Mikan Ink

By: Moments of Insanity

Date : 4 September 2016

Revised Date : 18 March 2018. Added a story link :P. This series is gonna be my bookmark of Nami stories.

Disclaimer: Nope, not mine.

Here are my take on what the Grand Line crew thinks about Nami. This was unexpectedly difficult to write.

English is not my first language and my understanding of grammar is still shaky. If there are any mistakes, please drop me a note. And finally please review, I know reviews are not in vogue right now but It is nice to know someone is reading these snippets.

Contradiction (Chopper on Nami)

Empathy would not be a word that Chopper associate Nami with. She was oh-so-callous with the boys of the Stawhats with her punches and scathing comments. She reminded him of Doctor Kureha: greedy, selfish, scary and manipulative.

Gold always would be her priority. Her safety second. It was not that he did not adore her; these were flaws that he had accepted as that was what made Nami. Just lIke how he had accepted how Luffy would always be the personification of Gluttony even when food ration was low or how he go headlong into fights and trouble with scant consideration for the others.

But strangely she was compassionate, more so than anyone in the crew. She could be soft and gentle as he remembered that she had comforted him on the first night they fled Drum Kingdom. How she was ill at ease during the big argument between Ussop and Luffy and was desperate to plaster the fracture until Zoro berated her. How in Punk Hazard that, she was determine to save the children when usually she would try to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Once he mentioned this to Franky, he just laughed loudly and gave him a clap on the back, saying no man had ever claim that he could understand a woman.

Generosity (Robin on Nami)

Robin lived in a shadowy, cruel and cutthroat world. It was her reality and her view of humanity was understandably tainted. She viewed the motley crew of children pirate also known as the Strawhats with jaded eyes. The idiotic captain, the perverted cook, arrogant and lazy swordsman, the cowardly liar and the childish doctor and greedy navigator. All their faults were as clear as day, catalogued in the back of her mind. And she acted accordingly in order to hitch a free ride to a destination she did not care about.

Of all acts she put on, the bag of jewelry was the only material fee she used. It was by far the easiest hurdle.

And so she thought she has seen through Nami. After all she had heard Nami negotiated with the downtrodden VIvi, or twisting Zoro's sense of honour with his debt. She had seen Nami cold heartedly order the scavenging of a sunken galleon in the name of treasure, lusting after the Shandian Gold and looting the Thriller Park in the backdrop of the battle.

However, sometimes, to see Nami surrendering herself to distract Enel from killing the fallen crew, or seeing Nami throwing 2 million belies for Cami without batting an eyelid at the slave auction reminded her that humans are rarely single facet.

Determination (Franky on Nami)

He was gob smacked to find a young lass navigating the weak east blue caravel when he first met the Strawhats. He had expected a grumpy old salt with more storms under his weathered belt then a slim wisp of a girl. As an engineer, Franky knows an instrument is only as good as it's operator. So the fact that girlie could navigate through a long stretch of the treacherous Grand Line was a testimony of her genius. And he was SUUUUPPEEEERRRRR proud that the future Pirate King's Vessel would be steered by a person with such caliber.

But when cook bro quietly shared a story, of a solitary child venturing into the unforgiving ocean over the years to save her village, armed with nothing but determination to conquer the fickle nature of the sea and weather. Franky was reminded of a saying, where genius are simply ten percent inspiration but with ninety percent perspiration. It was after the sweat, tears and blood, that she was gifted with the language of the elements.

Yes I know that Brook and Jinbei's sections are missing, But they are just very difficult to write and I just gave up.

Please, please, please review.

Another chaotic day on Sunny: s/10356198/1/Accidents-Will-Happen by Paperscribbles