Bonus tale for y'all. Enjoy, dearies! :D
You, in the back, what the fuck did you just say?
"Who's Vi-?"
Fuck it all, keep your voice down before someone hears ya!
Who told you that name? Don't you know that name is tab-fucking-oo? Fer chrissakes, shut up and let me tell you about it, or you'll find yerself on the wrong end of a rubber-nanoblade-bullet laced-duck foot-electric shock-antler pronged fatality move the minute you leave this bar.
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Vivi Nefertari. She was a real gem - a full-blown, complete and very female human with sky blue hair that the Vault-suit gang'd rescued from bounty hunters when her cover got blown. She was thrown full-force into a bunch of too-strong, long-lonely, too-worldly, too-naive, half-cracked youngsters that'd just started calling themselves 'family' instead of 'gang', so once they heard her story, they immediately took up her burden as if it were their own.
Lemme set this out real plain, so it don't fall out between yer ears. Vivi was the daughter of Cobra - yep, the same guy as happens to rule that huge city near the beginning of the Rad Line. Remember a while back when that place was full of rebels 'n' soldiers and on the edge of bein' snuffed out? Yeah, well, you ever hear who broke that up, or how it ended? Mm-hmm, that's right, you ain't heard jack-shit for a while now, ain't ya?
Don't get me wrong, the city is still there, barely; the whole population's still wearing black. It's just that the Vault-suits had a huge hand in that salvation; they just wish they hadn't sacrificed so much.
Robin still feels like she isn't worthy, but after all that the gang has done for her, she's smart enough to keep her trap shut and believe in Luffy anyway.
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Basically, Vivi went underground after she heard that the rebels were led by her former childhood gang leader, a shady nanoblade punk named Kohza, backed by a real sheisty individual. She'd done some digging through her personal heavies, Pell the Fell Falcon and Chaka the Jagged Jackal - turned out that the name Baroque Works kept filtering up to the top of each instance, especially the major smuggling scandal that had people thinking that Cobra was selling methless to make money.
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Methless? Oh baby, you don' wanna touch that shit. That drug makes lions out of mice, then eats their livers for breakfast. If there is one thing that shoulda been burned at the End of All, methless is it, but the damn smoke woulda probably killed more of the population than the rads from the nukes.
Let me put it this way - muties are afraid of taking methless. We clear now?
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So now her dad's being called some sorta drug kingpin, and Daddy's wittle girl decides to get to the bottom of things - even goes through a gangbang just to make the cut and give the boss man a little leverage over her. She rose through the raider ranks with the sort of ruthlessness that'd make an ash viper proud, along with her Daddy's right-hand man, Sax-man Ingaram, then she got just close enough to figure out who the boss man was before bouncing out via a failed mission.
Her escape was not without consequence - Ingaram left his wife, Earthenware, a widow when he helped Vivi flee from the millions of bounty hunters on her fine ass. If it weren't for the fact that Ingaram gave the Vault-suits some much needed hospitality the night before, her bones would be 3 feet in the desert floor or swimming in a jackal's belly by now. But, since all the Vault-suits are real particular about "Do as do does," they obliterated the bounty hunters, grabbed her and ran like hell to the Going Merry, which soon left the hunters to eat their dust.
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Vivi was on the small-line container for a goodly time - she was there when the gang actually found an irradiated rainforest, she was there when Nami fell sick, and she was one of the ones running from Kureha's house when Doc Chop joined up. Maybe if she'd told them what the old witch told her...
Ah well, all in the past now.
Anyway, when she told the Vault-suits everything, they were all gung-ho to kick ass and chew bubblegum - and since no-one in the gang even knew what bubblegum was at that point...
Of course they mowed 'em down. They went through Baroque Works top agents and the big bad boss like a plasma knife through bone - not to say that it was a cakewalk, though. The big bad boss turned out to be the Grand Line's El Cocodrilo, one of the 7 Deadly Sinners along with Hawk-Eyes Mihawk. Moria was one too, as well as leader of the Four Horseman gang - D. Luffy's got a real knack for offing Sins.
Right, so the boss was Cocodrilo and all his subs were more mutie than human, which meant bad times all around when the final reckoning was done. Kohza came out of hiding and sparked the civil war, only to end it within a few days after he realized how close he came to being a serious puppet ruler. Cobra and the Jagged Jackal lived, but Vivi...
There was a bomb - some misplaced relic of the Far Past - planted on a truck that was going to drive off a ravine and drop the payload right dab in the middle of town. Sogeking was all for driving it away himself, even with Rozo and Sanji dragging him away by both of his dislocated shoulders, but Vivi slipped out while they were arguing about who should have the dying honor. From the cliff hanging above them, the last time they heard Vivi's voice was when she called out to all of them, screaming her thanks and love for each of them. The last they saw of her was her left fist pump in the air, showing off the war tattoos that Zoro and Sogeking had pain-stakingly drawn on all of their left arms. Then she hopped in the truck, brought it sputtering and roaring to life, and drove it away from the ravine and as far into the desert as she could go before the explosion.
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Wisps of blue hair fell on their upturned, shell-shocked faces for a long time.
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Robin, otherwise known as Cocodrilo's Miss 0, was terrorized by the noise that threw her mind back into the aftermath of the End of All. She fled his cooling body and hid in the Going Merry for days while Luffy and the others grieved and recovered.
Eventually they found her, long after they left with Cobra's blessing. Through some fast talking, she manages to stay and slowly, slowly she feels accepted, but until the day that they saved her from the Brotherhood of Steel, she still wore a penance-collar of silky blue.
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