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CHARACTER BIO
first impressions
VISUAL: Short-ish, wiry and always wearing an old straw hat. Luffy sticks to simple, casual clothes. He has big dark eyes and short, curly black hair, with one prominent scar under his left eye that has two obvious stitch marks through it.
AURAL: Luffy has a fairly noticeable Mexican accent, his voice is a touch raspy especially when he gets excited and he's always very loud even when he's trying to be quiet. Voice samples here.
OLFACTORY: Sea spray, cooked meats, faintly rubbery under that.
DEMEANOUR: Bouncy, always excited to be there (anywhere), totally unselfconscious. Luffy is very touchy-feely with everyone around him, often disregarding silly little things like personal space a scant few minutes into knowing someone. Always hungry and ready to complain about it.
AURAL: Luffy has a fairly noticeable Mexican accent, his voice is a touch raspy especially when he gets excited and he's always very loud even when he's trying to be quiet. Voice samples here.
OLFACTORY: Sea spray, cooked meats, faintly rubbery under that.
DEMEANOUR: Bouncy, always excited to be there (anywhere), totally unselfconscious. Luffy is very touchy-feely with everyone around him, often disregarding silly little things like personal space a scant few minutes into knowing someone. Always hungry and ready to complain about it.
personality
Luffy is a boisterous guy, he loves making friends and eating and having adventures, and he'll do literally anything as long as it sounds fun regardless of how dangerous it might be (honestly, the more dangerous it is the more fun it seems to him.) Though he comes off as extremely stupid at first blush (this... is not exactly an incorrect impression), he does have some level of emotional intelligence, and he can even be very perceptive as long as he likes someone enough to be concerned at all about their feelings and want them to be happy. It really doesn't take much to make him care, and once he's taken a liking to someone good luck shaking him back off: Luffy is extremely stubborn, especially about his friends.
Luffy is incredibly straightforward, and he almost always just says whatever's on his mind regardless of the social consequences. He lives his life completely unselfconsciously, and he is earnest to a fault: he cannot lie convincingly to save his life, and along the same vein he is also not great at being able to tell when people are lying to him. He is incredibly food-motivated—the fastest way to make him ride-or-die is to feed him even one (1) time—and he is ambitious but totally uninterested in having power over anybody, or even having riches beyond what he needs to eat whatever he wants whenever he wants. He likes a good fight and a good meal and a good story.
While Luffy has a deep-seated fear of loneliness and a borderline pathological need to surround himself with other people, he is also fiercely independent. He will chase after friendships well past the point of absurdity, but he won't change himself for other people even if that might help win someone over, he'll just rely on his ability to wear his targets down until they accept him as he is. This isn't a one-way street though, and he'll accept people as they are even if he probably really shouldn't, and he's perfectly fine weathering a borderline ludicrous level of hostility from the people he's decided are his friends (whether they've agreed to that or not.) He doesn't tend to hold grudges even against his enemies, and as soon as he stops them from doing whatever it is that made them enemies in the first place, he even treats them as he would anyone else.
That's not to say he likes everybody. Luffy doesn't like cruelty or people who curtail the freedoms of others, and he tends to make snap judgments about situations and people when he first sees them, and follow through on that gut instinct even without any evidence. This works out for him in canon because he's the main character, but will definitely bite him in the ass in a game setting.
Luffy is incredibly straightforward, and he almost always just says whatever's on his mind regardless of the social consequences. He lives his life completely unselfconsciously, and he is earnest to a fault: he cannot lie convincingly to save his life, and along the same vein he is also not great at being able to tell when people are lying to him. He is incredibly food-motivated—the fastest way to make him ride-or-die is to feed him even one (1) time—and he is ambitious but totally uninterested in having power over anybody, or even having riches beyond what he needs to eat whatever he wants whenever he wants. He likes a good fight and a good meal and a good story.
While Luffy has a deep-seated fear of loneliness and a borderline pathological need to surround himself with other people, he is also fiercely independent. He will chase after friendships well past the point of absurdity, but he won't change himself for other people even if that might help win someone over, he'll just rely on his ability to wear his targets down until they accept him as he is. This isn't a one-way street though, and he'll accept people as they are even if he probably really shouldn't, and he's perfectly fine weathering a borderline ludicrous level of hostility from the people he's decided are his friends (whether they've agreed to that or not.) He doesn't tend to hold grudges even against his enemies, and as soon as he stops them from doing whatever it is that made them enemies in the first place, he even treats them as he would anyone else.
That's not to say he likes everybody. Luffy doesn't like cruelty or people who curtail the freedoms of others, and he tends to make snap judgments about situations and people when he first sees them, and follow through on that gut instinct even without any evidence. This works out for him in canon because he's the main character, but will definitely bite him in the ass in a game setting.
powers
weaknesses
background
*Filling in gaps with manga canon because the Live Action hasn't gotten there yet!
Early Childhood
Luffy grew up in the East Blue, in a tiny rural village on Dawn Island just outside of the Goa Kingdom. Despite having a Marine Vice Admiral as a grandfather, Luffy was left on his own as young as 6 to be a street urchin, and lived underneath a pier nearby the village's bar. The barkeep (Makino) helped to keep him fed and clothed, but even at that age he was an impossible gremlin who could barely be corralled. When the infamous pirate Shanks picked Windmill Village to use as a home base, Luffy became hopelessly obsessed with everything Pirate. Every time Shanks left port, Luffy counted the days until he returned, and every time he was in town Luffy followed him around like a little duckling. During one of his last visits, Luffy ate the Devil Fruit that Shanks had captured off a Marine vessel without knowing what it was, gaining his rubber powers and losing his ability to be in contact with seawater without becoming insensate. That didn't stop him though, and even after Shanks departed from Dawn Island for good, Luffy's fixation on becoming a pirate remained.
Childhood
Unfortunately, that royally pissed off grandpa Vice Admiral Garp, who came by on one of his rare visits to the island to check on his grandson and found him trying to build his own pirate ship and swearing never to be a Marine. He determined Windmill Village to be too soft and a bad influence on his grandson, so he took Luffy from the only place he'd ever known and dragged him up into Dawn Island's mountain jungles to stay with the Bandit group that he'd already been blackmailing to take care of another grandson. Luffy immediately latched onto the other grandson, a boy named Ace, and took to following him through the jungles with a fervor previously only reserved for Shanks. Though Ace hated it at first, Luffy eventually wore him and his friend from the nearby Goa Kingdom down until all three were thick as thieves. They became sworn brothers over three cups of sake, and despite ostensibly being able to stay in the bandit compound, all three instead spent all their time running wild in the jungles, doing smash and grabs in Goa Kingdom, playing in the junkyards of Gray Terminal and hunting their own food. Despite the hardscrabble circumstances, Luffy had the time of his life in those years.
Oh No
But they didn't last. Sabo died while they were still children, killed while trying to leave the island by visiting nobles because his little ship was in their path. Ace and Luffy latched onto each other even harder in their grief, and spent the next several years surviving together and trying to live without regrets in Sabo's honor. Ace was older by several years so he set out to become a pirate first, and then Luffy was on his own until he was old enough strike out on his own as well.
Series Start
As soon as he was old enough, Luffy took off from Dawn Island in a little boat he cobbled together himself... though it didn't even last for a day before sinking, because actually Luffy is an idiot and he has no idea how to build a boat. Luckily for him, instead of drowning in the ocean he climbed into a barrel and was picked up by Alvida, one of East Blue's pirates, and the series begins.
Series
TBA