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character
name | Nico Robin
series | One Piece
game | paradisa
loss | ability to touch a book
player
Stormy | alias
shonencloudburst | aim
79.ooo.ooo[at]gmail.com | email
confectionaries | journal
[About Nico Robin]
The world was never a fair place for Nico Robin. It started off with a quest for knowledge; her father had run off to discover an outlawed history of their world, and barely a toddler, her mother followed after him, leaving the little runt in the care of her jerk of an uncle. Now, the uncle didn't mind having Robin around, but he thought of the girl as a nuisance and a pain to care for, nothing as high-ranked as his darling, beautiful daughter. So, as the old stories go, Robin was "trained" from an early age to cook and clean and take care of the house while her uncle and aunt pampered their daughter. Once her work was done, Robin was free to do as she wished. But, by possessing the powers of a devil fruit, she was a "witch" and a bully, two lies the neighborhood children used to get rocks thrown at Robin, so they could laugh while she sat listening to lectures from those same bullies' parents on how she upset their child.
Unfair, right?
But of course, Robin wasn't without friends at all. The only thing that kept her from being an untrusting, frigid orphan child was the group of archaeologists at the Tree of Knowledge. Now, on the small island of Ohara, it was pretty common knowledge that Robin's parents were archaeologists. Coupled with how nice the archaeologists were, in addition to the reputation of her parents and the only solitary hobby Robin had, she read. She read and read enough to become a certified archaeologist on her eighth birthday. To this day, learning and reading are two of Robin's most predominant hobbies. She's always had a knack for reading just about everything her eyes glance on, from signs to figure out where they are to every book she gets her hand on; it's become a habit.
Anyway, back to archaeology! Robin managed to crash her own birthday and celebration party by explaining why she wanted to be an archaeologist; she wanted to learn the history her parents were learning, and after spying and sneaking about, she couldn't see why she wasn't allowed to secretly learn the dangerous, untold history the archaeologists were learning. They just wanted to protect her, and because even knowing about the history could have you killed in their world, they wanted Robin to live as long as she could. Unfortunately, they couldn't use logic with an eight-year-old, especially one as stubborn and willing to know as Robin was, so they resorted to a threat: she had to forget about learning it, or she wouldn't be allowed to be an archaeologist. This broke the poor child's heart, and she fled to the edge of the island... where she met a giant. Jaguar D. Saul, former Vice Admiral in the marines, in fact!
Jaguar was a nice guy, and he was one of the few people genuinely impressed with Robin's powers. Oddly enough, he even made her laugh, and she spent many days just talking and sitting with him as he built a raft. Only when the raft was finished did he learn the name of the island, and that was the day Robin's life fell apart. According to Jaguar, the marines were coming to destroy the village, because they had heard about the archaeologists. Around the same time Saul was giving her this information, her mother had arrived on shore, having escaped the marines, and came to warn the archaeologists. Robin, in a panic, ran to the Tree of Knowledge just moments after her mother had left, but they refused to tell her anything. In fact, they told her not to dare tell them she was an archaeologist, since they wouldn't suspect it because of her age... but she spilled it anyway. Robin, from an early age, was not afraid, and she saw no reason to hide who she was.
The marines had the archaeologists held at gunpoint as they snooped around and got an okay, and Robin reunited with her mother for the first and only time. Olvia, bloodied and bruised, held her daughter and told her she was proud, then said she wanted one thing from her: She wanted Robin to live. And living was just what she planned on doing. Taking over where her mother left off, Robin planned on learning the forbidden history of the world, the true history, in honor of her mother and all of her archaeologist friends. The island of Ohara had been set on fire, along with everyone still on it (save for the few citizens who managed to escape, but they blew up that boat anyway [one of those "everyone must die, just to play it safe" issues, how kind of the marines]). Long story short, history is a BIG FUCKING DEAL, and knowing what you shouldn't be knowing immediately puts you on the wrong side of the law. By not only surviving Ohara, but being the only survivor, Robin remains, to this day the only, as the only Ohara citizen who lived to tell the tale.
Robin spent the next eight years on the run, growing up and growing strong. She learned that not everyone can be trusted; this is something that stuck with her a long time. Most of her life was spent flying solo or running away, so she learned to depend on just one person, and that was herself. She had gone from working in small towns to pirate ships to joining crews, while her name spread around like a plague. Each city, each island, each crew she joined, she found betrayal in the form of "maybe we can turn her in for her high bounty." Oddly enough, her bounty was ridiculously high for a child, a whopping 79 million beli. Most upcoming and well-known pirates around the Grand Line were barely worth 30 million. Of course, Robin was worth every penny, seeing as she had yet to be captured. She just knew for a fact that she couldn't trust anyone she ran into, for a long, long while. She didn't fully learn to love or trust another fully until she joined Luffy's crew, and only after they had saved her.
During her time on the run, Robin also picked up many interesting traits. She can stay up a good night or two when necessary, or sometimes when she just feels like getting extra reading in. Her sleep cycles are pretty skewed but it's good for keeping watch on those shifts no one wants. She also doesn't require as much food as other devil fruit owners, probably due to her very underprivileged lifestyle and having to fend for herself for so long.
She can easily control are her emotions. They've rarely betrayed her--often when she's been caught by surprise--but once she's taken a moment to breathe, she can easily regain control. She's gone from being a sobbing mess to calm and collected, albeit tear-stained, in a matter of seconds. When her emotions are released, it's almost kind of sweet. There are small smiles over a nice cup of coffee and a good book and curious glances when something's caught her eye. She's rarely coherent when she cries, reduced to a sobbing, blubbery mess, complete with streams of tears and broken words (as is, of course, the magic of One Piece tears). However, her crying is rare, and she can quickly revert back to that suave, collected individual if she needs to fight back once she's had her moment. She's quite prideful and has a way of bouncing back from just about anything. Robin is not the type to stay down for long.
Her high level of intellect has made her extremely knowledgeable in many fields. Robin is quite strategic and very down-to-earth in terms of common sense. She knows the art of conversation and enjoys having relaxing sit-down chats with people. It's not something too noticeable at first, for she's reserved and quiet by nature and knows how to make herself invisible at will--save for sex appeal. Having lived in a household where she was practically invisible, and spending the next twenty years evading the law, she's learned the importance of keeping quiet and the value of silence. Though, after even the briefest exchange of words, it's easy to tell that deep down she's rather friendly and conversational. She's more of an observer and spends much of her time just watching people and creatures, not only the aspect of human curiosity but also from a scientist's perspective. It's proven interesting to learn about people and their interactions with others, in addition to just the changing of society and people's responses to similar incidents.
It was her intellectual prowess that had rescued her from just running for the law and landed her in front of the Shichibukai--or, Baroque Works head, Sir motherfucking Crocodile. Crocodile was after the grand weapon, Pluton, which was also included on each piece of the history Robin was looking for. Because Robin could read the ancient language, he offered her a high position in his group. And then he terrorized the kingdom of Alabasta for the next four years, Luffy's crew came in, Robin lied to him, the Straw Hat Pirates kicked his ass, and Robin imposed herself on his ship because she was interested in how they ran things. Most of her reasoning for joining the crew seems muddled and confusing but overall they were the only ones she actually stayed with long enough to get somewhere.
Her time with them was what had her warm up and get a little more accustomed to people who genuinely cared. They got into loads of trouble, which pulled at the little adventurous spirit inside her, and Robin managed to find a place where she truly felt like she belonged. That was one of the things she had truly been searching for. Spending twenty years on the run from the law and never finding a true "home", it was pretty nice to finally find a crew who loved her for what she was, an archaeologist, and help her achieve her own dreams, rather than using her for her skills and bounty. Robin still never fully opened up to them, though.
Her secrecy and self-control are as much of a bonus as they are a weakness. She's reliable and understanding, but she also has a habit of not telling her others--specifically, her crewmates--when she's in trouble or needs help. This mistake has almost cost her her life on more than one occasion, but ever since Enies Lobby, this has become something she's been working on.
At Enies Lobby, Spandam of Cipher Pol 9 (the son of the man who burned down her beloved Ohara) threatened to take away the only peace she had by revealing how none of her previous crews ever stayed, and how much of a wanted criminal she was. After getting her to agree to go with them them, in order to leave Luffy's crew safe, she practically turned herself in. However, the Straw Hat pirates don't take this shit lightly, so they put up a fight and destroyed one of the largest Marine Headquarters on the Grand Line She learned from this point that she didn't have to do everything alone, since she had her crew who would give their lives for her, just as she almost did for them. So of course, bounties went up and Robin felt a lot closer to the seven--now eight--who put their lives on the line for her sake.
They managed to move on to another adventure, to Thriller Bark the ghost island, where they picked up Brooke, the singing skeleton whose perversion could only rival Sanji. She almost died this time (yet again; really, near-death experiences are what they thrive on), but Robin's not afraid of death. Never was, really. Moving on once again to Sabaody Island, the marines o' badass were waiting; and the entire crew was separated. Robin, oddly enough, managed to keep her cool, even though she was separated from the crew. (She's way too calm sometimes.) She managed to escape captors at Tequila Wolf, an island in East Blue, with the surprising help of Luffy's father and the revolutionary pirates, but she doesn't reunite with the crew just yet. Instead, she stays with them for a little longer, on Luffy's request: to become stronger. After all, they've got to help Luffy become the pirate king somehow, right? This time was the first time Robin realized that she was getting stronger for someone who wasn't just herself. It wasn't only for survival now.
Two years of training and learning passed and Robin resurfaced, placid and easygoing as always. The most she changed was in appearance; she really let her hair down. Robin's adventure with the Revolutionaries, if anything, helped her become more accustomed to bizarre interactions and exposed her to more of the world than she could have ever hoped for. If anything, she's even calmer than she had been, easily sketching a giant Kraken threatening the ship upon reuniting, and not very worried--at least, not outwardly worried--about the ship reaching a land of sea monsters. She's only grown more curious, trying to observe and understand as much as possible, despite the potential grave danger they could be in.
...after all, they always get out of it. She trusts her crew enough to know that much, now.
Even though she's relaxed in the face of danger, she's still got her odd quirks. She still loves exploring new places and learning the history of buildings, and has become quite crafty in her methods. Her footsteps are light and her breathing soft; she's easily capable of sneaking in a place, even without the use of her powers. And not only can she explain interesting facts of Pirating and Marine history, she's also got plenty of useless did-you-know trivia about squids and disturbing facts about the human body, which she'll easily express, even when the timing is completely awful. And she's still got her motherly and nurturing sense.
She likes being able to teach and share knowledge, one trait she's inherited from her own mother, even if it's in the form of a humorously disgusting fact-of-the-day format. She enjoys being able to watch the joy light up someone's face when they've discovered something new. Even though she doesn't have much experience with young children, Chopper and Luffy are practically children and she has a habit of instinctively treating them as a mother would, to a point. She has a habit of letting foolish behavior continue, or growing bored of boys bickering and losing herself to yet another book while idiot crewmates attempt to throttle each other, sometimes even snickering about it behind the pages of her books.
name | Nico Robin
series | One Piece
game | paradisa
loss | ability to touch a book
player
Stormy | alias
shonencloudburst | aim
79.ooo.ooo[at]gmail.com | email
confectionaries | journal
[About Nico Robin]
The world was never a fair place for Nico Robin. It started off with a quest for knowledge; her father had run off to discover an outlawed history of their world, and barely a toddler, her mother followed after him, leaving the little runt in the care of her jerk of an uncle. Now, the uncle didn't mind having Robin around, but he thought of the girl as a nuisance and a pain to care for, nothing as high-ranked as his darling, beautiful daughter. So, as the old stories go, Robin was "trained" from an early age to cook and clean and take care of the house while her uncle and aunt pampered their daughter. Once her work was done, Robin was free to do as she wished. But, by possessing the powers of a devil fruit, she was a "witch" and a bully, two lies the neighborhood children used to get rocks thrown at Robin, so they could laugh while she sat listening to lectures from those same bullies' parents on how she upset their child.
Unfair, right?
But of course, Robin wasn't without friends at all. The only thing that kept her from being an untrusting, frigid orphan child was the group of archaeologists at the Tree of Knowledge. Now, on the small island of Ohara, it was pretty common knowledge that Robin's parents were archaeologists. Coupled with how nice the archaeologists were, in addition to the reputation of her parents and the only solitary hobby Robin had, she read. She read and read enough to become a certified archaeologist on her eighth birthday. To this day, learning and reading are two of Robin's most predominant hobbies. She's always had a knack for reading just about everything her eyes glance on, from signs to figure out where they are to every book she gets her hand on; it's become a habit.
Anyway, back to archaeology! Robin managed to crash her own birthday and celebration party by explaining why she wanted to be an archaeologist; she wanted to learn the history her parents were learning, and after spying and sneaking about, she couldn't see why she wasn't allowed to secretly learn the dangerous, untold history the archaeologists were learning. They just wanted to protect her, and because even knowing about the history could have you killed in their world, they wanted Robin to live as long as she could. Unfortunately, they couldn't use logic with an eight-year-old, especially one as stubborn and willing to know as Robin was, so they resorted to a threat: she had to forget about learning it, or she wouldn't be allowed to be an archaeologist. This broke the poor child's heart, and she fled to the edge of the island... where she met a giant. Jaguar D. Saul, former Vice Admiral in the marines, in fact!
Jaguar was a nice guy, and he was one of the few people genuinely impressed with Robin's powers. Oddly enough, he even made her laugh, and she spent many days just talking and sitting with him as he built a raft. Only when the raft was finished did he learn the name of the island, and that was the day Robin's life fell apart. According to Jaguar, the marines were coming to destroy the village, because they had heard about the archaeologists. Around the same time Saul was giving her this information, her mother had arrived on shore, having escaped the marines, and came to warn the archaeologists. Robin, in a panic, ran to the Tree of Knowledge just moments after her mother had left, but they refused to tell her anything. In fact, they told her not to dare tell them she was an archaeologist, since they wouldn't suspect it because of her age... but she spilled it anyway. Robin, from an early age, was not afraid, and she saw no reason to hide who she was.
The marines had the archaeologists held at gunpoint as they snooped around and got an okay, and Robin reunited with her mother for the first and only time. Olvia, bloodied and bruised, held her daughter and told her she was proud, then said she wanted one thing from her: She wanted Robin to live. And living was just what she planned on doing. Taking over where her mother left off, Robin planned on learning the forbidden history of the world, the true history, in honor of her mother and all of her archaeologist friends. The island of Ohara had been set on fire, along with everyone still on it (save for the few citizens who managed to escape, but they blew up that boat anyway [one of those "everyone must die, just to play it safe" issues, how kind of the marines]). Long story short, history is a BIG FUCKING DEAL, and knowing what you shouldn't be knowing immediately puts you on the wrong side of the law. By not only surviving Ohara, but being the only survivor, Robin remains, to this day the only, as the only Ohara citizen who lived to tell the tale.
Robin spent the next eight years on the run, growing up and growing strong. She learned that not everyone can be trusted; this is something that stuck with her a long time. Most of her life was spent flying solo or running away, so she learned to depend on just one person, and that was herself. She had gone from working in small towns to pirate ships to joining crews, while her name spread around like a plague. Each city, each island, each crew she joined, she found betrayal in the form of "maybe we can turn her in for her high bounty." Oddly enough, her bounty was ridiculously high for a child, a whopping 79 million beli. Most upcoming and well-known pirates around the Grand Line were barely worth 30 million. Of course, Robin was worth every penny, seeing as she had yet to be captured. She just knew for a fact that she couldn't trust anyone she ran into, for a long, long while. She didn't fully learn to love or trust another fully until she joined Luffy's crew, and only after they had saved her.
During her time on the run, Robin also picked up many interesting traits. She can stay up a good night or two when necessary, or sometimes when she just feels like getting extra reading in. Her sleep cycles are pretty skewed but it's good for keeping watch on those shifts no one wants. She also doesn't require as much food as other devil fruit owners, probably due to her very underprivileged lifestyle and having to fend for herself for so long.
She can easily control are her emotions. They've rarely betrayed her--often when she's been caught by surprise--but once she's taken a moment to breathe, she can easily regain control. She's gone from being a sobbing mess to calm and collected, albeit tear-stained, in a matter of seconds. When her emotions are released, it's almost kind of sweet. There are small smiles over a nice cup of coffee and a good book and curious glances when something's caught her eye. She's rarely coherent when she cries, reduced to a sobbing, blubbery mess, complete with streams of tears and broken words (as is, of course, the magic of One Piece tears). However, her crying is rare, and she can quickly revert back to that suave, collected individual if she needs to fight back once she's had her moment. She's quite prideful and has a way of bouncing back from just about anything. Robin is not the type to stay down for long.
Her high level of intellect has made her extremely knowledgeable in many fields. Robin is quite strategic and very down-to-earth in terms of common sense. She knows the art of conversation and enjoys having relaxing sit-down chats with people. It's not something too noticeable at first, for she's reserved and quiet by nature and knows how to make herself invisible at will--save for sex appeal. Having lived in a household where she was practically invisible, and spending the next twenty years evading the law, she's learned the importance of keeping quiet and the value of silence. Though, after even the briefest exchange of words, it's easy to tell that deep down she's rather friendly and conversational. She's more of an observer and spends much of her time just watching people and creatures, not only the aspect of human curiosity but also from a scientist's perspective. It's proven interesting to learn about people and their interactions with others, in addition to just the changing of society and people's responses to similar incidents.
It was her intellectual prowess that had rescued her from just running for the law and landed her in front of the Shichibukai--or, Baroque Works head, Sir motherfucking Crocodile. Crocodile was after the grand weapon, Pluton, which was also included on each piece of the history Robin was looking for. Because Robin could read the ancient language, he offered her a high position in his group. And then he terrorized the kingdom of Alabasta for the next four years, Luffy's crew came in, Robin lied to him, the Straw Hat Pirates kicked his ass, and Robin imposed herself on his ship because she was interested in how they ran things. Most of her reasoning for joining the crew seems muddled and confusing but overall they were the only ones she actually stayed with long enough to get somewhere.
Her time with them was what had her warm up and get a little more accustomed to people who genuinely cared. They got into loads of trouble, which pulled at the little adventurous spirit inside her, and Robin managed to find a place where she truly felt like she belonged. That was one of the things she had truly been searching for. Spending twenty years on the run from the law and never finding a true "home", it was pretty nice to finally find a crew who loved her for what she was, an archaeologist, and help her achieve her own dreams, rather than using her for her skills and bounty. Robin still never fully opened up to them, though.
Her secrecy and self-control are as much of a bonus as they are a weakness. She's reliable and understanding, but she also has a habit of not telling her others--specifically, her crewmates--when she's in trouble or needs help. This mistake has almost cost her her life on more than one occasion, but ever since Enies Lobby, this has become something she's been working on.
At Enies Lobby, Spandam of Cipher Pol 9 (the son of the man who burned down her beloved Ohara) threatened to take away the only peace she had by revealing how none of her previous crews ever stayed, and how much of a wanted criminal she was. After getting her to agree to go with them them, in order to leave Luffy's crew safe, she practically turned herself in. However, the Straw Hat pirates don't take this shit lightly, so they put up a fight and destroyed one of the largest Marine Headquarters on the Grand Line She learned from this point that she didn't have to do everything alone, since she had her crew who would give their lives for her, just as she almost did for them. So of course, bounties went up and Robin felt a lot closer to the seven--now eight--who put their lives on the line for her sake.
They managed to move on to another adventure, to Thriller Bark the ghost island, where they picked up Brooke, the singing skeleton whose perversion could only rival Sanji. She almost died this time (yet again; really, near-death experiences are what they thrive on), but Robin's not afraid of death. Never was, really. Moving on once again to Sabaody Island, the marines o' badass were waiting; and the entire crew was separated. Robin, oddly enough, managed to keep her cool, even though she was separated from the crew. (She's way too calm sometimes.) She managed to escape captors at Tequila Wolf, an island in East Blue, with the surprising help of Luffy's father and the revolutionary pirates, but she doesn't reunite with the crew just yet. Instead, she stays with them for a little longer, on Luffy's request: to become stronger. After all, they've got to help Luffy become the pirate king somehow, right? This time was the first time Robin realized that she was getting stronger for someone who wasn't just herself. It wasn't only for survival now.
Two years of training and learning passed and Robin resurfaced, placid and easygoing as always. The most she changed was in appearance; she really let her hair down. Robin's adventure with the Revolutionaries, if anything, helped her become more accustomed to bizarre interactions and exposed her to more of the world than she could have ever hoped for. If anything, she's even calmer than she had been, easily sketching a giant Kraken threatening the ship upon reuniting, and not very worried--at least, not outwardly worried--about the ship reaching a land of sea monsters. She's only grown more curious, trying to observe and understand as much as possible, despite the potential grave danger they could be in.
...after all, they always get out of it. She trusts her crew enough to know that much, now.
Even though she's relaxed in the face of danger, she's still got her odd quirks. She still loves exploring new places and learning the history of buildings, and has become quite crafty in her methods. Her footsteps are light and her breathing soft; she's easily capable of sneaking in a place, even without the use of her powers. And not only can she explain interesting facts of Pirating and Marine history, she's also got plenty of useless did-you-know trivia about squids and disturbing facts about the human body, which she'll easily express, even when the timing is completely awful. And she's still got her motherly and nurturing sense.
She likes being able to teach and share knowledge, one trait she's inherited from her own mother, even if it's in the form of a humorously disgusting fact-of-the-day format. She enjoys being able to watch the joy light up someone's face when they've discovered something new. Even though she doesn't have much experience with young children, Chopper and Luffy are practically children and she has a habit of instinctively treating them as a mother would, to a point. She has a habit of letting foolish behavior continue, or growing bored of boys bickering and losing herself to yet another book while idiot crewmates attempt to throttle each other, sometimes even snickering about it behind the pages of her books.