One Dream/Character Tropes

This is a subpage meant to categorize tropes used by the site, | TV Tropes, in order to better understand the fictional jigsaw puzzle pieces that help to create and develop the characters of One Dream as they are now. The idea for this page was inspired by a user known as LastationLover5000, who created a tropes subpage for the Dragon Ball fanon story, Dragon Ball Gyaku, on the Dragon Planet Wiki. Any and all credit for this page goes to that user.

The page is an open collaboration, meaning other Ship of Fools Wiki users are free to, and even encouraged to share in editing this page. This is to help its creator, Wyvern 0m3g4, keep the page up to date and accurate; as well as to allow other wiki users to join in on the fun. In the spirit of TV Tropes, casual descriptions and details for the listed tropes below are welcome. No need to be reserved and act professional here. However, blatant profanity and rudeness will not be tolerated, and will be removed by Wyvern 0m3g4 as he sees fit.

Jolly D. Chris
Jolly D. Chris, also known as "Stinky Chris" due to his infamous farting problem, is not only the captain of The Jolly Pirates, but is also their entertainer; making it his duty to not only lead his crew, but to keep them amused and in high spirits whenever possible. Having eaten the Clay Clay Fruit, Chris is now living clay, which allows him to do a multitude of different things; ranging from changing his appearance, to creating anything he can think up. He set out to sea after being inspired by his role model and sworn brother, Jakyou, in order to achieve his dream of entertaining the world. A goal which he has no clue as to how to complete. Along the way, he's also become driven to complete the dreams of his crewmates and beloved friends, and to one day meet up with Jakyou and his crew once more.

It's later shown that he's the little cousin of Blade D. Kris, a member of the prestigious and powerful Blade family, and that he's the son of Jolly D. Mona, a member within the Revolutionary Army. This, including his alliances and friendships with various big names in the criminal world has helped to sway the World Government into treating Chris as a serious threat. Chris currently holds a bounty of 150,000,000.

Tropes

 * Anti-Hero: While it may come as a shock to some fans, Chris isn't an all-encompassing, righteous hero. Of course, he IS still a hero, and does do heroic things throughout the story, but he's also just as easily prone to doing some nasty things when the mood strikes him. While early on, the only negative drawbacks to his character was his arrogance due to his Devil Fruit powers, and his willingness to fight dirty, he later showed just how far he'd go to accomplish his goals. The earliest example would probably be when he lead his crew in the complete destruction of an island in North Blue, where a Marine base was stationed, simply on the grounds that the Marines dared to try and imprison Spike (whom had previously left the crew at the time.) Chris didn't so much as flinch at the consideration he could have easily killed a large number of innocent people. All that mattered was getting revenge for an ex-friend.
 * Chris later justifies his questionable actions as him simply being a pirate. That, and because he has a similar attitude towards being a hero as Luffy does. That, while they both love and admire heroes, they just prefer not playing the heroic role. While Luffy's reasons are merely out of selfishness, Chris states his reasons are because being a hero is stupid and lame, and that he'd much rather just be himself, as opposed to trying to save the world whenever there's trouble, for example.
 * Asexuality: Again, following Luffy's example, Chris also seems to show absolutely no interest in women. Albeit Wyvern has admitted several times that he'd like to experiment with placing Chris in a romantic situation, he has decided to stick to his guns and keep Chris disinterested, to retain the original spirit of One Piece in his work. However, over on the wiki's sister site, Sea of Fools, Chris averts this trope completely. See Chaste Hero below.
 * Awesome, but Impractical: Chris' Art Style techniques are pretty costly, but damn if they're not cool!
 * To note, Art Style: Pop creates bubbles of any size, which also equal the tension strength of steel, simply by having Chris turn his body into an air pump. His strongest technique to date creates a massive, devastating explosion of air that can blow apart buildings. The catch? Chris easily becomes exhausted after overusing Art Style: Pop, due to the strain it puts on his lungs. He gets better at working around this weakness during the time skip though.
 * Also, after the time skip, he unveils his Art Style: Mainstream, which operates in a similar, yet different fashion to Luffy's Gear 2nd technique. In short, Chris moves really, really fast, which makes his attacks really, really strong. Unfortunately, this is a much more risky Art Style than Pop, due to the fact that Chris reroutes all the blood in his body to use it. Thus resulting in low blood pressure, and eventual heart failure, which could kill Chris. And while using this in combination with Pop would be undoubtedly badass, it'd be too great a strain on Chris' cardio-vascular system, leaving him weakened afterward and open to attack.
 * Author Avatar: Chris originally started off as one; being nothing more than a skin for Wyvern to wear while he would imagine himself adventuring around in the One Piece world. This was immediately halted when he began to do serious work on Chris, and decided to introduce him to Ship of Fools Wiki. Now Chris only represents bits and pieces of Wyvern's overall personality, while still being his own character. Elements of Wyvern still found in Chris usually include intense bouts of anger and other strong emotions, his man-child tendencies, Wyvern's stubbornness, Wyvern's passion for entertaining others (including Wyvern's own dream of entertaining the world,) and surprisingly enough, Wyvern's own farting habits, among other things.
 * Badass:
 * Badass Adorable: Not only does he pull off some amazing feats, but he occasionally gets complimented here and there for his childish behavior, which some find to be cute and endearing. Even Sakura can't help but find Chris to be adorable at times.
 * Badass Family: If being related to Kris, Hope and Mona weren't enough, Kris' adoption into the Blade family has given Chris an expanded, and VERY badass family. Also helps that he's the little brother of Jakyou, captain of the Xian Pirates and a former king of the floating island, Shinsei.
 * Balloon Belly: Happens in later arcs, whenever Chris has overeaten his fill of junk food and sweets.
 * Berserk Button: Let us count the ways...
 * NEVER threaten or damage his crew's jolly roger. Or anything that bears it for that matter, like the back of his shirts. Deface the symbol at your own risk.
 * NEVER call him out for farting, or even belching in public. For added measure, just don't bring up the alias the Marines gave him. Just don't.
 * NEVER, and I mean EVER threaten, harass, injure or upset his loved ones. That's just suicidal.
 * NEVER insult art or forms of entertainment around him. It's a surefire way to get kicked in the groin. Or worse...
 * NEVER belittle his dreams or the dreams of his friends and family. Nothing good can come from that.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: How could someone named Jolly D. Chris be scary? ...Oh, right. Maybe that razed island in North Blue should shed some light. And then there's his reaction after the events of the Jollys' Defeat Arc...
 * Big Damn Heroes: Chris pulls one off early on in One Dream, where he steps in for a defeated Marine Ensign, and then proceeds to wipe the floor with a crooked pirate captain.
 * Big Eater: Interestingly, Chris doesn't normally show this side of himself EXCEPT when he's hungry. Once he begins to chowing down on sweets, he becomes gluttonous. At any other time however, food is usually the last thing on his mind.
 * Blood Brothers: He makes a sworn oath with Jakyou, the captain of the Xian Pirates, former king of Shinsei, the co-hero of Aspara (alongside Chris,) and Chris' role model. While not related by blood, they make a promise to be brothers after Jakyou assists Chris in saving Aspara from its tyrant king.
 * Book Dumb: As Chris doesn't take much interest in academics or anything requiring logic and a high IQ, such as science, medicine, mathematics or the like, he usually tends to make some stupid decisions. In fact, he had no clue his clay body was weak to intense heat and flame until he noticed he couldn't use his Devil Fruit powers in the arid environment of Corral Island. Afterward, he became wiser and avoided anything that could dry him out.
 * Despite this though, Chris has proven he's quite intelligent at times, but simply prefers to not let his intelligence get in the way of a good time. Obviously, this means he's always underestimated, due to his silly antics and immature attitude. See Idiot Below below.
 * Born Lucky: A few characters who are familiar with those with the Will of D. tend to make note that because Chris is a D, that this makes him naturally lucky. Chris always dismisses this however, and believes he gets by through skill and effort alone. However, given the fact that many unbelievable things have happened to Chris, out of sheer coincidence alone, it could be argued that Chris is in fact very lucky indeed.
 * Break the Cutie: Happens after the G-6 Arc and during the Split-Up Arc, where Chris finally has a mental breakdown over the accumulated stress that's been building up inside of him for a while now. Said stress was over the fact that the tougher opponents he's been facing have made it harder for him to support and protect his crewmates by himself. Albeit, he did have an earlier traumatic experience as a kid back home, when his parents were taken away from him and believed to be dead. Didn't help any that it was because the king of his island was being selfish about art and entertainment.
 * Luckily though, Charlie, and later, Shanks, snap Chris out of it. By the time he returns from his training with Shanks, he's back to his old self, albeit more badass than before.
 * Butt Monkey: Ends up like this here and there, thanks to the fact he rarely asserts himself. This leads to his friends and even his own family comically abusing and taking advantage of him. And in typical shounen hero fashion, Chris will sometimes get wound up in a predicament that keeps him out of battle for a while.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: Chris harshly trained himself for ten years just to dethrone the abusive king of his home island. As a result, Chris can now beat up sea monsters, break apart stone, wood and steel with his bare hands, and even go toe to toe with other insanely powerful fighters. And that's without going into detail about his Devil Fruit or Haki.
 * Chaste Hero: He seems to have some slight understanding about love and sexual attraction, if one looks at his reactions towards Aphro and Drazil's flirting with women, Glory's crush on Spike, and Kris' habit of drawing suitors in a particular way. However, it appears he may just not care about any of that at all. See Asexuality above. Over on Sea of Fools Wiki however, he averts this completely; as seen by how he acts shy and nervous around women he fancies. He even eventually takes a liking to Yume, who is Drazil's little sister no less.
 * Combat Clairvoyance: Thanks to his training from Shanks, Chris reappeared after the time skip with the ability to skillfully use Kenbunshoku Haki. With it, he can easily dodge attacks in battle, and even sense the presence of those around him. Chris has stated that among his three types of Haki, this is the one he has the most control over.
 * Combat Pragmatist: As Chris is a dirty fighter, save for certain things, like ganging up on foes, he isn't afraid to bite his opponents or hit them where it hurts, like in the happy sack for example. So long as he doesn't cross certain lines that he himself defines, anything is fair game in a fight.
 * Compelling Voice: Essentially how his Haoshoku Haki appeared before the time skip, whenever Chris became riled up. After the time skip, Chris no longer needs to even speak to unleash his Haki.
 * Confusion Fu: Chris' preferred method of combat is a freestyle, brawler type of hand to hand combat, which makes amazing use of his clay body. As he can shape himself into anything, and create anything, Chris can essentially defeat his opponents simply by being unpredictable and creative. Add his Haki and Art Styles into the mix, and it makes things even harder for the enemy to predict Chris' next move; save for those who've become highly skilled in Kenbunshoku Haki. And even then, Chris seems to find a way to fight around that problem.
 * Crippling Overspecialization: As Chris has spent his life focusing on being skilled in fighting and making art, and as his only other skills include being loving, kind, dedicated and friendly, he has little else to fall back on. While he always knew he could rely on his crewmates to support him when it came to things like navigation and cooking, it wasn't until the Collosal Pirates Arc where Chris showed he finally understood the true significance of having a crew to back him up. And all it took was a Heroic BSOD, two challenges from Charlie, and training from Shanks to teach him that lesson.
 * Crossdressing Voices: Wyvern chose Junko Takeuchi to play Chris in Japanese, and Maile Flanagan to play him in English. Both women, and both known for playing as Naruto Uzumaki in the Naruto series.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The moron aspect is due to his playful, childish spirit. But the minute he gets serious about something, he acts much more mature than usual, and therefore, reveals his inner badass.
 * Cursed with Awesome: Because he ate a Devil Fruit, he now sinks like a stone whenever he falls into a large body of water. It's a sore subject for Chris, seeing as he claims he was a great swimmer before eating the Clay Clay Fruit, and even highly enjoyed playing in the water. He usually mopes and sulks whenever he's reminded that he can't swim. Furthermore, his powers make him a freak, as far as society is concerned. On the flip side though, he ate one of the powerful Logia class Devil Fruits, which allows him to become and control a force of nature, as well as regenerate from damage he's received.
 * Death Glare: Has a habit of doing these whenever he's truly pissed off. It's usually a good indicator that Chris has gone from the child end of the spectrum, and straight into man. And by man, that usually means badass.
 * Determinator: In typical shounen fare, as the hero of the story, Chris doesn't let anything slow him down, let alone get in the way of his goals. When Chris gets particularly serious about something, it becomes all but impossible to deter him. A good example of how unyielding he is can be seen in his backstory, where he spent ten whole years in trying to dethrone the tyrant king of Aspara by himself. To clarify, Chris was only eight years old when he began his ten year rebellion against Decaden, and was eighteen when he finally succeeded, thanks to the Xian Pirates. The only thing that managed to keep Chris at bay for so long? The entire military might of a single nation.
 * And that says nothing about how dedicated he can be later on in One Dream. Chris has taken multiple beatings, ranging from being shot, cut, stabbed, pummeled mercilessly, burnt, and electrocuted; as well as suffering from the debilitating side effects of his Art Style techniques. Yet, despite all that, he's managed to power through and even win his fights. Also says a lot when his Weaksauce Weakness to intense pain should normally hinder him, and still he goes on.
 * The Ditz: Shockingly, Chris subverts this classic shounen role, in that while his behavior can indeed be written off as stupid or foolish, he's actually quite intelligent. Although he only ever shows this side of himself when he feels like it, or absolutely needs to.
 * Dumbass Has a Point: As pointed out above, Chris has his moments, despite coming off as a complete dunce. When his inner intellectual is brought out, it often amazes those around him, whom have already dismissed Chris as a bumbling fool.
 * Expy: Tends to have shades of Monkey D. Luffy, from the One Piece canon. This is because Wyvern imbued Chris with traits he found desirable in shounen heroes, such as saying and doing stupid things, while still being kind and heroic, among other things. If any of the tropes listed here seem familiar to you, then chances are that you've been reminded of Luffy to some extent.
 * Fatal Flaw: Chris carries two of these before the time skip, and is mostly cured of them after the time skip. They are selflessness and self-reliance. Chris' selflessness comes in the form of his willingness to sacrifice anything and everything, including his own life, just to support those close to him. It's become such a problem before the time skip, that it's almost gotten him killed on a few occasions. Plus, when mixed with his self-reliance, as he believes he needs to look out for his crew and not the other way around, the stress that comes with trying to carry his crew throughout their adventures eventually becomes too much for him; causing him to snap under the weight of his burden once he realizes he can no longer protect his loved ones.
 * His self-reliance takes on the appearance of his arrogance, due to his powerful Logia abilities. Because he knows how powerful his Devil Fruit makes him, he genuinely believes he's undefeatable, leading to more mistakes and sloppy habits in battle. This too almost gets him killed, if not beaten, once he encounters opponents who can exploit his weaknesses, such as by using seastone or Busoshoku Haki. Once Chris discovers that his Clay Clay Fruit doesn't make him all powerful, he steadily begins making progress in being less reliant on it, and thus, becomes less arrogant over time. By the time he returns from his time skip training, Chris has shown he's become much less reliant on his Devil Fruit, and as a result, has become a more competent fighter.
 * Flash Step: He can apparently move at blinding speed now, thanks to Art Style: Mainstream.
 * Freak Out: Chris' reaction during the Split-Up Arc, when Charlie begins probing Chris' mind and ultimately gets Chris to reveal how troubled he's become over trying to protect his crew. Chris does this again when he witnesses Charlie's mental hallucinations, and sees his crewmates slaughtered mercilessly by his former enemies.
 * From Nobody to Nightmare: This is effectively Chris' growth as a criminal throughout the course of One Dream. He starts off as simply a disgruntled citizen who helps a pirate crew dethrone the king of his island, and then proceeds to be a troublesome kid out on adventures. By the time he destroys the Marine base in North Blue, the world is already changing their views of Chris. Then there was the Lucky 7 incident, and then G-6. By the time of the Skyline War, Chris has officially cemented himself as one of the numerous accounts of legendary rookies; being labeled as "volatile and unpredictable" by the Marines. Nowadays, it's considered rare, or even foolish to take The Jolly Pirates lightly.
 * Fun Personified: Just one half of Chris' overall personality. When acting childish and immature, Chris tends to do nothing but play around and make jokes. This is considered an important aspect of his personality, as it makes the obvious contrast with his serious side all the more apparent, and thus plays up his man-child personality even more.
 * Good Old Fisticuffs: While he's just as willing to use weapons made out of his own body or blast people with streams of clay, Chris isn't against simply pounding his enemies with a few well placed punches. He tends to reserve his Haoshoku Haki for special occasions.
 * Go Out with a Smile: As a D, this is to be expected.
 * Heavy Sleeper: Particularly when drunk. Doesn't help that he's an excessive lightweight too. However, he's never aware of it when it occurs, and only recalls falling asleep. It's the primary reason why he's against drinking alcohol.
 * The Hero: Or rather, one of four heroes. The other three being Ika, Veronica and his own cousin, Kris.
 * Heroic BSOD: After countless adventures and having successfully protected his crew through thick and thin, the events at G-6 proved to be too great for even Chris to handle, which finally caused him to snap under the stress. What really did it for him was the fact that he was left absolutely wrecked from his fight with Vice Admiral Grim, and, upon thinking he and his friends could all leave safely, his hopes get cruelly dashed by the appearance of Admiral Akainu. Seeing just how powerful Akainu was at the time, and knowing he couldn't fight in his condition, Chris felt truly useless and incapable of calling himself a captain. Cue his long held fear of having his loved ones die on him kicking in, and you have a recipe for mental trauma. Chris later spends the rest of the story before the time skip quietly sulking in despair; questioning his strength and confidence in himself. Something definitely unexpected from the same man who's been struggling with his overconfidence in earlier story arcs.
 * Heroic RROD: Chris' Art Styles put too much stress on his lungs and heart when overused, or simply used for too long. While Art Style: Pop simply exhausts Chris by overworking his lungs, Art Style: Mainstream can be much more lethal if used carelessly, due to causing cardiac arrest via low blood pressure. Luckily, Chris has managed to train himself over the time skip so that Pop is no longer a major concern. Mainstream on the other hand however, well, he's still working on that.
 * Hollywood Healing: Chris doesn't normally get lasting wounds or scars from his battles. The only exception appears to be the scars and stitches lining the entirety of both his arms, thanks to his intense training with Shanks over the time skip.
 * Hot-Blooded: Comes in both passionate and tranquil fury flavors, depending on the situation. Chris' hot-bloodedness is more apparent when he's angry about something; usually when fighting the Big Bad who's gotten his loved ones in harm's way somehow.
 * How Do I Shot Web?: Back when he was a kid, and having eaten the Clay Clay Fruit out of necessity rather than desire, Chris had no clue what his powers were, let alone how to use them. Even after learning what his specific powers were, the best he could ever do was transform parts of his body into wet clay and flail about wildly. It's implied he learned his earliest seen techniques during his ten year rebellion against Decaden.
 * Iconic Outfit: Thanks to his habit of wearing shirts and other tops that always adorn his crew's jolly roger on the back, he's become easily recognizable, so long as someone observes said jolly roger on said back. In fact, it was pretty jarring for some of his crewmates when they saw him without the jolly roger on his back, when he was still being controlled by The No Beard Pirates in the Jollys' Defeat Arc.
 * Idiot Hero: Interestingly, Chris only seems idiotic to those who know him, because he acts like a fully grown child most of the time. As a result, his playfulness and fun-loving behavior hide his not so obvious intelligence, making this a subverted trope. When he needs to, or even when he actually feels like it, Chris can show off his somewhat average intelligence, such as when he continued to act dumb to lower Pan's guard, allowing Chris to deliver some well placed sneak attacks on the centaur.
 * Apparently, Wyvern loves this trope to death, which makes it all the more odd that it isn't done straight. However, given Chris was based off of himself at first, and that he wanted try something different for Chris, and that Chris has a balance and moderation motif, it makes sense why he'd only be considered an idiot, and not a genuine ditz.
 * I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Like Luffy, Chris prefers to not think of himself as a hero.