Raffina Archambeau

Snobbish, but also-lighthearted, Raffina Archambeau is a black belt in martial arts, and Amitie's frenemy classmate in Primp Magic School.
INFORMATION
Foreign translation of name	ラフィーナ・アルカンボー
Rafīna Arukanbō
ラフィーナ
Rafīna
Fandom / Franchise / VA 	Puyo Puyo (since 2003)
Noriko Namiki (seiyuu)
Creators / Owners 	SEGA
Sonic Team (co-owner)
Species 	Human
Birthday / Age / Status 	JUL25
25 years old
Alive
Signature / Theme Color(s) 	yellow and orange
Sexual Orientation 	Heteromantic Bisexual
ORIGINAL CANON LORE / INFO / ROLE OF THE CHARACTER CAN BE FOUND HERE: https://puyonexus.com/wiki/Raffina
==Role in the GASEverse==
===CURRENT ROLE===
Born in a rich and wealthy family in a mansion, Raffina is a martial artist, graduated from Irotsuya Arts in Primp Town. She may be snobby, prim, proper, and perfect in any ways, but could also be lighthearted and nice to the citizens of the town, especially Amitie.
Despite her main personality, she could be a little bit of a fearful coward when it comes to some weird situations happening all around her. She is also prone to be a bodybuilder, in which she takes protein and isn't even afraid to reveal her 6-pack.
She currently lives in the Tenmei Prefecture in Primp alongside with her classmate friends, basically as a citizen of this place.
===BACKSTORY===
Born in the Archambeau residence within greater wealth, Raffina was born snobbish and well, formerly spoiled. As of other reasons, her parents were also greedy. As a kid, she was watching her father's Bruce Lee movie tapes without any concern. However, it inspired her to become a martial artist no matter what. Because of this, she was told by her dad that she might teach karate, taekwondo, and mainly martial arts as a reason.
Years have passed, and Raffina learned how to punch, kick, jab, etc. in Irotsuya Arts, a martial arts practice school in the areas of Primp. After her graduation, her parents decided that she'll have to learn magic instead, due to fragile stuff in the mansion, as she would be EXTREMELY careless of her moves. As of that, she was "forced" to go to Primp Magic School.
Sadly, Raffina has gotten Ds and Fs for failing the school, due to the fact that she hasn't learned ANYTHING about magic, not even her parents knew what it is. She was going to suspended for half a month, but for a plea, Raffina was given another chance to her teacher, Ms. Accord, to be in the school—otherwise, her parents would think she was instantly a failure. However, for being a newbie of magic, she was given a spare magic stone—which includes sudden magic for beginners and newbies—as an optional choice, as she put it on her purse. 
As for a good reason, she gets to stay in the magic school for a while; plus, her suspension was cancelled, luckily.
===FANSERVICE===
In some T-to-M-rated media of GASE, she contains a few sexual innuendoes, containing in some parts / cutscenes, like only wearing undergarments for example. However, due to her first main outfit resulting in zettai ryōiki style, A LOT OF PANTYSHOTS MAY OCCUR, EVENTUALLY, AS THE COUNT VARIES. Some of her alternative outfits can have that same conclusion to this, yet it's completely exaggerated whenever she and Amitie go on epic fights—in which many people, FRIENDS INCLUDED, always find hilarious and amusing.
However, in the UNSAFER side of the GASEverse fan-community, she's seen / drawn in fan-media, where she mates with Klug or Amitie.
Despite this, in rarely a few media, especially in some Nintendo titles and the E-rated ones, she mainly wears orange bike spats or white tights underneath, in part of (one of) her main outfits.
== IN-GAME ROLES ==
=== IN GENERAL / CANON: ===
Raffina makes her first debut in Puyo Puyo Fever (PP5 / PPF1) in the fall of 2003 as HaraHara protagonist, being one of the (semi-)protags of the series.
This was after when COMPILE gave the rights of the franchise to SEGA and Sonic Team.
==Appearances / Design ==
She has light skin, pale purplish-pink hair in curly ends with a curled ahoge, and blue eyes.
Most of the time, she carries her yellow purse with a white strap that carries around her waist, just in case for magic storage.
For makeup, she wears some mascara and blush, as mostly depicted and mentioned in media.
===MAIN ATTIRE===
====Outfit #1 - Tangerine Seifuku====
Her hair is tied in a low ponytail by a green scrunchie; she wears an dark orange sleeveless sweater under a matching, light orange seifuku-esque croptop and miniskirt, complete with white detail and a purple ribbon. She wears white-yellow detached sleeves and dark gray fingerless gloves. For footwear, she wears white loose over-knee socks, and even some boots that match her uniform-esque style.
For accessory, she has iridecent-blue diamond crystals for earrings, and a hairpin of the school's Tenmei emblem.
====Outfit #2 - Sakura Fighter====
Her hair is down loose, complete with a white headband and the same hairpin; with purple / pink included in her color scheme of it, her second main outfit is a white collared jacket, detailed with an orange sakura flower, and short yellow-orange-pink sleeves, over a bright yellow shirt with a purple ribbon tied on it. She wears a magenta-purple skirt, yellow-orange-striped stockings, light purple leg warmers, and white shoes with orange soles.
===ALTERNATIVE OUTFITS===
===OTHER FORMS===
====Platinum Brawl Raffina (プラチナブロールラフィーナ)====
Raffina's evolved form, as of mentioned in 7 and FeverGen. She transforms into this when she equipped the Iridescent Shoulder Band (虹色の肩バンド).
==Abilities==
Being a black belt in martial arts and of storing magic in her purse, her spells consist of weather combining with her moves, well... mainly named in French words.
Set of Raffina's spells / attacks
Allumage 	Ignites her magic power
Forte 	Increases her magic strength
Grêle
(hail)	Strikes her palm to the opponent
Depicts hail
Neige
(snow)	Similar to Grêle, but somewhat more useful
Depicts snowflakes
Étincelle
(spark)	Strikes her body to the oppenent, consisting a certain headbutt
Depicts lightning bolts and / or sparks
Orage
(thunderstorm)	A much more powerful attack of Étincelle
Depicts thunderstorms
Flamme
(flame)	Recent strong uppercut
Depicts fire
Averse
(shower)	Similar to Draco's Dynasonic spell, where she leaps up high and down-strikes her opponent with her fist
Depicts somewhat of rain or such
Avalanche	A much more powerful attack of Averse
Depicts a water-ice avalanche
Décharge
(discharge)	Similar to Grêle, but somewhat more power
Depicts lightning(?)
Rage Soleil
(raging sun)	A fire based attack, however, which she uses her hands to circle out a red sun
Depicts the sun
Défendre
(defend)	Counters the opponent's attack; uses it as a shield
Feu d'Arti
(firework)	Uses her hands to make bigger sparks and shoots them off for damage, giving about more damage to the opponent
Depicts orange-yellow sparks / fireworks
Ciel Arc
(rainbow)	Her signature move, where she twirls and roundhouse kicks her opponent
Depicts a rainbow
==Relationships==
===MAIN FRANCHISE RELATIONSHIPS===
====Klug Bernardin====
Dark cosmic mage and honors student of Primp Magic School; Raffina's side-rival mainly, in which they sometimes disagree or argue about things in comparison. She might even refer him as "Mr. Goody Two-Shoes"! However, they might have the audacity to become friends or soulmates... or would they?
However, in some running gags in sometime, she's depicted as / of a sadist to him, because of her personality much, as of Klug self-depicting as a masochist.
====Rulue====
Veneficiis' personal Combat Queen, and Raffina's COMPILE-era counterpart of Puyo Puyo; Rulue somehow shares parallels with Raffina, as of both being noble female martial artists. Somehow, they're allies to each other.
====Primp / SEGA-era ARS====
=====Amitie Taiyo=====
Sorceress and daughter of the Goddess; Despite being a snobbish and one-sided rival of her, Amitie depicts her more as a friend.
They first encountered when Raffina said "the fewer rivals, the better," followed by a serious Puyo battle. However, because of Amitie's techniques, Raffina was amazed, and she was told to be nice, however. It might seem hard for her, but it's for the best.
=====Sigmund "Sig" Hyacinth=====
===CROSSOVER EVENT RELATIONSHIPS===
====Taffyta Muttonfudge (Wreck-it Ralph /Sugar Rush)====
As Snobby as Raffina (And a certain Italian tiramisu and caramel cream themed racer), and an escalating rivalry will ensue in the race tracks, well, after Raffina got her car, of course.
It was when Amitie, Ringo, and Vanellope had a race at night. Arle was originally part of the race, so it was three against one, but had to drop back because her motion sickness went rogue again. Raffina joined the race after Arle cleared off the track, and managed to give Vanellope a run for her money. Amitie and Ringo aren't holding back, they too want to win, and went against Raffina, only for Taffyta to come up and she got in front of Raffina and Amitie.
With Ringo and Vanellope distracted, the two had to slow down and pick up the pace, but Amitie, Raffina, and Taffyta were already ahead. Taffyta wins, which leaves Raffina under disbelief, until a second race between the two, in which Raffina learnt that Taffyta had a good reason to be that good.
====Crumbelina Di Caramello (Wreck-it Ralph /Sugar Rush)====
Same as Taffyta, only that Crumbelina is a little bit nicer to people. But while Crumbelina is quite friendly to Raffina, it wasn't the case to Klug, who encountered Gloyd and Swizzle.
==Creator's Notes and Trivia==
*Some of her (main) outfits are referenced to her OG counterpart's (alter) appearances by games:
**Her first main outfit is based on her Deka form in 7.
**Her second main outfit is not much based, but referenced from Sakura Raffina.
**
*Because of her first name being derived from "raffiné (refined)", it could be confirmed that she's of French descent.
**Her last name "Archambeau" could have the same conclusion.
*Her original counterpart's damage cut-ins in the games, however, depicts Raffina getting her ass LITERALLY kicked / bruised(?) since 15th (2006).
**In the multiverse timeline, that never applied to all of the games, even the ones of the franchise she's in, but only to a few of them.
*Her seiyuu, Noriko Namiki, also voiced Lidelle.
*In the original canon, it appears that Raffina was born in a family of mages, rather than just of wealth.
==Gallery==
~ WARNING ~ May contain suggestive content ~ watch at risk ~
===BY THE MAIN CREATOR OF GASE===
====ALTERNATIVE OUTFITS / OTHER FORMS====
====DIGITAL ARTWORK====
File:8133FAEC-3B5A-45C3-B8B0-71DA917F0BEA.png|Raffina (far right), along with the others of ARSK
File:CD6D173E-6E92-4AB7-885D-8D6182C27AC9.jpeg|Raffina, possesed, fighting Amitie for an unknown reason
File:Raffina Tarot Profile.png|"So, are you my worthy opponent, or what...? O-hohoho~"
====TRADITONAL ARTWORK====
===BY CO-CONTRIBUTORS / OTHER ARTISTS===
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