Yamato (FOPT)

## Yamato

"Ogre Princess" Yamato

Help Luffy and Natsu defeat and liberating Wano from Kaido (main goal, succeeded)
Exploring the world outside of Wano (postponed)
 Exploring all of Wano (in progress)

## Chronological, Professional & Political Information

### Previous Affiliation(s)

* Beast Pirates (defected)
* M.N.P.M.S. Alliance (disbanded)

### Previous Occupation

* Oni Princess of the Beast Pirates (formerly)
* Guardian Deity of Wano
* Shogun of New Onigashima (Designated)

## Powers, Magic and Abilities

### Skill(s)

Superhuman Strength
Superhuman Speed
Superhuman Reflexes
Superhuman Stemina
Superhuman Durability
Extreme Kanabo Wielding Dexterity
Haki

### Moves and Techniques

* Thunder Bagua
* Narikabura Arrow
* Divine Swiftness White Serpent
* Mahoroba

## Devil Fruit

### Devil Fruit Power(s)

* Okuchi-no-Makami shapeshifting
* Cryokinesis

### Devil Fruit Techniques

* Namuji Glacier Fang
* Mirror Mountain
* Hallowed Glacier Slash

### Devil Fruit Weakness

* Inability to Swim
* Sea Prism Stone

## Portrayals

### Voiced By (English)

Michelle Rojas

**Yamato**, also known as the "**Ogre Princess**", is both a fictional character and tritagonist from the *J-Star's* *Fairy One Piece Tail* series created by Hiro Mashima and Eiichiro Oda. She is the mistreated daughter of Kaido.

Groomed from a young age to be Kaido's heir, Yamato instead developed a profound admiration for the legendary samurai Oden. Yamato was inspired by after Oden's death, so she decided to become similarly just like him.

Yamato idolizes Oden and aims to follow Oden's dream of leaving the country, to the point of acting like she was impersonating him, adopting his mannerisms, and even been acting like she was both a man and literally Oden himself.

Yamato proclaimed she would adopt his will of freeing Wano from Kaido's tyranny. As a result of this desire to emulate Oden, Yamato decided to be a man, which is why her father and even his crew also refer to her as such as well too.

This path has put Yamato at odds with Kaido, who imprisoned her on Onigashima for this rebellion as one of his greatest enemies and is able to read Oden's logbook with the help of 3 samurai (and thus reinforcing of her admirations).

Despite her abuse and imprisonment, Yamato has fought her father countless times only to be repelled, with each failure making her stronger. Yamato befriended Ace during his visit to Wano, 4 years prior to the current storyline.

After learning of Ace's death waited for the arrival of one of his sworn siblings. During her alliance with them against Kaido, she is able to help take down her corruptive father and free the Land of Wano from his tyrannical rule.

Initially desiring to join Luffy's crew, Yamato ultimately decided to remain behind in Wano to help protecting it, for some time at least, from outside forces like the government, though she still intends to join them in the certain future.

"*.*"

—Yamato.

## Appearance & Biography

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### Appearance

Yamato is taller than an average human, standing at 263 cm (8'8"). She has long, white hair that is bound between orange rods into a ponytail at the back, which fades into aqua green and then blue, the further down it goes, and ends in rectangular locks similar to Kaido. She also has large, orange eyes with prominent eyelashes, wears gold hoop earrings on both of her ears, and has horns on the top of her head which are mostly red, but gradually become more flesh-colored toward the base.

#### The Young Past Days

4 years ago, Yamato wore a similar long-sleeved outfit, but with different symbols near the breasts. The symbols resemble an oden skewer. At age 8, Yamato's outfit was nearly identical to today, except with a slightly different mask with shorter horns and beard and without the nio-dasuki. In the manga this outfit lacked the diamond-shaped design.

#### Post-Timeskip

Yamato's current outfit is a sleeveless white garment with a diamond-shaped design on both sides and an indigo, wisp-patterned bottom half. He wears a pair of red hakama pants and sandals, and much like Oden, wears a large purple and white nio-dasuki behind his back.

While in disguise, Yamato originally also wore a hannya mask, which has a blue wig with an extremely long and wild mane attached to the top and a long blue goatee attached to the bottom. The kimono initially had long white sleeves but were ripped off along with the rest of the disguise making Yamato's kimono more form-fitting.

* Hair Color: White, aqua green, blue
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Orange
* Age: 28
* Birthday: November 3rd
* Height: 263 cm (8'8")
* Weight: Not Known
* Bounty: N/A

## Personality

Yamato greatly admires the legendary samurai Kozuki Oden to the point of even proclaiming to carry his identity. Yamato has self-identified as Oden on multiple occasions and has even emulated his gender, proclaiming to be the son of Kaido due to Oden being a man. Although initially carrying doubts as to how to present as Oden, Yamato has steadily expressed a straightforward attitude regarding this identity as time has gone on, even proclaiming this as such to Oden's son Momonosuke, to the boy's horror.

Although having wholeheartedly embraced this identity, Yamato retains her original persona, referring to Yamato as her "other name". Yamato does not seem to like being misnamed, having quickly corrected Luffy when given a nickname.

Having read of the great exploits documented by Oden in his logbook, which she considers her "bible", Yamato dreams of leaving Wano's confines and setting out to sea with the Straw Hat Pirates, much like Oden did with the Whitebeard and Roger Pirates decades before. Yamato also wishes to fulfill the goals that Oden had, namely opening Wano's borders, in direct defiance to Kaido's wishes for the country.

Yamato has shown to be extremely strong-willed, having put up considerable resistance to Kaido's imprisonment despite taking decades to finally break free. Although initially seeming to be more subordinate to her previously, Yamato's battle with Ace led to her destroying Kaido's dragon statue in an act of defiance that has since led to more outright rebellion.

Yamato has engaged in combat with Kaido numerous times and has openly expressed opposition and defiance to his plans concerning the two of them, accompanied by insults. When the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance invaded Onigashima, Yamato was immediately willing to help them and had no qualms with attacking members of her father's crew, making her intentions and loyalty clear to them in the process.

Yamato is also willing to go to great lengths to achieve her objectives, having basically kidnapped Luffy in order to get to talk to him and following through with this tactic even after Luffy responded by fighting back. Yamato is more than willing to put her body and life on the line to protect people out of care, believing that Oden would never abandon a comrade in danger.

Yamato resolutely withstood a barrage of powerful artillery strikes by the Armored Division to protect Momonosuke, and later confronted Kaido alone to stall him until Luffy returned despite knowing she was no match for her father. However, Yamato also takes enjoyment in engaging in combat; despite framing her plan to split up from Momonosuke as a decoy strategy to trick the Beast Pirates, Momonosuke and Shinobu both noted to themselves that she seemed mainly interested in going to fight.

## Abilities and Powers

"*I recognize your value as a soldier, Yamato!!*"

—Kaido about Yamato.
Yamato is an extremely powerful warrior, with Black Maria noting that bringing him back to Kaido's fortress after he had escaped would be a difficult task. In the past, Yamato was able to clash against Ace, a powerful Logia user, on equal ground. Afterwards, Ace acknowledged Yamato's abilities, saying he could not believe someone so strong was not the captain and lamenting that she could not join his crew.

During the raid, Yamato clashed with Kaido, a particularly notable feat considering the Emperor's nearly unparalleled physical might, with Kaido himself acknowledging her daughter's strength and value as a soldier. Luffy also greatly respects Yamato's abilities, trusting her with protecting Wano after it became vulnerable to outside forces following Kaido's defeat, despite wishing for Yamato to join his pirate crew.

### Physical Abilities

Yamato possesses immense physical strength resembling that of Kaido, being capable of wielding a large and heavy kanabo and using it to knock out Ulti, an Ancient Zoan user and one of the Tobi Roppo, with just one blow. Yamato was also able to physically match Luffy's strength with relative ease, even when he increased his strength exponentially with Gear 2 and Gear 3.

When he countered a punch from Luffy with a kick, the powerful collision destroyed part of the nearby wall and ceiling and blew back the Beasts Pirates around them. Yamato could easily run while carrying Luffy with just one arm and was able to shatter the extremely tough armor and weaponry of the Beasts Pirates' Armored Corps.

Yamato is extremely fast, being able to lunge forward with blinding speed to attack, as well as outrun members of the Beasts Pirates in pursuit, and eventually completely elude the pirates and escape to the attic with Luffy without anyone seeing them.

Yamato possesses tremendous levels of durability and endurance, having emerged from being struck by multiple explosive bazooka blasts with only superficial bruises and cuts, though eventually began taking more serious wounds as the bazooka strikes continued. During the fight against Kaidou, Yamato was able to withstand the Emperor's powerful attacks and continue to fight effectively.

### Devil Fruit

*Main article:* *Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Okuchi-no-Makami*
The **Dog-Dog Fruit, Model: Okuchi-no-Makami**, a Mythical Zoan-class Devil Fruit, which was eaten by Yamato, allows her to transform into a divine wolf, as well as a human-divine wolf hybrid. According to Kaido, this beast is a "**Guardian Deity of Wano Country**". Yamato ate this fruit purely out of hunger, with Kaido not intending for her to be the one consuming the fruit.

As a Zoan, this fruit greatly bolsters Yamato's physical abilities. He was able to clash near-evenly against Kaido, an Emperor of the Sea, while the latter had assumed his extremely powerful human-dragon form. Furthermore, being a carnivorous animal, this animal transformation grants Yamato heightened predatory instincts, as well as equipping fangs and claws that are well-suited for combat.

Being a Mythical Zoan, this fruit bestows special powers that a regular wolf does not possess. Yamato is able to generate ice, using it for augmenting weapons, creating protection with ice armor or walls, and even releasing a powerful blast of ice from his breath that can clash evenly with and cancel out Kaidou's flame breath blast.

#### Techniques

The named techniques that are used by Yamato that involve the Devil Fruit are as follows:

* **Blast Breath**: Kaido releases a massive heat blast from his mouth towards a target. It travels very quickly and is extremely powerful, being capable of instantly decimating large structures like the ruins of Oden Castle, and surrounding terrain like mountain scrapes are left thoroughly shattered, flattened, and scorched. "Bolo" is a term used in Central America and Mexico meaning "drunk".

* **Demolition Gust**:

* **Dragon Twister**:
	+ **Dragon Twister Demolition Breath**:

* **Flame Dragon Torch**:

* **Rising Dragon: Flame Bagua**:

### Haki

*Main article:* *Haki*
Yamato is one of very few people in the world who is capable of using all three types of Haki.

#### Conqueror's Haki

Yamato is an immensely skilled user of Conqueror's Haki, a very rare form of Haki whose users are said to have the qualities of a "king". It was first awakened 20 years ago as a result of Yamato running wild throughout Onigashima as a child, knocking out Kaido's subordinates.

As an adult, Yamato demonstrated its advanced application of "infusion", something that only a "handful" of people can do, often imbuing her weapon Takeru causing a stream of black lightning to be emitted from it, as shown when performing *Thunder Bagua* and *Shinsoku Hakujaku*.

#### Armament Haki

Yamato is an extremely skilled user of Armament Haki, as shown by facing off against Ace, a Logia user and clashing against his flames, managing to wound him. 2 years later, Yamato was shown projecting a long-distance swing using a hardened Takeru that knocked out Haccha. Yamato's Armament Haki is strong enough to wound Kaido whose skin is impervious to all but the strongest Haki attacks.

#### Observation Haki

Yamato is a very skilled user of Observation Haki, which allowed her to sense the bursts of Rex and Shanks' Conqueror's Haki.

### Weapons

*Main article:* *Takeru*
Yamato wields a giant kanabo club named Takeru, which is much like Kaidou's club Hassaikai, though it is studded and more slender while Hassaikai is spiked and a bit thicker. Coupled with Yamato's immense strength, the kanabo can cause tremendous damage to objects and opponents with a single hit, and with Yamato's strength and Haki, it can be used to perform flying strikes that can even resemble energy blasts.

Yamato has masterful technique with his kanabo despite its great size and weight, being capable of moving it to counter Luffy's rapid attacks with little effort.

#### Techniques

The named techniques that are used by Yamato that involve the Weapon are as follows:

* **Thunder Bagua**:

## History

### Past

#### Early Life

Yamato was born 28 years ago in an unknown location.

20 years ago, at the age of 8, Yamato witnessed Oden's execution during the Hour of Legends and developed an immense admiration for the samurai. Following Oden's death, Yamato went to Kuri Castle to try and help save Oden's family, but she was too weak to intervene and was forced to helplessly watch Kaido as he threatened to kill Momonosuke. Yamato then discovered Oden's logbook floating in a nearby stream.

As a result of this, Yamato developed the desire to become Oden and carry on his dream of opening Wano's borders, but when she told Kaido about this, her father responded by beating her up and putting shackles on her wrists that would ostensibly explode if she left the country. Yamato sowed riots for a week in Onigashima, where she was chained to a post. This then caused her to unknowingly knock out many of his father's subordinates, while she continued to declare her admiration for Oden.

Seeing the men on the ground, Kaido asked her if it was her fault and Yamato replied that she didn't know, but was hungry and wanted some food. Her father told her that it was promising since she possessed Conqueror's Haki, however, since she impersonated Oden, she would have to die. In order to help Yamato see sense, Kaido imprisoned her inside a cave for a month with some powerful imprisoned samurai, who were also being held until their spirits broke and they joined him.

Noting that everyone inside was hungry, Kaido gave them enough food for one person as well as swords they could use to fight over it. Yamato became extremely scared that the samurai would attack her due to her being Kaido's daughter, but one of them proceeded to immediately give her the food, saying they did not feel hunger. One of them, Ushimaru Shimotsuki, cut Yamato free from her chains and was friendly to the young child, as Oden was a friend to him and the other samurai.

Yamato asked if the samurai could help her read Oden's logbook, and they did so with great interest, reading the accounts with great fascination.

10 days later, Yamato was greatly weakened from starvation, so the samurai, seeing that Kaido was really going to let her die, tell Yamato that at this rate, she may not be able to see the battle that Oden predicted would occur in 20 years. Yamato tells them that he will fight for Wano that day and then go to sea, becoming much stronger. She then watches as the samurai emerge from the cave, where they plan to make a likely suicidal attack on Kaido in order to free Yamato.

Not long after, one of her father's subordinates found her and gave her blankets and food; however, Yamato later watched as he was executed for it.

4 years ago, the pirate Ace D. Portgas and his crew came to Wano in order to kill Kaido. With Kaido and his top officers away on an expedition at the time, Yamato did battle with Ace instead because of boredom. However, as the battle between the two progressed, Yamato made it clear that she wished to get away from Kaido and Ace encouraged her to do so.

This culminated in Yamato destroying a prized dragon statue belonging to Kaido while declaring her desire to go out to sea, and Ace commended Yamato for this before doing further damage to the statue. As night fell, Yamato and Ace talked over a campfire and Yamato expressed regret at being unable to go out to sea with the pirate due to the exploding handcuffs on his wrists.

She then asked Ace if there were any other rookie pirates attaining infamy, and Ace replied that his younger brother Luffy, who would not be setting out for a couple more years, would be the toughest one of them all. Ace ended up revealing Luffy's dream to Yamato and quickly begged her not to laugh at it, but Yamato did not do so as Luffy's dream was the same one that the King of the Pirates Roger was recorded to have in Oden's logbook.

The next day as Ace prepared to depart, Yamato gave him a Vivre Card so they could find each other again.

Two years later, however, the Vivre Card disappeared and soon afterward Yamato learned via the newspaper that Ace had been killed. At the same time, however, Yamato learned that Luffy was active and gaining infamy as a pirate, and with the words of both Oden and Ace in mind, Yamato began to wait to meet Luffy as well as for a new generation of pirates to arrive in the New World and bring down Kaido.

## Etymology

* "**Yamato**" (やまと), meaning "Great Harmony", is an ancient name for Japan (originating from the Yamato Province) and can also refer to the Yamato period of Japanese history, which lasted into the 8th century. Relating to that, Yamato is the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan and further refers to the dominant ethnic group of Japan, the Yamato people. Otherwise:
	+ Yamato Takeru is a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty, prominent in mythology. Yamato's kanabo being named Takeru makes it nearly certain that his name was based on this figure.
	+ Yamato nadeshiko is a phrase that refers to the idealized image of a Japanese female.
* Hannya, which Yamato's mask is based on, are well known in Japanese theatrical stage culture for representing characters who are the physical manifestation of twisted female souls.
* Yamato seems to be inspired by Oscar François de Jarjayes, from the shōjo manga *The Rose of Versailles*, who is a woman raised by her father as if she were a boy in order to succeed him as the commander of the Royal Guard at the Palace of Versailles.
	+ Additionally, in the Chapter 945 author's comment, Oda talks about reading *The Rose of Versailles* for the first time and being surprised to find out Oscar was a woman.

## External links

* Yamato *Heroes Wiki*
* Yamato *Koei Wiki*
* Yamato *One Piece Encyclopedia*

## Notes & Trivia

* Yamato's Vivre Card entry revealed design concepts, including designs with differently shaped horns, and also includes concept art for Omusubi Fugetsu.
* Yamato possesses some notable parallels to Momonosuke Kozuki, with both of them being born 28 years ago and given the shogunate of Wano as their birthright. Interestingly, however, each of them shares traits and goals more so with the other's father rather than their own. Yamato has been trapped on Wano for a large portion of her life and wishes to leave and set sail with a pirate crew like Oden, while Momonosuke has been out on the sea but wishes to rule over Wano, much like Kaido. Additionally, Yamato desires to directly become Oden while Momonosuke possesses the very same Devil Fruit transformation as Kaido.
	+ Both Yamato and Momonosuke ate their Devil Fruits purely out of hunger without even knowing what they were consuming.
* Yamato being forced to wear exploding handcuffs by Kaido in order to fulfill his plans and be prevented from leaving Wano is very similar to what happened to Sanji in the *Whole Cake Island Arc*.
* Yamato battling Ace to a draw to defend the territory of one of the Four Emperors, then later befriending Ace and taking an interest in Luffy due to Ace's relationship with him, also occurred with Jimbei.
* In the 7th fan poll of most popular characters, Yamato was ranked 11th.

### SBS-Based Trivia

* Yamato's birthday, November 3, in Japan is known as "**Culture Day**" (文化の日, *Bunka no Hi*).
* On a request from a fan, Oda drew a personification of the side of Yamato's breast, or "**sideboob**" (横乳, *yoko chichi*).
* Yamato's favorite foods are oden and raw salmon eaten by biting into it, and her least favorite food is anything spicy.