Monkey D. Luffy, conjointly referred to as "Straw Hat," Luffy is a character and also the main protagonist of the One Piece manga and anime series Luffy, a young boy acquires the properties of rubber when accidentally feeding one of the devil fruits, the Gum Gum Fruit. Luffy is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates and has dreamt of being a pirate since childhood, thanks to the influence of his idol, Red-Haired Shanks. At the age of seventeen, Luffy sets sail from the East Blue Ocean to the Grand Line in search of the legendary treasure, One Piece, to succeed Gol D. Roger as "King of the Pirates". He fights antagonists and aids and befriends the inhabitants of many islands on his journey. Typically cheerful, he becomes serious and even aggressive once he fights. Luffy uses his elastic power to use a variety of attacks. Luffy also grows stronger throughout the story, as evidenced by his "bounty," which is used to show the threat he poses to the global government. He's the grandchild of Monkey D. Garp, who was a vice-admiral; the son of Monkey D. Dragon, who was the leader of the Revolutionary Army; and the sworn brother of Portgas D. Ace and Sabo.
Personality
Luffy is portrayed as a carefree, fun-loving, harum-scarum character with great ambition and a strong desire, who frequently thinks with his stomach and gorges himself. Optimistic and usually kind, he's not as dimwitted as several believe him to be, and he typically demonstrates more understanding than the opposite characters expect. Knowing the danger ahead, Luffy is willing to risk his life to become King of the Pirates and defend his crew. A capable and reliable captain, he never puts his crew or himself in danger out of incompetence.
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The Abilities of Monkey D. Luffy
1 - Devil Fruit
Luffy's rubberiness is a result of feeding a devil fruit referred to as the "Gum-Gum Fruit It makes him proof against electrical attacks and most blunt forces, giving him the power to stretch his body at will. He uses his physical prowess to accelerate half or all of his body to deliver punches, kicks, head butts, and body checks, or for propulsion. Like others exposed to Devil Fruit, Luffy cannot swim; once he's submerged in water or contacts the Sea-Prism Stone, he loses his strength and can't continue on his own. In addition to his Devil Fruit powers, he has large strength, durability, speed, reflexes, agility, endurance, and stamina. Luffy's signature attack is the Gum-Gum small-arm, a punch that he learned throughout years of coaching. Another technique developed later within the series is the second that will increase his strength and speed for a brief time, but strains his body and might shorten his period of time if used too long. Luffy adapts the move to his rubber body and matches the assassins' speed. Another technique uses air in his bones to attack, but makes him shrink later on. Luffy will use each technique simultaneously for 2 years, during which he gains higher management of the techniques and is no longer tormented by their drawbacks. Luffy develops another technique, Fourth Gear, inflating his muscles to extend the dimensions of his limbs He will build harmful moves by compression and cathartic in his limbs and might fly in a very similar fashion to CP9's Moon Walk technique.
Later, it's discovered that the Gum-Gum Fruit's real name is the "Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika." It's a legendary Zoan-type Devil Fruit whose "awakening" grants the user's rubber-like body inflated strength and freedom, restricted solely by the user's imagination. As a result, the user is said to become an "embodiment of freedom," capable of bringing joy to those around them and generating "the most ridiculous power in the world." He conjointly takes a very cold look. The World Government renamed it to erase the fruit's original name from history and reclassified it as a Paramecia so as to hide its true nature. The fruit was originally a treasure sought-after by the World Government for over 800 years, till it was absolutely taken by the Red-haired Shanks. According to the 5 Elders, the fruit had not been woken up for hundreds of years before Luffy's had done so.
2 - Haki
Luffy has the power to use Haki This ability has three types: Armament Haki is an armor-like force, which may amplify defense and also the force of attacks and negate a Devil Fruit user's defense, enabling physical contact and damage; Observation Haki is an insight, which may scan somebody's movements and sense their presence; and seizure King's Haki may render weak-willed individuals or animals close to him unconscious. Luffy learns all those varieties of Haki and uses them together with his improved attacks. As a result of his encounter with the navigator, he has developed concomitant immunity to poison throughout his fight against Charlotte Katakuri. Throughout his time at sea, Luffy gains a complex type of observation Haki to envision many seconds into the future. Luffy gains 2 new advanced varieties of Haki. The primary one is termed "Emission," to shoot a brief blast of Haki from a distance, whereas the other is termed "Internal Destruction," which may go within his target's body or objects and destroy them at intervals. In his fight with Kaido at the top of Onigashima, Luffy unlocks a complicated type of Conqueror Haki. It's the power to coat his entire body with it, the same as Armament Haki, that may further enhance his attacks.