Rika

Rika is a young girl from Shells Town, and the daughter of Ririka. She currently serves as a waitress at the 153rd Marine Branch.

Appearance
Rika is a young girl with black eyes, and dark hair done in pigtails. When she first met the Straw Hat Pirates, she wore a striped one-piece dress with what appeared to be a drawstring hood.

After two years, she has become taller and grown her hair out (though she continues to wear pigtails). Her Marine waitress uniform consists of an apron embroidered with a Marine emblem, a cook's bandana, and simple black shoes.

Personality
Rika is remarkably compassionate and brave for her age, enough to risk her life for people who have helped her (e.g. Zoro), and even extend friendship to former enemies (e.g. Helmeppo). At the same time, she can easily fall into tears or tantrums when frustrated.

Abilities and Powers
A budding cook, Rika can currently make a "sweet and mild curry" that is extremely popular among the Marines of the 153rd.

Past
Rika and her mother lived in Shells Town under Morgan's reign, and stood at the mercy of him and his son Helmeppo. One day, Helmeppo let his pet wolf roam the town and attack Rika, only for the traveling bounty hunter Roronoa Zoro to cut the animal down. Though Rika's life was saved, Helmeppo retaliated by ordering Zoro arrested and incarcerated—without food—at the 153rd Branch.

Romance Dawn Arc
Nine days into Zoro's incarceration, Rika tried to smuggle him homemade onigiri, despite Morgan's heavy penalties on anyone caught helping prisoners. To her dismay, he rebuffed her; shortly after, Helmeppo spotted her and took the onigiri for himself, only to find them ill-cooked (as the unpracticed Rika had made them with sugar instead of salt). In a rage, Helmeppo spat out and stomped the onigiri into the ground, then ordered a subordinate Marine to physically throw Rika off the grounds.

Fortunately, Monkey D. Luffy and Koby witnessed these events, and caught Rika before she could be injured. The pair quickly befriended her—even feeding her half-ruined onigiri to Zoro—and from her learned of the Morgan family's tyranny. Almost simultaneously, Helmeppo began boasting of Zoro's impending execution, spurring Luffy to punch him; though delighted to see this, Rika was soon found and hurried away by her horrified mother.

However, after the pirates defeated Marine Captain Morgan and Helmeppo, Rika and her mother fed Luffy, Zoro, and Koby as thanks for saving the town. Rika watched as the Marines requested the pirates to leave town. Koby refused to leave with Luffy since he wanted to become a Marine, and Rika and her mother watched in shock as Koby and Luffy punched each other.

Diary of Koby-Meppo
Rika later becomes friends with both Helmeppo and Koby during their stay in Shells Town, and becomes upset when the two leave with Vice Admiral Garp.

From the Decks of the World
After the timeskip, she appears to be more mature, and is training at the Marine base in Shells Town to become a waitress. She seems to be much better at cooking, and is popular among the Marines. She also has a bounty poster of Monkey D. Luffy hanging on her workplace.

Translation and Dub Issues
The 4kids anime, in one of its earliest (and most infamous) edits, digitally changed the riceballs Rika made for Zoro into Western-style cookies. This edit was markedly inconsistent, even in how many "cookies" were left after Helmeppo took one.

Non-Playable Appearances

 * One Piece: Become the Pirate King!
 * Birth of Luffy's Dream Pirate Crew!
 * Aim! The King of Belly
 * One Piece
 * One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World

Trivia

 * She later appeared in a filler episode as well as TV Special 4 where she is friends with Ninjin, Piiman, and Tamanegi.

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