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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Nami
Canon: One Piece
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: Chapter 598, at the end of the two year timeskip
Number: 073

Setting: Here. Though Nami originally comes from East Blue, she joined her crew and went to the Grand Line early on in the piece.

History:

Who Nami’s actual blood family is is unknown; she and another little girl, Nojiko, were found wandering around in the aftermath of a warzone by Bellemere, a wounded marine who was near the edge of death. Seeing the two little girls gave Bellemere the courage and the will to keep going, and she took the two girls home with her to Cocoyashi Village in East Blue, where she raised the two as her own daughters at Bellemere’s mikan grove. They were always poor, with Nami often wearing Nojiko’s hand-me-downs and Bellemere eating nothing but mikan when things were particularly tight, but they were happy and they managed well enough. As a child, Nami grew to love drawing maps and nursed a dream of becoming a first class ship’s navigator and drawing a map of the world that she had seen with her own eyes. At the age of ten, she drew her first map of the island, accurately showing landmarks and topography of the landscape.

Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked Arlong and his fishmen pirates came to the island shortly afterward, announcing their intention to rule over the island and make every human who lived there pay a monthly tribute to keep their own lives. Bellemere fought them and was beaten brutally. She couldn’t afford the money required for both herself and her two daughters, and while initially the village tried to hide the fact that the two girls existed, Bellemere refused to deny that she had a family. She had enough money to pay for Nami and Nojiko. None for herself. As a result, despite the villagers trying to intervene, Arlong shot Bellemere dead in front of her daughters. They discovered Nami’s map still in Bellemere’s back pocket; impressed by her skill, and lacking any skill of their own in drawing maps, Nami was taken away by the pirates when they left.

Arlong struck Nami a deal. If she worked for him, drawing maps, he would allow her to buy her village’s freedom for 100 million beri. She accepted. When she returned to the village, she found them ready to march on Arlong in order to rescue her. Nami told them she had decided to join Arlong’s crew and showed them a handful of money he’d given her and when they saw Arlong’s tattoo on her left shoulder, Gen—the sheriff and the closest thing to a father figure she had—told her to get out and never return. She fled.

Nojiko got the real story out of her later that evening—that Nami was joining for the village’s sake, and that she would make the money so they could all be free again. When asked if it was hard to work for the person who killed Bellemere, Nami just said she’d smile every time she saw his face.

Shortly after that, she got the bright idea that in order to make 100 million beri, she’d just steal it from pirates. It was fast, it was fair (as far as she was concerned), and in the meantime she worked for Arlong in a map room at the top of his new mansion, the only human crewmember amidst a crew of fishmen that hated humans. She suffered abuse from her crew and countless injuries from her reckless thefts, and she kept the money she made in a box buried in Bellemere’s mikan grove, covered in dirt and blood, and through it all never lost sight of her goal. Arlong referred to her as one of the officers of her crew and lets her come and go as she pleases, knowing she will always return to him.

At the age of 18, she’d amassed 93 million of her 100 million beri. At the age of 18, she met Monkey D Luffy.

East Blue Arc

Luffy was a moron and a gullible twit and somehow the most bizarrely likable pirate she’d ever met. The moment she told him she was a navigator, he demanded she join his crew. After several misadventures with him (which included betrayal, yelling, cannons, sob stories involving dogs) she realised he wasn’t much like any other pirate she’d met, and grudgingly agreed to work with him for a while. (Probably just as well, or he’d have died before ever making the next port.) She stayed with him for several adventures, slowly beginning to enjoy herself for the first time in forever, and forging friendships with Luffy’s other crew as he pressganged recruited them all: Zoro and Usopp. She almost lost herself in this life. It was only when they arrived at the floating restaurant The Baratie that, upon meeting some of Zoro’s friends and fellow pirate hunters, she saw a wanted poster for Arlong and was reminded she had other priorities.

While the rest of the crew were at the restaurant (recruiting Sanji the chef), she stole the ship and all the treasure they’d amassed, sailing it right back to Cocoyashi Village in tears. She figured that was the end of things. She figured they’d probably show up eventually to reclaim their ship. She didn’t expect the crew to come looking to take her back, and was frankly pretty angry they wouldn’t leave her alone. Nami had grown up under Arlong, and knew he’d kill them if he had the chance. And she believed he could. She was proud, stubborn, and refused to tell them what was going on.

It was only when Arlong went back on their deal and had her 93 million beri seized that she realised he was never going to honour it, and she’d never be free—and on top of that, the villagers knew it too. Rather than watch her be trapped, they told her to go and live her life, and chose to march on Arlong’s stronghold and throw their lives away instead. Nami broke down at this point, her eight years of work shattered, not being able to stop them from leaving. Luffy came across her on her knees in the dust, stabbing at the tattoo on her arm and screaming Arlong’s name.

She asked him for help. He gave it. The four of them marched on Arlong Park and destroyed Arlong, his crew, and his mansion, freeing everyone. After that, Nami joined the Straw Hat crew for real, leaving with her village’s blessing, and a new tattoo to replace the pirate mark on her shoulder—a mikan and a pinwheel , to honour her family.

Now that their crew totaled five—Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Sanji—they sailed for the Grand Line.

Whiskey Peak

After some panicked shenanigans on entering the Grand Line (her compass didn’t work, she needed a special one called a Log Pose, the weather kept changing every five seconds, and also there was something about a whale…) the crew arrived at Whiskey Peak, a town that seemed amazingly welcoming to pirates. The residents were actually bounty hunters who lulled pirates into a false sense of security before capturing them while they were sleeping and handing them over for their bounties. Out of the five of them, only Nami and Zoro were bright enough to realise things weren’t kosher, both pretending to be drunk until the middle of the night, wherein Zoro basically beat up every bounty hunter in town. During the fight, assassins from an organization called Baroque Works turned up to assassinate a young woman called Vivi, who was an incognito princess only pretending to be a bounty hunter in an attempt to save her country (it’s complicated). Nami offered to get Vivi safely home to her country for a price (hey, princesses are rich, right?) and thus basically conscripted the crew into helping her. (Though they totally would have anyway.) Vivi and Nami became close friends almost immediately.

Drum Island

On an island called Little Garden there was a second assassination attempt involving giants, a giant wax cake and some dinosaurs (look, it’s One Piece, don’t ask me) which the crew dealt with effectively enough. While there, however, Nami was bitten by a prehistoric bug. While she didn’t think much on it at the time, by the time they put out to sea again, she was nursing a high fever. It wasn’t long before she became critically ill and the search for a doctor became top priority—though despite having a fever of 40 degrees, Nami still showed near supernatural awareness of the weather and diverted the ship out of the course of a supposedly unpredictable Grand Line cyclone.

They found a doctor on Drum Island in the form of Tony Tony Chopper, a reindeer who’d eaten a devil fruit that let him turn into a human being (I swear to you, the author is on crack), and Dr Kureha, a 137 year old doctor in great shape. They cured Nami of her illness there, beat up a corrupt king while they were at it, and when they left, they took Chopper with them as the ship’s doctor.

Alabasta Arc

On the way to Alabasta, Nami approached Usopp and confessed her desire to be able to protect Vivi when they arrived, and asked his help in building her a weapon she could use to fight alongside the others. He agreed, fashioning her one in the same form as her normal weapon—a three piece staff, only this one was capable of creating heat, cold, and electricity, and also magic tricks, which she hit him for later. Usopp called it the climatact.

Once in Alabasta, they became embroiled in a bloody revolution engineered by Baroque Works and its leader, Crocodile. In Nami’s hands, she put the climatact to expert use, and fought against the assassin Miss Doublefinger on her own. She learned how to use it on her feet, and found uses for it Usopp had never even thought about—creating lightning bolts, mirages of herself, and the like. She won. Eventually.

They all won their respective fights, helped Vivi and her father restore piece, partied hard, and left again. Vivi stayed behind, which Nami was saddened by (though she passed it off as missing out on the money she’d demanded to be paid), and they sailed away again, though they did pick up another crew member in the form of Nico Robin.

Skypeia Arc

In which the crew found an island in the sky, Luffy expressed a desire to visit it, and Nami screamed at him a lot and then found a way to get them up there, possibly the first navigator to sail a ship vertically up a water spout in decades. She’s good at her job. While there, they made friends with the locals, discovered new technology, and got embroiled in yet another revolution between the original natives and a devil fruit user who styled himself God. “God” was Enel, who had eaten the lightning fruit and was pretty powerful. Enel wiped out the majority of the crew except for Nami, who cheerfully volunteered to go with him instead of getting fried, and Luffy, who was inside a giant snake at the time. (uh…) There was a huge fight, Enel tried to destroy the sky islands, and Nami helped Luffy to reach him in time to save everyone. (This arc was all about Nami dragging Luffy up into places, really.)

Nami got a waver while she was here, the OP equivalent to a water ski, and it was great.

Water 7 / Enies Lobby

Their ship the Going Merry had sustained heavy damage by this point in their journey, and so they journeyed to the renowned shipyards at Water 7 with intent to repair it. While there, they were told the ship couldn’t be repaired. Also, Nico Robin vanished and they were framed for attempted murder. Life sucked all round. Attempting to work out what the hell was going on, they discovered Robin had given herself up to protect the rest of the crew and was being taken to Enies Lobby to be imprisoned and used by the government. The remaining crew cleared up the framing attempt and pursued her to Enies Lobby, burned down the World Government flag to show they didn’t give a shit about threats against them and that they meant business, and then fought to take Robin back. Nami fought with the now upgraded climatact to decimate an entire courtyard of marines and then fought one on one with devil fruit user Kalifa. They managed to retrieve Robin, retreated back to the Going Merry, and fled the marine’s ships with some skillful navigation and some sabotage by Sanji. The ship literally broke in half at this point, and they gave her a Viking funeral. Many days later, they sailed away from Water 7 in a new ship, the Thousand Sunny, with a new crewmate, the shipwright who’d built the Sunny – Franky.

The crew also all gained bounties for their part in the Enies Lobby fiasco, and Nami was horrified to find she had a bounty of 16 million beri. But hey, at least the photo they used was hot.

Thriller Bark

In which they met a living skeleton called Brook, their ship was waylaid by a gigantic one (seriously it has mansions and castles and everything) and there are zombies everywhere. The crew is separated as some of them are picked off, and Nami is kidnapped by a devil fruit user who can turn invisible and “likes weak women”. He drugs her and prepares to marry her against her consent; Sanji breaks in and rescues her once, but ultimately loses track of her. Nami wakes up before the marriage is consummated and finishes the job. (Still a better love story than Twilight.) In the meantime, half the crew has their shadows stolen and fight a sixty foot zombie in an attempt to get them back. Nami arrives just in time to stop it killing Franky, and when Luffy arrives soon after, the crew takes the zombie down in a team effort. The big bad is defeated, they survive an attempt on their lives by Bartholomew Kuma (ordered to kill them by the government because they’re causing too much trouble), and sail on. Brook joins their crew, tallying them up to nine.

Sabaody Archipelago Arc

The next island they need to go to is below the ocean’s surface, The crew befriend a mermaid, Keimi, who says she can get their ship specially coated to sail beneath the waves at the nearby Sabaody Archipelago. While they’re there, Keimi is kidnapped by slavers and the crew causes Yet Another Incident in rescuing her. This causes the marines to bring out their big guns, a bunch of robots called Pacifista, that between the entire crew they barely deal with one. Outnumbered, outmatched, they scatter intending to meet back up in three days, but even this proves to be impossible when a marine Admiral turns up. Intervention happens in the form of Bartholomew Kuma, who was impressed by them at Thriller Bark, and he uses his devil fruit power to scatter the Straw Hats to all points of the world, leaving the marines no target. It’s a sad day for everyone, but ultimately it saves their lives.

Weatheria

Nami finds herself on a manmade Sky Island called Weatheria, whose only residents appear to be weather scientists. At first incredibly homesick and painfully missing the crew, her interest is caught by what they’re doing and she watches them at work for a while. They agree to take her back to Sabaody, but the going is pretty slow. While there, she reads a newspaper that tells her Luffy was embroiled in a huge war at Marineford with the marines and lost his brother Ace there, and intends to steal one of Weatheria’s faster pods to get back to him as soon as she can. Shortly after that, though, Luffy gets a message to all of his crew—that instead of meeting back up in three days, he wants them to reunite in two years – they’re not strong enough to continue on their journey with the forces arrayed against them.

Nami calls him selfish, but devotes those two years to weather science, learning how to use it as a weapon (much to the distress of the other scientists). She masters it and turns it into an art form, creating for herself a third climatact – called the Sorcery Climatact – which packs a hell of a lot more punch than the first two versions. At the end of two years, she’s befriended the scientists, and they give her a lift back to Sabaody Archipelago, where she goes shopping, has a drink, and awaits the return of the rest of the crew.

Too bad she never gets to see them.

Personality:

Selfish, greedy, ruthless when it comes to money and a thief that’s more than willing to hide behind others and let them fight her battles for her; this is often the first impression of Nami, and you could be forgiven for thinking Nami wasn’t the nicest of women. But Nami has good reason to hate pirates, given how Arlong killed her mother and then forced her to work for them-- and given how her entire teenage years were spent slaving away to free a village, quite the opposite tends to be true, even if that time ingrained in her a lot of bad habits. She’s quite friendly with Luffy until she learns he’s also a pirate, and after that she just considers him fair game – but when she realises her selfishness is going to get Luffy killed, she risks her neck to save his life. Shortly after that, she begins to realise that not all pirates are like the ones who killed her mother, and agrees to join Luffy’s crew (the Straw Hat pirates) as his navigator on a temporary basis.

Nami is proud and never gives reasons for why she steals the way she does, and Luffy never asks. It’s only when things come to a head and the life of everyone in her village is at stake that she breaks down and asks for help – and Luffy and his crew give it without question, taking down Arlong and saving the village and freeing her from all obligations. After that, Nami gives her loyalty to the Straw Hats unconditionally. It’s entirely probable that the crew were her first friends. Self-serving, exploitative, and money-loving to a fault, but she’ll never sell her friends out, and god help anyone who tries to hurt those she cares about, because while she isn’t one of the heavy hitters on the crew, she can and will step up to the plate when the situation calls for it. When given the choice between riches and her friends, Nami will choose her friends every time. What's the point of having money if you have to be alone?

Nami is a very smart, street-savvy woman who’s probably the most rational person in the Straw Hat pirates, which makes her very bossy and eternally frustrated by nature, and she’s not afraid to slap her captain upside the head and call him an idiot. However, she has total faith and trust in all her crew, which has only grown over the years—and a hell of a lot of love to boot. She’s a highly attractive woman and knows it, and will happily use it to her advantage whenever she can, especially if there’s riches to be gained. She has little modesty, having once changed clothes in a roomful of men without batting an eyelid, and on the occasion that her crew were caught spying on her in the baths, she dropped her towel completely and charged them all 100,000 beri for the privilege.

Two years has gone past since her separation from her crew at Sabaody, and Nami has matured a fair deal, in more ways than one. She’s spent the last two years studying the weather—both the unique and frightening weather patterns of the New World (or the latter, more dangerous half of the Grand Line) and how to use weather technology, combined with her own uncanny knowledge, as a weapon more powerful than the Climatact, which has been her weapon of choice until now. Perhaps both because of her improved ability to fight and protect herself better and the two years of studying away from the crew in order to benefit the crew, Nami seems a lot more polished and sure of herself in a bad situation, showing backbone that she generally didn’t before unless backed into a corner.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

Nami is an accomplished pickpocket and thief-- her moniker on her wanted poster is Burglar Cat Nami, and it's not wrong. She's manipulative, difficult to con, and extremely agile and intelligent-- word of god lists her as the third smartest person in her home ocean of East Blue, and she's capable of performing complex navigational equations in her head, with a good grasp of meteorology and physics directly relating to any ocean mishaps.  She has a decent grasp of orchard farming, having helped with that before she was ten and very sporadically over the years afterward.  On top of that, she has a prodigious talent for navigation and cartography and an uncanny attunement to the weather (which... probably won't do her so well in space. For some reason.) She's also drop dead gorgeous and she knows it, and you can bet she'll use that fact if she needs to.

Her other strength is the Sorcery Climatact, and a full list of its abilities can be found here. It's quite powerful, though being in a spaceship will heavily limit any of its open-space usages like most of its lightning capabilities. I'm not sure if you'd consider it too powerful otherwise, so if you'd like to limit it further, let me know. Example: unless she's in a wide open area, the following attacks are pretty useless to her: Black Ball : Raiun Rod, Weather Egg, Milky Road. She can still use it as a taser with no problem, create mirages/hide herself from sight, and summon gusts of wind/barriers etc. When using this weapon I tend to employ common sense. (Mostly, she ends up using it for her very own steamy hot showers if the water's out.  Or just to show off.)

She can also use the climatact as a standard bo staff, having spent a large portion of her life just using a normal one to smack pirates in the face.

Weaknesses: Her staff is powerful, but Nami is a normal human being in every other respect. While her agility is what you'd expect of an excellent thief, she's not terribly strong. She's easily irritated by many things, has a short temper, and while not exactly a coward, she tends to avoid conflict if she can help it on account of rather valuing her own skin, thanks very much. As mentioned in her personality section, though, she can and will fight if (a) she has no other choice or (b) someone/something important is on the line, or (c) that person has just stolen all her belongings. Which is another weakness: Nami is greedy. While the ship is hardly going to have piles of money lying around, time has taught her a lot of things can count as treasure, and quite often when obtaining such an item is a possibility all common sense goes out the window.

Inventory:

Her climatact, her log pose (OP compass), a couple of pens and a notebook, about four thin bags of newly bought fashionable clothing, and a bottle of Sabaody rum.

Appearance:

Age: 20

AU Clarification: N/A

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

She'd been ready to rejoin the crew, dammit.  And now?  Nami stalked down the hallways, heels echoing loudly as she fumed.  No sea, no charts, the log pose was useless... and this ship was so large it made Thriller Bark look like a rowboat by comparison.  If that.  And then there was the whole...outer space... thing.  The fact there were no clear skies outside was frankly unnerving, and apparently leaving the ship was suicide.  (Still.  Guess that was a bright side, thinking of Enel back home trying to sail to the moon on his open air barge and dying messily.  Boohoo.)

She felt vastly out of her depth.  Scratch that; she felt useless.  What kind of place could a navigator on the blue sea find?

On the other hand... she came to a sudden stop as the doors before her opened, showing Nami her first view of space through what she assumed was heavily reinforced glass, and her irritation vanished in the wake of open-mouthed awe. 

.....at least she could enjoy the view. 

Well, hell.  She'd always been smart, and this was just another kind of ship, right?  If nothing else, she could at least while away the time learning everything she could about navigating space.  She might not get very far, but Nami knew she'd love every minute of it.

Comms Sample:

I don't suppose anyone has met someone claiming to be a pirate, have they?  You... probably couldn't miss them if they were.  [Well, she can always hope the rest of the crew got snatched up, too.]

I'm a navigator back home, but this kind of ship is way out of my league.  Someone mentioned gardening, though-- something about an oxygen garden?  I could help out there if it's needed.  Barring that, I guess I could stand around and look pretty.  Or play poker.  Or--

--hey, does this place even have a bar?

[Please let it have a bar.]