Tol Taka

Tol Taka, sometimes referred to as Toltaka, is an eccentric individual. He sways along the moral compass, pragmatic on the battlefield whilst idealistic when not. While much of his early life was spent in East Blue, he doesn't actually remember where he came from: a case of amnesia, if you will.

Toltaka is a devil fruit user, having eaten the Kuu Kuu no Mi, and while learning at a quick pace, has yet to near mastery of the fruit's true power.

He is considered as one of the Shooting Stars, a generation of Super Rookies first referred to in the year 1514.

## Appearance

Toltaka doesn't often intentionally take the spotlight, so those who know of his appearance generally tend to be those close to him in some way or another. That said, he has a slightly above average figure: Buff, but not in excess, Toned, though not too toned. Standing at 6'1", and while towering to perhaps the common man, he is nowhere near the size of some who roam the seas.

He wields the blade **Naga**, an unknown grade Wazamono changeling blade which most often takes the form of a Guan Dao or Naginata, and is donned in attire either combat-ready, or laid-back if none is expected to occur. While special occasions may call for otherwise, while owning a variety of clothes he will often not choose anything all too extravagant. It is not confirmed where he obtained the blade, however due to their sole production by Saturn Rezka, there must be a connection somewhere that has seen the two together at some point.

## Personality

Taka falls upon a strange place on the personality spectrum. In rest he is calm, clever, cool-headed. In battle he is passionate, spontaneous, and occasionally even seems to be in a manic state. Perhaps this is his love of combat, perhaps it's simply just to let loose every once in a while. The reason remains unknown, though it doesn't occur often enough to analyze. He cares much for his friends, and will never intentionally bring harm or sever trust with one without a powerful reason to do so, and is the sort of fellow to drop everything to help a friend in need. In a casual setting, he can be quite sociable and easily gets lost in the excitement of a party or festivity, though sometimes when left alone he can become rather distant.

## Relationships

Taka does not remember any family he may or may not have had, with his earliest memory being washed upon the shore of a small island blanketed in mist and clouds.
Here he met two sisters, who he has not yet shared the names of to anyone, who took him in and helped him try and find out who he was, and what he was doing there. Unfortunately, the amnesia acquired had no easy fix, and prior days remain forgotten before the shore. These two sisters are the closest thing he has to a memorable family, and he treasures them above most.

## Powers and Abilities

**Blade Shifter**: The one possession that Toltaka has carried since allegedly even before the day he washed upon that misty shore was his blade. It rests in the form of a small knife or dagger, but has the strange power of being able to change the size of it's blade or hilt, effectively allowing it to take the form of any blade. Taka favors those forms of a glaive, and often sports in training, and subsequently combat, a weapon seemingly a fusion of a Guan Dao and a Naginata, though of course, one can be chosen solely over the over.

**Devil Fruit**: It was on the strange misty island that Taka happened to simply wander across the devil fruit he now possesses.
It say upon a lone tree on a hill, branches made of clouds and roots made of something resemblant of a cloud, yet far darker.
It beckoned to him, it called to be taken. Or so he says, though the full story is yet to be known.
The Kuu Kuu no Mi grants the user the ability to phase and teleport, as well as the necessity and additional ability of blasts of pure energy in proportion to the space and matter phased and teleported between. While it seems simple to grasp an understanding of, there are potentially more possibilities, as it is a fruit not before discovered by man, or if it has been, it was long, long ago, past the walls of recorded history itself. It does seem as if the fruit has not yet shown it's true power, though this is something yet proven.

**Fishing**: During his stay on the misty island, Taka of course had to contribute to the house alongside the two sisters who had benevolently taken him in. They taught him to fish, create bait, and clean seafood. While not experts in it themselves, the teaching was good enough to allow Taka fluency in the endeavor if ever it need be displayed.

**Hunting/Tracking**: Alongside fishing, Taka learned quickly how to hunt for food found on land as well. Learning the ins and outs of how to track, stalk, scout, and inevitably kill a target. Not aforementioned, but this island was rife with beasts familiar and strange alike, allowing much diversity of learning within the subject. Though if this skill is particularly useful in a world of ocean, is up to where fate takes him.

## Overview

### **Physical Prowess**

Taka is a not that outstanding of a figure physically. That said, he is still able to lift most things that need to be lifted, and run a mile at a beck and call with ease.

**Speed and Agility**

He is quite fast, and can take many by surprise due to his initial burst of speed during movement. Being able to move fast synergizes wonderfully with his fruit, and he makes sure to remain and grow out his agility. His spacial awareness is on another level, which is a must for one with a fruit that allows for instantaneous movement across space, and can move with ease on many fields.

**Strength**

Taka enjoys a good fight, but not an easy fight (unless to prove a point). He will almost exclusively use his fruit in combat against those as strong as or stronger than him, thus often finding himself without it's power in fights. While certainly able to wield a powerful swing, it is not the strongest. Though, a blade through the chest is enough to kill most men regardless.

When his devil fruit is brought into play his style of combat shifts dramatically. While before it would be quite a straightforward mode of fighting, focused on dueling in extended or quick succession, with his fruit in play his movements become much more irregular, as do his targets. Irregular is the word used, as that's how it is often perceived by his foes, however the truth is quite the opposite. It is an intricate and carefully calculated dance, in which Taka will strike at one's blind spots rapidly, with some coming normally as well as to prevent easy discretion of where and when an attack will occur. Dipping in and out of his portals rapidly, phasing from left to right, occasionally even adding blasts of aether alongside this normal strikes. If in direct contact with someone, he can teleport them with him.

**Endurance**

Taka, when out of combat and without excessive tire or weight on his body, can begin a slow process that allows him to turn his injuries into energy not much unlike the method used when he phases through objects with his fruit. The injuries are literally sucked into the void and turned into pure energy. This energy is then used to rejuvenate Taka afterwards. This process takes about a half hour, and requires a complete lack of physical interruption, which would immediately halt the process and cause the drained injuries back into the user, causing pain proportionate to the injuries themselves. He can use this ability on others, however it takes longer, the length of which depends on his connection to the person, as well as their own personal durability.

#### **Blademaster**

While Taka is perfectly capable of using many types of blades, his personal favorites are those resembling glaives and lances.
They allow him much liberty when using them in tandem with his fruit, allowing him to keep his distance when phasing, whilst also allowing range between him and an opponent when using portals on himself or his weapon.
Taka has a knack for wielding a blade, an apparent talent, or perhaps a clue as to his past. Regardless, this makes him a dangerous foe if left alone, for in time he has the potential to become quite strong.

## History

As prior mentioned, not much is known about Taka's early life. The farthest back he himself can remember is washing up on the shore of the island inhabited by the two sisters with whom he grew up with, and even less is known to the many about his past.
Regardless, there are well-distributed facts known about his stay on the island prior to his introduction to piracy.

The island, which Taka himself refers to as Dhanato, is not marked on any conventional map of the East Blue that it is located within, nor does any log pose point to it. And yet it is home to many an exotic flora and fauna alike, with strange rolling mist and fog blanketing the island constantly. The surrounding seas, however, are clear and pristine, a stark contrast to the island they surround.

The two sisters with whom Taka stayed have yet to be disclosed in name or appearance by him, and thus can only be referred to as such. They were, though, arguably superb teachers.
Assuming Taka knew nothing of the world upon his arrival would be an understatement. His mind from before was a blank slate, as if it were ridden from existence entirely. Luckily, he was able to somewhat speak. This is one of the first skills he learned during his stay: fluent speech. Alas, such was not the only train of thought Taka was made to learn, no.
The sisters taught him a great many things: how to fish, how to hunt, how to survive in a harsh environment (even though they had built a more amicable home on the island aside). Here also was where he first sparred with another person, and arguably a strong one. Though seemingly adept with his blade as he was, he was rendered completely unable to defeat either of them in combat for a long time, with his first victory coming only after a streak of 2011 losses.

## Bladesmanship / Abilities

Toltaka sports three distinct fighting styles.

The first style, the **Comet Style**, is a style that Toltaka developed mostly by his own hand, allegedly drawing influence from the island on which he resided and it's wildlife. Though, it came very easily, strangely easily in fact, almost making it seem as if it wasn't unfamiliar to him.

The second style, the **Rhea Style**, is the style Toltaka learned from his teachers, the sisters, who taught him much regarding close combat and the necessity of balancing one's arsenal of attack with defense.

The third style, the **Vara Style**, is a style that Toltaka began to develop after his first victory against his teachers. This style is still in development, but has a heavy focus on agility, as well as on reliance on his Devil Fruit.

Alongside these fighting styles, Taka also currently is aiming towards developing several standalone attacks/abilities to use in the future, by which he utilizes some of the powers of his devil fruit. He refers to these as **The Orders** or **Laws**.

Most often sporting his blade in form of a glaive, most of his attacks are based on such weaponry at hand. Additionally, much of Taka's combat is geared towards dueling, rather than against groups of enemies, though as he constantly fought in 2v1 scenarios, Taka is more than capable of fending of a few enemies at a time.

#### **Comet Style**

* **Darting Dagger**: Taka keeps his blade in the form of a knife or dagger, rapidly rushing his opponent with a flurry of strikes.
* **Backslash:** Not a slash to the back, but rather a quick slash whilst jumping backwards, as to gain distance between him and his opponent.
* **Pocket Punch:** Taka, whilst in combat with his blade in dagger form, has his blade transform into another weapon. Most often it will be the glaive that he is known for using, however in the midst of close combat this can easily take an opponent by surprise and pierce them due to the sudden increase in range of the weapon wielded.
* **Pocket Fun:** Taka, whilst in combat with his blade in glaive form, has his blade transform back into a knife or dagger, allowing quick dexterity during a prolonged clash of blades, and can cause the opponent to stumble upon their asserted weight, if there is any.
* **Rising Star:** Taka launches a series of uppercut attacks against his opponent
* **Falling Star:** Taka makes a quick downward strike with his blade. This is most often chained after **Rising Star**

* **Sky Dash**: Taka lunges in a direction, he then uses his blade to slash in a semicircle in a given direction.
* **To Catch A Star:** Without reciting the entire ability name, Taka, due to his superb spatial awareness, is able to catch any projectiles with much greater ease than the average warrior. What he does with the caught objects is subject to the situation at hand, though if desired, they can be placed into **Maw** and converted to raw energy to fuel later abilities.

**Rhea Style**

* **Hoist:** Taka uses his blade as a stick with which to launch himself upwards.
* **Phase:** Taka uses the momentum from him falling in a direction to give power to this strike. Taka phases to an opponent.
* **Flick:** Taka's blade takes on the form of a spiked boomerang. This has all the functions of a normal boomerang.
* **Network:** Taka's blade takes on the form of a metal net. While extremely hard to break through, it can simply be taken off. This technique was mainly developed in catching those inexperienced in combat, or wild beasts during hunting.
* **Pride:** Taka opens a maw on his body prior to being struck or attacked, all attacks made at the location of the maw will be stored as energy. If someone or something enters Taka's Maw, well, they may end up stuck without a way out.
* **Burst:** Taka will let loose an amount of stored energy within him. The power and scale of this is dependent on how much energy has been stored.
* **Boom:** Taka touches the matter around him, pouring stored energy into the space, forcing the nearby matter to vibrate erratically :- exploding soon after with an extremely loud clap, with a small shockwave to follow.
* **Knuckles:** Taka's blade takes on the form of knuckles. These are for friendly fight fights or not-so-friendly bar brawls.
* **Fly Trap:** Inspired by fly traps living on Dhanato, with this ability Taka lowers his guard and opens an extremely thing portal in two directions in front of him. While hard to see to an untrained eye, one looking for the ability will most likely be able to see it's placement. If one falls for the 'trap', and rushes to attack Taka from these directions, Taka will slash the air in front of him, with his blade passing through the portals places, hitting any unfortunate or foolish enough to attack from there.

**Vara Style**

* **Phase Rush:** Like Phase, however here Taka phases multiple times in quick succession, letting loose between jumps a blade at his opponent.
* **Long Jump:** After a short channel, Taka can teleport to a moderately far distance. This accumulates a lot of matter to be converted to energy, and also allows for easy escape and chases. Taka currently cannot use **Phase Rush** after a **Long Jump** without using **Discharge** or **Burst**
* **Discharge:** Essentially **Burst**, except releases an equal amount of energy in all directions around Taka's current position. Named discharge both for it's practical effect, as well as those struck often being left shocked by the energy released upon them.
* **Severed Space:** Taka severs the space before his blade
* **Void Boost:** Taka absorbs the energy lost by the matter fractured by **Severed Space**, storing the energy into his blade that will enhance his blade's subsequent strikes with aether.
* **Severed Slash :** Rather than having the energy remain imbued within his blade, Taka can launch it forth from his blade by slashing in a direction with intent to release. This propels the aether forward, rather than it simply being a short-ranged blast.
* **Aether Globadier**: Taka hurls a ball of stored energy at a location. The energy is released and thrown in the form of a sphere and splashes upon impact.
* **Cross Strike:** One of Toltaka's signature moves, Taka creates small static portals around his blade, as well as in various locations around the enemy, slashing through them in irregular patterns as to create the notion of one being struck out of thin air, by nothing. (The blade passes through the small portal, and can hit the target outside another)
* **77 Deaths:** Another of Toltaka's signature moves, it is very similar to **Cross Strike**. However, with this attack rather than using static portals, the blade itself is momentarily phased at an opponent before being sent back to Taka's hand. Each strike accumulates energy within Taka as if he phases himself, and thus cannot be used more than once within a set period without the risk of total fatigue, or blackout. Taka can currently manage 77 Strikes, hence the name.

**Absolute Order/Law**

* **The First Law - Immovable:** Taka touches a static object, then teleporting that object to a distance no farther than 130 (119m) yards from himself

* **The Second Law** **-** **Unstoppable:** Taka touches an object, teleporting it into the air at a distance no farther than 130 yards, and within that field, no higher than 100 (91.44m) yards

* **The Third Law** - **Momentum:** Taka creates a portal under the location the falling object will land, or anywhere along it's fall, then creating a portal facing at a different angle, forcing it's acceleration to take a new direction, with a new gravitational influence as well.
* **The Third Law - Unity:** Taka launches the falling object towards the static, stationary object on the ground. Upon impact, he teleports both of them at his opponent, causing the friction and subsequent effect of the collision of objects affect the now nearby opponent. The interaction obviously depends on the objects used in the first place.
* **Order - Starless Night:** Taka severs the matter around himself and his opponent, effectively bringing them into the domain of the Void, where Taka's fruit's powers are strengthened exponentially, now without the necessity of flowing through fixed existence, but rather now fighting within pure, and alterable existence. Taka currently can only manifest this power for 3 seconds for every 37 hour period. This effect does not passively increase. (Waiting for 74 hours will not change the amount of time this power can be manifested by.)
* **Order - Jigsaw:** Combining some of the aspects of **Cross Strike** and **Deaths**, Taka maneuvers his blade and devil fruit ability in a manner that creates a maze consisting of ultra-thin portions of his blade. While extremely effective at rendering a target's mobility to zero, Taka cannot attack with any blade he is using for this ability as it is scattered in entirety.

The abilities below have not yet been mastered, and thus are most likely not combat ready. That said, they are being worked towards, and Taka fully plans on integrating them into his arsenal of attacks as soon as possible.

* **Order - The Brightest Stars:** Taka absorbs the light within the near vicinity, causing him to shine with the albedo of the combined effect of the formerly spread out light for 3 seconds. This will blind if stared directly into during the daytime. He then turns pitch dark, before expelling the light in all directions. The light itself does no harm to what it is propelled into, though it can temporarily blind if gazed upon.
* **Order - Purgatory:** Taka fades from reality, becoming unable to react with any biological entity within the realm of existence, with extremely limited ability to manipulate abiotic objects, if interacted with they most likely will simply be ghosted through. He is also untargetable by any physical force, however maintaining this state is extremely risky as if Taka fails to maintain a center of gravity similar to that in which he (formerly) existed upon, he can fall into the depths of the void, unable to escape for hours, even days on end.
* **Order - Repressed:** Taka attempts to dilate his phase, attempting to overlap with himself in the exact same place within space/time. While it would last a duration nearly close to no duration at all, upon leaving the spot, by movement, phase, or otherwise, the location of overlap will implode due to the irregularity in space, nullifying anything that lays within it's direct vicinity. If more matter than what was initially overlapped is drawn into the implosion, it will subsequently burst a half-second afterwards, spewing violently that which entered and overfilled it.
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**Non-Style Specific Abilities**

* **Maw:** The user rips open the space in front of them, storing within it anything that attempts to pass through. This ability takes the same toll on the user as if they had phased through the objects themselves, and will eventually, time depending on what is taken, need to release the stored energy afterwards.
* **Vacuum/White Hole:** The Kuu Kuu no Mi allows it's user to drain themselves, as well as others with a higher base time requirement, of injuries. The user allows their injuries to be sucked into the Void and be converted into raw energy. This requires a half hour of stationary focus, with disruptions causing the injuries to instantaneously reappear on the user with all the pain in a single blow. This requires around an hour on other targets, with the true duration being dependent on the willpower and focus of the individual who is being healed. The energy created (stored) can then be used as aether accordingly.
* **Store:** Taka can store an amount of kinetic force within his fruit, this is converted to pure energy on impact, and can be used up to 80% of Taka's body weight daily.
* **Explosion:** If Taka does not expel the accumulated energy within him, it will eventually spill over back outside of him. A hole will open on a random place of his body, where a single drop of purple blood will drip out. If this drop hits the ground, all the accumulated energy will explode at the location of impact. This can damage Taka himself if nothing is done to prevent this occurence.
* **Sanctum:** If a substantial loss of life force, or death, is delegated to Toltaka, his fruit will suck him inside of it and drop in his place a purple rock not of this world. Taka will slowly heal inside of the void, with the length of time it takes depending on the type and severity of damage dealt. When fully recovered, he will re-take the place of the rock left in his stead. This rock cannot be moved when he is inside, and he cannot access it any way other than near-death or by death-blow.

It should be noted that **Maw** can be used to store Sea Prism and Water. HOWEVER, doing so will cause fatigue on the user at a rate modifier of 8x normal per mass of object. Thus, doing so will noticeably incapacitate the user. This should never be done unless in dire or extremely situational circumstance, as water and sea prism cannot be converted to energy. (When released they will simply drop back out as they came in.)

Additionally, the wielder of the Kuu Kuu no Mi can allow water or sea prism to pass through a portal, though each time they do so they will feel the effect as if the water or sea prism had made contact with they themself.

If of a significantly lower weight class, for example a small animal such as a mouse, Taka can combine **Vacuum** and **Maw** to store the creature inside of his void, healing them as they lay within. This only works if they either consent willingly, or are on the verge of death. If Taka is severely wounded while in this state, the creature held will be expelled from his body, with the force of whatever caused the causing wound.