Character Description: Nami Curie
Nami was a girl whose childhood is filled with dark memories of pirate pillage and plunder. She, along with an older girl named Nojiko, were raised by a female former Marine named Belle-Mère (or Bellemare) until the village where they were living (Cocoyashi Village) was ravaged by Merman pirates led by
Arlong. Arlong made each adult pay 100,000 berries and each child pay 50,000 berries. In Nami's family there were three people,
Bellemere had to pay 100,000, and Nami and Nojiko had to pay 50,000 each bringing the total to 200,000 berries. Belle-Mère paid for the children, but didn't have enough left over for herself, and was thus killed.
Arlong then forced Nami to work for him when her natural talent for cartography was discovered. Therefore, Nami made a deal with
Arlong: She'll help him only if she can buy Cocoyashi Village from him.
Arlong agreed and made Nami a member of his crew. She carried the mark of
Arlong's crew on her right shoulder (normally covered by her shirt) to
seal the deal. After that, she sought out filthy, greedy pirates and took their ill-gotten loot and buried it at her hometown until she had the amount needed.
But when she met
Luffy, he and others proved to be her lone exception, simply because they weren't typical pirates. She and
Luffy briefly crossed paths several times while Nami in the middle of her capers, but it isn't until their coincidental encounter with
Buggy that they formally introduced themselves. It's also when Nami discovers just how different
Luffy is, and not simply because he's a rubber man. For one thing, he seemed to have a purpose in life other than to steal and rob. He had a definite
sense of honor and
courage...and he actually saved her life. Grudgingly, she agreed to a loose alliance (as she put it) with
Luffy's crew and to supply her much-needed navigation skills in
Luffy's quest for the Grand Line. Besides, it'll do two other things for her. First, traveling will give her more chances to make more maps. Second, she'll probably run into more pirates and more loot to steal.
She later ditched
Luffy and gang once she had the amount needed, but she was devastated after she learned
Arlong had no reason to keep his word when he revealed the location of her loot to corrupt Naval officer Nezumi. But
Luffy and the other helped liberate Cocoyashi and Nami rejoins the gang for the long run. Though Nami prefers to use her wits and stealth to steal her way to the top, she isn't defenseless physically. She carries a staff that's normally strapped to her leg in three pieces. When she needs it, she can whip it out and snap it back together.
Nami lived in Kokoyashi Village.
Marie Curie was a very renowned physics and chemist, mainly known for being a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. She was the female professor at the University of Paris and till date, is the first and only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Wife of fellow-Nobel-laureate Pierre Curie, she was also the founder of the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Though Curie was born and brought up in Poland, she later gained French citizenship. Being proud of her Polish roots, she named the first new chemical element that was discovered by her as "polonium", after her native country.
Nami stole my heart.
Curie inspires me to be different.
Love it. =]
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