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Name: Kiss
DW username: poland
E-Mail: agrandissmant@gmail.com
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Character Name: Chocolat Meilleure (Human Name: Chocolat Kato)
Series: Sugar Sugar Rune
Timeline: I'll be taking Chocolat from the manga, and from the middle of volume 2, before Vanilla was corrupted by Pierre. She's yet to really mature all that much and can come off as a brat. Mostly because she is one.
Canon Resource Link: ❤

Character Background:

❤ As the daughter of a prominent witch in the magical world, Chocolat was chosen as a candidate to compete for the throne as Queen of the realm, along with her best friend and daughter of the then current queen, Vanilla. In order to win the competition for the throne, the girls had to collect ecure in the form of human hearts (more so the solidified jewel that their feelings manifested via magic). Upon arriving in the human world, Chocolat soon realized that her personality that was normal in the magical world wouldn't do her much good in the human world. It was that same personality that kept her going even with Vanilla being the favoured of the two amongst their peers. She eventually makes a lot of friends at the school, including a boy named Pierre, her long term love interest.

❤ See, in the Chocolat's world, pretty much all witches and wizards and warlocks are nasty, mean-spirited, rude people who are demanding and pompous. Those features are also what they find attractive. This makes Chocolat an incredibly crude, spoiled, and lazy girl. She was extremely popular back home because she was an overly typical witch. Vanilla, the easily-crying and soft-spoken girl, was an outcast. Chocolat is into snakes and slugs and spiders, typical witch things. Vanilla likes fluffy mice and pink and purple and soft things. Chocolat is into going exploring and getting into danger. Vanilla is more likely to stay in with a cup of tea and a good book. In modern day Japan, especially among the average youth, a kind and pretty girl who has a soft heart is much more attractive than the loud and brash Chocolat. To drive this home, when it came to ten days into the competition, Vanilla had a score three times better than Chocolat's and was doing above average while Chocolat had the worst score in history. AKA the boys loved Vanilla but pretty much treat Chocolat like one of the guys; her tomboyish behaviour doesn't help her out any.

❤ As stated above, Chocolat is short-tempered and extremely feisty twelve-year-old (at least in human years, as a day in the magical world is more like 10 days in the human world). No one can pick on Chocolat because she never gives them the chance to, spitting out a wave of insults or a quick kick to the shins faster than a word can pop out of someone's mouth. Mischief is her middle name, and is a firm believer in rule breaking and loopholes. If it impedes her process, then it doesn't need to exist. To her, there is always a way around something, or she'll just blatantly break a rule because they stop her from having whatever fun she's cooked up. Chocolat is a fighter through and through. Be it over a trivial matter or to defend something, a small war of venomous words or a scuffle, she's just about always ready to throw down. Most everyone upon meeting Chocolat assumes that she's rude, which....she really is. She has no real respect for elders and views them more as people who are set to cut her down when she's doing her own things. She's extremely blunt and forward in most situations. She's been called cheeky, saucy, crude, and flippant by multiple people on more than one occasion.

❤ While humans can fall in love willy nilly with hearts to spare (what the witches call ecure), witches are only afforded one heart. They must have a mutual love exchange, thus exchanging their hearts. If that person falls out of love with them, then they die, and vice versa. Basically, if a witch falls in love and offers her heart to someone, they have to reciprocate it or they're doomed. Falling in love with a human, therefore, is a huge taboo as they can fall in love easily and have no qualms about their changing feelings. Due to this, the love she began to feel for Pierre was extremely alarming, though she learns shortly after becoming interested in him that he is a witch himself, though a dark one. A lot of the series deals with the various trials and tribulations Chocolat has to go through to finally fall in love and have it reciprocated with Pierre, though their love story is more like a motivation than the main storyline in later volumes. Pierre was an Ogre, or a evil witch with a heart comprised of hate and agony, which coloured it a deep soot black. Chocolat spent a long time, almost the entire series, trying to find out how to remove it, attempting to remove it, and finally succeeding through her power to Filtre, or to make black hearts pure again (a trait inherited from her mother that she learns nearer to the series' closing).

❤ Though it's true that a typical witch is mean and nasty, Chocolat, though she talks tough and is rowdy, is extremely thoughtful and kind to friends. She constantly tries to help those in need and isn't afraid to extend a helping hand to someone in need. Her personality helps her make friends quickly this way; most seem quick to forgive her sometimes obnoxious mouth and unladylike demeanor because of her heart of pure gold even though it's coated in a foul language and an icy glare. Chocolat is comparable to an annoying toddler in some ways: you just can't seem to really dislike them for long because their purity and innocence and genuineness wins you over in the end.

❤ Chocolat's mother was forced into exile for having a child with Glace, the darkest wizard of the magical world. Chocolat was that child, who was promptly left with her grandfather while her mother spent the rest of her life as a familiar; her punishment for her fraternizing with dark wizards. Her father was the ruler of another magical realm underneath the magical world she knew, though she never knew of such a world or her father's existence. She only ever knew what her mother looked like and thought through pictures and her diary, though she wasn't able to unlock it until her time in the human world. After this instance, it's shown that Chocolat looks at witches and using magic on humans in a new light.

❤ With her friend Vanilla, Chocolat fought for multiple reasons, though the girls remained true to their initial pact of being best friends forever. Chocolat fought just as much for Vanilla as she did for anyone else, if not more. She fought for her honour when others thought she was a Ogre, when she turned against the kingdom and sought refuge with Pierre, and whenever anyone thought Vanilla to be wrong in anyway. Her loyalty to Vanilla remains throughout her shown life, and the two are for the most part inseparable, though for a while Vanilla was tricked by Pierre into joining the faction of Ogres.

❤ For example, all throughout the canon, a war is brewing between the Ogres and Witches, which is another obstacle in Chocolat's way not only to become queen, but to be with her love Pierre. Being an Ogre himself, it divided them from the start. They do fall for each other, and he does turn on his own kind in the end. Vanilla, for a short period of time, actually became an Ogre, though Chocolat saved her. Chocolat and all of her witch friends and family banded together with their kingdom to save the magical world from darkness. After she used all of her power, plus Pierres, they were sent to a forest where they lost all memories and sense of humanity. They had to learn how to speak and remember everything, which took them years. During this time, Vanilla ascended to the throne. When the two were reunited, Vanilla was ecstatic and promptly told Chocolat that the throne was hers. Chocolat, now a young woman, told Vanilla that the throne was hers, and that she deserved it the most. Even though Chocolat was the obvious victor, she still was loyal and mature enough to see her friend fit the part more.

❤ Chocolat, being a strong individual, doesn't like it when people see her being sad or having a weak moment. She hides when she cries, runs off, covers her face, the whole nine yards. She thinks she's a lot stronger than she is, so when she does get emotional in a negative way, it surprises her and she reacts as thus. She hates it, especially, when people worry about her as she has no idea how to handle it. Countless times during the series, whether she was upset during a fight with Vanilla or over Pierre or her mother, Chocolat didn't want anyone to see her emotional side. To witches, that was weakness. Along the way, though, she learned to grow into her feelings and became more open with them.

❤ In the canon material, Chocolat starts out as an extreme of all the above personality traits, but matures into a young woman who is a lot more understanding of the world and herself. Her personality stays intact, though, she's just a little more mature and worldly and her immaturity doesn't show through as much as the volumes progress, especially in the later part of the series as it becomes more serious. Chocolat blossoms into an actual candidate for royalty and a young lady, not just a spoiled and naive little witchling.

❤ Since Chocolat's mom left her at a VERY young age, she has no real recollection of her at all except for a scent that she remembers vaguely, a warm cinnamon smell (her mother's name was also Cinnamon). Chocolat had no real idea where her mother is, and didn't proactively look for her, but she held her very dearly in her heart. She's got kind of a mommy complex. If she sees someone that reminds her of her mother, she is attracted to them and will unconsciously grow attached to them. Later towards the end of the series, she finds her mother in Pierre's familiar, a black cat, though their meeting is cut short. In helping save the magical world, she and Glace (the main warring antagonist) both explode into light, thus falling on her own sword to save everyone.

❤ More than anything, love is invaluable to Chocolat, but not just her own love. Everyone's love. She fought for it all. Even as a child she knew that love was one of the most precious things in the world. Her love for Pierre was unwavering, even when it probably should have been. At one point, it was believed that Pierre and Chocolat were actually half-siblings, but she still loved him and canonly said as such. Regardless of her love, however, what always came first, especially with her character progression, was that other people also mattered and that their love for each other was also precious. That was what she truly fought for.

Abilities/Special Powers:

❤ Chocolat is a witch from The Magical World, a land hidden behind the dark side of the human moon. Because she is a witch, she's able to use magic. The magic is a form of French word spell, sometimes requiring a wand if the spell is strong or the user is young. Chocolat has a wand of her own, with a few extra jewels containing spells that she can use. In Chocolat's world, some spells come with certain "add ons" to wands. One of Chocolat's main spells is "Etoile Brillant" which is a blanket light spell, allowing her to find people or to just light up a room or blind someone. Only a few spells are known, but it is assumed that you can figure out a spell using a rough French translation of what you want, much like Harry Potter and Latin.

❤ The main power that all witches posses is the power to take human hearts. In order to take a human heart, a certain number of things have to happen. The human involved must have some kind of feeling for the witch, limited to these emotions. In order to see the emotion a human has, the witch must use her Peek-A-Boo Glasses, or making a peace sign over their eyes. Older witches and hearts containing incredibly emotions can sometimes be seen by the witch without them. The witchling must then cast the spell as follows: "Sugar Sugar Rune, AVariantOfTheirName Rune, Heart Heart, Come To Me", though this is based off the most widely used translation. The incantation causes a barrier to be set up so that they can momentarily stop time and call the heart to them. Older wizards and witches can do this without calling a barrier or even saying a spell at all. Once the heart is called, it normally goes into a heart holder, which Chocolat has, pictured here around her neck. It's said by Chocolat's mother, that if a witch takes too many hearts from one human, the human can become ill and hospitalized, so they must proceed with caution.

❤ Chocolat has a special power all to herself, or at least that is extremely rare, that is called Filtre. Ogres and witches/humans that are filled with hatred develop black hearts that are deadly to other witches, and their hearts cannot be taken by the average warlock. Chocolat, however, can claim the hearts and purify them into white hearts, free of hatred and at peace with the world. This power can be useful, though it's possible to kill an ogre or witch by taking their black heart unless they have two hearts, as it is also detrimental for normal witches to touch noir. Witches and ogres are only allowed one heart, normally, so it can be problematic. The spell for catching hearts to filtre is the same as the normal heart catching spell, though the word filtre is used instead.

❤ Regarding her competence with magic, there is a big difference between using magic in her world and the human world. In the magical world she is quite the prolific magic user, flying and cleaning and cooking with spells. In the human world, though, you have to have specific wand add ons and items in order to use magic. Thus, cleaning and flying is something she can't do without a spell or wand. Also, because she isn't very popular at first, getting money via ecure to buy options for her wand and other magical items is hard. As of the canon point I'm taking her from, she only has two wand add ons: La Étoile Brillant, a spell to make her lips and hair shiny and La Fleur Spirale, which makes flowers bloom anywhere she wants. In the human world, aka here in game, her magic will be a little shaky, but those two spells she definitely knows and can do. Other spells are possible, but are barely manageable, if at all, without an addon for her wand.

Third-Person Sample:

Being the adventure bug that she is, the large and ominous forest had Chocolat's name all over it. Before long, she's climbing trees and hopping from limb to limb, falling and skinning her knees but continuing on the trails. She must have gone two miles in before the darkness actually became so thick she needed a light. Pulling her wand out from it's hiding place, tucked into her pants, she calls out a spell.

"Étoile brillant!" and a shiny, serum-like mist comes out from her wand enveloping her. In a matter of seconds, she's shining. Sort of.

"Damn it, it only makes my hair and features shinier." Those stupid girly witch spells. Back home, her ecure had to go towards things that made her more appealing to boys. Why can't she have spells more suited to adventuring and exploring. "I can't see any further with shiny hair!"

But that doesn't stop her, bunching up her hair, she holds the mass of tendrils in front of her and leaves it hanging on her chest. At least the spell makes it so ridiculously glowy that it works to at least illuminate her feet. Walking on, over large branches and running into long reaching shrubs, the going is a little rough. More than once, she swears under her breath, sometimes louder, wishing she still had her ability to fly. Too bad she hasn't gotten that spell yet.

It's a good thing that her hair can act as a small illumination for the ground, as her foot almost came crashing down onto a small and dark toad handing around the mossy undertow. Hearing its warning croak she stops immediately, squatting down, wand sticking out from her trousers. Quickly, the toad is scooped up and set on her hand, covered in her glimmering reddish hair. Sitting on his regal throne of glossy locks, Chocolat strokes her new found friend. "Sorry about that, little guy." He reminds her of her own familiar, her red and black frog companion Duke.

She looks at him forlornly while he croaks noisily, not wanting to be held anymore, before setting him back down on the dirty forest floor. "You should probably get home before someone else tries to squash your guts out, you know." Turning on her heel, she decides to go home herself. Or what she is realizing has become a place she has to force herself call home, anyway.

First-Person Sample:

[ Chocolat is lounging in the courtyard, a one-piece on with a glass of lemonade in one hand. ]

So hey, whoever owns this resort. [ Since that's what this is to her. ] You do know I'm in the middle of this big competition, right? Not that I'm complainin' or anything. I deserve a vacation!

[ After a long and loud sip, she slips a finger into the pair of sunglasses she has on, tilting them down so her glaring green eyes are visible. ]

But if you think I'm gonna be held prisoner in a place like this and risk me winning a castle and guards and servants, you've got another thing coming. I'm a witch you know! I can curse you! [ Not really.

But as soon as she's said her piece, a growl in her voice and everything, she puts the shades back up, hiding a sad glint in her eye. ] Just because I was doing a piss poor job doesn't mean I don't deserve the chance to try to get better, you know...