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AGE: 21
HEIGHT: 5'11"
GENDER: Male
SPECIES: Human
ACTIVE: psls/memes only
THREADHOPPING: ✔
FOURTHWALLING: ✔
ROMANCE: ✔
SEX: ✔
MINDREADING: ✔
INJURY: ✔
FIGHTING: ✔
KILLING: ✔ (ask first)
PSLS: Yes
AU TYPES: see extra section
CONTENT TYPE: see extra section
DO NOT WANT: see extra section
SHIPPING: m/m, f/m, m/nb
MAIN PAIRINGS: N/A
TAG STYLE: [ brackets ] and/or prose
TAG SPEED: once a day, mostly weekends
History
Personality
Sanji is the king of emotional whiplash, being one of the most gender-oriented individuals you could ever meet. Have the gods blessed you with a shapely figure, a sweet voice, and a pretty face? Then Sanji will abandon his pride and heart in a matter of seconds, complete with the promise of sweet nothings and the most delicious foods a girl could ever ask for. He will swoon, he will coo, he will roll over like a dog and let you wipe your dirty shoes on his face. Reveling in his servitude is a mark of pride, in fact, and he does not regret his actions if it means making a lady happy.
Thus for all of his perverted, raging hormones, Sanji is surprisingly sincere when he says loves and appreciates women. They deserve every ounce of respect and admiration -- and in turn, he fancies himself as their servant and knight who will heed their beck and call, fulfill their every whim if they ask it, and protect them as required.
He'd strike quite the princely figure if not for the fact that he tends to go... overboard. A lot. Taking his adoration so far that it circles back into objectification – or just really damn annoying. While he’s quick to call another man out on being anything less than respectful towards a woman, his own perverted voyeurism he considers free game, and the only Devil Fruit power he’s ever been interested in – the power to turn invisible – he partly wanted to use for nefarious reasons. Whether or not he’s aware of his hypocrisy is up for debate, but rest assured, he deserves a kick to the face.
With men, the portrayal he presents is jarringly different, to the point you’d swear it was a different man altogether. Suddenly Sanji is a crass, cussing, hot-headed, chain-smoking bastard who will not take smack for anything. Get in his way and he will kick you through a wall, literally. If he sees women as his rays of sunshine that warm the very center of his being, men are the dirt under his shoes he’s required to share space with. Strangely, this never really stops him from befriending men, but he’s perfectly willing to let his temper fly in their cases.
The difference in how he treats the two genders is due to his strict upbringing. Sanji wasn't just taught to never to hit a woman -- Zeff told him that if he wanted to be considered his son, under no circumstances would he ever lay a hand on them. Didn’t matter if the boy disagreed or thought it unfair, those were simply the rules. And a young Sanji, eager to please the one man who had been kind to him, took the words to heart. It is a creed that can’t be broken (and he has tried once, when others were depending on him). In most cases he takes great pride in his chivalrous tendencies, too. It bleeds into his self-constructed mold on what a gentleman should be, and many a times will show in battle.
But perhaps stronger than his affection for women is Sanji's love of cooking, and all things related to food. He’s a chef – and a fuckin good one at that. Even though he was born a prince, Sanji settled on a career that his blood relatives consider on par with servitude; and really, if they detest the idea of him cooking for others, that's just another reason to love his job. His respect and dedication to the art of cuisine runs deep, and his second creed in life is to never waste a scrap of food so long as it can be eaten. Being subjected to starvation at a young age cemented this eternal appreciation, especially out at sea where nature and fate can be cruel.
As such, he’s very sympathetic to anyone who has suffered the same hardship as him, and carries an unorthodox view on customers: if you’re hungry, he will feed you. Background, money, gender, friend or foe... they all fall to the wayside, irrelevant. His duty as a chef is to provide food to others, and even captain’s orders won't stop him. Sanji knows better than anyone what it feels like when your body starts eating itself out of desperation.
In fact, much as he'll deny it, Sanji's sympathies towards others run deceptively long and fast, and he is prone to a deep sense of loyalty toward those who have enriched his life. This is in part because of his unhappy childhood. Despite being born as a prince with every luxury provided, he was beaten by his three brothers and neglected by his father. His mother died young, and his sister, while demonstrating a certain amount of care for him, was too afraid of being bullied herself to stand up for him. He grew up without allies, and it isn't until he runs away and meets Zeff that he's allowed to embrace his kindhearted tendencies. For all his rough speech and denials to the contrary, it's never able to mask how much Sanji cares about everyone around him. His kindness is his greatest asset.
Though the ugly side of these tendencies is that Sanji prioritizes the emotional and physical wellbeing of others. It isn't that he sees no value in himself; Sanji actually has a very healthy self-esteem, despite the abuse he's lived through. However, his endgame always includes keeping everyone else alive, and if that means he can't be there with them, well... sucks to suck, but he's still getting what he wants.
It’s this mindset that landed him in an arranged marriage against his will. Sanji refused to gamble with the lives of Zeff and his crew, and so agreed to bow to the whims of his abusers. And once he's decided on a course of action, he's a mule about it. Almost no one can make him budge. It takes half his crew chasing after him, then weathering his rejection – then punching him in the face when he’s at his lowest moment – before he is able to admit what he truly wants.
All the details aside, Sanji (usually) comes across as a likable individual – blunt and practical when it's necessary, but coupled with boyish enthusiasm. He can be found holding an intelligent conversation with one of his female crew mates… or he might climb up on the table and start dancing with the younger members of his crew. It depends on his mood and what’s going on. When he’s not being stuck on gender, the man likes to take it easy, and really, just encompasses everything his is without any masks or pretenses. Sanji is Sanji, the guy who will playfully joke around one second, kick someone in the head for being and idiot the next, and then finish it all up by cooing at the ladies in his vicinity.
First Impressions
▶ VISUAL: Sanji is a blond-haired, blue-eyed gentleman that is fairly tall and seems all the taller given his long legs, sharp dress sense, and blunt attitude. He's very fond of a three piece suit, though uh. Don't let him fool you into thinking he always knows how to dress himself. Lord.
He'd look pretty normal except for the oddity that are his eyebrows. They both swirl at the tips, pointing in the same direction. However, as his hair is usually swept over one eye at all times, people tend not to realize this.
Sanji is also a heavy smoker. It's rare to catch him without a cigarette pressed between his lips or his fingers. The habit's just that hard to crack when you've been smoking since you were ten.
▶ DEMEANOR: It depends. If Sanji thinks someone is a woman, hearts will literally explode out of his eyes while he vies for their attention, pulling out any combination of delicious food, questionable poetry, and whatever stupid antics he think will impress them. Men, however, get a completely different side of him; Sanji is a lot more crass and blunt, often times to the point of rudeness. While he's generally cooperative to everyone, his temper is just that much more explosive when dealing with dudes.
▶ SOUND: I play Sanji with Hiroaki Hirata in mind; Sanji's voice is either low and smooth or hitting impressively high notes when he's cooing after a lady. Look at this nonsense, look at the range.
▶ SCENT: A lot of things. Cigarettes, the open sea, whatever food he's cooking, and apparently a lot of soap because he likes to wash regularly.
▶ MENTAL INFO: Sanji has two modes: horny or calculating. If your'e lucky, you'll catch the latter, but... yeah, you're probably gonna get horny.
Abilities
▶ Cooking: Sanji is a world-class chef who has spent the majority of his life honing his skills in the kitchen. He can create detailed cuisine in little time, always assumed to be ungodly delicious, and he’s one of the best chefs in the world.
▶ 99 recipes of Kamabakka Kingdom: recipes Sanji received as prizes for defeating the masters on Momoiro, which further improves his cooking techniques. While all 99 haven’t been fully established in canon (and likely never will be), their effects range from instantaneously eliminating fatigue to providing power boosts. It's basically magic cooking.
▶ Red Leg Style: a form of martial arts that focuses exclusively on the legs and feet to deliver devastating kicks, while the arms are supplemented for support/hand stands. There's a list of attack moves he's been shown to use in canon, but as a general rule, Sanji’s kicks can range from giving someone a knot on the head to breaking their bones. It depends on how angry he is.
▶ Diable Jambe: A sub-category to Sanji’s Red Leg style. Using friction, he heats up his leg until it glows red (yes, even his pants), adding a fire-based attribute to any attack. With this technique he’s been shown to sear grill burns on his opponent, and even set them on fire. Diable Jambe also results in an overall power and speed boost.
▶ Sky Blue/Blue Walk/Super Speed: Thanks to his tremendous leg strength, Sanji has gained the ability to essentially walk on air. With rapid kicking he propels himself higher, creating the illusion of flight. This same method can be employed underwater, though with a different purpose; by kicking off the water, he covers large distances with great speed. As he can reach high speeds underwater, the logical jump is that Sanji is extremely fast on land when he puts his mind to it.
▶ Fire: When Sanji gets angry, he spontaneously combusts into flames from his own rage. He even has an attack in where he becomes so enraged by certain memories that he kicks an opponent while on fire and burns them to a crisp. Currently, the manga and anime have both shown evidence that Sanji has some level of control. For instance, he's hurled fireballs from his feet, and has also produced it to purposefully burn a piece of paper 5 feet in front of him.
▶ Haki: In the world of One Piece, Haki can be equated to the force of one’s will converted into abilities. Kenbunshoku Haki grants the user a limited sixth sense and precognitive abilities – thus a fighter can predict the moves of an opponent a split second before they occur, and they can also sense the presence of others outside their range of vision, as well as a person’s emotional state and physical prowess. Busoshoku Haki creates something of an invisible armor around a fighter, protecting them from blows that would normally result in heavy damage. It can also be used to augment physical attacks.
Extra
▶ As One Piece is still ongoing, I currently play Sanji up to Cake Island.
▶ AU Preferences: arranged marriage, soulmates, historical, fairy tales/fae/magic, holy grail wars, honestly anything is free game bc I love AUs
▶ Content Preferences: detailed psls; slow-burn romances; crazy hijinks bc this is a One Piece character
▶ Do Not Want: crack threads
▶ Warnings: Due to Sanji's hyperfixation on gender, he can be exasperating for both players and characters to deal with. Anyone who is male presenting doesn't usually have to deal with this but female-presenting characters are gonna have to put up with his swooning, just fair warning. His childhood also has warnings for starvation, child abuse, and neglect.
▶ Given Sanji's Haki abilities, he's able to do the following to varying degrees of competency: sense the presence of others, even if they can't be physically seen; gauge the strength of a person's aura/soul (think power levels or HP); sense the emotions of a person; and predict an opponent's moves before they happen. I'm mentioning it here just in case anyone wants to specifically plot around these.
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