Sanji | One Piece | 1/who knows I wrote a thesis or something...dandywonderousApril 24 2011, 05:27:34 UTC
( fandom faculty/teacher application )
PLAYER INFORMATION PLAYER: Dandy Wonderous AGE: 19 CONTACT: AIM and e-mail: dandywonderous@hotmail.com PERSONAL LJ: dandywonderous CHARACTERS PLAYED None~
CHARACTER INFORMATION NAME: Sanji Prince CANON: One Piece CANON REFERENCE: One Piece on Wikipedia Sanji's page on the One Piece Wiki AGE: 19 (if you decide this is too young he can be aged up as much as 21 without leaving canon) GENDER Male
TENURE: First year SUBJECT/POSITION: Kitchen staff RESIDENCE: He lives in a houseboat called the Shimashima Shopping that's anchored at the dock, as okayed in the FAQ here. APPEARANCE: 5'9" (177 cm) tall, slender man with really long, hairy legs. Usually wears a suit and tie. He has blonde hair that always covers the left half of his face and a noticeably curly eyebrow. He can often be seen smoking a cigarette when off duty. PERSONALITY: Sanji’s personality when you talk to him depends largely on your gender.
Toward women, Sanji instantly turns into a mindless, lovesick puppy who blindly praises the (often confused and frightened) girl for her every action. He gives them special treatment, defends them gallantly from any harshness by other men, and regards them as some higher race he is barely worthy to consort with. He claims this is because he had a strict upbringing and is a gentleman, but really he is a huge pervert who goes so far as to peep into girls’ dressing rooms.
No matter what a woman has done, even if she goes so far as to try and kill him or a loved one, Sanji refuses to hit one. This does not, however, mean that he won’t dodge to save himself or someone else. Other times, he overrides his normal overzealous attitude if he is adamantly in disagreement with something one of them is saying. He will be very respectful about it, but he is willing to argue if he feels his must. This is only in serious situations, though; for everything else, he bends immediately to the whims of the fairer sex. This makes him easy to exploit.
Sanji’s interactions with men are exactly the opposite and, in many ways, far more complex. Zeff and the other cooks on the Baratie basically taught him that men do not act kindly toward one another, and thus Sanji is abrasive, rude, dismissive, and sometimes even threatening toward other men. In a best case scenario, he acts neutral, neither being particularly friendly nor rude. This is usually for men he doesn’t know.
When a man becomes Sanji’s friend, he continues to be mostly neutral, even pleasant, though he won’t hesitate to insult the other or argue with them if he feels like it. Depending on the age of the friend, Sanji will sometimes be willing to goof around with them or play silly games, usually with a few complaints and lots of insisting that he isn’t having fun. Secretly, he enjoys this sort of thing because it makes up for the childhood so quickly taken from him. He will even sometimes help a kid (of either gender) with cooking if they desire, though if someone wishes to become his fulltime apprentice, expect a very unconventional training and countless kicks to the rump. And no matter how much Sanji likes you, this won’t save you from his rants when you do something he thinks is stupid, or his yelling in general.
If a man becomes his enemy, God help them. There is certain to be no end of verbal abuse if Sanji even spots the offender, and if the enemy should speak to him, well… hopefully there will be someone in the area who can hold him back so he doesn’t commit murder.
Re: Sanji | One Piece | 2/? Personality contd.dandywonderousApril 24 2011, 05:29:24 UTC
Sometimes (but very rarely), Sanji comes to accept a person as something close to family, as he has Zeff and the other chefs. Women in this position get treated more or less the same, but they hold more priority over women he does not know, and will be treated with a little more respect in regards to their own abilities. Men in this position usually get treated harsher, but it is a strange, fond sort of harsh. This is because of the way Sanji was raised; taught that real men don’t show each other affection the way you show a woman affection, Sanji subconsciously associates constant fighting and insults as the male equivalent of brotherly or familial love. Of course, this is only in cases where he actually likes the person.
Outside of his interactions with other people, Sanji has some other interesting quirks to his personality.
Being a coworker to men three times his age and five times his size, Sanji was desperate to grow up, and fast. He started to do things he thought that only real men did, such as cussing and smoking (he started when he was ten and still does to this day), and these things are now hardwired into his system. He also worked his butt off to be respected as the sous chef of the Baratie, and now values hard work and perseverance. This shows in his amazing cooking and in the way he keeps his kitchen.
Because of his starvation experience when he was young, Sanji has a strong respect for food. He abhors the wasting of it; if you don’t eat it, it should be eaten by someone else or stored as leftovers for later. He also won’t stand for tampering with food in any way; nothing will earn a student a kick in the head faster than slipping things in the food as a prank. And finally, Sanji will never, ever, ever allow someone to starve. No matter what they’ve done, he will always feed someone who’s hungry. They could point a gun at his best friend and pull the trigger, and he would still feed them.
It doesn’t mean he won’t kill them himself after, though.
After learning what Zeff did for him, Sanji developed a sort of complex about people saving his life. If someone sacrifices any part of their person for his sake, Sanji will be wracked with guilt over it until he feels he has paid back his debt. In Zeff’s case, Sanji vowed to stay with the old man and help him achieve the dream Sanji felt he had taken from him. He felt so indebted that he stayed for ten years, despite Zeff’s repeated attempts to kick him out. He may have finally left Zeff, but he will still treat his debts in the same way; he won’t leave until they have been repaid. He also has a low sense of self worth in that he would rather someone help themselves before helping him, as he doesn’t see himself as important enough to save. If his friends are in danger, he will be the first to try a hero move or even a heroic sacrifice to save them, often recklessly, as he doesn’t care what happens to himself as long as they are saved.
That said, Sanji cares more for his hands than he does for his life. While he wouldn’t mind dying so much (depending on the reason), if he lost his hands he could no longer cook, and, in his mind, that would make him useless. He can’t stand feeling useless.
Sanji enjoys romantic things like fairy tales, and would love to be the hero one day and swoop in to save a princess. He also likes cool things like stories about secret agents and pirates. He doesn’t talk about these interests to people because he thinks they’re childish.
While he doesn’t seem it in the harsh ways he deals with men and the goofy way he deals with women, Sanji is actually very intelligent. Not necessarily book smart (he did not have a lot of formal schooling and knows only basic math and how to read and write both English and French fluently, and smatterings of Italian, Greek, and Spanish), but he picks up on things fast, is very witty, and generally knows a lot about how the world works. He sometimes muses with the idea of going to college one day and studying marine biology or something, but he knows that as a cook it wouldn’t be a very practical thing to do.
Sanji | One Piece | 3/? Personality end, computer and History startdandywonderousApril 24 2011, 05:31:34 UTC
Most importantly, Sanji is a dreamer. He has been since he was little and first heard the fish tales and legends of All Blue, and still is, even though he has told himself that, logically, of course these things don’t exist. It doesn’t stop him from dreaming that they do, though, and it doesn’t slow him down in his ambitions to be the world’s greatest chef.
COMPUTER APTITUDE: He is an epic fail with technology not related to cooking. Everything he touches breaks. His solution to problems involving computers is to mash every button and see what happens. He has at least figured out how to work his phone properly and can even pull off the occasional video post, but other than that he has no idea what he's doing with them. He's also one of the slowest texters ever.
AU HISTORY: Sanji was born France on March 2nd, 1991. What happened to his parents after that is unknown, but somehow, not long after, he showed up in the French foster care system. He grew up in an orphanage as a mostly normal if sometimes angry or mildly violent child. One day, as a punishment for hitting another boy, he was given duty working with the cook in the orphanage’s kitchen. Surprisingly, he actually enjoyed watching her cook, and soon he was allowed to help around the kitchen after school.
The cook, seeing that the boy had an obvious talent, made a deal with a man she knew who worked in the kitchen on a Mediterranean cruise ship, The Orbit. The ship took Sanji, then eight years old, on as an apprentice/dish washer, and he worked there for a year, learning more and more about cooking while also building a future career for himself.
During that time, Sanji had a rather blasé attitude toward food. He took it for granted, trusting that enough would always be there, and if they ran out, they could stop at port for more. Also during this time, he began learning English, and was mostly fluent by the end of his first year.
And, most importantly, he was told the legend of All Blue, a pocket of the Pacific Ocean where all the world’s seawater fish could be found in one bountiful place. A chef’s dream, to fish in these waters and make culinary masterpieces. The young cook declared that he would find it one day, but was ridiculed by the other chefs for having such a silly and childish dream.
One night just around dinnertime, a pirate ship, captained by the infamous Red Leg Zeff, attacked The Orbit, boarding the defenseless ship and demanding that the cruise goers hand over all their valuables. The passengers complied, scared witless.
Sanji was also frightened, and he got the impression that the pirates were going to kill them all. Declaring that he would not die here, he took up a kitchen knife and made a desperate attack on Captain Zeff, only to be dismissively kicked against the cabin wall. Despite being half-paralyzed from pain, Sanji continued fighting, biting Zeff in the leg and clinging to him. He mumbled around his mouthful that he refused to die until he had found All Blue, causing the pirate crew to laugh at him.
All of them but the captain.
Sanji was again kicked to the side, and this time he was so hurt he really couldn’t move. Zeff ordered that his crew gather up the rest of the valuables and move out, reprimanding them when they tried to steal some of the ships’ food. And just when things looked at their bleakest, they got worse: a giant storm blew in suddenly, whipping up the waves and violently rocking the waves.
Zeff ordered his crew back to their ship, which they quickly made to obey. The waves rose higher and higher, and one of them washed right over the side of the cruise ship. Everyone grabbed onto something and held it out, except for Sanji, who, unable to move, was swept into the sea.
And, to everyone’s astonishment, Captain Zeff, the pirate, dove in after him.
Sanji | One Piece | 4/? History contd.dandywonderousApril 24 2011, 05:33:13 UTC
When Sanji woke up some time later, he found himself still alive, laying on a rock out at sea. When he sat up and looked around, he discovered, to his horror, the pirate captain sitting next to him. Zeff explained that the rock was completely barren, and the high cliff sides made going down to fish impossible, if one wanted to climb back up again. Luckily, two bags of food had washed ashore: a small one, and a very large one. Zeff told the boy to stay on this side of the rock and watch for ships, ordering that he come to the other side of the rock (where he would sit and watch) only if he saw one, and immediately when he did. With that, he picked up the biggest bag of food, causing Sanji to protest. Zeff rebutted that he had a bigger stomach, and so of course he needed more food. He told Sanji that if he ate normally, the food in the small bag would last him a week, but since he was a chef, he should be able to ration it out for at least twenty days. He pointed out that there was a pool of rainwater that he could drink from so he wouldn’t become dehydrated. And then, he left the boy alone, disappearing over the rise in the middle of the rock.
Sanji, cursing the greedy old man, proceeded to lay out his meager rations. He was sure that a ship would come soon (The Orbit was a ship in a major fleet, so surely someone was sent looking for him), but just in case he portioned the food out for twenty days. He shouldn’t have to worry, though. A ship would come any day now, and he could get on. He wouldn’t tell that old fart about it, though; better to just let him whither and die on the other side.
Yep, a ship would come any day now.
Any day now.
Any day…
On day twenty five, Sanji sat on the edge of the rock, holding his last bit of moldy bread. He had already eaten his ration for the day, but maybe if he just had a bite or two more…
Just before he could take a bite, a seagull called from above, startling him, and he dropped the bread into the sea.
This would be the last food he would see for the next sixty days.
At that point, he was a skeleton more than a boy, barely clinging to life and delirious with hunger. Finally, unable to take it, he snapped, took up the cooking knife that had been in his little bag of food, and walked to the other side of the rock, ready to kill Zeff. What he would do after that, he wasn’t sure, but he would figure it out.
When he crested the little hill, he saw, to his surprise, that Zeff’s big bag was still full, untouched. Mouth watering, he ran toward the bag, stopping when Zeff, who heard him coming, demanded to know what he was doing. He answered that he needed food and Zeff, the greedy old fart, was keeping it all for himself, and Sanji would fight him for it if he had to. And with that, he sliced open the bag.
What spilled out was not food, but gold. Mountains of it. Greater riches than Sanji had ever thought he would see in his life.
All utterly useless.
Now shocked from his crazed state, Sanji turned back to the old pirate and demanded to know how he had survived so long with no food. When Zeff didn’t answer, Sanji ran to him, to look at the front Zeff had yet to turn to him.
Zeff had given Sanji all the food that had washed ashore, and had eaten his own leg to survive.
The boy didn’t understand it. Why would a pirate with nothing to gain from a kid like him sacrifice his all important leg and risk death to keep him alive? Zeff answered that he, too, had once dreamed of All Blue, and for some reason, this had led him to save Sanji. When Sanji pointed out that he had lost all chance of continuing as a pirate or his search for All Blue, Zeff answered that he wouldn’t want to go anyway without the crew he had lost to the storm, and explained that he had a new dream: to build a floating restaurant, which could travel the sea and keep anyone from starving there ever again. Sanji, overwhelmed with guilt, vowed to help him build that restaurant if they got off the island. And just as Zeff began to pass out from hunger, a ship appeared on the horizon.
Sanji | One Piece | 5/? History end, ALSO THIS IS A RESERVE /forgotdandywonderousApril 24 2011, 05:36:01 UTC
After both had recovered from their ordeal, Zeff used the bag of treasure to buy a large ship, dubbed The Baratie, and took Sanji up on his offer to help him. The boy became his apprentice, and what a difficult training it was. Zeff taught him not only how to cook (a rigorous process that involved hard shifts and sharp kicks if he did anything wrong) but also how to fight, using the Korean Red Leg style, a very tough and dangerous type of martial arts similar to kick-boxing, and so named because it made not only its enemies bleed, but also its users.
Sanji spent the next ten years of his life working for Zeff first as his apprentice and later as the sous chef of The Baratie. Because he was only a kid in a ship full of former pirates and criminals turned sea cooks, he began to do things that made him seem more grown up, such as cussing, flirting with girls, and smoking (he started when he was twelve). He grew up to be harsh with men, fighting with them and never getting along with the other cooks, and disgustingly mushy with women, showering them with praise and gifts. And he developed his respect of food to the point where he would neither deny it to anyone, nor waste it for any reason.
When he turned nineteen, it was becoming obviously apparent to Zeff that Sanji never intended to leave The Baratie. Zeff, however, wanted the boy to get out and start living his own life, knowing that he was desperate to be free from his vow. He and the other cooks staged an elaborate ploy to pretend that he wasn’t wanted anymore, insulting his cooking and basically telling him that he was fired. Sanji, furious, left the room, but then heard Zeff and the others talking about how they were only doing what was best for him. Sanji, realizing that Zeff was only giving him a chance for a life of his own, packed his things and prepared to leave the ship.
As he went to board his little houseboat, Shimashima Shopping, the other chefs lined up, glaring at him as he walked away. Two of the cooks, who he argued with the most, jumped out of the line to attack him, but were beaten down easily.
It was looking like Sanji’s farewell would be a simple one, with a simple “See ya later” tossed over his shoulder, but then, just as he started to step on the boat, Zeff called out to him.
“Take care of yourself.”
Suddenly overcome with emotion for the man that was basically his father, turned and fell to his knees, sobbing out a thank you to Zeff for everything he had ever done for him. The other chefs broke into tears too, proving they had cared about the boy in the end, and Zeff himself began crying, even as he berated them all for not having a quiet “man’s farewell.”
Sanji then set out, waving back at The Baratie until it was out of site. He traveled a little while until he heard of an opening on the kitchen staff at Reims Academy, and decided it was as good a place to start his new life as any other.
JUSTIFICATION: While Sanji hasn't had a lot of formal schooling, he knows enough to read and write properly and do all the basic math he would ever need to, and he's read a lot of history. As his career is to be a chef and he has basically spent his entire life in intensive culinary school and was already the sous chef of a very successful restaurant, going back to school as a student would just be pointless and silly. He is looking to get a job, not learn about European politics or something.
Sanji | One Piece | 6/? Samples~dandywonderousApril 24 2011, 05:37:13 UTC
SAMPLES INTRANET/1ST PERSON SAMPLE
[The video post that is coming on the network now is a little… interesting. Or, rather, not interesting at all, in that it’s just a black screen, accompanied by some muffled and static-distorted cursing. It takes several minutes for whoever is operating the webcam to figure out how to get the video on, and when he finally does, it is revealed to be one very angry blond chef, who is no doubt only more enraged by the technical differences that are clearly the fault of his computer and not his own incompetency with said machine.]
[Sanji huffs at the camera for another ten seconds before launching into a tirade.]
All right. I know some of you think it’s totally okay to sneak snacks out of the fridges in the cafeteria. Well, it’s NOT, daaaa-darn it. We have snack machines for a reason! Use those, don’t take the food we cook with for yourself. I take inventory every day, so don’t think I won’t notice it missing. [Death glare.]
AND. Which every one of you little sh-little brats has egged my boat, I will find you, and we’ll have a short… chat.
[A pause, and then he suddenly does a one-eighty from mad to pleasant.] I also baked up a lot of strawberry tarts if any of you lovely ladies want one~! Stop by the kitchen anytime, okay? [Dazzling grin!]
[And then the camera clicks off.]
LOG/3RD PERSON SAMPLE
Sanji wasn’t sure what he would have done if there hadn’t been a smoking lounge on campus, but it probably wouldn’t have been pretty.
Dealing with kids who liked to sneak snacks and be picky about their food and, worst of all, have food fights was a lot harder than he had thought it would be, and it was starting to wear on his nerves. He hadn’t thought it possible, but his temper was actually shorter than it had been before coming to the school. He didn’t know how many times his hand had twitched toward his cigarettes, and he’d actually had to put them away so he wouldn’t be tempted to commit one of the cardinal sins for a smoker chef: getting ash in the food.
Now he was spread out in one of the chairs in the faculty smoking lounge, long legs in easy position to trip some hapless passerby, head leaned back to stare at the ceiling while he took lazy drags and blew out variously sized smoke rings.
So much better.
Maybe if he could just finish this cigarette without incident, he could get through the dinner rush without killing one of the little shits.
Revision RequestreimsadminApril 25 2011, 22:22:31 UTC
After reading over and discussing your application, we would like a few revisions. They are as follows:
-The AU History has that the character survived for 60 days without food. The human body cannot survive more than two weeks without some form of food. We would like you to revise this part of the history to explain how he managed beyond two weeks without food in order to stay alive. For example, did he catch fish, small wildlife, eat native plants, etc.
Please have your revisions submitted within one week from this notice. Should you have any questions or need clarification, please contact us.
Re: Revision RequestdandywonderousApril 25 2011, 23:56:00 UTC
QUESTION! In canon this IS how long he survives with no food (with no explanation given); would it be okay if I just shortened the length of time to two weeks?
Re: Revision RequestdandywonderousApril 26 2011, 00:00:29 UTC
To clarify, saying he found something to eat would defeat a lot of the impact of his starvation experience and would change a lot of the things in his personality it instilled, such as his respect for food and his hatred of wasting it, so simply saying he found something to eat wouldn't work. As long as he almost dies from starvation, though, it's okay.
As much as we all love One Piece, it's a lovably ridiculous canon. Let's just reduce to the time to two weeks so he can go through his near starvation experience and still live. We're even willing to let you push that two weeks by a few days.
Yeah, haha, I just wasn't even thinking about it when I wrote it. Totally my bad for forgetting that Sanji is a freak of nature (like most One Piece characters). Can I just say it was 16 days-ish?
This would be the last food he would see for the next sixteen days.
That pretty much fixes it, I think? The first 25 days are fine because he had food.
PLAYER INFORMATION
PLAYER: Dandy Wonderous
AGE: 19
CONTACT: AIM and e-mail: dandywonderous@hotmail.com
PERSONAL LJ: dandywonderous
CHARACTERS PLAYED None~
CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Sanji Prince
CANON: One Piece
CANON REFERENCE: One Piece on Wikipedia
Sanji's page on the One Piece Wiki
AGE: 19 (if you decide this is too young he can be aged up as much as 21 without leaving canon)
GENDER Male
TENURE: First year
SUBJECT/POSITION: Kitchen staff
RESIDENCE: He lives in a houseboat called the Shimashima Shopping that's anchored at the dock, as okayed in the FAQ here.
APPEARANCE: 5'9" (177 cm) tall, slender man with really long, hairy legs. Usually wears a suit and tie. He has blonde hair that always covers the left half of his face and a noticeably curly eyebrow. He can often be seen smoking a cigarette when off duty.
PERSONALITY: Sanji’s personality when you talk to him depends largely on your gender.
Toward women, Sanji instantly turns into a mindless, lovesick puppy who blindly praises the (often confused and frightened) girl for her every action. He gives them special treatment, defends them gallantly from any harshness by other men, and regards them as some higher race he is barely worthy to consort with. He claims this is because he had a strict upbringing and is a gentleman, but really he is a huge pervert who goes so far as to peep into girls’ dressing rooms.
No matter what a woman has done, even if she goes so far as to try and kill him or a loved one, Sanji refuses to hit one. This does not, however, mean that he won’t dodge to save himself or someone else. Other times, he overrides his normal overzealous attitude if he is adamantly in disagreement with something one of them is saying. He will be very respectful about it, but he is willing to argue if he feels his must. This is only in serious situations, though; for everything else, he bends immediately to the whims of the fairer sex. This makes him easy to exploit.
Sanji’s interactions with men are exactly the opposite and, in many ways, far more complex. Zeff and the other cooks on the Baratie basically taught him that men do not act kindly toward one another, and thus Sanji is abrasive, rude, dismissive, and sometimes even threatening toward other men. In a best case scenario, he acts neutral, neither being particularly friendly nor rude. This is usually for men he doesn’t know.
When a man becomes Sanji’s friend, he continues to be mostly neutral, even pleasant, though he won’t hesitate to insult the other or argue with them if he feels like it. Depending on the age of the friend, Sanji will sometimes be willing to goof around with them or play silly games, usually with a few complaints and lots of insisting that he isn’t having fun. Secretly, he enjoys this sort of thing because it makes up for the childhood so quickly taken from him. He will even sometimes help a kid (of either gender) with cooking if they desire, though if someone wishes to become his fulltime apprentice, expect a very unconventional training and countless kicks to the rump. And no matter how much Sanji likes you, this won’t save you from his rants when you do something he thinks is stupid, or his yelling in general.
If a man becomes his enemy, God help them. There is certain to be no end of verbal abuse if Sanji even spots the offender, and if the enemy should speak to him, well… hopefully there will be someone in the area who can hold him back so he doesn’t commit murder.
Reply
Outside of his interactions with other people, Sanji has some other interesting quirks to his personality.
Being a coworker to men three times his age and five times his size, Sanji was desperate to grow up, and fast. He started to do things he thought that only real men did, such as cussing and smoking (he started when he was ten and still does to this day), and these things are now hardwired into his system. He also worked his butt off to be respected as the sous chef of the Baratie, and now values hard work and perseverance. This shows in his amazing cooking and in the way he keeps his kitchen.
Because of his starvation experience when he was young, Sanji has a strong respect for food. He abhors the wasting of it; if you don’t eat it, it should be eaten by someone else or stored as leftovers for later. He also won’t stand for tampering with food in any way; nothing will earn a student a kick in the head faster than slipping things in the food as a prank. And finally, Sanji will never, ever, ever allow someone to starve. No matter what they’ve done, he will always feed someone who’s hungry. They could point a gun at his best friend and pull the trigger, and he would still feed them.
It doesn’t mean he won’t kill them himself after, though.
After learning what Zeff did for him, Sanji developed a sort of complex about people saving his life. If someone sacrifices any part of their person for his sake, Sanji will be wracked with guilt over it until he feels he has paid back his debt. In Zeff’s case, Sanji vowed to stay with the old man and help him achieve the dream Sanji felt he had taken from him. He felt so indebted that he stayed for ten years, despite Zeff’s repeated attempts to kick him out. He may have finally left Zeff, but he will still treat his debts in the same way; he won’t leave until they have been repaid. He also has a low sense of self worth in that he would rather someone help themselves before helping him, as he doesn’t see himself as important enough to save. If his friends are in danger, he will be the first to try a hero move or even a heroic sacrifice to save them, often recklessly, as he doesn’t care what happens to himself as long as they are saved.
That said, Sanji cares more for his hands than he does for his life. While he wouldn’t mind dying so much (depending on the reason), if he lost his hands he could no longer cook, and, in his mind, that would make him useless. He can’t stand feeling useless.
Sanji enjoys romantic things like fairy tales, and would love to be the hero one day and swoop in to save a princess. He also likes cool things like stories about secret agents and pirates. He doesn’t talk about these interests to people because he thinks they’re childish.
While he doesn’t seem it in the harsh ways he deals with men and the goofy way he deals with women, Sanji is actually very intelligent. Not necessarily book smart (he did not have a lot of formal schooling and knows only basic math and how to read and write both English and French fluently, and smatterings of Italian, Greek, and Spanish), but he picks up on things fast, is very witty, and generally knows a lot about how the world works. He sometimes muses with the idea of going to college one day and studying marine biology or something, but he knows that as a cook it wouldn’t be a very practical thing to do.
Reply
COMPUTER APTITUDE: He is an epic fail with technology not related to cooking. Everything he touches breaks. His solution to problems involving computers is to mash every button and see what happens. He has at least figured out how to work his phone properly and can even pull off the occasional video post, but other than that he has no idea what he's doing with them. He's also one of the slowest texters ever.
AU HISTORY: Sanji was born France on March 2nd, 1991. What happened to his parents after that is unknown, but somehow, not long after, he showed up in the French foster care system. He grew up in an orphanage as a mostly normal if sometimes angry or mildly violent child. One day, as a punishment for hitting another boy, he was given duty working with the cook in the orphanage’s kitchen. Surprisingly, he actually enjoyed watching her cook, and soon he was allowed to help around the kitchen after school.
The cook, seeing that the boy had an obvious talent, made a deal with a man she knew who worked in the kitchen on a Mediterranean cruise ship, The Orbit. The ship took Sanji, then eight years old, on as an apprentice/dish washer, and he worked there for a year, learning more and more about cooking while also building a future career for himself.
During that time, Sanji had a rather blasé attitude toward food. He took it for granted, trusting that enough would always be there, and if they ran out, they could stop at port for more. Also during this time, he began learning English, and was mostly fluent by the end of his first year.
And, most importantly, he was told the legend of All Blue, a pocket of the Pacific Ocean where all the world’s seawater fish could be found in one bountiful place. A chef’s dream, to fish in these waters and make culinary masterpieces. The young cook declared that he would find it one day, but was ridiculed by the other chefs for having such a silly and childish dream.
One night just around dinnertime, a pirate ship, captained by the infamous Red Leg Zeff, attacked The Orbit, boarding the defenseless ship and demanding that the cruise goers hand over all their valuables. The passengers complied, scared witless.
Sanji was also frightened, and he got the impression that the pirates were going to kill them all. Declaring that he would not die here, he took up a kitchen knife and made a desperate attack on Captain Zeff, only to be dismissively kicked against the cabin wall. Despite being half-paralyzed from pain, Sanji continued fighting, biting Zeff in the leg and clinging to him. He mumbled around his mouthful that he refused to die until he had found All Blue, causing the pirate crew to laugh at him.
All of them but the captain.
Sanji was again kicked to the side, and this time he was so hurt he really couldn’t move. Zeff ordered that his crew gather up the rest of the valuables and move out, reprimanding them when they tried to steal some of the ships’ food. And just when things looked at their bleakest, they got worse: a giant storm blew in suddenly, whipping up the waves and violently rocking the waves.
Zeff ordered his crew back to their ship, which they quickly made to obey. The waves rose higher and higher, and one of them washed right over the side of the cruise ship. Everyone grabbed onto something and held it out, except for Sanji, who, unable to move, was swept into the sea.
And, to everyone’s astonishment, Captain Zeff, the pirate, dove in after him.
Reply
Sanji, cursing the greedy old man, proceeded to lay out his meager rations. He was sure that a ship would come soon (The Orbit was a ship in a major fleet, so surely someone was sent looking for him), but just in case he portioned the food out for twenty days. He shouldn’t have to worry, though. A ship would come any day now, and he could get on. He wouldn’t tell that old fart about it, though; better to just let him whither and die on the other side.
Yep, a ship would come any day now.
Any day now.
Any day…
On day twenty five, Sanji sat on the edge of the rock, holding his last bit of moldy bread. He had already eaten his ration for the day, but maybe if he just had a bite or two more…
Just before he could take a bite, a seagull called from above, startling him, and he dropped the bread into the sea.
This would be the last food he would see for the next sixty days.
At that point, he was a skeleton more than a boy, barely clinging to life and delirious with hunger. Finally, unable to take it, he snapped, took up the cooking knife that had been in his little bag of food, and walked to the other side of the rock, ready to kill Zeff. What he would do after that, he wasn’t sure, but he would figure it out.
When he crested the little hill, he saw, to his surprise, that Zeff’s big bag was still full, untouched. Mouth watering, he ran toward the bag, stopping when Zeff, who heard him coming, demanded to know what he was doing. He answered that he needed food and Zeff, the greedy old fart, was keeping it all for himself, and Sanji would fight him for it if he had to. And with that, he sliced open the bag.
What spilled out was not food, but gold. Mountains of it. Greater riches than Sanji had ever thought he would see in his life.
All utterly useless.
Now shocked from his crazed state, Sanji turned back to the old pirate and demanded to know how he had survived so long with no food. When Zeff didn’t answer, Sanji ran to him, to look at the front Zeff had yet to turn to him.
Zeff had given Sanji all the food that had washed ashore, and had eaten his own leg to survive.
The boy didn’t understand it. Why would a pirate with nothing to gain from a kid like him sacrifice his all important leg and risk death to keep him alive? Zeff answered that he, too, had once dreamed of All Blue, and for some reason, this had led him to save Sanji. When Sanji pointed out that he had lost all chance of continuing as a pirate or his search for All Blue, Zeff answered that he wouldn’t want to go anyway without the crew he had lost to the storm, and explained that he had a new dream: to build a floating restaurant, which could travel the sea and keep anyone from starving there ever again. Sanji, overwhelmed with guilt, vowed to help him build that restaurant if they got off the island. And just as Zeff began to pass out from hunger, a ship appeared on the horizon.
Reply
Sanji spent the next ten years of his life working for Zeff first as his apprentice and later as the sous chef of The Baratie. Because he was only a kid in a ship full of former pirates and criminals turned sea cooks, he began to do things that made him seem more grown up, such as cussing, flirting with girls, and smoking (he started when he was twelve). He grew up to be harsh with men, fighting with them and never getting along with the other cooks, and disgustingly mushy with women, showering them with praise and gifts. And he developed his respect of food to the point where he would neither deny it to anyone, nor waste it for any reason.
When he turned nineteen, it was becoming obviously apparent to Zeff that Sanji never intended to leave The Baratie. Zeff, however, wanted the boy to get out and start living his own life, knowing that he was desperate to be free from his vow. He and the other cooks staged an elaborate ploy to pretend that he wasn’t wanted anymore, insulting his cooking and basically telling him that he was fired. Sanji, furious, left the room, but then heard Zeff and the others talking about how they were only doing what was best for him. Sanji, realizing that Zeff was only giving him a chance for a life of his own, packed his things and prepared to leave the ship.
As he went to board his little houseboat, Shimashima Shopping, the other chefs lined up, glaring at him as he walked away. Two of the cooks, who he argued with the most, jumped out of the line to attack him, but were beaten down easily.
It was looking like Sanji’s farewell would be a simple one, with a simple “See ya later” tossed over his shoulder, but then, just as he started to step on the boat, Zeff called out to him.
“Take care of yourself.”
Suddenly overcome with emotion for the man that was basically his father, turned and fell to his knees, sobbing out a thank you to Zeff for everything he had ever done for him. The other chefs broke into tears too, proving they had cared about the boy in the end, and Zeff himself began crying, even as he berated them all for not having a quiet “man’s farewell.”
Sanji then set out, waving back at The Baratie until it was out of site. He traveled a little while until he heard of an opening on the kitchen staff at Reims Academy, and decided it was as good a place to start his new life as any other.
JUSTIFICATION: While Sanji hasn't had a lot of formal schooling, he knows enough to read and write properly and do all the basic math he would ever need to, and he's read a lot of history. As his career is to be a chef and he has basically spent his entire life in intensive culinary school and was already the sous chef of a very successful restaurant, going back to school as a student would just be pointless and silly. He is looking to get a job, not learn about European politics or something.
Reply
INTRANET/1ST PERSON SAMPLE
[The video post that is coming on the network now is a little… interesting. Or, rather, not interesting at all, in that it’s just a black screen, accompanied by some muffled and static-distorted cursing. It takes several minutes for whoever is operating the webcam to figure out how to get the video on, and when he finally does, it is revealed to be one very angry blond chef, who is no doubt only more enraged by the technical differences that are clearly the fault of his computer and not his own incompetency with said machine.]
[Sanji huffs at the camera for another ten seconds before launching into a tirade.]
All right. I know some of you think it’s totally okay to sneak snacks out of the fridges in the cafeteria. Well, it’s NOT, daaaa-darn it. We have snack machines for a reason! Use those, don’t take the food we cook with for yourself. I take inventory every day, so don’t think I won’t notice it missing. [Death glare.]
AND. Which every one of you little sh-little brats has egged my boat, I will find you, and we’ll have a short… chat.
[A pause, and then he suddenly does a one-eighty from mad to pleasant.] I also baked up a lot of strawberry tarts if any of you lovely ladies want one~! Stop by the kitchen anytime, okay? [Dazzling grin!]
[And then the camera clicks off.]
LOG/3RD PERSON SAMPLE
Sanji wasn’t sure what he would have done if there hadn’t been a smoking lounge on campus, but it probably wouldn’t have been pretty.
Dealing with kids who liked to sneak snacks and be picky about their food and, worst of all, have food fights was a lot harder than he had thought it would be, and it was starting to wear on his nerves. He hadn’t thought it possible, but his temper was actually shorter than it had been before coming to the school. He didn’t know how many times his hand had twitched toward his cigarettes, and he’d actually had to put them away so he wouldn’t be tempted to commit one of the cardinal sins for a smoker chef: getting ash in the food.
Now he was spread out in one of the chairs in the faculty smoking lounge, long legs in easy position to trip some hapless passerby, head leaned back to stare at the ceiling while he took lazy drags and blew out variously sized smoke rings.
So much better.
Maybe if he could just finish this cigarette without incident, he could get through the dinner rush without killing one of the little shits.
God help the man who tried to disturb him now…
HAVE YOU READ THE FAQ? NOT THE RABID WOMBAT!!!
Reply
-The AU History has that the character survived for 60 days without food. The human body cannot survive more than two weeks without some form of food. We would like you to revise this part of the history to explain how he managed beyond two weeks without food in order to stay alive. For example, did he catch fish, small wildlife, eat native plants, etc.
Please have your revisions submitted within one week from this notice. Should you have any questions or need clarification, please contact us.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
This would be the last food he would see for the next sixteen days.
That pretty much fixes it, I think? The first 25 days are fine because he had food.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment