Yamato

Yamato greatly admires the legendary samurai Kouzuki Oden to the point of even proclaiming to carry his identity. Yamato has self-identified as Oden on multiple occasions and has even emulated his gender, proclaiming to be the son of Kaidou due to Oden being a man.[4] Although initially carrying doubts as to how to present as Oden,[15] Yamato has steadily expressed a straightforward attitude regarding this identity as time has gone on, even proclaiming this as such to Oden's son Momonosuke, to the boy's horror.[16] Although having wholeheartedly embraced this identity, Yamato retains his original persona, referring to Yamato as his "other name".[2] Yamato does not seem to like being misnamed, having quickly corrected Luffy when given a nickname.[17]

Having read of the great exploits documented by Oden in his logbook, which he considers his "bible",[4] Yamato dreams of leaving Wano Country's confines and setting out to sea with the Straw Hat Pirates, much like Oden did with the Whitebeard and Roger Pirates decades before.[10]

Yamato also wishes to fulfill the goals that Oden had, namely opening Wano's borders, in direct defiance to Kaidou's wishes for the country.[4] Yamato has shown to be extremely strong-willed, having put up considerable resistance to Kaidou's imprisonment despite taking decades to finally break free. Although initially seeming to be more subordinate to him previously, Yamato's battle with Ace led to him destroying Kaidou's dragon statue in an act of defiance that has since led to more outright rebellion.[14] Yamato has engaged in combat with Kaidou numerous times and has openly expressed opposition and defiance to his plans concerning the two of them, accompanied by insults.[3][17]

When the Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance invaded Onigashima, Yamato was immediately willing to help them and had no qualms with attacking members of his father's crew,[11] making his intentions and loyalty clear to them in the process.[18][19] Yamato is also willing to go to great lengths to achieve his objectives, having basically kidnapped Luffy in order to get to talk to him and following through with this tactic even after Luffy responded by fighting back.[4]

Yamato's earnestness

Yamato displays earnestness to Momonosuke and Shinobu.

Yamato is more than willing to put his body and life on the line to protect people out of care, believing that Oden would never abandon a comrade in danger. Yamato resolutely withstood a barrage of powerful artillery strikes by the Armored Division to protect Momonosuke,[20] and later confronted Kaidou alone to stall him until Luffy returned despite knowing he was no match for his father.

However, Yamato also takes enjoyment in engaging in combat; despite framing his plan to split up from Momonosuke as a decoy strategy to trick the Beasts Pirates, Momonosuke and Shinobu both noted to themselves that he seemed mainly interested in going to fight.

Appearance:

Appearance Being assigned female at birth and not usually choosing to explicitly present as male, Yamato has typically been referred to as a woman by people when they first encounter him.[4][14][12] Yamato is taller than an average human, standing at 263 cm (8'8"). He has long, white hair that is bound between orange rods into a ponytail at the back, which fades into aqua green and then blue the further down it goes, and ends in rectangular locks similar to Kaidou.

Yamato also has large, orange eyes with prominent eyelashes, wears gold hoop earrings on both ears, and has horns on the top of his head which are mostly red, but gradually become more flesh-colored toward the base.

Yamato's current outfit is a sleeveless white garment with a diamond-shaped design on both sides and an indigo, wisp-patterned bottom half. He wears a pair of red hakama pants and sandals, and, much like Oden, wears a large purple and white nio-dasuki behind his back.

Age: 28

Birthday: November 3rd

Height: 263 cm (8'8

Physical Abilities Yamato possesses immense physical strength resembling that of Kaidou, being capable of wielding a large and heavy kanabo and using it to knock out Ulti, an Ancient Zoan user and one of the Tobiroppo known for her durable skull with just one blow in the head. Yamato was also able to physically match Luffy's strength with relative ease, even when he increased his strength exponentially with Gear 2 and Gear 3.

When he countered a punch from Luffy with a kick, the powerful collision destroyed part of the nearby wall and ceiling and blew back the Beasts Pirates around them. Yamato could easily run while carrying Luffy with just one arm and was able to shatter the extremely tough armor and weaponry of the Beasts Pirates' Armored Corps.

Yamato is extremely fast, being able to lunge forward with blinding speed to attack, as well as outrun members of the Beasts Pirates in pursuit, and eventually completely elude the pirates and escape to the attic with Luffy without anyone seeing them.

Yamato possesses tremendous levels of durability and endurance, having emerged from being struck by multiple explosive bazooka blasts with only superficial bruises and cuts, though eventually began taking more serious wounds as the bazooka strikes continued. During the fight against Kaidou, Yamato was able to withstand the Emperor's powerful attacks and continue to fight effectively.

Yamato ate the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Okuchi no Makami, a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows him to transform into a divine wolf, as well as a human-divine wolf hybrid. According to Kaidou, this beast is a "Guardian Deity of Wano Country". Yamato ate this fruit purely out of hunger, with Kaidou not intending for him to be the one consuming the fruit. As a Zoan, this fruit greatly bolsters Yamato's physical abilities. He was able to clash near-evenly against Kaidou, an Emperor of the Sea, while the latter had assumed his extremely powerful human-dragon form. Furthermore, being a carnivorous animal, this animal transformation grants Yamato heightened predatory instincts, as well as equipping fangs and claws that are well-suited for combat.

Being a Mythical Zoan, this fruit bestows special powers that a regular wolf does not possess. Yamato is able to generate ice, using it for augmenting weapons, creating protection with ice armor or walls, and even releasing a powerful blast of ice from his breath that can clash evenly with and cancel out Kaidou's flame breath blast.

Usage Yamato utilizes this fruit's power for battle. He has proven able, in his Human-Beast Form, to fight on nigh-even grounds against his father, Kaidou, while the latter was in his half-dragon form, with Kaidou commending his level of strength. In hybrid form, Yamato prefers to still wield his kanabo, Takeru, like he does in human form (similarly to Kaidou), enhancing his melee combat prowess.

Yamato makes use of his ice-generating ability for offense, by breathing out the substance to freeze targets solid or enveloping his club in it for strengthened melee attacks. For defense, Yamato may clad his body in a layer of ice to absorb damage like armor or erect protective walls of ice.

More detail description of her abilities: Transformations This Devil Fruit grants the power to transform into a hybrid and full version of the Okuchi no Makami—a legendary wolf that, according to Kaidou, is a "Guardian Deity of Wano Country" (ワノ国の守り神, Wano Kuni no Mamorigami?).[4] While transformed, the user's hair becomes longer and more untamed. they gain a ribbon-like trail of cold air[6] around their shoulders, and grow a large tail, they also get covered in white fur of the same color as their tail, the outer eyebrows curve upwards and their eyes become blue, the user's ears also become long and pointed, and lastly—in Yamato's case, his horns grow larger and become slightly less curved.

Strengths and Weaknesses The transformation greatly boosts the user's physical abilities just as most Zoans do, however, as a Zoan that transforms the user into some sort of carnivorous animal, it presumably bestows heightened predatory instincts, on top of equipping the user with canine fangs and claws well-suited for combat. More specifically, the wolf deity form seems to come with a dramatic increase in physical strength, more than most Zoans, in Yamato's case enough to let him clash near-evenly with his father Kaidou, who was an Emperor of the Sea, while the latter has assumed his extremely powerful human-dragon form.

Moreover, as with other fruits of the Mythical Zoan variety, this one blesses the user with at least one special ability: in particular, the user is able to generate and control ice, which they can expel as blasts from their mouth or otherwise make appear from their body, and can even use such ability without transforming.

No weaknesses are currently known outside of the standard devil fruit weaknesses