| abstract | - The princess of Alabasta, Nefertari Vivi is a very close friend of the Straw Hats, and loves her country very deeply. She has a very kind nature, to the point where she has trouble coming up with insults and tries to solve problems non-violently, which is somewhat ironic as she was something of a troublemaker as a child. She often gave little speeches about responsibility while traveling with the Straw Hats, but she does not like public speaking. When it became clear that the organization Baroque Works was egging on a rebellion in her country, she and her caretaker, Igaram, went undercover and infiltrated the organization as Ms. Wednesday and Mr. 8, respectively, in order to find out who was pulling the strings. She eventually discovered that the Warlord of the Sea Crocodile was behind everything, but her cover was blown and she joined up with the Straw Hats and enlisted their help, ultimately resulting in Crocodile's defeat and peace returning to her homeland.
* Action Girl: When she actually gets to fight, she's this. And it is awesome.
* Art Evolution: Surprisingly enough happened over the course of a few chapters.
* Badass Princess: She inflitrated Crocodile's organization and climbed pretty high in the ranks.
* Badass Adorable
* Break the Cutie: Gets slapped with this hard. After several Plans that Crocodile placed on her, leading to a civil war within the capital and culminating in a bomb in the town center with a blast radius of five kilometers set to explode even though she defeated the ones who were to fire it; this led to Pell, Royal Guardian of Alabasta, sacrificing himself to save everyone from the explosion by flying the giant bomb to the stratosphere (he got better, though). After witnessing this and seeing her people still killing each other, Vivi snaps and starts yelling at the top of her lungs for them to stop fighting. It was a very emotional and painful sight to watch, and really cemented Crocodile as a Complete Monster.
* Can't Catch Up: By the end of her time on the crew, even Nami has outpaced her in terms of combat ability. Not entirely her fault, and she even acknowledges this after the Enies Lobby arc.
* Characterization Marches On: Remember when we first met her, eager to kill the whale Laboon for meat?
* Said meat was needed to feed an island that was starving and dying of thurst, so it's not totally out of her character, even though it may seem weird at first.
* Cool Pet: Carue, her giant duck.
* Dance Battler
* Everything's Better with Princesses: ...and upon first learning this, Nami tried to use this to extort money from the kingdom.
* Expy: Her design resembles another princess: Schala, from Chrono Trigger. Since this game's characters were designed by Akira Toriyama, of whom Oda is a huge fan, it wouldn't be too much of a surprise if it turned out to be true.
* Fan Service: In a literal example of 'fanservice', Oda actually responded to some guy's specific fetish on the manga cover for 610, which involved non other than Vivi scrubbing the floor while drenched in water.
* Forehead of Doom: Undeniably so. Enough to rival Hancock.
* Guest Star Straw Hat Pirate
* I Choose to Stay: Was invited to stay with the Straw Hats after Crocodile's defeat. And though she nearly considered it, she chose to stay at Alabasta to help rebuild it.
* Impossibly Cool Weapon: "Peacock Slashers," small blades that are connected to her pinky fingers by wires. She twirls them around in the style of chakrams. No human pinky would normally have the strength or dexterity to pull that off, but Rule of Cool okays it.
* She actually managed to cut Crocodile's head off with those weapons, but his Logia abilities allowed him to easily survive it. Still, to do able to do that with just a pinky is practically a Charles Atlas Superpower. Clearly, Vivi is a lot stronger than she looks.
* Actually, it's extremely easy to cut through Crocodile due to his automatic sand transformations. However, she did look cool while doing it, even though it took very little ability or strength.
* Well even though she didn't exactly cut Crocodile's head off, she DID manage to make a clean cut on the chair he sat on. That's gotta take some strength there.
* Lady of War: Maintains a level of grace until her Heroic BSOD at the end of the Battle in Alubarna.
* Modest Royalty: The only time she's ever seen in anything fancy is for a specific formal occasion. She's dressed pretty casually everywhere else.
* My Breasts Are Down Here: The poster girl for it. In the manga at least.
* Nakama: An honorary Straw Hat member for the time they spent together.
* Nice Girl
* Plucky Girl
* Reverse Mole: Joined Baroque Works to find out who the leader was.
* Royals Who Actually Do Something: She was a mole in the secret organization trying to destabilize her country for two years of her life before getting found out. That's pretty awesome.
* Secretly Wealthy: Until her Heel Face Turn.
* The Sixth Ranger: She joined not too long after the firm Five-Man Band had been established with Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Sanji.
* Spell My Name with an "S": Her family names sometimes gets romanized as "Nefeltari", which is the case with the English manga and 4Kids dub.
* Spoiled Sweet: Quite possibly one of the most selfless characters in the series.
* Took a Level In Badass: Even if it was a short-lived battle, her defeat of Mr. 7 and Miss Father's Day showed that, yes, she did actually pick up pointers from watching the rest of the crew fight.
* Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Nami's Tomboy, sort of (Nami isn't too strictly tomboyish and Vivi isn't too strictly girly.)
* Variable-Length Chain: One interpretation of her signature weapon. Those string slashers seem a bit long to just wrap around her tiny waist
* Where Are They Now? Epilogue: The small cover arc story shows that Vivi has grown to be a fine young lady, and is going to the Revire in place of her bed-ridden father.
* Wise Beyond Their Years: A trait seen as early as six years old when she didn't make a scene when Wapol slapping her and trying to provoke her, so that he doesn't incite an international incident. Also, as mentioned before, she's going to Reverie to represent her kingdom...did we mention she's now 18?
* You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Sky-blue, actually.
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