Shin

**Shin** (芯, *Shin*), otherwise known as **Bonewright** (ボーンライト, *Bōnraito*), is the Shipwright of the Blooming Pirates, where he is the sixth overall member to have joined the crew. Hailing from an island known as Shiemya, Shin is very religious, following Shiemya's religious customs. Since a young age, he was used as a catalyst for Minuminu Oja's schemes in reviving Taisladoga after his parents' lives were sacrificed for the deity. With his expertise and Devil Fruit, he was regarded as one of, if not, the greatest Shipwrights within Shiemya, despite being grievously weakened on a daily basis for sacrifices.

After the defeat of Oja, Aloof D. Apostle extended an invitation to Shin in joining the Blooming Pirates as their Shipwright, to which he accepted. Since then, he has been fixing and modifying their newly acquired ship, one that he made, as part of a daily ritual, even if minor.

The Blooming Pirates are the primary protagonists within Green Ocean, Captained by Aloof D. Apostle. Through their various escapades, they have caused an imbalance within the world, such as interfering with the Three Great Powers. As the story progresses, they continue to gain infamy and grow stronger, causing for most inhabitants of the world to learn of their name, or simply cannot ignore them any further.

## Development

Since the very beginning, Shin has been the Shipwright of the Blooming Pirates. However, his personality and capabilities have always fluctuated. Initially, Shin was using the design of Kensei Muguruma from the Bleach series, possessing the Hone Hone no Mi (*Bone Bone Fruit*) as his Devil Fruit. He, in the creator's eyes, has always been seen as the "tank" of the Blooming Pirates, if RPG terms are to be used as a type of reference, thus why the Hone would make sense. Kensei's design, primarily within his Bankai and Hollowfied states, along with the Hollow Mask, allowed for Shin to have a surplus of designs and forms of inspiration for his fighting style. He was a brawler-type of fighter that used his bones as a form of combat moreso than anything else. However, this caused a type of similarity between Shin and Ashoka, as the latter's Devil Fruit, the Hana Hana no Mi, allowed for Ashoka to virtually do what Shin could do, which left Shin seeming less and less unique and more of a burden.

It should also be noted that, since the beginning, Shin has always been religious, along with being the sacrifice for the resurrection of Taisladoga. This type of stress upon his psyche on a daily basis is what caused for his hair to turn into the white color he had. However, this was a type of background information that became less and less relevant once he left Shiemya, thus causing him to further lose more uniqueness to him, when comparing him to the rest of the crew.

With the next draft, Shin's design changed to that of a recolored Shima Juuzou from the series Blue Exorcist. In this draft, he was more in-tune with his religious past, but the creator still was unable to find a happy medium for him to follow that would please him in usage.

For a while, Shin was almost swapped out of the crew entirely, because he could not fit in anywhere appropriately. However, after taking a long hiatus with Green Ocean, the creator has been overhauling the Blooming Pirates as a whole. Shin has since stayed, but his design became an unknown factor. At one point, he was considered to take Token's design, a Blooming Pirates member that was the crew's Swordsman that used the design of Barry Khan from Dragon Ball, and then Laxus Dreyar from Fairy Tail post-timeskip, along with his Swordsmanship. However, that idea was scrapped entirely. Shin also, albeit briefly, had the design of Chipp Zanuff from Guilty Gear, but never was pushed through in its entirety.

Perhaps one of the biggest changes to Shin was his personality, which was originally a stuffy person that seemed to not even have care for his own crew members, as others would attest to. However, this was changed to Shin being more happier around his crew, but still having a sense of caution towards people he doesn't know about, sometimes causing for him to seem a bit intimidating and angry.

## Gallery

Shin in his original draftShin in his second draft

## Trivia

* A shin is a type of bone found within the body, which fits with Shin's "Bonewright" epithet, along with his signature usage of manifesting the fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex as a form of combat.
* If Shin were born in the real world, he would be from Iraq with Sumerian ties in his blood line, thus fitting in with his religious theme of using Sumerian naming schemes.
* Shin uses the design of Zacharias Barnharm from the game Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney.