Nojiko

Female

East Blue, Conomi Island, Cocoyasi Village

Orange Farmer

22

July 25th

170cm

Nojiko is an average-sized young woman with light blue hair and eyes, and tanned skin.

Her right arm and chest are heavily tattooed - a gesture of sympathy and condolence towards Nami, who was ashamed of her tattoo of Arlong's Jolly Roger. In the manga, she also used to wear a bracelet which she gave to Nami. She is usually seen wearing a beige sleeveless shirt (sometimes a green button-up shirt with yellow stripes), blue trousers and purple sandals. Furthermore, she appears to wear pink lip gloss.

After the timeskip, her hair has grown longer, she wears lipstick, and she seems to have become slimmer. Much like her sister, her hourglass features have become more pronounced.

Nojiko is Nami's levelheaded older sister. She is highly supportive of Nami and generous to Genzo, who she and Nami had seen as a father figure. Unlike her sister, she seemed to keep herself out of trouble, although she apparently had a habit of upsetting boys. As she grew older, she also became partly responsible for the well-being of others on the island. During the years of Arlong's rule, she would try to prevent others from rising up against Arlong while Nami worked hard towards honoring her deal with him.

She does not like people who would throw away their lives recklessly. She also has a belief that if you no longer have the will to live and wish to die, so long as you try hard enough, whether adult or child, it will not matter.

Nami (Younger Adoptive Sister), Bell-Mere (Adoptive Mother [Deceased])

Nojiko was born in the Oykot Kingdom. When she was two years old, almost everyone around her was killed in a vicious battle between pirates and the Marines. After the fighting had stopped, Nojiko found an orphaned baby girl who was still alive and began to wander around until she came across Bell-mère. Using what little strength she had, Bell-mère pulled herself over to the two children and to the relief of both Nojiko and Bell-mère, the baby laughed, seemingly unaware of the bloodshed that had happened.

Soon afterwards, Bell-mère set sail for her hometown of Cocoyasi Village with the two children and arrived back home during a storm. Bell-mère handed over the two girls to the village doctor, Nako, insisting the two children be treated before her own injuries. Much to the villagers' surprise, Bell-mère announced after all three were better that she would adopt the two girls. The three would become as close as any real family.

Their life together was a struggle as Bell-mère was poor. Being the elder of the two sisters, Nojiko had everything bought for her first and Nami would end up with her hand-me-downs. After scolding Nami for denouncing them as a family causing Nami to run off, Nojiko was sent after her.

That same day, Arlong invaded the island and found her home, Bell-mère tried to fend the fish-man off but was quickly subdued. When asked for the fee needed to stay alive, it turned out all the money Bell-mère had would either save herself or her two daughters. Things would have been okay, as Arlong was unaware of the two girls' existence, but Bell-mère gave it to her two girls as she would rather have died than not call herself a mother. To that end, Arlong shot her right in front of the eyes of her two adopted daughters, but not before Bell-mère apologized to Nami for not being richer, and not being able to buy the girls whatever they wanted. With that, she said her final words to the girls: "I love you."