So the next time she wants him to take her seriously, she pokes him in the eye with a needle. This is actually subverted the first time in the manga, shortly after the Buggy Arc when she hits Luffy for being stupid, he just notes it bounces off him. Eiichiro Oda says that it's because her blows are "emotionally and spiritually charged". With just slaps, she's one of the few characters able to render Luffy, who's made of rubber and therefore immune to most blunt attacks, a bruised and bloody mess. Armor-Piercing Slap: Usually Played for Laughs.After joining officially the Straw Hats, she still has the habits to steal and has remained quite greedy. Anti-Hero: Starts off as a thief not willing to kill, but fine with putting pirates in situations where they are certain to die due to her past with the Arlong Pirates.This is Truth in Television: In Real Life pirate ships, outside of battle, the quartermaster held just as much, if not more, power than the ship's captain. At this point, even she's quite a bit stronger than her mere 66,000,000 bounty would imply thanks to the massive and dangerous upgrades she made to her Clima Tact.
The Oda-directed Strong World and Film Z notably make it purely orange, similar to the way the former lightened Robin's skin before she has become permanently light-skinned post- Time Skip.
Her thievery skills are also quite useful from time to time: as the crew's priorities lie more on seeking adventure than actual piracy, she also takes on the role of ship's purser, ensuring that they have enough money to purchase food and supplies for their voyages. Although Nami isn't strong like her crewmates, she uses a weapon called the Clima-Tact, later upgraded to the Perfect Clima-Tact and currently the Sorcery Clima-Tact to manipulate the weather on a small scale, giving her a great range of tricks and attacks. Nami is an exceptional navigator, able to read the weather with perfect accuracy then give instructions to pilot the ship through any storm, and is responsible for showing the way to the next island. When Luffy freed the archipelago from Arlong's grip, she fully joined the Straw Hats afterward. However, it is revealed that her surrogate home, the Conomi Archipelago, was occupied by the Arlong Pirates and she only wished to buy her home back. Nami was initially introduced as a thief who detested pirates and stole from them, tagging along Luffy with dubious loyalty to him.
The eighteen/ twenty-year-old navigator of the Straw Hats, and the second of Luffy's recruits. "What good is treasure if I'm all alone? I'd rather have nothing at all!"