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mapsmikanmoney) wrote2013-01-21 10:55 am
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Current Characters: Masamori Sumimura, Orlando Gardiner, Takiko Okuda, Anthy Himemiya, Michael Westen, Sayaka Miki, Crocodile
Character: ("Cat Burglar") Nami
Fandom: One Piece (manga)
History: A helpful link. If accepted, I'd be starting her before her first appearance in canon.
Personality:
One of the first things to understand about Nami is that she's very intelligent. Word of God says she's the third smartest of all the characters first seen in East Blue, which among other things means she's smarter than Sanji (who basically acts as the crew's intelligence officer/strategist a lot of the time). Nami picks up information very quickly, and makes a point to seek it out, finding the palace library or asking questions of the man with clearly expert knowledge. She's a big reader (though not to the extent that Robin proves to be), and of the crew is the one most reliably seen with the newspaper. While she will focus in on books or other things mostly relevant to her specialties of navigation, cartography, and meteorology, she wants to and does her best to be generally informed about her world. She's a curious person who values knowledge- her dream, after all, is to travel the world and then map it. She's quick on her feet, too - she can easily use what she's noticed about her surroundings to come up with a lie to save her skin, as seen in her first appearance, where she redirects the anger of Buggy's crew at Luffy by calling him "boss."
As you may be guessing, cleverness and deceptiveness are frequently seen side by side, and definitely in Nami's case. This is most markedly seen in her development early in the series, where she keeps her involvement with the Arlong Pirates completely hidden from the other protagonists and subsequently swindles the Strawhats out of their boat (not that that's the first boat she's stolen, by any means...). When the Strawhats follow her, she even fake kills Usopp to try to both ensure they stay out of the way and prove herself to Arlong. Once she's freed from Arlong's control, she's more honest, but definitely still has a tricky side. She'll still steal your wallet, and things like setting up traps and using mirages become an important part of her offensive abilities.
In spite of the utter devotion she can throw into deception, behind whatever surface she may think to put up Nami is 100% herself. She's quick (and frequently loud) in sharing her opinions, she's proud of what she's able to accomplish, she knows what she wants and she will get it. In fact, to come full circle, this comfort and confidence is part of what makes her good at deception- she's fully aware of her body, her reputation, and her skills as a thief (among other things). They're things she controls, and can use to whatever ends she wants. If the thought of her changing will distract two guys for long enough for her to steal a boat, she'll give them that thought without any qualms. There is one significant way in which she is ever self-conscious about her body: the tattoo that symbolizes her membership in Arlong's gang. Prior to the Arlong Park arc, she always wears clothing that covers the upper part of her arms in order to hide the tattoo. During the arc, she basically tries to stab the tattoo out because it is not part of her and she wants to be rid of it. It's really notable that once she has Arlong's tattoo removed and her own tattoo placed there in its stead, she quickly takes up the habit of wearing tank and even bikini tops quite frequently. She hates being imposed on and being something she doesn't like, but she's proud of who and what she is, and at peace with the methods she's had to use to get there.
Nami can be flirtatious, if she feels like it could be fun or (more likely) thinks she could get something out of it. That being said, actual romantic involvement is definitely not on her radar- it's an unnecessary tie and irrelevant to her dream. (One Piece as a canon is largely aromantic and asexual, in spite of Sanji's best efforts.)
Her confidence does shade into vanity at some points. (Nami, Usopp and Chopper are not going to forgive you for crashing the Mini-Merry onto a horrible island "because you're so cute.") This is mostly played for comic effect in the series - it doesn't become an obsession or threaten others, it just shows Nami being a little more self-absorbed than the rest at some points when her appearance is involved.
Among the Straw Hats, Nami is the most reliable "straight man." She's the one who will do the most to dissuade Luffy from some crazy and dangerous scheme (even if it doesn't work and he does drag them to the most dangerous island). She's the one most likely to yell at you for not listening to the important technical explanation of how to do this ridiculous thing. And she's the one often reduced to hitting her crewmates over the head to bring them back to sanity. In this particular crew, part of being the straight man is also having any kind of survival instinct whatsoever, and Nami is also equipped in this area. She starts out as much less of a combatant than anyone else in the crew (except maybe Usopp), but during the Baroque Works saga (primarily in the Alabasta arc) works to remedy this so as not to drag down the rest of the crew. That said, she's not going to jump into a fight if she can just get, say, Zoro to take care of it instead. (Retreating enemies, now, leave those to her and Usopp!)
None of that is to say that she doesn't have a sense of fun and adventure, though. It's part of her curiosity - she'll eagerly navigate you into the sky. If it's somewhat in her comfort zone, or she simply has time to get used to it, she'll easily try many new things and befriend new kinds of people. In spite of her past, she's open to new experience, and becomes more so over the course of the series. After all, "as long as you're alive, then happy times...lots of them...will come your way."
At heart, she is someone who cares deeply about people. She does not want to see anyone die ever again, and she will do anything she has to to keep as many people alive as she can. Even if she has to work for the man who killed her mother. Even if the person whose life she's saving is a pirate. Even if the person she's helping save was part of the crew that made her life hell for years. Nami is not naive; if people have shown questionable behavior, she'll be reluctant at best to trust them. But not trusting them isn't the same as being unwilling to give them a chance, and she will give even those who have hurt her in the past a chance, though she'll also keep an eye on them. (An exception to this would be Arlong if he ever got out. She's actually been able to forgive and eventually befriend a member of Arlong's former crew, but she will hate Arlong for life.) Nami is also, honestly, a people person. She's friendly and fairly outgoing, and can get along with people and even make friends with ease, once she lets herself. She finds it easy to empathize with and care about others. As her journey with the Straw Hats goes on, this will come out more in how she forms friendships with the people they meet and how she reacts to things that befall the other crew members. Even her famous love for money has its root in caring about people- she needed a lot of money to help Cocoyashi Village, after all.
Of course, that doesn't mean she doesn't also like money for money's sake (and, naturally, for the sake of the stuff you can buy with it, by which I mostly mean cute clothes). As recently in the series as the Fishman Island arc, she has been seen haggling for a 90% discount. If there's treasure to be had, by legal or illegal means, she'll be there to find it and either take it herself or kick the rest of the crew into doing it. She does, slowly, over the course of the series become able to give up some money or treasure for the sake of friends or to friends, but it's a slow process (and relies a good deal on her having other money/treasure to fall back on).
Other:
Romanizations and One Piece can be a tricky thing. There are multiple romanizations in a few cases, and at least one deliberate misspelling in the official translation. I'd be going by what the wiki (linked for history) uses.
While, as stated above, I would be playing from the manga, there is one anime movie that was written by Oda and is considered canon - movie 10, Strong World. If possible, I would like to play through that down the line.
In order to avoid playercest, Nami and Crocodile's posts and comments would be mysteriously invisible to each other. It's, uh, because they're accessing the community in different ways. Yeah.
Additional Links:
Nami's (second) eyecatch.
First Person:
It looks like I'm going to be traveling with some other people for a little while. They're calling themselves pirates, but...they're actually not bad. They really helped me and this town out. I could have been in real trouble with Buggy the Clown and his crew if Luffy and Zoro hadn't turned up.
Luffy- he's the captain- wants me to join their crew, but of course that's impossible. It seems like staying with them for a while could be fun, though. And it'll be nice to have someone help carry things! That Zoro seems like he'd pick up anything if I told him it was a challenge.
Third Person:
Sometimes she wondered how they came by any money or treasure at all - pirates were so easy to fool. Just a little pose, or a decoy treasure chest (empty, naturally), and they lost all sense, scrambling over each other to get at something they could never have. It was funny, really.
But Nami never wondered for long. She knew how they came by these things. Force. By preying on people weaker than they were, by taking advantage of people with something to protect. Well, she had something to protect, and she would take advantage of them to do it. It was only fair, and it was more justice than the Marines or the World Government had managed to bring to this part of East Blue.
This last crew had been easy- if you could call four people a "pirate crew." But they'd had to get this treasure somewhere, so the label was fair game, as were they. They'd bought the "poor lost girl" act in a heartbeat, and when she'd told them her map was a treasure map...well, they'd been too busy clawing at that worthless piece of paper to notice her walking off with this chest. Most of the "gems" in the necklaces and bracelets inside were glass, but the gold coins and rings were real. At the current rate, she estimated they would translate into about
60,000. And she could always sell the necklaces, or use those as bait for other pirates.
Nami picked up a bracelet with insets of light sky-blue glass, twirling it around.
60,000 more today. Just another 1,834,000 to go.
Player DW:
paperbackWay to contact you:
Email: agreylady@gmail.com
AIM: Elspeth Vimes
Plurk:
Other: n/a
Are you at least 15?: Y.
Current Characters: Masamori Sumimura, Orlando Gardiner, Takiko Okuda, Anthy Himemiya, Michael Westen, Sayaka Miki, Crocodile
Character: ("Cat Burglar") Nami
Fandom: One Piece (manga)
History: A helpful link. If accepted, I'd be starting her before her first appearance in canon.
Personality:
One of the first things to understand about Nami is that she's very intelligent. Word of God says she's the third smartest of all the characters first seen in East Blue, which among other things means she's smarter than Sanji (who basically acts as the crew's intelligence officer/strategist a lot of the time). Nami picks up information very quickly, and makes a point to seek it out, finding the palace library or asking questions of the man with clearly expert knowledge. She's a big reader (though not to the extent that Robin proves to be), and of the crew is the one most reliably seen with the newspaper. While she will focus in on books or other things mostly relevant to her specialties of navigation, cartography, and meteorology, she wants to and does her best to be generally informed about her world. She's a curious person who values knowledge- her dream, after all, is to travel the world and then map it. She's quick on her feet, too - she can easily use what she's noticed about her surroundings to come up with a lie to save her skin, as seen in her first appearance, where she redirects the anger of Buggy's crew at Luffy by calling him "boss."
As you may be guessing, cleverness and deceptiveness are frequently seen side by side, and definitely in Nami's case. This is most markedly seen in her development early in the series, where she keeps her involvement with the Arlong Pirates completely hidden from the other protagonists and subsequently swindles the Strawhats out of their boat (not that that's the first boat she's stolen, by any means...). When the Strawhats follow her, she even fake kills Usopp to try to both ensure they stay out of the way and prove herself to Arlong. Once she's freed from Arlong's control, she's more honest, but definitely still has a tricky side. She'll still steal your wallet, and things like setting up traps and using mirages become an important part of her offensive abilities.
In spite of the utter devotion she can throw into deception, behind whatever surface she may think to put up Nami is 100% herself. She's quick (and frequently loud) in sharing her opinions, she's proud of what she's able to accomplish, she knows what she wants and she will get it. In fact, to come full circle, this comfort and confidence is part of what makes her good at deception- she's fully aware of her body, her reputation, and her skills as a thief (among other things). They're things she controls, and can use to whatever ends she wants. If the thought of her changing will distract two guys for long enough for her to steal a boat, she'll give them that thought without any qualms. There is one significant way in which she is ever self-conscious about her body: the tattoo that symbolizes her membership in Arlong's gang. Prior to the Arlong Park arc, she always wears clothing that covers the upper part of her arms in order to hide the tattoo. During the arc, she basically tries to stab the tattoo out because it is not part of her and she wants to be rid of it. It's really notable that once she has Arlong's tattoo removed and her own tattoo placed there in its stead, she quickly takes up the habit of wearing tank and even bikini tops quite frequently. She hates being imposed on and being something she doesn't like, but she's proud of who and what she is, and at peace with the methods she's had to use to get there.
Nami can be flirtatious, if she feels like it could be fun or (more likely) thinks she could get something out of it. That being said, actual romantic involvement is definitely not on her radar- it's an unnecessary tie and irrelevant to her dream. (One Piece as a canon is largely aromantic and asexual, in spite of Sanji's best efforts.)
Her confidence does shade into vanity at some points. (Nami, Usopp and Chopper are not going to forgive you for crashing the Mini-Merry onto a horrible island "because you're so cute.") This is mostly played for comic effect in the series - it doesn't become an obsession or threaten others, it just shows Nami being a little more self-absorbed than the rest at some points when her appearance is involved.
Among the Straw Hats, Nami is the most reliable "straight man." She's the one who will do the most to dissuade Luffy from some crazy and dangerous scheme (even if it doesn't work and he does drag them to the most dangerous island). She's the one most likely to yell at you for not listening to the important technical explanation of how to do this ridiculous thing. And she's the one often reduced to hitting her crewmates over the head to bring them back to sanity. In this particular crew, part of being the straight man is also having any kind of survival instinct whatsoever, and Nami is also equipped in this area. She starts out as much less of a combatant than anyone else in the crew (except maybe Usopp), but during the Baroque Works saga (primarily in the Alabasta arc) works to remedy this so as not to drag down the rest of the crew. That said, she's not going to jump into a fight if she can just get, say, Zoro to take care of it instead. (Retreating enemies, now, leave those to her and Usopp!)
None of that is to say that she doesn't have a sense of fun and adventure, though. It's part of her curiosity - she'll eagerly navigate you into the sky. If it's somewhat in her comfort zone, or she simply has time to get used to it, she'll easily try many new things and befriend new kinds of people. In spite of her past, she's open to new experience, and becomes more so over the course of the series. After all, "as long as you're alive, then happy times...lots of them...will come your way."
At heart, she is someone who cares deeply about people. She does not want to see anyone die ever again, and she will do anything she has to to keep as many people alive as she can. Even if she has to work for the man who killed her mother. Even if the person whose life she's saving is a pirate. Even if the person she's helping save was part of the crew that made her life hell for years. Nami is not naive; if people have shown questionable behavior, she'll be reluctant at best to trust them. But not trusting them isn't the same as being unwilling to give them a chance, and she will give even those who have hurt her in the past a chance, though she'll also keep an eye on them. (An exception to this would be Arlong if he ever got out. She's actually been able to forgive and eventually befriend a member of Arlong's former crew, but she will hate Arlong for life.) Nami is also, honestly, a people person. She's friendly and fairly outgoing, and can get along with people and even make friends with ease, once she lets herself. She finds it easy to empathize with and care about others. As her journey with the Straw Hats goes on, this will come out more in how she forms friendships with the people they meet and how she reacts to things that befall the other crew members. Even her famous love for money has its root in caring about people- she needed a lot of money to help Cocoyashi Village, after all.
Of course, that doesn't mean she doesn't also like money for money's sake (and, naturally, for the sake of the stuff you can buy with it, by which I mostly mean cute clothes). As recently in the series as the Fishman Island arc, she has been seen haggling for a 90% discount. If there's treasure to be had, by legal or illegal means, she'll be there to find it and either take it herself or kick the rest of the crew into doing it. She does, slowly, over the course of the series become able to give up some money or treasure for the sake of friends or to friends, but it's a slow process (and relies a good deal on her having other money/treasure to fall back on).
Other:
Romanizations and One Piece can be a tricky thing. There are multiple romanizations in a few cases, and at least one deliberate misspelling in the official translation. I'd be going by what the wiki (linked for history) uses.
While, as stated above, I would be playing from the manga, there is one anime movie that was written by Oda and is considered canon - movie 10, Strong World. If possible, I would like to play through that down the line.
In order to avoid playercest, Nami and Crocodile's posts and comments would be mysteriously invisible to each other. It's, uh, because they're accessing the community in different ways. Yeah.
Additional Links:
Nami's (second) eyecatch.
First Person:
It looks like I'm going to be traveling with some other people for a little while. They're calling themselves pirates, but...they're actually not bad. They really helped me and this town out. I could have been in real trouble with Buggy the Clown and his crew if Luffy and Zoro hadn't turned up.
Luffy- he's the captain- wants me to join their crew, but of course that's impossible. It seems like staying with them for a while could be fun, though. And it'll be nice to have someone help carry things! That Zoro seems like he'd pick up anything if I told him it was a challenge.
Third Person:
Sometimes she wondered how they came by any money or treasure at all - pirates were so easy to fool. Just a little pose, or a decoy treasure chest (empty, naturally), and they lost all sense, scrambling over each other to get at something they could never have. It was funny, really.
But Nami never wondered for long. She knew how they came by these things. Force. By preying on people weaker than they were, by taking advantage of people with something to protect. Well, she had something to protect, and she would take advantage of them to do it. It was only fair, and it was more justice than the Marines or the World Government had managed to bring to this part of East Blue.
This last crew had been easy- if you could call four people a "pirate crew." But they'd had to get this treasure somewhere, so the label was fair game, as were they. They'd bought the "poor lost girl" act in a heartbeat, and when she'd told them her map was a treasure map...well, they'd been too busy clawing at that worthless piece of paper to notice her walking off with this chest. Most of the "gems" in the necklaces and bracelets inside were glass, but the gold coins and rings were real. At the current rate, she estimated they would translate into about
60,000. And she could always sell the necklaces, or use those as bait for other pirates.Nami picked up a bracelet with insets of light sky-blue glass, twirling it around.
60,000 more today. Just another 1,834,000 to go.