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Smoker | One Piece | Canon Update (hopefully)
Among the marines he's famous for ignoring orders, despite being in an organization that almost wholly relies on obedience, and even some pirates have heard of this tendency as the loose hound of the marines. His official nickname, however, is the White Hunter, in part, a play on his Devil Fruit (which allows him to turn into smoke, all of his attack names likewise start with the English word "White", and his birthday is on the Japanese holiday White Day) but also because of his reputation of being able to hunt down pirates. He seems to live for hunting pirates, and even when he's doing something else, he stops to "clean out the trash" he meets along the way. He apparently even goes to pirate bars for the express purpose of finding more pirates to get rid of.
He's generally tense, irritable, and grumpy, and little things seem to easily set him off. From marines talking too loudly, to Tashigi forgetting to wear her glasses or trembling from weak legs, and especially to when he thinks people are trying to tell him what to do. Smoker loathes anyone giving him orders, even his own bosses, and this got him in trouble quite a number of times. However, Smoker has developed his own bad habits about how to relax over time and smokes two cigars at once (although this is certainly also because of the devil fruit), drinks alcohol even at lunch time, and makes himself at home in his office: sitting with his boots up on his desk and reading a newspaper, even when he has visitors or someone talking to him. He even goes to the extent of "borrowing" his friend's private ship without permission and making himself at home on board, his only means of apology being that he flipped a coin for her to call heads or tails and when she picked the wrong one, Smoker decided this meant the argument was over and she'd have to suck up and deal with him being the way he is.
However, for all of Smoker's outwardly rough, gruff, and stern behavior, he has a much sweeter side. He's kind to his second in command: Tashigi, and while he yells at her, it's more out of tough love, because he believes her to be capable of being stronger. He's very obsessed with always moving forward, always getting stronger, and so for someone he cares about like her, he won't let her or himself fall behind. He bought a little girl ice cream, and in the anime, he frequented a nearly empty bar on a regular basis to make sure it still had clientele since he'd arrested all the pirates it usually catered to. His moral convictions in true justice make up the majority of Smoker's character, and even though he hates all pirates, and seems incapable of forgiving them for it, he let the Straw-Hats escape him so that they could fight a bigger enemy (Crocodile) while he hunted down proof of misdeeds.
While Smoker is extremely ambitious, he wants to do everything on his own terms. This apparently got him into trouble frequently at the academy and his best friend Hina had to bail him out a lot. He's strong and capable of being one of the toughest marines, but his refusal to suck up or play political games held him back in his career for a very long time. Despite his obvious skill as a hunter and perhaps the best tracker within the marines, they assigned him to the weakest ocean in the world to his hometown Loguetown. And despite having grown up in Loguetown and even having seen Gol D. Roger's execution when he was twelve (which deeply affected him, more on that later), the citizens of the birthplace and execution of the pirate king feared Smoker and resented his strength. They called him a monster, which always upset Tashigi, due to his devil fruit and because he drove away any business they used to get from pirates headed to the Grand Line. However, Smoker didn't care what they thought of him, so despite his intimidating reputation and aura, he continued to follow true justice always.
While many marines encourage absolute unquestioning obedience from their own marines, Smoker instead preaches true justice, and that they should each follow and develop their own senses of true justice. He tells Tashigi to trust her own justice, but it's also his trust in her that allows him to leave his men in her care. He does seem to care about his men a good deal, telling them to stand down when Ace got in the way, knowing that they wouldn't be able to handle a Whitebeard division commander. Moreover, he appears to keep their safety in mind, even when fighting and while pride might lead him to want to fight all the pirates on his own, he worried about Tashigi's legs and treats her more like a friend and trusted advisor, even pouring her coffee on one occasion despite how normally it would be her job to fetch him coffee.
Smoker's sense of going his own way extends to his clothing uniform. He's one of the only known marine officers to wear a variation on the justice emblem jacket, and instead of wearing the standard suit underneath, Smoker goes otherwise topless and wear blue jeans. He also doesn't restrict Tashigi's uniform and lets her wear whatever she wants, though others in his marine corps division usually follow the uniform dress code. His clothes expressly fit suggested motorcycle clothes for safety, which is apt since Smoker has a 3-wheeled motorcycle he calls the "Billower Bike" (variation: Biroa Bike) that runs on his smoke devil fruit.
When Smoker canonically ate the Moku moku no mi (smoke devil fruit) is unclear. However, it does seem to affect Smoker a great deal. He smokes two cigars at a time, and is definitely addicted to them, since he stops to light up, even right after getting kicked through several walls. Before even bothering to figure out what was going on or where the pirates were. It's doubtful that Smoker himself suffers any negative effects from the smoke because of his devil fruit both letting him become smoke and control it surrounding him. But he does realize the smoke isn't good for his men in the high doses he enjoys (when first seen, Smoker's room is so thick with smoke you can barely see anything) so he opens a window to air it out and while walking in town, seems to keep the smoke away from his marines (though that could be due to his height, since he towers head and shoulders over most of his marines.)
When Smoker is first introduced in the series, he's busy stacking rounded rocks on top of each other on a table. It's not completely known why he was doing this, but it's widely believed to be an exercise in patience, balance and stability. It's also become a running gag in the One Piece fandom that Smoker always gets them knocked over (usually by Tashigi who is known to be very clutzy, or his other marines who tend to be excitable) and has never been able to reach a height of ten.
Smoker keeps up on current events in the world, knowing even the newer big name pirates, and reads the newspaper. He seems to have a good interest in the workings of countries and told Tashigi at one point to watch how the events in Alabasta turned out because things like this could make or break a country, but either way, it would change the shape of things and it was important to watch. He seems to understand the rippling effects Luffy has on the world and even though he knows how politics is, he refuses to take part in it himself, trying instead to just cut straight to the point and stick to his ideals.
Smoker has a tendency to think and listen rather than speak, except when he has something important to say or it's about justice. However, he'll still joke around with Tashigi and Hina, making a pun about cleaning up the act of some pirates dancing around and mouthing off, and telling Hina he likes always getting his own way (of course). He crosses his arms and puts fists on his hips and is a dead giveaway for body language. Even when he's bluffing, his face tends to be a little bit of a giveaway (although criminals don't seem to be able to tell.) When Smoker does talk, he tends to be snippy and interrogatory, asking questions even of his own men and often phrases things in rhetorical questions.
Aside from just keeping up on daily events, Smoker aggressively investigates things, as part of his job, but also as part of his tunnel vision. He seems to have a knack for predicting Straw Hat Luffy's destinations, though this is part from experience and skill, and sometimes because Luffy literally has told him where he intends to go. However, when the Straw Hat Crew began heading to Punk Hazard, Smoker was thrown for a loop, though rather than waste time figuring out the how and why, he just set sail in that direction.
Smoker has a bad habit of tapping quite a few phone conversations, and so nearly anytime the Straw Hat Crew use a den den mushi, Smoker has the line tapped, just waiting to hear word about them. Which is beyond obsessive. Given the right circumstances Smoker can be a wealth of information, as is shown when he gave the Straw-Hat crew information about seastone and Nico Robin. While he has tunnel vision for Luffy, he still arrests other pirates that come into his view, and as is the case with Ace in the Spicebean in Alabasta, he hates to let a single pirate go, even if he might be outmatched. Likewise, he keeps tabs on other enemies. He knew more about Daz Bones: aka Mr. 1, than even the Straw Hat crew, and he was investigating Baroque Works at the same time the Straw Hat crew ran into trouble with them.
Even though Smoker refused both the promotions for himself and Tashigi, he has the position forced onto him and foreshadows that for the both of them to make it in the New World they both need to get much higher ranks. This dream is realized when he took over G5 and after going after extremely tough pirates and proving himself in the two years following Marineford; achieved rank Vice Admiral. Despite having been warned about the difficulties with G5 -- that the men were unruly and the base itself was riddled with problems, and even had the worst reputation among the marine bases, that is the one Smoker requested. This is fitting with Smoker's ambition and thirst to prove himself, as well as his intense desire to always keep getting stronger and race ahead.
During Marineford, Smoker mentioned that there was something wrong with "justice" in the fight; because the marines had become bloodthirsty. Both the Whitebeard pirates and the marines, had lost sight of their original goals (to kill or rescue Ace and Whitebeard) and were just needlessly lashing out at each other, spiraling into pure chaos, as wars often do. While this could also hint at awakening haki, much like with Coby, it certainly shows that the actions by Akainu and other marines following Absolute Justice didn't sit well with Smoker.
Smoker is often disrespectful: towards the brass, his fellow marines, and even his close friends. He holds extremely high standards, of himself and others, and by the time he's shown in the New World, he's downright contemptuous of his men, who are pyromaniacs and torture pirates when they're not too busy leering at Tashigi. The most recent two years later arc also reinforces just how much Smoker knows about the world and stays very well-informed with news and what is going on politically or otherwise.
Smoker | One Piece | Canon Update (hopefully)
As a logia (elemental type) devil fruit user, Smoker is able to turn his entire body into smoke. He can spread out the smoke over large areas and yet still keep it firm enough to grab pirates and arrest them. Physical attacks have a small chance of hurting him, swords simply cutting through him, and punches going through him. He's very strong and can easily carrying several large pirates over his shoulder like it's nothing. Likewise, he's tall and over muscled in a way only an anime character could be. He is resistant to fire, going toe toe in a fiery explosion with the fire logia user, and he doesn't seem to be any weaker to rain or the cold, as he never wears a shirt and is always seen leaving his jacket unbuttoned or off altogether.
He is well-trained as a marine, and experienced in hand-to-hand combat -- he, in fact, prefers to use this before his devil fruit, both so as not to rely too heavily on his smoke, and also to challenge himself against weaker foes. He uses a seastone tipped jitte with great strength and proficiency, and has even developed techniques to carry it while turned into smoke -- even though because it's seastone he has to avoid touching the tip itself since it drains devil fruit users.
He has heavy endurance and was flung through several brick building's walls, only to get back up and dust himself off. Slightly mad, but in no way all that damaged. He has a short extra fight with Luffy in the anime, which leads his fighting style to look American in nature (fitting with his theme and how his attack names are all in English) and accidentally wound up kicking Luffy far further than he'd originally intended to. Most of Smoker's tags appear to grappling in nature and even though smoke would usually be used to choke and kill someone, Smoker appears to prefer to take in his pirates alive when he personally fights them; most likely due to his personal sense of honor and justice.
In One Piece, conviction is a major theme, a "strength" mentioned by Gol D. Roger (the pirate king), and later brought up again as why some pirates are so weak; because they had no conviction behind their actions. Indeed, it's believed the "War of the Best" was so dangerous because it was a war between superpowers with very strong faith in their convictions and belief. Smoker is extremely convicted of his beliefs in true justice, which gives him a strong determination in the battles he believes in -- namely capturing pirates and protecting civilians. While this makes him a terrifying foe; as Luffy quickly realized, it can also make him a pretty valuable ally -- if their goals match up.
Because of his strong faith in True Justice, Smoker has a tendency to inspire loyalty from his friends and men. Tashigi has defended him a number of times and gets outraged on his behalf when he's called a monster, even though he doesn't seem to care at all, Hina has bailed him out of trouble frequently, and Aokiji even agreed to do a favor for Smoker and deliver a message to Straw Hat Luffy (though he was unable to carry through on it.) Even though Smoker is a loner, without the help of his friends, he couldn't have even stayed in the marines as long as he has, much less reach the rank of Vice Admiral.
Vice admirals in One Piece must be familiar with haki which allows even non-devil fruit users to fight incorporeal logia users, defend, or in high levels completely knock foes unconscious. Up to now all the vice admirals have also been shown having familiarity with rokushiki, enough to modify their own attacks based on it, and in some cases, teach it to their men. Having now achieved the rank of vice admiral himself, Smoker at minimum must have a better knowledge of both, and some proficiency with haki, which would be very fitting considering his own ambition and constant drive to get stronger to fulfill his determination to capture Straw Hat Luffy in the New World.
He's also shown having successfully been assigned to the marine base G5, and even led the notoriously unruly men, clearly demonstrating his continue strength as a marine and his ability to clean up the bases he's assigned -- just as he did with Loguetown. He is also now far more experienced with the insanity that can be commonly found in the New World section of the Grand Line; and he successfully navigated his ship through lightning rain. He continues to demonstrate his knowledge about the world and its history, with regards to Punk Hazard and an incident that happened several years prior.
And he continues to be the Straw Hat crew's number one stalker, tapping their phone lines the minute they got a call, (really, what are even the odds) and when pirates who'd been set loose from Fishman Island by Luffy were telling Smoker who beat them up and where Luffy was, Smoker bluntly informed them, he already knew all this.
Despite being in extremely hazardous or stressful situations; like the New World and lightning rain, or in the middle of a war having someone who was supposed to be an ally "betray" and fight him instead: Smoker is able to handle these unpredictable turns of events quite well. In Crocodile's prison, despite being trapped in seastone with his enemy and surrounded by pirates, Smoker kept out a keen ear and told them which banadile ate their key, and also explained that Nico Robin was just dangerous as Crocodile -- if not more. He's able to bounce back quickly and handle the stress well.
He has a good understanding of the pirate mindset and has been shown bluffing them out of information they meant to hide. Though in Luffy's case, this has more to do with Luffy's inability to lie, but Smoker has used it when investigating other criminal organizations, such as shown with Mr. 11.
Smoker also has sensitive hearing, as shown both with his ability to differentiate bananadile growls and his complaining that his men are always too loud. Which comes in handy when constantly eavesdropping on pirates.
Despite being physically strong, and always focused (even obsessed) with getting stronger, Smoker is very smart too. His bookshelves in Loguetown are stacked with various books, often misaligned from use, he keeps up to date with events and he's shown on various occasions to have a keen analytical mind that sees to the heart of problems and where to strike first. Two years later in the New World have only heightened this skill, and without even skipping a beat, Smoker was able to transition from his first instinctual guesses about where Luffy would go and switch to where Straw Hat was actually headed instead. He displayed his knowledge both in some of the cover-ups about Vegapunk's accident on Punk Hazard (which he would have had more access to information about as a vice admiral) and the ensuing fight between Aokiji and Akainu -- though as both someone who knew Aokiji, and a logia himself, it would only make sense to keep up to date with it. Still, he knew much more than the rest of his crew (including Tashigi) and instantly understood what was even more out of place with the island -- showing that his detective instincts are still finely tuned, if occasionally overly suspicious.
Weaknesses:
As a devil fruit user, Smoker cannot swim. He is cursed to drown and be weak to the ocean. This weakness also carries over to seastone, which he himself carries despite being weak to it. Contact with seastone will drain a devil fruit user of strength and energy, mimicking the effects of the ocean itself, and is commonly used in marine handcuffs and prison bars. It's also the hardest substance known to man in One Piece; even tougher than diamonds.
Smoker heavily underestimates people, he initially dismissed Luffy as an idiot weakling and claimed that the headquarters was setting the bar too low for how they gave out bounties. And even later, despite knowing that Luffy has a tendency to be rescued by world class friends and family, he continued to be surprised by it -- though he did mention that he intended to get strong enough that even his crew wouldn't be able to protect Luffy.
Emotionally, Smoker, while not quite "stunted" is certainly hampered by his tendency towards distance and tough love. To put it bluntly, he's really tsundere. He doesn't expect people to like him, and doesn't care if they don't, but he's taken off guard and reacts extremely flustered when they do like him. He's fine at dealing with insults and handles those from his best friend Hina just fine, but compliments confuse him and he doesn't know how to handle it other than being tsundere. In the anime, Smoker has a tendency to get more flustered or frazzled, and it shows. He can stay restrained, but even though he tells his men not to yell because it "disrupts his flow" when he's flustered, he does a lot of yelling himself, at Boa, at Luffy, at Tashigi, and so on. He tries to act cool, and sometimes he can pull it off, such as with Dragon, but other times, his reactions are over the top and nearly explosive.
Smoker also doesn't let things go. Whether it's a perceived betrayal (such as from Boa Hancock), a pirate nearly out of his league, an unanswered curiosity (such as why would the most wanted man in the world help out a random pirate? This stuck with Smoker all the way from Loguetown to Marineford when he found out Dragon was Luffy's father, and indeed, he seemed to care more than Luffy does) or something more mundane that bugs him, he obsesses over it and in extreme cases he develops tunnel vision and completely shifts his priorities -- dangerously so, since he abandoned his post at Loguetown to chase after Straw-Hat and that could have had him court martialed so he'd lose his job. In point of fact, Smoker's motivation and primary reason for being so obsessed with Luffy is that both Luffy and Gol D. Roger smiled on the execution stands when they knew they were about to die -- a fact Smoker still observed 22 years later after having seen the Pirate King's execution when he was 12. However, it should be noted that it is that obsessive nature that lets him be the hyper-focused obsessed stalker that he is, so it's more of a double-edged sword in nature.
He's stubborn, and hates taking ANY orders (even imaginably ones that could be for his own good) or even advice from friends (such as when Hina told him not to talk back to brass and just accept that this was something he couldn't change.) He believes so strongly in going his own way that while he won't break laws he agrees with, even his own friends thought he might break hugely important laws out of a stubborn principle that he was "doing the right thing." (Hina thought Smoker might have used some of the boogie powder Smoker himself confiscated from Crocodile.)
It's not completely confirmed in canon whether or not Smoker is weak to winds being made of smoke, but it's widely believed that he is, as he was unable to fight against the winds that swept through Loguetown and help free Luffy with Dragon the Revolutionary, and he wore motorcycle goggles in Alabasta to avoid getting sand in his eyes, even though he didn't worry about the rain in Loguetown, implying that he has a harder time controlling the smoke in high winds (which really makes sense.)
Smoker's sense of justice entails protecting people more than punishing people the way Absolute Justice works so if someone were capable of killing his marines, he'd jump in their way to protect them (as he did against Ace) and he would probably do the same for civilians. He let pirates go so that they could go fight a greater enemy and he is capable of discerning who's a bigger problem. Thus if someone forced him into the position of letting a pirate go free or catching an innocent civilian, Smoker would almost certainly choose to rescue. Aside from it being used against him, this is out of favor with Absolute Justice as Akainu and his like follow which makes it harder for Smoker to stick to his principles in war, and even follow the new fleet admiral who believes in killing civilians and marines if it means getting rid of pirates.
For the most part, Smoker will sit and think through problems rationally and logically, which makes him a great detective; however, he has a sort of tunnel vision when it comes to chasing his prey. When Luffy is in the area, Smoker homes in on just Straw-Hat, and ignores the rest of the world to the point of near-obliviousness. This is how he chased them into a pit trap which led to a seastone prison instead of escaping in smoke form while he had the chance. Later on, it's alway what allows Boa Hancock to hit him so easily. Even with a Whitebeard pirate in the area, Smoker was so obsessed with getting to Luffy, he trampled Ace and later ignored him completely even though this turns out to be a mistake as Ace helps Luffy get away.
Matching his inability to let things go, Smoker also has an easily addicted personality. He smokes two cigars at a time, drinks on the job (rum, and beer on two separate occasions, both at lunch time and while he's working), drinks far more coffee than a normal person even of his size should be able to, and it's been hinted that he likely has other similar problems.
Smoker | One Piece | Canon Update (hopefully)
First Person: Q&A please!
Third Person: "Back here again," Smoker growled irritably. He'd just caught trail of Straw-Hat after two long years dealing with the pyromaniac psychos he was unfortunate enough to have to call his new "men" at G5. Two long years of waiting for Straw Hat Luffy to come out of hiding, waiting for them to finally make their way to the New World, a journey that had started years ago in the East Blue, and would end here at the tip of Smoker's jitte when he arrested them. Well, not here anymore. In Luceti, capturing the Straw Hat crew was as pointless as it had been in Crocodile's prison. It wasn't Luceti where Smoker wanted to capture them anyway, it was the New World, where stopping the man who would be the King of the Pirates would actually mean something.
"Tsk," Smoker adjusted his sunglasses and set out to once again find his damn jitte. If it took him several months again he was going to kill someone. Though not really. G5's merry band of miscreants and delinquents had hardly turned Smoker into one of them. Not that he'd ever been much better at obeying the brass than them, but at least he knew where to draw the line. Hina would have loathed these men. Especially since they would have ignored everything she said and instead spent all their time fawning over her -- not that her current men were that much better. Still, it'd been aggravating enough to repair his jitte after Boa Hancock broke it with her haki, and even more aggravating to try to find it the first time in Luceti, Smoker had no desire to repeat the experience.
Walking around the town of Luceti, with his boot heels crunching the last of the snow underneath, Smoker silently reflected that a lot had happened in the last two years in the New World. He'd ranked up to Vice Admiral, gotten new scars, gotten a lot stronger, captured more pirates than he could even remember, and all to catch Straw Hat. A lot had happened in his last two years of Luceti as well, come to think. And hadn't he been in Luceti about two years? It was confusing to think how the time practically overlapped itself. Would he be turning thirty-six on White Day, or thirty-eight? Or maybe he should split the difference and claim thirty-seven. He wasn't pleased to be back, not now, not when his end goal was so close at hand he could practically taste it. Already Smoker was beginning to miss his Billower Bike and Tashigi. Still, he was surprised by how familiar Luceti seemed. How long had he been gone from there from the perspective of its denizens? First things first, after he found his jitte, it'd be time to hunt down his roommate and everyone of importance. And then figure out exactly what the Straw-Hats were up to. It wasn't the same, and it didn't count, but no sense wasting it either.
Q&A
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2. What is the most difficult thing you've ever done? Dealing with the incompetent morons at G-5.
3. What's your opinion of the law? Does it make the lives of everyday people better or worse? Ideally, it's meant to help protect and better people's lives, but that doesn't mean it doesn't get corrupted in practice.
4. Do you consider yourself to be special in any way? Explain. I'm a logia user if that's what you mean. [He doesn't explain at all, just looks annoyed.]
5. Describe a weakness of yours and how you might overcome it. Haki and seastone. The only way to hit an incorporeal logia user is with haki and all devil fruit users are weak to seastone. To get stronger I use seastone myself and I've trained against haki and to develop my own skills with it.
Accepted
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