Elaine Van Hunde

Introduction
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A pirate, marine, revolutionary, bounty hunter? Or just a bum?

Appearance
Elaine is a woman of around average height with pale tan skin, dark grey shoulder length hair, and bright blue eyes. She has a heart shaped face and big almond shaped eyes. Her hair is slightly wavy when wet, but is straighter when dry and she has a middle length bang that hangs down the center of her face. Her build is a bit below average, and she's not particularly muscular, but she's fit. She has distinctive scars on her neck and wrists from being shackled for so long, and a few on her back from whips. She's a bit skinny since she's accustomed to not eating much.

Elaine almost always wears long sleeved shirts or wears bandages to cover her scars. She often wears shorts or leggings, but when wearing shorts her shins are bandaged as well. She loves comfortable clothes, and when she's not on duty she's wearing over-sized sweaters and pajama pants. She owns several pairs of boots, but mostly uses her lightweight combat boots. She always wears her bandanna either as a headband, or as a neckerchief.

While cooking or doing chores, Elaine wears a light blue half apron.

Clothes, height, skinny or fat, carry weapons at all?

Personality
Before her amnesia, Elaine was solely focused on revenge and was constantly in a bad mood. She tended to be very snappy and rude to people who she was not familiar with. After gaining her devil fruit powers, and earning a bounty she became quite cocky and felt more driven to accomplish her goal of revenge. She guarded her allies with her life, and was kind to those she knew, although she was known to her crew as "The queen of tough love". Her crew regarded her as a strong captain, if not overly protective, but was also a trustworthy person to confide in.

After her amnesia, Elaine reverted to her personality as a young child. When she's comfortable, she can be very childish and bubbly, but she is easily scared by strangers. She is constantly trying to avoid being yelled at, which is often mistaken for her being overly polite to others. She's extremely loyal to the people she knows are trustworthy, but is afraid that they might leave her behind her. She seeks the approval of others, and is always there to back up a friend. She's protective of her friends and would take a bullet for the people she cares for. She tends to be a bit fiery when she's challenged, and she hates it when people insult the people she cares about. She likes to cause mischief once in a while, but its all in good fun.

She acts like a dog, loyal to their owners, yet wary of others.

Hand to Hand Combat
Martial Arts, Free style

Physical Strength
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Agility
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Endurance
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Weapons
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Devil Fruit
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Summary,

Type, Zoan

Usage The user gains canine features while in hybrid form while standing on two feet. In any of their transformed forms, they appear as a black dog with small horns on their head. The dog forms allow the user to move very quickly, and staring at it for too long into its eyes can cause confusion to the enemy. Depending on their proficiency, the user can disappear for short amounts of time and or reappear in a ghostly sort of way. Transformations depend on the user.

Please create a separate page for your devil fruit for detailed information on the usage, strengths, weaknesses, and attacks that the user have for this devil fruit if your character consumed a devil fruit.

Haki
Kenbunshoku Haki: Color of Observation

Elaine has not been formally taught how to use this haki, but after years of being forced to fight intruders, she's learned the basics of it.

Busōshoku Haki: Color of Armaments

She is more skilled in this type of haki, she has good control while she is using it to fight, and uses it as a source of protection from attacks that she cannot dodge.

History
Elaine was born and raised on the The Amber Isles, an island in the West Blue. The island was constantly a target for pirate raids due to its abundance gems and seastone mine. Living under the constant threat of pirates, the islanders did their best to fend off the attacks.

When Elaine was 13, a large group of pirates got onto a portion of the island, and took her parents captives and they threatened to keep them as slaves. In an act of desperation, Elaine gave the pirates all of her valuables and she offered her service to let her parents go. The pirates accepted and Elaine parted with her family, to work for the pirates. She was treated like an animal, chained up and forced to labor for hours on end.

They took her to an island later on and trained her to be a guard dog of sorts to an auction house. She was beaten until she was too afraid to leave. They made her do chores or guard the building. She learned how to fight from other slaves in order to protect herself. All the prisoners were forced to eat stale food, so many of the people she became friends with got sick or died from attempting to escape. After 2 years, her captors forced her to eat the her devil fruit and made her a permanent guard dog. Even with the power she had, Elaine was afraid that if she disobeyed them that they would harm her family.

She remained as their servant for two more years, honing her devil fruit powers as their guard, before overhearing a transmission that a section of The Amber Isles had been raided and burned to the ground. Elaine was outraged at the news, and captured one of the pirate leaders and forced them to take her back home.

By the time they had arrived at the island, her home had long since been destroyed. Elaine flew into an unquenchable rage at the sight of the half burned island and nearly mauled one of her hostages to death. She spent a year on the ruined island, holding her captors hostage as she buried the bodies of her family and neighbors. Overcome by grief, Elaine sought out revenge for the people who kept her as a slave  for 4 years. She sailed back to the auction house where she had resided for so long, only to find it empty.

She spent three years seeking out the people who betrayed her promise, and exacted bloody revenge on them. The Navy took immediate notice to the person who began attacking random people in random towns and deemed her a threat to society. The design on the back of her cape was mistaken for a jolly roger, and she was labeled by the marines as a pirate .She gathered the slaves that they kept and made them her crew, although she was annoyed by the fact that the Navy thought that she was a pirate. She never attempted to clash with other pirate crews, but she collected the bounties of slave traders and minor criminals.

Elaine protected her crew with her life, even though they insisted that they fight for themselves. One day when Elaine left her ship unattended, someone had attacked her crew to collect her bounty of 170,000,000 beri and slaughtered her them. Elaine was heartbroken, and barely had the will to fend off the bounty hunter. She suffered a big concussion, and was captured. The shock from losing her family once more along with her head injury caused her to suffer from amnesia, only able to recall being a slave girl and her childhood. Instead of turning her into the marines, the bounty hunters brought her to Shabondy to be auctioned off.

Character Design
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Major Battles
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Elaine vs Auctioneers (Won)

Elaine vs Alvida (Escaped)

Elaine vs Marine ship (Won)

Quotes
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"So help me god I will bite your damn hand off if I need to!" (to auctioneer)

Trivia

 * Elaine's birthday is on hug a hound day

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