumping-related techniques, such as Shave, Moon Walk and Tempest Kick.
- Little Bit Beastly: Shampoo's Zoan forms. In her "Demibeast" form, which replaces the standard Human form, she looks like herself but has cabbit ears and a rabbit's tail. In her "Hybrid" form, she gains furry, paw-like hands and feet.
- Magic Pants: In Chapter 18, Shampoo begins training her transformations to include clothing so she won't end up naked, though it's initially limited to skintight items.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: It turns out that Rabbit Zoan Devil Fruit plus Housecat Jusenkyo Curse equals a half-cat, half-rabbit creature, which everybody refers to as a "cabbit".
- Mundane Utility: Aside from its use in combat and infiltration, Shampoo has taken to using her cabbit form to hunt any rats that get on the ship.
- Power Perversion Potential: Invoked and played for laughs in Chapter 18, where Shampoo muses that if Umok's theory of Zoan Voluntary Shapeshifting being broader than she thought is correct, she might be able to use her powers to increase her sex appeal since both Bunny Girls and Cat Girls are sex symbols and the animals are often regarded as sexual totems. When she tries to picture how that might work, however, she has a vision of herself sprouting extra pairs of breasts and decides to stop thinking about it, having creeped herself out.
- Serendipity Shock: Shampoo ate the Rabbit-Rabbit fruit as an act of spite to deny it to the corrupt Marine who had captured them, having no clue that it would interact with and positively alter her Jusenkyo curse. For one thing, transforming into animal form upon touching seastone allows her to evade being rendered helpless in a way no other Devil Fruit wielder has. For another, her animal form is now a cat/rabbit hybrid that doesn't trigger Ranma's phobia like her original cat form did, removing what was probably the biggest obstacle to winning his heart.
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: Shampoo turns into a Zoan Devil Fruit User after Chapter 6. But because of her origins as a victim of Jusenkyo, she's different from other Zoans. Normal Zoans have three forms; their base form, their fruit's form, and a hybrid form. Shampoo has four forms; a human form, which she can only access by using hot water and from which she can't voluntarily transform; a "demibeast" she takes upon being splashed with cold water, which is her version of the standard Zoan's "human form", a standard Zoan hybrid form, and a beast form. She also reacts weirdly to seaprism stone; in addition to the standard weakness effect, being touched by it also forcibly shifts her into beast form and locks her there until it's removed. This actually helps her to escape at the start of Chapter 7; her seaprism cuffs turn her into a cabbit, and then become too large to encase her wrists, giving her back control of her body and allowing her to run away.
- Shout-Out: Shampoo's "cabbit form" has been explicitly described by the author as looking like Ryo-Ohki, just blue-and-green. Her "hybrid" form, on the other hand, has been likened to both Alice from Bloody Roar and Felicia from Darkstalkers.
Ukyo Kuonji
Ukyo Kuonji
Current Bounty: 0
Being transported to another world wasn't on Ukyo Kuonji's 'to-do' list, but if it means she can become a great adventurer alongside her beloved Ranma, she can live with it. As the professional restaurateur of the team, she was designated the ship's cook.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Ukyo takes a great deal of pride in her family style, despite its Martial Arts and Crafts nature. When she hears Kodachi intends to reinvent her style in Chapter 8, she angrily declares that she will never forsake her family style, and instead will prove its power by using it to find the One Piece.
- Bifauxnen: Downplayed compared to canon; whilst her usual attire still leaves her looking kind of boyish, Ukyo has realized that this is a golden opportunity to actually try and dress a little more femininely, in hopes of snagging Ranma for herself.
- Chef of Iron: As in canon, Ukyo's family style is Martial Arts Okonomiyaki, which weaponizes food, ingredients, and utensils alongside basic brawling skills. Though it hasn't been brought up in the fic yet, being taken from the anime continuity means Ukyo actually possesses both an ultimate technique called the "Batter Dragon", which lets her manipulate okonomiyaki batter into a dragon-shaped projectile, as well as the ability to create Indestructible Edibles.
- Covert Pervert: Whilst her shyness prevents her from being as overt with her affections as Kodachi or Shampoo, the narration makes it very clear that Ukyo is just as horny as they are when it comes to Ranma.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Her "Fire Vortex" technique unleashes a literal whirlwind of fire, combining Blow You Away, Razor Wind, and Playing with Fire attributes. The problem is, she has to superheat her battle spatula to unleash it. And, right now, she hasn't figured out how to do that without making it so hot she burns her fingers in the process.
- Hartman Hips: When Ranma has to point every girl's best feature, he comments on Ukyo having a rather cute butt, which makes her blush.
- Improbable Weapon User: Uses a giant spatula as a melee weapon, and smaller spatulas as throwing weapons. She's also stated to use noodles as grappling ropes.
- One-Note Cook: She's a highly skilled chef, but Shampoo notes that she tends to default to okonomiyaki more often than not. It's good okonomiyaki, but still.
- Playing with Fire: Ukyo develops a variant of Ranma's fire chi technique that uses her battle spatula as a conduit. Aside from the benefits of wielding a burning weapon, she can also unleash fiery blasts and shockwaves while swinging it.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: Apparently she finds Ranma's female form more attractive than she openly lets on, which is the source of a certain amount of distress.
- Supreme Chef: Zigzagged. She is definitely a skilled cook, but she's not alone in that talent; Shampoo and Kodachi are both skilled chefs in their own right, and even Ranma can actually be a decent cook if he has to. Only Ryoga, largely content to scrape by on "survival cooking", and the unknown factor of Nabiki, couldn't do Ukyo's job. She mostly ended up as the cook because she volunteered, although her experience as a professional chef does give her some edging over the talented homemaker Kodachi and Shampoo, who was largely a waitress and delivery girl for the Nekohanten.
Umok
Umok
Current Bounty: 0
The strange impish wizard who inadvertently stranded Ranma and company in the Grand Blue. Little is known about him, and he largely keeps to himself, unless he absolutely has to get involved.
- Brought Down to Normal: Umok, in his own words, was once an incredibly powerful magic user, capable of freely traveling between worlds. Decades of imprisonment and then the forcible discharge of his entire reserve of magical energies have left him reduced to a few very minor tricks.
- Cigar Chomper: Constantly smoking a cigar of unknown origins.
- Cluster Bleep-Bomb: Aside from sealing him in an amulet, Kodachi's ancestress also placed a curse on him that censors any profanity with an audible bleep. This infuriates him more than his imprisonment.
- Dimensional Traveler: Umok is an experienced planar tourist, and also describes himself as a "dimensionalist" — a wizard specialized in magic relating to dimensional manipulation and transportation, which largely covers Thinking Up Portals, teleportation, and summoning.
- The Faceless: Umok's face is never seen, outside of three glowing eyes, a set of elf-like Expressive Ears, and gouts of noxious, many-colored smoke from the foul cigars he keeps smoking.
- The Ghost: Downplayed. Whilst Umok is very much a real character, he rarely interacts with the crew and is largely said to be lurking around in his personal space in the crow's nest, usually only being heard when he acts as the ship's lookout. Word of God is that this was done to keep him from "taking over" the narrative, although the author does wonder if he may have overcompensated. That said, since Umok is essentially a living MacGuffin and their only way home, it makes sense that the Kamikaze Pirates would focus on keeping him out of harm's way.
- The Imp: Umok the otherworldly mage is literally referred to as an imp. He even has a reason to promote strife and mischief, as he actually can recharge his depleted magical energies by being involved in conflict and stealing something with great emotional value.
- Shout-Out:
- Umok is described as basically being Orko with a third eye, a love of cigars, an unusually deep voice, and a bad attitude. Though, weirdly, his outfit in his debut chapter is more of an homage to Laharl from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
- The Dimensionalist is an obscure specialist wizard subclass from the era of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition that first appeared in the pages of Dragon before making it into the Player's Option: Skills & Powers sourcebook.
- He describes himself as a "planeswalker", and mentions the "Blind Eternities" while swearing.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: He swears a lot and rather creatively, which is why he was also cursed with a profanity censor.
- Supernatural Sensitivity: Amongst Umok's lingering magical abilities is the ability to see magic.
- Third Eye: Umok has a third eye in the center of his forehead.
- Too Important to Walk: He actually says that standing on the ground is obscene at one point.
- Vocal Dissonance: Umok's voice is described as impossibly deep and low for such a small, inoffensive-looking creature.
Miriam Cthylla Ransdottir
Miriam Cthylla Ransdottir
Current Bounty: 0
A runty wotan with tiger shark features, Miriam was born to the giantess Agnetha Ran as a result of a teenage fling she had with an unnamed fishman surfer, who moved on before either of them learned Agnetha was pregnant. Conceived, born, and raised in the giant shipbuilding community of Shay-Lot, Miriam struggled with her diminutive stature as the smallest person on the island but grew to be a talented shipwright in her own right. She always personally yearned for adventure, and after the Kamikaze Pirates proved themselves by aiding her village, she chose to leave her home and sail away with them.
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: Miriam's mom Agnetha was only a teenager herself when she got pregnant with Miriam. Of course, giants have a different definition of "teenager" than humans due to their longevity.
- Amazonian Beauty: Described as having muscular limbs, but an otherwise voluptuous figure and a cute face, making her very attractive.
- Anchors Away: Is described as using sharpened ship's anchors with attached chains as a combination of an axe, Hooks and Crooks, and Epic Flail.
- Balloon Belly: When she indulges her appetite to the fullest, she stuffs herself so full her usual paunch swells into a pregnant-looking potbelly. When the Kamikaze Pirates first see her eating lunch, she's already so stuffed that she looks pregnant.
- Barrier-Busting Blow: In Chapter 18, she charges straight through a window to get Harumi away from an indoor brawl.
- Big Beautiful Woman: As well as being an Amazonian Beauty, her constant abuse of her metabolism and physical capacity has left her with a permanent paunch that she just can't shake, which varies from a soft layer of flab on her midriff to a tightly stuffed, pregnant-looking swell. Despite her chubby belly, though, she's still presented as being quite attractive.
- Big Eater: Miriam has an appetite even other giants think of as excessive, which she admits is largely due to a bad habit of eating when she's bored and overindulging herself when she has the opportunity. It started when she was a child, out of a childish misconception that eating like a proper giant would cause her to grow to proper giantish proportions. By the time she matured enough to realize the faultiness of the logic, she had basically "trained" her appetite. She's even developed a habit of anthropomorphizing her stomach and talking to it.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: When Ranma first sees her, he's left utterly gobsmacked by the size of her breasts and can't help but stare at them.
Ranma (internally): Amaterasu preserve me, I think they're bigger than my head...
- Cute Monster Girl: Despite being a dwarf giantess with sharky features, she's still pretty enough that even Ranma, a boy who has multiple engagements and would-be girlfriends, describes her as attractive.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father left her mother before either of them learned Agnetha was pregnant and never returned, their relationship having been little more than a one-night stand. As a result, Miriam's never met her father.
- Extreme Omnivore: She eats her meals bones, shells, and all if she chooses to, and even has an admitted habit of munching on wooden or metallic objects. In Chapter 18, Ranma stumbles across her gnawing on a cannonball as if it were a gobstopper. Despite all this, she won't touch hongeo-hoe.
- Fantastic Racism: As a half-fishman whose ancestry is very evident from her appearance, Miriam is often the target of bigotry, even on the Grand Line. Ironically, she even gets this from other fishmen for her willingness to travel with a human crew, and especially for her human boyfriend. She even warns Harumi that this will be one of the challenges they'll face if they date.
- Faster Than They Look: Her large size and paunchy belly would naturally make one think that she's not very agile. They'd be wrong: Miriam's legs are pumped full of muscle that can easily allow her to dash around a battlefield while still carrying her anchors. She can even use stealth when she feels like it, which makes sense as sharks are ambush predators.
- First-Name Basis: She prefers to go by her first name, "Miriam". We don't actually learn her full name until she gets a Full-Name Ultimatum from her mother.
- Gasshole: Downplayed. Whilst it's not focused on, it's implied that Miriam tends to be quite casual with belching when she feels inclined. In Chapter 18 specifically, she chides herself about avoiding belching so hard that she blows the food off of the table, whilst Harumi describes belching as one of her character flaws when they dance together. Given her size and appetite, it's not that surprising.
- Giant Woman: Miriam stands exactly 426 centimeters tall. That's 4 1/4 meters or 13.9 feet.
- Ground Punch: By Chapter 25, she's developed the ability to create a localized earthquake that can knock humans from their feet by slamming the ground with her fists.
- Half-Breed Discrimination: During the Dead-End race a fishman calls her an abomination that defiled her mother (presumably, he thinks her mother was the fishwoman). She responds by roaring in his face and throwing him through the side of his ship.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Though she may be smaller than pretty much every giant on Shay-Lot, the fact that she is so much smaller means that she can do detail work on ships that other giant shipwrights would need special tools for, so she can do it better and faster than them, and she takes great pride in this fact.
- Height Angst: Miriam was often bullied by the full-blooded giant children due to being much shorter. A contributing factor to her perpetual pot belly was her childhood belief that if she just ate enough food she'd grow up to be as tall as the others.
- I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Is in disbelief at the idea that Harumi could be attracted to her, calling herself a "sea ogress".
- Large Runt: She towers over the other Kamikaze pirates at over 4 meters tall, but when the crew gets to land on her island, they're stunned to learn Miriam is utterly tiny for a giant. Her own mother is 20 meters tall — literally five times her size.
- Meaningful Name: A popular etymology for the Aramaic name Miriam happens to be "strong waters" or "bitter sea". Either is fitting for the fishgirl, as she's introduced as a good fighter who resents being scapegoated for the serial killings on her island.
- My Instincts Are Showing: She explains her tendency to chew on or even eat inedible objects as a consequence of her half-fishman nature, tiger sharks being notorious for being Extreme Omnivores even by shark standards.
- Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: Miriam is a wotan; half Giant, half Fishman. These are incredibly rare in One Piece canon, with only two having been seen in the entirety of the franchise, and one of those being a movie-exclusive character.
- Older Than They Look: Ranma and his crew initially think she's 16 or 17 years old. It turns out she's 62 years old, which admittedly is the giant equivalent of that age due to how slowly giants age.
- Oxymoronic Being: Miriam is a giant dwarf, in that she's a giant who is a dwarf by giant standards — giants normally reach a minimum of about 12 meters tall in One Piece canon, and both of the wotans seen have been around 6 meters tall, but Miriam is just over 4 meters tall.
- Shark Man: As a tiger shark fishman hybrid, Miriam has the features of a tiger shark; fangs, fins, stripy skin, and so forth. Unlike normal One Piece Fishmen, though, she has a tail as well as legs, which is handwaved as a "rare mutation".
- Shout-Out:
- Miriam's general body type is described as being akin to Cattleya, from Queen's Blade.
- Miriam's middle name, Cthylla, is an obscure Great Old One from the Cthulhu Mythos — specifically, Cthulhu's daughter.
- Miriam's family name, Ransdottir, is Nordic for "Ran's Daughter", Ran being the Nordic goddess of the sea and keeper of the drowned dead.
- An unusually small giantess whose love of food is so great she has been known to eat herself into a Balloon Belly, defying the usual One Piece law that Beauty Is Never Tarnished. Are we talking about Miriam, or Lily "The Glutton" Enstomach from Z's Ambition?
- The chapter Miriam debuts in is called "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat", which, foreshadowing aside, is clearly an homage to the famous line from Jaws.
- Smarter Than They Look: Besides being a skilled shipwright in her own right, specializing in finer details other giants would need specialized tools to make, she was the only person on Shay-Lot who managed to figure out where the murders were taking place. The only reason the killer wasn't caught earlier is that the other giants still viewed her as Just a Kid and didn't listen. All from a very muscular sharky girl who walks around in little more than a bikini.
- Stout Strength: Miriam has what the internet sometimes labels a "strongfat" body type, combining a soft, paunchy belly with visibly muscular limbs. Despite her weight, she is still incredibly strong, even more than you'd expect from a Giant Woman.
- Super-Strength: Ranma estimates her to be at least as strong as himself and Ryoga, and her strength increases 10-fold when she's underwater.
- Super-Toughness: Was slammed into a field of basalt by a pureblooded giant hard enough to create a crater, and all it did was make her cough up blood and lose consciousness for a minute. Then she got right back up and started fighting him again. When he dislocated her jaw by belting her across the face with a basalt club, she snapped it back into place as if it was nothing, though she notes that she was helped by her fishman anatomynote .
- Temporary Bulk Change: Miriam's stomach can swell and shrink very quickly, due to her combining extremely bad eating habits with a fast metabolism and a dedication to working off her excess weight quickly.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Miriam stands a towering 426 centimeters tall, which may be small for a giantess, but is massive by human standards. Her swain Harumi is only 169 centimeters tall... for those trying to work out the math, she's roughly three times his height.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Despite her very masculine, almost thuggish behavior, Miriam is shown to have a hidden love for beautiful dresses in Chapter 16. The same chapter also reveals she once had a beloved doll, and that she'd like to wear her hair longer, but fell out of the habit as bigger, meaner young giantesses would pick on her by pulling it. The next chapter reveals that she enjoys cheesy romantic drama stories.
- Too Hungry to Be Polite: Her table manners are basically nonexistent — she devours lobsters shell and all, slurps her soup, can be seen literally pouring food down her gullet, doesn't use cutlery, and belches when she's done. Though the tendency to eat with her hands can be explained as an issue of size, that doesn't explain the rest.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Miriam is incredibly strong and tough, but her technique is pretty much nonexistent. Ranma describes her as a hardened brawler and notes that she needs some major training to be on par with him.
- Unusual Ears: Miriam's ears are long, angular, and fin-like. Ranma directly compares them to "anime elf ears", specifically mentioning Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War.
- Victoria's Secret Compartment: In Chapter 18, right before charging through a window she stuffs Harumi into her cleavage to protect him from the shattered glass.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend:
- In Chapter 18. When two marines pin Harumi and start beating him bloody with a pair of brass knuckles, Miriam screams at them to leave him alone... then she grabs one marine by the head in one hand so hard it's implied she fractures his skull, deadlifts him from the ground by his head and then uses him to literally club the other marine unconscious. Then she grabs Harumi and pulls him into a bridal carry to make sure that he's okay.
- In Chapter 22, when she sees a Sea Monster swimming in to attack Harumi, she responds by biting off its head. Averted in the same chapter when three local girls mock the two of them and call them perverts, as she instead makes Harumi leave before he loses his temper... she does throw garbage all over the girls with her tail, though.
- In Chapter 32, she threatens to eat Commodore Kubera if she kills Harumi.
Harumi Tsukuyomi
Harumi Tsukuyomi
Current Bounty: 0
An aspiring swordsman from Femille Island, Harumi's life was made a misery for his gender; Femille is an island where only women are allowed to practice martial arts, and men are expected to be quiet and subordinate. When Ranma discovered that Harumi's dreams saw him constantly belittled, demeaned and even beaten by the women of his own family, he impulsively offered to let Harumi join the crew, an offer Harumi accepted.
- Abusive Parents: Harumi's mother was... quite brutal in her lack of support for Harumi's desire to prove himself worthy of the family fighting style.
- Amazon Chaser: When Harumi first sees Miriam, his eyes go wide in shock, and he starts blushing, especially when she lifts him to his feet with one hand. During their hike through the jungle, he's described as intently watching her bulldoze her way through boulders and trees, admiring the play of her muscles as she levels a path for them. Becomes quite blatant when Ranma teases him about his obvious attraction to Miriam, where he defensively asks who would ''not' be attracted to a woman with muscles like the wotan's.
- Berserk Button: Despite dressing as a woman, he's very much a man and has no wish to change his gender, seeing that as the explicit accusation that he cannot cut it as a warrior unless he renounces a fundamental part of himself. Explaining that to Ranma drives him into a furious rant.
- Commonality Connection: He bonds with Ranma over the fact that people are bent on believing he secretly wants to be a woman, something that angers him a great deal.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: His family's style focuses on delivering a large number of weak blows to gradually wear down an opponent.
- Determinator: His whole family chastised and beat him for years to try and force him to give up his dreams of being a warrior, and Harumi stuck with his dream.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Despite Ranma being a Sex Shifter and Ukyo having been stalked by the similarly effeminate-looking Tsusbasa Kurenai, neither of them realized Harumi was actually a man when they met him for the first time. It was only when his mother cut off his top with a Razor Wind that his gender became obvious.
- Foil: Harumi forms a contrast to the "okama" characters seen elsewhere in One Piece. Whereas the okamas think of themselves as women and present themselves as extremely ugly men in women's outfits, Harumi thinks of himself as a man and is so pretty that he is easily mistaken for a real girl.
- Fragile Speedster: Harumi's family fighting style, the Crying Willow, emphasizes speed, grace, and ferocity; however, this comes at the cost of the practitioners having relatively little strength behind each blow. A practitioner dodges enemy attacks whilst whittling foes down with a Death of a Thousand Cuts.
- Girly Bruiser: Harumi doesn't necessarily disagree with a lot of what Femille considers "proper manly behavior"... but he wants to fight, despite that being forbidden to the men of his nation.
- I Call It "Vera": According to Chapter 18, the swords Ranma stole from his mother Masami and gave to Harumi to use are called "Shirohebi" ("White Snake", the katana) and "Akaja" ("Red Snake", the wakizashi). This isn't surprising, since they are Graded Swords, which tend to have names in One Piece canon.
- I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Genderflipped. He can't believe that Miriam would be at all interested in a guy who looks and acts like he does, thinking her to be out of his league. When she is surprised by his working up the courage to ask her to dance in Chapter 18, he immediately presumes that she's rejecting him.
- Incompletely Trained: When Harumi joins the crew, he's skilled but the fact that he had to train himself by imitating the warriors is obvious due to the flaws in his technique. This comes back to haunt him during his first fight with the crew, as his openings are exploited by a more skilled Marine.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: For the first half of Chapter 16, his debut chapter, Harumi is thought to be a girl. His true gender comes out at the chapter's halfway point and he is only referred to as a boy afterward.
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His hair is butt-length, and he's so beautiful that girls would kill to have his face — beautiful enough for Ranma to comment on it.
- Nightmare Fetishist: When Ranma implicitly comments on how Miriam's inhuman features, specifically her tail and shark-like teeth, would turn off a lot of guys, Harumi's response suggests that he actually finds her more attractive for being a Cute Monster Girl.
- Pretty Boy: Harumi is noted for his very attractive if androgynous, features. When first met in girl's clothing, even the serially engaged and romance-wary Ranma's first thought is to note how cute "she" is. Taking off the dresses doesn't diminish how attractive he is.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: It's noted that part of what makes Harumi so physically attractive is his pale skin and fine dark hair, traits traditionally held up highly by Japanese society.
- Razor Wind: He manages to successfully perform this kind of attack for the first time when Ranma is about to be shot in Chapter 20.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Having been brought up amongst the amazons of Femille, Harumi is skilled at traditionally feminine crafts such as sewing or cooking, and takes pride in these abilities, as these are considered "proper manly behavior" by his people.
- Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: At only 169 centimeters tall, Harumi is literally a fraction of the height of the 426 centimeters tall Miriam he so admires. As in, he's lucky to come up to her knee.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Though Harumi dresses like a girl and acts in what outsiders consider a rather "feminine" manner, he identifies as a man; the dress and attitude are culturally expected of men from Femille Island.
Dyna
Dyna
Current Bounty: 0
A mechanical soldier from an unidentified sky island, Dyna's memories are foggy, but she remembers that she was shot down in battle and plummetted from one of the Sky-Seas to the Grand Line. Somehow, she miraculously survived both her initial wounding and the subsequent miles-high plunge to ground level, but she was heavily damaged. An unidentified individual salvaged her remains and built her a steam-powered exo-armor to sustain her and compensate for her destroyed limbs. She yearns to return to her homeland and be restored. When Ranma and the Kamikazes encountered her, she was offline and heavily damaged, being offered up as part of the prize for a Dead End Race. Upon winning her, and having her restored by Lord Ratchet of Mecha Island, she agreed to join the crew until she could find a way back home.
- BFG: When the group is training on an island, she picks up some rather large and powerful firearms. One is a specialized rifle, more of a small cannon, designed for armor-piercing potential.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: She sports a retractile chainsaw on her right arm, and her left arm ends in a modular socket she can "plug" different firearms into.
- Chainsaw Good: Her primary melee weapon of choice is a chainsaw powered by her steam engine.
- Fem Bot: Whilst it's implied Dyna was originally a Cute Robot Girl, her savior had much less advanced technology to work with. As a result, when Ranma encounters her, she looks more like a Steampunk spider-tank with a one-eyed girl's head sticking out of the top.
- Gatling Good: In Chapter 25, she wields an old-fashioned multi-barreled rotary rifle as a weapon against Shiki.
- Mini-Mecha: Dyna's spider-tank falls under this.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Zigzagged. She has multiple arms, but six of those are comparatively dainty manipulators intended for delicate manipulation. Her primary arms, which consist of a massive pincer claw with a retractile chainsaw built in and a socket mount for modular firearms, are the only dangerous ones.
- Spider Tank: Dyna's exo-armor has eight spider-like limbs for mobility with additional manipulator and combat arms on a raised torso.
- Steampunk: She's essentially the head and spinal column of a more advanced Robot Girl mounted into a steam-powered spider-tank.
- Super Wheelchair: Dyna's exo-armor is a life support/mobility system she has to rely on after her body's destruction. That doesn't change the fact that it's an extremely powerful combat suit on its own.
Penelope laFloo
Penelope laFloo
Current Bounty: 0
A female archaeologist from the Frauce Kingdom in the East Blue, who came to the Grand Line to study the many ruins, relics, and lost civilizations scattered across its length and width. Having no official patronage to fund her expedition, she decided she would hire a pirate crew to achieve her dream, and eventually offered to travel with Ranma Saotome and his Kamikaze Pirates after seeing them engaging in a Davy Back Fight with the Foxy Pirates. She's also a Mink with the features of a skunk, who disguises herself as a human to avoid slavers.
- Adventurer Outfit: She wears an outfit that combines elements of the Safari and Archaeologist subtypes, with sturdy boots, long sleeves, gloves, a pith helmet, and a multi-pocketed jacket and pants. Her version is described as unusually all-concealing, even having a thick fly veil around her face to make it impossible to see her features. She explains that this is due to her religion, which demands such concealment in the name of modesty. It also seems to be to conceal that she's a Mink.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: She's eager to explore the Grand Line, a Death World crawling with pirates and dangerous lost civilizations, in search of ancient ruins and lost relics.
- Badass Bookworm: She's an educated woman who knows a lot about archaeology. She's also willing to sign on with a pirate crew, even if that means engaging in plundering and pillaging, to achieve her dream of exploring the Grand Line.
- Funetik Aksent: She is described as speaking with a very thick French accent, which the writer attempts to convey by rendering it semi-textually. After her first chapter, the writing tones it down for the readers' convenience.
- Gene Hunting: While Happily Adopted, she barely knows anything about her people, and wants to both learn more about the Mink Tribe and see if she can find some blood family in the New World.
- Happily Adopted: Whilst she only has time to give an abridged version of her backstory in Chapter 25, she explains she was adopted by a Frauce merchant captain named Pierre laFloo, who discovered her as a newborn baby and the sole survivor of a slave ship that had been caught in a Grand Line hypercane and thrown clear over the Calm Belt and into the East Blue. He took her in and raised her as his own.
- Hidden Buxom: Inverted. The clothing she wears leaves her covered modestly from head to toe, preventing others from seeing anything about what she looks like... but her build is perfectly obvious through her clothes, and it's implied she is massively busty.
- Lady of Adventure: Her mannerisms and her name imply she comes from an upper-crust background, and she's adventurous enough that she was willing to travel to the Grand Line alone in pursuit of ruins and relics. It's eventually revealed she was raised by a wealthy merchant trader.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: Her status as a Mink is concealed in her first appearance in Chapter 24, but has been revealed by the end of the very next chapter.
- Poirot Speak: Has a tendency to speak in plurals and with unneeded descriptors, as well as to interject (poorly translated) French words into her dialogue when she's emotional, in what the author describes as an inept attempt to invoke this trope, inspired by the "French grammatical structure to English" used by Victor & Hugo and the general speaking habits of Pepé Le Pew and Fifi La Fume.
- Smelly Skunk: Penelope is a mink with the features of a skunk. This includes being able to squirt skunk musk, which is described as being an "ungodly" stench. A full blast of her musk to the face is able to temporarily incapacitate Shiki, a pirate captain who once sailed with the Emperors Kaido, Big Mom and Whitebeard, and who once dueled with Gol. D. Roger.
- Super-Strength: Similarly to Fishmen, Minks are on average ten times as strong as humans of comparable stature.
Lilith
Lilith
Current Bounty: 37,300,000
Click here to see Zoan hybrid form.
A woman from the Sky-Seas whom the Kamikaze Pirates encountered hiding in a mutated Stomach Baron that was part of Shiki's Floating Island archipelago of Merville. She is a Zoan with the Snake-Snake Fruit, Model Type: Monocled Cobra. Possesses dark skin, crimson hair, and green eyes.
- Big Eater: Between the calorie needs of her enormous naga-like hybrid form, her ability to distend her jaws like a snake, and her hedonistic attitude, she loves to gorge herself on food. She actively relishes the chance to try out a Fool's Gold Loaf, a massive bacon, peanut butter, and jelly sandwich.
- Boxing Lessons for Superman: After an incident where she is nearly overwhelmed in battle leads to Lilith admitting she has no martial arts training, Ranma and Shampoo take it upon themselves to tutor her in Cobra Kung Fu, so she has more than just Super-Strength and Super Spit to fall back on.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: She is noted to be incredibly beautiful in her human form, part of which is her massive breasts, called out as being the largest relative to her size of any member of the crew.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Revealed in chapter 32. She was taken as a lesbian Sex Slave by the princess of her homeland, a cruel and self-absorbed dominatrix named Eveline Kubera who repeatedly sexually abused her both out of lust and to break her will. Her father would also partake in the abuse as well. The first time Lilith escaped, the Kuberas hunted her down and murdered her family before taking her prisoner again. After she ate the Monocled Cobra Zoan, she murdered King Kubera with a Kiss of Death and fled again, this time fleeing the country.
- Giant Woman: Zigzagged. In her normal form, she is on the short side of average at 160 centimeters tall. Her hybrid form, on the other hand, is 616 centimeters long, which makes her just shy of two meters bigger than Miriam.
- Has a Type: Implicit in the story, and made clearer by the author's notes, Lilith is bisexual, but strongly prefers girls and Pretty Boys. The uglier or more "macho manly-man" a guy looks, the less she finds him attractive... and on the Grand Line, those tend to be the dominant looks. It's one of the reasons she leers at Harumi, Ranma, and Ryoga so much; they are all just her type when it comes to guys, and Ranma & Ryoga's Sex Shifter curses in particular offer very intriguing bedroom possibilities.
- The Hedonist: When giving her "delayed introduction" in chapter 27, she states that her belief is that the purpose of life is to have fun, describing her focus as being on seeking out good food, strong drink, and plenty of sex.
- Hidden Depths: Lilith seems like a carefree hedonist at first glance, but she also has extensive knowledge of Sky-Sea agriculture and the economics surrounding Vearth due to being the daughter of farmers.
- Kiss of Death: She's able to selectively morph her mouth to gain access to her fangs and venom even in her human form. It turns out that she killed both of her former owners by poisoning them when they kissed her — one by simply biting his tongue and injecting venom, and the other by Mouth To Mouth Force Feeding her venom.
- Overly-Long Tongue: Her tongue is described as unnaturally long and prehensile.
- Poison Is Corrosive: She is twice depicted spitting venom in her debut chapter, which melts flesh like acid.
- Really Gets Around: Lilith makes it clear without any shame that she's had a lot of sexual experience.
- Red Right Hand: Her eyes have serpentine slit pupils in human form, similar to how Boa Sandersonia has a snake's tongue in human form. Funnily enough, Lilith's tongue remains human even in her snake form.
- Scaled Up: Thanks to her Zoan fruit being part of the Snake-Snake model line, she can transform into a cobra or a massive cobra woman. She specifically identifies the model as the Monocled Cobra, a spitting cobra very similar to the Spectacled Cobra, popularized as the "Indian dancing cobra".
- Shout-Out: Her belly tattoo is the Sheikah mark from The Legend of Zelda.
- Snake People: Can become a half-woman, half-cobra with the powers of her Devil Fruit, presumably similar in appearance to Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold.
- Super Spit: Being her Devil Fruit is the Zoan of a species of spitting cobra, Lilith is capable of spitting acidic venom.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Lilith's Devil Fruit gives her a massive boost in strength and mass, along with a deadly spit. However, she's largely reliant on just overwhelming any enemy with brute force. When a large number of smaller but more skilled bounty hunters attack, she's helpless until Dyna intervenes.
World Government
Marines
Captain Chaser Kiyoshi
Captain Chaser Kiyoshi
A Navy Captain who was assigned to look over Loguetown following Smoker's pursuit of the Straw Hat Pirates into the Grand Line. For some reason, she looks incredibly like Kasumi Tendo, much to the chagrin of Ranma and Nabiki. She doesn't think very highly of her post.
- Alternate Self: Umok suspects that she's some kind of dimensional counterpart to the Tendo girl, though the specifics haven't been revealed yet.
- Badass Family: Her little sister, Chaser Akasuki, is also a Badass Normal Marine Captain, albeit one who fights with a Burn Blade.
- Badass Longcoat: She wears the standard Marine Captain's jacket, but her version is laced with iron plating to serve as a combination of weighted training clothing and armor.
- Badass Normal: She's a Captain in the Marines who doesn't have a Devil Fruit, but instead attained her rank through her raw fighting skills.
- The Coats Are Off: When she decides to get serious against Ranma, she starts by discarding her jacket, which doubles as Shed Armor, Gain Speed.
- Combat Hand Fan: She wields steel-reinforced fans as her weapons of choice. Aside from being used as clubs in hand-to-hand, they also allow her to project Razor Wind attacks.
- Composite Character: Described in the author's notes as resembling a mixture of Smoker, Kasumi Tendo, and Mai Shiranui.
- Cowboy Cop: She's depicted as openly contemptuous of her superiors and loathing her assignment to Loguetown.
- Imposed Handicap Training: Her implied rationale for wearing a weighted jacket at all times.
- Lightning Bruiser: Particularly when her coat is off, she's almost as fast as Ranma, and her strength is stated to be in Ranma or Ryoga's bracket of abilities.
- Not So Above It All: Agrees to taking a cut of the loot from the criminal nuns after the Kamikazes rescue her and Chaser and they agree to an Enemy Mine, noting that the World Government doesn't pay them much. The fact that she apparently also loses a lot of coats and has to reimburse the Quartermaster is a part of it too according to her sister.
- Power Limiter: Her armored jacket serves as armor, but also weighs her down, limiting how fast she can move and how much force she can exert. When it comes off, her speed and strength increase.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: She was promoted to the rank of Captain because of her ability to kick ass, and she's good enough that Marine Headquarters decided to have her fill Captain Smoker's place as the guardian of Loguetown.
- Razor Wind: When wielding her Combat Hand Fan, she can create scything wind projectiles.
- Shed Armor, Gain Speed: Drops her weighted jacket to increase her speed.
- Vapor Wear: Under her uniform coat, her top is essentially a sling bikini, a thin strip of fabric that covers just enough of her chest that she's technically not topless.
- Worf Had the Flu: She soundly loses in a rather humiliating fashion during her first few encounters with the Kamikaze Pirates. In Chapter 25, she returns and proves she earned her status as both Captain and the commander of Loguetown by fighting on almost equal footing with Ryoga, Miriam, Kodachi, Shampoo, and Ukyo.
Chaser Akasuki
Chaser Akasuki
Captain Kiyoshi's little sister, whom she starts working alongside once they are assigned to work under Commodore Sukumvit. Is described as looking like a fusion of Akane Tendo and Ranma's female form, which is quite uncanny for the Kamikaze Pirates. Likes cute things and fire.
- Alternate Self: Much like Chaser Kiyoshi resembles Kasumi Tendo, Chaser Akasuki resembles Akane Tendo mixed with "Ranko Tendo".
- Composite Character: Is described as looking like Akane Tendo with her pre-Ryoga haircut, but with the figure and crimson hair color of Ranma's female form.
- Cuteness Proximity: Her first reaction to seeing Shampoo in her full cabbit form is to Squee and plead to be allowed to pet her.
- Fiery Redhead: She's a fiery-tempered redhead who is implied to have pyromaniac inclinations.
- Playing with Fire: She wields a Skypiean flame dial sword.
- Shout-Out: In her debut chapter, she attacks Shampoo whilst shouting "Through fire, justice is served!", the catchphrase of a boss from Mischief Makers.
Commodore Sukumvit
Baron Arashi Gunba Sukumvit
The lord of Sukumvit Island in the Grand Line, and a recently promoted Commodore in the Navy, Sukumvit is the target of the Kamikaze Pirates in a Black-Tie Infiltration during a party to celebrate both his promotion and twenty-third birthday. Unfortunately for the Kamikazes, when Chaser, newly assigned to his command, recognizes the group, he proves to be the kind of Marine who got their position through being a badass, being able to match Ranma in skill, and they only narrowly manage to escape.
- Amazon Chaser: He appears very interested in female Ryoga, taking her to admire his family's trophy gallery.
- Badass Normal: By all appearances, he has no Devil Fruit. He's still easily capable of matching Ranma, if not exceeding him in strength and skill.
- Blood Knight: Sukumvit is giddy at having a pirate invade his party so he can fight them and asks Ranma to not die too quickly.
- Great White Hunter: Hails from a line of nobles who pride themselves on their skills in hunting the most dangerous animals of the Grand Line.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: In recent generations, Sukumvit's family has turned from hunting wild animals to hunting pirates with Zoan-type devil fruit powers as they are seen as the ultimate quarry.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: A Commodore in the World Navy, and also so powerful he can outclass Ranma in a fight.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Sukumvit is lord of a prosperous island and could easily have lived a life going on safaris like his ancestors, but he chose to fully align with the World Government and personally join the Marines.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Is the first Marine that has been able to match or even exceed Ranma in skill and strength, having earned his position through skill and determination. The Kamikazes only manage to escape his manor without being clapped in irons because he gets distracted by explosives the pirates had planted earlier, allowing Ranma to brutally sucker-punch him.
- The Worf Effect: Is introduced as the first opponent to clearly be too much for Ranma to handle in a fight, to the point Ranma has to run to beat him. When he returns in Chapter 25, after Ranma has beaten Gasparde and spent a month devoted to doing nothing but train, Ranma can fight him as equals, with the fight largely coming down to the wire. Then Shiki arrives and casually one-shots Sukumvit, leaving him unconscious, sliced open from a kick from Shiki's blade-leg, and bleeding in an impact crater in the wall.
Commodore Nelson Royale
Commodore Nelson Royale
A corrupt Marine Commodore who deals in the slave trade with the World Nobles.- Adaptational Villainy: He was just a filler arc villain who was willing to kidnap a girl who he believes can lead him to the bones of the Millennium Dragons whose bones can grant immortality. Here he is one of the personal slavers of the World Government, using Navy forces as muscle to round up innocent civilians to become slaves for the World Nobles in Mariejois.
- Fat Bastard: Just like in the anime, in addition to being a corrupt and selfish Marine officer he is disgustingly obese.
Princess-Commodore Eveline Kubera (and attaches)
Princess-Commodore Eveline Kubera
A sadistic and self-centered princess who joined the Marines and became a Commodore, largely because of her status as one of the World Government's few agents in the Sky-Seas.- Animorphism: Ate the Weasel-Weasel Fruit, Model Type: Gray Mongoose, and so can transform into a mongoose or a humanoid mongoose.
- Bad Boss: Viciously punishes her underlings for even the most minor of failures.
- Battle Harem: She's attended by a collection of four skylander Marine Captains, all of whom have Zoan devil fruit powers, and all of whom are implicitly her lovers.
- Bondage Is Bad: Lilith describes her as basically a dominatrix rapist, forcing her bondage and domination-based fetishes on women regardless of their consent.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Is force-fed Lilith's venom in a Kiss of Death.
- Has a Type: Like Lilith, she's technically bisexual, but she only likes extra pretty boys.
- Lightning Bruiser: Thanks to her mongoose powers, she moves like greased lightning, but is strong enough to manhandle a hybrid-form Lilith like she was a toy.
- Psycho Lesbian: She's (more or less) a lesbian, and she's also a sadistic, abusive, controlling dominatrix.
- Stalker with a Crush: Is obsessed with getting her claws on Lilith again.
- Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Even as she brutally thrashes Lilith, she says it's all Lilith's fault and that she "deserves" the punishment.
Kubera's Harem
A collection of four Marine Captains, all skylanders like Commodore Kubera, who serve under her both in battle and in the bedroom. Consist of Deuteronomy, Eve, Venus and Bridget.- Animorphism: Each of the four has a Zoan Devil Fruit. Deuteronomy has the Bug-Bug, Model Type: Desert Locust, Eve has the Snake-Snake, Model Type: Banded Krait, Venus has the Frog-Frog, Model Type: Gliding Frog, and Bridget has the Rat-Rat, Model Type: Gray Rat.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Eve is basically the shoddy knock-off version of Lilith. Both are dark-skinned, red-headed, large-breasted beauties with the power to turn into snakes — and both of them even have Snake-Snake Fruit models based on Indian serpents. They share a similar theme to their names, too. But Eve is smaller and weaker than Lilith, and is mindlessly loyal to Kubera.
- Creepy Crossdresser: Bridget turns out to be a super-girly-looking man dressed in women's clothing, and who is infatuated with Kubera. Lilith even notes she can't find him hot because of his willing devotion to Kubera.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Bridget looks (and dresses) like a woman.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Deuteronomy belongs to a cannibal cult and openly rants about how much she's looking forward to eating Penelope.
Grand Line (Paradise)
Shay-Lot
Ahab Tempos
Ahab Tempos
A giant from Elbaf, who comes to Shay-Lot looking to drum up recruits for his new incarnation of the Giant Warrior pirates so they can free Dorry and Broggy.
- Fantastic Racism: Is introduced ranting about how humans have no business claiming to rule the world when they are so much smaller and weaker than giants, and that giants should be the ones in charge. He also seems to look down on Miriam for being only half-giant, even though the other half is fishman.
- Missing Steps Plan: Ahab's plan to rally up a crew to storm Impel Down was to recruit giants at Shay-Lot by luring anyone who listened to his anti-human screed an isolated cove, kill them, and use their deaths to stir up outrage against the small folk. The Nerimans are more than a little confused at how he thought this would work, given how counterproductive it is. Author's notes explain the missing steps: By killing the first few giants who were willing to listen to him, he essentially made the martyrs for his cause, stirring up much wider anti-human sentiment among the giants of Shay-lot — in essence, trading a few followers now for the promise of many more followers after — whilst also keeping himself from being an obvious suspect, as would be the case if he'd gone after giants who visibly rejected him.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: At 12 meters tall, he's average to slightly small-sized for a One Piece giant, but that still makes him tower above humans. Even Miriam is only a third of his size, due to her being a Large Runt.
- The Team Wannabe: Ahab wanted to sail with the original Giant Warrior Pirates but was refused for being too young. This remains a sore point for him even a century later.
Agnetha Ran
Agnetha Ran
A giantess from the giant port town of Shay-Lot, Agnetha oversees the commissioning of ships from the human clientele who come to her community, making her a figure of some political importance. She's also Miriam's mother.
- Absurdly Youthful Mother: While it's partially that giants age much slower than humans, the reason she looks so young for the mother of a teenage daughter is that Agnetha was a teen herself when she got pregnant.
- Giant Woman: At 20 meters tall, Agnetha is noted to be one of the tallest giants in Shay-Lot. Considering her daughter is a runt even by half-giant standards, it just makes them all the more shocking.
- Interspecies Romance: Conceived her daughter Miriam after a teen fling with a tiger shark-featured fishman.
- Mama Bear: The second she hears her daughter is fighting the murderer who has been terrorizing their village, she grabs her axe and goes charging into battle to save her.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She tries to be fair and equitable with all her customers, even the more annoying ones.
Femille Island
Masami Tsukuyomi
Masami Tsukuyomi
Harumi's mother, and the current head of the Crying Willow School on Femille Island. Rendered incapable of having more children due to complications in her son's birth, she is bitter about not having a daughter to inherit her position as the head. When it became clear that Harumi intends to inherit despite his gender, she decides to dissuade him by any means necessary, even ordering his cousins to assault him, and refusing to just let him leave the island peacefully when given the chance.
- Abusive Parents: She's not happy with Harumi for being a boy and the only child she was able to produce, and let his female cousins regularly beat him to make him renounce his dream to master the family style.
- I Lied: She never had any intention of holding up her end of the deal with Ranma in her duel, merely using it as a distraction so her nieces could capture Harumi while the Kamikazes were distracted.
- The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: The Kamikaze pirates first believe she's abusive to Harumi because he's a Wholesome Crossdresser, only for Masami to reveal this is the only thing she approves in her son — as Femille Island considers dresses and skirts proper manly clothing.
- Razor Wind: Skilled enough to shred her son's clothes without harming him. And no, she doesn't need her swords for it, she can use her bare hands.
- Stating the Simple Solution: It's pointed out to her a couple of times that just letting Harumi go with the Kamikazes would solve her problems with her fairly easily, but due to her pride she won't go for it.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: She's the first fighter Ranma and crew have encountered in the One Piece World able to match Ranma in sheer speed. This discovery causes Ranma to ramp up the crew's training in the next chapter.
- Wanted a Son Instead: Gender inversion, since girls are more prized on Femille Island. She's stuck with Harumi and unable to have more children, contributing to her bitterness toward him.
Sky Seas
Nosferatu
Nosferatu
An unusual entity even by the standards of the Grand Line, Nosferatu was a hemorrhagic fever bacterial mat in the bilges of the unusual sky-ship that the Skryre tribe of Minks called home. Unfortunately for them, the current bearer of the Human-Human Fruit, Model Type: Child that they used to obtain the rubbish of the inhabitants of the sky-islands fell into the bilges and broke her leg, letting it track her by the blood trail, whereupon it consumed her from the inside out, and managed to hijack the Devil Fruit instead of letting it reincarnate like normal. Now with a humanoid childlike form and intelligence, it managed to infect all the Skryre, said infection letting it control the bodies of those poor souls with it in their bloodstreams, and while its thralls couldn't spread the disease itself, thankfully, it was able to use them to drag more victims to it so it could infect them itself.
- The Assimilator: It can control anyone it infects with itself.
- Blob Monster: Its natural form is basically an animate mass of semi-coagulated blood and bacteria-rich slime.
- For the Evulz: Admits that its hosts will ultimately die as the bacteria consumes them from the inside out, but sees nothing wrong with this, being concerned only with spreading as far as possible so it can feed without limit.
- Hive Queen: Nosferatu can utilize the senses of any host infected with itself, but it forms the solitary and dominant consciousness of the resultant Hive Mind, with the original minds instead losing all control over their bodies beyond the ability to maybe gasp out of a few desperate warnings or pleas for death.
- Humanity Ensues: Was originally a bacteria, but gained human-level intelligence and Human Shifting abilities after consuming a Human-Human Zoan.
- Humanoid Abomination: Thanks to its Devil Fruit, it primarily takes the form of a human girl, but it's also a bacterial mat, enabling it to take on some horrific shapes by using its Hybrid Form, including a writhing Blob Monster with a still-human face, and a spidery-limbed human girl with Too Many Mouths.
- Human Shifting: Can switch from its original Blob Monster form into the form of a human girl.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: Despite Nosferatu's "human form" being a girl-child, it's always described as an "it", never a "she".
- Karmic Death: Nabiki consumes and digests it, using her own Devil Fruit blood powers to keep it from infecting her. Considering how it consumed the last user of the Devil Fruit after infecting her, and its actions afterward, it completely deserved said fate.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Its "hybrid" forms sport impressive arrays of needle-like fangs.
- Too Many Mouths: Its final form has multiple lamprey-like mouths in its palms, and fang-filled maws replacing its eyes.
- Uplifted Animal: A bacterial infection that gained intelligence by consuming a Devil Fruit user of the Human-Human Model line Zoans.
- Walking Spoiler: We can't really tell anything about it without literally giving away its entire schtick.
