Here you go! I want to note that I'm doing something a bit odd and Private Messaging *more* information on this character directly to both SV and Raikiri in order to hopefully set up some things for this character if she's accepted. Thank you!
Name: Kara
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Epithet/Nickname: The Shotgun Chef
Appearance:
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Personality: Kara is overall a serious and mature woman rarely engaging in tomfoolery, maintaining a quiet manner and reserved nature. She enjoys peace, often staring out to the ocean for hours on end and finds unnecessary bravado or raucousness distasteful. That isn't to say she doesn't enjoy a good time, but only with people she considers true and trustworthy friends. When in the company of nakama she can sing and shout with the best, but looks down on those who party with strangers. Her view is that you should only reveal the joy in your heart to the people you decide are worthy of feeling joyful. She seems to find her first profession – cooking – distasteful and can only bring herself to do it when under the influence. If given no choice but to cook sober the results are usually bland at best, entirely edible and nutritious but holding all the flavor of watered down porridge. She is slow to accept people as friends, and slower still to accept them as nakama, but is equally slow to forgive. Once someone has earned the title of nakama Kara will defend them with her life, willing to sacrifice her own goals and dreams to further their own. She claims to never seek out trouble but is often at the centre of it, exasperated by the noise.
History: Not a great deal is known about The Shotgun Chef. It's rumored she ran a restaurant at one point, or that she
destroyed one, or that she was married to a monstrous pirate… no ones entirely sure of the truth about her early life. All that is known for certain is that she joined The Marines later in life than one normally does. Her career path within The Marines is as uncertain as her time before enlisting. She signed on as a chef but somehow transferred to an officers role, gaining the rank of Ensign. Her early time as a chef in The Marines is known to be a disaster – once threatening the head chef with a shotgun, but she was a competent and respected officer – however she ended up there. She was rumoured to be up for promotion but abruptly went AWOL and is currently wanted for desertion. Since leaving The Marines she has spent several years sailing apparently aimlessly, finding (or causing) trouble wherever she goes.
Devil Fruit/Equipment/Weapon: Without a Devil Fruit Power, superhuman abilities or skills Kara is forced to rely on more conventional methods for self defense. She always keeps a dagger tucked into each boot, because a lady never knows when she'll need to stab something. A standard and unremarkable flintlock pistol usually resides on each hip giving her an advantage over the average sword-wielding buccaneer. When she expects trouble is on its way a standard-issue Marine rifle is slung across her back and a sawn-off shotgun rests in a holster across the small of her back – giving her the moniker of Shotgun Chef. She has considerable skill with a sword, equal to most mid-level Pirates and Marines in East Blue but she never appears to carry one. She can hold her own in a brawl and is a far better fighter than the average citizen. Against any enemies of note however she will be woefully outmatched, relying on her ingenuity to keep her alive until a rescue can arrive.
Goal/Dream: Kara wants to cook with all the ingredients in the world, including things that many other chefs would never consider to be ingredients.
Other/Quirks: Kara is a terrible timekeeper outside of the kitchen. She can boil an egg perfectly without a timer and knows exactly when her soufflé needs to be taken out of the oven, but if you ask her to wait for five minutes before ringing a bell the bell will be rung either after twenty seconds or two hours. Watches
always break when she tries to use them.
Gets roaring drunk while she cooks – is reluctant to cook without alcohol. Results without alcohol are usually poor.
Often finds herself the source of conflicts she never intended and usually does very little to spark.
Current Bounty: 100,000 Beli/Beri – Desertion