Rating: K+, there is one swear word

Spoilers: Does speculation of Devil Fruit powers post time skip count?

Timeframe: It varies

Robin suffers from arthritis in her hands

With a fighting style so very reliant on various wresting and take down maneuvers, Robin had suffered from more than her fair share of broken, dislocated, and sprained fingers, not to mention (as Usopp so pointedly noted once) any damage one of her copies received 'stacked' back onto her original hands. So now, after twenty years of cumulative abuse, Robin's body had decided enough was enough. Humorously, Robin noted that she was now the second best predictor of storms and foul weather on the ship, if only because her hands would begin to ache horribly when the air pressure changed.

Luckily for her, one foggy day Chopper noticed her rubbing her knuckles absentmindedly. The little doctor disappeared into his infirmary for several hours, before coming back out with a salve. He then said with the utmost seriousness that arthritis had just risen on 'his list of things to find a cure for,' narrowly beating out hopeless idiocy.

Robin is not, in fact, a genius

She is a prodigy. While some might say that it was comparing apples and oranges, to the archeologist there is an important distinction. Geniuses create or discovere new things. Prodigies, in contrast, merely learn and memorized information at an above-average rate. Robin would argue that she was the only one on the Thousand Sunny who was not a genius.

She could not create like Sanji, Chopper, Brook, Usopp, Franky, or Nami. She did not innovate new styles like Zoro or Luffy. She simply memorized what had already been written.

Maybe that was why Robin was so tolerant of the craziness that came with being a Straw Hat. She knew just how amazing each and every one of them really were.

Robin refuses to call any one of the Straw Hats stupid

Unlike Nami, who can't go any length of time without berating someone about something, Robin doesn't like condoning any of her crewmate's behaviors. Robin had been called stupid many, many times (which showed how uncreative people were with their insults more than anything), and though she had gotten very good over the years at ignoring those people, the term still makes her grit her teeth.

Instead, Robin preferred to think of her crew in other, slightly more flattering, ways. They were impulsive, ignorant, and bull headed...but they weren't dumb.

Robin finds her resemblance to her mother unsettling

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Robin or Oliva?

When she was young, Robin had always been thrilled when the professor and the others had compared her to her mother. Even when Aunt Roji would go into a rage, telling Robin that she was would turn out to be a useless, no good, two-timing bitch just like Oliva she had taken it to heart. Everyone commented how much they looked alike. Everyone whispered how similar they were. Robin had loved every bit of it, because she wanted to be just like her mother.

Then one day Professor Clover had offhandedly mentioned that they shared a birthday. At first Robin thought he was playing a trick on her, but when she had looked it up in the official registry it turned out he was telling the truth. Another day, when asking about what her mother looked like, the professor chuckled before telling Robin her mother had brown eyes (just like her!) and white hair. After a moment's thought, he had then said that Oliva had black hair before a severe childhood illness had changed it.

They were exactly the same.

And that thought, once been very comforting, became more frightening the older Robin grew. The Ohara incident had forcibly stripped all illusions Robin had regarding Oliva, and for a time she had been very bitter about her mother's mistakes.

But by the time Robin found the Straw Hats she had come to terms with her mother's decisions. Their uncanny resemblance still made her feel more than a little uncomfortable when she thought about it, but if the Straw Hat Pirates had taught her anything at all it was that she was free to be her own person.

Robin's nightmares aren't what keep her up at night…

...Although they certainly don't help. No, Robin's insomnia outdated the Buster Call by several years. She could fondly remember countless nights spent reading her books by the light of the moon, promising herself to stop after one more chapter, which became another and another until the sun had risen.

Robin's problem was that if she tried to go to sleep when she wasn't truly exhausted, she would lie in bed replaying the day's conversations and lessons, and begin going over everything that needed to be done when she got up again. It was as if her brain didn't have an off button. And when faced with a choice between lying in bed for two hours trying to get to sleep or reading until she couldn't keep her eyes open, Robin had always chosen the latter.

In a way Robin supposed this helped keep her alive, especially the first few years she had been on the run. The learning curve to being a highly wanted criminal was a steep one, and being able to stay on alert for long periods of time was invaluable.

Robin hated coffee the first time she had tried it

Unsurprisingly, the archeologists of the Tree of Knowledge went through gallons of the stuff, keeping long hours as they researched important papers. The day she turned six years old, Robin had decided she was adult enough to drink some, too.

She didn't spit it back into her cup, although it was a close thing. The look on her face must have been priceless, because the entire room burst out into laughter. Then they had led her into the back where they had set up a surprise birthday party just for her.

That day was one of the happiest of Robin's childhood.

Robin's power requires her to have a 'root'

At first glance, it seemed like Flower-Flower was a misnomer. Besides dissipating into flower petals, what did growing body parts have in common with plants?

Robin learned the hard way during her time with the Revolutionaries. She was, thankfully, by herself, experimenting with her powers. Earlier in the week she had come up with the brilliant idea of making full body copies. Their use would be limited (if any of the copies were injured, so would she), but in certain situations they would be quite useful.

After a bit of practice she conjured up an exact copy of herself. Feeling extremely smug, the process had been easier than she had thought, Robin mentally commanded her clone to walk closer. Her copy nodded, before falling flat on her face and poofing out of existence.

Immediately Robin's eyes began to smart as the pain of the fall transferred over. Irritated, she wiped away the tears and called up another clone. Once again, she failed.

Frowning, Robin looked down at the scrapes on her hands that the clone had cause trying to catch herself after falling down. Thinking back at all the times she had used her power in the past, Robin suppressed the urge to hit herself upside the head.

When she grew arms, they were all ways attached to something. Ditto for legs, ears, or whatever else it amused her to conjure. What if her full body clones were the same? What if they were attached to the ground?

She grew one more clone to test her theory. Two scraped knees later Robin called it a day, her sole consolation that no one was there to witness her embarrassment.

Robin does, at times, have a very juvenile sense of humor

Watching the pranks, jokes, and outright silliness aboard the Merry, and later the Sunny, gave Robin a great deal of enjoyment. Seeing the boys (and occasionally Nami) sneak around, getting into endless amounts of mischief all in the name of harmless fun (or meat, in Luffy's case) was a breath of fresh air. In a world full of betrayal and hatred, it was nice to see some contrast.

The best part was when Robin allowed herself to take part of the revelries. Sometimes it was by distracting Nami or Sanji, other times it meant giving Luffy or Usopp a nudge in the right direction, or giving Chopper a word of encouragement so that he wouldn't lose his nerve.

To the best of Robin's knowledge she was able to pull of her part with no one the wiser, although she did sometimes notice Zoro glaring in her general direction whenever things got particularly crazy.

Robin has no idea how many people she's killed, and sometimes it bothers her

Most of the time Robin was able to get through skirmishes and battles without feeling any remorse the pirates, bounty hunters, or marines that fell by her hand. Only occasionally did the blue-grey faces of those she's strangled to death haunt her dreams.

It was especially bad during the years that she did most of her assassination work. Robin had not been selective about her targets, murdering anyone from affluent politicians, aristocrats, and members of the government to thugs, pirate captains, and mafia bosses.

In the beginning she had tried to keep track of them all, but Robin soon discovered that if she continued that she would drive herself insane. The nature of her power allowed her to kill by the hundred, and when Robin had made the decision to go from breaking legs to breaking necks her kill count soared.

Most days she could justify herself. It was a matter of survival, kill or be killed. But in the dark of night after a particularly violent battle, she would find herself wondering if that baby-faced marine really deserved to die.

Robin does not know everything

Logically, those around Robin knew that she couldn't possibly know everything. However, over the years she had gotten very good at hiding her ignorance. Through observation, her powers, learning about the human psyche Robin was able to tease out most of the secrets where ever she went.

Even on the Sunny Robin gained a reputation of knowing everybody else's dirty laundry. She knew Nami's adoptive mother had died protecting her from a violent fishman and that Sanji owed his mentor a great debt that the cook felt couldn't be repaid. Zoro made an unbreakable vow to a woman named Kuina, and Robin had discovered that even before being on a ghost ship for fifty years Brook had suffered through the loss of a captain.

Yes, when some problem or other came up, everyone would come to her because she was simply supposed to know the answer. Amusingly enough, this even extended to things that were clearly out of her areas of expertise, such as mechanical or navigational problems (should Franky and Nami be unavailable, of course). Always, Robin would gently push them to someone who actually knew the answer.

More importantly, in Robin's opinion, was how her crew mates continued to surprise her. Luffy stubbornly refused to kill his opponents if he could help it. Despite his thuggish appearance, Franky was the single most sensitive person she had ever met. Chopper's intelligence was inversely proportional to his naivety. Usopp had many irrational fears, but managed to fight through them and was stronger because of it.

There was one fact she did know for certain, something so inconceivable she had to convince herself of its truth every day. That was the fact that the Straw Hat Pirates had accepted her, had declared war against the World Government for her. And since that day, they had taught her how to make each day worth living.

AN: Okay, I've got lots to say, so sorry in advance for the long note. First off, sorry for the long delay. My schedule's been crazy with school, and then my computer died. Got a new one, which only lasted 10 days before crapping out on me. Hopefully my new-new computer works out and I won't have any more troubles. Also, since I've finished my mental health rotation I should have a little more time on my hands. I've got, like, six chapters for this fic started, lol. I get an idea, start them, and then have to move on before I can finish.

Okay, about this little one shot…I reused the same format from one of my other fics, which had worked well. I wanted to do something quick that could be done in a couple hours to celebrate finishing mental health. I got the difference between prodigy and genius from a book called An Abundance of Katherines, which is good even though I don't get math. For number 4, I used manga colorings (which for some reason gives Oliva brown eyes. Who has white hair and brown eyes?). Number 7 is pure speculation on my part that will probably be (or already has been, as of the recent chapters, I'd have to look again) disproven. Number 8 is based on the weird image spots Oda gives Robin, which are always good for a snicker. Robin's weirdness is just better hidden than the others.

So, that's a wrap! Reviews are always appreciated. Like I said, I foresee a little bit of extra time in the future, not to mention the fact that Christmas break is coming up. Thanks for your patience.