Naito "Silent Knight" Howaido

Name: Naito "Silent Knight" Howaido

Age: 24

Bounty: 25,000,000

Species: Human

Occupation: Inventor

Allegiance: N/A

Home City/Ocean: Naki City/West Blue

Appearance: Naito stands at six feet and two inches. He also has forest green eyes. He has several long scars across his chest and back as well as a few smaller ones on his arms and legs. The rest can be seen in the picture below.

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History: Naito's very first days in his life are unknown to him. He was born in Naki City, but was almost immediately left to his own devices. The reason for this was both of his parents were murdered when their home was being robbed and no other members of Naito's family could be located to come and collect him. Naki City was a rough place to live and it had no orphanage for him to go to. As such, it had become Naito's fate to be forgotten and die alone.

Fortunately for Naito, his weak, baby cries were heard by a passing pirate. The pirate came and took Naito with him onto his ship. The pirate's crewmates protested, but this particular pirate was close to his captain, so he was allowed to keep Naito with him. He named Naito, giving the child his own last name.

The pirate raised Naito, training him in the ways of how to fight. He also taught him how to read and write and how to count. Overtime the rest of the crew grew fond of Naito and they too began helping out with his education. Through all of this he became strong and devoted to his fellow crewmates.

When he turned ten, Naito began his official apprenticeship as a pirate. The captain's own son, who had been being raised in secret by his mother on an island, joined the crew to begin his own training. He and Naito were the same age and became fast friends. As more apprentice pirates joined the crew, the two of them became leaders of their own miniature crew within the main body of the group.

From the time he was born, Naito had been interested in making things and figuring out how things worked. It became his hobby and later his role on the ship. He built new weapons and items that would help out his crewmates as well as bulk up the ship.

At the age of fifteen Naito created his Chak-blades. They were a bit of a joke at first, but he found that he liked the feel of them and began to use them as his main weapons. It was also at this time that the captain's son began making plans for them to leave the crew and set out on their own with a large number of the other apprentice pirates coming along as their namaka. The captain's son said that he would be the new captain and that Naito would be his First Mate. Naito agreed, but didn't really believe his friend would ever actually attempt it.

Five years later, they did just as the son had said. They left the crew and made their own way into the world of pirating. Their new crew became known as the Final Note Pirates. (The name comes from the son's style of fighting which revolved around sound based attacks.) The crew's fame grew very slowly at first. Neither Naito nor the son wanted to attract too much attention until they had built up their forces.

Years passed. Their crew had grown in size to the point where they now sailed upon three separate vessels. The son's bounty had gone up to 60,000,000 while Naito's had reached 25,000,000. They were in the Grand Line and at the top of their game and thought that everything would be easy from that point on. They might have accomplished something had they not docked on an island that was going to be visited by a counsel of Vice Admirals. The Vice Admirals saw the pirate ships and attacked, destroying two of them right off. The son managed to get the third ship out to sea, but was gravely injured. A Vice Admiral managed to board their final ship and he rushed the son to finish him off. Naito blocked his path and fought him, but was quickly knocked back by a mighty blow that along almost killed him. The Vice Admiral was moving in to deal the final blow when the son jumped out and cut down the Vice Admiral. Then the son picked up Naito and carried him over to a lifeboat. Naito asked what his friend was doing as he was dumped into the lifeboat. His friend just smiled at him and told him to live before picking up the ship and hurling it out into the ocean. The impact with the water caused Naito to bounce and crack his head against the side of the boat, knocking him unconscious.

Though no one couldn't have predicted the results of his injuries, with his heavily damaged body, a lack of water over the next couple of days, his head colliding with the side of the ship, and the trauma of losing his best friend, Naito forgot everything of his past life. And so he drifts quietly across the ocean, completely unconscious as his boat is guided onwards by the waves.

Personality: Before the loss of his memories, Naito was a fairly happy, open, and friendly person. After losing them, he changed completely. He is now much more quiet and reserved. He doesn't spend a lot of time around other people and he can easily lose himself in his own thoughts. He is not an unkind person nowadays, he just prefers to be left alone unless the one bothering him has a good reason to do so. When he does speak he is very blunt and to the point, sometimes even if what he says is considered rude.

Ship: The Happy Dusky

Ship Flag: The flag is a normal jolly roger with one pad at top of each bone, ressembling the Devil Fruit ability of the captain of the Dusk Pirates.

Devil Fruit: N/A
Type: N/A
Effect: N/A

Special Abilities:

Strength: Naito is strong. Not Shichibukai strong, but he has a lot of power and would probably be closer to a generic Rear Admiral.

Speed: Naito is highly trained, speed-wise. He can move at soru level speeds without the need of some special technique.

Agility: Naito is a very agile person capable of flipping and rolling as easily as he can run.

Learned Techniques:

1. Getsuei Kiwa (Moon Edge): Naito slashes at his opponent with his chak-blades.

2. Seishuku Kage (Silent Shadow): Naito throws one of his chak-blades at his opponent. He is good enough with this technique to boomerang his weapon back to him, should it miss.

3. Gin Raikou (Silver Lightning): Naito dashes forward at full speed, stabbing at his opponent's chest with his chak-blades as he passes them.

4. Supekutoru Meimu (Spectral Illusion): Naito runs around his opponent in a circle so fast that he leaves afterimages of himself around his opponent. Each of these exist for only a second after they appear. Naito then attacks from a random direction.

Weapons/Items:

Chak-blades

Chain Knife Shoes

Goal: To regain his memories.

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