Day 11: cruel
Think I'm gonna focus on Robin here (this is stretching my knowledge of her backstory and so might not be accurate)(If not tell me!)

Nico Robin had been dealt a cruel hand at life. She had grown up on the island of Ohara, never knowing her mother or father, living in her aunt's attic. But despite that, she was happy, training to become a scholar so she could do archeological digs with her mother.
She was called a demon's child and avoided, but she made friends with a giant called Saul. She was content with her life.

Until one fateful day. She had just become a scholar of Ohara, when Ohara was surrounded by marine battleships. They fired at the tree of knowledge and it burst into flames.

"Protect the books! Throw them into the lake! If even one survives, then our history will be preserved! Run Robin, run!" Professor Clover yelled.

The remaining scholars did just that, while trying in vain to protect the tree. Robin ran. Ran for where she knew Saul was. She wouldn't be let onto the boat, so she ran. While she was running, she passed a white haired woman. She didn't think about that then, she just ran. When she got to the coast, she was met with a horrible sight. The passenger ship up in flames a few miles from the coast. One of the Vice-Admirals had shot it down in case of scholars disappearing on it. Robin hadn't felt anything particularly for any of them, but to be shot down when they had done nothing... she kept running to find Saul, but was met with him half-frozen, with another Vice-Admiral in front of him.

"Jaguar D. Saul, you have gone against the wishes of the world government," he said with no emotion in his voice.

"No! Don't hurt Saul!" Robin ran in front of Saul to protect him. Saul sighed. "It's too late Robin. But I promise, out there somewhere you will find nakama!" Those were his final words.

"Saul... No! Don't leave me! I have no-one else!"

The Vice-Admiral took pity on her and lent her a rowboat to escape. She was the only survivor and now the only person who could read the Poneglyphs, the entire reason Ohara had been Buster Called.

From that moment on, Robin took any and all jobs to keep herself alive, with some food and something over her head. She joined multiple criminal teams only to find herself the final person alive, all for the sake of the Poneglyphs. She was on her last straw when she joined Baroque Works. One last chance to find it. If she didn't, she might as well die.

She found a Poneglyph, of course, but it wasn't the correct one. She was ready to die when a rubber arm grabbed her and dragged her, kicking and screaming, into the light. And that was how she became a crewmember of the Straw Hat pirates. They didn't all trust her, but she got on with them.

All was well until Water 7. One whisper about CP9 and she was on edge again. She disappeared on her crew, thinking they wouldn't come looking for her. She surrendered herself to protect them. They were the strongest beam of hope she'd had for the past twenty years. She agreed to the trial in Enie's Lobby as long as CP9 didn't touch her crew while they were in Water 7. She would resign herself to her death.

She hadn't counted on her crew coming to save her. They boarded the prototype of the Sea Train that had brought her there, intent on rescuing her, even going so far as to declare war on the World Government itself. All for her. And that is when the agonising part of her snapped.

"I WANT TO LIVE! PLEASE TAKE ME WITH YOU!" She yelled through her sobs.

"Sure!" Came the reply. And thus ensued a battle between the Straw Hats and CP9, which ended in a Buster Call and the entire crew plus Franky, a new edition, being saved by the Merry.

She had no doubt now. These people were the ones Saul talked about. Her saviours from the cruel set of cards she'd been dealt.

Hey folks! This took the best part of a day to complete, all while testing me and my friend Ciara's knowledge of Robin's backstory! Sorry if you wanted an in-depth fight scene, it was already very well covered in the manga/anime and I thought I didn't need to repeat.

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