"Red-Haired" Shanks likewise commonly known as "Red Hair", is the captai of the Red Hair Pirates a member of the 4 Emperors that guideline over the New World He is likewise a former member of the legendary Roger Pirates, the only group to successfully dominate the Grand Line, where he began as a pirate as an apprentice. Notably, he is the pirate who inspired Monkey D. Luffy to go on his journey as a pirate, and his crewmate Lucky Roux found the Gomu Gomu no Mi that was mistakenly consumed by Luffy.
ContentsAppearanceEdit Shanks is a relatively high man (just under two meters), durable, tan-complexioned, and in the prime of his mid-adulthood. Amongst the 4 Emperors previous and present he stands out as the smallest, most normal-sized by far, the others being different degrees of inhumanly proportioned. Real to his epithet, Shanks has clearly red hair: usually depicted across media as deep-crimsonish. Deserving of note is that, distinctively amongst all characters yet seen, even ones with equivalent hair tone, Shanks' hair is the sole one filled with grayscale in the black-and-white manga (rather of inked black or left white). His first-seen hairstyle was a straight, middle-parted one kept loosely down to nape length, with shorter (at eye level), curtained bangs in the front. [5] In later appearances (at ten years older), he is shown with a little longer hair, wavier and more slicked back than prior to other than for some couple of hairs he lets fall down the sides of his face, pressed further sideward than stated prior bangs.
On his face lives a secondary hallmark: a triple set of vertically parallel, direct scars that pass at an angle over his left (untouched) eye, revealed to have been offered to him by Blackbeard some unknown time before the start of the series. Additionally, Shanks' left arm is missing from below the deltoid, a result of him saving Luffy from a Sea King when Luffy was a child.
As did his hair, Shanks' face changes as the manga's art style progresses: initially, it appeared more younger, a soft jawline tapering down to a small, pointy chin. Its features were similarly milder than later depictions and, save for his small nose, also larger, most so his plain-black eyes, topped by thin brows. [5] Later appearances show him more markedly countenanced, the square of his jaw, the sharper, narrower pair of eyes, and the chiseled, more prominently bridged nose lending him a manlier look. More constant stays the male's facial hair, nevertheless, that he has actually constantly kept in a nicely thin connection of beard and mustache stubble, forming the beginnings of a circle beard.
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Clothes-wise, Shanks utilized to use a particular straw hat gotten from Gol D. Roger (his previous captain) that was associated with his image till he passed it on to Luffy. Otherwise, his clothing constantly includes a sweeping long, sleeveless black cape with a high collar (in the anime bearing a lighter, gray inside), and under it an easy, white shirt half-buttoned up, exposing the middle of his chest and upper abs. Additionally, Shanks is always seen using trousers cut listed below the knee, gathered midway up the shin. Initially (Chapter 1) the pair was a slightly loose, plain-brown one with golden buttons down the external leg sides, and with a red sash around more info his waist to keep his t-shirt tucked within. In the future, he is seen wearing a different, mildly baggier set of trousers with a green-yellow, indiscernible flower pattern (now revealing plenty leg hair), and his shirt is left out of his sash, which is now shown holding his saber at his ideal side. Lastly, his shoes consists of simple brown sandals, their soles gray-studded. After the timeskip, he is at some point seen using various pants yet again, light-colored with a rose pattern.