Connie Bonnie

**Constance Lopa Bonnie** (コンスタンス 牛 *ボニー,* *Konsutansu Ushi Bonī*), widely known simply as Connie Bonnie, is the navigator, a capable swordswoman, and one of the founding members of the New Dawn Crew. Known for her bright personality and quick reactions she forges forward on the sea in hopes of catching up to her Mentor who left her to fend for herself so that she may experience the same dream he had. Currently Connie's position on the ocean defies any sort of explanation as the rest of the crew hasn't really decided on what they want to consider themselves as, she has inclinations of becoming a freedom loving pirate but doesn't want to live with people assuming that she's a vile cut-throat just because she takes on the moniker of Pirate.

## Appearance

At first glance Connie might not seem like the type of person that would ever get into a fight, when she's not moving about she seems kind of dainty and delicate, her lithe body seems more suited for dancing or swimming than fighting. Of course she carries herself in a much more boisterous and excitable way than someone who would otherwise be possessed of such grace often seeming like she's on the edge of running or jumping, constantly brimming with energy. With chubby cheeks, buck teeth, a button nose, and large eyes she has a general appearance that might remind someone of a rabbit, she even goes so far as to wear rabbit ears from time to time to really drive the point home.

Connie stands at just over five heads in height, and weighs just over 110 pounds. Her natural hair is long and black but she's dyed her bangs blonde for some reason. She generally likes to wear skirts or dresses, and seems to prefer the color red in most of her fashion. She can usually be seen carrying a single sword on her hip and usually has a string of prayer beads wrapped around her wrist. On her face is a long scar that goes from her left cheek to shoulder blade, it seems as though she's had the scar for a long time as it's mostly healed over in the intervening years.

## Personality

From a very young age Connie has always wanted to be seen as a helpful good girl, she did everything in her power to help out those around her and make sure that she was doing a good job. Even though she was clumsy and might not have been the smartest child she always put all of her effort in living for others over herself. Of course she didn't just want to be good and helpful, and as she grew up she learned to yearn for adventure. Her personality expanding to become more boisterous and carefree on top of her generally caring demeanor.

Most people see Connie as a ball of energy and positive emotions, they see her as a bit clumsy and maybe a bit to eager to please others. They see her as impatient and brash constantly jumping into action without really considering the consequences of her actions. They see her as a bit silly, often overlooking the point or not fully understanding what is happening to her. She can be a bit gullible, instantly believing people who might want to lie to her. Above all else she can be stubborn, when she decides to take a path she can generally be pretty straight forward about it enough to drag others along.

## Abilities and Powers

### Swordsmanship

Connie practices in the Inquisitor's Sword style, a style that is known for quick draw techniques utilizing a slightly curved saber. She learned this style from her mentor **Samuel Solomon**, a legendary ex-inquisitor who watched over Connie and acted as a bit of a father figure to her. Connie's particular style with the sword involves a lot of speed and maneuverability, she is very fond of running past her opponent while drawing her blade, she is known to be able to draw the blade so fast that it seemingly flashes and sparks with arcs of electricity. Despite all of this Connie would consider herself to be somewhat amateur in her swordplay as she's never actually beaten Samuel in a duel despite the fact that he is hindered by having only one functioning arm.

### Physical Strength

Constance isn't insanely strong but she is stronger than most average humans, she's capable of lifting other people with relative ease as long as they're around her size. Most of her strength however seems to be in her legs which allow her to jump and leap at much greater distances than others seem to be able too.

### Agility

Extremely fast and flexible, Connie is constantly on the balls of her feet and seems to be able to run and jump great distances with relative ease. She could be considered to be a bit of an acrobat, easily rolling and flipping when she needs too. There are not many people that Connie has met that can keep up with her when it comes to speed, though it isn't completely out of the question.

### Endurance

While she is fairly healthy and hearty, Connie doesn't have any supernatural endurance over a well trained athletic person, that said she's pretty strong and durable but not supernaturally so.

### Weapons

**Samuels Saber** - A militia issued saber that was given to her by Samuel, it was stated by Schmiddy to be just a standard saber with no special properties and could easily be replaced with any other sword. Still it has sentimental value to Connie as the sword that was given to her by her mentor and she does whatever she can to protect the sword.

After it was cracked on Swallow island, Connie had it reforged by Schmiddy, it has since become a little bit more durable and better weighted for use.

**Backup Saber** - A saber that Connie bought as a backup in case her other saber got damaged in some way.

## Relationships

### Crew

**Warren Allbright** - Warren met Connie on the Island of Rubeck after he had been captured by Pirates and Connie chanced upon him and saved him from said pirates. Ever since then Connie views Warren as a bit of a big brother figure, she likes to follow him about and be a bright spot in his life. Recently she did dig through his personal belongings and learned things about him that she shouldn't have, to which Connie feels an immense pang of guilt over.

**Drate Pejery** - Having met on Rubeck island with both groups trying to deal with the pirates on the island, Connie joined Drate and his friends and the rest was history. Connie likes to bounce side comments off of Drate since he's usually the quietest and most even tempered of the group. She'll often jump to his defense since some people view fishmen in a racist light; even going so far as to jump to his defense when he puts himself down.

**Diego J. Quint** - Quint and his friends met Connie and Warren on Rubeck island while both were dealing with pirates on the island. Connie and Quint have something of a childish dynamic, they're often poking fun at each other or getting involved in mischief together. Quint being somewhat argumentative and stubborn himself can sometimes butt heads a little bit with Connie, though Connie still likes quint and likes hanging out with him because he's funny.

**Enrayus Vaanan** - When they met on Rubeck, Connie thought that Enrayus might be an angel since he has wings and seemingly fell from heaven. In there travels however Connie has started to see Enrayus more as a reliable brother in arms, both swordsmen of varying styles she appreciates and supports Enrayus in his endeavor to become stronger than his brother in swordplay. As such their relationship has a bit of rivalry in it as they both push each other to become better swordsmen, even if Connie herself doesn't share the same goal as Enrayus

**Ash Reid** - When they met on Swallow island after Ash fell out of a tree onto Quint, Connie didn't really know what to make of him. Currently Connie still doesn't know what to make of Ash, he seems to have this mysterious air about him and she hasn't really had the opportunity to get to know him any better as he's currently in custody on Minion Island. Connie wants to like Ash and she trusts that he's actually a good person since he helped with Swallow Island, but she still isn't sure.

**Glory Mamba** - On the oceans outside of Minion Island, Glory emerged from the belly of a sea monster having apparently been inside of it through the calm belt. Glory is the newest member of the crew and as such Connie isn't really sure what to make of Glory completely at the moment. Connie is glad to have another girl on the crew since she was the only one up to that point, however she hasn't really had much opportunity to connect with Glory in any meaningful way yet.

### Family

**Unknown Parents** - Connie's parents were killed shortly after her birth, as such she never really knew them in any meaningful way. When she was barely old enough to remember she was given to the Holy Seat of the Compass Cross church to be raised as a nun.

**Samuel Solomon** - While not officially her father, Samuel has taken something of a father figure role in Connie's life, he trained her and pushed her to study more than just the blade. Connie loves Solomon very much and would do anything to ensure his happiness, he always protected her and it is her wish that she could do even a small fraction of the same for him. After he left her behind she was a little gutted, but she steeled herself and forges forward in hopes that she can one day catch up to her mentor and prove that she was capable of being by his side.

### Allies/ Friends

**Holy Seat of the Compass Cross** - A Church based out of Blue Frog Island on the North Blue, they are known for their navigational abilities and map making. Connie grew up in the church and has a lot of fond memories of her time there, but at the same time she views it a bit like a cage, they want her to be a nun and she desperately wants to be free and have her own adventures. She's a bit torn on what to do since she doesn't want to abandon her duties or be seen as bad for denying what they want, but also wants to do what she wants.

### Enemies

Connie has no long standing enemies at the moment.

### Other

Connie hasn't built up any long standing relationships at the moment.

## History

Born on the island of Snowpass in North Blue, Connie doesn't remember much of her early life, however what she's been told is that the island was known for making medicine and brewing alcohol with the snow water that would filter down from the top of the cold mountain through all the minerals in the mountain. From what has been told to her about her past the island faced a harsh winter where no snow was left on the mountain tops one year and as such they came in opposition of the world government who had come to rely on their medicine for operations. Using the excuse that the ones brewing alcohol were doing so illegally the World Government attacked the island and killed nearly everybody who inhabited it. Only the children were spared because they were given up by the parents of the island to the Holy Seat of the Compass Cross missionaries who had been on the island as well.

This is where Connie grew up, on Blue Frog island in the holy city of Attavita, she was put in the care of a convent and trained to eventually become a Nun by the sisters and priests of the church. Despite wanting to be helpful and be a ray of sunshine to others Connie never really fit in with the other nuns, nor did she fit in with any of her peers, she was always too boisterous or clumsy to really endear herself to the nuns, and her peers saw her as little more than a goody two-shoes. As a result Connie was bullied by the other orphans in the orphanage which drew the attention of Samuel Solomon, a member of the churches militia, the Inquisitors, who took Connie under his wing and protection. She quickly became attatched to the man, falling in love with his stories of daring and adventure and constantly begged him to train her in swordplay despite the fact that he was retired with only one functioning arm.

Still, under Samuel's tutelage she learned swordplay and how to protect herself; in exchange Samuel had someone that he could share his own dreams with since he was something of an outcast himself. No one ever believed the old man when he would talk about the Center of the World, a place where a compass would find no direction and night and day would coexist with each other. No matter how mystical or unrealistic it seemed though, Connie always believed Samuel, she would constantly talk to him about going off on adventures to one day find it. Of course he had gotten too old; unable to properly pursuit his dream, or at least that is what Connie had thought.

One day, Samuel had disappeared one night leaving a note that he had gone out to find his dream, leaving Connie behind to pick up the pieces. She felt betrayed as though he didn't think she was strong enough to share in his dream. Connie also felt as though she were being pushed into the path of becoming a Nun for the church. However she got her chance to temporarily escape her responsibilities when she found herself lost at sea after dropping her navigation equipment in the ocean accidentally. She wound up on the island of Rubeck and straight into a nest of pirates who wanted nothing more than to do her harm, fortunately Connie was a lot tougher than them and she dispatched the pirates easily.

During her initial landing she met Warren Allbright, an ex-marine who also wanted to deal with the pirates on the island, and the two formed a temporary alliance until they met Enrayus Vaanan, Diego J. Quint, and Drate Pejery on the same island. Together the two groups worked together to free the island, and as a result decided to form a crew together to keep going on adventures around the ocean. So far they've picked up some more members of the crew and are currently in the process of building a ship, though events on various islands keep putting them in the face of danger.

## Character Design

When I first conceived the character I wanted to make an Holy Inquisitor in the One Piece world, someone who would go around and right wrongs in the name of some divine entity. Of course when I first started the character was kind of edgy, she wore all black and kind of had this over the top badass kind of design. As I was reading the manga and watching the show at the time I started to realize that the character wouldn't really fit in the one piece world, so I set out to make her fit better.

I think the major element to a good one piece character is having some sort of flaw that can be played for laughs, Luffy is kinda dumb, Zoro gets lost, Nami is a thief, and Usopp is a coward. So I decided to start off making the character extremely gullible, just the kind of person that would believe just about anything that someone told her. From there I expanded her out to be more trusting and open because she was so gullible, and as a result the character became a lot more open and bright. Another thing I decided to do with the character was sort of give her some more unique traits visually because a lot of One Piece characters have unique designs.

I decided that she should be rabbit like since she was already really fast and jumped around a lot, I really like characters with unique traits so I gave her buck teeth and really pushed for traits that would be considered rabbit like. I didn't want to actually make her a rabbit but rather an animal like person like Merry or the Ape Brothers.

Overall I'm really happy with how Connie came out, she's a really fun character to play.

## Major Battles

**Connie & Quint vs. Jonathon Ancelloti** - In order to save Swallow Island, Connie and Quint split off from the group to save some villagers and deal with Johnny. After some fierce sword play the two worked together to send Connie flying at the slaver beheading him entirely.

## Quotes

*"Johnny, you're a bully!"*

*"I think I have a pamphlet for that in my pack."*

*"I was covered in whale viscera."*

## Trivia

- Connie really likes Waffles, she orders some at every meal.

- Connie's sword style is based on Iaijutsu, a quick draw style studied in Japan.

- Some of Connie's personality is based on the Genki Girl trope, though a bit toned down to make her bearable to others.