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CHARACTER NAME: Purin “Pudding” Fong
FANDOM: Tokyo Mew Mew
CHRONOLOGY: Post-anime.
CLASS: GODDAMN HERO.
SUPERHERO NAME: Mew Pudding.
ALTER EGO: Purin Fong, acrobat and waitress extraordinaire.
BACKGROUND
Pudding comes from a world where ordinary girls can be infused with the DNA of endangered animals, thus bestowing upon them magical shojo manga powers. I think stopping right there would be good enough, but alas, I enjoy making things long and drawn-out, and so I shall continue for you, lovely mods.
So, one day, our wonderful protagonist, Ichigo Momomiya, was walking around downtown Tokyo when she was all of a sudden engulfed in a weird light while on a date with her hottie boyfriend, Masaya Aoyama. Thinking nothing of this, she goes about that day and the next as per usual, being a klutz and the like. Then, the Monster of the Day™ (MotD) attacks, ruining her afternoon. Ryou Shirogane, a sexy teenage scientist, and Keiichiro Akasaka, his equally gorgeous assistant, inform her that she’s been infused with the DNA of an endangered species of cat, and it’s now her duty to save the world from evil aliens. Also, their secret hideout is a place called Café Mew Mew, where Ichigo and the rest of her companions will be forced to work for a measly 1000 yen an hour. Anyway, these aliens want to kill the humans and take the earth back, since they apparently used to rule it. And they want to do this why? Because humans litter. Yes, that is the entire reason they want to reclaim the earth: because Homo sapiens are destroying it with pollution and the like. To do this, the aliens create things called chimera anima, which are animals on steroids who try to kill the Mew Mews and always end up failing. And what are these aliens’ names? Kish (like quiche), Taruto (like… tart), and Pie (like… well, pie.) So yeah, the Mew Mews get to stop them from doing that. Awesome. And in case you hadn’t noticed, this entire series is food-themed.
Moving on! Things happen, and Mint Aizawa and Lettuce Midorikawa are revealed to be the second and third members of the Mew Mew team. They have the genes of an ultramarine lorikeet and a finless porpoise, respectively. More things happen! Finally, we are introduced to our favorite character, Purin “Pudding” Fong when Ichigo is resting in the park after everybody else makes her go shopping for the Café, since she’s really the only person who is minutely capable of being a waitress. While she’s resting, she sees a cute little girl (read: Pudding) putting on a street performance for some people. Pudding happens to come across Ichigo and, believing her to be a potentially rich benefactress, starts doing some tricks and other entertaining things for her. Afterwards, when Ichigo refuses to tip her, Pudding begins stalking her. In the midst of this, she startles Ichigo so much that her ~*magical cat ears*~ pop out, and Pudding thinks this is The Best Thing Ever ™ and wants to learn to do it herself. So she bugs Ichigo for the rest of the episode until Pudding herself is kidnapped by some aliens. They take her soul/spirit thing, and use it to make a super-awesome chimera anima. But, not one to be taken out so easily, Pudding does her special transformation just in time to kick Kish’s ass. And Pudding saves the day, for the first time out of many!
So, Pudding is given a job at Café Mew Mew because apparently child labor means nothing in this version of Japan. She helps find the last member of their team, Zakuro Fujiwara, who has the DNA of a gray wolf. Girly bonding time happens, Pudding occasionally decides to perform something inside the Café to make some more money to support her younger siblings. Everything has to do with money for her, okay.
In one very sad episode, Pudding gets sick and Ichigo and Mint have to go get her little sister, Heicha, from school. But, since Pudding has always been the one to pick her up, Heicha refuses to leave until her big sister comes to get her. Pudding gets out of her sickbed to get her sister, and is promptly attacked by a chimera anima. She has flashbacks of her mother dying and her father leaving to ~*train in the mountains*~ but is somehow able to defeat the MotD™ anyway. At the end of the episode, she asks her sister’s teacher-who I can only assume also used to be her teacher-to pretend to be her mother for a little bit. Then Pudding breaks down into tears, and it is like the saddest we ever see our loli hero. Baw.
About halfway through the anime, Yuebin Ron appears out of nowhere and challenges Pudding to some kind of duel. He wins, and reveals that now she has to be his fiancée because that’s what her daddy promised him. Yeah, I don’t know either. But then he knocks over Pudding’s photo album and, royally pissed off, she locks herself in a room with Taruto until Yuebin almost dies and she has to go out to save him. He ends up leaving to go train, but promises to come back and marry her some day. Ick.
Almost immediately after this, Pudding gets kidnapped by Taruto who locks her in a cage underneath Tokyo Dome, out of what I can only assume is jealousy for her future-hubby. But, since he’s an annoying shota, he screws up and ends up burying them both. Being the bucket of happy that she is, Pudding nicknames him Taru-Taru and decides that now they’re bestest friends since they’re both trapped. And by the way, she asks if he’ll let her go up in the Dome to perform for the assembled populace and make more money because her brothers and sisters need to eat somehow. He doesn’t know what to do with this adorable little monkey-girl, but her shenanigans stall him long enough for the other Mew Mews to come save her. Pudding and Taruto part, but not before she gives him a piece of candy as a token of their true love, and he yells that she’s icky and leaves in a spasm of huffiness. Isn’t lolishota love cute?
More things happen. Pudding makes more money. Then, it is time for the Final Battle™ against Deep Blue, an alien who has possessed Ichigo’s hottie boyfriend. The Mew Mews and aliens have to team up to defeat him, and in the end, our pastry-themed alien buddies die, and then so does Deep Blue. Everybody cries, but Pudding cries the most for Taruto because he was her ~*one true love*~ and they were bestest friends and how could this happen. Then, unable to let her man die forever, Ichigo transfers all her power to his body, which fans out and brings everybody back to life, including Taruto. Pudding is ecstatic. So ecstatic that she totally kisses him, making him flail more. The aliens leave, and Taruto says that maybe he’ll come back one day for more candy. THE END.
PERSONALITY
Pudding is very hyperactive. That is like, the main thing about her. She is happy and bubbly and bouncy, ends her sentences with the cute-yet-useless tagline “na no da,” and all those other wonderful little loli things that everybody loves. The Golden Lion Tamarin, the animal whose DNA Pudding shares, is often said to be a “perfect match” for her, because it’s such a hectic creature, too. She is very energetic, and is very much a people-person, endowing people she’s just met with terms of affection that I’ll make up as I go along. She is also Chinese, and has a pet monkey named Ah-Nin. But besides that, she grows to easily respect those around her, especially if they make her look ~*cool*~ or give her money. Or both! She also has a thing for doing what she wants when she wants to, so telling her how to run her life isn’t a very good idea because man can she get pissy.
She often speaks in the third person (i.e. referring to herself as “Pudding” rather than “I” or “me”) and has a stubborn streak a mile wide. She also has a habit of ignoring things she doesn’t want to hear or know, and is not above some rather childish tactics to support this selective hearing. These are the main things that make her somewhat immature, though they are countered by the responsibility she has taken upon herself, i.e. caring for her five younger siblings. The dl is that her mom died and, stricken with grief, her dad decided to travel the world to become a master at... something. This left Purin to take care of her siblings, Hanacha, Chancha, Luncha, Honcha, and Heicha. Heicha is the girl-otherwise, I can’t tell them apart, either. Her brothers and sister bring out her serious side, which is why she is so obsessed with money; they have to eat somehow, and working at Café Mew Mew just doesn’t always cut it. If she performs for you, you’d better be ready to give up something other than candy, else she will stalk you until you pay up. Oh, and she’s almost seen the world get destroyed and has saved it time and again, so. That makes her feel all grown-up, too.
POWER
Pudding’s power is the ability to transform into Mew Pudding, Monkey Warrior of Justice™ at will. When she transforms, she sports a monkey tail and monkey ears, and a tattoo of two monkey tails on her forehead-that is her ~*Mew Mark*~ which shows that she’s oh-so-special. In this form, she has monkey-like agility, and her main weapon is the Pudding Ring, or Puddring Ring, depending on who you ask. Her attack is the Ribbon Pudding Ring Inferno, which traps her opponent in a giant blob of edible pudding. No, I’m not kidding at all.
Her second power will be the ability to talk to monkeys! I don’t know where she’ll ever find a monkey in pseudo-New York, but hey, if she does, she can totally talk to it. Mostly useless power is a go!.
CONCRIT
We all need a little bit of concrit now and then, right? But please note the "constructive" up there right next to the "criticism." Outright flaming will not be tolerated, and any comments of that sort will be deleted immediately. But comments are screened, anon comments are on, and IP logging is off, so let's hope we won't have too much trouble.
FANDOM: Tokyo Mew Mew
CHRONOLOGY: Post-anime.
CLASS: GODDAMN HERO.
SUPERHERO NAME: Mew Pudding.
ALTER EGO: Purin Fong, acrobat and waitress extraordinaire.
BACKGROUND
Pudding comes from a world where ordinary girls can be infused with the DNA of endangered animals, thus bestowing upon them magical shojo manga powers. I think stopping right there would be good enough, but alas, I enjoy making things long and drawn-out, and so I shall continue for you, lovely mods.
So, one day, our wonderful protagonist, Ichigo Momomiya, was walking around downtown Tokyo when she was all of a sudden engulfed in a weird light while on a date with her hottie boyfriend, Masaya Aoyama. Thinking nothing of this, she goes about that day and the next as per usual, being a klutz and the like. Then, the Monster of the Day™ (MotD) attacks, ruining her afternoon. Ryou Shirogane, a sexy teenage scientist, and Keiichiro Akasaka, his equally gorgeous assistant, inform her that she’s been infused with the DNA of an endangered species of cat, and it’s now her duty to save the world from evil aliens. Also, their secret hideout is a place called Café Mew Mew, where Ichigo and the rest of her companions will be forced to work for a measly 1000 yen an hour. Anyway, these aliens want to kill the humans and take the earth back, since they apparently used to rule it. And they want to do this why? Because humans litter. Yes, that is the entire reason they want to reclaim the earth: because Homo sapiens are destroying it with pollution and the like. To do this, the aliens create things called chimera anima, which are animals on steroids who try to kill the Mew Mews and always end up failing. And what are these aliens’ names? Kish (like quiche), Taruto (like… tart), and Pie (like… well, pie.) So yeah, the Mew Mews get to stop them from doing that. Awesome. And in case you hadn’t noticed, this entire series is food-themed.
Moving on! Things happen, and Mint Aizawa and Lettuce Midorikawa are revealed to be the second and third members of the Mew Mew team. They have the genes of an ultramarine lorikeet and a finless porpoise, respectively. More things happen! Finally, we are introduced to our favorite character, Purin “Pudding” Fong when Ichigo is resting in the park after everybody else makes her go shopping for the Café, since she’s really the only person who is minutely capable of being a waitress. While she’s resting, she sees a cute little girl (read: Pudding) putting on a street performance for some people. Pudding happens to come across Ichigo and, believing her to be a potentially rich benefactress, starts doing some tricks and other entertaining things for her. Afterwards, when Ichigo refuses to tip her, Pudding begins stalking her. In the midst of this, she startles Ichigo so much that her ~*magical cat ears*~ pop out, and Pudding thinks this is The Best Thing Ever ™ and wants to learn to do it herself. So she bugs Ichigo for the rest of the episode until Pudding herself is kidnapped by some aliens. They take her soul/spirit thing, and use it to make a super-awesome chimera anima. But, not one to be taken out so easily, Pudding does her special transformation just in time to kick Kish’s ass. And Pudding saves the day, for the first time out of many!
So, Pudding is given a job at Café Mew Mew because apparently child labor means nothing in this version of Japan. She helps find the last member of their team, Zakuro Fujiwara, who has the DNA of a gray wolf. Girly bonding time happens, Pudding occasionally decides to perform something inside the Café to make some more money to support her younger siblings. Everything has to do with money for her, okay.
In one very sad episode, Pudding gets sick and Ichigo and Mint have to go get her little sister, Heicha, from school. But, since Pudding has always been the one to pick her up, Heicha refuses to leave until her big sister comes to get her. Pudding gets out of her sickbed to get her sister, and is promptly attacked by a chimera anima. She has flashbacks of her mother dying and her father leaving to ~*train in the mountains*~ but is somehow able to defeat the MotD™ anyway. At the end of the episode, she asks her sister’s teacher-who I can only assume also used to be her teacher-to pretend to be her mother for a little bit. Then Pudding breaks down into tears, and it is like the saddest we ever see our loli hero. Baw.
About halfway through the anime, Yuebin Ron appears out of nowhere and challenges Pudding to some kind of duel. He wins, and reveals that now she has to be his fiancée because that’s what her daddy promised him. Yeah, I don’t know either. But then he knocks over Pudding’s photo album and, royally pissed off, she locks herself in a room with Taruto until Yuebin almost dies and she has to go out to save him. He ends up leaving to go train, but promises to come back and marry her some day. Ick.
Almost immediately after this, Pudding gets kidnapped by Taruto who locks her in a cage underneath Tokyo Dome, out of what I can only assume is jealousy for her future-hubby. But, since he’s an annoying shota, he screws up and ends up burying them both. Being the bucket of happy that she is, Pudding nicknames him Taru-Taru and decides that now they’re bestest friends since they’re both trapped. And by the way, she asks if he’ll let her go up in the Dome to perform for the assembled populace and make more money because her brothers and sisters need to eat somehow. He doesn’t know what to do with this adorable little monkey-girl, but her shenanigans stall him long enough for the other Mew Mews to come save her. Pudding and Taruto part, but not before she gives him a piece of candy as a token of their true love, and he yells that she’s icky and leaves in a spasm of huffiness. Isn’t lolishota love cute?
More things happen. Pudding makes more money. Then, it is time for the Final Battle™ against Deep Blue, an alien who has possessed Ichigo’s hottie boyfriend. The Mew Mews and aliens have to team up to defeat him, and in the end, our pastry-themed alien buddies die, and then so does Deep Blue. Everybody cries, but Pudding cries the most for Taruto because he was her ~*one true love*~ and they were bestest friends and how could this happen. Then, unable to let her man die forever, Ichigo transfers all her power to his body, which fans out and brings everybody back to life, including Taruto. Pudding is ecstatic. So ecstatic that she totally kisses him, making him flail more. The aliens leave, and Taruto says that maybe he’ll come back one day for more candy. THE END.
PERSONALITY
Pudding is very hyperactive. That is like, the main thing about her. She is happy and bubbly and bouncy, ends her sentences with the cute-yet-useless tagline “na no da,” and all those other wonderful little loli things that everybody loves. The Golden Lion Tamarin, the animal whose DNA Pudding shares, is often said to be a “perfect match” for her, because it’s such a hectic creature, too. She is very energetic, and is very much a people-person, endowing people she’s just met with terms of affection that I’ll make up as I go along. She is also Chinese, and has a pet monkey named Ah-Nin. But besides that, she grows to easily respect those around her, especially if they make her look ~*cool*~ or give her money. Or both! She also has a thing for doing what she wants when she wants to, so telling her how to run her life isn’t a very good idea because man can she get pissy.
She often speaks in the third person (i.e. referring to herself as “Pudding” rather than “I” or “me”) and has a stubborn streak a mile wide. She also has a habit of ignoring things she doesn’t want to hear or know, and is not above some rather childish tactics to support this selective hearing. These are the main things that make her somewhat immature, though they are countered by the responsibility she has taken upon herself, i.e. caring for her five younger siblings. The dl is that her mom died and, stricken with grief, her dad decided to travel the world to become a master at... something. This left Purin to take care of her siblings, Hanacha, Chancha, Luncha, Honcha, and Heicha. Heicha is the girl-otherwise, I can’t tell them apart, either. Her brothers and sister bring out her serious side, which is why she is so obsessed with money; they have to eat somehow, and working at Café Mew Mew just doesn’t always cut it. If she performs for you, you’d better be ready to give up something other than candy, else she will stalk you until you pay up. Oh, and she’s almost seen the world get destroyed and has saved it time and again, so. That makes her feel all grown-up, too.
POWER
Pudding’s power is the ability to transform into Mew Pudding, Monkey Warrior of Justice™ at will. When she transforms, she sports a monkey tail and monkey ears, and a tattoo of two monkey tails on her forehead-that is her ~*Mew Mark*~ which shows that she’s oh-so-special. In this form, she has monkey-like agility, and her main weapon is the Pudding Ring, or Puddring Ring, depending on who you ask. Her attack is the Ribbon Pudding Ring Inferno, which traps her opponent in a giant blob of edible pudding. No, I’m not kidding at all.
Her second power will be the ability to talk to monkeys! I don’t know where she’ll ever find a monkey in pseudo-New York, but hey, if she does, she can totally talk to it. Mostly useless power is a go!.
CONCRIT
We all need a little bit of concrit now and then, right? But please note the "constructive" up there right next to the "criticism." Outright flaming will not be tolerated, and any comments of that sort will be deleted immediately. But comments are screened, anon comments are on, and IP logging is off, so let's hope we won't have too much trouble.