Weird how anime just showed Zoro and Usopp on the boat while in manga they are all here but they gave us Zoro being the only one giving space to Nami (when it's everyone in manga)
But in english they made zoro say "maybe she's not coming" while in french he said smtg like ""dw she'll come"" . Also make Sanji "scream" at Zoro while in manga it was at Luffy.
Yes anime giving me same scene (strawhat jumping with moon/sun behind them) in the sun this time + she's jumping and we only see Zoro🤭
Does the team also celebrate Nami's birthday? And by the way, is there a theme for each birthday party depending on the birthday boy or girl? 🎉🎂🍊🎂🎉
For example, if it's from Pyke it would be a theme of knives and blood.🩸🔪🦈
Hi! They do! I like to think that they do all the things to prove to Nami she’s part of the crew. Is it genuine or is it to make her feel trap? Probably a bit of both. Around Biri’s arrival, Nami is just turning 16. I think at this point, Arlong is se on keeping her as his cartographer for ever and believes she’s fit to be part of his crew cause she’s better than other humans. So the celebration is genuine even though she had no choice in participating.
But she goes along. Her true birthday gift is getting a few days off to spend with Nojiko ✨
(18 y/o Nojiko is having fun with her hair, trying to look strong)
Regarding themes, there can be depending on what the person wants! Take had just a big game and gambling night for example, his only request was that he didn’t have to organise it.
Was writing a draft for an anon’s ask that handles partly about Nami’s past and as we know, readers basically know nothing about her origins at the moment. Oda-sensei has only revealed where Bellmeré found her and Nojiko and how they grew as a family in Cocoyashi village.
Now after re-reading the chapters where Genzo reveals about her past, I can’t stop thinking of whether that smile she flashed in middle of crisis (as a baby) has some deeper meaning (alongside giving Bellmeré back the will of living), perhaps a reference to her origins that will be later revealed...?
Also the flashback raises questions about Nojiko, whether she could know more than it seems *pondering emoji*
Nami speaks about her roots and nature - with hints of the Arlong Battle.
(Fun Fact, according to word this chapter is 666 words long!)
Read the entire series on Ao3 for better quality and authors notes! Gen, creepy, featuring all of the Straw Hats, multi-chapter story.
“The East Blue has a different nickname to those in the Grand Line, and those who hail it as home have a few… unique traits.”
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Soul - Nami
Nami likes the wind. Its soothing, beautiful and faithful, if only to her. It isher, in a way nothing else can be, completely natural as it sweeps through the Veil’s illusion to her true body underneath.
It brings word of Vivi, laughing beautifully against the desert storms that sweep up sand storms far less terrifying than the ones she saw with her friends (Crocodile had been wary of the demons hiding beneath their flesh.) It tells tales of Nojiko, sitting by Bell-meres grave with Genzo, excitedly telling their mother about all of Nami’s adventures. It whispers that there’s a storm ahead, and while the wind cannot contain its nature to revolt in every way, thrashing any ship over stormy waves, it is courteous enough (to Nami) to tell where it shall hurl it strength next.
It’s nice, her being with the wind, being able to navigate the world and know the air and sea as if it was her own heart and soul (and isn’t it, in a way?)
On Cocoyashi, people liked to assign themselves names for their nature. Genzo was a simple Eudemon, a protector spirit, and the doctor liked to call himself a Salamander. (Nami thought that with Genzo’s pinwheel and Nako’s flames, the two would make a greatWanyūdō.). Bell-mere herself liked to use the term succubus though Nami only found out what it meant when her and Nojiko snuck into the island’s only bar.
Nami had always thought the whole thing was stupid – it offered a sense of self but none of them really matched the description of those legendary creatures told of in the other Blues, perhaps due to the mixing of demon ‘types’ if one wanted to go that route.
(And no – contrary to popular belief, she didn’t just think this way because she and Nojiko didn’t have anything to describe them beyond ‘demon’
Nojiko had beautiful, crested scales and fins running alone her back and consistently wet purple hair. Her eyes were large and absorbing, like the center of a sea-king’s eye. She was just as much a creature of the sea as Nami was a soul of the sky. The villagers didn’t have a word for either of them, mostly on account of them being orphans.)
Wasn’t it better to be free, unbound by any terms, free to be who she chose to be and look how she wanted to look? Wasn’t it better to be like the wind, like herself?
(Arlong didn’t think so. Thought they were even below humans when he found out the true nature of the East.)
(She never noticed his trembles when she ventured to close to him)
(Stop,she instead told herself when she thought of the Fish Man, and focused her thoughts on Luffy, with jagged claws, and horns and smile, who had taken down Arlong Park all for her, and bit off half of the Fish-Man’s arm when no one was looking in the midst of the fight, (His teeth, his jaws were stronger than the Fish Man after all.) Think of your future King, your King of the Pirates, think of the crown of hellfire above his head – unholy and unspoken save for but a few. Soon the world will know his crown, his rule, his might.)
Nami preferred to only have three terms to describe her, a title she claimed for herself and two gifted to her.
Navigator, my Navigator, from Luffy, Nami, my Nami, from Bell-mere (isn’t it funny her sister is of the waves, yet Nami is named for them?) - and most importantly -
Wind – for that is what she is, wild and free, unstoppable and always knowledgeable of the best treasure hunts.
(and few souls dare go against the wind, don’t you know? The lights in the stormy night aren’t always cracks of lightning or a helpful lighthouse – often, they are far far worse than anything terrified sailors could imagine.
And Nami, for all her good looks, is even worse than that.)
