Niki

Niki was a slave who was used to sell a drug in the streets of Lotto Valentino during the 1700s, only to befriend Huey Laforet, Monica Campanella and Elmer C. Albratross in 1705, becoming one of their best friends.

Chronology
While Niki's name was given to her by her birth parents, she knows nothing more about them or even if they are still alive. She was then sold into slavery. Eventually she was injected with a drug that began to slowly eat away at her, and drive her insane. The idea behind it was to sell off young girl infected with the drug as prostitutes and poison the aristrocrats' food with the poison so as to usher up control to the group that manufactured the drug. The children used were people who had no official birth records.

1705 the Ironic Light Orchestra
Niki is first encountered being harrassed by Spanish Aristocrats - The Rotten Eggs - where she is savagely beaten, only saved when the Rotten Eggs make the mistake of involving Huey Laforet and Monica Campanella. Huey cleverly throws a plant pot at a bull causing enough of a ruckus to completely devastate the marketplace allowing them to escape. After that he explains that they should not get to know her because she will die.

Later she is once again harrassed by the Rotten Eggs. Unlike last time when the Aristocrats involve other people this time she is saved, while she is being choked by Elmer C Albatross, who asks the aristrocrat to unhand her because she is suffocating. Surprisingly the Aristocrat does just that, completely taken by surprise by Elmer's appearance, demeanor, personality and request. However things soon escalate for poor Niki and her master comes to claim, her while Elmer is beaten up. However at that moment, they are saved by the timely arrival of Zank Rowan and Denkuro, who easily dispatch the aristrocrats. When the leader of Rotten Eggs, Aile, appears, and disuades further conflict, Elmer takes Niki and escapes.

He drops her off at the abode of Esperanza Boronial, an eccentric aristocrat who loves women and always treats them right as well as an acquaintance of Elmer.

However she eventually fled so as not to put Elmer and Esperanza in danger of the Mask Maker, only to be caught by LaRolf and the city police. Where she was held along with many of Huey, Elmer and Monica's Classmates.