Crimson Caramel

Crimson "Blood Rain" Caramel is a member of the Riftwalkers, one of the four current Yonko pirate crews, and a half-vampire from the land of Sanguini.

Caramel is a Half-Vampire, and is trained in the Sanguine Arts, allowing her to manipulate and enhance herself through the manipulation of her own, and nearby, blood. She has eaten the Ai Ai no Mi, allowing her to fully unlock simultaneously the potential of her art, alongside the fruit as she is already attuned to the principles that drive it.

She has powerful Busoshoku Haki through martial training in both her youth and days on the run, and has developed extremely proficient Kenbunshoku Haki out of necessity, having a 'sixth sense' allowing her to sense any form of danger or hostility within an area, and pinpoint whether or not it's directed at herself. She is one of the few individuals who has managed to develop some form of Hirushoku Haki without directly being mentored by someone already knowledgeable within the form, this most likely being fueled by her sense of alienation and constant receival of ridicule and hate throughout her life, and knows both how to manifest a Hirushoku aura, as well as use the technique **Hirushoku: Dangan**, allowing her to send a projectile of Hirushoku aura which negates a target's haki on impact for a few seconds.

## Appearance

Caramel has long, brown hair that she sometimes keeps in a long, braided ponytail, on other times simply letting it flow freely. She has hazel-brown eyes, and can occasionally be found wearing glasses as well. Her attire mixes between a slender and long "battle-dress" to a somewhat revealing and more flexible version of this same type of attire. She carries two thin and long swords which she uses to fight at all times.

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## History

### Past

Caramel is from the nation of Sanguini, a land of vampires that's prides itself in it's bloodline and the strength of it. It is a place with no tolerance for diversity within its society, close-knitted and antagonistic to anything that deviates from the socio-cultural norms and rules of society. One of the worst offenses one can make in such a society is not rising against the state, but rather rising, being born, of impure blood. Caramel was born to a vampire and a human, something looked down upon and persecuted within the nation without mercy. Caramel showed great potential as a vampire however, and as strength within the society is generally based on the purity and power of one's pedigree, her genetic identity was not discovered for some time.

There is a tradition in Sanguini where the greatest of vampires are made to eat the Ai Ai no Mi, a devil fruit of mythical status within the nation that allows the user to control ichor, and turn even normal blood into ichor, making them a shining light among society, providing something of a nectar to the vampires through the creation and manipulation of this substance. It is traditionally given to one of a younger generation, one who can provide in stability this power for generations, as they are sequestered within the grandest castle of Sanguini where they work day and night providing Ichor to the people. The last user had recently passed, and it just so happened that Caramel was the most renowned and desired to take the responsibility of this fruit. However, upon receiving this fruit, a sample of blood is taken and catalogued by the Vampire Counts, elders within society who act as the nation's leaders and "scientists." Caramel ate the fruit, and they took a sample of blood from her to test her affinity for the fruit. What they found first, however, was an impurity in her blood, one that marked her as not a true vampire, but a hybrid mutt, unworthy of even life in the nation, let alone the fuel of it. They tried to kill her immediately, though Caramel herself had been dreading, though ready for, this moment to finally occur.

With the addition of her newfound power, she managed to escape the grasp of the Counts trying to kill her, though she had no longer a place to call home, being forced to leave the country, for even if she had managed to escape initially, a revitalized effort to hunt her down wouldn't see her get so lucky a second time, even with her devil fruit ability and skill as a fighter. She quickly and quietly left Sanguini, along with it everything she knew.

While she was a Half-Vampire, she still carried the physical traits of a vampire. Obviously, since she was able to live in Sanguini so long before being caught. However in her retreat from persecution from her homeland, this only had her run into more, perhaps worse, persecution in the lands to come. The seas around Sanguini all knew of vampires well, in notoriety. The Vampires of Sanguini were something of a terror plaguing the seas around them, callously slaughtering and enslaving humans that they deemed to be "lesser" to them, striking fear and hatred for themselves from those they preyed upon. With the appearance of a vampire, and in part truly being one, Caramel was forced to live perpetually on the run, receiving disdain, hatred, even many attempts on her own life as she tried to straggle on.

At some point, she was in hiding on the island of Koperun when her presence was discovered by the King of the nation, who promptly mobilized an entire army to hunt her down. She fought back, and won. An entire army, slaughtered. An entire nation, crippled. Thousands, tens of thousands were dead by her hand. While this saved her at the time, in the near future she would find herself with a massive bounty on her head as a wanted individual, only furthering the presence and frequency of her having nowhere left to turn but to violence, her only company that which sought her peril, as she wandered alone on a vast sea.

## Trivia

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