Episode ②

Name:                  Monkey D. Luffy (Luffy)/ 蒙奇．D．魯夫 /路飛

Age:                    17; 19

Birthday:             May 5

Sign:                    Taurus
Height:                172 cm (5'7½")
Treasure:            Straw Hat Pirates from Red-Haired Shanks, His Partners on the ship
Position:              Captain
Devil Fruit:         Gomu Gomu no Mi (Gum Gum Fruit)
Hometown:           East Blue - Dawn Island: Fusha Village

Favorite Type:     Loves summer, but also loves snow. So his favorite island is one

of Island             that has meat. Huh?
Favorite Foods:   Any kind of meat.

Distinct laugh is:  “Heeheehee~”

Bad habits:           very difficult for Luffy to pay attention to serious conversations

                          Hard time remembering people’s names

Strength:            Eat the food when taking nap

Bounty placed on Luffy: First bounty: 30,000,000 Belly,

                                       After defeating Crocodile: 100,000,000 Belly

                                      After Enies Lobby: 300,000,000 Belly

                                      Current bounty (after 2 years): 400,000,000 Belly

Attack: Gomu Gomu no Pisutoru, Gomu Gomu no JET Gatoringu, Tsuin JET Pisutoru, Gomu Gomu no Roketto, Gomu Gomu no Muchi, Gomu Gomu no Tsuchi, Gomu Gomu no Fuusen. Gomu Gomu no Kama, Gomu Gomu no Bazuuka, Gomu, Gomu no Gatoringu, Gomu Gomu no Yari, Gomu Gomu no Kane, Gear 2 & Gear 3, Gear 4

 

Gear 2

Gear 3

Gear 4

History of Monkey.D.Luffy

Luffy Born with the mysterious 'D' namesake, Luffy grew up with a insatiable desire to travel far and wide to the ends of the treacherous stretch of sea known as The Grand Line in order to obtain One Piece, the greatest treasure of Gold Roger, the only pirate known to have traveled to the ends of the earth and back, the man the world called, The Pirate King. Exactly what instilled such passion and determination in a child towards such a seemingly impossible dream is unclear but some might say that his desire to track down the One Piece and become the next Pirate King might just be destiny. Second only to this dream is Luffy’s goal to reunite with his childhood idol, Red-Haired Shanks. Shanks is a pirate of remarkable, but mysterious, status who was taking time off in East Blue at a small community called Fusha Village on Dawn Island. After Shanks had spent a year docked in town, at age 7 Luffy was determined to prove his worth as a pirate in order to join Shanks’ crew. Standing atop Shanks’ ship, Luffy drove a dagger into his left cheek to show his manliness. The wound would leave a scar he would carry for the rest of his life, but not in the creepy emo way, the Jaws kind of way. 

The same day he stabbed himself, Shanks’ men took Luffy drinking with them in a local bar. Just to have some fun they teased him and treated Luffy like the child he was which frustrated him to no end. 

Even when he said that one day his punch would be as strong as a shot fired from a pistol, the crew just laughed. In his anger, Luffy devoured a strange fruit lying in an open box on the bar counter top. Moments later a mountain bandit, Higuma, crashed Shanks’ party. He arrogantly promised, "...not to hurt anyone.", saying he just wanted to buy some wine. The barkeep Makino politely told him that there was no more since the pirates had just bought the last of it. Shanks happily offered his unopened bottle to Higuma, but the bandit broke the bottle with his fist while it was still grasped in Shanks’ hand. Shanks ignored the bandit’s grim boast of having killed 56 men and instead of fighting back, got on his knees and began cleaning the broken glass from the floor. Higuma swept the countertop clean, sending a barrage of bottles and glasses smashing to the floor on top of Shanks. With that, Higuma called the pirates, "A crew of cowards!", and left. Almost instantly after the thief and his thugs took their leave, the pirates burst into laughter. But Luffy wasn’t laughing, instead he began screaming at Shanks for not standing up for himself. The captain understood Luffy’s anger but told him not to worry so much about a little spilt beer and wine. Luffy refused to accept the words from his hero and stormed away in a fury. Shanks grabbed Luffy's arm, only to watch it stretch across the room as Luffy tramped through the bar. 

Fate played an important role that day for Luffy, as the fruit he had just eaten a few minutes ago was a Devil’s Fruit, a mysterious fruit of unknown origins that grants whoever consumes it unique powers. Luffy so happened to have devoured the Gomu Gomu Fruit turning him into a rubber human capable of stretching to great lengths. There is one catch though, whoever eats a Devil’s Fruit will be almost completey unable to move or use any of their special powers by their own will when completely submerged in any standing body of water no matter what its origin (sea, lake, pool etc.) and thereby drown. There are also other related weaknesses, but those are another story.

After reprimanding Luffy and explaining about his new handicap, Shanks and his men headed back out to sea. That didn’t really bother Luffy though, he was still angry with them for being cowards, plus he was having far too much fun with his new powers. In fact, except for his ability to stretch like a rubber band, life had pretty much returned to normal. One day Luffy was in Makino’s bar, discussing Shanks with her. He reiterated his disgust with Shanks for standing down to the mountain thief. Makino commented that she thought it was cooler if a guy could take insults like that and smile afterwards. In the middle of their conversation, an old 'friend' came barging through the door, Higuma. He was pleased to see that the bar was empty and demanded beer. Before Higuma's gang had even begun drinking, Makino witnessed Luffy get in a fight with Higuma after the killer continued to speak ill of Shanks. She bolted for help while the criminal and his goons kicked, beat and punched the boy, fascinated that they weren’t damaging him much because of his rubber body. The village chief ran to the scene of the violence and begged Higuma and his men to let Luffy go, all the while the little rubber boy was spouting off insults and obscenities demanding that Higuma apologize for his harsh words towards Shanks. Fed up with the boy’s insults, Higuma decided to kill the boy but a man approached from the back of the crowd of villagers, “Well no one greeted us at the dock so we figured something was up.” Shanks and his crew had returned.

Shanks ignored the bandit and chided Luffy, “Didn’t you say your punch was going to be as strong as a pistol?” Again Shanks’ calm demeanor infuriated the bandits and one gang member pulled a gun on Shanks. The red-haired captain warned him that since he was using a gun, he had officially, "...wagered his life." From out of nowhere, Shanks’ Officer Lucky Roo apathetically put a bullet through the bandit’s head while gnawing on a piece of meat. The bandits were taken back by the rash move but Shanks reminded them that they were, after all, pirates. Shanks told them that he could forgive anyone that makes light of him personally, but won’t forgive anyone unlucky enough to threaten his friends. The bandits called out a few nasty threats and then attacked. After extinguishing his cigarette on the head of the first bandit to reach him, Shanks’ Lieutenant Ben Beckman knocked out the entire gang with only the butt of his rifle.

Finding him alone, Higuma used a smoke bomb to escape with Luffy. Thinking that the pirates would instinctively search for him in the mountains, as he was a mountain bandit, Higuma felt safe escaping to sea in a small boat. After reaching a point far out on the coast of Fusha Village, Higuma kicked Luffy into the water and watched him begin to drown. But as Luffy struggled to stay above the water, a giant ominous shadow crept up behind the laughing bandit. Before he could even finish a sentence exclaiming his surprise, the sea serpent known as that region's 'Lord of the Coast' devoured Higuma and part of the boat in a single bite. Luffy screamed for help as the monster charged for him with its mouth agape bearing its sword-like teeth. As the monster closed his jaws, a figure grabbed Luffy and turned him away from the serpent. Shanks had appeared! Shanks stared at the serpent with eyes like a mad demon and told it to, "Get lost." The monster did not even seem to think twice as it sped away. Shanks congratulated Luffy for standing up for him in his place; he even said he owed him one. But Luffy couldn't stop crying. Despite his idol’s smile and kind words, Luffy was too shocked that the serpents bite meant for him had torn off Shanks’ left arm. A short time later, Shanks left the town for good. He decided not to take the young boy with him, but instead gave Luffy his straw hat and made a promise with him. He told Luffy to return the hat to him one day if he really wanted to be the Pirate King. Luffy tearfully bid Shanks farewell and began training to become stronger in order to fulfill his promise. 

10 Years Later

Luffy left his village with only a small boat, sparse supplies and a barrel. No crew, no pirate ship and no sense of direction, Luffy D. Monkey set out at the age of 17 to obtain a pirate ship, gather a crew of ten, find the One Piece and become the Pirate King!