Moon´s Haki Requests

[Mr. Moon]

Character’s Name: Eric Irongate
Profile: Link
Total X-Poinz: 3076
Used X-Poinz: 1950
Remaining X-Poinz: 1126

Raw Haki Being Awoken: Haoshoku Haki (Raw)
Evidence of Stress: 

• Involuntary Fasting: When imprisoned on B-1 the guards tried to break Eric´s spirit by locking him in solitary cell and keeping him without any food for almost whole month. However thanks to his enormous willpower and determination he managed withstand this without loosing his spirit or will to escape. 
• Fight for Freedom: During his escape from B-1 Eric fought marine captain Grayhound who was strong enough to fight Eric, Gabriel and Michael simultaneously and even to push them into corner. It took combined effort of the three Slayers and high ranking prison Guard Hana to finally defeat him. During this fight, Eric witnesses how his two closest friends were defeated while someone who sacrificed himself for him sustained crippling injuries. He himself then continued fighting despite serious wounds he suffered until he managed to get his three wounded companions to the ship safely.
• Holding his Ground: While taking revenge for Michael´s imprisonment Eric and Gabriel clashed with powerful bounty hunter named Bianca. During this fight she easily overwhelmed them, yet Eric refused to run and fought her until their objective was completed, risking possible death or imprisonment.
  
• Breaking Point: As the Slayers were preparing to leave the Little Garden, their captain fought mysterious Assassin, who sneaked on their ship. During their fight the clearly superior assassin defeated Eric both physically and mentally when he managed to break his prized self control, sending him into uncontrollable fit of rage and forcing him to remember some of the darkest pieces of his childhood, much to Eric´s shame. Just few hours later he experienced another strong emotional shock when the girl he fell in love with suddenly regained consciousness just to find out that she was poisoned by unknown substance that was slowly killing her.
  

Evidence of Leadership: 

• Spark of Rebellion: While trying to save his friend from unjust (that time) execution, Eric managed to inspire young local girl so much that she fanatically fought for his cause. Later with her assistance he moved great part of the spectators around the execution platform to do the right thing, follow their consciousness and fight against the present marines despite not having any personal benefits from the fight, while facing severe penalty from the Marines for aiding dangerous criminals.
  
• Spark of Love: While imprisoned on B-1 Eric spend many weeks in company of Hana, high ranking prison guard, who at the time of his arrival detested him and considering Eric to be no better than rabid beast. However during their time together, he managed to present her himself and his philosophy in such way that she not only decided to switch sides and helped him escape, but also fell in love with him and later risked her life and sacrificed her health to save him.
  
• Birth of the Warlord: During his escape from B-1 Eric managed to convince almost all other prisoners to follow his lead during unplanned prison break, through motivational speech and sheer willpower. Later, when they were encircled by guards and marines he inspired them by his own example to charge against the armed enemies barehanded. His influence over them was so great than when he later sacrificed himself to fight overwhelmingly powerful marine captain they unanimously declared him their captain.
  
• Selfless Sacrifice: As the Slayers were fighting Wolfie, very powerful mink ex-pirate who was strong enough to take on Eric, Gabriel, Michael, Ferrus and Sarah simultaneously, the Slayers managed to back the “werewolf” into corner, forcing him to unleash his ultimate technique. Realizing that the resulting impact would probably injured his subordinates heavily and left them vulnerable to possible retaliation, Eric risked his own life by taking the technique head on, resulting in serious injuries from both blunt trauma and electricity. Too stubborn to die from that, Eric managed in this state to frighten and break the spirits of few bounty hunters while receiving few additional gunshot wounds (Not sure if this counts as example of stress or bravery and leadership).
  

[Jade]

Hey there, Mr. Moon. After a period of staff discussion, I'm afraid that Eric's application for Conqueror's Haki is going to be denied at this time. Unfortunately, we just don't see any basis in reality for any of the things listed here as an example - almost every point you've presented seems, well, forced for the sole purpose of getting Eric this Haki, while not actually making any narrative sense. Things seem to have happened solely because you decided that they should, without narrative support for them, while other things outright contradict themselves and your portrayal of Eric.

While it isn't wholly out of the question for Eric to awaken Haoshoku Haki sometime in the future, he's a long ways away from it.

[Mr. Moon]

Character’s Name: Gabriel Moon
Profile: Link

Total X-Poinz: 7130

Raw Haki Being Awoken: Haōshoku
Evidence of Stress:-

• Broken Hand (Physical):- While he was taking part in the preliminary round of the Python´s tournament Gabriel got into serious predicament when he broke his hand in a fight against Karate master. However he managed to push through and obtain victory, showing his fighting spirit and dedication to martial arts.
  
• Unfortunate Night (Psychological):- While trying to help Myra to locate missing treasure for her family, Gabriel volunteered to rob a house to protect the people inside from his murderous companion. However it didn´t go as planned and the Professor ended up strangling an old lady into unconsciousness while fighting the most terrible cats imaginable, which pushed him near a breaking point.
  
• Python´s Tournament (Physical and Psychological):- During the Python´s tournament Gabriel wen´t through five very hard duel in five days, pushing both his body and mind to their absolute limits, resulting to a lasting psychological scars and changes to his personality.
  
• Python´s Death (Psychological):- After winning the tournament Gabriel had to go through the lose of his friend who was assassinated right in front of his eyes. This was even worse as the tournament rendered him too weak to at least go and try to avenge him, forcing him to watch Myra going instead.
  
• Doggo Killer (Physical + Psychological):- Despite loving all canines, Gabriel was forced by the circumstances to fight against several dogs to protect innocent lives and to shorten their suffering. Said fights left him heavily scared on both body and soul, troubled with deep remorses.
  
• Destroyed Treat (Psychological):- While exploring an ancient tomb with Danielle, the Professor tried to bribe his new found friend with a bag of his favourite nougat filled cookies. However given to a circumstances Danielle not only dropped them but also crushed them, leaving Gabriel so devastated he almost didn´t noticed another deadly trap being activated.
• Gang Buster (Psychological + Physica):- Finding out that his puppy was kidnapped, Gabriel had to face his own guilt and fear to save her from a bunch of gangsters. During the fight itself he had to push his body beyond its limit, fighting on even through accumulated injuries and fatigue.
  

 
Evidence of Leadership:-

• True Gentleman (Bravery and Charisma):- Even before he grew into powerful and notorious fighter, Gabriel wasn´t afraid to risk his life and health for others as he  proved in the past when he saved a helpless woman from an agressive docker and later overcomed his fear and fought against several gangster to save her. His action, together with his honest, caring personality and natural charisma also helped him to overcome Sarah´s distrustful personality and fear, making her into loving and loyal protegee of his.
  
• Excellent teacher (Charisma):- As proven by his two hours long presentation on ancient, decorated forks, Gabriel is an excellent presenter and rhetor, who can capture his audience's attention and gain the most of it, no matter how boring or mundane it's topic.
  
• Alpha Dog (Leadership):- Despite being incredibly lenient master and never actually training them, Gabriel gained immense respect from his dogs to the point where single word from him is enough to put them in line.
  
• Terrifying Stare (Charisma):- While usually making the impression of somehow goofy and kind hearted individual, Gabriel knows how to use his anger and presence to scare people into submission as proven with the innkeeper that didn´t want Beast in her establishment. 
• Making Distraction (Bravery):- When learning about kidnapped girl, Gabriel decided to lure out her kidnappers so Myra could sneak in their camp and release her. Risking his life in the process as any mistake could cost him his life.
  
• Good Trainer (Leadership):- As a teacher and trainer Gabriel has not only the ability to see the potential of people but also to help them realising it. He proved it by not only recruiting young thief, but also by helping him to overcome his fear of pain and failure to the point where impressed a marine recruiter enough to offer him a job. Thanks to this he gained such loyalty from Nathaniel that he remained active member of M.A.R.I even after becoming full fledged marine. Later he put the same skills to good use, when he helped a young girl to overcome her trauma and develop into strong and independed woman with enough willpower to stand and fight for her goals. Even to the point where she managed to stand up to her brother who tried to discourage her from her goal. 
  
• Friendly Master (Charisma):- Despite the rather hostile start of their relationship Gabriel managed to convince Niko of his innocence and win his friendship and loyalty with a very generous offer to help the men recreate the long lost martial art of his people.
  
• The Will to Win (Indomitable Will):- During his fight with Namkhai, Gabriel was clearly overwhelmed by the Titan finding himself unable to land a single clear hit on his opponent. However despite the situation seemed to be hopeless and he had the opportunity to give up at any moment the Professor fought on, putting his life on the line to achieve victory.
  
• Effective Recruiter (Charisma):- Devastated by Python´s demise and his own helplessness, Gabriel managed to forge his own emotions into powerful speech that allowed him to recruit most of the tournament fighters for M.A.R.I. and his effort to avenge Python´s death. 
• Merciful Killler (Bravery):- During the fight with the infected Wolves Gabriel risked his life putting himself between Morgan and the burning wolf to protect the woman from harm. Later, during the same fight Gabriel voluntarily risked a serious injury and possible death to shorten the suffering of the dying Canine.
  
• Skilled Manipulator (Charisma):- Facing the dreaded possibility of being left in one room with two beauticians Danielle tried to kick them out. However, being the excellent teacher he is, Gabriel managed to pick the right words and help her to overcome her fear for the sake of the mission ahead of them.
  
• Loveable Idiot (Charisma):- Despite the initial misunderstanding during their second dance, Gabriel managed to use his natural charisma and kindness to not only get a forgiveness from Danielle, but also to strengthen their relationship as she warmed up to him. Later, he used these exact qualities to help Sigrid to calm down and overcome her trauma from being attacked by local authorities for being giant and from the fact he accidentally killed several of them.
  
• Selfless Friend (Bravery):- Originally, the visit of the Gatling´s manor was supposed to be done very differently. However moved by the Danielle´s selfless love for Rosalina, the Professor decided to change the plan so everyone´s attention would be focused on him, to give the treasure huntress chance to steal some valuable paintings. This however involved the attention of twenty armed guards who together would be more enough to kill even someone of Gabriel´s skills. Fortunately a well timed display of skills, together with a nearly perfect poker face managed to scare the guards and they employer into submission. Later that night, Gabriel stayed behind to stall the incomming Marines to protect Danielle from witnessing more violence and to make sure that the marines will see him as threat so big they would overlook her involvement, saving her from potential bounty. He even went so far that he manipulated the situation to give the common soldiers the idea that they are doing good by ignoring their captain´s order.
• Psychological Warfare (Charisma):- When finding out that the World Government sentenced an innocent woman to a lifetime of slavery Gabriel stepped in and helped her and her family to run away. During their escape attempt he was confronted by a captain of local guard that fought against him briefly, until the Professor turned her proclamed values against her, crushing her fighting spirit before knocking her out. Later, he used his charisma and leadership skills to silence already enraged Danielle and stop her complain about taking these prisoners to the ship.
  

[Vio]

<sup>Hey, Mr. Moon! Alright, so here’s the much awaited verdict. Unfortunately, we feel a lot of what’s being presented here just isn’t enough “oomph” to be capable of triggering Haki. So I’m going to cut straight to it and say that we don’t feel there’s enough overall for Gabriel to awaken it.

That being said, there’s definitely some strong moments here, with Python’s death being a premier example. Gang Buster to an extent fills a niche role in the process, while Alpha Dog, Good Trainer, and Effective Recruiter also contribute lightly. The problem we’ve got is that they’re a bit spread out and aren’t too potent on their own and aren’t solidly swayed to either of the three Colours of Haki.

Now, to cover a point we want to bring up. When it comes to these Haki moments, what’s important is the quality of the events over the quantity of them. Those high impact moments, like Python’s death, are much more valuable towards Haki awakening than– uh– the cookie incident. As soul-destroying as that might have been for him.

Another general strong moment or two might secure you either Armament or Observation, but I wouldn’t say Conqueror’s is too far out of the realm of possibility with a bit more oomph.</sup>

[Mr. Moon]

Character’s Name:- Gabriel Moon
Profile:- Link
Total X-Poinz:- 9061

Raw Haki Being Awoken:- Haōshoku

Evidence of Stress:-

• Python´s Death (Psychological):- After winning the tournament Gabriel had to go through the lose of his friend who was assassinated right in front of his eyes. This was even worse as the tournament rendered him too weak to at least go and try to avenge him, forcing him to watch Myra going instead.
  
• Gang Buster (Psychological + Physical):- Finding out that Sarah was kidnapped, Gabriel had to face his own guilt and fear to save her from a bunch of gangsters. During the fight itself he had to push his body beyond its limit, fighting on even through accumulated injuries and fatigue.
  
• Clashing Ideals (Psychological):- For Gabriel it was always clear. Whoever hurts Sarah, Beast or Danielle dies, there were no other options. So when he got into situation where Danielle broke Beast´s heart it nearly broke him.
  
• Desperate Fight:- Facing the terrible prospect of Eponine and Beast dying because of him Gabriel was locked in a intense fight with three marine officers unable to go and help them. With fear and guilt slowly driving him over the edge as he was accumulating serious injuries, Gabriel finally defeated his foe only to find out that one of his puppies was badly injured and the other one missing. This experiene scarred him so much, that even after finding out that Beast was alive and well he contemplated keeping Danielle by his side, even by force if necessary, to protect her. It also pushed him into putting his revenge on hold, travelling all the way back home to make sure Sarah was safe as a rummors of giantess attacking Toroa appeared.
  

Evidence of Leadership:-

• Alpha Dog (Leadership):- Despite being incredibly lenient master and never actually training them, Gabriel gained immense respect from his dogs to the point where single word from him is enough to put them in line.
  
• Good Trainer (Leadership):- As a teacher and trainer Gabriel has not only the ability to see the potential of people but also to help them realising it. He proved it by not only recruiting young thief, but also by helping him to overcome his fear of pain and failure to the point where impressed a marine recruiter enough to offer him a job. Thanks to this he gained such loyalty from Nathaniel that he remained active member of M.A.R.I even after becoming full fledged marine. Later he put the same skills to good use, when he helped a young girl to overcome her trauma and develop into strong and independed woman with enough willpower to stand and fight for her goals. Even to the point where she managed to stand up to her brother who tried to discourage her from her goal. 
• Effective Recruiter (Charisma):- Devastated by Python´s demise and his own helplessness, Gabriel managed to forge his own emotions into powerful speech that allowed him to recruit most of the tournament fighters for M.A.R.I. and his effort to avenge Python´s death.
  
• Father Figure (Leadership):- Even when struggling with his own conflicting emotions Gabriel found the strength to support Danielle, eventually helping her to overcome her own internal crisis.
  
• Human Shield (Bravery):- Unwilling to let Danielle suffer through the loss of her brother Gabriel jumped in a rain of glass shrapnel knowing he will probably die there. He would if the adrenaline connected to a near-death experience didn´t put his heart into overdrive.
  
• Lifeline (Leadership):- Thanks to a surprising display of empathy and his quick thinking Gabriel managed to intercept Eponine in the depth of her depression, helping her to reform her feelings of guilt and sadness into a rage that saved her life. 
  
• Line that shouldn´t be crossed (Charisma):- After the negotiation with Seere failed, Gabriel presented his terms in such manner that it made even the fearless and headstrong giantess cautious, putting her officers to a backfoot despite it being only two men against a small army.
  
• Lord Moon (Charisma + Leadership):- During his stay on Toroa Gabriel showed a high level of charisma and strong presence when he captured the attention and hearts of Toroa nobles driving them away from the lord Clovis´s plan while strengthening their resolve against joining the World Government. Later during the day, he showed another sign of great leadership when he correctly assessed the relationship between lord Clovis and his sister, transforming her anger into undying loyalty. The next day he also showed a great deal of integrity when he turned down a very interesting offer from World Government´s envoy, scaring the powerful and arrogant official into submission with a single question.
  
  

[Sam]

Hey Mr. Moon the staff have agreed that the application should be formatted in an objective way outside of Gabriel’s point of view so we can asses it better. By this we mean to first of all present the facts as clearly as possible and remove the bits that refer to people as “puppies” because as it stands its not very clear who this is referring to.

[Mr. Moon]

I am not realyl sure I understand, but I tried my best to do these changes.

[Sam]

Hello Mr. Moon sorry this has taken a while but there has been a lot of discussion in staff chat for a while mostly trying to agree on the status of the application. This is believe it or not a very tough one and I’ll illustrate the reasoning below as detailed as I can so it makes the most sense. But I’ll preface this by saying the application is being denied for the time being.

Gabriel Moon is a very strong character. I don’t think this is something that can be disputed at all given his presentations in most instances but this is sort of what's working against him. This is further compounded by the fact he is in a place that isn’t exactly known for strong characters (the East Blue). So naturally this creates a “big fish” in a small pond scenario. So, what's my point? Well, any way that it's painted it's always difficult to believe a character like this will be pushed to their limits from a narrative and logical point of view. Despite the evidence which is presented which brings me to the next point.

In some of the evidence provided like for example “Desperate Fight” Gabriel is in a fight which. I’m going to be real? Doesn’t read like much of a struggle. Sure there are blows being thrown around but Gabriel comes off on top relatively easily and despite taking battle damage it doesn’t seem like it stops him much in any way. Knowing the level of power Gabriel has, this isn’t much of a surprise but for this reason it's hard to believe that in almost all of these scenarios he is in much danger or helpless. So in this scenario Python ends up being the most convincing piece of evidence. Because it's a scenario where Gabriel as a character can’t do much. He is not only paralyzed but helpless. It's not a scenario he simply can brute force his way out of. Another good piece for Gabriel is actually his clash Seere because it's a scenario in which the Professor stands against an enemy he doesn’t know the potential of so he is staking everything in his abilities as far as he knows. Which in of itself is a nice Hao moment. Meanwhile the Python seems to read more like Kenbun based stress. That said given what we know in terms of what Gabriel is capable of and his location? It just doesn’t have what it takes. Perhaps if this all had taken place in Paradise where Gabriel would have challenges things would be different.

[Vio]

<sup>Hey, Mr. Moon. Due to disagreements with the initial verdict and handling of this application, I’ve run the entire thing through again thoroughly to review the decision. Ultimately, Sam’s previous point on facing appropriate challenges is something that we should be looking out for, however, that’s most relevant when the training and development of Haki is at stake. This is a raw Haki application.

Between the climactic events of the “Python of the Underworld” saga, the emotional and ideological internal conflicts Gabriel experienced during An “Unlikely Solution”, and his willingness to stand up for his ideals against an opposition of unknown strength and threat during the events of “Giant Conqueror”, I firmly believe that he has experiencing enough adversity and stood up for his personal convictions enough to warrant him awakening his Haki in the form of Haōshoku, the Colour of the Supreme King.</sup>