Kurozumi Tama

O-Tama is a girl from the region of Kuri in Wano Country. She is a kasa weaver and a retainer of the Kozuki Family.

Appearance
Being a girl, O-Tama is fairly short. She has dark colored hair arranged in a Shimada. She wears a kimono with many patch-works and dark sandals.

Personality
O-Tama speaks with an Edo dialect. She is quick to make friends, trusting and helping Luffy moments after he assured her he means her no harm. Being a kunoichi in training, she has a habit of starving herself as a mean of training her body, forcing it mentally to let go of her hunger. She is also very brave, as she stood up to the Beasts Pirates when they tried stealing her belongings and even attacked one of them after being freed from captivity. However, she can also make rash decisions, as shown when she ended up revealing her allegiance to the Kozuki Family to the Beasts Pirates and drank out of a contaminated river.

Kozuki Family
O-Tama has great faith in the Kozuki Family, as she used their name as a threat to those who upset her.

Master
O-Tama's master cares for her very much to the point that he attacked Luffy when he thought Luffy had stolen one of the only two rice meals she has every year.

Komachiyo
Komachiyo is very loyal to O-Tama, as he tried to fight the Beasts Pirates to protect her from them.

Hihimaru
While initially antagonistic, Hihimaru befriended O-Tama after she fed it some dango and joined her as the group headed toward O-Tama's home.

Monkey D. Luffy
Luffy inadvertently rescued O-Tama when her kidnappers attacked him. Because of this, she has immense gratitude and refers to Luffy with a "big brother" honorific. She even went as far as to give him the rice she was meant to have, even though it is the most she eats all year.

Portgas D. Ace
While their relationship is not yet known O-Tama has faith in him due to his promise he would return to visit her.

Beasts Pirates
As an ally of the Kozuki Family, O-Tama defies everything the Beasts Pirates stand for and was kidnapped as a result. While being tied up in a sack, the Beasts Pirates planned to either sell her in the Red Light District or turn her in until Luffy interfered.

Weapons
O-Tama was shown using a club against a member of the Beasts Pirates.

Devil Fruit
O-Tama has eaten an unnamed Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows her to manifest edible dango from her body, notably her cheeks, and this food seems to be able to pacify creatures and allow her to befriend them. However, she herself seems unable to eat the dango she makes, as she does not even try to eat it and instead tries to stave off her hunger by drinking water.

Other Abilities
O-Tama has some experience with cooking rice. She is also capable of weaving kasas from bamboo.

Past
At some point two to five years ago, she met Portgas D. Ace, whom she admired and had been waiting for him ever since he left.

On her eighth birthday, O-Tama went to the marketplace to buy some rice. However, she was confronted by some Beasts Pirates scouts and their baboon Hihimaru. Komachiyo came to protect her from Hihimaru, but the scouts took her belongings and she mentioned the Kozuki Family to threaten them, causing them to capture her.

Wano Country Arc
O-Tama was tied up in a sack and begging to be free. The scouts went to confront Monkey D. Luffy, who had arrived at the country illegally. However, Luffy easily overwhelmed them, allowing O-Tama to free herself out of the sack and knock out one of the scouts.

Afterward, O-Tama formally introduced herself to Luffy and tamed Hihimaru by giving it some Kibi dango. She offered to make food for Luffy out of gratitude and helped him put the Sunny in a safe alcove on the coast. They went to her house, where she made rice confections for him before going to drink from the river to quell her hunger. She came back to find her master angered at Luffy for eating the rice, but she told him what had happened. However, she then fell ill due to drinking the contaminated river water polluted by Kaido's factories.

Trivia

 * Her Devil Fruit power seems to be based on Momotarō of Japanese folklore, who also used kibi dango to recruit his three beastly retainers: a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant. So far, O-Tama is known to have befriended two of the same three types of animals that Momotarō has; only the pheasant is missing.
 * Her ability to produce food from her own body may also be based on the Shinto goddess Uke Mochi.

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