Kai

**Kai** is the character Tekking101 made for One Piece D&D: Marines. He is a Marine Petty Officer.

## **Appearance**

Kai is a human male with tanned skin, red hair, and yellow eyes. Resembles Mako Tsunami. He has the kanji for "Justice" 正義 tattooed on his left arm.

## **Personality**

He is mainly characterized as someone who will value his own moral compass over the orders given to him, making him something of a black sheep in the group as Damian follows Absolute Justice and the others are all loyal to Damian. As a result, he often comes into conflict with the rest of the group for acting in accordance with himself rather than with them. However, his kind and happy-go-lucky demeanor usually keeps him on everyone's good side.

He hates devil fruits and anything commonly thought of as fruit in general. However, he thinks that cucumbers and pumpkins are not fruits. He is very cowardly and unused to death or killing. Despite this, he fumbles his way into reaping lives with his harpoon gun.

In addition, he tends to shift the blame or duck responsibility a lot of the time. Such as when he derided Taiga for getting shot with a harpoon that he fired or lying to Yokan about guarding the entrance point of the library in order to avoid her wrath.

He cares a lot about his family and values it very highly. He believes family is the most important thing someone could have and gets slightly offended whenever someone insults his or their own family.

Kai's main motivation when starting out in the marines is to get into a situation in which he will not die. This has caused him to try and get dishonorably discharged and to also refuse any attempt at promotion to a more dangerous position. After a scuffle with his crew over their mission to recover the armor, he entertained the idea of rising through the ranks to implement reform.

Kai has always had a fascination with the legendary fisherman's tools ever since he was a child. To the point at which he will compromise an important mission and go against a superior officer's orders to acquire them.

Kai has little respect for private property such as stealing back money he paid a man for the service of knitting a bag or trying and succeeding in causing the death of a man in order to obtain a legendary fisherman tool that the man had won in an auction.

Despite his cowardly nature, Kai is still very impulsive such as when he got a 正義 tattoo without knowing the meaning or when he joined up with the marines without knowing what the job entailed.

## **Abilities / Powers / Equipment**

### Overview

Kai is a Revised Ranger in the Beast Conclave. This is manifested in him being a fisherman with Belle as his animal companion.

#### Favored Enemy

Kai has significant experience studying, tracking, hunting, and even talking to a certain type of enemy. In particular, his is aquatic creatures.

He can choose a type of favored enemy. He has advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track his favored enemies, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

When he gained this feature, he also learned one language of his choice that is spoken by his favored enemy type, assuming they can speak.

#### Natural Explorer

Kai is particularly familiar with one type of natural environment and is adept at traveling and surviving in such regions. When Kai makes an Intelligence or Wisdom check related to his favored terrain, his proficiency bonus is doubled if he is using a skill that he's proficient in.

While Kai travels for an hour or more in his favored terrain, he gain the following benefits:

* Difficult terrain doesn’t slow his group’s travel.

* His group can’t become lost except by magical means.

* Even when he is engaged in another activity while traveling (such as foraging, navigating, or tracking), he remains alert to danger.

* If he is traveling alone, he can move stealthily at a normal pace.

* When he forages, he find twice as much food as you normally would.

While tracking other creatures, he also learn their exact number, their sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area.

#### Fighting Style

At 2nd level, Kai adopts a particular style of fighting as his specialty.

* Archery. He gains a +2 bonus to attack rolls he makes with ranged weapons.

#### Piercer

Kai has achieved a penetrating precision in combat, granting him the following benefits:

* Once per turn, when he hits a creature with an attack that deals piercing damage, he can re-roll one of the attack’s damage dice, and he must use the new roll.

* When he scores a critical hit that deals piercing damage to a creature, he can roll one additional damage die when determining the extra piercing damage the target takes.

#### Primeval Awareness

Beginning at 3rd level, Kai’s mastery of ranger lore allows him to establish a powerful link to beasts and to the land around him.
He has an innate ability to communicate with beasts, and they recognize him as a kindred spirit. Through sounds and gestures, he can communicate simple ideas to a beast as an action, and can read its basic mood and intent. He learns its emotional state, whether it is affected by magic of any sort, its short-term needs (such as food or safety), and actions he can take (if any) to persuade it to not attack. He cannot use this ability against a creature that he has attacked within the past 10 minutes. Additionally, he can attune his senses to determine if any of his favored enemies lurk nearby. By spending 1 uninterrupted minute in concentration (as if he was concentrating on a spell), he can sense whether any of his favored enemies are present within 5 miles of him. This feature reveals which of his favored enemies are present, their numbers, and the creatures’ general direction and distance (in miles) from him. If there are multiple groups of his favored enemies within range, he learns this information for each group.

#### Archery fighting style

After achieving level 2 on Ranger, Kai has added a fighting style to his kit, he achieved the Archery fighting style giving him a +2 to hit on ranged attacks.

#### Coordinated attack

Beginning at 5th level, Kai and your Belle form a more potent fighting team. When Kai uses the Attack action on his turn, if Belle companion can see him, she can use her reaction to make a melee attack.

### Weapons

#### Oar

An ordinary wooden boat oar that Kai wields as a Greatclub.

#### Fishing Net

A net normally meant for catching fish but can also restrain any creature Large size or smaller. Large or smaller creature hit by his net are restrained until they are freed. A net has no effect on creatures that are formless, or creatures that are Huge or larger. A creature can use its action to make a DC 10 Strength check, freeing itself or another creature within its reach on a success. Dealing 5 slashing damage to the net (AC 10) also frees the creature without harming it, ending the effect and destroying the net. When Kai uses an action, bonus action, or reaction to attack with a net, he can make only one attack regardless of the number of attacks he can normally make.

#### Harpoon Gun

A generic Harpoon Gun that Kai bought secondhand because he needed a cheap weapon. It's previous owner engraved the word "Tekking" on it. It has a range of 150/600 feet. The Harpoon Gun is a reskinned Longbow. (+9 to hit +1 MOD with Mako Spear) and (1d10+ 4Dex + 1Mod)

#### Mako Spear

One of the legendary fishing tools, it was once used to slain a sea beast and now is on possession of Kai.

#### Ghost Blaster 3000

A weapon that once belonged to Captain Spook, but it was eventually taken by Kai after Spook got defeated by Branch 101.

It's a very potent weapon dealing that makes a target do a strength saving throw, if they fail they take 6d6 damage and are pushed 15 feet, if they succeed they aren't pushed and take half the damage rolled. However once fired, it requires a action to reload it.

### Spells

#### Hunter's Mark

Kai choose a creature he can see within range and mystically mark it as his quarry. Until the spell ends, he deals an extra 1d6 damage to the target whenever he hits it with a weapon attack, and he has advantage on any Wisdom (Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check he makes to find it. If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, he can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of his to mark a new creature.

#### Ensnaring Strike

The next time Kai hits a creature with a weapon attack before this spell ends, the string of his fishing line involves the target at the point of impact, and the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the fishing line until the spell ends. A Large or larger creature has advantage on this saving throw. If the target succeeds on the save, the fishing line untie themselves. While restrained by this spell, the target takes 1d6 piercing damage at the start of each of its turns. A creature restrained by the fishing line or one that can touch the creature can use its action to make a Strength check against Kai's spell save DC. On a success, the target is freed.

#### **Zephyr Strike**

Kai can use a bonus action to move like the wind. For one minute, his movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. Once before the spell ends, Kai can give himself advantage on one weapon attack roll on his turn. That attack deals an extra 1d8 force damage on a hit. Whether he hits or misses, Kai's walking speed increases by 30 feet until the end of that turn.

#### Find Traps

Kai can sense the presence of any trap within range that is within line of sight. A trap, for the purpose of this spell, includes anything that would inflict a sudden or unexpected effect you consider harmful or undesirable, which was specifically intended as such by its creator. Thus, the spell would sense an area affected by the alarm spell, a glyph of warding, or a mechanical pit trap, but it would not reveal a natural weakness in the floor, an unstable ceiling, or a hidden sinkhole. Kai's version of this spell seems to reveal traps, as opposed to simply divulging the fact that their are traps.

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

Maybe in an expansion

TBA

## **Relationships**

### **Branch 101**

#### Damian

Damian was initially quite intimidating to Kai, but the two got along and worked together to rescue Lieutenant Pluto. At first, Damian was suspicious of Kai's resolve and questioned why he would need a Marine pamphlet if he already was one. As someone who immensely respects the Marines and sees them as an absolute force of justice in the world, he couldn't understand why Kai wouldn't want to be one. That's why he believes Kai's blatant lie about guarding the door when he just wanted to skip out on the fight in the library. However, after the battle with Captain Bailey, Damian began to respect Kai and started seeing him as a model Marine, despite all of his "feats" being misinterpreted in a way similar to a certain pirate's later career. He even went so far as to question his own leadership role, suggesting that Bailey should have given it to Kai for his efforts. He ignores Kai whenever he insists that he doesn't want to be a Marine and constantly compliments his bravery and integrity.

However, things changed between them when they faced the Seven Sisters in Acrylic City. Kai opted to protect Joy and author a truce, not wanting any more needless bloodshed to happen. Joy informed Kai that Damian had just taken the life of Malady, but Kai managed to convince her, and to a lesser extent Yokan and Bradley, to stand down and negotiate. But when Damian showed up, he was confused by Kai's efforts, seeing them as counter to the mission, especially when the sisters refused to cede the armor. Driven by his orders, another conflict began as Kai took the side of the sisters and actively netted Bradley, incapacitating him and taking him out of the battle. After the swift defeat of Joy and Kip, Damian interrogated Kai, accusing him of not following the mission and not doing his due diligence as a Marine. As someone who always follows orders, the idea of insubordination is nothing less than betrayal to him. Kai snapped, admitting that he didn't care about the mission or about being a Marine. Damian, now knowing Kai's inner feelings branded him a traitor and Kai, not trusting Damian's brutal leadership, tried to leave. Yokan managed to diffuse the situation by exploiting Kai's fear of devil fruits, but their relationship is now incredibly strained.

#### Yokan

Kai found Yokan intimidating at first, but the two got along after that initial meeting. Yokan appreciated Kai's compliment to her cooking and they worked together to rescue Lieutenant Pluto. She also sees Kai as a model Marine like the others, much to his chagrin.

After the battle with Joy and Kip, Yokan was the only one who still wanted to believe in Kai, but did not have the emotional maturity to understand his feelings or that someone wouldn't want to be a Marine so she chose to blame Joy for "brainwashing" him and making him change allegiances.

#### Bradley

Kai got along with Bradley upon their initial meeting and worked together to rescue Lieutenant Pluto. Bradley was the first member of Branch 101 who he told his backstory to. The two worked together to catch the special Two Colored Fish for Rordan Gamsey's competition. Bradley, like the others, most likely believes Kai to be a stand up Marine despite him having done or said nothing to corroborate this.
However, during the battle with Joy and Kip, Kai chose to hold back Bradley underwater before netting him in an attempt to save the sisters. As a fishman, this is considered a racist act, an act of captivity, so Bradley felt betrayed by his friend who knew his feelings on the matter. After the battle ended, he sided with Damian and refused Kai's apology, their relationship strained.

#### Taiga

Upon their first meeting, Kai found Taiga quite irritating and also accidentally fired a harpoon into him. He then brought up the fact that he shot a harpoon at the man as a sign of Taiga's weakness. He and Taiga have grown slightly closer after the events of their battle with Taiga's father, Kane Kibbleton. Taiga admired Kai's ultimate goal of collecting Mako's Tools and even offered to lend him a hand. Taiga, like everyone else, is under the impression that Kai is far more capable than he actually is.

#### Pluto

Though they haven't interacted much, due to Pluto being Kai's superior officer, he worked with his fellow Branch 101 members to rescue him when he was captured by pirates. The two then briefly worked together during the battle with Captain Bailey.

#### Bailey Turner

Bailey is Pluto and, by extension, Kai's superior officer. Bailey was impressed with the abilities of Kai and his associates. Bailey is also the only Marine who seems to be able to see past Kai's accidental facade and thus gives him the lowest rank she can alongside Taiga, as she can read his true feelings but knows he might one day become an actual asset.

### **Family**

#### Father

A man named Kenji and was also an accomplished fisherman. Kai thinks highly of his father and they seem to be on good terms.

#### Mother

Has not been mentioned directly, but she is still alive and living in Kai's hometown. Her name is Myra.

#### Uncle Jiro

An accomplished Marine Commodore. He is the older brother of Kenji, and had one son, Jinpei, who tragically died after consuming a Devil Fruit. After this event, Jiro transferred to the Grand Line and Kai has not seen him since.

#### Paternal Grandfather

Was also a fisherman. At some point he ate a Zoan-type devil fruit that transformed him into some type of hairy beast, and killed his wife before fleeing from the town. Kai witnessed this event and has not seen his grandfather since.

#### Maternal Grandmother

Is still alive and living in the village. However, she has quite advanced dementia.

#### Jinpei

Was Kai's cousin and Jiro's only son. Kai and him were very close friends. One day while fishing out at sea in a small wooden rowboat, Jinpei caught a Devil Fruit in his net and subsequently ate it. The fruit's power increased his body weight immensely, to the point were the boat the two were in broke apart and Jinpei sank to his death unable to swim. Kai attempted to save him but could not lift his body up and had to abandon him. This event has given Kai an intense fear of all types of fruits.

### **Friends**

#### Belle

Kai found Belle recently before joining the marines. He was interested by how intelligent she was so he took her as a companion. The two have a close relationship and they are able to understand each of other. She is quite supportive of Kai's goals and does her best to assist him. However, Belle is not subservient to Kai and will ignore or pinch him if he acts in a way that she does not agree with. She is also aware of Kai's poor ability at handling money and insists on carrying it for him.

#### Joy

After Joy hugged Kai when they met following the battle at the auction house, Kai began to develop feelings for his supposed enemy, mentioning that she has a beautiful smile. Taiga takes offense to his crush although he hasn't quite put together that he likes her 100% because he's not the brightest, thus their friendship remains intact. This crush came about due to Tekking mentioning at the end of an Isekai D&D stream that he thought Joy's art was hot when he saw it for the first time. Kai was able to reason with Joy enough to negotiate a ceasefire, even with the death of her sister by Damian. This is mainly due to Kai valuing them more than he values the marines.

## **History**

### Past

#### Birth and Childhood

Kai is from a small fishing village in the South Blue. He was a born on a fishing boat at sea and his family has been fishermen for many generations. His uncle, however, joined the Marine's and was stationed at a small base outside their village.

Kai has had two bad encounters with devil fruits before joining the marines. When Kai was 5, his grandfather ate an unknown zoan and killed his grandmother before disappearing into the forest. Some time afterwards, his friend fished up a fruit and ate it, increasing his weight several times and breaking through the bottom of the ship. After sinking to the bottom, he then drowned.

Kai would frequently fish with his uncle and the other Marine's there and was inspired to be a great Marine himself.

### Present

#### Kai the Marine

About a decade after the adventures of the Devil's Luck Pirates, Kai joined the marines as a seaman recruit. On the day he left his village he found a small blue crab on a local beach, the crab seemed very intelligent and immediately climbed up on his shoulder. Kai decided to name her Belle and the two became fast friends. However, Kai knew nothing else about her. After participating in an operation resulting in the arrest of Kane Kibbleton and the dismantling of the Marine killers, Kai was promoted to seaman first class.

After participating in an auction, Kai met Joy of the Seven Sisters. He was immediately smitten.

## **Trivia**

* Kai's name was first revealed in this stream where Tekking built Lego Set 21058.
* When asked if Kai's name was written with the kanji for ocean ( 海 ), Tekking did not respond. The actual kanji for his name is 櫂, which means "oar".
* Kai's harpoon gun has "Tekking" engraved into it.
	+ This also means someone named "Tekking" exists in the One Piece world.

* The colors of the fishing lures (red, blue and yellow) on Kai's shirt are a reference to the Steelers, a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh.

* Kai's character was inspired by Mako Tsunami from Yu-Gi-Oh.
* Kai dislikes fruit to the point where he won't even eat fruit flavored candy.
	+ However, Kai doesn't seem to have a problem with cucumbers, which are botanically classified as a fruit. This is most likely due to Kai not knowing that cucumbers are fruit, he also doesn't know that chocolate, pistachios or gourds are fruits
	+ So far, the fruits that Kai acknowledges as fruits and is therefore fearful of include; cherries, apples, bananas, pineapples, oranges, lemons, limes & grapes. There are also types of fruits he has never seen before so he may or may not have a reaction to them.
* Kai is really good at water polo.
* Kai had the first attack roll and critical fail in the Marines Campaign.
* Kai's birthday is June 29th, which is the same day as International Fisherman Day
* Tekking has stated that he would play Belle if Kai were to die.
* Kai can juggle.
* If there were a One Piece D&D Marines live action film, Kai would be played by Owen Wilson.
* Kai's dream is to find the 7 legendary items belonging to the greatest fisherman to ever live, the protagonist of a story he read when he was a kid, and said to have used them to slain the biggest sea monster ever seen. These items are a spear, a fishing rod, a net, a bobber, a fisherman's hat, a lobster pot and a hook.
	+ One of these items, which he acquired in episode 6, is called "Mako's Spear". It is unclear if Mako is the name of the legendary fisherman. The name is assumably a reference to Mako Tsunami from the Yu-Gi-Oh anime.
	+ Other named items are the "Kraken's Net", "Master's Bait" (the bobber) and the "Golden Lobster Pot".
* It was revealed by Tekking in Episode 12 that Kai has never had Pineapple, or pineapple-related food or drink.

## **Quotes**

* "I'm gonna be the greatest fisherman in the world!"
* "I just don't like eating fruits!"
* "What's a 'contract'?"
* "It's always great to fish!"
* "My crab is a woman, sir!"
* "Oven-cooked fish?! Listen sir, where I come from we cook fish the right way!"
* "This is the best fish I ever eat in my life, and I have eaten a lot of fish!"
* "I didn't know what any of this would entrail and I have a new found respect for all marines that died!"
* "I am sorry for shooting you in the chest."
* "Ah! It's our first catch of the day!"
* "Shut up, Taiga!"
* "I just hit someone with an oar and got stabbed."
* "It's not magic, that's silly!"
* "Fellow fishermen!"
* "Guys we should go shopping! For disguises!"
* "Maybe they have a Marine discount or something?"
* "What's a 'warrant'?"
* "Who would wanna touch a Devil Fruit user, ew!"
* ”Belle, come help me with the ice cream!”
* ”Ah! Door!”
* “I… am the Ice Cream Man, son.”
* ”You have something I want.”
* ”Oh great fisherman god, Mako Tsunami!”
* "I didn't know clown culture ran so deep!"
* "Never be ashamed of smiling."
* "'Tis not a stick! 'Tis the spear of the greatest fisherman to ever sail the seven...eight seas. I don't know how many there are, I have a mild concussion right now."
* "It's okay sir, I'm a clown"
* "You can always trust a fisherman."
* "Is this not a democracy? I don't know what that is."
* "I just identify as a fisherman. We don't hold any allegiance. We are true neutral!"
* "She's a Crab, dude!"
* "Let's try not to kill any of the kids."
* "I didn't do shit, it was the crab!"
* "You are magic!"
* "How can they defeat the giant marshmallow man!"
* "Blast it into space!"
* "Just a fisherman here, I'm not a rocket scientist!"
* "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE GODDAMN MISSION DAMIAN, ALRIGHT?! I LITERALLY DON'T FUCKING CARE ANYMORE, ALRIGHT?!"
* "Bradley, I'm sorry for the racism, I really am."
* "BoooOOOOOOoo!" *-when Kai was trying to scare Ninny as a fisherman ghost.*
* "You always have a choice Damian, there is always a choice!"
* "So what?! Am I supposed to hate her for the rest of my life?! I am not like that Damian, I believe people can make mistakes, even big ones like trying to kill people!"
* "This is more complicated than fishing" - *Kai about the morality of the marines and the existence of good pirates*.
* "Let's try something different next time, and, if that doesn't work out, we'll try something different again. I don't know what that's called, but let's go."
* "I don't believe in evil, but those things are fucking evil!"
* "I vote to blast it into space, seems like it would solve the problem."
* "I believe in Damian, he is a robot!"
* "Damian feels emotions! He feels...sugar."
* "Ghost pirates are under our jurisdiction!"
* "That's very nice of you, Damian...are you evil?"
* "Uncle Jiro! How are you doing, man?"
* "I can introduce you to my friends. There is a lady named Yokan, she is pretty scary and hit people with a stick, and then Bradley, who is my fishman friend, and then there is Damian, who...he has a robot, and is a robot, and then there's Taiga, who has a cool hat."
* "I don't know who this 'Yonkou' is, but let's go take him down, come on Yokan! We can take on the world!"
* "What's a 'mime'?"
* "Alright Bradley, we are following this rat!"
* "Unless something happens that makes me question my morals, I am in this mission 100%!"
* "This guy is being very racist!"
* "This is the tale of Rodney Poledark! (Singing) Oh! Rodney Rodney, he was a fisherman that sucked and he...!"
* "I don't think I need to know how to piss my pants."
* "Taiga, if I wanted to learn how to weaponize my piss, I'll go to Bradley, not you. No offense."
* "This is Belle, our finance crab."
* ”The Grand Line is crazy! That’s where those big fish are, like the REALLY BIG ones! Even bigger than Bradley!”
* ”It’s the most serene thing when it’s dawn, the sun is rising over the orizon, and you’re just there with you, and your thoughts, and your fishing line. You just have a peace and calm come over you.” - Kai to Joy about fishing.
* ”Thank you, Smiley Girl.”
* ”I welcome danger.”
* ”What’s a Reverse Mountain?”
* ”Was I abused?”
* "Dude, I'm just telling you right now, you should probably stop talking. I think you may be digging your own grave here."
* "How does a square open a door?"
* "I'm from a backwater fishing village and you're a robot, this whole thing is new game to me, I have no idea."
* "It reminds me of my friend Theseos, he was a good fisherman back home."
* "He has now interceded into fisherman law."
* "I'm not racist!"
* "I have another idea, but it's really stupid!"