Jolly D. Chris/Abilities and Powers

Swordmanship
Chris seems to possess very mediocre swordsmanship, even when doing his best in a fight. Not a lot can be said about his swordsmanship, as Chris rarely makes use of it, though it seems what little skill he has is thanks to his Devil Fruit, the Hone Hone no Mi (lit. Bone Bone Fruit.) By producing bones from his own skeleton and turning them into bladed weapons, Chris has managed to show fairly standard signs of talent in using a sword, spear, axe, or any other kind of bladed instrument. However, Chris lacks the ability to create compressed air blades with them, and he is unable to hear or sense the rhythm of the environment around him, thus making him unable of cutting through objects such a steel, among other things. Chris doesn't seem to mind too much though, as he only uses blades whenever he feels like it, and seems to prefer hand-to-hand combat over sword fighting and gunfighting.

Marksmanship
Like with his swordsmanship, Chris lacks the true experience of a seasoned marksman, thus his aiming and other skills involving firearms are rather poor. In fact, Chris seems to have even worse skill in using guns and firearms than he does at using bladed weapons. Chris' only experience with firearms comes from his Hone Hone no Mi (Bone Bone Fruit,) where he can produce pistols, rifles, cannons, and other types of guns from his skeletal system, and fire hardened, boney projectiles from them as ammunition. While the damage inflicted to his targets is indeed impressive, Chris lacks the skill to shoot at exceedingly far distances, and has even worse aim during harsh conditions, such as sandstorms and heavy winds. Plus, he doesn't seem to fully grasp the basics of shooting where his targets will be, and only aims for where they currently are. Also, like with his swordsmanship, Chris doesn't seem to mind his awful marksmanship, and even admits that using guns isn't his favorite way to deal with opponents in a fight. Thus, he relies much more heavily on his Devil Fruit powers and his enhanced physical characteristics, in order to improve his melee combat skills.

Hand to Hand Combat
Preferring to deal with his foes through close ranged brawls rather than with swords or guns, Chris is much more skilled in hand-to-hand combat than he is at sword fighting and gunfighting. As a result, Chris has far more talent, skill, and experience in this form of fighting than the former two, which shows easily once he starts a fight. Thus, as is necessary for such up close and rather dangerous fighting, Chris seems to possess inhuman amounts of superhuman strength, speed, and endurance. Furthermore, Chris makes heavy use of his Hone Hone no Mi (Bone Bone Fruit) in battle, which seems to be perfectly suited for close range combat, as it allows Chris to bend and flex his body in ways that would possibly kill an average human (such as bending his spine in half, backwards,) and can also help to strengthen or improve Chris' physical strikes, by either using internal acupressure to greatly increase muscle gowth, increasing the density of his bone structure to further resist excessive damage, to hollow out his bones and make them thinner to increase his top speed, or even to simply allow him to extend the length of his body to reach distant enemies, or to increase or decrease the size of himself or his extremities as he sees fit.

Chris' physical combat skills are further improved by his Devil Fruit powers, as they can allow him to create weaponry, armor, and various other objects out of pure bone, with which he can then use to aid him in battle. This can range from mere distractions, to overwhelming the opponent with large assaults. Chris has even proven that by creating additional arms and legs from his body, he can increase the amount of hits he can land on his opponent, and thus increase the damage given to them. He has also shown to be clever enough to pin his opponents down with his Devil Fruit powers, and thus free himself up to land a punishing blow afterward. Outside of using Devil Fruit powers to assist him, and his superhuman feats of strength and speed, Chris has little else to use to his advantage when fighting. This is most painfully obvious by the fact that Chris has no given knowledge of martial arts, and so he uses a more relaxed and direct freestyle form of fighting. And while this may seem like a disadvantage to some, this seems to work out in Chris' favor, as it gives him the freedom to be as versatile in battle as he needs to be, which often ends up being just what he needs to defeat his foes later on.

Chris' style of fighting is thus more aggressive and offense-oriented than it is defensive, as Chris seems to prefer dealing as much damage as possible within a rather short amount of time, given his childish impatience and recklessness. However, Chris still seems to show enough presence of mind to guard attacks he knows he can't counter against, and is also not afraid to retreat if he has to. These factors, including Chris' usage of his Hone Hone no Mi (Bone Bone Fruit,) thus seem to remind many who see Chris in action of the notorious pirate captain, Monkey D. Luffy. It has yet to be determined whether this is an accident, or if there is a reason behind the similiarities.

Physical Strength
Chris appears to be blessed with tremendous, superhuman strength, as he has shown to clearly be able to punch and kick his way through things such as bedrock, buildings, large trees, and even through ships. It was explained that ever since he was young, after the loss of his parents at the hands of the king, Majestic T. Decaden, on the island of Pleasure Island, Chris obsessively trained his body nonstop, so that one day he'd be strong enough to avenge his loss. Therefore, when he became a bit older, Chris had already reached a ludicrous degree of strength, speed, and resilience that surpasses most other people. However, as it was shown later on, the military might that Decaden possessed was something Chris overlooked, which effectively shut down his plan on attacking the king. Even with his Devil Fruit, which he had eaten for this exact occassion, Chris was outnumbered and overpowered.

Nonetheless, after receiving some much needed aid in dethroning Decaden, Chris would later go out to sea and put his strength to its true test. Chris' strength seems rather massive to some degree, as he has been shown capable of punching out large Sea Kings with one hit, and even lifting cannons and cannonballs alike bare-handed. Chris' strength was truly at its best when he ended up fighting his future cook, Hanuman, who had the strength to rival that of a fishman, and when he fought Vice Admiral Tombstone Grim, who was able to use the Rokushiki technique, Tekkai. Even when up against Grim's Tekkai, Chris managed to at least push the Vice Admiral back by a good foot or two. When fighting the pirate known as No Beard, who had temporarily robbed Chris of his Devil Fruit powers, Chris still managed to put up a decent fight without his Hone Hone no Mi (lit. Bone Bone Fruit.) He even managed to hold off a rockslide started by No Beard, and, without his Devil Fruit, managed to support a large pile of boulders on his back for quite some time before help arrived.

When using his Hone Hone no Mi, Chris' strength vastly skyrockets beyond its usual limitations. By performing internal acupressure on his own muscles with tiny needle-like bone protrusions, Chris can greatly increase his muscle growth, which leads to the rather abnormal results. When in this state, even Tombstone Grim remarked that Chris was like a miniature Whitebeard, which gave a good indication of what kind of strength Chris possessed at the time. One such feat Chris was capable of, was stopping Grim's rather large Rankyaku: Splitting Wall technique bare-handed, with only one hand. He later then outdid himself when he managed to cause some damage to Grim while the latter was using Tekkai, a feat of strength that he couldn't even do naturally. Though when he was up against the Marines' human weapon, the Pacifista, Chris was only capable of defeating one after landing numerous strikes against it, and even then, the finishing blow had Haki added to it (unbeknownst to Chris at the time.)

Agility
To go with his unnatural strength, Chris spent an equal amount of time building up his speed and agility. By increasing the strength of his muscles for physical power, he also added the strength necessary for him to reach superhuman speeds, albeit he was completely unaware of this at the time. Albeit, like with his strength, his speed enhancements did little to help him defeat Decaden's army, as while he was able to outrun one man, he was unable to outrun an entire group by himself. That, and while his reflexes were great enough to help him avoid gunfire and other forms of assault from the royal guard, it would take the assistance of a pirate crew to eventually help Chris defeat Decaden and his guards. In particular, Chris' speed, agility, and reflexes weren't enough to help him defeat Decaden's most powerful soldiers, the co-captains of his royal guard and his most competent personal bodyguards, the Two Shields, as they're called, Rex Kong (the Right Shield) and Mira (the Left Shield.) Though with the pirates aiding him, Chris was finally able to defeat Rex Kong in a fair, one-on-one fight, before moving on to try and dethrone Decaden.

After heading out to sea and forming his own pirate crew, Chris' agility truly began to make itself apparent. Memorable feats included being capable of punching and kicking at such speeds, that he could make it appear he had multiple arms and legs, much like Luffy's own Gum Gum Gatling and Gum Gum Stamp Gatling techniques. Chris also proved capable of leaping freely about during his time at Lucky 7, as he made his way closer to Hanuman, who at the time was kidnapped and in need of rescuing. While there, Chris jumped from rooftop to rooftop, and once he was inside one of the gambling casinos, he had managed to jump ten feet in the air from a standing position and land on a railing overlooking the floor below, before leaping off of that and going straight into a hurried dash down a corridor ahead of him. And during the Davy Back Fight he had against Dieu-le-Veut Veronica, he had managed to react swiftly enough to avoid the quick and precise Zueton particle beams Veronica had been firing at him during their match. Beams, which, were as fast as electricity.

And much like his other attributes, Chris later learned how to improve his agility and speed by hollowing and thinning his bones' structures, which would later make him lighter and faster. Despite compromising his defensive capabilities in favor of greater speed, the enhancements Chris receives afterward have allowed him to move at speeds comparable to that of a Rokushiki user's Soru technique. In fact, after witnessing Soru being used, and knowing he needed the speed in order to land an effective hit against quicker foes, Chris eventually taught himself how to mimic the Soru ability, thus giving him even greater speed than before. As such, each of his strikes and Devil Fruit related techniques become much quicker as well, and sometimes, hard to see coming until it's too late. This also makes him incredibly difficult to hit with slower techniques, as his movement speed and reflexes gain a massive boost as well. Aside from enormous bursts of speed, this also allows Chris to jump to massive heights, as he once used this ability to jump onto the top of The Jolly Holiday's crow's nest/observation deck in one leap from a standing stance, even despite The Jolly Holiday's rather large height for a ship of its type and class. And even without his bones being hollow or thin, Chris' Hone Hone no Mi grants him a natural superhuman flexibility, which allows him to bend and distort his body into various contortions that normal people wouldn't be capable of, such as bending his arm backwards, or twisting his neck in a complete one hundred-eighty degree turn, without breaking his own neck in the process.

Even without his Devil Fruit, such as when No Beard shaved it away with the Jori Jori no Mi, Chris seems to be naturally flexible, thus indicating he may have grown adjusted to his Devil Fruit's flexibility powers over time. This was most clearly seen by how Chris managed to quickly dodge every slash No Beard threw out at him, making Chris' movements look somewhat similiar to the Kami-e technique. Even at uncomfortably close ranges, spanning only inches in distance, Chris' combined speed and flexibility have allowed him to avoid attacks that might be too much for even him to handle. Although he still has his limits, such as when he attempted to avoid a laser blast shot at him from a nearby Pacifista, which was capable of at least blowing Chris backward from the force of the shockwave emitted from the laser's impact.

Endurance
Alongside his strength and speed, Chris' initial training back on Pleasure Island was also meant to toughen him up so that he wouldn't flinch as easily to powerful attacks, as well as giving him the stamina to continue any prolonged strenuous activity, such as running at top speed or lifting heavy objects for indefinate amounts of time. While this proved useful at first, given how Chris showed he was more than capable of handling Rex Kong's Wild Style Kung-Fu, a form of fighting heavily implied to cause as much pain as possible while still retaining the agility seen in a fighting style like Monkey Style Kung-Fu, Chris eventually began to buckle under the combined forces of Kong's Zoan-enhanced physical strength, and the versatile powers of Mira's Aku Aku no Mi. It wasn't until the pirates Chris befriended eventually showed up to lend a helping hand, and thus allow Chris to move on to finally avenging his fellow islanders.

After becoming captain of The Jolly Pirates, Chris later began showing the true extents of how far he could push his body before giving out. The most clear examples being the many fights Chris had gotten into, where, in spite of the inhuman amounts of damage and injury he sustained in each of them, he still managed to get back onto his feet as if nothing had happened. When battling Hanuman at Ape Island alongside his crew, Chris was able to withstand numerous beatings from the immensely powerful bigfoot, who roughly had almost as much strength as Chris himself at the time, not to mention the usage of Hanuman's Bigfoot Muay-Thai, a fighting style meant to create enormous amounts of damage and destruction in its wake. Additionally, despite his attempts to avoid them at all costs, Chris managed to stay on his feet no matter how many times he was struck by Veronica's Bari Bari no Mi attacks during their match in their Davy Back Fight, even though the techniques were essentially electric discharge at lethal voltages. And even after the Time Skip and reuniting with his crew, when Chris ended up in battle against Yeren, the captain of The Collossal Pirates, who was revealed to be half giant and half bigfoot, Chris was able to take direct blows from Yeren't physical strikes and continue on fighting afterward.

Chris' stamina became the most apparent during the invasion of G-4 when he tried to rescue his crewmate, Karen. After running around the entire Marine fortress and fighting off its forces, and even after a grueling, long battle against its leading Marine officer, Tombstone Grim, Chris still had some remaining strength left to escape the oncoming assault of Akainu, as well as being able to fight off at least one of the many Pacifista that were sent to subdue him and his crew, as well as the Marine turncoat and future Jolly musician, Titan Bach. And then, even after all that, he still had a little reserve of strength left over to defend The Jolly Holiday from the pursuing Marine warships, as well as to celebrate the recruitment of Bach soon after. This level of stamina and determination wouldn't be equaled, or even surpassed, until a while later, after the battle with Yeren of The Collossal Pirates. After defeating the giant bigfoot, and knowing he needed to get back to his crew, whom he had ordered to head to Fishman Island and wait for him in the New World while he battled Yeren, Chris defiantly climbed the entirety of the Red Line and crossed it in one go before falling down from its dizzying heights back towards his waiting crew below.

Like with his strength and speed, Chris' Devil Fruit, the Hone Hone no Mi, also allows him to further increase his resilience even further, by granting him the ability to increase the density of his bones, thus making them harder to crush and break through blunt trauma, or to cut apart through slicing attacks. This ability has been noted by several Rokushiki users to be similiar to Tekkai in nature, as it requires strengthening one's self through the tightening of their body's natural make-up (though Tekkai focuses on the user's muscles and skin, whereas Chris tenses his bones.) When Chris was able to single-handedly negate Grim's Rankyaku: Splitting Wall technique, he not only showed tremendous physical strength, but an almost unbelievable degree of superhuman endurance as well, as the attack only managed to cut up Chris' hand enough to make it bleed. Also, this strengthening of Chris' defensive attributes can also be used offensively, in a manner very similiar to Jabra's Tekkai Kenpo. Thus, Chris is capable of striking his opponents with steel-hard blows and strikes, while receiving little damage in return, which only further encourages his aggressive fighting style.

While Chris has great physical endurance, and can last long in fights and other physical activities, Chris lacks the strength to ward off deadly diseases and poisons, thus making him very vulnerable in this regard, much like any regular person. Likewise, as shown during some fights he's been in, a lack of nutrition can easily cripple Chris, and make him more prone to damage and injury if he isn't careful. Thus, he usually always keeps himself completely healthy before a big fight by eating large quantities of food, drinking lots of water, or even sometimes doing both simultaneously, given whatever situation he's currently in and will face next. Thus, if Chris is feeling hungry or thirsty in the middle of a fight, he will grow signifigantly weaker, and lack the same enthusiasm and forceful strength as before. This can only be alleviated by somehow managing to get some food and water back into his system, and thus allowing him to continue his battle with renewed vigor. The only thing Chris seems to be able to handle just fine on his own, is the ability to endure extended periods at a time where he has had no proper sleep or rest. He has remarked that this ability probably sprung up, due to him rarely getting a chance to sleep when he was younger, as he was always on the run from Decaden's royal guard at the time. Nevertheless, this one trait has proven to be especially useful to Chris, as it has allowed him to keep up with his activities, no matter how worn out he may be at the current moment.

Devil Fruit
Hone Hone no Mi (Wg4)

Summary: Allows Chris to manipulate his own skeletal structure for offensive, defensive, evasive, and even practical purposes.

Type: Paramecia

Usage: Chris primarily uses his Devil Fruit for combat situations, but is also prone to using it for pragmatic situations and entertainment purposes as well.

Haki
Kenbunshoku Haki : Color of Observation: 

Busōshoku Haki: Color of Armaments:

Haōshoku Haki: Color of the Conquering King: