Portgas D. Ace

## Summary

**Portgas D. Ace**, also known as "**Fire Fist**" Ace, was the son of the late Gol D. Roger who was secretly adopted by Monkey D. Garp and given the surname of his dying mother Portgas D. Rogue. Placed under the care of Curly Dadan, Ace eventually met his guardian's grandson Monkey D. Luffy and the two became sworn brothers along with Sabo. Ace later left Luffy at the age of 17 to take to piracy, acquiring the power of the Flame-Flame Fruit (Mera Mera no Mi), a Logia that allows him to create, control and transform into fire, and captaincy of the Spade Pirates along with a massive bounty of 550,000,000 berries. Ace later makes an attempt on the life of the pirate Whitebeard and ends up joining the older pirate's crew.

As the series started, Ace was traveling the Grand Line after a former crew member named Marshall D. Teach for murdering a shipmate. After crossing paths with Luffy and his Straw Hat crew, Ace eventually finds Teach and loses against him. Teach then collects the bounty on Ace and he ends up being kept in Level 6 of Impel Down before he was taken to Marineford to be executed. Despite Luffy's rescue attempt, Ace ends up mortally wounded by Admiral Akainu to protect his younger brother.

## Mentality

**Personality:** Ace was much more intelligent, polite, and generally, more bearable than Luffy, which prompted the Straw Hat Pirates to question whether he was truly related to their captain. While several people who knew Gol D. Roger noted Luffy is quite similar to the late Pirate King, Whitebeard himself claimed that Ace's personality was not at all like his father's. It seems that among the very few things the brothers shared was their recklessness as pirates (and their near-bottomless stomachs). In addition, Ace liked to party as much as his brother does. When he boarded Buggy's ship, he was drawn by the smell of food and decided to enjoy himself while he was there. Ace could be a bit inappropriate though as he once used a woman's skirt to wipe his face while he was dining at Spice Bean in Alabasta.

There were two running gags about Ace. The first was his rather extreme narcolepsy. He tended to randomly fall asleep while eating and conversing, leaving strangers around him wondering if he had died. This was first seen in Alabasta when they thought he died in the middle of eating. The second was that he did a "dine and dash" routine wherever he went. This went back to his younger days with Sabo and Luffy, when they would often dine and dash in the city of Goa, and carried over to adulthood, as shown on three occasions when he was on Drum Island, Alabasta, and Lulusia Kingdom.

**Intelligence:** Although more intelligent than Luffy, he is not overly smart outside of battle. Expert in hand-to-hand combat (he was able to defeat Luffy in every fight they had before he got his Devil Fruit and after Luffy ate his), his position as leader of Whitebeard's second division fleet shows he has leadership abilities, he is an effective tracker (Shown by hunting down Blackbeard), he is skilled in the use of his Devil Fruit abilities

## Power and Stats

**Powers and Abilities:** Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Ace was shown using various weapons, including an axe and a knife. As a child, he used a long bo staff made from pipe to defeat some bandits), Proficient Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Haki (Rudimentary Busōshoku Haki and Haōshoku Haki user), Fire Manipulation and Intangibility (Ate the Mera Mera no Mi, a Logia-type Devil Fruit that allows him to become the element of fire and control the flames from his body in various ways), Inorganic Physiology (Type 1. While he's turned into fire), Regeneration (Mid-High, only in his Logia form), Body Control (He should be capable of altering the size and shape of his Logia form to some degree – similarly to Aokiji), Heat Manipulation (Able to change the heat of his fire, so that this can make green, white fire and possibly other colors), Limited Weather Manipulation (Could clear away bad weather like blizzards and make it sunny), Heat Aura (Ace's Haki had been described by Shanks and Benn Beckman to be fiery in nature, to the point that Ace’s very presence was able to stop a blizzard on an island for as long as he was there. As such, when he turned up on Drum Island, no snow fell at all on the island for an entire day), Limited Light Manipulation, Homing Attack and Minor Danmaku (Via Hotarubi), Limited Flight via propulsion, Fire Absorption, High Resistance to Extreme Heat and Fire Manipulation (All Logias are resistant to their respective elements. Resisted the water boiling bath in Impel Down when he had no powers)

**Dimensionality:** **3D**

**Existential Status:** **Concrete**

**Attack Potency:** **Large Island level** (Ace's presence stop the snow from fall in the whole Drum Island. Was capable to cover the center of Banaro Island. Equalized against Kuzan. Capable to hold against Sakazuki)

**Durability:** **Large Island level** (Tanked blows from Blackbeard)

**Speed:** **Relativistic** (Faster than Luffy)

**Lifting Strength:** **kN** (Stronger than Luffy)

**Stamina:** **Extremely high**, was able to fight against a former member of the Shichibukai (Blackbeard) which should be representative of his all round battle stats, also was able to battle against Jinbe in a five day long fight

**Range:** **Large Island** (Affected all Drum Island, only because he puts a foot on there)

**Weaknesses:** Standard Devil Fruit users weaknesses. Often falls asleep while eating, apparently magma can directly harm him as it smothers out his fire (As shown when Akainu nailed him with a magma-enhanced punch)

## Arsenal

**Standard Equipment:**

* **Orange hat**
* **Knife**

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* Mera Mera no Mi
* Haki
**Mera Mera no Mi**: A Logia type Devil Fruit, this fruit allows the user to transform into fire at will as well as control it. The fruit's major strength like other Logia types allows the user to produce as well become the element they control. In this case, Ace is able to create, control, and become fire. With this in mind, Ace is able to create fire-based attacks. The elemental state the ability endows him with also allows him to avoid conventional attacks as they only disperse him. Turning into fire also has the added effect of burning an opponent depending should the attack be close range and such. Though the user is fire in the elemental state, they are weak against magma, which can consume flames, and can be burned by it despite their dispersion, making it their natural enemy.

* **Hiken (Fire Fist):** Ace's apparent signature attack. Ace turns his fist into flames and launches it as a column of fire at his target.

* **Higan (Fire Gun):** Pointing the index and middle fingers of both hands at an opponent like guns, Ace turns his fingertips into flames and shoots bullets made of fire at them.

* **Shinka: Shiranui (Sacred Flame: Sea Fire):** Ace launches two long lances made of fire at his opponent's chest. The lances have the combined effect of simultaneously burning an opponent while piercing their chest.

* **Jūjika (Cross-fire):** Ace puts his index fingers together in a cross shape before launching a cross-shaped column of flame directly at his opponent.

* **Hotarubi Hidaruma (Firefly Light/Fiery Doll):** Ace creates many small, glowing greenish yellow fireballs that float around an enemy. The idea behind this attack's name is that before he attacks with them, the small fireballs look like fireflies in the air. After using Hotarubi to send the fireballs floating around in proximity with the enemy, Ace sends them all flying into the target(s) all at once, burning them.

* **Kagerō (Heat Haze):** Ace shoots a stream of fire from the palm of his hand.

* **Enjōmō (Blazing Net):** Ace creates a circle of fire around a selected area, preventing anyone from entering or leaving it.

* **Kyokaen (Mirror Flame):** Ace releases a large amount of flames and forms it in a firewall to defend against attacks.

* **Enkai Hibashira(Flame Commandment/Fire Pillar):** Ace conjures a large amount of flames around his body in preparation for an attack. Ace shoots the collected flames straight upward like a large fire pillar, destroying a target above him. It can also be fired downwards to clear any enemies that might be below him while he's in mid-air.

* **Daienkai: Entei (Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor):** Ace's ultimate technique. Ace creates a gigantic fireball resembling the sun and hurls it at his opponent to try to obliterate them. It created a huge explosion strong enough to cover half of a rather large island.

**Haki:** There are normally two types of Haki regular people can tap into: the Kenbunshoku Haki which allows individuals to sense the presence of others, and Busōshoku Haki which allows individuals to create an invisible armor around them. There is however, a third type of Haki, Haōshoku Haki, that only a few individuals can use. Ace is one of these people.

* **Busōshoku Haki (Color of Armaments):** Ace is confirmed as an user of this type of Haki during the events of the novel that tells his story before becoming a member of the Whitebeard Pirates. In said novel, Ace fights the Vice Admiral Draw and unlocks his Armament Haki in the middle of the fight. Despite being competent enough to clash with said marine, Ace's usage is unconscious and he didn't know what he was doing.
* **Haōshoku Haki (Color of the Conquering King):** Ace awakened this Haki very early in his life. When he was 10 years old, he unconsciously activated it to defeat some members of the Bluejam Pirates. His full potential, however, was never explored.

## Gallery

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