Post by Flame on Jan 5, 2020 22:40:19 GMT -5
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"I’ve done my job, what more can you ask of me?" - Ryouto
Ryouto
"I’ve done my job, what more can you ask of me?" - Ryouto
{Character Information}
Surname: Aosuki
Given Name: Ryouto
Nickname/s: "Black Crane" or "Kurotsuru"
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age: 32
Birthday: 10/10 Oct. 10th
Home Region: South Blue
Occupation: Marine / Monk / Former Cipher Pol Agent
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Personal Symbol:
{Appearance & Personality}
-Personality Traits-
Alignment: A Lazy Neutral Good
Laid BackRyouto is first and foremost a laid back person. He handles his enlisted men with a very loose collar. He is lackluster in his worry which often entices his subordinates to react with annoyance at his seeming shirking of his duties. Ryouto understands that he needs a clear mind in stressful situations, and applies that to all of his life. He is often criticized for the fact that he rarely goes above and beyond the call of duty. Most of his subordinates even wonder how he made the rank that he did.
RelaxedRyouto is a very relaxed character. This goes right in line with his laid back nature and contributes to how he clears his mind. He does not worry too much about things and likewise does not allow what worries he does have to bother him too much. He takes life as it comes to him and worries little of the future and what is next for him. He lives in the present.
Personal JusticeRyouto believes strongly in the cause of the marines, but absolute justice does not suit him well. In his time as a monk he has read about ethics and morals and the like and is thus rather fluid in his judgement of situations. That being said, it is often too troublesome for him to disobey orders and thus follows them to the extent of their asking and often not much more. When it comes to the wanted folk with bounties upon their head, he is not such a moralist to allow them to get away even if they have done a good thing. If they have earned a bounty, then there must be a reason, likely greater than a single good act can solve. Once wanted, always wanted.
Tenacious FighterRyouto is a tenacious fighter, he does not give in and keeps fighting despite his injuries. With an iron will he is able to keep himself conscious for much longer than most. He is durable to wounds and bleeding. It embodies the underlying stubbornness of this marine. When aroused he is quite obdurate and hard to stop. But being such creates troublesome situations and wears him out thus the preference for the laid back lifestyle.
Quick ThinkerRyouto is quick on his feet, quick to think up plans, which are for the most part fairly solid. He is good at improvising on the fly and making good of most situations when he’s forced into them. This also tends to help him get out of trouble before it jumps him in the first place. This ability has proved useful in his quick rise through the ranks of the marines. It also has made him a smart liar slipping half-truths and the like through. It was originally why he was part of the Cipher Pol organization before he moved to the Marines.
Afraid of GoldfishesRyouto has a fear of goldfish, specifically giant goldfish. He has met one of the island eating size goldfish that can be found in the Grand Line on only one occasion. After his whole ship was nearly swallowed whole, he has had an unerring fear of goldfish. Specifically very large ones, but even small ones give him the shivers just from the memories.
Virtues: Believes in Justice, Fast Thinker, Tenacious
Vices: Obdurate, Lazy, Untrusted Leader, A Bit Jaded
Fears: Goldfish, Ensign Kokomatsu
-Physical Traits / Appearance-
Height: A bit over 6'8" or 204 cm
Build: Thin Build
Eye Color: Almost Black with a Hint of Brown
Hair Style: Ear-length Black Hair
Ethnicity: Japanese
AppearanceRyouto due to his stature and general facial expression tends to be quite intimidating at first glance. Though once gotten to know he seems a lesser man than his looks. He is quite tall, generally standing a head taller than many of his subordinates. Beneath his closing his upper body is quite boring, it is mostly flat in all places, except around the extra skinny arms which show muscle due to there not really being much else to see. His legs are different story, while also thin they bulge with muscle, thus he usually conceals them with somewhat baggy clothing. Ryouto is almost unnaturally pale, partially because he stays inside a lot, but also just because he has always been as such. His eyes are a very dark brown that can almost seem soulless at times, though that is generally only a sign that he is deep in thought, or ignoring you.
Due to disliking the colors of the marine uniform, Ryouto prefers to simply wear his own clothing. When forced he has a simple marine outfit to wear, he of course as a Marine Officer wears the coat with Justice emblazoned on it, though it looks odd beneath his usual clothing. Always one to prefer loose clothes he wears a lot of dark reds and blacks. On duty, these tend to be slacks and t-shirts. But when off duty he prefers to wear a kimono. All of his kimono's (he has about four) are black with red along the edges. He also has a fully black robe for monk duties, it was originally white but he stained it black after he quit being a monk.
His tonfa generally hang loosely off a string he ties about his waist when not wearing slacks. They are fairly optimally placed for him to grab them at any moment though he finds it annoying to keep them there while he's simply walking around so tends to leave them in his room.
{Character Story}
Total X-Poinz: 2197
Used X-Poinz: 2100{ See Full Breakdown}
Full Breakdown700 Tori Tori: Model Tengu | D-Rank DF FiSt | M.Zoan(375) Free X-Poinz | 375 Used
-125 Haneke Dairin | R2 Tech
-125 Haneke Yaridan | R2 Tech
-50 Tendo: Aori | R1 Tech
-75 Tendo: Uzu | R1-2 Var
250 Seastone Tonfa | R2 Weapon(125) Free X-Poinz | 50 Used
-50 Hanekou Mune | R1 Tech
550 Rokushiki | C-Rank FiSt(250) Free X-Poinz | 225 Used
-125 Rankyaku | R2 Tech
-100 Kamisori | R2-3 Variation
-100 Rankyaku Rakurai | R2-3 Variation
-125 Geppou | R2 Tech
-125 Soru | R2 Tech
-125 Shigan | R2 Tech
-125 Kami-e | R2 Tech
-My Voyages-{Starting XPoinz}
Starting XPoinz
+ 300 X-Poinz
C Class Package
+ 500 X-Poinz
Legendary DF Slot
+ 400 X-Poinz{Rise of the Black Crane}
Return to the Past
Tengu Unleashed
+ 187 X-Poinz
Chasing the Present
A Wild Chase
+ 163 X-Poinz
Meetings in the Snow
The Black Crane and the White Rose
+362 X-Poinz
{Skills and Combat Abilities}
-Inventory-
Decorated PipeRyouto smokes pipe every now and then. To do so he has a nice wooden pipe painted black with silver pieces upon the mouth piece and head. It is engraved with many markings and is probably the most beautiful thing he owns. He makes very wispy trails of smoke when he uses it.-Skills-
Non-Combat Skills
Monk-ly SkillsRyouto is a former monk though he still practices some of their techniques. He's been trained well and knows sermons, how to performs rituals, exorcisms, and blessings. He is fairly skilled at calligraphy and makes excellent looking talismans. Meditation maintains itself as a part of his daily routine and he can caught sitting quietly in his room for thirty or so minutes after he wakes up on a normal day.
Beast TamingRyouto tends to get along with animals fairly well. He is not an especially good tamer of them, but they tend to have better relations than he does with his human companions. It is perhaps because he is more attuned to nature like they are or perhaps just because he's odd like that. It is part of the reason why he was placed on one of his more strange duties.
CookingRyouto is a terrible cook, if forced to make anything other than rice, and maybe an onigiri the eaters should pray to whatever deity they believe in. Anything he cooks under heat somehow seems to turn into a brownish slop. He is somewhat used to eating it but otherwise no one else should try. In general he prefers to eat uncooked foods in the first place and drink a fair amount of sake instead.
Combat Skills
Inhuman Strength - Human Trait #1Ryouto's inhuman strength is focused solely in his legs. He has spent many years training, as a monk, then as Cipher Pol Agent, at Rokushiki Training, and in the field against the enemies of the World Government. While his upper body may not be much greater than any other man, his legs are impressive. With them he can crush rock and move objects many times his own size with a kick.
Inhuman Swiftness - Human Trait #2Going along with Ryouto's inhuman strength, his swiftness is also founded upon the power of his legs. Dynamic legs send him sprinting forward with great speed.
Sharp Eyes - Additional Trait #1Ryouto has sharp and perceptive eyes. He is quick to notice things in his periphery and can see much farther in front of him with detail than a normal human. What most might see as dots on the horizon, he can tend to make out shapes at the very least.
Inhuman Endurance - Additional Trait #2Ryouto's training started at his time in the temple and continued through to Rokushiki and even to his current time. In this time the marine has gained a great amount of endurance. He is able to keep fighting on and on continuing to find reserves of energy. His endurance like his tenacity keeps the marine going through tough battles.
Tengu Human - Devil Fruit TraitRyouto was made a Tengu Human by his eating of the Tori Tori no Mi: Model Tengu. This gives him the ability to fully or partially transform into a Tengu granting him the powers of said mythical beast. These include improved strength, speed,
hollow bones, and the ability to create powerful gusts of wind.-Fighting Styles-
Tori Tori no Mi: Model Tengu
D-Rank Mythical Zoan DF700 X-Poinz (375 Free X-Poinz)
The Tori Tori no Mi: Model Tengu gives Ryouto access to zoan transformations that mix both his human and tengu attributes. In tengu forms he gains greater speed and strength, lighter bones for increased mobility, and increased lung power. He also gains the ability to manipulate the wind through the use of his hands.
He combines this with his original fighting style of Kanetsurudo to improve his abilities. Dubbed that by his underlings, it is a combat style rife with motion. His tonfa are almost constantly spinning in his hands though he often uses them more as a defensive tool than an offensive one. His main weapon are his powerful legs, with which he unleashes heavy kicks generally in combos as he gains momentum throughout his attacks.
Zoan TransformationsFull Transformation - Basic Form
In full Tengu form, Ryouto grows in size basically doubling in height to stand a full twelve feet tall. Likewise the rest of his body grows with him, what were originally thin arms grow large and muscular and his legs mimic this with their own powerful forms. The nails on his hands and feet are fully replaced with talons which make it distinctively harder for him to walk on his feet, but that is fine as he gains a pair of large fully functional black feathered wings sprouting from his upper back. Their full span at length is nearly twenty feet across, but are usually folded in and bent up above his body. His head morphs as well, a beak forming where his nose and mouth was and his hair turning white. And of course all of his skin turns a deep red color.
Hybrid Transformation - Basic FormIn hybrid Tengu form, Ryouto gains an extra two feet in height his whole body scaling accordingly. His skin pinks up a bit, which actually makes him look more normal than he does as a regular human, due to him being excessively pale normally. His face changes very little, the tips of his hair graying slightly, and his nose becomes slightly more pointed, extending out slightly a point he really dislikes about the transformation. The transformation also gains him a pair of wings, much smaller than those in the full-form barely going six feet across when fully stretched out. They are enough for him to empower his movements with the beat of them but not enough to maintain flight. While his hands no longer grow talons, his toenails still form talons.
Weaknesses
- General DF Weaknesses
- In Tengu Form Ryouto's bones hollow making him much more vulnerable to bone breaks due to blunt force trauma or vibration based attacks.
- The wings while giving him mobility are also easily targeted due to their size. They very easily get in the way when one or both are immobilized.
- Tengu's wind powers are firmly related to their feathers. In cases where the feathers are wet, covered in oil, or frozen, the user's ability to control the wind can be hampered or even completely made null depending on the severity of the substance mucking them up.
Aspects
Gou no Ashi: Thunderous Leg, Ryouto's legs wield destructive power in them. Such is there strength that he is able to crush boulders with it and dent metal. As he grows stronger he will likely surpass even that.
WeaponsSteel-bottomed Geta
Rank 0 FootwearRyouto owns a pair of geta with a layer of steel upon the bottom for increased strength. He doesn't always use them to fight, but when he finds himself wearing them they improve the damage his foot can cause.
Seastone Tonfa
Rank 2 Tonfa - 250 X-Poinz (125 Free X-Poinz) (F)Ryouto wields two wooden tonfa. Both tonfa are covered in a thin layer of Kairouseki. He coated them with Kairouseki due to certain duties that he had to work as a Lieutenant. He uses them to overcome his weaker upperbody allowing for stronger hits than he would otherwise be able to achieve.
TechniquesHanekou: Mune
Rank 1 Technique - 50 X-Poinz (F)With one tonfa he swings it upward with the arm of the tonfa swinging upwards to catch the chin of his opponent. Then with the other slams it into his opponents chest to knock them away.
Haneke: Dairin
Rank 2 Technique - 125 X-Poinz (F)
Aspect - Gou no AshiJumping into the air he rotates rapidly before bringing his foot down upon his enemies head or neck. This is one of his strongest abilities, with his training enhanced body he is able to put dents into metal.
Haneke: Yaridan
Rank 2 Technique - 125 X-Poinz (F)
Aspect - Gou no AshiLunging forward he twists sweeping his leg through the air and straight into the torso of his opponent. Ryouto's favorite finisher he is able to put dents into metal with it.
Tendo: Aori
Rank 1 Technique - 50 X-Poinz (F)By punching forward Ryouto causes a gust of wind to fly forward in the direction of the punch.
Tendo: Uzu
Rank 2 Variation - 75 X-Poinz (F)
Variation - AoriBy punching forward with an open palm and turning his hand as he does so. Ryouto is able to create a twisting gale that spins forward at high speeds.
Rokushiki
C-Rank H-t-H WG Style550 X-Poinz (250 Free X-Poinz)
Ryouto is a somewhat trained user of Rokushiki. He has a strong understanding of Rankyaku and growing understandings of Geppou and Soru. As is obvious he is especially good at leg-based techniques where he has most honed his power. His Kami-e and Shigan have both become reasonably good. But his Tekkai is basically trash at the moment and he needs some time to prepare it for combat readiness.
Aspects
Rankyaku Mastery: Ryouto is very good at Rankyaku able to control the shape of his attacks and to certain extents how the attacks propagate. His Rankyaku are quite powerful able to shear through stone.Geppou Mastery: Ryouto's master of Geppou allows him to create advanced uses of Geppou and mix it with his other Rokushiki Techniques.
TechniquesRankyaku
Rank 2 Technique - 125 X-Poinz (F)His best ability of the Rokushiki, Ryouto mastered this one first. His Rankyaku technique is strong enough to cut through stone and easily shears through material weaker than that.
Rankyaku: Rakurai
Rank 3 Technique - 100 X-Poinz
Aspect: Rankyaku Mastery
Variation: RankyakuUsing Geppou to go high into the air he creates a large projectile air attack that slices downwards then upon hitting the ground, mini versions ricochet outwards. The main attack can cut through stone, the small ones are weaker and can only cut through wood.
Geppou
Rank 2 Technique - 125 X-PoinzGeppou is Ryouto's second best Rokushiki technique. He is quite good at it, and is currently practicing his ability to jump on one foot with it. It was the second of the six skills that he mastered.
Soru
Rank 2 Technique - 125 X-PoinzSoru is Ryouto's third best Rokushiki technique. He is still improving but he at the point that he can use Soru at will without failing. He is currently working on the speed. While it is fast Ryouto firmly believes that it can be faster yet.
Kamisori
Rank 3 Variation - 100 X-Poinz (F)
Aspect - Geppou Mastery
Variation - Geppou/SoruBy combining Soru and Geppou, Ryouto is able to kick off the air jumping from place to place at Soru speeds.
Shigan
Rank 2 Technique - 125 X-PoinzRyouto is able to push his finger forward at impressive speeds creating a bullet-like wound. In forms where Ryouto has a talon, this has a piercing quality to it.
Kami-e
Rank 2 Technique - 125 X-PoinzRyouto is able to make his body extraordinarily flexible thus allowing him to avoid many attacks by bending his body like it was a piece of paper.
{Character Relations}
-Family-Sasahara + Ogiue Aosuki Parents - Status Known : Alive - Ryouto has great respect for his parents. He gets constant letters from then and send back ones whenever he can. They still live on Karate Island going about their lives. He sends part of his salary back to them so they can continue to live as they wish.
Ami Aosuki Sister - Status Unknown : Presumed Alive - His beloved younger sister, Ami is one of his favorite people in the world. They have a lovely relation which is mostly him doting on her fervently. He often searches for her when he takes elongated breaks from his duty. The last time he saw her was two years ago at Water 7. He's not sure what she does between when he sees her, but he has a feeling its something he'd be proud of.-Friends-Rear Admiral Yuudai Former Commanding Officer - Status Known : Alive - Ryouto's favorite commander that he's ever had Yuudai and him are close friends. Apart from Yuudai's amusement with the relationship between Ryouto and Kokomatsu, they get along very well. He has picked up some of Ryouto's ire given his parting gift but they remain close sending letters every now and then reporting back to each other. Ryouto hopes someday to work with Yuudai again.
Frien Holon Marine - Status Unknown : Presumed Alive - Ryouto actually has mixed feelings about Frien. He is concerned about the situation that Frien is in but has little idea of how to fix it. He wants to help in whatever way he can but first he needs to gather connections to aid him in his continued quest for answers.
Monk Dojo Classmates Former Classmates - Status Unknown : Unknown - Ryouto has a good relation with many of his former classmates. Quite a few of them joined the marines themselves and every now and then he sees them about. Ryouto is happy to meet any of them that do show up.
-Foes-Ensign Kokomatsu Subordinate - Status Known : Alive - His one true enemy is his ever loyal subordinate Ensign Kokomatsu. She is somewhat enamored with him in a way he really doesn't like. For all his tricks and craftiness he has not been able to get rid of her as she does such an excellent job. Ensign Kokmatsu has a thing for making Ryouto crossdress which disturbs him greatly. He has caught her placing female clothing in his wardrobe, trying to put makeup on his face, and doing all sorts of other creepy things. Above all he fears that she'll someday outrank him and be able to force him to do such things.Former Trainer - Status Unknown : Presumed Alive - Ryouto has a begrudged respect for this man though he doesn't know who he actually is. There is a respect aligned with pure hatred for the torturous regimen Ryouto was put through. While they are on the same side, and Ryouto likely wouldn't do anything bad to this man, he is clearly on Ryouto's dislike column. He would prefer to never meet him again.
Rokushiki Trainer
{History}
Youth (0-10)Ryouto is a native of Karate Island. The oldest sibling to a younger sister he was an only child for the first five years of his life. For most of the time he's been aware of his sister and loves her greatly. When he wasn't around her he was mostly a normal kid running about and playing with the other children his age. They often mimicked those dojo trainees that they could find, watching for a little while and then hopelessly trying to reproduce what they were doing. However due to his light skin he often got sunburned after long days and had very annoying nights with his skin peeling off.
Monk Dojo (11-20)After turning eleven, as most children did, Ryouto joined a dojo. His however was a little strange as it was outside of town in its own complex. Ryouto didn't particularly consider this odd, but he was required to live there during his stay rather than commute. At the dojo they shaved his head, and he was first taught reading and writing. Which seemed unnatural to him but since he had joined he decided to see it through to the end. For the first year he did nothing but read and write, improving his calligraphy, watching the monk-senseis as they performed rituals and wrote talismans and the like. As he read, he learned much, seeing many interesting texts he quickly learned of the dangers of overzealous thought. He read essays on morals, ethics, religion, and many histories which taught him much. When in the next year he began his physical training he sought a balance between the mental practices and the physical. As such he divided his time between the two, often not getting as much martial arts practice in as the monks would like. Since his practices favored leg combat his legs grew very strong while his upperbody paled in comparison. After five years of this he began to recognize the problem and in an effort to solve it began to try using weapons. Many that he tried were untenable, he could not use them well enough with his relatively poor upper body strength by comparison to his fellow students. It was thus that he landed on the tonfa, by winding them up he could generate the necessary force to stand on par if a little weaker than his colleagues.
On the otherhand his focus on his leg abilities made him very good at them. Through constant practice his legs became his main weapons in combat. Granting him great speed and with a practiced dexterity he was a very capable member of his class. Generally within the top three. In his eighth year at the dojo they had a tournament, inviting those students from other dojos as well as outsiders to come in and watch. Ryouto did very well in the tournament coming in second, losing the final bout to a spear wielding challenger from the same dojo. An often rival of his, it took the full five rounds to decide a victor. After the tournament he continued to train for a while longer, going home only on the weekends to see his sister and parents. Upon graduation he was approached by the World Government, to continue his training as a member of Cipher Pol 7. Believing in the strength of the World Government and interested in what this future could deliver he agreed.
Cipher Pol 7 (21-24)Ryouto's first year with Cipher Pol 7 was in training. While in terms of combat he was fairly well received among the members of Cipher Pol there was much he had to learn about how the group worked. Becoming an intelligence agent meant he learned a lot of terminology, built a greater understanding of how the government as a whole worked and other skills. His intelligence nurtured by the thousands of hours of reading he did at the Monk Dojo aided in quickly getting to pace with the learning curve. Here he learned a lot about intelligence gathering, and the tools of investigation. He practiced critical thinking and often the difference between theory and practice. After the year was up he was at the top of his graduating trainee class.
For the next three years Ryouto worked the early islands in the Grand Line. As an agent of Cipher Pol he tracked and fought Revolutionary tactics to overthrow governments under the protection of the World Government. Mostly the work was finding and taking out small scale cells planted about the different countries to incite rioting among the civilian population. The largest job he completed was a covert op on Bravo Bravissimo when the revolutionaries were trying to take it over to create a base there. Ryouto and his team led by a senior operative got in many small skirmishes with Revolutionary forces on the island before realizing the scale of the debacle coming. Setting up a series of mines in the harbor they managed to lure the main stay of the Revolutionary forces into the harbor destroying most of them. After which Ryouto and his fellow comrades cleaned up the remaining Revolutionaries. He himself fought the second-in-command to a stand still before his commander could clean up theirs and overwhelm the second for him. Ryouto and his comrades all got commendations for their work. It was this and many of his other smaller jobs that got his recommended to Rokushiki Training.
Rokushiki Training (25-26)After accepting the offer given that it seemed a high praise at the time Ryouto put on pause his CP-7 work to go to the training. It was unlike anything he had done before. The training was much more grueling than any of his CP7 training or training at the monk's temple. Conceptually a lot of what was done was hard on Ryouto, his understanding of human ability went through the machine. The training was especially hard on Ryouto's upper body, which while flexible was in no shape for the training it went through.
Even with the strength of his lower body the training took a year before he started to show mastery towards Rankyaku or Geppou for which it was obvious he was more suited towards. His trainer was brutal and Ryouto never actually learned the man's name or from what organization he came from. But he has both grudging respect and quiet annoyance at him for how hard it was. Ryouto still has troubled dreams about it some nights. Overall the training worked to strengthen Ryouto even more, and the end result was just as impressive. By the end of the second year he had mastered four of the six skills to a decent level though they were rather unimpressed at his ability to use Tekkai and Shigan. At the end of the second year his training was then cut off as another duty was suddenly thrust upon him.
Handler Duty (27)His orders sent him to a job far off the beaten path of his previous ones. Placed on a team with a member of CP8 and with a marine commodore leading them he was put in charge of an odd looking marine by the name of Frien. As part of the job his tonfa were coated in seastone and he was told Frien was a human weapon of the World Government with a devil fruit power. The commodore told them that they were in charge of keeping Frien on leash and from causing too much damage to people other than their set out targets. He was also not to mention this duty to anyone else. The first few months went by fairly simply and during his time he did his best to talk with Frien. The conversations were light and without much substance, but Ryouto was curious so he persisted. When finally sent on a mission he saw the true power of Frien. The true power of devil fruits revealed to him he watched Frien in his giant monkey form rampage through a pirate crew they tracked down to an island in the Grand Line. It was a massacre with Frien coming out easily the victor. When after that he was told to help subdue Frien, it was an awkward feeling for Ryouto. For the first time he really questioned what he was doing and why he was doing it. And though he with the help of his colleagues managed to subdue Frien after a bit of struggling the worries continued to persist. Frien's seeming lack of humanity drove his interest. After a few more runs like this and continued tries at talking with Frien Ryouto had had enough. Whatever the group running this experiment was, he didn't like it. Writing to a superior he asked to be taken off the duty. It felt wrong to him and he couldn't live with himself to continue it. He had to stay on for another month before they finally relieved him of the duty. Disgusted he quit the CP-7. Unsure of what to do, he decided to join the marines. Though they had participated as well, it was probably the largest of the organizations and he hoped he'd be able to find people more to his liking there. He was debriefed and told what he saw was classified until further notice. Biting his lip he accepted the orders and was transferred to the Marines.
Marine Officer (28-32)Due to his time as a Cipher Pol Agent and the skills that gave him Ryouto started in the marines as an Ensign. His first duties were under a Captain Yuudai, like him Captain Yuudai had his own personal set of beliefs about justice. They were similar so they quickly came about an understanding. Operating early in the Grand Line, Ensign Ryouto quickly gained renown of his own for his work in aiding in the capture of pirate crews. Through his use of the skills cultivated in Cipher Pol the crew's tactics seemed to be more effective than usual. Many of the people working under him however didn't see it, to them he seemed more a lazy ass often doing less work than they did and not showing much strength. For that he earned the ire of the majority of his subordinates save for an odd petty officer by the name of Kokomatsu who seemed to watch him constantly.
After a year of duty he was promoted to a Junior Grade Lieutenant and his Captain to a Commodore for the defeat of the rookie Quentin, 50 million beri, and his crew the Ironhead Pirates. While Yuudai defeated Quentin himself, Ryouto defeated the First Mate and Kokomatsu the Second Mate. And Ryouto had come up with the plan to trap the crew in the first place. It was the first time he really took note of the strange Petty Officer now Chief Petty Officer. They continued on for a while and in his 30th year after another promotion he took some time off to track down his sister. Finding her in Water 7 he stayed with her for a bit before returning to duty. In that time Kokomatsu had become a Warrant Officer which he congratulated her for. It was then that he started to find out about her stranger interests in him. They had only been increased by his month long disappearance from the crew. Shortly after that he was promoted again to a full Lieutenant. After his promotion in an effort to get away from Kokomatsu he recommended her for a field officer position which she was given.
For a few months he found peace again working as a Lieutenant under Commodore Yuudai. The pair managed a few more big name take downs including Arlen's Mafia Crew. Yuudai having gotten sick earlier on the mission had put Ryouto in charge of the crew. Despite their whining and general mistrust of him he orchestrated a brilliant plot where they disguised their ship as a merchant ship. Pretending to be a set of poorly prepared merchants they allowed the Mafia ship to come close and start boarding them before they turned on the pirates. The ensuing fight was a long stalemate until Ryouto finally landed his usual finisher upon Arlen who had wounded Ryouto twice already and defeating the 48 million bounty pirate himself knocking him out with that and thus forcing the surrender of the crew as a whole.
After that incident as Yuudai was sent to recover, Kokomatsu returned to the crew to fill the empty officer slot for their crew much to Ryouto's despair. As his second in command while he filled in for Yuudai they somehow managed to get work done despite Ryouto's constant avoidance of her. After Yuudai finally recovered news finally came in and both Yuudai and Ryouto were getting a promotion. Yuudai to Rear Admiral and Ryouto to Lieutenant Commander. It was at that, that Yuudai was given a base command in the blues, since he was still slightly sickly. Ryouto seeing his duties to be elsewhere requested Yuudai transfer for him elsewhere. Sad to see his friend go he still allowed it, but as a punishment for leaving and mostly for his own amusement he set it up so Kokomatsu would be given the same duty as him. The rest of the crew he brought with him to the Base in the North Blue he was assigned. It was then at a stop at Marineford that Ryouto met Kokomatsu again and found out Yuudai's secret plan. Vowing vengeance on his former commanding officer he resigned himself to more time with his true nemesis, Ensign Kokomatsu.
