Since ancient times, mankind has recognised certain unknowns as acts of God, beyond the comprehension of mortals. They cannot be fought, cannot be defeated. Such is lightning.
APPEARANCE
Enel is roughly 7'2" feet tall. He is stylistically flamboyant and completely lacks self-consciousness. He never wears a shirt and doesn't bother to cover himself if someone sees him naked – they should feel privileged. Through his back is embedded a gigantic ring; on the top of this ring, four tomoe drums are attached. He uses these to focus and amplify his electrical power, as well as to show off. His heavily stretched, ornamented earlobes are merely another aspect of his ostentatious appearance and personality.
VOICE
Enel's voice is haughty but smooth, and is best compared to
Team Four Star's Perfect Cell.
PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
Enel is deluded past the point of even 'normal' psychoses. His god complex is literal: he believes he is the one true God. He believes that everything, the universe itself, is his infallible
right. It does not, therefore, even occur to him that he would care about offending or upsetting anyone else. It is his
right to judge others, or to take lives if he feels he has been slighted or not given the proper respect. While he sometimes cloyingly thinks of himself as a 'generous' or 'forgiving' 'god', he is, at his core, cruel and indifferent to the suffering of others. It is therefore unsurprising that he is incredibly difficult to get along with for most people. For the most part, this is only possible for those with no backbone, or those who are willing to pander to his delusions.
While deluded, Enel is not entirely a moron. In fact, he is naturally gifted and, if not for his delusions and arrogance, might have been an extremely intelligent person. He delights in outwitting others and proving himself 'intellectually superior', even if this often requires a degree (or a boatload) of self-trickery. He enjoys watching 'immoral' humans get their so-called come-uppance and does not see it as mattering if they are lead or pushed into it. In terms of being tricked by others, his pride can often be his downfall, though again, he is not a complete moron.
His opinion of the Omniverse is that it is an illusion of a devil eater or some other trickery – that to truly take away his powers would be impossible, but that in this illusory world they are somehow
suppressed. He is determined to break out and torture the one responsible – Omni. He is gradually, grudgingly beginning to realise that breaking out may not be as easy as he hoped or expected. This only compounds and adds to the stewing pit of hatred that has been there ever since he came to the Omniverse.
PRE-OMNIVERSE HISTORY
Short version:
Enel is taken from immediately before the Skypeia arc on One Piece. This means he has not met Monkey D. Luffy or any of the other Straw Hat Pirates. His history is clouded and more may be revealed over time on the Omniverse. What is known so far is that he was raised on the sky island Birka, before finding the Goro Goro Devil Fruit and, with his newly found (or 'unlocked', as he believes) powers, he destroyed the entire sky island. He later came to be the 'god' of Skypeia, ruling over with his enforcers, using his powers of electromagnetism to listen in to all the happenings of Skypeia and punish those who went against him.
For more details, see
this. Everything is canon up to the point where the Straw Hats appear. Essentially, everything under the 'Past' heading.
Longer version (taken from One Piece wiki and added to)
[spoiler]
Enel was born and raised on the Sky Island Birka, but eight years before his encounter with the Straw Hats, after finding and eating the Goro Goro Fruit (Goro being the sound of thunder rumbling, and it being the fruit that grants power over lightning and electricity), he destroyed his homeland and came to Skypiea with his followers. Birka was said to be home to many strong warriors; they were, however, powerless before Enel. Though it was his original home, Enel did not show any sign of love towards it, as he destroyed it without any hesitation. Afterwards, Enel and his loyal contingent of followers overthrew the then current ruler of Skypiea, Gan Fall, becoming the island's new ruler and taking residence in Upper Yard, the sole Sky Island to have dirt (it actually being part of an island from below which was blasted up into the clouds some years earlier) making it sacred and holy.
Enel maintained a personality cult over Skypiea, truly taking the mantle of "god" to its more literal sense. Though Skypiea still had a sense of peace and paradise, much like in any classic dystopia, it was a false paradise. Using his mantra, he could 'hear' the voices of everyone on the island. If anyone dared speak out against Enel, or challenge his list of commandments, he would shoot a giant column of lightning down from the sky to effectively eliminate the dissenter.
Along with this, he forced the enforcers who worked under Gan Fall to build him a massive, flying ship called the "Maxim". Enel, after studying history within the Upper Yard, came to the belief that the moon is the legendary land that he sought: an endless land of the sacred dirt, also known as "Fairy Vearth". This is the reason that he constructed the Ark Maxim. [/spoiler]
OMNIVERSE HISTORY
Upon
arriving in the Omniverse, Enel was furious to find that his powers had been stolen by the false god Omni. In his angered state he approached the gate to Coruscant and immediately killed two stormtroopers who'd neglected to treat him with what he saw as the proper deference. A third escaped. Enel was grazed by a bullet during the encounter and further enraged by his loss of power. Shortly afterwards he ran into Ganondorf and Android Eighteen, the former of whom invited Enel to stay at his desert fortress. Enel accepted.
During his stay in the fortress Enel made himself out to be rather a nuisance, disrespecting Ganondorf's property and retainer, Firani. Ultimately he was challenged to a fight by the overconfident Gerudo King. Enel barely won this fight, and took revenge first by painfully electrocuting Ganondorf to death.
However, this was not enough to sate Enel's taste for vengeance at the Gerudo King for disrespecting him. During the night
he came to Firani's quarters and subdued her. When Ganondorf returned to his castle following his resurrection, he found the once-proud Gerudo woman a slave, having been tortured and used by Enel the same way he used his mindless, summoned female retainers. Enel was shocked when, for reasons known only to the Gerudo King, Ganondorf killed Firani. The demon lord left, but not without taunting Enel for his levity towards his supposed goal of killing Omni.
Put into a bad mood, Enel left the castle for the first time in weeks and
summoned a chinese dragon (named Crispy) and
rode into The Town with No Name. He encountered Ganondorf, and after a short scuffle in which Crispy took a Warlock Punch to the face, he was distracted from his ire by the newcomers Strazio Rockwell and Thaal Sinestro, who offered to feed him.
Enel was less than impressed by the cheap spread, and while taken by the proposal of an alliance, was now dead-set on finding Omni. Thus began
his grand adventure to find the Void Gate in the Dunes. Roland agreed to tell him how to find Omni if he carried out the small task of clearing out a band of super mutants from an abandoned power station. Enel arrived to find the task had already been taken care of by a wandering troupe of paladins led by one Carmine of the Frigid Flame. Taking credit for this, Enel returned to Roland and was told of the Dark Tower, and the great beast in the desert known as Jhen Mohran. With only the skeleton of a plan, Enel went out into the desert to see for himself. After months of wandering, he met the beast.
And, after a struggle, was eaten alive.
Eventually he
respawned at the Nexus, foggy of memory and surrounded by
a fight he would later learn was over the Sword of Kusanagi (Weeb Blade). He battled some fools, namely the programdroid Colonel.exe and the templar Shay Cormac, but after taking a blow to the head from some collateral explosion, was dazed and wandered away from the fight. After waking up, it was all over, and he
struggled to return to the Endless Dunes.
He met some jawas, who attempted to steal his gold staff and were quickly reprimanded with a bit of lightning. The jawas, seeing his electrical prowess (which to their machinery-loving ways, meant a real god) bowed down to him, and Enel accepted them as his followers. They made to lead him back to their sandcrawler home, but along the way, the templar from before - Shay Cormac -
turned up, and he and Enel fought, culminating in the faux-god having one of his jawas put a trident through the templar's neck.
They continued back to the sandcrawler, and Enel assumed his place as their god. After a few weeks of scavenging and killing bandits (and burning down a library, where he learned about the Dataverse), Enel discovered that there was a competition going on, where he might earn some OM. Thus he joined Dante's Abyss.
During the competition, he met up with Harlan Higgs (under the guise of Victor Hendy) and travelled with him for a time, believing the vampire to be a suitably average mook (though perhaps ex-forces, given his surprising strength and capability). They travelled the island, rapidly acquiring pickups at the cost of sleep for Enel. Enel became increasingly paranoid as his companion seemed to need no sleep or food, and believed he saw Hendy drink the blood of Odin before the duo dispatched him. This turned out to be true.
During the competition, Enel continued to familiarise himself with the Dataverse, and gained a twitter following. He met one of his fans, Graowr (the Future Warrior) who unreservedly believed Enel's claims to be God. Her compliments won her Enel's trust, and he worked with her and Batman to attack a couple of impudent oafs (Gamzee and Strazio) who declined to give their items to Enel. Strazio escaped, but Gamzee was defeated - not before nearly killing Enel, however.
The near-death experience awoke Enel to memories, or visions, of his future in his own world, where he fought and was defeated by Monkey D. Luffy. This thoroughly shook Enel. After believing his own demise was nigh at hand, he handed his items off to Graowr, believing that if he were to die, his disciple should win the competition. He also shared drinks with Cell and Sterling Archer, before being whisked away to the Colosseum. There, he was defeated at the hands of Tearen Wover.
Coming out of the competition, Enel saw that Graowr had won, though she'd been hounded by a super-group including Gildarts, Dawn Snow, Jak Mar, Tamsin Suzaku and Dust - whom he vowed to kill permanently, along with Tearen Wover, who'd 'cheated' by using consumables to heal himself in the competition. With that, he left the facility and returned to the Town With No Name, inviting all of his compadres from the competition (Batman, Harlan, Archer, Cell and Graowr) to join him. He also received a ballgag from Karl Jak (secretly a horcrux with the power to prevent banishment).