Purple Clementine

Purple Rose Clementine is one of the main characters in Adventures in Stick City. He is a close ally to the Color Gang and Rocket Corp. He is also King Orange's adoptive son following the events of Shards of Silver, where King officially adopts him.
== Biography ==
Purple was born somewhere in the Outernet(exact city isn't mentioned, but it is heavily implied it is the city Luna takes Purple to in False Familial Fondness) to Navy Ribbon and Orchid Ribbon-Rose. It's not exactly stated when, but between the ages of five and seven, Navy began training sessions with Purple that slowly began to become more and more extreme. As they did, Orchid continued to try and intervene, which ultimately led to Navy abandoning the family when Purple was seven, after one particular training session became so intense, that Purple was thrown into a wall. Navy left the family that same day, after a fight with Orchid, calling them weak and incompetent before leaving them. It is unclear what happened to Purple during the next few years, but there is a two year gap before Orchid's death.
After a couple of years on the streets, Purple meets the Color Gang, earning their trust after a couple of incidents(in canon, it would have been Animation vs. League of Legends, and episodes 8-10 of AVM Shorts Season One). At some point after The End, Purple comes across King Orange, still reeling from Gold's death and searching for the Minecraft Game Icon. After King allows him to help, the two venture into the Nether and take refuge inside of a Nether Bastion. There, King gains the loyalty of the Piglin Brutes residing there, earning the title of King Orange(given by Purple).
King and Purple later devise a plan to trap Second and his friends, which later turns out to be the Parkour Course that Purple leads them to following the Color Gang's battle with The Witch. After trapping the Color Gang, Purple returns to the Palace to further discuss plans, later travelling to ALANSPC after Green escapes the Parkour Course and tries to attack him, but is captured by King before he gets the chance. Purple, after a fight with Second and Red, gains the upper hand and steals the Minecraft Game Icon, returning to the Palace and giving it to King.
After King Orange's betrayal, Purple escapes to the Note Block Universe, being chased by Green. Green helps redeem Purple, who later joins the ally side and helps fight against King Orange. The group confronts and is later defeated by King Orange, who then realizes what he'd done, and attempts to fix it. While the Nether is saved, Purple and Second are killed in the process.
After succumbing to the beam, Purple and Second team up with Gold, Orchid, Victim(who later follows in their footsteps a year later), and The Dark Lord(who had been stuck there following his battle with Second in The Showdown and had been eager to return to life and reconcile with Chosen) to return to life through The Day Of Surrection. As they travel, Purple confronts his past trauma and later reconciles with King before temporarily returning to life to help defeat Herobrine. After successfully defeating Herobrine with the Minecraft Staff, Purple and Second, alongside Dark, who had agreed to help them, are permanently returned to life.
== Appearance ==
Purple is a purple solid-headed stick figure of average height. His official hex code is #AB0AA0. He has long hair that he usually either braids or puts in a ponytail. He wears certain accessories to honor certain people in his life:
* He has pink streaks in his hair that are usually hidden in the braids that honor Orchid.
* He wears a crown hairpin and necklace that honor King.
* Although he doesn't commonly wear it, he does have two friendship bracelets: One for the Color Gang, and the other to honor Lilac and her friends.
From Made To Ruin onwards, Purple wears bandages around both of his wrists, due to Midnight attempting to kill him through slitting them during a fight.
One of Purple's main detachable is his elytra. While he doesn't commonly wear it, he does usually have it on hand, and stays on a stand in his room whenever he doesn't use it.
== Personality ==
At first, Purple's personality is very conflicting. Purple is more than willing to let other people suffer because of his actions at first, but will later realize the consequences and attempt to make things right(letting Green and Blue fall into the endless void in The End and steal the Ender Dragon Egg all to impress Navy, which later led to the near-destruction of his village). 
While despite having a conflicted personality that leads to greedy and selfish acts that harm others, Purple is also shown to have unwavering loyalty, such as towards King Orange, continuing to attack the Color Gang even after King decided he didn't need him anymore, a trait stemming from his desire for parental love and acceptance.
Following reformation and reconciliation, more of Purple's personality is shown: A kind and helpful person who would be more than willing to help his friends if need be. He does not take kindle to his friends and family being bashed, and will immediately stand to defend them(ranting to Silver about how they and their family never lifted a finger when Purple and Orchid needed help, then trying to shift the blame onto Purple and say he was using King and the Color Gang and playing victim), showing his undying loyalty to the ones he cares about has not wavered in the slightest.
Purple, while being a logical thinker who will make plans and manipulate them so they succeed, and a loving person who cares deeply for the people in his life, does still have certain unresolved problems that he attempts to resolve on his own, refusing to let people help him, leading to Purple sometimes making reckless and half-thought decisions that very nearly almost get him killed. He tends to be self-sacrificial, protective, and think he can handle things on his own when he clearly can't. This will land him in dangerous and potentially life threatening situations.
Despite occasionally not thinking things through, Purple does think logically in certain situations, and most of his plans will go right as long as they stay on track. Whenever the plan goes awry, Purple is usually able to rethink it or come up with a new plan.
Despite being a lovable and generally happy person now, Purple is also sensitive, emotional, and still suffers from PTSD and RTS due to past trauma(Navy, mistreatment from King Orange, being assaulted numerous times, and nearly being killed). He has been trying to move past it as best as he can, but numerous things have been popping up recently that have made it difficult to come to terms with his trauma.
== In The Series ==
=== To Heaven And Back ===
To Heaven And Back acts as an alternate version of the final battle, where Purple and Second did not make it after the staff was destroyed. While there, the two of them meet and team up with Gold, Orchid, and Victim, and later learn of The Day of Surrection. The group(sans Orchid), later temporarily return to The Nether after Chosen and Yellow(who had already learned of The Day of Surrection and were attempting to communicate with Second and Purple) make a machine that allows them to communicate with artificial apparitions of the group. Following this, Herobrine attacks King's Palace, and communication ceases between the two groups.
After the two groups end up on the same page, Second and Purple make the trek towards the Surrection Portal, but become separated in the forest on their way there. Purple ends up watching a flashback of Navy's abandonment while wandering around searching for him. Later, the two reunite after Purple and King(or an embodiment of him, as the real one was fighting Herobrine in the Outernet) reconcile, and the two later come across The Dark Lord after Second discovers the Surrection Portal while looking for Purple. The trio then enter the portal, waking up a few miles from where the others are.
As the trio arrive, Herobrine gains the upper hand and attempts to kill Green by tossing him into a cliff and then launching TNT at him. The cliff explodes, almost killing Green before Purple rescues him with a fishing rod, and the groups reunite. The larger group comes up with a much more thought out plan, which involves the Minecraft Staff. The group does also very nearly get the upper hand until Herobrine attempts to kill Purple by blasting him into the cliff. Staff in hand, Purple tries to attack once again, but is blasted into a cliff and then thrown into the quarry below, to the horror of the rest of the group.
Herobrine does not get the upper hand for very long, as Purple slams him into the water mere minutes later with the staff. Purple theorizes that making a blast of energy similar to the one with the Dual Block Staff(similar to the one that killed Purple and Second in the final battle), they could gain the upper hand and defeat him. This does in fact defeat him(although it is unclear of if he suffered similar fates to the others in the original battle, or use the subsequent explosion as a way to clap himself out of the Outernet and escape back into Minecraft>), and the group returns to Heaven temporarily after completing their mission(defeating Herobrine). It is unclear of what happens to them after, but it is implied that King and Purple returned to Stick City, the Color Gang returned to the desktop, and Chosen and Dark returned to an old base of theirs(although Dark later disappears a while afterwards).
=== Shards of Silver ===
Shards of Silver takes place almost two years after To Heaven And Back. 
Purple first appears when Chosen is escaped Rocket Corp mercenaries Agent, Hunter, Hazard, and Ballista. While attempting to escape the chaos, Purple is nearly crushed by a falling building, but the building crumbles without causing damage to him, aside from a couple of scratches. The two then return to King's house afterwards.
A couple days later, Purple is left home alone while King is out running errands(it is later revealed that the errand was to surprise Purple with an official adoption), when Green, Blue, and Red all show up at the house. They explain to him that Second and Yellow have been captured, and they need his help to rescue them. Just as Purple agrees, the house is ambushed by his cousin, Silver Ribbon, who has worked for Rocket Corp since they were seventeen. While Purple and the others do escape, Silver decides to stage it as a kidnapping and leaves a ransom note, believing Purple and the others would follow them anyways.
After breaking back into the base, Purple and the others free Yellow and Second before being confronted by Silver. Silver then separates the group, trapping the Color Gang in separate cells and taking Purple themselves. While King and his friend Maroon break into the base, Silver attempts to manipulate Purple, before being brutally shot down and yelled at for their lack of care while Purple suffered at Navy's hands. He concludes the rant by disowning Silver and the rest of the family, stating that King and the others are his family, not the Ribbons. Silver then knocks him out and places him in a cell, intending to leave him at the mercy of Victim.
Before Victim can actually talk with him, however, King arrives and rescues the kids. As they try and rescue Chosen, they are cut off by Silver attempting to attack Victim, possibly implying that he questioned their motives and they did not want Victim to try and prevent their plan from continuing. Silver drags Purple into the issue, attempting to manipulate him once again. When it fails. Silver resorts to insulting Orchid, the only person in his biological family that Purple truly loved. Purple attempts to attack Silver, something the Color Gang backs up. Silver takes on all six of them, snapping at Purple about his resemblance towards the Ribbons. After they attempt to bring King into the insults, Purple attacks them again. Silver then attempts to blow the entire building up, but Purple attacks them, trapping them both in the box when Dark(who had been missing since To Heaven And Back took place) arrives, but he is trapped in there with them.
Silver and Purple have yet another fight, which ends in Silver knocking him out and attempting to kill the others by blowing the base up. While knocked out, Purple comes to terms with his inner voice, still reeling with thoughts of self-hatred and other self-related issues brought on from childhood trauma. As the group attempts to wake them up, Silver traps them in The Box, half-expecting it to not survive with the rest of the building, and part of the building explodes. The Box survives, as do the others, but Silver is reported to have been killed in the explosion(Victim confirms that Silver was one of the thirty or so casualties from the explosions). Despite the surprise having been ruined by circumstances, Purple happily accepts the adoption anyways.
=== Thanatophobia ===
A couple of days after the events of Shards of Silver, the city is attacked by a trio involved with Silver's mother. The attack unleashes characters from an analog horror series Silver had been researching, Vita Carnis. While Purple and Maroon escape long enough to reunite with King, the attackers ambush the group, capturing King and throwing Purple into another dimension.
After waking up in another dimension, Purple travels from the quarry to the city, where he is attacked by a Meat Snake. In the end, he escapes by setting the creature on fire, running towards Rocket Corp before encountering an opposite version of Maroon. He takes Purple to Rocket Corp, where he learns that he's in a messed up version of his own reality, but the battle with Silver went horribly wrong: Purple attempted to attack Silver just before they destroyed the building, but did not survive the explosion when it happened. Just as they arrive, a Harvester attacks. Purple and Maroon reunite with King and Victim, before Purple uses knowledge from his battle with the Meat Snake to defeat the Harvester.
After the group is back on the same page, the quartet comes up with the theory that the alternate Purple is being used by the Monoliths as a secondary Singularity, and is being worshipped. Just as they come up with this theory, they are sucked back into Purple's original dimension, just as the Monoliths begin attacking.
Purple tries communicating with King and the others after they try and fail to set the Monoliths on fire. The groups attempt to distract it when Purple climbs up onto the Monolith, and the theory is confirmed when he discovers his alternate self trapped inside the chest of the beast. Just as he tries to get into the creature's chest, it swings him into a building.
After the groups reunite, Purple explains that his alternate self is inside the Monolith, like they predicted. The group tries to slingshot him up there, and succeeds before agents attack. Purple gets into the chest and tries to free his alternate self while the others take out the agents. They do eventually succeed and take care of the monsters, and the groups separate, with King and Purple returning back home, unaware of Midnight watching them from his apartment.
=== Made To Ruin ===
A couple of days after Thanatophobia, the Color Gang is visiting Stick City, unaware they were being watched by Midnight, a teenager who expressed hatred against King because while Midnight had abandoned his family and hadn't found true happiness, King found happiness and gained a family in Purple. He ambushes the group, kidnaps Purple, and escapes in his truck with four other teenagers(Lilac, Ruby, Sage, and Saffron). When they arrive at the base(Midnight's original one), Purple threatens them, saying King will come after him and show no mercy. Midnight only expresses that he can't wait for it to happen before tossing him in a basement cell.
Over the next few days, Purple is relatively left alone, even gaining the trust of Midnight's co-horts, later revealed to be other teenagers Midnight had kidnapped after gaining their trust a year prior. Purple gains their trust, and the quartet make a pact that help get him out of there. When a search party makes it to the base, Sage attempts to make enough noise to attract their attention, but Midnight waves them off and shoots at them before attacking the rest of the group. It is later revealed that Midnight raped Purple during the attack.
The next day, Saffron escapes the base undetected by drugging Midnight with sleeping pills before escaping, and makes it to the police station to alert King and the others. This does succeed and alert the police as to where Purple is. Detective Cornflower(Lilac's father, possibly a reason why Midnight kidnapped her in the first place), alongside King and the Color Gang, arrive to rescue Purple and the others. This attempt fails, and Midnight later relocates to a base across town.
Over the next two days, the case grows cold while the teens are kept in a cellar, starved, abused and tortured(raped on Purple's part) frequently. The teens break open a window large enough so that they can escape on occasion and steal from the closest gas station, but it becomes more evident that Purple is closer and closer daily to kicking the bucket. The same day Cornflower closes the case, Ruby locks the other four in the cellar, takes the key(preventing Midnight from doing any more damage), and escapes after being slashed and stabbed while protecting Purple. She makes it to the hospital, revealing the location of the new hideout to Cornflower.
However, most of the damage had been done: Purple was getting worse, although being raped daily was now off the table, the rest of the effects, including slits on his wrists that hadn't been maintained well due to limited supplies. Another escape attempt is made, which ends in Midnight capturing them. Purple is drugged and raped the same night, before being thrown through the window afterwards, making the after-effects even worse.
Early the next morning, Cornflower successfully gets into the base to rescue the kids, shooting and killing Midnight before taking them to the hospital. Purple blacks out following the rescue, before waking up in the hospital and reuniting with King and the others after nearly two weeks.
=== You Rewrote The Game ===
A couple of weeks following the ordeal, Purple and the others have mostly recovered(Bandages around Purple's wrists remain for the time being), although Purple still suffers from severe PTSD and Rape Trauma Syndrome(RTS). While working on a history project, Purple falls through a hole after an earthquake and wakes up during the American Revolution, next to a five-year-old Alexander Hamilton. While attempting to figure out a way back to the future, he and Alexander are attacked by British Admiral Howe, Purple getting grazed by a bullet. They wake up in a prison cell in a British warehouse ten or so miles west of General George Washington's camp, before being rescued by Aaron Burr, who had gone out searching for Alexander after not returning from a perimeter check earlier.
After catching Aaron up, the trio escapes, and discovers numerous pieces of technology, presumably developed by Rocket Corp and stored in a secure storage building in town, sitting in the warehouse. Purple theorizes the sudden appearance of the technology has something to do with a strange string of robberies from storage facilities all over town that Victim and Cornflower had been investigating. One of them blasts him and Alexander, stranding them both in The Void. While Purple deals with past trauma, he attempts to find and re-age Alexander, who is suffering from the loss of his father due to abandonment at a young age and his mother to Yellow Fever a couple of years later. Purple attempts to comfort him, which succeeds, and later gives them an opening to escaping.
Purple, Aaron, and a re-aged Alexander escape into a British gunfire, presumably staring by King, Cornflower, and Washington, before Aaron separates from the duo and runs into the crossfire. Alex and Purple escape into a storage room, where Alexander reunites with John Laurens, Hercules Mulligan, and Marquis de Lafayette. The group escapes, following an explosion, and make it to the rift that had trapped them in there in the first place. However, the British explode it before they get a chance. Just as the British attempt to shoot them, Lilac and her friends(Who were originally staying at the camp with Benjamin Tallmadge), arrive and rescue them, alerting King and his group. Alexander later reopens the rift and gives the others a chance to escape before nearly dying himself after a British soldier attempts to hold Purple at gunpoint as a threat. The attempt succeeds, Alexander survives, and Purple wakes up in the hospital.
=== Perfect Prime Target ===
As the school year comes to a close, Purple and the others find a sense of relief knowing that nothing has happened since the Hamilton Incident(which had been a few weeks prior). However, that normalcy is shattered when Lilac and her friends discover a dead body while on a hike. The dead body is later revealed to be a warning from Moon, Midnight's biological father, who is seeking revenge against Purple for Midnight's fate. This ends up putting Purple on a death watch, leading to his mental stability deteriorating as Moon continues to threaten him. Eventually, after dropping Purple off at school, King gets a message from him, saying that the school is being attacked by a shooter, later revealed to be Moon and his girlfriend, Periwinkle. The duo then kidnap Purple, leaving his phone and necklace behind as they drive away.
The attack only lasts a couple of days, in which Purple is left alone for most of it, being knocked out and raped once, and attacking Moon when he attempts to rape him again. This leads to Purple's escape and later reunion with Cornflower, who shoots Moon dead before taking Purple to a hospital after he gets shot by Moon during the rescue. Purple survives the attack and reunites with King and the others the same night. However, Purple's emotional stability is left extremely fragile after the attack, which carries into later books in the series. 
== Relationships ==
See: Purple Clementine/Relationships
== Trivia ==
* Purple is one of the few characters who is aro-ace, and the only one to openly admit to being aro-ace.
** The other two confirmed aro-ace characters are Red and Hazard
* Purple has the most severe PTSD out of all of the other characters in the series.
* His signature flower is a cherry blossom.
* Purple is implied to be very artistic, a good writer, and decent at photographing. Some of the decorations around the living room, and King's bedroom, are photographs of the two of them Purple had taken. A hanging glass crown displayed in King's bedroom is also another glimpse into Purple's creativity. Purple's first Father's Day present to King was a very well-drawn card, showing his artisticness.
* He knows how to drive a car, something Victim knows and is scared of. It is implied that Sage taught him.
* Purple is very good at lockpicking.
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