But no matter what kind of weapons you may hold, just being alive isn't a sin.
"Iron Man" Franky is the shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates and one of the Senior Officers of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. He is the crew's eighth member and the seventh to join, doing so at the end of the Post-Enies Lobby Arc.
Born "Cutty Flam",[18] he chose to go by his nickname of "Franky" until eventually permanently discarding his true name per the request of Iceburg to hide his identity. Originally from the South Blue, Franky was abandoned by his family as a four-year-old, eventually making his way to Water 7. There, he came to be a member of Tom's Workers, until an incident resulted in his body being heavily damaged and requiring him to augment himself into a cyborg. Upon returning to Water 7, he became the leader of the Franky Family, a group of ship dismantlers and bounty hunters.
Franky and his followers were originally enemies of the Straw Hats at the beginning of the Water 7 Arc, until circumstances forced them to become allies at the end of the same arc and the Enies Lobby Arc. Franky's dream is to create a ship and circumnavigate the world with it, and he built the Thousand Sunny and joined the Straw Hat Pirates to fulfill his dream.
As a direct result of the modifications that he conducted upon himself as well as the years spent as a ship dismantler, bounty hunter, and street thug in Water 7, Franky is a powerfully built man with a height of at least seven feet, making him the third-tallest member of the Straw Hat crew, after Jinbe and Brook. His forearms are relatively enormous while his biceps are comparably small. His chest is well-toned with large abs and pectoral muscles. He has brightly colored blue hair and blue star tattoos on his forearms. Franky's eyebrows are rather long and stern, and he has three prominent lower Matsuge on each eye. His chin is very angular and tapers off in three pointed clefts. Franky has an equally angular prosthetic nose made of iron with several rivets and jagged edges, the only replacement part of his exterior body that is not covered in artificial skin.
His choice of clothing usually comprises of a swim briefs, which causes people to call him a pervert, and an open loud Hawaiian "Aloha" shirt with a large golden chain necklace around his neck. It is rare for him to button up his shirt, have long sleeves, and wear pants or footwear unless the situation calls for it, or someone makes him do so. He also does not like it when people tamper with his look, as seen when Nami's mind was inside his body and she tried to button up his Hawaiian shirt, which made Franky upset.
Before becoming a cyborg, Franky went half-dressed simply because he wanted to. Now, his cyborg body is built in a way that covering himself up actually limits him from accessing its features (long sleeves prevent him from using weapons installed on his arms, a buttoned shirt stops him from accessing his chest panels, pants keep him from using features on his legs that cause them to separate or expand, shoes are a hindrance for the same reason and also redundant because his feet are toughened with iron). If in a battle, Franky will strip down for the sake of using his weapons or wear specially modified clothing that can transform along with him. Conversely, Franky always makes sure to cover his back (hence, he wears a shirt) because it is a weak spot- it is still flesh and blood, the only part of his body he cannot reach and modify. Unfortunately, Franky is still susceptible to cold and can suffer chills from his half-nakedness.
Over the two years he was on his own, Franky used Vegapunk's blueprints to drastically reconfigure his body, repairing the damage he accidentally caused to himself and replacing some old functions his body used to have with better and more powerful implements. Franky's hair is now controllable and can change different styles instantly by pushing his nose for more than three seconds. While he used to wear it up in a pompadour style, he now frequently changes his hairstyle, typically whenever he wears a new outfit. However, he reverts to his original pompadour style whenever he is inside General Franky.
He appears to have made modifications to his eyes as well. What appears to be his eyes are actually lenses that resemble human eyes over a pair of robotic eyes underneath. His left eye was seen with inverse coloration and with a glowing red pupil after his battle with Senor Pink, after being knocked around so much it caused the lens over the eye to fall out. Once the fighting against the Donquixote Pirates had come to a close and Franky had some downtime to repair himself, he installed a replacement lens.
His shoulders, torso, and arms are also much bigger than before, and with studded hands that look almost robotic in appearance, but he also revealed that inside of his huge arms he still has a set of normal-sized robotic hands. He now appears to be wearing metal rigged suspenders. He has replaced his elbows with large, light blue hinges, his shoulders with a large red ball and socket joint with "BF-37" written on them, and his forearms with large, light blue cubes, with his trademark star tattoo being split by an edge. Surprisingly, Franky's forearms also have hair on them even though they are clearly robotic, and his large robot hands can even wear gloves. These new features house upgrades he gave himself during the timeskip.
As the shipwright of the Straw Hat Pirates, Franky is an extremely valuable asset for the crew since he maintains the Thousand Sunny's condition, along with the other vehicles, instruments, or weapons the Straw Hats may employ. He is also an accomplished surgeon, as he was able to operate on himself twice, even though Franky does not specialize in the field: an especially notable feat, as Franky was close to death when he did so the first time.
In terms of combat ability, Franky is one of the most dangerous Straw Hats, a feat acknowledged by the World Government given his current bounty of Beli394,000,000.[3] By combining his immense physical prowess with his advanced bionic enhancements, Franky took down two CP9 agents - Nero and Fukurou, the latter a master of Rokushiki. After studying on Karakuri Island for two years and returning to his crew, Franky's considerable fighting skills significantly increased, in tandem with his engineering abilities. Franky emerged victorious over three officers of the formidable Donquixote Pirates: Baby 5, Buffalo, and Senor Pink, easily defeated the Energy Steroid-enhanced fish-man, Ikaros Much, and knocked out Jaki, an inebriated ancient giant, with a single attack. It was only against Sasaki, one of the Beasts Pirates' Tobiroppo and an Ancient Zoan user with a bounty of Beli472,000,000, that Franky was temporarily overwhelmed, though the cyborg was able to land a finishing attack after a lengthy, harsh battle.
n addition to his cyborg-enhanced body, Franky is also a master craftsman, being a first-rate shipwright and an exceptional carpenter from working under Tom. As both a former employee of Tom's Workers and one of Tom's apprentices, Franky's skills as a shipwright are top-notch and well versed. This was evident in his youth, when he helped in the construction of the first Sea Train, the Puffing Tom alongside Tom, showing that his skills as a shipwright extended to naval architecture as well. He helped to achieve this feat, while in his spare time also continuing to build his own line of thirty-five specially designed, numbered battleships named the "Battle Frankies", with each ship capable of killing a Sea King. After Tom's death, Franky decided to atone for his death by dismantling ships instead of building them. As a Ship Dismantler, he regularly took apart ships and other vehicles from pirates and looters, and even established his own group of dismantlers called the Franky Family, who helped Franky collect loads of materials from the ships they dismantled. They obtained, purchased, and sold said materials through dealings in the Underworld, due to the questionable methods they use to get by in Water 7. Franky used this method for years to not only continue their dismantling business, but to personally build their base, arm his group with weapons, give them plenty of money and supplies, and even make uniforms for them that can take cannon fire.
Despite all this, even his years of dismantling had not affected his carpentry skills in any way. The best proof of this was when he was able to finish the construction of the Thousand Sunny, with the aid of Iceburg, Yokozuna, and the remaining Galley-La foremen, under a short period of time. Franky is also a brilliant and creative inventor with which he used to create his cybernetic body that has a vast array of weapons and incredible might that allow him to fight opponents with inhuman physical prowess on equal ground; he also equipped the Thousand Sunny with incredible gadgets, weapons and even the capacity of flight. His scientific intellect also allowed him the ability to self-taught and grasp the concept of the blueprints and technology of the revered scientific mind of Vegapunk, which were left behind in one of his labs on Karakuri Island, and thought to be impossible to create, complete, and even understand. After his two years of training on that island, Franky successfully proved his ability to not only understand his technology, but also recreate it. The greatest example of this feat is Franky's addition of the light lasers to his arsenal, which was a form of technology that only Vegapunk himself was originally able to create. Franky was also able to realize Vegapunk's concept of a transforming robot with the use of the recently discovered alloy Wapometal. Franky's engineering skills even extend to gadgetry as well, as he had helped Usopp with upgrading Nami's newest Clima-Tact.
A scientific genius of his own right, he developed a cannon-like mechanism that accumulates air rapidly within a confined space right before releasing it as a compressed air-based projectile powerful enough to bring down large establishments as well as provide a superb means of propulsion, which served as a template that gave birth to the creation of his "Coup De Vent" functions. He designed the Thousand Sunny himself featuring several unique functions like the Coup De Burst and the Soldier Dock System.
Franky is a human with artificial parts commonly known as a cyborg. His front is heavily armored and insensitive to most attacks, while his back, where he could not reach, remained vulnerable. His body is equipped with a wide variety of weapons, including rockets, an extendable right arm, the ability to breathe powerful flames as well as being able to release powerful blasts of air from multiple parts of his body. His stomach contains a refrigerator compartment that can hold up to three bottles of cola to fuel him and his attacks. His personality is also affected by the type of beverage that is stored in his refrigerator compartment. He can use up large amounts of cola in an instant to launch powerful bursts of air from his arms, utilizing these blasts for techniques such as the devastating "Coup de Vent".
After two years of research Franky successfully merged his own technology with the science of the renowned genius Dr. Vegapunk.[20] with nearly all of the futuristic and state-of-the-art technological aspects of the Marines and the world as a whole (i.e. the Pacifista project and the assimilation of Devil Fruits into weapons) have been incorporated into Franky's upgraded bionic modification.
It is also worth noting that Franky's original transformation into BF-36 was initiated as a quasi-surgical operation of necessity to save his life, and it is assumed was accomplished with some modicum of haste from a medical standpoint, since he suffered from massive external and internal injuries; whereas the process to become BF-37 was a two year-long planned process done with highly advanced machinery in an abandoned fully-stocked, scientific laboratory, on his preexisting cyborg body, so Franky's own experience being one beforehand was likely factored in when customizing its schematics and functions, as well as understanding whatever notes and information of scientific research that Vegapunk left behind.
Franky even went the extra mile with his modifications, adding utility functions like his "Franky Nipple Lights", and nonsense functions like his pop-out hair feature. With all this in mind, post-timeskip Franky is truly a force to be reckoned with. The scientific weapons that Franky has displayed so far in the post-timeskip are noticeably more offensive and destructive than his BF-36 weapons. So far, he has revealed explosive missiles housed in his large shoulders, and a modified "Coup de Vent" known as "Franky Radical Beam", that fires a powerful explosive laser beam instead of air, along with other powerful weaponry. He also features more advanced and powerful variations of the BF-36 artillery such as an improved flamethrower installed in his body that allowed him to breathe out large fireballs and the machine guns installed in his new cybernetic hand to rapid-fire bullets in long-range combat. The fact that he was able to have laser beams in his arsenal despite the fact it was said that only Vegapunk was able to create them further proves Franky's engineering mastery. His engineering skills also extend to anatomy as he modified himself into a cyborg and was able to perfectly understand Vegapunk's notes on animal modification and his Pacifista project.
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