Monkey D. Luffy

**Monkey D. Luffy** is the captain and founder of the Straw Hat Pirates, wherein he is one of the crew's top four fighters dubbed the "**Monster Quartet**", one of "The Worst Generation" (originally "The Eleven Supernovas"), and a rookie pirate from the East Blue. He is the son of Monkey D. Dragon, grandson of Monkey D. Garp, foster son of Curly Dadan, adoptive younger brother of Sabo and Portgas D. Ace. His dream is to find One Piece and become the Pirate King, who he believes has the most freedom in the world and its seas. He is also the main male protagonist of the *One Piece* series.

## Profile and Stats

* **Alias**: Straw Hat
* **Origin**: One Piece
* **Gender**: Male
* **Age**: 7 (debut), 17 (pre-timeskip), 19 (post-timeskip; current)
* **Birthday**: May 5 (Children's Day)
* **Classification**: Human, Straw Hat Pirates Captain, Supernova, Paramecia Devil Fruit User
* **Height**: 91 cm (2'11¾") (debut), 172 cm (5'7¾") (pre-timeskip), 174 cm (5'8½") (post-timeskip)
* **Weight**: 64 kg (141.1 lb.)
* **Skin Color**: Light Tan
* **Eye Color**: Black
* **Hair Color**: Black
* **Attire**: Woven straw hat with a red band around the bowl, long-sleeved red cardigan with four golden buttons, yellow sash, blue knee-length trousers with cuffs and light-colored sandals
* **Alignment**: Chaotic Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Powers and Abilities**: Gum-Gum Fruit, Gear Second, Gear Third, Gear Fourth, Haki (Armament Haki, Observation Haki and Conqueror's Haki), Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Fighting Instincts, Immense Strength, Enhanced Jaw Strength, Enhanced Speed and Reflexes, Enhanced Agility, Immense Endurance and Durability, Supernatural Survivability, Indomitable Will, Poison Resistance, Gifted Intellect, Enhanced Charisma
* **Standard Equipment**: Luffy's Straw Hat (Received it from "Red-Haired" Shanks 12 years ago. It is made out of woven straw with a red band around the bowl)
* **Weaknesses**: Luffy cannot swim and becomes immobilized if more than half of his body is covered up in water. Armament Haki, Fishman Karate, and Seastone nullifies his Devil Fruit powers and his resistance to blunt impact, thus making him vulnerable like regular people. Lacks intelligence in education. Very reckless and obstinate; not bright outside of combat. Is apparently vulnerable to bladed weaponry.
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**: Gum-Gum Pistol, Gum-Gum Bullet, Gum-Gum Bazooka, Gum-Gum Rifle, Gum-Gum Gatling, Gum-Gum Stamp, Gum-Gum Whip, Gum-Gum Lance, Gum-Gum Bell, Gum-Gum Rocket, Gum-Gum Balloon, Gum-Gum Salute Fire, Gum-Gum Grab, Armament: Hardening, Gum-Gum Jet Pistol, Gum-Gum Jet Gatling, Gum-Gum Jet Bazooka, Gum-Gum Red Hawk, Gum-Gum Hawk Gatling, Gum-Gum Hawk Rifle, Bone Balloon, Gum-Gum Elephant Gun, Gum-Gum Grizzly Magnum, Gum-Gum Elephant Gatling, Muscle Balloon, Gum-Gum Kong Gun, Gum-Gum Rhino Schneider, Gum-Gum Culverin, Gum-Gum King Kong Gun

### Power Ranking

* **Class**: **S-Class**. **SS-Class** in Second Gear. **Master level** in Fourth Gear.
* **Attack Potency**: At least **Small Town level**, **Town level** to **Large Town level** in Gear Second, **Small City level** in Gear Third | Likely **City level**
* **Speed**: **Hypersonic+**, **High Hypersonic** in Gear Second | **High Hypersonic**
* **Lifting Strength**: **Class M** | Likely **Class G**
* **Striking Strength**: **Class TJ**, at least **Class TJ** in Gear Second | Likely **Class PJ**
* **Durability**: **Small Town level**, at least **Town level** to **Large Town level** when dealing with blunt force | Likely **City level**
* **Stamina**: **Superhuman**
* **Range**: Can stretch from Several **Hundred Meters** to a few **Kilometers**. His Conqueror's Haki has a range of Several **Kilometers**.
* **Intelligence**: **Bright** outside of combat, **Gifted** in combat
* **Fighting Ability**: **Master**
* **Key**: **Base w/ Gears** | **Gear Fourth**

## Appearance

Luffy is renowned for his trademark straw hat (from which he gets his nickname "Straw Hat Luffy"), which was lent to him when he was young by the legendary pirate captain, "Red-Haired" Shanks, who in turn received it from Gol D. Roger. Luffy also has a scar with two stitches underneath his left eye (which he earned by stabbing a knife under his eye to show Shanks that he was tough), black eyes, and short, messy black hair. He is also an average tall young man, with a surprisingly well-built, muscular physique, coupled with a slightly thicker neck, more pronounced deltoids, and better-defined chest. He has a large X-shaped scar on his chest, left after being gravely wounded by Akainu following the Battle of Marineford.

Luffy's main attire consists of an open, long-sleeved red cardigan with four golden buttons (which shows the **X**-shaped scar covering most of his chest he received by then-Admiral Akainu), a yellow sash tied around his waist, blue knee-length trousers with cuffs and light-colored sandals.

## Personality

Luffy is carefree, exuberant, and enthusiastic about living life to the fullest with great ambitions, having a huge appetite, which in fact makes him a glutton when it comes to food, and satisfying his endless curiosity with a goofy laugh and smile. He often thinks with his stomach and gorges himself to comical levels. Luffy may humorously resort to trickery and honestly ignores anything that doesn't interest him. His childish enthusiasm and attitude may make him seem like a naïve and hopeless fool yet Luffy always keeps his sights set on whatever drives him. He is caring and generally good hearted, but never good at lying or keeping secrets, and is unable to see similarities with things with obvious connections. Knowing the dangers ahead, he is willing to risk his life to reach his goal to become the King of the Pirates, and protect his crew in anyway he can. His willingness to fight for his vision and his innate sense of fairness is what truly breaks many people's first impressions of him. At times, his daring desire to beat and overcome the odds against him earns him undeniable respect from onlookers. He also has a distinctive laugh (Shishishi).

As a person with the middle initial D., Luffy shares the common trait of not fearing death. He will often state that if he reaches his goal, that's fine, but if he dies on the way, that's fine too. He invites several species, such as Chopper, Blizzard and Brook, onto his crew generally for their personality but also because of his instinctual ability to be able to read people. He has even gained a reputation for being extremely reckless, and in some cases, insane, but his comes from trying to help or save others, especially in the face of authority. In fact, Luffy's most defining part of his personality is the ability to make allies out of absolutely anyone (including former enemies, rivals, villains and even Whitebeard himself), which is said by Mihawk to be the most dangerous ability in the world.

The one thing that Luffy does not allow is someone or something getting involved in another person's fight. At these times Luffy shows both remarkable restraint during the battles, and rage when something or someone outside the battle is involved, especially if it is a person he considers a friend. Sometimes, Luffy had displayed a side to himself where he occasionally gets into fights with others over needless issues. However when Luffy is told to keep a low profile or to restrain himself, he will resist his urges to pick fights over small matters.

As a true lover of adventure, Luffy feels he will never fear death as long he has dreams, trust, and his comrades. He treasures his friends and younger sister more than his own family, placing absolute faith in them and sacrificing his entire being to keep them safe. Luffy is the glue who binds his motley crew together, as he believes he would never have had started his adventure if he was by himself. He never blames his comrades for their misgivings and accepts them wholeheartedly through thick and thin. Overall, his three dominant traits are his apparent lack of intelligence, his utter fearlessness, and his love for his crew.

## Plot

### Early Life

Luffy was born to Monkey D. Dragon and Star. As a baby, Dragon left his family for unknown reasons and was left in the care of Star for the next five years.

## Abilities

**Gum-Gum Fruit**: A Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that turns the user’s body into rubber, making the user a **Rubber Human**. The fruit’s major strength, as demonstrated by Luffy, is that the person can stretch their body like rubber at will, and makes them almost entirely immune to blunt attacks. The user’s ability to stretch and twist like rubber to extreme lengths not only makes them immune to injuries that originate from such, but it also allows the user to drastically increase the range of what would otherwise be a powerful close range attack, turning it into a devastating mid range attack. A stretched limb can also be used to store potential energy like a stretched spring, increasing the power of an attack. Owing to rubber’s insulating properties, the user is also highly resistant to electrical attacks, such as Eneru's Rumble-Rumble Fruit, inhale large amounts of air to generate a big gust of wind, and even withstand great pressure.

* **Offensive Techniques**:
	+ **Gum-Gum Pistol**: Luffy’s signature attack. A standard straight punch, augmented with stretching. This attack can be used from short to long range.
	+ **Gum-Gum Bullet**: Luffy stretches one arm, far behind him while running, then snaps it back to deliver a short-distance, one-fisted powerful blow to an opponent.
	+ **Gum-Gum Rifle**: Similar to the Gum-Gum Bullet, but Luffy twists his arm around as he stretches it behind him and hits the opponent at close range, putting a spin on them.
	+ **Gum-Gum Bazooka**: Luffy stretches both his arms far back, and then hurls them forward, striking his opponent with both simultaneously.
	+ **Gum-Gum Stamp**: Luffy stretches his leg out and hits his opponent with the bottom of his foot.
	+ **Gum-Gum Battle Axe**: Luffy stretches one leg high into the air, then brings it crashing down on an opponent or structure, for massive damage, strong enough to destroy large buildings and ships in a single hit.
	+ **Gum-Gum Lance**: Luffy holds his feet together (with the bottoms of each touching each other) and kicks with both simultaneously.
	+ **Gum-Gum Whip**: Luffy stretches his leg and kicks in a wide circle, striking multiple foes.
	+ **Gum-Gum Bell**: Luffy stretches his head back, and then snaps back in a brutal headbutt.
* **Rapid-Fire Attacks**: Attacks which encompasses consecutive punches or kicks.
	+ **Gum-Gum Gatling**: Using his stretching capacity to drastically augment the speed at which he brings his fists back and forth, Luffy launches torrent of consecutive punches at super high speeds. The hits land so fast that dozens of punches appear to connect simultaneously.
	+ **Gum-Gum UFO**: Luffy twists back his legs midair, and lets them go, causing them to spin around and around horizontally similar to a discus, occasionally lashing out with his legs and kicking anyone within reach, while hovering a few feet off the ground.
* **Defensive & Utility Techniques**: Various techniques Luffy have developed in order to augment his defense, mobility etc.
	+ **Gum-Gum Rocket**: Luffy’s main method of traveling long distances fast. He stretches out one of his arms or both and grabs a handhold, then retracts them, projecting himself high into the air at high speeds, over great distances, or even into an opponent.
	+ **Gum-Gum Balloon**: A defensive technique wherein Luffy inflates himself rapidly through his mouth, further increasing his resistance to blunt attacks. With his inflated body, Luffy is capable of deflecting projectile attacks back at his attackers.
		- **Gum-Gum Salute Fire**: Luffy first absorbs the projectiles the way he does normally and then accurately rebounds the projectiles at an enemy with twice the power as when they hit him.
	+ **Gum-Gum Grab**: A technique wherein Luffy stretches his arm out to catch something.

**Gear Second**: Luffy pumps his blood rapidly with his legs to kick start the process which in turn, increases the speed of his blood flow, thus providing more oxygen and nutrients to various parts of his body which makes him faster and much stronger. It uses even more oxygen and energy, hence using up more food and he has to breathe harder. The increase in his metabolism causes him to be hungrier than usual or even a paralytic type effect after a long usage of it. Can be used to achieve a full body effect, or an effect on any single area of his body (e.g. the arm). The techniques in this mode are basically the same as the regular attacks, but greatly augmented by his enhanced attack speed and, consequently, attack power.

* **Gum-Gum Jet Pistol**: By pointing his other hand out to aim at his target, Luffy delivers a powerful, Gum-Gum Pistol so fast that the fist's movement is invisible (which is likely hard to dodge), and it truly seems like he shoots his opponent, except that the resulting impact is not akin to an actual pistol, but to a small hand-held cannon and powerful enough to propel the unlucky recipient several meters away.
* **Gum-Gum Jet Bazooka**: Luffy charges at his opponent at high speed, and delivers an incredibly fast and strong Gum-Gum Bazooka.
* **Gum-Gum Hawk Rifle**: A Haki- and Gear Second enhanced version of **Gum-Gum Rifle**. After entering Gear Second, Luffy uses Armament Haki to harden his arm while igniting it at the same time. He twists his arm to create a spinning, fire-enhanced punch and increase the power.
* **Gum-Gum Jet Gatling**: Luffy's strongest technique in Gear Second. Like the original Gatling, he unleashes a torrent of punches moving at high-speed so fast, after a volley, they seemingly connect simultaneously. The circles of air bursts from the punches surrounding Luffy, resemble the many barrels of an actual Gatling gun.
	+ **Gum-Gum Hawk Gatling**: A Haki-enhanced version of **Gum-Gum Jet Gatling**. Luffy uses Gum-Gum Jet Gatling while using **Armament: Hardening** on his arms to enhance the power of his punches.
* **Gum-Gum Red Hawk**: Luffy uses his Armament Haki in conjunction with Gear Second to ignite his arm and strike his opponent with great force, creating a fiery explosion upon contact.

**Gear Third**: Luffy pumps air through his bones to make them gigantic. This gives his arm more mass and a larger area to attack with far greater strength. Previously Luffy turned into a chibi form after canceling the technique but after the two year timeskip he no longer shrinks in size. The techniques in this mode are basically the same as the regular attacks, but greatly augmented by his increased mass and power.

* **Bone Balloon**: Luffy inflates his body by blowing air into his bones. This is done by biting into his right thumb, presumably cutting it open down to the bone, and then blowing air directly into the opened bone. This technique seems to give Luffy a sturdier defense than the regular balloon, since bullets now ricochet off of him instead of bouncing off of him.
* **Gum-Gum Elephant Gun**: After pumping air into his fist to drastically increase its mass, Luffy uses his Armament Haki to harden it (appearing to be significantly harder than his regular Gear Third which has been likened to steel in the sense bullets ricochet off his Gear Third limbs instead of bouncing off), turning his arm black in the process. Luffy then attacks in a similar motion to when he uses his Giant Pistol, launching his fist towards his opponent. This attack seems to be more densely pumped with air at the tip, forming a large round ball at his forearm, whilst the rest of his arm remains at the same size, although stretched.
* **Gum-Gum Grizzly Magnum**: After enlarging and imbuing both his arms with Armament Haki, Luffy stretches his arms back and strikes with open palms simultaneously.
* **Gum-Gum Elephant Gatling**: After enlarging and imbuing both his arms with Armament Haki in a similar manner as Gum-Gum Elephant Gun, Luffy uses his stretching ability to bring his fists forward repeatedly in a blurry, rapid barrage of strong punches that creates the illusion of him having multiple arms.

**Gear Fourth**: In order to activate the technique, Luffy coats his arm in Armament Haki before biting into his forearm. Similar to how he activates Gear Third, he blows an incredible amount of air into his body, but this time he inflates his muscular structure before distributing the air throughout his body, with emphasis on his upper half. Luffy's proportions become warped and his body becomes much larger in size, with his arms, upper torso, and legs coated in Armament Haki. The coating across his torso resemble the wispy ends made from flames, giving it the appearance of tattoos, and he also gains shading around the inner and outer edges of his eyes. As a side-effect, he is incapable of standing still on the ground, and instead constantly bounces on the spot. Luffy is also limited as to how long he can keep Gear Fourth active. Once Gear Fourth reaches its limit, it automatically deactivates and Luffy is left exhausted and unable to use Haki for ten minutes. Even afterwards, Gear Fourth is extremely taxing on Luffy's body and stamina.

* **Muscle Balloon**: By coating his arm in Armaments Haki and biting into his forearm, Luffy is able to blow a large quantity of air into his body and inflate his muscular structure, with the air blown into his arm spreading out to the rest of his upper body. In this form, his durability is enhanced to the point where a Armament Haki-enhanced kick from Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, bounced back harmlessly, due to his body retaining its rubber properties despite being coated in Haki.
* **Gum-Gum Kong Gun** (*Literally meaning*: Gum-Gum Monkey King Gun): After compressing his fist into his enlarged forearm (and making it look like an actual cannon), Luffy unleashes a devastating short-range punch with enough power to break through Doflamingo's own Haki-enhanced defense and blow the Warlord all the way from Dressrosa's palace to the middle of the city.
* **Gum-Gum Rhino Schneider** (*Literally meaning*: Gum-Gum Rhinoceros Howitzer): After compressing both legs into his body, Luffy delivers a double flying kick. It has enough power to send the opponent crashing through dozens of buildings and across a town center.
* **Gum-Gum Culverin** (*Literally meaning*: Gum-Gum Great Serpent Cannon): Luffy delivers a punch like a regular Gum-Gum Pistol, but if it is dodged, he can redirect his punch an unspecified number of times, without losing momentum, to still land with tremendous force. In addition, this punch does not need to retract back to his body right after being "fired" as the regular Gum-Gum Pistol does.
* **Gum-Gum King Kong Gun** (*Literally meaning*: Gum-Gum Great Monkey King Gun): Luffy blows a large amount of air into his arm, drastically increasing its size, before compressing his fist and unleashing a devastating blow. This technique was powerful enough to defeat Doflamingo, break through the Warlord's Spider's Web and God Thread techniques simultaneously, as well as send him flying into the city below with enough force to completely level the town and cause the ground to be torn apart.

**Haki**: There are normally two types of Haki regular people can tap into: the Observation Haki which allows individuals to sense the presence of others, and Armament Haki which allows individuals to create an invisible armor around them. There is however a third type of Haki, Conqueror's Haki, that only a few individuals can use. Luffy is one of these people.

* **Armament Haki**: A form of Haki that allows the user to create an “invisible armor” around themselves. With that, they can protect himself from attacks, and if trained well, use it to deliver stronger attacks. Besides the increase of strength, it is the only form of attack that doesn’t involve Seastone that can hit any Devil Fruit user, being able to hit the user’s original body even if it’s a Logia user. It can also be used in weapons.
	+ **Armament: Hardening**: This technique somehow uses Armament Haki to drastically harden any part of the user's body. When Luffy uses it, the arm he applies it on becomes black and shiny, much like vulcanized rubber.
* **Observation Haki**: A form of Haki that allows the user to sense the presence of his opponents. A user of this type of Haki can predict an opponent’s moves before he gets hit. This works by showing the user an image or brief “premonition” of what the opponent will do, manifested as a mental image in the user’s mind’s eye, and the damage the user will take if the attack “hit” for real. It appears that the more killer intent the enemy has the easier they are to predict, though more efficient users can predict future moves regardless whether there are ambient murderous intents or not. Including the distance, location, and where the opponent may strike next.
* **Conqueror's Haki**: The ability to knock out someone else or a large group. While inexperienced users are restricted to intimidating one being or blindly knocking out any with weak wills around them, those with more expertise can pick out weak willed individuals in a large group to knock out. Can also be used as an AOE energy blast and to tame animals.

**Six Powers**: A special, superhuman martial arts style primarily used by the members of CP9.

* **Soru** (*Shave*): By kicking the ground at least 10 times in the blink of an eye, Luffy propels himself across short distances at enhanced speed.
* **Geppo** (*Moonwalk*): By kicking off the air, he not only bounces off, but allows attacks to bounce off his own body.

## Relationships

* Monkey D. Dragon
* Monkey D. Star
* Monkey D. Garp
* Portgas D. Ace
* Sabo
* Monkey D. Aika
* Roronoa Zoro
* Nami
* Usopp
* Vinsmoke Sanji
* Tony Tony Chopper
* Nico Robin
* Franky
* Blizzard
* Brook
* Kumi
* Shanks
* Coby
* Trafalgar D. Water Law
* Silvers Rayleigh
* Bartolomeo
* Boa Hancock
* Kuja Tribe
* Jimbei
* Imporio Ivankov
* Whitebeard Pirates
* Bellamy
* Rebecca
* Chinjao
* Sakazuki
* Issho
* Smoker
* Rob Lucci
* Buggy
* Crocodile
* Donquixote Doflamingo
* Marshall D. Teach