Victoria Cindry
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| Japanese Name: | ビクトリア･シンドリー |
| Romanized Name: | Bikutoria Shindorī |
| English Name: | Victoria Cindry[1] |
| First Appearance: | Chapter 446; Episode 340 |
| Affiliations: | Dr. Hogback |
| Occupations: | Actress (in life); Dr. Hogback's "personal" servant |
| Japanese VA: | Houko Kuwashima Naomi Shindoh(in life) |
Victoria Cindry was once famous stage actress whom Dr. Hogback was in love with. When she accidentally died, Hogback stole her corpse in order to make her his own personal zombie slave via Moria's Kage Kage no Mi powers.
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[edit] Appearance
Cindry is a tall slim zombie with various stitches across her body. Her left leg has a web pattern across one part of it and the number 400. She has short straight cut blond hair and doll-like eyes. She is usually wearing a short black evening gown and high-heels with a red orange fur wrap around her neck.[2] In life, she looked similar to what she does currently, except for the fact that she did not have stitches all across her body and that she always smiled.
[edit] Personality
In life, Cindry was a kind, loving and caring woman, despite her fame and popularity. During a flashback she was seen sewing a button back onto Hogback's coat despite his shame of letting a patient fix his clothing.
After she died, Cindry's corpse was implanted with a shadow whose owner's personality she inherited. The owner of the shadow is a young girl named Margarita.[3] Cindry's zombie thus dislikes plates and wishes all those existing in the world would vanish to the point of obsession; where in which she will also disobey Hogback, defeating the point of being his servant. Her hatred for plates even leads her to detest serving food on them, forcing Hogback and the others to eat their food off of the table. She is described by Hogback as a depressing person whose words seem to just get more and more depressing. However, despite her rebellious nature, as a zombie she is still obedient and does whatever Hogback pleases.
Later it was revealed that her body had retained some of the original "will" that she had when alive. This allowed her to make the choice to not only disobey Hogback's orders, but also to smile like she had only done in life. Her reluctance to obey Hogback also led to Robin to question if a person's will remains even after death and even to go so far as to remark it was a miracle in itself.
[edit] Abilities
When she was introduced, Cindry threw the plates that she hated so much at Usopp. Each plate she throws is counted by her. Even though she did not hit Usopp, her aim was fairly close. Later, during her fight against Chopper and Robin, she threw square plates at Chopper. These plates were sharp enough to cut him.
Aside from her fighting ability as a zombie and enhanced strength, she was once a great actress and dancer when she was alive.
[edit] History
[edit] Falling from Grace
Her history according to Hogback was she had a tragic incident when a rich man once proposed to her. She wished to test his love for her - by smashing ten of his prized plates - and was rejected.
However her true history is that she was once a famous stage actress, whom Hogback asked to marry him, only to learn that she already had a fiance. Shortly afterwards she died in a fatal accident. This led to Hogback stealing her corpse and, with the aid of Gecko Moria's Devil fruit power, turned it into a zombie.
[edit] Greetings to Arrivals
She greets Usopp, Nami and Chopper at the entrance of Hogback's mansion when she appears from the inside of a well. She straight away proceeds to threaten Usopp to leave as she only allows a certain number of guests in at a time and then proceeded to throw 10 plates at him. Her accuracy at throwing them amazed Usopp.
Upon fleeing the dinning room the Straw Hats Nami, Usopp and Chopper find photos of Cindry in a well-furbished room. However the photos and the newspaper articles reveals a shocking truth about her past - Cindry once was a normal human being. Her true history as revealed by an old newspaper Nami found was that she was once a famous actress who fell from the stage and died ten years ago. Nami commented that she suspected Cindry was a noblewoman rather then a servant in her past life.
[edit] The Fight Begins
She is seen recently in Hogback's lab and again at Oars' awakening stating that Usopp, Nami, and Chopper escaped and that it would be fine if Dr. Hogback's Knee plates shattered when he complains.
She fights alongside Hogback, Zoro's zombie, and Sanji's zombie against Robin and Chopper. During the fight Hogback demonstrates to Chopper a zombies obedience by kicking her to the ground and ordering her to lick the floor. After hearing a speech from Chopper about what it means to actually be alive and human she begins to cry and states that her body cannot move. [4] Her redemption caused her to decline helping Hogback when he was attacked by Oars, instead, she simply smiled as both she and the mad doctor were supposedly been crushed by the massive zombie.
[edit] The Fall of Oars
However, for some reason, Cindry managed to survive Oars' onslaught, and has seen Oars' defeat at Luffy's hands. However, her shadow was stolen by Moria to power himself up, along with the rest of Thriller Barks zombies, rendering them nothing but empty shells once again.
[edit] Major Battles
[edit] Translation and Dub Issues
Her name is also occasionally translated as "Thin Dolly". When you break her name up, "シン (Shin)" is romanized to "Thin" and "ドリー (Dori)" is romanized to "dolly". It is unknown whether or not this is a play on words by Oda, but her skinny appearance, emotionless face and doll-like eyes seem to be references to this translation.
[edit] Trivia
- Her zombie number is 400.
- Her hatred of plates and Hogback's explanation for it appears to be based on Banchō Sarayashiki (番町皿屋敷, The Dish Mansion at Banchō), the Japanese ghost story about the plate-counting ghost of a servant girl named Okiku.
[edit] References
- ↑ Shonen Jump December 2009 Issue
- ↑ One Piece Manga - Vol. 47, Cindry's colorscheme is revealed on the cover.
- ↑ One Piece Manga - Chapter 483, The name of the person whose shadow is animating Cindry's corpse is revealed.
- ↑ One Piece manga - Chapter 468, The fighting begins and ends with Victoria's tears.
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