Yokan

**Yokan** is the character played by 2Spooky in Rustage's One Piece D&D: Marines streams. She is a member of the Longarm Tribe and a Chief Petty Officer, who is a member of Branch 101 in the Marines. She joined the Marines to express her gratitude to them and bring honor to her people, family, and self.

## **Appearance**

Yokan is a 6'10" longarm tribesperson with black hair and emerald green eyes. She wears a Marine jacket with rolled up sleeves, revealing a tattoo on her left arm. She also wears a jade green necklace, a green bracelet with black highlights, and a green sash wrapped around her hip. Upon eating her devil fruit she now has permanent cat ears and a tail around her waist.

## **Personality**

She has a deep respect for the marines and a great hatred for pirates, but is quite naive in her view of both of them. She was angry at her comrade, Bradley for joining The Marines just so he could kill pirates, telling him that The Marines are a highly honorable organization and joining it just to kill pirates and to goof around wasn’t right. Her lack of understanding about pirates has become a running gag of sorts with Yokan asking on many different occasions who or what can be pirates and what pirates can do. She is an honorable woman, but can sometimes lose her temper.

Yokan has an intense hatred for slavery, with her almost killing Taiga for his comment about buying women.

Yokan's has a very limited understanding of the real world and often struggles with certain tasks like when she tried to buy a Meat Mountain for the first time. She was also unaware of the existence of Devil Fruits, believing them to be a myth.

She is also weak to compliments, often blushing in pride whenever someone praises or compliments her. When Yokan was given a promotion, she had to try her absolute hardest not the scream in delight.

Yokan has a thing for tall, buff women. She is so attracted to them that she feels the need to show off when in front of them.

## **Abilities / Powers / Equipment**

### Overview

Yokan is a very talented martial artist. She especializes in the use of her staff combined with the length of her long arms to attack enemies from fat away. She is also proficient in unarmored combat and can use her hands to perform numerous techniques.

#### Staff

An ordinary quarterstaff that does bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 one handed and 1d8 two handed.

#### Unarmored Defense

Beginning at 1st level, while Yokan is wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, her AC equals 10 + Dexterity modifier + Wisdom modifier (17AC).

#### Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, Yokan can attack twice, instead of once, whenever she takes the Attack action on her turn.

#### Slow Fall

Beginning at 4th level, Yokan can use her reaction when she falls to reduce any falling damage she takes by an amount equal to five times her monk level (20).

#### Martial Arts

At 1st level, her practice of martial arts has given her mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons.

Yokan gains the following benefits while she is unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and she isn't wearing armor or wielding a shield:

* She can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and monk weapons.
* She can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of her unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die increases as she gain monk levels.
* When Yokan use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on her turn, she can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.

### Ki

Starting at 2nd level, Yokan's training allows her to harness the mystic energy of ki, represented by a number of ki points. She can spend these points to fuel various ki features. She knows three such features: Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind.

Some of her ki features require the target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows: 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Wisdom modifier

#### Flurry of Blows

Immediately after Yokan takes the Attack action on her turn, she can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

#### Patient Defense

Yokan can spend 1 ki point to take the Dodge action as a bonus action on her turn.

#### Step of the Wind

Yokan can spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on her turn, and her jump distance is doubled for the turn.

#### Deflect Missiles

Starting at 3rd level, Yokan can use her reaction to deflect or catch the missile when she is hit by a ranged weapon attack. When she does so, the damage she takes from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + her Dexterity modifier + her monk level. If she reduces the damage to 0, she can catch the missile if it is small enough for her to hold in one hand and she has at least one hand free. If she catches a missile in this way, she can spend 1 ki point to make a ranged attack with a range of 20/60 using the weapon or piece of ammunition she just caught, as part of the same reaction. She makes this attack with proficiency, regardless of her weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.

### Open Hand Technique

Starting at 3rd level, Yokan can manipulate her enemy's ki when she harness her own. Whenever she hits a creature with one of the attacks granted by her Flurry of Blows, she can impose one of the following effects on that target:

* It must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone.

* It must make a Strength saving throw. If it fails, she can push it up to 15 feet away from her.

* It can't take reactions until the end of her next turn.

#### Stunning Strike

Starting at 5th level, Yokan can interfere with the flow of ki in an opponent's body. When she hits another creature with a melee weapon attack, she can spend 1 ki point to attempt a stunning strike. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of her next turn.

#### Focused Aim (Potentially)

Also at 5th level, when she misses with an attack roll, she can spend 1 to 3 ki points to increase her attack roll by 2 for each of these ki points she spends, potentially turning the miss into a hit.

### Neko-Neko no mi, Model: House Cat

Yokan ate the Neko-Neko fruit model: House Cat and gained the ability to transform into cat-human hybrid or a full cat form. The color of the cat reflects her color scheme, making her a black cat with green eyes. Additionally, Yokan embraces her devil fruit, which is an important factor in the road to awakening it.

#### Extra Claw Damage

Her unarmed strikes deal an additional 1d4 slashing damage.

#### Always falling on her feet

As a cat person, Yokan always falls on her feet, granting her advantage on any check that involve falling.

As well as several miscellaneous cat abilities such as: a climb speed, the ability to drink saltwater without becoming dehydrated; jumping up to 6 times her length (which would be 41 feet instead of simply 6 feet from a running jump); night-vision; a vomeronasal organ, allowing her to taste the air; and increased movement, stealth, and perception.

#### Full Hybrid Form

During a moment of fury in the battle against Alter and Dave, Yokan managed to access the power of her full hybrid form and gaining the following abilities.

##### Free Dodge

As dexterous as cat, in her hybrid form, Yokan can take the dodge action as free action on her turn, causing attack rolls made against her to be rolled with disadvantage.

##### Cat-Like Reflexes

In her hybrid form, Yokan has the instincts of a cat and can sense the changing air pressure around her, this gives her advantage in Dexterity saving throws.

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

Maybe in an expansion

TBA

## **Relationships**

### **Branch 101**

#### Kai

Yokan and Kai got along somewhat quickly after meeting, with Yokan appreciating Kai's compliment to her cooking. They worked together to rescue Lieutenant Pluto.

#### Damian

Shortly after their first meeting, they worked together to rescue Lieutenant Pluto.

#### Bradley

Bradley and Yokan have been training together for 2 years before the start of the story. He stated they sparred multiple times, and she always beats him. Yokan also said that when she played hide and seek with Bradley she never found him. They worked together with to rescue Lieutenant Pluto.

#### Taiga

Yokan finds Taiga quite annoying due to his idiocy and loudmouthed personality, with all of Taiga's poor attempts at flirting with her failing. Eventually, Yokan's threats caused Taiga to back away from attempting to woo her out of intimidation. Despite that, she reprimanded Kai for shooting Taiga and worked with him to rescue Lieutenant Pluto.

A misunderstanding in Episode 2 around Taiga saying you could buy women caused Yokan to almost kill Taiga by crushing his windpipe out of anger. But later when the situation was explained to her, she apologised to him and stated that although she thinks he is very irritating and will never be her friend, if he pulled his act together then she would consider him a comrade.

During the battle against Kane Kibbleton in the Ballywood Kingdom, Yokan witnessed Taiga facing off against a mind controlled Captain Bailey, nodding in respect to her teammate for his bravery.

#### Pluto

Though they haven't interacted much, due to Pluto being Yokan's superior officer, she worked with her fellow Branch 101 members to rescue him when he was captured by pirates.

#### Bailey Turner

Bailey is Pluto and, by extension, Yokan's superior officer. Bailey was impressed with the abilities of Yokan and her associates.

### **Family**

#### **Unnamed Brother**

Yokan has a brother that was a trouble maker and wanted to be a boxer. He left their home 10 years prior to the start of the story.

#### **Grandfather**

Yokan was trained by her grandfather on Ohms. She respects him and frequently mentions the various lessons he taught her.

#### Destiny

Yokan helped save her cousin from captivity of The Custodian's club.

### **Enemies**

#### **Hito Pirates**

The Hito Pirates burned down her village when she was young, therefore she harbors an immense hatred for them. This can be seen when she acts mercilessly towards them during Branch 101's mission to capture Bob.

## **History**

### Past

#### Birth and Childhood

Yokan was born on a small island in the Grand Line called Ohms where she was trained by her grandfather, Koi. When she was 16, she started to train to become a marine. Sometime in her life her village was ravaged by the Hito Pirates. Two years before she joined The Marines, she met Bradley.

#### Yokan the Marine

About a decade after the adventures of the Devil's Luck Pirates, Yokan was a seaman recruit. She trained 10 years to get to that point.

## **Trivia**

* Yōkan is a Japanese sweet made of red bean paste, agar, and sugar.
* Yokan had the first kill in the Campaign
* Yokan is the third way of the open hand monk to appear in any of Rustage's twitch livestream dnd episodes. The first two being Chip and "Jesus"
* Yokan's casual wear is a green cheongsam and baggy, black kung-fu pants.
* If there a one piece DnD marines live action movie, Yokan would be play by Gwendoline Christie.
* Yokan was the first character of the Marine campaign to eat a Devil Fruit on screen. Interestingly, she ate a Zoan Devil Fruit, just like Ragnar, the first to eat one in the previous campaign.
* Yokan shares her name with a canon character.

## **Quotes**

* "I can cook some mean crab legs."
* "If you ever say anything like that to me again, you're not gonna wake up tomorrow."
* "The Marines are an highly honorable organization and you should be proud to be here!"
* "We get paid?!"
* "Are you telling me I trained 10 years to join and this guy just...got in?!"
* "Why would you say that?"
* "The audacity of the pirates to attack the great Marines!"
* "Are you telling me that the Marines can be pirates and old ladies can be pirates? Is everybody a pirate!?"
* "Are you a pirate?! I'm sick of this pirates coming out of nowhere!"
* "We are Marines! They should cower in fear!"
* "Pirates have mind control?!"
* "Grampa Koi always told me to train my mind, but I didn't listen!"
* "Can ducks be pirates too?"
* "Pirates are the reason for everything wrong in the world, right?"
* "Guys, they have something called a meat mountain!"
* "Can you get us meat mountains for free?"
* "I don't know what we would do without Damian's iron mind over here!"
* "Are you telling me Devil Fruits are real?!"
* ”We are the Marines!”
* ”We don’t negotiate with criminals.”
* ”You don’t know what it feels like to experience the Whopper, Kai!”
* "The Whopper don't feel good, does it?"
* "Land pirates...that makes perfect sense now!"
* "I am Petty Officer Yokan of the Marines and you are under arrest!"
* "Some times you have to do what you have to do."
* "If only you weren't on the side of the land pirates."
* "Lift with the knees!"
* "You should have seen what he did to your sister. I didn't see it, but I heard it, and it was not good."
* "To be fair we have a former pirate on our ship, so there is hope for redemption. (mumbling) Not that I am happy about it."
* "Meow, what the fuck?!"
* "Hey! Cats are cool!"
* "I'm going to take a nap, a catnap if you will."
* "Now you see me, meow you don't."
* "Can pirates be ghosts?"
* "It turns out the ghost hunter...was the ghost all along."
* "Politics are very hard, I don't get it! I just want to fight pirates and save people!"
* "God is good, carry on."
* "This is what I was made for!"
* "Sounds like a load of barnacles."
* "That's the spirit, Kai!" - Yokan as Kai is exited about fighting pirates and asks her to take down a Yonko.
* "My grandfather always told me that there were people who wouldn't really approve of us in the outside world."
* "Kai, have I said you are a genius today? I'm gonna say it again."
* ”Hello there.”
* ”Killing pirates should be instinct, you shouldn’t need training!”
* ”Thank you Choppa!”
* "Thankfully there was a Marine there to save me, and what I wanna make sure to do now is being the Marine that will be there for everyone that can't."
* "It's no one's destiny to die like that."
* "Unforgivable...unforgivable...UNFORGIVABLE!" - Yokan's words before she goes into her Zoan-Hybrid form for the first time.
* "I've seen that Evil is real, but coming face-to-face with it again today I never could have comprehended what Evil is capable of committing, until now! I was wrong to think that Evil can be punished, perhaps even reformed. Evil deserves to be estinguished!"
* "Now I understand what it means to be a Marine. It means to keep people safe."
* "Hold on, let him cook."

## References

1. ↑ One Piece D&D: Marines Episode 4 (42:00)