History Characters / OnePieceNicoRobin

* ActuallyADoombot: Has gained the ability to make "Flower clones" with her Flower-Flower Fruit, which is useful for infiltration and espionage without running the risk of getting captured. She uses this ability to flee from the Oniwabanshu in Wano.

* AntiHero: PlayedWith and {{subverted}} in the end. Robin is the only Straw Hat who is initially introduced as a true AntiVillain, whose only goal was survival, only to eventually become a Straw Hat. At first, she only stowaways on the Going Merry to escape Alabasta (and the Marines) after Luffy's defeat of Crocodile. Although Robin allies with the Straw Hats afterwards, her true loyalties continue to be ambiguous until she becomes a full-fledged member of the Straw Hat Pirates for good after being saved in Enies Lobby. While she turned out to be a good person, she has still remained one of the most ruthless fighters of the crew, using brutal force when defeating enemies, but once she'd subverted her lethality she's firmly one of the most morally upstanding crew members.

* BadassCape: Downplayed. Her Animal Kingdom outfit has a cape, but she plays the part of a simple mook.

* BigSisterInstinct: She seems to gain one of these towards Rebecca.

* WomenAreWiser: She possesses common sense in spades and lacks the quirks (Robin has her own quirks too, they're just fairly subtle compared to the others') and BerserkButton tendencies that Nami has. She tends to stay cool and collected in almost any situation, even when her captain has the crew haring off on some utterly ridiculous course on a whim. The major difference between her and Nami is that, while Nami tends to try to show the rest of the group how ludicrous their actions are (sometimes coming off as the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]), Robin is perfectly content to sit back, smile, and read a book while Luffy makes plans to blast the ship and crew into the sky.

* InterruptedSuicide: After her hopes of finding the Rio Poneglyph were crushed in Alabasta, she decided to stay inside the crumbling Royal Tomb. She is wounded, but considering her powers she could have easily escaped if she had wanted to. The UnwantedRescue comes in the form of Luffy, who tells her that she's better off living; she disagrees. He ignores her and drags her kicking and screaming out of the tomb. With time, and the PowerOfFriendship, this becomes a HappilyFailedSuicide. Indeed, her ire at being forced to live through that suicide attempt is why she joins the crew initially, her stated line of reasoning more or less being "I'm only alive because of you, so you have to take responsibility."

* WhenSheSmiles: Robin is a pretty mature and serious woman whose smiles are usually coldly charming; but [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121111041040/onepiece/images/3/32/Robin_laugh.png her rare girlish giggles are so darned cute]] you'd once again forget that she was the right-hand lady of a mass murderer.

* SuperDrowningSkills: As a Devil Fruit user, she is affected by this, though the only times she's ever been in danger of this is the climax of the Enies Lobby arc, and the early parts of the Fishman Island arc and Punk Hazard arc, not counting the non-canon seventh [[TheMovie movie]].

* SuperDrowningSkills: As a Devil Fruit user, she is affected by this, though the only time she's ever been in danger of this is the climax of the Enies Lobby arc, not counting the non-canon seventh [[TheMovie movie]].

* DarkMagicalGirl: While first appearing as a DarkActionGirl, an essential part of her FreudianExcuse for the more morally ambiguous things she did was the fact that she has been alone, hunted and constantly in fear of betrayal for about 20 years before the series began. The fact that the Straw Hats expressed unconditional love and friendship towards her made her into a better, less treacherous person.

** She actually does use her powers in a perverted way once, [[ItMakesSenseInContext to grab Franky's balls.]]

* AlmightyJanitor: Robin detests fighting, preferring to leave the dirty business to the Straw Hats that enjoy it and saving her Devil Fruit power for support purposes. If she is pushed however, her foes will quickly discover she is not to be trifled with, as her limb-sprouting attacks are practically unavoidable and are aimed at ending a fight as quickly and brutally as possible.

* AlmightyJanitor: Robin detests fighting, preferring to leave the dirty business to the Straw Hats that enjoy it and saving her Devil Fruit power for support purposes. If she is pushed however, her foes will quickly discover she is not to be trifled with, as her Hana attacks are practically unavoidable and are aimed at ending a fight as quickly and brutally as possible.

* BodyMotifs: Nico Robin's motifs are hands and arms. Her Hana Hana no Mi allow her to sprout any body part of her practically everywhere, including arms, legs, eyes, ears or even a body double. Hands and arms are the most common body part she sprouts with her power.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Due to her eating the Flower-Flower Fruit, the Ohara citizens treated her as an outsider with Saul and Olvia as the noteworthy exceptions. It went FromBadToWorse after she was given a bounty, as people constantly either threw her away in fear of being considered criminals, or [[BitchInSheepsClothing acted nice to her only to turn on her by selling her location to the Marines]].

* BodyMotifs: Hands and arms. Her Hana Hana no Mi allow her to sprout any body part of her practically everywhere, including arms, legs, eyes, ears or even a body double. Hands and arms are the most common body part she sprouts with her power.

As a twenty-eight/thirty year old AdventurerArchaeologist, [[HeelFaceTurn ex]]-[[TheDragon Dragon]], and MsExposition, Nico Robin is one of the darker and more enigmatic members of the [[Characters/OnePieceStrawHatPirates Straw Hat Pirates]]. Entering the story [[TheDragon as the partner of]] Alabasta's ArcVillain [[Characters/OnePieceSirCrocodile Mister 0/Sir Crocodile]] under the alias Miss All Sunday, Robin asks to join the crew because [[Characters/OnePieceMonkeyDLuffy Monkey D. Luffy]] forces her to live rather than allowing her to die. Despite some initial mistrust, she gradually settles into the crew as its archaeologist, becoming something of the crew's TeamMom and occasionally playing the role of CoolBigSis for Nami. Her Devil Fruit, the Flower-Flower Fruit (''Hana Hana no Mi''), lets her sprout replicas of her limbs from any surface.

* DoomedHometown: More like "Doomed Homeland"; her home island of Ohara was destroyed by the Buster Call to stop the archeologists from revealing the truth about the World Government.

* GenocideSurvivor: Nico Robin is the only survivor of her island of Ohara mainly due to the island's scholars doing a forbidden practice of researching "The Blank Century", a moment in history that the World Government is trying to keep from the world. When the World Government found out what they were doing, they ''carpet bombed'' the whole island with a Buster Call, a tactic that involves using warships to do so. After which she was hounded relentlessly by government agents when they noted she was alive (largely due to her ability to read Poneglyphs and fearing she would revive the Ancient Weapons which she clearly isn't trying to do), practically forcing her into piracy just to survive. The trauma is the main driving force behind the Water 7 and Enies Lobby arcs for her actions as she doesn't want that fate to befall the Straw Hats.

* HeroicBSOD: After the Ohara incident, the young Robin, at the time eight years old, is completely traumatized to have lost her homeland, the other archeologist and assisting at the death of Jagwar D. Saul.

* OffstageVillainy: Robin used to be an assassin/criminal who survived the destruction of every group she was a part of by ruthless treachery, which in the PowerOfFriendship fueled world of One Piece, is a big deal. Of course, while people (usually the Marines) call her a horrible monster (her nickname is Demon Child, after all) you don't ever actually see her do anything evil. Notably, whenever it looks like she has killed someone, they turn out to be alive (Igaram, Pell, Tashigi). [[UnreliableNarrator That's the World Government's story anyway.]] (That's where the name "Demon Child" comes from.) Since we never see her do anything evil and she was targeted by the World Government for being able to read Poneglyphs, there's no telling whether or not she actually ever did anything evil or if she was simply able to survive their targeting of her while her associates didn't.

* {{Synchronization}}: Robin feels everything her duplicated body parts feel. If someone injurs a disembodied hand, she'll feel the pain in her own hand.

* DecoyBackstory: Upon first appearing in the Alabasta saga, it's mentioned that when she was a child, she used her powers to singlehandedly destroy an entire Marine fleet, hence her bounty at such a young age. It's not until the Enies Lobby saga that it's revelead that in truth, Robin is the last survivor of Ohara, an island that had been wiped out by the World Government, leading them to spread the fake story and put the bounty on her, causing her to spend her entire life on the run until she meets the Straw Hats.

* DecoyBackstory: Upon first appearing in the Alabasta saga, it was mentioned that when she was a child, she used her powers to singlehandedly destroy an entire Marine fleet, hence her bounty at such a young age. It's not until the Enies Lobby saga that we learn that in truth, Robin is the last survivor of Ohara, an island that had been wiped out by the World Government, leading them to spread the fake story and put the bounty on her, causing her to spend her entire life on the run until she met the Straw Hats.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Regarding the obvious one her anatomic duplication powers hold, Oda has basically stated that "she can, but she won't". She actually does use her powers in a perverted way once, [[ItMakesSenseInContext to grab Franky's balls.]]

* AffablyEvil: Ms. All-Sunday, despite being Crocodile's right-hand woman and an opponent to the Straw Hats, Robin is genuinely polite towards them.
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Considering she joined the crew right after the previous second girl (Vivi) left.

* AffablyEvil: During her time as Ms. All-Sunday, she was genuinely polite towards the Straw Hats.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Okay, so you can duplicate your body parts and make them sprout from anything you can see, I guess that's kind of cool, but how is that useful in a fight-OH MY GOD! WHAT HAPPENED TO [[NeckSnap THEIR NECK]]?

** While everyone in the Straw Hats remembers who Marco is, Luffy was having trouble remembering who he is, until she tells him as "[[StrangeMindsThinkAlike he looks like a pineapple]]", and it ''helps'' him remember Marco. She even had an ImagineSpot to cross a frozen river on top of Zoro and Ussop on their backs because both her and Luffy [[SuperDrowningSkills can't swim due to their Devil Fruit powers]].

* WomanChild: Robin's pretty mature and composed but her thoughts still have a childlike wonder especially after Enies Lobby. [[JustifiedTropes makes sense]] when you realize she didn't really have enough of a childhood and was forced to grow up to survive. Now that she's fully accepted her new family in the Strawhats, she's more in touch with her inner child.

* MsExposition: As the resident BadassBookworm of the Straw Hats crew, she's often the one explaining the world of One Piece for [[IdiotHero Luffy's]] (and consequently the audience's) benefit.

* CoolBigSis: Over the TimeSkip, Robin becomes a role figure to Koala, who views her as an older sister. Nami also considers her this.

* CoolBigSis: Over the TimeSkip, Robin becomes a role figure to Koala, who views her as an older sister.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Regarding the obvious one her anatomic duplication powers hold, Oda has basically stated that "she can, but she won't". She actually does use her powers in a perverted way once, to grab Franky's balls.

** Similarly, the entire crew (sans Zoro) were also quick to accept her demands to join them almost immediately after they left Alabasta. [[ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter Luffy]] and [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji]] were fine with it from the word go, Chopper and Usopp are more hesitant but are won over when she amuses them with her powers, and Nami tries to be hostile but folds the second Robin offers her some treasure she stole from Crocodile.

* ArtifactName: She was originally given the epithet "Demon Child" since she recieved her first bounty at the age of 8. This name continues to be applied to her in the present day even though she's already in her late twenties at the time of her introduction.