Nabiki Tendo

From Ranma 1/2
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Pub. 2024-12-01 | Atual. 2024-12-01

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Nabiki Tendo (天道てんどう なびき, Tendō Nabiki) is the middle daughter of Soun Tendo, making her the younger sister of Kasumi Tendo and the older sister of Akane Tendo.

[Appearance:
Nabiki has chin-length hair (brown in the anime) that she wears in a bob cut. As the middle sister, she is midway in height between her sisters, which also characterizes her personal style. Aside from the Furinkan High School uniform for female students, she tends to wear a tank top and shirt with shorts or sweater and jeans at home. Nabiki has a more extravagant sense of fashion than either Akane or Kasumi, although it is revealed that she also borrows Akane's clothes. She is frequently depicted in the manga wearing costumes drafted by Erté. In the remake version, her brown hair in the anime is darker.]

[Personality:
Nabiki has been shown to be observant,[19] curious,[20] resourceful and cool under pressure.[21] But also as sadistic,[22] petty,[23] sarcastic,[24] manipulative,[25] contemptuous,[26] impatient,[27] extremely greedy,[28] irresponsible/wont to foist her blame onto others,[29] nearly barren of conscience or compassion and completely amoral,[30] but seems to be childish at times,[31] and is very fond of all types of tasty treats, including junk food.[32] She has shown no compunctions about severely betraying her family,[33] or cheerfully and extensively tormenting someone who's just saved her own life twice over.[34] She has also taken advantage of the situation her family finds themselves in with the embattled engagement between Ranma Saotome and her sister Akane.[35]
Nabiki is eminently fond of money. She's extremely miserly,[36] is proud to never bring a wallet to a date,[37] and even keeps a large jar of 1-Yen coins.[38] She has been shown to get her belongings either through stealing them from Akane (being wholly unconcerned about getting them destroyed or thrown away),[39] as gifts from infatuated victims,[40] for providing unreliable information,[41] or through emptying her father's meagre savings to have a good time.[42] But she has turned extremely vengeful if forced to waste her own money,[43] and has also been mentioned to invest her earnings in personal stocks.[44] She has taken advantage of Ranma's comparatively honest, straightforward nature and his moral 'inhibitions' for an effortless income source, such as regularly selling revealing or semi-revealing photographs of girl Ranma(Set of five for 3000/5000 yen!) to many of her schoolmates,[45] taking world-wide orders for above-themed handkerchief prints,[46] attempting to use him as a servant,[47] or generally swindling him.[48] Her love of money frequently leads her to betray her family to gain more of it,[49] and she's been more than willing to ruin them to win a bet,[50] or destroy her sister's wedding to get presents.[51] She's been shown as completely indifferent to the plights she puts them through.[52] However, she will occasionally work together with her family, such as revealing the Gambling King's bad habits in order to win back their shared living space, i.e: the house,[53] though she initially helped the latter in his endeavours to swindle kindergarten children of their money.[54]
She has been shown as entertained by the insanity and supernatural chaos surrounding Ranma,[55] and interested in the romantic (or otherwise) entanglements he and Akane get involved in,[56] despite repeatedly expressing an extremely low esteem of his character.[57]
She will occasionally set up dangerous, or potentially life-threatening situations for simple amusement, like informing all his paramours that he was going to give Akane an engagement ring, even without profit involved, just to watch the spectacle when he's beaten up, and destroying Nodoka's/the Saotome family's house in the process,[58] using him as a human shield against an attack from his paramours and initially planning to continue doing so in the long run,[59] or lying to her father that he's fallen in love with Kuno to provoke an attack.[60] However, she's been contemptuous and annoyed when this has involved her father making a public spectacle of himself, pretending not to know him.[61]
Her intelligence and talent for manipulation has helped her to mostly use less refined characters to personal advantage without any negative accountability. Whenever she deals with Ranma, for example, she's bluffed[62] or threatened to blackmail him, if her frauds, manipulations or other schemes have angered him ('Hurt me and everyone will get the photograph').[63]
She once feigned love for him, since she found it entertaining to play with his and Akane's emotions, and cheerfully tormented them with extended hardships, including inadvertently re-establishing the morning attacks on her sister by spreading newsletters, auctioning Ranma's services, letting him take damage in defense of her, using their compassion against them by feigning heartbreak, and having fun with the tension from Akane's paranoia and the couple's flustered insecurities about their relationship.[64] At one point, Kasumi remarked to her father that Nabiki told her that she planned to sell the dojo for a life of leisure,[65]
It seemed Nabiki's real plan was to sell Ranma back to Akane permanently, but Akane refused to pay Nabiki anything even when Nabiki severely lowered the price on several occasions. After Ranma and Akane got into another fight, even Nabiki worried they had broken up for good and that she took things too far [66]
When Ranma pretended to get genuinely attached and asked her for a date, she informed Akane,[67] resulting in the couple making up.[68]
Nabiki has shown expert acting skills, being able to easily fake tears or make utterly convincing expressions,[69] and even use ventriloquism to imitate another voice.[70] She's effortlessly kept up a straight-faced over-dramatic play-act about feigned love even while in free-fall from a helicopter, simultaneously allowing a rival swindler to fall after refusing to pay her in exchange for a working parachute (she sabotaged the one he was wearing). She kept up the act even as he lay dying in a crater on the ground, and only briefly let up a triumphant grin while using his money to call an ambulance to win the competition, to instantly effortlessly switch back to the unflinching theatrics. Afterwards, she was depressed and genuinely weeping, but the stated reason was not lost love, but rather regret for not making their bet concern 10,000 Yen instead of 10 Yen.[71]
Although Nabiki has been shown with a personal social circle,[72] certain other regular cast members have stated a dislike due to her conscience-free and duplicitous nature.[73] Ukyo has attacked her together with Shampoo and Kodachi, and the latter two intended to kill her.[74]
She's deliberately appealed to or created a demand in potential customers, such as encouraging Tatewaki Kuno to keep his infatuation for Akane and the "pigtailed girl" in the first manga chapters (she instantly had pre-prepared pictures of both ready for sale, implying that she thrived from encouraging the attacks on her sister just previously),[75] to consistently sell him semi-revealing photographs, though she's sold collections of Ranma-chan to a queue of other schoolmates as well.[76] Among other things, she has auctioned Ranma to the school's many sports clubs to help fill out their teams, and been willing to transfer her engagement to Ukyo and Kodachi for 6350 Yen.[77]
Nabiki also indifferently framed him for assault as an eternal blackmail source out of annoyance for him accidentally destroying her concert ticker, until he destroyed the 'evidence'.[78] When she cheerfully ran up a huge gambling debt during her battle with Kinnosuke Kasha-Oh, she also seemingly sold girl Ranma as a waitress, dragged away by a neck-chain, to a casino to help work off her gambling debt, and was completely blasé/at best mildly curious after the latter managed to escape from his captors.[79]
She's shown no business ethics whatsoever. She has taken the principal's money and ran from the taken assignment,[80] repeatedly lied about non-working solutions ('Money first!'),[81] and left Ranma pay her food tab despite just promising that she'd treat him.[82] Another notable incident showed her taking advantage of an amnesiac Kuno by convincing him that he owed her 5,000 yen, which she instantly regretted only for not making it 10,000.[83] She's also unashamedly told Ranma to catch and beat up a 'stalker' in exchange for one of her 5,000 Yen picture sets of his female form, which she's never been shown to let him/her get a quota from.[84] She's made a claim that, despite not having any talent in the martial arts, she has pride in her legacy and won't refuse a challenge, but instantly dumped the assignment on Ranma.[85] The only signs of 'honour'/petty pride she's displayed was a burning need for vengeance due to being outsmarted/"taken advantage of",[86] and when accidentally forced to waste her own money,[87] but in both cases endeavoured to inflict vastly greater amounts of 'payback'.]
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