Nico Robin, also known by her epithet "Devil Child", and the "Light of the Revolution", is the archaeologist of the Straw Hat Pirates and one of the Senior Officers of the Grand Straw Hat Fleet. She is the seventh member of the crew and the sixth to join, doing so at the end of the Arabasta Arc. She temporarily left the crew during the Water 7 Arc, but rejoined during the Enies Lobby Arc.
Robin ate the Flower Flower Fruit at a young age, giving her the power to reproduce her body parts, or her entire body since it depends on any surface at will. As the sole survivor of the destroyed West Blue island, Ohara, she is currently one of only two people in the worldknown to have the ability to read and decipher Ponegylphs, a skill which is considered forbidden and threatening to the World Government.
She acted as the vice president as "Miss All Sunday", serving and partnering herself directly as the right-hand woman to the organization's president, the ex-Warlord: Crocodile (John Swasey/Keith David/Ryuzaburo Otomo), who operated under the codename, "Mr. 0". She was a secondary antagonist of the Arabasta Saga before joining the Straw Hats after Crocodile has been defeated by Luffy (Colleen Clinkenbeard/Yuri Lowenthal/Mayumi Tanaka). Her dream is to find the Rio Poneglyph, which tells the true history of the world, specifically the Void Century.
She gained a bounty of 79,000,000 Beli at the age of 8, due to her ability to read poneglyphs after the destruction of Ohara. It later increased to 80,000,000 Beli after the Straw Hats invaded Enies Lobby to rescue her and escape. After the Dressrosa Arc, it was increased into 130,000,000 Beli. Following the Raid on Onigashima, her bounty was increased to 930,000,000 Beli.
Nico Robin was born on the island of Ohara, and came from a family of archaeologists. Her mother Nico Oliva (Stephanie Young/Minae Noji/Yuriko Yamaguchi), went out to sea to find the True History when Robin was just two years old, leaving her in the care of Olvia's brother and his wife, Roji. While Robin's father was never revealed, Olvia stated that she will honor her husband's dream, she then left to study the poneglyphs. Robin later wandered into the Tree of Knowledge and was allowed to read the books held within on Clover's (Kent Williams/TBD/TBD R.I.P. Koichi Kitamura) invitation.
Roji both verbally and physically abused Robin over mental actions. Roji made it obvious time and time again that Robin was not wanted; she was expected to keep out of sight and she was not allowed to participate in family celebrations. The powers of her Devil Fruit often freaked out or scared the other childre, on top of it all that often she would overhear the conversations of parents telling their children to avoid her at all costs as well as other children calling her a demon. Her only friends were the scholars at the "Tree of Knowledge", with Professor Clover of the archaeology lab, a friend of her mother, trying to take care of her.
At only eight years old, she aced an archaeology exam and was officially inducted as a scholar. However, when she announced that she, like her mother, wanted to find out the true, unrecorded history of the world, she was reproved by Clover, who told her she will get banned from the library if she continued to spy on the other scholars.
Robin ran off crying and headed to the northwest beach of Ohara, where she met the giant, Jaguar D. Saul (Mark Stoddard/Bill Farmer/Takeshi Kusao R.I.P. Cole Brown), who was washed up on shore. The two became friends and Robin continued to visit him for the following four days, while he built his raft. After Saul found out that he was on Ohara and figured out that Robin was Olvia's daughter, he informed Robin about the battleships that were on their way to destroy Ohara, due to the scholars studying the Poneglyph.
Nico Olvia had recently escaped off a Marine ship and returned to Ohara, due to Saul's efforts. She informed the archaeologists that her colleagues had been killed by the marines. She told them that the Marines were able to infer that Ohara was their homeland based on the items they possessed on the ship, and they were headed towards Ohara, likely to kill them. The archaeologists, however, refused to leave, they wished to continue to protect the tree and the knowledge they had worked so hard to research and procure. When Olvia was warned that CP9 was on shore, she rushed out to the Tree of Knowledge, running past her daughter without even noticing her.
Robin arrived at the Tree of Knowledge and asked Clover about her mother's whereabouts. As a wanted woman, Olvia wished to cut all ties with her daughter, so that Robin might not be associated with a criminal mother. Doing as Olvia wanted, Clover denied that Robin's mother was on the island, but Robin seemed skeptical about it. Clover quickly changed the topic and urged Robin to leave, and not to mention that she is an archaeologist, or she might be arrested too. Robin refused and CP9 bust into the Tree of Knowledge and began searching for the Poneglyphs.
Outside, agents warned the island's residents to move to the evacuation boat or to be destroyed. Olvia confronted Spandine (Christopher Corey Smith/Trevor Devall/Masaya Onosaka), the director of CP9 at the time, but was quickly subdued by the brute force of his agents.
Back at the Tree of Knowledge, all of the archaeologists were arrested and taken outside the tree, and once again, Clover urged Robin to escape, but she refused once again. Spandine and the rest of CP9 arrived with a gravely wounded Olvia, who instantly recognized her daughter once her name is spoken. CP9 found the Poneglyph in the basement of the tree, and Spandine sentenced the archaeologists to death by Buster Call. However, Clover began to speak out, talking to the Five Elders via Spandine's Transponder Snail, stating his theory on why the government really wanted to keep the Void Century a secret. However, before Clover could reveal the name of the civilization that he spoke of, he was shot point blank and mortally wounded.
As the attack of Ohara began, it was discovered that Robin also had the capacity to read Poneglyphs. As the bombardment began, Spandine and CP9 made their exit, Robin and Oliva reunited, and shortly afterwards, Saul arrived.
Olvia asked Saul to make sure that her daughter was taken safely off the island, and told Robin that she must continue to live. Robin begged to stay with her mother, but Olvia instead on staying, as there was something more that she had to do.
Saul followed Olvia's wish and managed to reach the island's shore. But the Marine ships spotted him and opened fire. Seeing as he was carrying Robin. Saul put her down and retaliated in anger for almost hurting Robin, and destroyed several ships. Robin tried to make for the evacuation ship, but trying to use her Flower Flower abilities to get aboard, frightened the people on board, plus Spandine told them not to let her on since she says she is an archaeologist, so she walked away crying, to later see Saul being attacked by Vice Admiral Kuzan (Jason Douglas/Christopher Randolph/Takehito Koyasu).
She was shocked to see the destruction of the evacuation ship being destroyed by another vice admiral, Sakazuki (Andrew Love/Mark Rolston/Fumihiko Tachiki), who did so as a precaution in case any archaeologists had snuck aboard. Saul tried to get away with Robin, but he was frozen by Kuzan's ice powers. Before being completely encased, Saul encouraged Robin to escape and that her friends were out in the ocean waiting for her.
Robin ran to the raft that Saul built, only to be met with Kuzan. He told her that he was letting Robin go, since he was curious as to why Saul risked his life for her. However, Kuzan warned her that he will be the first to come after Robin if she tried anything. Robin then left on a boat, guided by an ice path Kuzan set for her. Remembering Saul's words, she tried to laugh, but wept as Ohara was burned to the ground, which left her as the only survivor of the burning island.
Robin was found by a ship heading northwest of West Blue and when she boarded it, somehow her bounty picture was taken. Spandine angrily explained to Sengoku that he tried to follow her, but his ship was caught on ice. For the World Government to capture her, he suggested putting a bounty on her head, and sent Marines and agents to hunt her down, spreading the lie that she sank six ships to cover up the truth.
The World Government labeled her the Demon of Ohara, they lied to the public that the scholars in Ohara were trying to find the Ancient Weapons to destroy the world, which was not what the scholars were trying to do. Out of paranoia of what would become of her, the World Government let word out that she posed a threat and soon the world was brainwashed into thinking that Robin was trying to destroy the world. This negative gossip spread around the world, creating a half-truth myth. Terms like "devil woman" were born along with the belief that her very existence is a sin and considered her a terror. Robin's innocent life was ruined, and she grew up hating the Government for the crimes they committed against her.
Robin went to different people as the twenty years passed, all of whom tried to turn her in or kill her. Robin first encountered such attempts when she was taken in by an old farm lady, who she worked for, and thought was kind. One night, the old farm lady told Robin that before they could eat she had visitors. The visitors turn out to be World Government agents attempting to kill her. The old farm lady was last seen yelling at the agents "Now give me the money! I turned her in for you" as she pulled the agents' clothes in anger. Next, Robin was then taken in by a couple, who she once again worked hard for. During the night, she overheard the people talking about turning Robin in, Robin then fled. After that, they angrily called Robin an unfortunate woman who betrayed their kindness.
She joined her first pirate crew at age 8. However, after the World Government caught up with her new crew, they assumed she had betrayed them. She fled before the pirates turned their anger against her. They even threw curses at her, calling her trouble. After that, Robin would often sit on a rock in pouring rain as a dog come to her begging for food. Robin apologized and said "dereshishi" for the last time. Robin then tried to help out in a shop, but the owner whacked her with a stick in anger, telling her that she was not allowed in. When she turned sixteen years old, Robin joined an unknown organization, but it wasn't long before she betrayed the organization.
At age twenty-three, she somehow entered the Grand Line from the West Blue through the Red Line where Mary Geoise is located. Then at age twenty-four, she traveled to Arabasta where she met with the Warlord of the Sea, Crocodile, who needed her ability to read Ponelglyphs in order to locate the ancient weapon, Pluton, which is believed to be hidden somewhere in the country, and allowed her to join the Baroque Works organization. While employed in the organization, she managed to stay on long-term, safely hiding away from the World Government for four years.
Robin first appeared as "Miss All Sunday", agent and vice-president of the Baroque Works organization, at the end of the Whisky Peak Arc. She was responsible for blowing up Igaram's (Rob Mungle/Roger Craig Smith/Keiichi Sonobe) decoy ship, though Igaram survived, which apparently was her intention.
She met the Straw Hat Pirates and, after cryptically playing with them for a bit, offered them an Eternal Pose to Nanimonai Island. Luffy broke it instead, saying that he would not allow her to decide their destination. Princess Vivi (Caitlin Glass/Tricia Helfer/Misa Watanabe) revealed that it was Miss All Sunday who allowed her to discover the identity of Baroque Works' president, Crocodile.
Miss All Sunday made the necessary arrangements in order to organize the meeting between the remaining Officer Agents and the boss of the criminal organization Crocodile.
Finally, the Officer Agents of the Baroque Works met up with Miss All Sunday and Crocodile in the basement of the Rain Dinners Casino, owned by Crocodile. They were told the goal of the Baroque Works, their final mission and their respective parts in overthrowing Arabasta. They were interrupted by Mr. 3 (Duncan Brannan/Eric Idle/Nobuyuki Hiyama), who told them that the Straw Hats and Vivi had escaped him during their time in Little Garden. He asked Crocodile for forgiveness, but is fed to his pet Bananawani instead. The Officer Agents all got pictures of Vivi and the Straw Hat crew, excluding Sanji (Eric Vale/Townsend Coleman/Hiroaki Hirata) with the help of Bon Kurei's (Barry Yandell/Eric Idle/Kazuki Yao R.I.P. Robin Williams) abilities and were given the order to hunt them down excluding Chopper (Brina Palencia/Tara Strong/Ikue Otani) as Crocodile believed he was the Straw Hats' pet.
Later, Vivi was surrounded by Billions, but was saved by Pell, a guard of the king who flew to Rainbase after Karoo's arrival in order to scout. Pell however was defeated by Miss All-Sunday and Vivi was taken to the Rain Dinners basement. There, Crocodile told her his plan to overthrow Arabasta while it was being executed. Luffy, Nami (Luci Christian/Lacey Chabert/Akemi Okamura), Usopp (Sonny Strait/Jeff Garcia/Kappei Yamaguchi), Zoro (Christopher Sabat/Kaiji Tang/Kazuya Nakai), and Smoker (Russell Velazquez/David Hayter/Mahito Oba) all arrived at Rain Dinners, but they all were caught by a trap and thrown in a Seastone cage by Crocodile.
Later in the desert, during a battle against Luffy, Crocodile created a sandstorm and sent it off to Yuba, where Toto was, and explained that he was the one who was sending storms there every day. Luffy yelled for him to stop it, but Crocodile impaled him with his hook during his distress then when he saw Luffy was still alive, he left him in quicksand to die.
Luckily, Luffy was saved by Miss All-Sunday after Crocodile's departure and left Luffy in the hands of Pell, telling Pell that Luffy was responsible for the safe return of Vivi.
After the Baroque Works' Officer Agents are defeated at the hands of the Straw Hat Pirates, Vivi arrived at the palace. The war had already started. Vivi ordered the Royal Army to blow up the palace in order to get everyone's attention but was stopped by Crocodile. The army, realizing what was happening, tried to enter the palace but they were stopped by Miss All-Sunday. Koza also arrived at the scene, intending to demand Cobra's surrender, only to find out the truth of the situation.
Crocodile revealed that he is going to blow up the palace plaza, soon to be center point of battle, with a massive and powerful bomb. He also revealed his true intentions: to find the location of the secret ancient weapon Pluton, which is said to be buried in Arabasta.
Koza wanted to warn the city but is stopped by Vivi, who stated that it will create a panic. The Royal Army raised the white flag, with Koza in front, but he was shot down by a double agent in the Royal Army, provoking the rebels. A battle started on the palace plaza and Vivi watched in horror. Crocodile proceeded to throw Vivi off the palace wall, but she was saved by Luffy who came in flying on Pell's back. Vivi met the rest of the Straw Hats on the foot of the wall and went to search for the bomb with them and Pell.
Luffy challenged Crocodile for a second time but now he was aware that water is Crocodile’s weakness. While the fight continued, Miss All Sunday took the nails painfully out of Cobra's body and cuffed him with her powers to force the King to the location of Pluton. Meanwhile, a furious Crocodile recovered and ordered his partner to quickly depart.
Miss All-Sunday was confronted by Marines led by Tashigi. Having a more than personal enmity against Marines than other pirates, she yelled at them to get out of her way. Tashigi demanded she released Cobra, but Miss All Sunday was not going to take orders from those who directly took orders from the World Government. Tashigi is later informed by one of her men that Miss All-Sunday was originally known as "Nico Robin", who received a bounty of 79,000,000 Beli as a child because she was believed to have been responsible for the sinking of six warships. Visibly angered, Miss All Sunday easily dispatched the Marine grunts, and defeated Tashigi with her Devil Fruit ability.
Miss All-Sunday and King Cobra went in the hidden Grave of the Kings and found the Poneglyph. Crocodile soon arrived but did not get the information he wanted from the stone. He turned his back on Nico Robin and attacked her while she tried an assassination attempt of her own but failed.
Robin later gave the antidote to the poison in Crocodile's golden hook to Cobra, since Luffy was poisoned by it during his battle with Crocodile. After Cobra used it to save Luffy, Luffy managed to awaken long enough to grab Robin and Cobra and carried them out before the grave caved in.
Shortly after the Straw Hats' departure from Arabasta, Robin made herself known, having hid herself on board of the Going Merry before their departure. Claiming that she wanted to join the crew since Luffy saved her when she lost her will to live and he should take responsibility. Luffy accepted her offer to join the crew, but the rest excluding Sanji were suspicious of her. However, she managed to quickly win everyone's favor, except for Zoro, who remained wary of her.
Nami's Log Pose began pointing to the sky, after that, a big ship fell from sky and the crew found a map in the ship of an island named 'Skypiea' on a 200-year-old ship. They competed with the monkey-like Masira's salvage crew while they searched for more clues on how to get there. The Straw Hats decided to go to Jaya island to look for information on Skypiea, while Robin herself decided to temporarily part from the crew and search for clues on her own. It was implied that she may have gotten into some kind of confrontation while gathering information and used her powers to end the scuffle. The Straw Hats met with Mont Blanc Cricket on another part of Jaya; Cricket is a descendant of Mont Blanc Noland, an infamous "liar" who told of a gold city on Jaya, and Cricket was outcast for looking for artifacts of the gold city. He might have been the only person who knows how to get to Skypiea.
Cricket explained how the Straw Hats can ride a dangerous vertical current called the Knock-Up Stream to get to Skypiea. However, they first had to catch a South Bird to point them towards the location where the stream will erupt from the ocean. When Robin was able to catch sight of a South Bird, she was able to quickly subdue it using her Devil Fruit powers. While the Straw Hats were looking for a South Bird, Bellamy and his crew attacked Cricket's house, and stole the gold artifacts he'd collected over the years from his salvage work. When the Straw Hats returned and see what happened, Luffy decided to take a side trip back to Mock Town. The Going Merry was later refitted by Masira and Shoujou to be flight capable, and the Straw Hats caught a ride on the Knock-Up Stream for Skypiea.
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