Van Tuyl Winkelried

**Van Tuyl Winkelried** (*Romaji*: **Ban Tūrū Uinkaruraido**; *Kana*: **バン・トゥールー・ウインカルライド**) is one of the major characters of Powerhouse411 in the Outer Sea Expedition. He is a brown trout Fish-Man and the First Mate of the Grand Pirates.

He aspires to end the abduction and enslavement of people throughout the World. As such, in exchange for the abolition and criminalization of slavery and the emancipation of all the slaves in the World, he agreed to assist in Gran D. Ziger in overthrowing and replacing the World Government that has been allowing and even facilitating the practice and proliferation of slavery.

## ***History***

### Origins

Winkelried is a brown trout Fish-Man from Fish-Man Island. He was born and raised in the Fish-Man District; as a result, he has been exposed and habituated to crime and violence throughout the entirety of his life.

As a 6-year-old, he met a giant Pacific octopus Mermaid named Midoriko. In stark contrast to the rest of the Fish-Man District's children, he was not afraid of Midoriko. As a result, out of the desire for a friend to play and talk with, Midoriko went out of her way to befriend him. Notably, because he was an introvert and a stoic, Midoriko was just as much of a first friend to him as he was to Midoriko.

10 years later, when Midoriko and him were 16-year-olds, Midoriko and a large number of other mermaids would be abducted by Lowell "Loathsome" Lowther and the Loathsome Pirates. Lowther and his crew took Midoriko and the other mermaids to the Sabaody Archipelago to be sold into slavery. Fortunately, before Lowther and his crew managed to sell Midoriko and the other mermaids, he managed to rescue Midoriko and the other mermaids by finding and killing Lowther and his crew.

Unfortunately, because he had both killed Lowther and the Loathsome Pirates in broad daylight and public and mutilated Lowther and his crew's bodies to the point where neither Lowther nor any of the Loathsome Pirates could be identified and thereby recognized as pirates, the Marines charged him for murder and then placed a bounty on his head. Consequently, after he escorted Midoriko and the rest of the mermaids back to Fish-Man Island, he left Fish-Man Island in order to avoid being arrested and imprisoned by a detachment of Marines whom were looking to make a name for themselves by arresting and bringing in a high-profile criminal like him.

## ***Abilities and Equipment***

### *Authority*

As the first mate of the Grand Pirates and their ship, the Grand Ziger, Winkelried is the second-in-command of the Grand Pirates and the rest of the Grand Ziger's crew and passengers as well.

As a result, he is able to dictate both what a crew member's position in the Grand Pirates and what a crew member's jobs on the Grand Ziger are.

### *Life Return*

Winkelried is a practitioner of **Life Return** (*Romaji*: **Seimei Kikan**; *Kanji*: **生命帰還**); as such, Winkelried is able to exert his consciousness upon every cell of his body and thereby manipulate the functions and locomotion of every cell in his body.

Through the use of Life Return, Winkelried is able to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of any of the Island Climatic Types. Winkelried is also able to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of a combination of any number of the Island Climatic Types' magnetic fields, and he is able to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the "unique" magnetic fields of islands like Raijin Island.

Notably, by altering and manipulating his magnetic field in the aforementioned manner, Winkelried is able to alter the weather around him a myriad and variety of ways!

### *Gadgets and Weapons*

#### **Trishula**

Main Article: Trutta

Winkelried possesses a trishula named Trutta. Notably, Trutta's durability and potency is no less than the blade of a Great Grade Sword!

Winkelried is as experienced at and skilled in wielding Trutta as a true swordsman is at wielding his or her sword-of-choice. Winkelried is able to utilize swings and thrusts of Truttas a means of launching a myriad and variety of **Flying Slash Attacks** (*Romaji*: **Tobu Zangeki**; *Kanji*: **飛ぶ斬撃**)! Winkelried is also able to invoke Trutta's klabautermann as a means of either empowering Trutta's strikes or (re)direct a Flying Slash Attack was launched from Trutta.

Winkel is also able to utilize Trutta in conjunction with his Haki and his Life Return. Winkel is able to subject Trutta to his Busoshoku Haki as a means of augmenting Trutta's durability and hardness, and Winkel is able to utilize Life Return to imbue Trutta with the magnetic field of an Island Climatic Type.

### *Haki*

Winkelried has access to Busoshoku Haki and Kenbunshoku Haki.

#### **Busoshoku Haki**

Winkelried is capable of both the weaker form of Busoshoku that is invisible to the naked eye and the stronger form of Busoshoku that can be seen by the naked eyes as a sort of blackening.

With his Busoshoku, Winkelried is able to augment the durability and hardness of any entity that he subjects to his Busoshoku. As a result, Winkelried is able to augment the durability and hardness of his body and trishula alike! Winkelried is also able to solidify air or water into spears, tridents, or trishula. And Winkelried is able to abruptly undo the solidification of that air or water as means of generating an elastic explosion of air or water.

#### **Kenbunshoku Haki**

Winkelried's Kenbunshoku specializes in extra-sensory and extra-temporal "vision".

Winkelried is able to "visually" perceive everyone and everything that is within 30 miles of him; in addition, Winkelried is able to "visually" perceive the future and past of everyone and everything that is within 30 miles of him as well! As a result, Winkelried is able to "view" the former and upcoming actions of anyone and anything that is within 30 miles of him.

### *List of Techniques*

#### **Life Return Techniques**

* **Life Return** (*Romaji*: **Seimei Kikan**; *Kanji*: **生命帰還**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will exert his consciousness upon every cell of his body as a means of manipulating the functions and locomotion of those cells.
	+ **Autumn Prix** (*Romaji*: **Ōtamu Puri**; *Kana*: **オータム・プリ**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of an Autumn Island.
		- **Autumn Prix, Fallen Leaves** (*Romaji*: **Ōtamu Puri, Ochiba**; *Kana and Kanji*: **オータム・プリ, 落ち葉**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of an Autumn Island, Winkelried will physically contact a living being with either a medium — such as his trishula, Trutta — or himself and thereby imbue a measure of autumnal electromagnetism into the living being. Afterward, until the living being is purged of the autumnal electromagnetism that has been imbued into it, the living being will cease to regenerate and start to degenerate. Notably, because this maneuver halts regeneration, the regeneration that is provided by the Awakening of a Zoan-type Devil Fruit is not able to counteract the degeneration of this maneuver. However, any regeneration that is provided by a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit ***WILL*** be able to bypass this maneuver's negation of degeneration and thereby counteract this maneuver's degeneration.
	+ **Grand Prix** (*Romaji*: **Gurando Puri**; *Kana*: **グランド・プリ**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of more than one of the Island Climatic Types.
		- **Grand Prix, Hurricane Winkelried** (*Romaji*: **Gurando Puri, Harikēn Uinkaruraido**; *Kana*: **グランド・プリ, ハリケーン・ウインカルライド**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic fields of a Summer Island and a Winter Island, Winkelried will become the eye of a miniature hurricane.
	+ **Spring Prix** (*Romaji*: **Supuringu Puri**; *Kana*: **スプリング・プリ**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Spring Island.
		- **Spring Prix, Flowers in Full Bloom** (*Romaji*: **Supuringu Puri**, **Hanazakari**; *Kana and Kanji*: **スプリング・プリ, 花盛り**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Spring Island, Winkelried will begin to radiate a measure of vernal electromagnetism in a manner which will allow him to grow and manipulate all of the vegetation that is radiated by the vernal electromagnetism.
		- **Spring Prix, Full Bloom** (*Romaji*: **Supuringu Puri, Mankai**; *Kana and Kanji*: **スプリング・プリ, 満開**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Spring Island, Winkelried will physically contact a living being with either a medium — such as his trishula, Trutta — or himself and thereby imbue a measure of vernal electromagnetism into the living being. Afterward, until the living being is purged of the vernal electromagnetism that has been imbued into it, the living being will cease to degenerate and start to regenerate. Notably, this maneuver is able to counteract the degenerative effects of poison that harms through corrosion and necrosis.
	+ **Summer Prix** (*Romaji*: **Sammā Puri**; *Kana*: **サッマー・プリ**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Summer Island.
		- **Summer Prix, Heat Wave** (*Romaji*: **Sammā Puri, Mōsho**; *Kana*: **サッマー・プリ, 猛暑**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Summer Island, Winkelried will begin to generate a Summer Island's worth of heat. Subsequently, Winkelried will be able to utilize either a medium — such as his trishula, Trutta — or himself as a means of conducting heat from himself and into his target.
		- **Summer Prix, Ocean Current** (*Romaji*: **Sammā Puri, Kairyū**; *Kana*: **サッマー・プリ, 海流**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Summer Island, Winkelried will physically contact a body of water with either a medium — such as his trishula, Trutta — or himself and thereby imbue a measure of estival electromagnetism into the body of water. By doing so, Winkelried will be able to heat the body of water into an ocean current.
	+ **Winter Prix** (*Romaji*: **Uinta Puri**; *Kana*: **ウィンタ・プリ**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Winter Island.
		- **Winter Prix, Cold Front** (*Romaji*: **Uinta Puri, Kanrei Zensen**; *Kana*: **ウィンタ・プリ, 寒冷前線**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic field of a Winter Island, Winkelried will become as cold as a Winter Island. Subsequently, Winkelried will be able to utilize either a medium — such as his trishula, Trutta — or himself as a means of conducting heat from his target and into himself.
			* **Winter Prix, Scattering** (*Romaji*: **Uinta Puri**, **Hisan**; *Kana*: **ウィンタ・プリ, 飛散**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize "Winter Prix, Cold Front" to freeze the water within a living being and thereby shatter the living being into pieces.

#### **Haki Techniques**

##### Busoshoku Techniques

* **Black Prix** (*Romaji*: **Burakku Puri**; *Kana*: **ブラック・プリ**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize his Busoshoku Haki to augment the durability and hardness of an entity.
	+ **Black Prix, Hurricane Winkelried** (*Romaji*: **Burakku Puri**, **Harikēn Uinkaruraido**; *Kana*: **ブラック・プリ, ハリケーン・ウインカルライド**) - Is a maneuver where, after he has utilized Life Return to alter and manipulate his magnetic field into an emulation of the magnetic fields of a Summer Island and a Winter Island, Winkelried will become the eye of a miniature hurricane. Subsequently, Winkelried will subject the hurricane's gales to his Busoshoku Haki as a means of augmenting the gales' sharpness to the point where the gales become the equivalent of a Flying Slash Attack!

##### Kenbunshoku Techniques

* **White Prix** (*Romaji*: **Howaito Puri**; *Kana*: **ホワイト・プリ**) - Is a maneuver where Winkelried will utilize his Kenbunshoku Haki to "visually" perceive any area or entity that is within 30 miles of him. Notably, Winkelried is also able to utilize this maneuver to "visually" perceive the future and past of any area or entity that is within 30 miles of him.

## ***Trivia***

* Winkelried's surname, Van Tuyl, was derived from a pair of New York pirates.