Nami

A brilliant navigator, cartographer and shameless thief, Nami first robs pirates to buy back her home village from the fish-man Arlong. Won over by Luffy's refusal to abandon her, she joins the crew intending to chart a map of the entire world. Money-hungry and sharp-tongued, she handles the ship's finances, reads weather with uncanny accuracy and fights with a weather-manipulating staff.

Slim and striking, with long orange hair, brown eyes and a blue pinwheel tattoo over a tangerine design on her left shoulder, inked over the mark Arlong's crew had forced on her. Early in the series she favours striped shirts, short skirts and sandals; after the timeskip she wears bikini tops, low-slung jeans or shorts, high heels and a log pose on her left wrist. She changes outfits more often than any other crewmate and keeps her Clima-Tact collapsed at her hip or hidden in her clothing.

Sharp, pragmatic and openly greedy, she keeps the crew's accounts, charges interest on loans to her own shipmates, and bargains with anyone who will listen. She is also the most sensible person aboard, the one who reads a situation accurately and shouts down bad ideas. Physically she is among the weakest Straw Hats and is frank about being frightened, often screaming or fleeing, yet she never abandons the crew and will walk into a battlefield for them. Her temper is legendary, directed mainly at Luffy, Zoro, Usopp and Sanji. Beneath the money-grubbing lies a deep fear of helplessness, born of years spent under someone else's thumb.

Orphaned by war, she and Nojiko were found as infants by the Marine officer Bellemere, who left the service to raise them in Cocoyasi Village on a tangerine farm. Nami showed an extraordinary gift for cartography and dreamed of mapping the entire world. When the fish-man pirate Arlong demanded tribute the family could not pay, Bellemere was killed in front of the girls. Nami joined Arlong's crew as his cartographer, stealing from pirates for years to buy her village's freedom for a hundred million berries while her neighbours believed she had betrayed them. The money was seized by a corrupt Marine before she could pay, leaving her trapped.

1. Romance Dawn to Baratie

   She meets Luffy while robbing pirate crews and is dragged into his voyage as navigator, playing both sides and planning to steal the ship. Her skill with maps, currents and weather quickly makes her indispensable, though she keeps her real reasons for collecting money strictly to herself.

2. Arlong Park

   Her past is revealed when she returns to Cocoyasi Village and her savings are confiscated. Driven to break down for the first time, she asks Luffy for help, and the crew destroys Arlong's park. She has the slave mark on her shoulder tattooed over and formally joins the Straw Hats.

3. Alabasta

   Posing as a Baroque Works agent alongside Vivi, she helps steer the crew through the Grand Line's chaotic weather and fights with her newly built Clima-Tact, a weather-manipulating staff designed by Usopp. She defeats the agent Miss Doublefinger using illusions and climate tricks rather than strength.

4. Enies Lobby and Thriller Bark

   She crosses the Gates of Justice with the crew to retrieve Robin, beating the far stronger Kalifa with an upgraded Perfect Clima-Tact and a lightning strike. Through these arcs she grows from a reluctant passenger into a tactician who co-ordinates the crew's escapes.

5. Post-Timeskip and Wano

   Trained on Weatheria, an island that studies weather itself, she returns able to call down storms and later gains the sentient weapon Zeus. In Wano she fights Ulti and supports the Onigashima raid, while her reading of the island's conditions repeatedly keeps the alliance alive.

Bellemere

Adoptive mother

A former Marine who gave up everything to raise two orphans on a failing tangerine farm. Her death at Arlong's hands defined Nami's childhood, and the tangerine trees she tended were transplanted onto the crew's ship.

Nojiko

Adoptive sister

Took on the village's hostility and the farm's work while Nami played the traitor. She understood Nami's plan long before anyone else and defended her reputation in silence for years.

Monkey D. Luffy

Captain

The first person she ever asked for help. She treats him as an exasperating idiot, manages his impulses, and trusts his word completely; he in turn never overrules her on matters of course or weather.

Nico Robin

Closest crewmate

The two form a calm, practical partnership amid the crew's chaos, combining Robin's knowledge with Nami's planning. Nami was among the loudest voices demanding that Robin be brought back from Enies Lobby.

Arlong

Former captor

The fish-man who killed Bellemere and kept her as a cartographer under threat. His tattoo on her shoulder, and the fear he instilled, drove her ambition and her refusal to be powerless again.

• She stabs the tattoo on her own shoulder in despair before asking Luffy for help.
• She has the mark replaced with a pinwheel and tangerine design, publicly leaving her old life behind.
• She defeats a far stronger government agent at Enies Lobby by dropping a thunderbolt on her.
• She guides the ship up a knock-up stream and later through boiling currents into the New World.
• She returns from the timeskip able to command real weather after studying on a sky island devoted to it.

• Her dream is to draw a complete map of the world.
• She grows tangerine trees from Bellemere's farm in the ship's garden.
• She is the crew's treasurer and keeps meticulous records of what each crewmate owes her.
• She was originally introduced as a thief who robbed pirates rather than ordinary people.
• Her weather knowledge is good enough that experienced sailors mistake her forecasts for magic.

• Monkey D. Luffy
• Roronoa Zoro
• Usopp
• Sanji
• Nico Robin
• Franky

• Tony Tony Chopper
• Brook

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