Yamato

Yamato (ヤマト, Yamato), is both a fictional character and tritagonist from the Fairy One Piece Tail series created by Hiro Mashima and Eiichiro Oda. She is the daughter of Kaido of the Four Emperors, and a huge fan of Oden Kozuki, as well as having read his diary.

She styles herself as the legendary samurai himself, in profound admiration of him and frequently presents herself as a man as part of her aspiration for the emulation of him, causing her to otherwise be widely referred to as the son of Kaido.

"One day I told my father "I want to be Oden Kozuki" and he clobbered me for it."
 * —Yamato.

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Appearance
Yamato is a tall woman, though not nearly as tall as her father, being slightly over twice Luffy's height. She has long, light-colored hair that is tied into a ponytail at the back, which turns darker further down and ends in rectangular locks similar to her father's, and she has a pair of horns atop her head that start out light-colored but then turn darker.

She has large eyes with prominent eyelashes, and wears hoop earrings on her ears. Much like Oden, Yamato wears a large nio-daisuki on her back. She wears a pair of hakama pants and sandals, and has cuffs around her wrists with a short chain attached to each of them.

Disguise
When in disguise, she wears a hannya mask over her face, which has a wig of an extremely long and wild mane attached to the top and a long goatee attached to the bottom. She wears a multi-colored kimono with a diamond-shaped design on both sides of her chest; she wears the kimono traditionally when disguised in order to hide her chest, but when she revealed herself to Luffy she ripped off the sleeves and made the garment more form-fitting.


 * Hair Color: Purple
 * Skin Color: Not Known
 * Eye Color: Hazel
 * Age: 23 (debut), 25 (after timeskip)
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: Not Known
 * Weight: Not Known

Personality
Yamato greatly holds immense admiration for the legendary samurai Oden Kozuki above anyone else, to the degree of emulating every aspect of him, including his appearance, goals, and even his gender, reasoning that, since Oden was a man, she herself chose to become a man. Thus, Yamato wishes to fulfill Oden's dream of reopening the borders of Wano Country to the world.

This attachment to Oden puts Yamato at great odds with her father, who is an enemy of Oden and his family. Although Yamato and Kaido are not indicated to be enemies, she has acted against her father and his crew to achieve her goals, such as attacking Ulti in order to take Luffy D. Monkey from her, and wishing to work with Luffy and Natsu, another enemies of her father, to achieve Oden's goal.

Friends/Allies

 * Luffy D. Monkey
 * Natsu Dragneel
 * Ace D. Portgas

Family

 * Kaido (father)

Powers and Abilities
Yamato is a very powerful warrior, with Black Maria noting that bringing her back to Kaido's fortress after she had left would be a difficult task.

Physical Abilities
Yamato possesses monstrous strength resembling her father's, being capable of wielding a large and heavy kanabo and using it to defeat Ulti, an Ancient Zoan user and one of the Tobiroppo, with just one blow. She was able to physically match Luffy's strength with relative ease, even when the pirate increased his strength exponentially with Gear Second and Gear Third.

Yamato countered a punch from Luffy with her foot, resulting in a powerful collision that destroyed much of the surrounding wall and ceiling and blew back the Beasts Pirates around them. Due to her large size, she is capable of easily picking up the average-sized Luffy and holding him with just one arm while running.

Yamato is quite fast, being able to lunge forward with blinding speed to attack her targets as well as outrun members of the Beasts Pirates chasing after her. She was also able to completely elude the pirates around her in the aftermath of her clash with Luffy and take him to the attic without anyone seeing them.

Weapons
Yamato wields a giant kanabo club much like her father, though her kanabo is studded and more slender, while Kaido's is spiked and a bit thicker. In addition to the kanabo being a powerful blunt weapon, Yamato has masterful technique with it, being capable of moving it to counter Luffy's rapid attacks with little effort.

Techniques
The named techniques that are used by Yamato that involve her Weapon are as follows:
 * Thunder Bagua (雷鳴八卦 Raimei Hakke; literally meaning "Thunderclap Eight Trigrams"):Yamato lunges forward at blinding speed and swings her kanabo horizontally to the right, hitting the target with tremendous force. The attack was first seen used against Ulti in her full-beast transformation, knocking her out instantly. In using the attack, Yamato takes after her father, as Kaido has used it as well. However, while Kaido uses only one hand to swing his kanabo, Yamato swings with both. Ulti considers this attack to only be half as powerful as Kaido's, and so called it Blunder Bagua (|雷鳴四卦, Raimei Yonke; literally meaning "Thunderclap Four Trigrams) instead, though the people around her pointed out that it still hurt her greatly.

Early Life
At some point in the past, Yamato went to her father Kaido and told him that she wanted to be the great samurai Kozuki Oden, resulting in Kaido beating her. She was present during Oden's execution in the Legendary Hour, and became very sorrowful at the samurai's death. Later, Yamato found Oden's logbook in Kuri and held onto it dearly while starting to emulate everything about Oden.

Yamato began presenting as a man to emulate Oden's gender, and has since been widely referred to as Kaido's son. At an unknown point in time, Kaido placed exploding shackles on Yamato, preventing her from leaving Onigashima. At some point between 2 and 5 years ago, Yamato met the pirate Ace D. Portgas and fought with him. At a later point, Yamato began waiting for Luffy D. Monkey and Natsu Dragneel to come.

Canon

 * Yamato, Natsu Dragneel and Luffy D. Monkey vs. Ulti and Page One
 * Yamato vs. Luffy D. Monkey and Natsu Dragneel

Etymology

 * "Yamato" (やまと), meaning "Great Harmony", is an ancient name for Japan (originating from the Yamato Province) and can can also refer to the Yamato period of Japanese history, which lasted into the 8th century. Relating to that, Yamato is the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan and further refers to the dominant ethnic group of Japan, the Yamato people. Otherwise:
 * Yamato Takeru is a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty, prominent in mythology.
 * Yamato is the name of a prominent WWII-era Japanese battleship.