Nico Olvia

Nico Olvia (ニコ･オルビア, Niko Orubia) is Nico Robin's mother, an archaeologist 20 years ago.

Appearance
There are many similarities within Olvia's appearance to her daughter, however Olvia's hair is white and grown longer and additionally her skin tone is slightly lighter than Robin. It should be noted that her eye colour is also different to Robin's as Robin only possesses blue eyes in the anime (brown in the manga).

Nico Robin
She was the mother of Nico Robin, and was very fond of her daughter. However, her life work called her away, forcing her to leave Robin behind. She regretted never being there for Robin, but died proud of her for being an amazing, smart child, who could even decipher Poneglyphs.

Other
Olvia's husband died many years before the storyline began. The absence of him from Robin's flashback suggests he was dead before she was born, or when she was too young to remember him. Olvia's brother (who was married to a woman called Roji) and Olvia are not seen together interacting. Her brother accepted responsibility of Robin's care upon her departure.

History
After her husband died, she set out on a six year journey to research the Poneglyph along with 33 others. It was really sad for her to depart from Robin, but she had to: she left her in her brother Rojii's care. At the end of the 6th year of the expedition, her ship was caught by the Marines. Her colleagues fought back to defend Olvia but were all killed except her. From the moment of capture, her fate was determined. Olvia was interrogated by Jaguar D. Saul, and imprisoned. She was then set free by Saul who was disgusted by the World Government's Justice system and managed to get away with the Marine's ship. She was grateful to the Giant; however refused to forgive him for the actions he, or better, his men, committed, to stop the expeditions and kill her comrades.

Upon arriving at Ohara, Olvia went to the Tree of Knowledge library. She apologized to her colleagues for failing the expedition and putting the Wolrd Government further against Ohara, but they instead apologized to Olvia for sending her on such a dangerous journey, and remarked that the World Government had always been against the scholars, as they knew how to read Poneglyphs and as such, how to presumably come into possession of the Ancient Weapons. As she was warning them of the threat they were under, she heard that a World Government ship had docked on shore. She grabbed a rifle from a rack and ran, unaware that her daughter Robin was running past her going the opposite way.

She later reached Spandine, and shot in his jacket's sleeve to intimidate him. The CP9' leader explained to her that all of the Government battleships were there in order to destroy Ohara, as a warning for all those who searched for the Poneglyph's secret, and then ordered his subordinates to take her down. She was knocked out and arrested. She was then thrown before the faces of the incapacitated scholars, so as to force them to show their association with the woman and automatically prove their "guilt". After the truth was spoken to the World Government by Clover, Olvia was confronted by Robin as she was taken away and finally, after Robin's pleas, she admitted her relationship with her. As the Buster Call was about to begin, Spandine ordered that she be taken with them, but panicked after being almost directly hit by an explosion and ran off.

Nico Olvia was left behind and was finally re-united with her daughter. She then pleaded Saul to take Robin to safety and told Robin to continue to live. She was last seen with the other scholars in the Tree of Knowledge. As it burned down around them she thought that she didn't even leave her daughter with words said as a mother. After that the Tree fell and she along with the rest of the scholars were presumed to have perished as stated by Spandam.

Trivia

 * In the Japanese anime, she shares the same voice actor with Robin.
 * In a recent Japanese Fan Poll, Nico Olvia is currently ranked the 122nd most popular character in One Piece.

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