I was watching the Funi version of Bon Voyage, and it reminded me of how each member (Franky & Brook included) has a sad backstory. I was just curious who you thought had the saddest backstory?
It was between Robin, Chopper, and Nami for me. I think Nami has the saddest, just because her mom was shot in front of her, and then she became a slave of the people who did it. I think Chopper would be next, just because he tried so hard to save Dr. H just to fail anyway.
I'd say Robin, Nami had at the very least her sister to turn to, but Robin had nothing and nowhere.
And even before the Buster Call massacre, she didn't exactly have a family or friends.
After her, I'd say Nami and Franky.
Here is the old thread on the same topic if you want to read it:
http://www.apforums.net/showthread.php?t=7237&highlight=tragic+backstory
Sanjiiiii's was the hardest physically.
no doubt
@Lobster:
Sanjiiiii's was the hardest physically.
no doubt
Garp tossed Luffy into the woods… Didn't he also tie him to a balloon and sent him off into the sky?
Luffy had to endure hell under a large part of his upbringing. Sanji just starved for a few weeks or something.
Brooks story is the saddest. It started off happy and fun but took a turn for the worse and got very sad. It almost made me cry and I'm not a very emotional person.
For me its have to be Robin's. Since she have been running for her pretty much all her life, and have treated curely by people expect by her friends (Saul, Clover and the alchologists of Ohara, and of course the Straw Hat crew.).
Luffy had to endure hell under a large part of his upbringing. Sanji just starved for a few weeks or something.
Luffy just had intense training. And I'm sure Sanji did also to posses his current level of physical skill.
Have you ever tried STARVING for weeks? It would be more painful then any form of training. Have you ever even gone two days without eating?
I don't think soooo
Brook's is saddest by far.
He had a crew he was as close to as the Strawhats are to each other. He had high aspirations, a friend waiting when they returned, and a lot of promise left in life. Then, in one fell swoop, everyone he knows DIES. Then, he remains a lost soul, unable to find his own body for a year. Then, when he finds it, it's already a skeleton. Imagine knowing you have another chance to live, then realizing your existence will be quite unnatural.
THEN FOR 50 YEARS!!! He waits alone on the ship he shared with his beloved crew. He loses his shadow, and suffers even more. The man has gone insane, clearly.
Robin's 20 years of being rejected by everyone can't even compare to this level of loneliness.
Poor poor Brooke.
Brooke, Nami and Robin. All the reasons in above posts but I bet Nami felt pretty alone. Loneliness is a painful feeling.
I think someone needs to eat a happle. <3Mah dA.Bombing for peace is like having sex for virginity.
Robin has the most tragic I think, because she was forced to be alone and hunted for twenty years while people convinced her that her existence was a crime.
Brook's at second place, because even though he spent fifty years alone, he at least had friends before that.
After that would come Nami, who was second for a long time, because she had to actually work for the guy who shot her mom.
Franky's next because something he built was directly responsible for his mentor/father figure getting arrested and presumably executed.
Chopper ranks fifth because while he failed to save Dr. H, it wasn't really his fault and at least he had somebody after Dr. H died.
Usopp comes next because he was abandoned by his dad and then his mom died on him.
Kuina's death puts Zoro next.
Sanji takes second to last because while everyone else on the ship he was one probably died, he didn't seem that close to them and Zeff survived as well.
Last is Luffy, because despite Shanks loss of an arm, Luffy didn't have any friends die on him that we know of.
For me is Brook, because he saw his friends die and it must be a shock to see your body in bones, travel alone…
Then it's Robin, she didn't pass time with her mom, the only friends that she had were killed,the buster call thing bleh ~ but she could have disguised herself i don't know...
Franky and chopper it's a tie. Their father figure die because of something inocently they made.
then its nami, next ussop, zoro, sanji and finally luffy.
im going to say robin , nami then chopper i didnt put brook there becuase all his friends died at once but other than that he was happy
I think I'm gonna put it from the worst to a little bit bad, coz all of them are tragic:
Robin; Ohara & her mother
Nami: Belamera
Franky: Tom-san
Chopper: for being rejected by all (humans & non-humans)
i think its robin srsly
Robin.
Robin's past has affected her whole life. It didn't just end after it happened, it cased her 20 years of hardhips, on the run, in shame. In fact, Robin's past has affected her whole personality, she's now much quieter & to-herself, sadly.
Brook. Robin's past was portrayed as being more tragic than Brook's, but think about it. Both of them saw their family/friends die right in front of them, but Brook actually DID die. Robin's stuggles lasted 20 years; Brook's lasted 50. Not to mention he had a guilty conscience the whole time, thinking there was no way for him to keep his promise to Laboon.
@Super-Franky:
Brook. Robin's past was portrayed as being more tragic than Brook's, but think about it.
Also Robin may be quieter now, but she's still physically whole and not, you know, insane. People being jerks to you sucks, but total isolation and staring at the same empty room (ship in this case) for years on end will make a person psychotic. Check out what it did to monkeys if you have a strong stomach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
Brook's still in the lead for me.
Brook's at second place, because even though he spent fifty years alone, he at least had friends before that.
I'm reminded of MIB right about now.
Jay: You know what they say. It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Kay: Try it.
Robin by far. Nami had Nojiko, Genzo (kind of), etc., but Robin had nothing and no one. Mother died, Clover died, all the scholars died, Saul died, everyone in the world hates her. Can't get much worse than that.
Zoro easily has the most tragic past to me. I always find it odd that people rank that so low.
Kuina, a kind young girl with big dreams, falls down some stairs and dies.
I almost can't even believe it happened, easily the most tragic, ****ed up thing in One Piece for me.
Granted, Zoro is a tough dude, and keeps his emotions on the inside, but good god that's some crazy sad stuff.
Nico Robin's is most tragic. It is even 2 parted. First no family. Second whole island and second family disappears with mother of her. And the pain continues to Water7 und Enies Lobby…
well yeah .. robins past is really sad .. but for me, brooks is more tragic .. imagine beeing alone on such a big ship for 50 years .. without hope .. he must have been really scared. ;__; his and choppers past were the only that really made my cry ;;
and i guess zoro's and luffys where the least tragic .. at least for me .. well usopps was hard too .. but in the end i'd count those three to have the least tragic past (who knows if we get further infos about luffys)
xmmm..i will say brook cause all of his nakama died and lost laboon
@Lobster:
Luffy just had intense training. And I'm sure Sanji did also to posses his current level of physical skill.
Have you ever tried STARVING for weeks? It would be more painful then any form of training. Have you ever even gone two days without eating?
I don't think soooo
I thought it was Like 2 Months or something
CLEARLY anyone who says anything other than brook is insane. Have you ever been without human contact for 2 years? You realize thats why they have solitary IN JAIL? It's a form of tourture when you can only talk to yourself against your will. Robin was alone yes but at least she could still mingle in society, she could still pretend to be happy, hell you think all 20 years she was NEVER actually happy for one moment or having fun kicking ass or reading her books? Now granted she saw everything she loved destroyed at an earlier age but she AT LEAST had the oppourtunity and freedom to make new friendships relationships. Brook was alone for 50 FUCKING YEARS. Thats twice as old as the majority of the members on this forum if not more than 2 times. He was in fog, coulding eat, couldnt see the FUCKING SUN FOR 50 YEARS. How could anyone else possibly compare to the suffering brook had to endure? And thats not even inculding seeing all his family(crew) killed before his eyes and having to carry the weight of bringing their message to a friend who he had no idea if he would ever see again. The man went insane. Robin got gothic. You compare the results.
I'll have to say it's Robin's. An evil bedictive family, mom shot in front of her eyes (almost), who island being destroy, being used by many people, unable to trust anyone, and it just goes on and on.
@Yonkou#3:
anyone who says anything other than brook is insane….How could anyone else possibly compare to the suffering brook had to endure?...The man went insane. Robin got gothic. You compare the results.
I think it's that most people in this forum's biggest demographic really don't "get" what happened there. Robin's background as the little kid with mean parents that nobody liked for no good reason is something anyone in high school feels they can relate to, at least more than some of the hard-hitting horror going on in other backstories (like Sanji staring at the sea while starving to death).
I have a morbid fascination for the horrors of solitary confinement, so let's have another article someone just sent me that I found to be a pretty good read. Since some people may not want to read the whole thing, I'll post some choice bits.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
He missed people terribly, especially his fiancée and his family. He was despondent and depressed. Then, with time, he began to feel something more. He felt himself disintegrating. It was as if his brain were grinding down. A month into his confinement, he recalled in his memoir, “The mind is a blank. Jesus, I always thought I was smart. Where are all the things I learned, the books I read, the poems I memorized? There’s nothing there, just a formless, gray-black misery. My mind’s gone dead. God, help me.”
For unpredictable stretches of time, he was granted the salvation of a companion—sometimes he shared a cell with as many as four other hostages—and he noticed that his thinking recovered rapidly when this occurred. He could read and concentrate longer, avoid hallucinations, and better control his emotions. “I would rather have had the worst companion than no companion at all,” he noted…After a few weeks, he felt his mind slipping away again. “I find myself trembling sometimes for no reason,” he wrote. “I’m afraid I’m beginning to lose my mind, to lose control completely.”
One day, three years into his ordeal, he snapped. He walked over to a wall and began beating his forehead against it, dozens of times. His head was smashed and bleeding before the guards were able to stop him.
In 1992, fifty-seven prisoners of war, released after an average of six months in detention camps in the former Yugoslavia, were examined using EEG-like tests. The recordings revealed brain abnormalities months afterward; the most severe were found in prisoners who had endured either head trauma sufficient to render them unconscious or, yes, solitary confinement. Without sustained social interaction, the human brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury.
Initially, Fletcher said, everyone experiences the pure elation of being able to see and talk to people again, especially family and friends. They can’t get enough of other people, and talk almost non-stop for hours. They are optimistic and hopeful. But, afterward, normal sleeping and eating patterns prove difficult to reëstablish. Some have lost their sense of time. For weeks, they have trouble managing the sensations and emotional complexities of their freedom. For the first few months after his release, Anderson said when I reached him by phone recently, “it was just kind of a fog.” He had done many television interviews at the time. “And if you look at me in the pictures? Look at my eyes. You can tell. I look drugged.”
“This is going to be a piece of cake,” Dellelo recalls thinking when the door closed behind him. Whereas many American supermax prisoners—and most P.O.W.s and hostages—have no idea when they might get out, he knew exactly how long he was going to be there. He drew a calendar on his pad of paper to start counting down the days. He would get a radio and a TV. He could read. No one was going to bother him. And, as his elaborate escape plan showed, he could be patient. “This is their sophisticated security?” he said to himself. “They don’t know what they’re doing.”
After a few months without regular social contact, however, his experience proved no different from that of the P.O.W.s or hostages, or the majority of isolated prisoners whom researchers have studied: he started to lose his mind. He talked to himself. He paced back and forth compulsively, shuffling along the same six-foot path for hours on end. Soon, he was having panic attacks, screaming for help. He hallucinated that the colors on the walls were changing. He became enraged by routine noises—the sound of doors opening as the guards made their hourly checks, the sounds of inmates in nearby cells. After a year or so, he was hearing voices on the television talking directly to him. He put the television under his bed, and rarely took it out again.
One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for social interaction. Once, Dellelo was allowed to have an in-person meeting with his lawyer, and he simply couldn’t handle it. After so many months in which his primary human contact had been an occasional phone call or brief conversations with an inmate down the tier, shouted through steel doors at the top of their lungs, he found himself unable to carry on a face-to-face conversation. He had trouble following both words and hand gestures and couldn’t generate them himself. When he realized this, he succumbed to a full-blown panic attack.
But Felton would just yell, “Guard! Guard! Guard! Guard! Guard!,” or bang his cup on the toilet, for hours. He could spend whole days hallucinating that he was in another world, that he was a child at home in Danville, playing in the streets, having conversations with imaginary people…Robert Felton drifted in and out of acute psychosis for much of his solitary confinement.
On July 12, 2005, at the age of thirty-three, Felton was finally released. He hadn’t socialized with another person since entering Tamms, at the age of twenty-five. Before his release, he was given one month in the general prison population to get used to people. It wasn’t enough. Upon returning to society, he found that he had trouble in crowds. At a party of well-wishers, the volume of social stimulation overwhelmed him and he panicked, headed for a bathroom, and locked himself in.
One Piece has a lot of surprisingly dark content for what is supposedly a children's fantasy story, but my jaw was on the floor as I read through Thriller Bark. It's subtle, because Oda isn't the kind of writer to bludgeon you to death with this stuff, but it's there. The "ten years later" flashback scene where Brook is laughing hysterically, scampering around the deck talking to himself and briefly forgetting he's alone, having difficulty telling dreaming from being awake, it's all there. Gives me chills every single time.
And humor character or no, the guy is definitely still…off. Look at him in his flashback before that - he was emotional and got silly at parties, but otherwise a perfectly sensible person. Now he's hilarious, but a total disaster a good portion of the time.
That's not even touching the disfigurement/body horror issue yet, although Oda did that in TB too.
This is a pretty amazing series to tackle some of the things it does, really. Some of the scenes in the slave market are a close second, to say nothing of what was implied when that Tenryuubito announced "yeah, I like this random woman I saw on the street, she's my wife now. Someone drag her back home with me. Oh, and get rid of some of the others, I'm tired of them."
...yeah, I'm bored and chatty tonight. So sue me. 
Robin, Robin, and Robin. How is this even a contest?
Let me elaborate
-Robin had no family except an abusive aunt and an uncle who didn't care enough to stop his wife.
-Brook as far as we know had no tragic family issues.
-Robin is shunned by her entire community for the first 8 years of her life. Not "people don't talk to her" shunning, "parents actively guide their children away from her and the children throw rocks at her" shunning.
-Again, we can assume because it wasn't mentioned, that Brook's childhood was relatively untragic.
-Robin and Brook both find a family to be around, the historians and the pirates
-The government destroys the only people Robin is close to, and though she meets her mother, it is for barely a few hours. The giant she befriended recently is frozen before her eyes by another man. The second home (only home), the library, is burned before her eyes by government bombardment and fire. Her mentor is shot thorugh the heart point blank. She knows that everybody else from the island also died, for the 'crime' of researching the past, not by a impersonal source like disease or natural disaster, but from human intent to kill.
-Brook's captain was killed off by an unfortunate disease, but the remainder of the crew continued happily for months to years after (no timeframe given). It was only in a pirate battle that the entire crew was poisoned and were able to die with at least the single thought that their good friend would recieve their message, and with that they died in good spirits. Brook died, but CAME BACK TO LIFE. Yikes.
-On the issue of solitary, the reason solitary is so horrifying is because there is nothing you can do. Prison and research solitary is so horrifying because you can't interact with anything, and you are often deprived of your senses, with only a tiny space to move about. Brook was still able to navigate, and while lonliness over years and years is an excruciating ordeal, could DO something, so no, it is not the same as solitary.
-I do concede however, Robin's past was slightly less tragic in this aspect. She was able to have brief moments of belonging at the least, before the government would hunt her again, but at the end of every story, she would be betrayed by everyone she knew again. And again. And again. From 8 years to 16 or 17 years old, the vast majority of her growing up consisted of betrayal left and right for money, for what reason?
-Brook on the other hand had nearly 40 years of fulfilling life, with friends, nakama, freedom. There was no given timeline about what happened when after Yorki died, so I can't really compare that well, but at worst, 50 years of life with the happy memories of years past to sustain him were had. I changed my mind. Robin's lone past of betrayals is worse than Brook's lone past well, alone.
Come ON.
EDIT: Oh lord, I'm sorry my username cramps this up.
@Spore: Robin's childhood may be more understandable to the highschool/middleschool crowd, but the degrees are drastically different. Imagine you're in second grade. Now nobody talks to you, except to throw rocks or to yell at you or to scold you. You have no parents. The people you live with just use you to do menial work while they go out with their kid and leave you at home. Teen angst doesn't touch this.
@FBIAgentAssignedToWatchYou:
-On the issue of solitary, the reason solitary is so horrifying is because there is nothing you can do. Prison and research solitary is so horrifying because you can't interact with anything, and you are often deprived of your senses, with only a tiny space to move about. Brook was still able to navigate, and while lonliness over years and years is an excruciating ordeal, could DO something, so no, it is not the same as solitary.
I'm not sure where you're getting this. The mind-wrecking effects of solitary confinement are very specifically due to the lack of human interaction. Being able to walk around isn't going to change that. "Solitary" means "alone," not "living in a cramped space."
@FBIAgentAssignedToWatchYou:
@Spore: Robin's childhood may be more understandable to the highschool/middleschool crowd, but the degrees are drastically different.
I did say "feels" they can relate to. I feel it explains why the people I see on various forums that feel Robin's past is the worst are usually around high school age or younger. The older fans I talk to tend to favor Sanji's starving to death or Brook's descent into madness. I'm not disrespecting anyone, just something I've observed that I find somewhat interesting.
Personally I'm not really up for debating about Robin, as I feel her background is cliche as heck and it bores me to tears. The only thing I'll say is this: Robin was left physically and mentally whole, if quiet and a little morbid. She can go out in society in any ocean in the world without people freaking out and screaming even if they don't know who she is. She will never, ever be the worst SH background for me and no amount of her fans repeating "and this person died, and this one, and" will ever change my mind. 
EDIT: And lol, what DID happen to your username? Maybe a mod can shorten it for you, I dunno if the board would let them do that but it could be worth asking, if the table-breaking bugs you. :)
I'm going to just quickly run through your article
The monkeys: Isolated from birth, they have no social contact to draw upon.
While Anderson, McCain and a few of the other POWs were able to return to society mentally whole (their reabilitation times were relatively short), Felton was not. Why? Because he did not have anything to cope with. The more the mind has to draw upon, the more it can occupy itself with before social incapacitation will fall upon it. They generally attempted death before submitting to insanity. And well,… look at Brooke, thats exactly how he coped. By saying he was already dead.
Brook dealt with his madness with memories and bone-dry humor (okay, not really dry humor. But you know what I mean). He also had his ship and the bodies of his crewmates to keep himself physically occupied. I don't deny that that is still terrifying, but he has those memories to draw upon, and with the exception of reflex-defensive bad and dirty humor left from his withdrawl/insanity of the time, he came out relatively sane.
And yeah, Sanji is placed way too low on everyone's scales. Starvation scares the shit out of you, I'll testify having a) survived college (joke, i joke!) and b) survived being stranded in the woods for days (after which you convince yourself to identify what food is edible/water sources/you know. surviving).
EDIT: I must add that for Robin, I personally put more weight on the trust issues that came with her past, as the "everyone died" bit is in everybody's past.
@FBIAgentAssignedToWatchYou:
The monkeys: Isolated from birth, they have no social contact to draw upon.
Actually, if you read the article from the previous page, the same experiment was later carried out with older animals who had already formed social bonds. The results were pretty much the same, and it was considered proof that "even a happy, normal childhood was no defense" against that sort of thing.
Which makes me find it interesting that so many Robin fans say Brook didn't have it so bad because he had friends before it all went to hell - as if that would really help anything, since the more you have in life, the more it's going to hurt when everything is ripped from you.
@FBIAgentAssignedToWatchYou:
Felton was not. Why? Because he did not have anything to cope with. The more the mind has to draw upon, the more it can occupy itself with before social incapacitation will fall upon it.
Check out the part about Dellelo: he had a radio and a tv and knew exactly when he would get out. It "only" took a year to start hallucinating that the television voices were speaking directly into his mind. Yes, some people kept from being rendered completely catatonic, but it's still going to mess you up pretty bad.
In addition: He could talk to other prisoners through the steel door of his cell, and during recreation if a prisoner was in an adjacent cage. He made a kind of fishing line for passing notes to adjacent cells by unwinding the elastic from his boxer shorts, though it was contraband and would be confiscated. Prisoners could receive mail and as many as ten reading items. They were allowed one phone call the first month and could earn up to four calls and four visits per month if they followed the rules, but there could be no physical contact with anyone, except when guards forcibly restrained them. Still went nutty.
@FBIAgentAssignedToWatchYou:
They generally attempted death before submitting to insanity. And well,… look at Brooke, thats exactly how he coped. By saying he was already dead.
Dunno where you got that, but the only reason Brook didn't kill himself was that he'd made a promise to go back to Laboon…even though he had zero hope that he would ever find a way off that ship, or that he was doing anything but just continuing to suffer until the ship eventually fell apart and ended it for him.
@FBIAgentAssignedToWatchYou:
He also had his ship and the bodies of his crewmates to keep himself physically occupied.
Why would being trapped with the corpses of people you love make anything more bearable? And anyway he loaded them all into coffins after he woke up.
You know, Mushroom Spore has a point here.
The ONLY reason Brook didn't kill himself was his promise to Laboon. Heck, he even says right there black on white during the fight against Ryuma that his existence has been pointless and that he should better have died. http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/462/09/
This, of course, only a few chapters after Brook has some kind of internal "no one will recognise me because I'm a creepy skeleton" freak-out moment. I still think all those jokes aren't as innocent as they seem. To me, it just looks like he's pretending everything's fine (just like Yorki did before having his MASSIVE BREAKDOWN).
But yes, I don't see how staying on a wrecked ship with the corpses of your crewmates can be good for your mental state XD besides, even with a crew that big it couldn't have taken him more than a few days to collect the skulls and put them inside those coffins. Can't have kept him occupied that long.
Also, I'm not sure you people realize than no matter what the straw-hats did during their ENTIRE LIFE (including being born, actually), Brook was alone on that ship while they did it.
Or that he's been trapped in the fog for most of his life. You know, not even counting the disfigurement (which is already pretty bad), I'm not sure anyone can stay sane without seeing the sun for almost half a century.
I don't see how going from a smart (rejected, yes, but she had some kind of second family with the archeologists) kid to a smart, distant and morbid adult can compare to going from a smart (not Robin-smart maybe, but he was clearly not dumb -he did pretty much take care of everything on the ship, if you look at the flashback), goofy but proper middle-aged man to an insane, shameless, socially unapt skeleton ("monster", some would say).
Robin could still be accepted in other groups, even though those clearly weren't where she belonged. Brook, on the other hand… seriously, appart from the Straw-hats, WHO would accept him as he is?
So yes, Brook's past is definitely the most tragic to me. I'm not saying Robin's isn't (although it's terribly cliché), but... damn. Even if Robin had been truly alone for 20 years, it'd still be 20 vs 48.
thanks for your posts DarkNo and Mushroom Spore .. i really feel that some people don't understand brooks character at all. yes he is goofy and stuff, i love to laugh about his jokes and his sillyness and he's really kinda cute sometimes ^^'' but .. everytime i think about his character for real it just makes me sad. people are complaining about his constant skull jokes and him beeing a bit over the top. i mean .. even if i wanted to .. brook could never go on my nerves coz everytime i see him doing something alone and talking to himself (hell he's always talking ne?) .. ;__; it makes me sad. poor brook! he's just so used to beeing all on his own that he can't really change what he does .. if it's the talking or the skull jokes .. how do people expect someone who's been isolated for 50 years to just go back to normal?! haaa~
also, i know robin had a though life, but her story didn't make me cry .. it was hard, yeah but somehow i get the feeling that people got used to robin and are therefore rating her past higher (err.. more tragic) than brooks ^.^ coz people got the chance to love robin ^-^ so her past affects people more. and hell, i don't mind that ^-^
btw i never really understood why some people rate zoro's past like they do .. i know, it's not nice for a kid to loose it's best friend .. but hey, that's life. yeah it is sad, but for me not very tragic.
^^'' guess i'm done now haha
Well trashCat, I agree with you about the part of people (such as myself) had more time to love Robin, thats why she is rated higher. I will admit that Brook's past is nearly and possibly more tragic than Robin's, but from what we know, he lived his life to the fullest doing what he loved. Sure his nakama died during a pirate raid, but they died doing what they wanted so the tragedy there is halved. Brook being a skeleton and all, even though he would have freaked people out, he still could have gone out and continue living trying to meet Laboon, but that was kind of stopped because of the shadow thing and all. Robin, could also have lived her life, but everyone she got with and started to find some sort of weird connection to, ended up destroyed so she had no choice but to close herself off. This discussion could go on forever, so I'm going to place my vote that Brook's and Robin's back stories are equally tragic, (even though I still believes it's Robin's).
Having memories to draw on is good but for 50 fucking years?
That's 18,250 days of living purely on his own will. Robin had her research to do, had secrets to learn about, had growing to do, had places to go. I'll put it to you this way. Which of the two would you trade places with and go through their ordeal? My hand is raized high as hell for Robin because i defiently would have killed myself if i were brook, a LONG, LONG, TIME AGO.
yeah .. really i would rather choose robins life than brooks .. beeing alone sucks big time .. and for 50 years?!! hell no!
but ^-^ i guess it doesn't really matter which past is more tragic since every past left such a big impact on each character. so i'm not gonna argue about that ^-^ i'm just happy that everyone is kinda happy now hihi
I'm fairly sure Usopp and Luffy have the least tragic of the backstories. I'd put Zoro's on par with Usopps.
Most tragic? Brook I guess for reasons above.
Franky's is also quite sad since he was abandoned by his parents(at least Nami and Robin's mothers wanted them), got his new guardian sentenced to death by someone framing Tom with HIS own creations, ran over by a train, forced to turn himself into a freakish cyborg to survive and then having to live his life underground for all those years. He just made the best of it. No wonder the guy is so overly emotional at times.
seriously, Usopp has the most tragic backstory.. he tell lies to all people just to make everyone happy eventhough he know that he can lie himself..when you think deeply, u'll feel sorry for usopp..really..
I think all of the Mugiwara crew have extremely tragic back stories. From my experience from watching/reading One Piece, Robin's back story made me cry like a little baby. The kind of sobbing where your mouth turns inside out. Brook's did too but not to the same extent. You have to dig a little deeper to get Brook's torment if you don't get it right away.
Robin's is especially tragic to me because she is told her very existence is a crime. All she wanted to do was learn and she incriminated herself because of it.
All of the Mugiwara characters have uniquely brilliant tragic back stories but that just makes you want them to succeed even more.
1st - Chopper
2nd - Nami
3rd - Brook
4th - Robin
5th - Franky
6th - Sanji
7th - Zoro
8th Ussop
9th - Luffy
Definately Brook, followed closely by Robin.
I'm impressed by his mental fortitude, as well. How he went 50 years without arranging the bones on the ship into humerous positions, I'll never know.
robin definitely, grew up not knowing her mother and when she finally meets her, her whole island got attacked by buster call, and everyone she knew and everyone that took care of her killed (clover etc.). Her only friend, Mr dereshishishi, killed on the spot.. not only that, her HOME ISLAND basically was erased from the earth and had to grew up joining strangers just to get by… tragic
I'd compare them through the amount of water lost (rolled tears). XD
1. Chopper's
2. Nami's
3. Usopp's/Brook's
And I just hate when people comes speaking as if they owned the only and undoubtdul truth, saying things like "you must be dumb/a dork/idiot if you don't think that <…> is the saddest!"
C'mon, people, this is a discussion about personal opinions, here: there's nothing such as right or wrong. Or, even more, no one's "righter" over the other. :P
Peace, everyone! o/
I don't even think i ever read Chopper's backstory…..
Huh.
I'd go Brook then Robin then Nami for top 3.
Nami and Robin are just about equal though ~_~ They both had a time of peace and happiness in their lives and a time of pain of torture (at the hands of someone else), its hard to pick though, but atleast Nami has a home and somewhat of a family to go back to.
For me its have to be Robin's. Since she have been running for her pretty much all her life, and have treated curely by people expect by her friends (Saul, Clover and the alchologists of Ohara, and of course the Straw Hat crew.).
But when you think about it, at least Robin had a dream that seemed somewhat accomplishable, she had good backing from a Shichibukai (crocodile) and she was high-up in the organisation, she was at least able to follow her dream and speak to people along the way. Brooke's friends all died in front of him, he was forced to live on that ship for so long without even having a hope of getting back to Laboon, to top it all off, he had his shadow (the only company he had) stolen from him too. Brooke has the saddest backstory, not that the rest arent sad, but that one takes the cake.
Nami and Nico have some of the most tragic backstories. Nami had to see her mom get killed right in front of her and work for the person who killed her for many years. Nico saw her entire home wiped out and had to live for a good portion of her childhood running and being alone.
Nami, Brooke, Robin and Chopper. Only Nami's past can make me cry every time I read it.
I'm glad that Yonkou and Mushroom Spore illustrated the tragedy Brooke underwent. Spending a straight 50 indefinite years of solitary confinement in the fog sounds like hell itself.
Think about it. No human contact (or artificial computer/tv contact), no food, or any opportunities to get laid for half a century sounds much more tragic than anything the rest of the crew had ever endured. In return, you are rewarded with a decayed appearance that would probably scare away most people. That is, except for Luffy .
There is a reason why Brooke has been reduced to being a perverted lunatic with a general lack of manners. I wish the anime would have done a better job illustrating this, rather than having him come off as some sort of annoying Pokemon.
Robin is obviously the runner-up after Brooke. The only other stories that actually moved me we Chopper and Nami's, and I think that was because of how well the presentation was in the anime. Franky's desperation would be next.
After that, I would say Sanji and Usopp are tied. Starvation is not a pretty thing. Starving to death on a deserted island isn't good on the psyche. Raising yourself as a child is pretty tough as well, but I'm assuming that Usopp at least took over his parent's home and managed to feed himself and made the best of it. Also, he came across a girl who was attracted to him and later offered him a ship, so life didn't totally suck for Usopp.
On the bottom would be Zoro and Luffy. It appears that one of the reasons as to why Zoro carries his tough guy persona is because of the lost of a friend he well respected. Aside from the strawhat given to him, Luffy doesn't seem the type to allow his past to haunt him.
Cliffs: Who had it worse? Brooke > Robin > Nami > Chopper > Sanji/Usopp > Zoro > Luffy
By Rank:
1. Nami - Her mother just died in front of her! Coming From someone who loves their family this would devastate me if I was in her situation. Not to mention he had to work for the murderer for a lot of years…
2. Brook - He was lonely for more than 50 years, think about it there's no technology so he must have been really bored plus he died too!
3. Chopper - The 1st and before only friend he had died and was treated harshly from both humans AND reindeers. That's just sad. Plus it's hard for him to mate....But that might not matter....
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