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June 6, 2010Posted by K.C.

 

 

Nico Robin

Luffy

Nico Robin (ニコ・ロビン, Niko Robin), nicknamed "Demon Child" (悪魔の子, Akuma no Ko) by the World Government is the 28 years old archeologist of the Straw Hat Pirates.ch.218 Growing up alone on the island Ohara (オハラ), home of the world's largest and oldest library, she became an archeologist at age eightch.391,392 and learned how to decipher the writings on the ancient stones called Poneglyph (歴史の本文, Pōnegurifu), which are scattered around the world. After the World Government destroyed Ohara for housing archeologists along with her returning mother, Nico Olivia, researching these stones,ch.395 Robin spent twenty years on the run, cooperating with various pirates and other outlaws and became a member of Baroque Works nicknamed as "Ms. All-Sunday" (ミス・オールサンデー, Misu Ōrusandē, Ms. Sunday in the 4Kids dub) at the time, being briefly an antagonist to the Straw Hat Pirates before joining them.ch.398 Like the scholars of Ohara before her, it is her dream to find and decipher the Rio Poneglyph (真の歴史の本文, Rio Pōnegurifu), which is said to tell the world's lost history.ch.218 Her devotion to history and its preservation goes so far that she will even risk her life to protect ancient artifacts and buildings.ch.264 She ate the Flower-Flower Fruit (ハナハナの実, Hana Hana no Mi), allowing her to create copies of any of her body parts on any surface that she can see.ch.170 However, if her replicated parts are hurt, she feels the pain on her actual body.