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Translating Puyo Puyo Characters into a modern High School setting.

*Dusts of my Tumblr*

I co-write a Puyo Puyo fan fiction called: An Ordinary Puyo Puyo High School AU. It's in an AU where a lot of characters go to a high school together in a world like ours, but we co-exists with Angels, Genies, Elves, Birds, Ghosts, just several kinds of fantasy creature that aren't fantasy in that world.

They co-exist in a contempory setting. So they mostly wear clothes like ours'. Regardless of what historical culture each species has had in the past (or maybe not, I'd have to check the notes again) they wear regular clothes like ours, or practical wear fitting of their role in the Primp High School.

Commissioning @chaoplushie is my personality. And I pay him a lot to have him draw these versions of these characters come to life with the notes I give. I give him a lot of notes while giving him some freedoms with it where I can.

There are many ways to adapt characters and I, someone who's out-of-touch even with his own generation, reenvisioned characters as students in the modern day in different ways as a non-artist myself.

Let's start with:

Arle - Recontextualization

[@chaoplushie art here is all stuff I commissioned and water marked on his behalf.]

In this universe, magic is rare, not even Arle, Satan or Schezo have it. Arle isn't a magician here. So she has no excuse how to dress the way she does.

So I needed to figure out the closest thing to what Arle is/does but in a domestic setting.

It's safe to say that Arle is a pretty outdoorsy girl. She's really active in the games, she struck me as an adreniline junkie.

So I made her a trackrunner, a sporter in general. A jock you could say. And if you're a jock you getta be always in practical sports clothes 24/7 and wear brand clothing (StFo, Stay Focused).

Side-effect of the practical clothes is that it makes Arle less wide without her skirt, chestplate and cape.

Don't worry, she's a nice girl.

Panotty - Different, yet the same

You can't see it, but he's actually wearing a hoodie on the right. So that's how he's different. His MO is pretty much the same as in the games plus something you can infer from his hoodie.

This is very much just a clothes adaptation. Unlike his bestie:

Harpy - Not changing anything

Harpy is the same in more ways then one. And her default white dress is a timeless piece of fashion, you don't change that.

Don't needlessly update things that don't need to be updated:

Marvett - Crocs! (and modern tech update neccecity)

I needed a laugh so I needlessy replaced slippers with Crocs. Something I do kinda regret. But whatever. Marvett is a little weird for going outside in slippers while wearing warm clothes, now she's weird for doing so in crocs without socks (I did say I'm out of touch, is this a case?)

Also I believe Marvett is one of the Spirit Summoner characters. I could be wrong on this but I think Rabbisuke is summoned from that pen.

In our fic, Rabbie is summonned by the stylus Marvett holds.

Gotcha! Nah, that'd be dumb. He's bonded to Marvett here instead. She also isn't a summoner, they got bonded by accident because most students here are just normal kids.

There have been more ways me and my co-writer (@warelander) changed characters to fit in this world of An Ordinary Puyo Puyo High School AU. But I just wanted to share these four.

This has been an ad for @chaoplushie, he's mosty just on Twitter. Commission him something if I don't get to him first.