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Player Name: Leone
Email Address: sasorikatana@yahoo.com
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Character Name: Roronoa Zoro
Series: One Piece
Age: 19

Physical Description: Zoro is about 5'11" and packing quite a bit of muscle due to extensive and strenuous training. He has a dark tan and, much to the amusement of others, green hair that he wears very short. Also prominent in Zoro's appearance is the scar that runs from his left shoulder to right hip in a straight, inexpertly-stitched line, and a pair of scars that each circle one of his legs, about mid-calf. Zoro is usually seen wearing a plain white T-shirt, black pants tucked into his boots, and a green haramaki—sort of a wide belt normally worn by samurai. He keeps a black bandana tied around his left bicep, and when he gets into a serious fight, he ties it onto his head. He wears three gold drop earrings in his left ear.

Personality: Zoro is an incredibly focused person. He knows what he wants, and he knows how to get it. He doesn’t depend on other people for help or company, and any alliance he forges is likely due to convenience. Even when he does make friends, he makes it clear that he will cut off connections with anyone who tries to stand in the way of his goals.

Zoro doesn’t often allow himself to be emotionally affected by things, but when he is, he often has trouble articulating it. Concern for the mortal plight of a friend is usually expressed with phrases such as “If you die, I’ll kill you!” and he has a tendency to admonish people for not being as strong as they could have in a given situation.

Zoro often has little respect for people who don’t live up to their potential. In most cases, he wants nothing to do with cowards or people who have others do their work for them.

Zoro views men and women as equals—he judges people by strength, not gender; if someone is stronger or weaker than he is, they are simply strong or weak, whether they are male or female.

He also doesn’t have much of an apparent sex drive; pretty girls (and boys) have no noticeable effect on him. Zoro seems to be drawn to (thought not as of yet romantically) people who possess great strength, whether physically or of personality.

Zoro appreciates nothing more than a good competition, especially of the physical fight variety, although sleeping and booze are also high up on his list of interests.

Abilities/Strengths/Weaponry: Zoro is a highly proficient swordsman and has three katana that he keeps with him at all times. The first, and Zoro’s most prized possession, is Wadō Ichimonji, a kodachi with a white scabbard and a white wrapped hilt. The second, Sandai Kitetsu, is a cursed sword that thirsts for blood. It has a red scabbard with gold banding and a red wrapped hilt. Yubashiri, the last of Zoro’s katana, is a very light but strong sword with a black lacquered sheath.

Zoro has a very unusual fighting style called Santōryū, or “three sword style”. This style involves holding one katana in each hand and another (this one is always Wadō) in his mouth. He can speak coherently while using this style for no discernable reason. Sometimes he only uses one or two swords, but his best fighting style is Santōryū. He uses his swords for a variety of attacks, like making bladed whirlwinds and creating the illusion that he is holding many more swords than he actually is.

Zoro also has superhuman strength and endurance due to relentless training; he is able to perform feats like picking up and throwing entire buildings while injured. His upper body strength is much more formidable than his leg strength, but he can still run quite fast and kick enemies into submission if need be. He also seems to have great powers of recovery, given that he loses a lot of blood fairly often and manages to fight effectively while badly injured and is typically back on his feet pretty quickly. Also, he seems to be able to reason and use logic fairly well, in most cases.

He can also hold ridiculous amounts of liquor with no apparent ill effects.

Weaknesses: Zoro’s most prominent and problematic weakness is that he has almost no workable sense of direction. He has been known to get lost walking in a straight line with a visible destination, and often confuses “north” for “up” and other such drastic mistakes. It is seriously unwise to trust Zoro with a ship, as he will often do things like use clouds as stationary points for navigation.

Other weaknesses include his tendency to sleep for a solid majority of any given day, which irritates people and causes him to miss a lot of goings-on. He is also very blunt, to the point of speaking his mind even when it will almost certainly get him into trouble or severely annoy or rile people (both enemy and ally). He isn’t much interested in anything that doesn’t involve training, fighting, sleeping, drinking, swords, or opportunities to get stronger, and doesn’t care who knows it. While he seems to harbor enough intelligence to do things like read, reason, figure his way out of or into situations, and be otherwise quite mentally collected and capable, he often forgoes the use of logic entirely and charges headfirst into fights or scenarios that are likely to get him hurt.

Zoro seems not to believe in pain, which isn’t good for his health. He also has a tendency to bite off more than he can chew, especially when it comes to battle, and he doesn’t know how to quit when he’s head; blood loss, serious injury, and mutilation are common staples of Zoro’s day. He also has no problem doing things like cutting off his own feet to free himself from a trap in order to take out enemies before they take out him.

History: Zoro was born in a small mining settlement north of Navarre, where he was trained to be a swordsman from a very early age. He had a fierce rivalry with his sensei’s daughter, Kuina, and never once beat her out of 2,001 battles despite her being a girl and only two years his senior. Despite their rivalry, Zoro and Kuina were good friends, and when Kuina tragically fell down a flight of stairs and died at the age of eleven, Zoro vowed to uphold the promise they had made to each other the night before—one of them would become the greatest swordsman in the world. He took up Kuina’s sword, Wadō Ichimonji, which he used along with his two swords and developed the Santōryū style he still uses today. Because Kuina was a much better fighter than not only Zoro but most of the adult fighters at her father’s dojo, Zoro tends to view women no differently than men.

When Zoro got old enough to strike out on his own, he left his home town to uphold his promise to Kuina and become the greatest swordsman in the world by defeated the current title-holder, Dracule “Hawk-Eyes” Mihawk, who already defeated him in an earlier confrontation and left him with the scar across his chest. He is currently working as a bounty hunter to support himself and grow stronger while he pursues his goal.

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