Name: Shalua
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Species: Human (Wolf Zoan)
Genealogy: Too many siblings to count! (At least a dozen or more)
Birthplace: East Blue, Picono Island
Bounty: 0
Devil Fruit: Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Wolf
Skills & Abilities: From birth, Shalua's parents often told her that she was the “girl with no direction”, seeing as she never had many aspirations in life. Despite this, she has always had a good sense of navigational direction, being mysteriously attuned to True North. She is a capable hand-to-hand fighter, having a keen nose for trouble along with being very swift on her feet.
Devil Fruit Powers: Shalua has consumed the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Wolf (or Mutt Mutt Fruit for those who want a more English name) which has given her the ability to take on a wolven form. The fruit's major strength is that Shalua gains more physical strength in their hybrid and full wolf forms, equivalent to that of a real wolf and more. Any physical fighting style that the user has is generally made more lethal with the additional strength bestowed upon them. Notably, carnivorous Zoan-types are said to be especially vicious. The user is also granted with the additional weapons of claws and fangs, which can be used effectively in attacks, and can greatly increase the potency of their normal fighting style techniques.
The fruit so far does not seem to have any specific weaknesses outside the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.
Haki: None
Personality: Shalua has a very overbearing personality, tending to be gruff and unapproachable by those she is unfamiliar with. Those who manage to get close enough to her to be considered “friends” (or “pack mates” as she likes to call them) she becomes very protective of. Almost like a “big sister” of sorts, Shalua looks after those closest to her while keeping those she is not used to at a distance. She is a rough-and-tumble tomboy who is more of a “fight first, ask questions later” sort of person.
Ambitions: To find her direction.
Biography: Raised on the (made up) Picono Islands in the East Blue, Shalua was the fourth eldest child out of twelve. She, along with her siblings, often got into trouble and were frequently yelled at by the townsfolk through their younger years for various things such as: stealing food, pulling pranks on villagers, and sometimes causing quite the disturbance. Being the fourth eldest meant that she was in charge of looking after the younger siblings, as the three eldest were to set out in the world and make something of themselves. As her siblings went off in search of making their mark on the world, Shalua was left to care for her parents (who were still popping out kids like popcorn!).
Her parents feared that Shalua, whom had no aspirations whatsoever as she reached her early teenage years, was forever going to be the girl with “no direction”. This comment continued to bother her and she ran away from home for a few days, living off of whatever she could scrounge up. She encountered a food vendor in the marketplace, doing her best to remain unseen as she swiped a few pieces of fruit from his cart. She rushed off, having alerted the man on accident, eating the fruit without even looking at it first.
It wasn't long at all before she realized what had happened, her body shifting slightly as she turned into a wolf by the light of the full moon (though it was simply coincidence at the time). She was amazed at how keen her senses had become, and although her instincts told her just where True North lay, she managed to pick out the scent of her family and rushed home to be with them. With a more of a “conceal, don't feel” mentality, Shalua managed to hide her “curse” as it were and set out to find her true ambition in the world, hoping to keep her family safe from her strange new powers.