#aopphsau

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.

I forget if we still made her a martial artist or not, not out of the realm of possibility she practices that. But her trait here is that she’s a cosplayer:

And besuiting her vanity, she has no real passion for most of the things she dresses as. Just to make herself look good and get likes on her social media.

And that’s how we updated Raffina. Though, that’s not all. Ever seen this Puyo Quest character?:

She’s called Raina, we didn’t so much adapt her, as much as we used her to have our cake and eat it too.

Raffina is a huge jerk in Fever 2 & 15th, she really only cares about herself. That’s what we like about her. Raffina is a low-key antagonist in our fic.

But she lost some of that audacious personality as the games went on. And we wanted that side of Raffina too. That’s why we made Raina Raffina’s younger sibling.

Raina is the more amicable one of the two. That said, I’d say they’re both very neutral characters. Or rather, Raina is neutral, Raffina is on her own side.

Not to say we don’t plan on making Raina her own character, Raffina is rather tomboyish and secretly unrefined in the games, no matter how hard she tries to hide that fact. Raina is either better at hiding it or is just naturally more feminine than Raffina which makes Raffina kinda insecure.

That’s my headcanon for my fic I’m writing anyway, can’t guarantee that ever comes up.

Sig

Sig’s one of those who doesn’t really need an update. Clothing wise he generally looks the most normal of Accord’s students. Here he is:

warelander had input on Sig’s costume here. He liked the idea of the 20th shirt with the PPT1 jacket open over it.

I don’t feel confident explaining how he’s recontextualized. In this fic, he’s ware’s side of the story. I can say he’s a little less stoic. Just a little.

Klug

I’d just take his stupid hat off. I just wanted to say stupid.

Klug will be in the fic, but it’s gonna be a while before he is. So I don’t wanna say just yet.

Lidelle

We gave her more reasons than just her horns to be skittish, not gonna go further than that.

Clothing-wise: I don’t know yet, at some point she’ll be a major player, but that time isn’t now yet. Maybe something that makes her look slightly younger than she actually is in our fic (she’s 13 or so) instead of dressing like she’s 6? Maybe?

Honorary Primp Kid, Feli

She’s in the same boat as Klug at the moment.

Ringo & Maguro

They’re not major players. Likely not to do much. Low priority

I’ve wondered if their 20th clothes were summer school uniforms or not. But I am operating on that assumption. I’d make them wear something they’d wear when they can wear what they want. This Primp High School is a school in that world’s version of Germany, not Japan.

They’re Lagnus’ DnD buddies.

Akuma

He’s the school principal. I just gave him a pin of the School’s symbol, that being the Green Puyo.

And that’s all the real physical change he’s gotten. The switch from museum curator to principal should be self-explanatory, but he does teach some history classes I believe. That answer is in our notes.

That pin was supposed to replace that thing it’s attached to, but something was lost in communication. I do like this more though.

Accord

Speaking of miscommunication, Vice-Principal Accord’s skirt.

It was supposed to be shorter than her regular skirt, knee-high or so. But it ended up being a mini-skirt.

Two reasons why I didn’t change it:

1) Symbolism. 2) Didn’t wanna bother ChaoPlushie redrawing it.

That said, I got a bit nervous and made him recolor the legs. Which I even regretted at the time. There’s no timeline where I like the color choice on the right image no matter the color. I don't think it’s good color balance.