User blog:Great Kapros/Great Kapros OC: Aard

General Information

 * Name: Aard (アード)
 * Epithet: Earth Ogre (土鬼 Doki)
 * Bounty: 181.000.000 Berries
 * Height: 1.75 meters (5,74 feet)
 * Age: 49
 * Birthday: October 30th
 * Country of Origin: North Blue, Ataria Kingdom
 * Likes: Ikebana, Smoking the pipe
 * Dislikes: Slavery
 * Favourite Food: Savoy Cabbage
 * Least Fav. Food: Crab
 * Animal: Wildebeest
 * Real World Country: Netherlands
 * Abilities: Basic Haki Proficiency,Macemanship, Medical Knowledge, Ox Ox Fruit model Wildebeest

Description
Aard is a short, average-looking man with broad shoulders, lanky limbs, a bowl haircut and bushy beard, both dark brown in color. He has a chiseled face with an enormous nose and tanned skin due to weather and sunlight. He usually wears a custom-made priestly garb adorned with a cross on the chest and devoid of sleeves, held by a belt at the midriff. He wears baggy light khaki pants beneath.

Personality
Aard is a kind and generous person, always ready to help others and not afraid to do the right thing, even if he has to butt heads with his captain over it. He won't stay put if innocents are at risk and, if provoked, will fight to protect them. However, he's stone-hearted towards slavers and deeply despises them. He has no trouble calling the Celestial Dragons "false gods".

History
Aard grew up in the North Blue, where he became a priest and later studied medicine in order to help others selflessly. He left for the Grand Line to become a missionary, but during one of his services he stumbled upon a slaving operation and, in an attempt to rescue the slaves, was captured and sold to the Celestial Dragons. He toiled under the yoke and was forcefed his Devil Fruit, so that they could literally make him work like a beast, carrying massive weights in wildebeest form. Eventually, during a trip down in the Grand Line, he was able to escape, intending to work even harder to help people. During this period he shipwrecked on an island where he met the young fishwoman Oora and rescued her from the pond she fell into. Together, they were rescued by the Fujiwara Pirates and joined the crew.

General Abilities
Aard is stronger than a normal person, but not to the point of performing superhuman feats of strength and agility. Thanks to the Zoan fruit he ate though, Aard can be surprisingly strong in combat. Due to his studies, Aard is an excellent medic and a good pharmacist. He also makes use of his medical knowledge in combat to strike his enemies in their weak spots.

Haki
Aard has a good understanding of Haki and has learnt the basics, being able to infuse his weapons and body for a stronger attack and better defense. His Observation Haki allows him to occasionally anticipate attacks.

Weapons
Aard carries around two melon hammers, featuring decorations right beneath the round metal head. He's proficient in using them both.

Devil Fruit
Aard became a Wildebeest Man with the powers of the Ox Ox Fruit model Wildebeest (ウシ ウシ の実モデル:ヌー Ushi Ushi no Mi model Gnu), which allows him to turn into a wildebeest or a human-wildebeest hybrid at while, while also granting him ulterior thoughness and strength. In this form he possess a powerful gore/headbutt attack due to his horns and has more agility due to his legs.

Trivia

 * Aard's name can mean "Nature" in Dutch.
 * Doki is, in some version of the Fujiwara Yonki poem, one of the Four Demons, a substitute for either Suiki or Ongyoki. As the name implies, he'd probably have the power to use landslides and tremors to hinder the imperial army.