Taiga

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**Taiga** is a Petty Officer who ran away from home and joined the marines

## **Appearance**

Taiga is a young man with black hair that has a yellow streak going down it.

In the Marines, he wears the regular Navy uniform and sports a backwards Marine cap on his head.

## **Personality**

Taiga is very immature, carefree, and unserious, often making jokes all the time. He is also a flirtatious, trying to flirt with his female colleagues shortly after meeting them. But when a situation gets dire or someone he cares about gets hurt, he tries to take things seriously. He enjoys gambling, despite being incredibly unlucky.

## **Abilities / Powers / Equipment**

### Overview

#### Wrist Blade

Assassin Creed-esque blade over his wrists. Taiga's weapon of choice when it comes to fighting. They have the same properties as short swords.

#### Two weapon fighting

When Taiga engage in two-weapon fighting, he can add his ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

#### Action Surge

Starting at 2nd level, Taiga can push himself beyond his limits for a moment. Once per short rest on his turn, he can take one additional action.

#### Second Wind

Taiga has a limited well of stamina that he can draw on to protect himself from harm. Once per short rest on his turn, he can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + his fighter level.

#### Improved critical

As a Champion fighter starting at 3rd level his weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of a 19 or 20.

#### Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, Taiga can attack twice, instead of once, whenever he takes the Attack action on his turn.

The number of attacks increases to three when he reaches 11th level in this class and to four when he reaches 20th level in this class.

## **Devil's Luck The Card Game**

Maybe in an expansion

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## **Relationships**

### **Branch 101**

#### **Kai**

Taiga looks up to Kai like everyone else, as they have yet to fully grasp Kai's true feelings when it comes to being a Marine. He admires Kai's dream of finding Mako's Tools and even asks to help, although he gets shot down by Kai when he asks if he can have one. Despite their blossoming friendship, however, they are both interested in Joy with Taiga being highly possessive when it comes to his exes. This may cause some friction between them although it remains to be seen.

#### **Damian**

As the leader of their squadron, Taiga respects Damian's authority and intellectual prowess, two things Taiga himself lacks.

#### **Yokan**

Tried to ask out as soon as they met but got shot down hastily. After repeated attempts, she got more and more violent with him. This eventually cam to a head when Taiga made a joke about buying women that trigged traumatic flashbacks of Yokan herself nearly being captured by pirates. She got very angry with him but he admitted that he only said what he said because his father had paid women (later revealed to be the Seven Sisters) to hang out with him and that he's never had any real relationships with women. He also apologized for his behavior. She calmed down and later she told him that although she doesn't have the same interest in him that he does in her, maybe one day they could become respected comrades. Taiga has since been by Yokan's side when she mediates, probably still into her.

#### **Bradley**

Trained him briefly on ship. Taiga considers Bradley to be a friend and has kindled a friendship with him. They created a secret handshake which is mediocre at best (will improve in future).

#### **Bailey Turner**

Imminently found her attractive as soon as he met her but still seems to respect her as his superior officer.

### **Family**

**Kane Kibbleton**

Taiga hates his father for never paying attention to him growing up and openly calls him a piece of shit. He ran away from home to get away from him. It was revealed in Episode 3 that his father is Kane Kibbleton, a businessman that owns most of the establishments in the Ballywood kingdom, including hospitals and the Statue of Freedom.

**Fips**

Taiga cares deeply about his younger brother and they seem very close. When he thought his younger brother was killed by pirates he was enraged and wanted to do everything in his power to get revenge and was extremely happy when he thought his younger brother was still alive. When he found out that Fips had actually been dead for months he was devastated.

### The Seven Sisters

Under his loose definition of dating (being around a woman outside of work for an extended period of time) Taiga dated every sister except for Demure.

## **History**

### **Past**

#### **Birth and Childhood**

Taiga alongside his younger brother Fips were born to a rich family where their father Kane Kibbleton didn't pay much attention to them and would pay kids to hang out with him and servants to read to him so he never learned how to read. Taiga said he had been in a about 7 relationships, but the reality is he didn't actually go out with most if not all of them, his most recent one ended after he gambled away all of their money. Before the start of the campaign Taiga ran away from home to get away from his father and took who he thought was Fips with him.

#### **Taiga the Marine**

He joined the marines because he wanted money and nowhere else was willing to hire him and in order to pay back his gambling debts.

## Major Battles

* **Branch 101** vs Captain Bailey - **Won**
* **Branch 101 and Rordon Gamsey vs seven sisters - Won**

## **Trivia**

* Taiga is the first NPC in One Piece DnD: Marines to have a player charter sheet. He is a DMPC, similar to William Shakespeare .
* Taiga has a gambling addiction.
* Taiga is illiterate.
* Taiga can't swim.
* Taiga says he has 7 ex girlfriends. Although he never actually dated any of them.
* Taiga often plays card games against Belle which he always loses.
* Taiga is based on a random Japanese dude named Taiga who Rustage met in Japan. He was described by Rustage to be a "frat boy with no rizz". He was also inspired by Larry Butz from phoenix wright.
* His favorite food is Chicken Nuggets.
* His hobby is gambling.
* Taiga can (poorly) juggle.
* Taiga loves mimes.
* In terms of appearance, Rustage said that he resembles Nishinoya from Haikyuu.
* Taiga's favorite number is 69.
* Taiga stated in Episode 11, that he is lactose intolerant.

## **Quotes**

* "I never learned! Who needs to read!?"
* ”You can’t just make up words like that”
* "Everything else rejected me, I have zero qualifications!"
* "That's Taigatastic!"
* "Women, am I right?"
* "Who let her cook, but in a good way!"
* "They got Fibs!"
* "Yooooh! That's lit, like literally lit!"
* "Hubba hubba, who's that lady!"
* "That's one smoking hotstack!"
* "Sometimes my mouth is faster than my brain, and my brain ain't that fast!"
* "Women."
* "And, you're also very hot."
* "I mean, people read TO me."
* "I mean like, Girlboss, Gaslight, Gatekeep."
* "It wasn't very Taigatastic of me."
* "I am always Taigatastic."
* "I don't want you guys to think any different of me, I know you have an high opinion of me!"
* "Taigatastic is Taigatastic!"
* "When I look into his eyes I don't see my brother, I don't see my father either. I se a sad, sad old man."
* ”Remember when we went on that walk, but it wasn’t really a walk?”
* ”Why are we running! I don’t have that kind of stamina, bro!”
* "I can juggle!"
* "Ok, listen...I'm an idiot, alright!"
* "I can use my Taiga Charm!"
* "It's Taiga Time!"
* "Guys, who wants to play some Uno?"
* "Hey baby, youn know what my favourite number is? It's 69, I don't even know why! I just like how the numbers look!"
* "Alright, it's Taigatastic time!"
* "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will break my heart."
* "I don't get the respect I deserve around here."
* "Taiga hates racism! Racism is not Taigatastic!"
* ”Damian, are you a terrorist?”

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 One Piece DnD: Marines - Twitch stream, Taiga's hobbies and favorite food are revealed.