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PLAYER INFO

Player Name: Del
Player Contact: whalesharks
Character(s) In-GPSL: N/a

CHARACTER INFO

Character Name: Reiju Vinsmoke, AKA Poison Pink
Age: 24
Canon: One Piece

World Description: Here at the One Piece wiki

HMD: Here

History: Here at the One Piece wiki

CRAU: N/a

Death: (Non-canonical.) Reiju drowned during the running battle after Sanji and Pudding's aborted wedding. As the members of Germa 66 covered the Strawhats' escape, the battle gradually moved out to sea. Reiju's raid suit, with its inbuilt hovering capability, should have permitted her to remain above the waves, but an explosion blew her off-balance and once she was submerged, she suffered the paralysis that all Devil Fruit users do, and her brothers did not bother to save her before she drowned.

What are your plans for this character in-GPSL? I'd like to see her work in a more collaborative environment than she's used to — far from being a princess who must be obeyed (but who in turn must obey), death is a great equalizer and she's merely one person among many now. If anyone treats her as Lady Reiju, it will be because she earned that respect with her behavior, not because of her birth. Additionally, now that she's free of playing her carefully constructed role of obedient underling to her autocratic king and father, she'll have the chance to start growing into what she values and prioritizes, and to flex the emotional muscles of empathy and caring that she possesses but has not been able to express.

What aspects of this GPSL and/or its setting are you most interested in having this character engage with? I'm very interested in seeing how she can contribute to exploration. As someone who is both a military leader and in her own right physically strong and durable, she has a lot to offer in dangerous situations, and using her abilities to explore rather than to conquer would be a refreshing and even wholesome change of pace for her.

How does your character generally get along with other people? Although she possesses a rich inner emotional landscape, Reiju tends to conceal her feelings beneath a facade that is in turns flirtatious, temperamental, and smoothly unaffected. All of these behaviors are easily seen to be superficial; she scolds Yonji for being miserly and goes so far as to kick him overboard, but does not appear to be actually upset. She shows a flirtatious face to the Strawhats when saving Luffy from his self-inflicted poisoning, but it appears to be no more than a reflex, with no particular personal interest expressed. Toward Sanji, in private, she shows some depth of feeling — but that is thanks to their relationship as children, and it would be a slow process for anyone else to worm their way so deep into her inner self.

What is your character's mental state upon entering the GPSL? Externally, she's focused on coping with being in a strange place where the laws of nature don't seem to work the way they should. But underneath that focus, she feels betrayed by her family, angry that she died in such a stupid way, and also a little hopeful — now she's free of Germa and everything it entails, and might be able to be her own person here, rather than a tool of her father's. That's a whole lot of contradictory emotions, and at best her feelings tend to be shuttered and hidden — as a result, the face she'll present upon arriving is likely to be very smooth and unruffled, as though nothing were wrong or even abnormal. The artificiality of such a facade should be evident, as a person who isn't hiding their feelings should be at least a little rattled to have died and woken up in such a strange and eerie setting.

Skills/Abilities:
General genetic enhancements - Reiju was extensively experimented upon in utero, and most of her physical capabilities are enhanced well beyond normal humanity (even for the One Piece world, where many supposedly ordinary humans are stronger and more durable than in reality). These enhancements are both intellectual and physical — the Vinsmoke children are shown learning from thick, imposing science textbooks even at a very young age, as well as safely leaping from high places (and landing hard enough to shatter the paving stones beneath), running flaming obstacle courses, and swimming long distances in the ocean waves. Reiju is shown to clearly remember the precise details of events and conversations that occurred when she was little more than a toddler, and she demonstrates her developing strength when, at the age of eleven, she bends aside the wrist-thick steel bars of Sanji's cell in order to free him. One significant genetic enhancement is hardened skin that appears to have some metallic properties. All Vinsmoke siblings except Sanji have hardened skin that is resistant to impact damage, and seems to dent rather than bruise or split. One of Reiju's siblings is shown with half his face dented in after a beating, and is treated by having the dents hammered out rather than through bandaging or stitches. This same nature applies to her. It is mentioned that the Big Mom Pirates needed to design special armor-piercing bullets in order to be able to shoot the Vinsmokes effectively.

Poison Pink - Reiju's greatest genetic enhancement, which is further boosted by the support of her high-tech raid suit, is her capability with poisons. While her abilities aren't shown in tremendous detail, she is able to safely ingest even an incredibly potent toxin (one that was rapidly killing Luffy, who is himself essentially immune to all but the very strongest toxins) and even praise it as one of her favorite delicacies. Considering that it was from food that he had eaten and which was rapidly being absorbed into his bloodstream, it seems that she was also able to control how it spread through his body, since she called it back out through his mouth. Wearing her raid suit — and with her capabilities therefore boosted — she is also able to create physical attacks by exhaling poison and shaping it into arrow-like forms to impale targets, or creating an acidic barrier that destroys weapons and projectiles (and presumably flesh) that crosses it. So, essentially, she can create, control, neutralize, and counteract poisonous substances, and shape her created poisons into large area weapons. What abilities are or are not accessible without the raid suit's support is not specified. The delineation I would draw is that she can still internally process poisons and can exude poisons through natural bodily processes like breathing or perspiration, but creating large external structures made from pure poison is impossible without the suit. Additionally, controlling poisons that are not within her own body (such as drawing the poison out of Luffy) is not possible without the raid suit.

Technological skill - Germa 66 is considered to possess some of the most advanced military technology in the One Piece world. It is not clearly defined how active a role the Vinsmoke siblings take in the lab work that goes into their kingdom's consistent place on the cutting edge of world technology, but they do seem to be at least somewhat involved in the process, and it stands to reason that if nothing else, Reiju has a strong understanding of the technology involved in her own development and in the maintenance, repair, and enhancement of her personal raid suit. She is likely to be able to at least somewhat comprehend the science of other worlds, at least in areas where the technological level is similar to what she's used to. (Although this varies; the One Piece world is one where wooden sailing ships and flintlock pistols coexist with cloning, genetic engineering, and cyborgs.)

Medical knowledge - Even as a child, Reiju demonstrated medical skill in treating Sanji's injuries from the beatings he received at the hands of his brothers. This is likely an outgrowth of her technological skill, as Germa's science leans heavily toward biomedical research. While she's no doctor, as an adult she's entirely competent to serve as a field medic in a pinch.

Flaws/Weaknesses:
Devil Fruit - What exactly her devil fruit power is has not been specified; however, Reiju was included on a list of Devil Fruit users in supplementary materials for the series, and I'm accepting that information as canon. As such, the weaknesses of a Devil Fruit user apply to her. She is unable to swim or even float, and exposure to standing water severely weakens her. With a small degree of immersion, she loses most of her strength and vitality; at half submergence, she is functionally paralyzed and helpless. She also sinks like a stone if not supported, meaning that even a shallow body of water can kill her. The in-series substance known as "seastone" or "sea prism stone" (depending on your translation) acts similarly to water exposure; touching it can cause her to collapse, and being shot or stabbed with it is highly injurious, potentially even fatal if fragments of the substance are left behind in the wound.

Lack of moral courage - When placed in a situation where doing the morally right thing will endanger her, Reiju holds back. As a child, she stood by and watched her brothers and father emotionally and physically abuse Sanji. She did not join in the physical abuse, but laughed along with the torment and otherwise acted entirely complicit. When it put her at no risk to do so, she did help, treating Sanji's wounds and giving him quiet words of encouragement, but she admitted that she would not stand up for him because it would mean she would also get bullied — even though she, stronger and more durable than he, would be much better able to take the abuse. As an adult, she behaves similarly; in private, she expresses her true feelings, but stands by and allows Sanji to be mistreated publicly without raising a finger to help. She regards the Vinsmoke family as fundamentally corrupt and evil, and feels tremendous guilt over her own role in supporting the family's activities, but she continues to act as a commander and voluntarily acts in furtherance of their goals. In a moral quandary, she will not act based on what's right, but on what's best for her.

Obedience - One again, this is something not well defined in canon, but Reiju makes an offhand reference to being genetically engineered to obey her father. This does not appear to be an absolute rule, as she manages to thwart him by switching out the explosive cuffs he commands her to place on Sanji for duds, but she cannot openly defy him. While he isn't here in the game setting, a lifelong habit of having to at least superficially obey the commands of her king has left its emotional mark on her; she has never practiced open resistance or defiance toward any sort of authority figure, and is unlikely to make that transition easily even now where it's possible to do so.

People - The various members of Reiju's family represent tremendous weaknesses for her, in vividly different respects. On the more positive side, her deceased mother Sora and her brother Sanji are both tremendously positive figures for her, toward whom she feels love, obligation, and sadness. It was Sora's love and attention that taught her to be more than the soulless, emotionless killing machine she was engineered to be. More than a decade after Sora's death, Reiju speaks of her in fond, intimate familial terms, contrasting with the formal and impersonal way she speaks of her living father. She knows that the difference between her and her three monstrous younger brothers is entirely thanks to Sora, and she feels Sora's legacy of kindness and compassion keenly, although she does not act on it nearly as often as she knows Sora would want her to. Sanji is the only one toward whom she has canonically demonstrated that compassion, even in small ways; as an unenhanced child, he represents Sora's only triumph over Judge, and Reiju knows that protecting Sanji is protecting their mother's legacy. She tends his wounds as a child, sets him free in East Blue when the opportunity presents itself, and when he is brought back as an adult to be married off in furtherance of Judge's goals, she encourages him in strong terms to flee — believing firmly that he should choose his own life over those of the Vinsmokes. Sora and Sanji tug on her desire to do good. By contrast, Judge is quite literally her creator, beyond simply being her father; he modified her before she was even born, customizing her to his goals. He can command her obedience regardless of her will, and while she strives to always earn his praise as a good, obedient daughter, she deeply loathes him and believes it would be right if he were to die for his hubris. I believe she likely fears him as well; being genetically engineered to obey means that he can override her will, and that's a frightening thing. Additionally, she has a vivid example in Sanji of just what Judge will do if one of his children loses his favor. Her brothers are little better; although she is just as strong as they are, there are three of them and one of her. She loathes them and knows she cannot trust them not to turn on her if they sense even the slightest weakness.

Fears/Phobias - Alive, Reiju has the healthy fear of standing water that any Devil Fruit user does. Having died by drowning, that healthy, reasonable avoidance has metastasized into something less proportionate. Particularly when she's newly arrived, even getting unexpectedly wet in completely innocuous ways will have her tense and upset at best. In addition, she has a quiet and deep-seated terror of the loss of her free will. That is the sword of Damocles that has been hanging over her head for her entire conscious life — and now into her afterlife. Having been designed for obedience, free will is precious to her — the last thing she wants is to be forced to do anything, to the point where she would rather voluntarily do what she might be otherwise forced to.

Personality: Reiju was engineered before her birth to be a soulless, amoral, emotionless commander of a mercenary army. Her mother's love taught her to feel — to feel for others, yes, to experience things like concern, empathy, and the rightness or wrongness of her actions. But more than that, Sora's attention taught her to feel at all. Her brothers, not so lucky, laughed in the face of their own deaths because they were unable to experience even that most atavistic emotion: the fear of death. Any emotional expression from Reiju, beyond the most simple and superficial amusement or annoyance, must therefore be carefully measured. Her father loves his children only insofar as they perform as he wants them to — a fact graphically demonstrated by his terrible abuse toward the unmodified Sanji. Reiju knows, therefore, that if she demonstrates an emotional capability beyond what Judge designed for her, she will also be failing to perform to expectations and will therefore lose his possessive, self-serving form of love.

So she hides everything she truly feels. On the surface, where anyone can see, she shows little more emotional landscape than her brothers do. She laughs when someone gets hurt, shows irritation when someone behaves in a way she doesn't like, but this is nothing more than a mimicry of the callous selfishness she was designed for. The entirety of her life has been learning and maintaining a hard and fast wall of self-possession and self-control, in order to ensure that her father never suspects how deeply her mother's emotional influence has marked her.

Beneath that wall of self-posession, she feels strongly — she wants to see better things for the world than she has ever been able to give it. But that beneath must stay beneath. When it's safe -- meaning, even far from her father's influence, when no one is watching -- she might allow that control to slip and a softer, more real face to show. She did it for Sanji, treating his wounds and consoling him as a child, and as an adult telling him that he ought to leave, to abandon the wedding and get himself to freedom.

In comparison with a normal person, even her true self would not be considered particularly kind or empathetic. She is troubled by the cruelty and amorality of the Vinsmoke family and by the atrocities they commit when their army is hired to fight, but she does not feel any strong obligation to make them change. She feels distress when she sees innocent people suffer, but her distress is not strong enough to motivate her to act. In the event that she does attempt to give comfort, she is unpracticed at it and is more likely to be awkward than warm or empathetic.

But she still might well try, especially now that she's firmly and irrevocably away from the tightrope pressure of being Lady Reiju of the Germa Kingdom and Poison Pink of Germa 66.

Items:
Worn: Her raid suit, a high-tech garment that protects her from injury, allows her to hover in the air, expands her innate abilities with poison into a broad array of attacks and provides a means of combat communication (currently useless with no other Germa 66 members in play). Condition on arrival: sopping wet, with minor damage from combat — scorch marks and tears.
Carried: Set of high-quality civilian clothes with accessories (concealed in raid suit canister until she switches outfits)