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basic info
Name: Trafalgar (D. Water) Law
Age: 26
Canon: One Piece
History: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Trafalgar_D._Water_Law
Power: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Ope_Ope_no_Mi
personality
Strengths: Trafalgar Law is softspoken, cautious, calculating, and patient, slow to lose his temper, driven and determined, self-controlled, and intelligent. His plans for reaching the end of the Grand Line and finding the One Piece are multi-faceted and careful, and the only life he's willing to sacrifice for them is his own. Law can be respectful when he wants to, gives credit where credit is due, and has the capacity to be disgusted by other foes' terrible behavior. Even if he refused to just jump in and help, he was genuinely offended and angry that Caesar stole children from their parents in order to experiment on them. Whether out of some deeply-buried sense of compassion or the simple drive of a doctor who can't watch someone suffer in front of him when he could heal them, he did eventually treat the children. He rescued and treated Luffy and Jinbei after Marineford, and though he bluntly said it wasn't out of the goodness of his heart, he still helped. Likewise Bellamy, he treated the man just because Luffy asked him to, even though he told him later that if he didn't like it he could just go off and die. If he has a personal code of honor, its terms are not explicit, but he does behave with some honor and respect toward some specific individuals. He has few close relationships, but those he does have are fairly important. He cares for his own crew: he had them wait for him on Zou so they wouldn't get caught up in the conflict with Doflamingo, even though he didn't expect to return to them alive. He's tough but fair with them, and even protects them through advice and combat tactics. Despite trying to keep his distance and seemingly not being willing to trust most people, he can be won over. While not affectionate, he is slowly warming up to the Straw Hats and even okay with affection from his own crew. He has a unique relationship with his navigator, Bepo, a polar bear from the Mink tribe - Bepo carries his nodachi for him and will allow Law to rest against him, which isn't strange for a Mink (they're very touchy-feely) but it is for Law. He treats the Straw Hats with considerable respect and seems to have forged a connection with Zoro and Robin, an understanding with Sanji, and a much deeper devotion to Luffy. In the process of enduring his long fight with Doflamingo, Law reached a point where he was willing to surrender his pride and his will to Luffy, and even begged Cavendish not to take him somewhere to get his wounds treated but rather to let him lie on the hilltop so he could witness the end of the fight no matter how it turned out - and if Luffy perished, he wanted to die with him. It shows he does still have it in him to respect and even tie himself to another, and though he and Luffy are equals and supposed to be cooperating on their mutual goal, Law defers to Luffy in command matters, or at least doesn't argue with him to try a different tactic anymore. He has not, however, joined his crew to be part of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. He would be the first to admit that Luffy is stronger than he is, now that he's seen it for himself, and while he doesn't share Luffy's interest in being friends, he hasn't dissolved their alliance yet. Finally, since this is One Piece, he does have his small moments of goofiness, such as being impressed by the ninja Raizo (and trying to pretend he isn't) just because guys think ninjas are cool.
Flaws: Trafalgar Law is certainly as cold and cruel as his reputation implies, he is not in any sense friendly, kind, or happy. There is little good humor in his smile, when he smiles - it's more of a smirk, casual and a bit smug but still entirely unfriendly, and even dangerous in some situations. He can be rude to those he considers inferior, sharp and belittling in tone, or snide and sarcastic, and enjoys flipping people off. He hates being told what to do, especially by other pirates roughly his equal. People call him cruel and creepy and dangerous, because that's the side he lets them see: he sent the hearts of 100 lesser pirates to Marine HQ in order to secure his position as a warlord, and would have been fine leaving the kids on Punk Hazard because it wasn't his problem. He is cold and indifferent toward the pleas and emotions of some, particularly if he doesn't respect them, and has absolutely zero qualms about tormenting and killing people who defy him. He killed Vergo ruthlessly and cruelly, by using his Devil Fruit - and caused Monet's death by swapping out which heart Caesar was carrying as insurance; Caesar thought it was Smoker's, and stabbed it in order to kill him from a distance, but it was Monet's. Law is a complete asshole to his rivals, dismissive toward the weak, and will happily use people if they offer him some sort of advantage toward achieving his goals. If you're not a crewmate or an ally he respects, you're garbage to him, and he has no problem flipping people off, telling them they're weak, and ignoring their pain or their feelings. He doesn't go out of his way to do so, but if someone confronts him, that's how he deals with them. He is not interested in individual sob stories nor the "greater good" of any one island or the world itself. Thanks to his pride he is easily embarrassed by people having fun or being cute, and hates it when people invade his personal space without his permission - though instead of pushing them away, he just sort of sits there and takes it but with a look of exasperation and horror on his face, as he did when Zoro got too friendly with him during the victory banquet. Most of Luffy's usual antics leave him nonplussed, even after being treated to Luffy's unique point of view several times he still has to WTF at the guy every now and then. It's hard to get close to him and even harder to gain his respect, and even if you do, you can still remain an enemy to him, like Smoker. Even his sense of humor tends toward the dark and sarcastic. Most of the time he plans his strategies carefully and thinks through his moves, but he can be inflexible and thus taken by surprise by unanticipated developments. Really, the collapse of his plan to pit Kaidou and Doflamingo against one another has its roots in the same trait that makes him still constantly flummoxed by Luffy being Luffy - when people or things don't go precisely as he, in all his wisdom, expects them to, he's thrown off balance.
Miscellaneous: Law keeps his pride, intelligence, and personal strength wrapped around him to protect him from getting too close to anyone and having to deal with the pain of loss yet again. Despite any amicable ties between himself and his own crewmates or his allies, Law is a loner at heart. Alliances, to him, are for seeking mutual gain but not necessarily friendship. He carries the secret name of "D" and because of it, has a sense of belief that it's his fate to somehow tear down the elite nobles of the world (the Tenryuubito, "Celestial Dragons") though not in the way the Revolutionaries would; being an immensely-powerful pirate is good enough to achieve that end. Thanks to his tragic childhood and the mental breakdown he suffered, being given hope and love again by Corazon and then having that ripped out of his life a second time, Law raised himself to become strong enough both physically and emotionally to eventually someday be able to stand against Doflamingo and kill him in revenge. He cut himself off from getting too close to people since everyone he ever loved was killed in terrible ways and even though his plan to take down Kaidou didn't necessarily include a direct confrontation with Doflamingo, once it turned into one, he was perfectly willing to sacrifice himself if it also destroyed Doflamingo. He considered himself more willing and ready to pull the trigger, where Corazon was unable to thanks to his family ties, but in the end he was physically too weak to do it. Once it was all over, he had to come to terms with the fact that his long nightmare is actually over and he has accomplished a sort of revenge/atonement for Corazon's death, though not in the way he expected. He didn't know what to do with himself and his feelings, but got advice from ex-admiral Sengoku not to second-guess Corazon's love for him and to just live his life, now, rather than seek to sacrifice himself. He likes onigiri and fish but doesn't like bread, a habit he picked up from Corazon, and even threw a fit when Sanji served sandwiches. He likes to travel and roam around by himself and apparently likes collectible coins.
game plans
Starting Faction: Warlord
Goals: I'd like him to start out grudgingly working for the Warlord in exchange for keeping his Ope-Ope Devil Fruit power, though Law personally would only be doing so as a means of infiltrating this faction and gathering as much information as he can. I'd like to see how long he lasts as an infiltrator, since he has experience doing so in canon and has no problem doing cruel things to people to keep up his reputation. Eventually, though, I'm sure even he won't be able to turn a blind eye to the worst of it and will start working from within to either escape (if he's captured, bonus) or try to bring the warlord down. He won't be successful at the latter but it would be fun to see what he can accomplish.