The Chipettes

Eleanor

Lelouch vi Britannia

Yusuke Urameshi

Minako Aino

Danny Fenton/Phantom

Jenny Wakeman/XJ-9

Lelouch vi Britannia/Zero

The Chipettes is the nickname given to a group of characters from Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983) and is a main character in AniCity. They are a group of three young anthropoid chipmunks - Brittany, Jeanette and Eleanor. They have also paired up with their close friends the Powerpuff Girls to form their own band called "The PowerChips".

## Members

* Brittany
* Jeanette
* Eleanor

## History

### Pre-Series

The Chipette sisters were born in Australia and orphaned at a very early age. Fortunately for them, their species seems to mature faster than human beings and they were able to walk, talk and extent fend for themselves while they were still in their infancy and no larger than the size of a human's hand. They eventually came to be living in the care of a young Australian girl by the name of Olivia. Olivia was herself an orphan, living in an orphanage run by a mean-spirited and exploitative woman called Miss Grudge. Unfortunately for the young Chipettes, Grudge noticed their innate singing abilities and attempted to exploit them to make some bank. Escaping the orphanage, the trio traveled to America as stowaways on a freighter ship, which thankfully ended up in AniCity. For a time, the girls lived on the city streets, working at a variety of menial jobs. But eventually, the trio settled in the city's suburbs where city officials managed to construct for them an elaborate and well-furnished treehouse where they could live on their own. They were also enrolled in the local school system, starting up in Pokey Oaks Kindergarden where they became fast friends with a trio of young heroes around their age, the Powerpuff Girls.

## Notes

The Chipettes being a part of the main cast rather than their male counterparts is mostly due in part to their more dynamic personalities/character arcs, helped by how they had several episodes in the original 80's series overtime centered solely around them with the boys only making very small roles or not appearing at all (to the point where the last episode Ruby-Spears produced for the series doesn't have the Chipmunks themselves in it at all). In the series proper, the three are meant to act as the main cast’s residential bards and tagalong kids rapped into one; something along the lines of a cross between the trio of Katz, Letz & Kitta from the original Mobile Suit Gundam (something even Amuro makes reference to) and Robotech/Macross’s Lynn Minmay.

* In this same vein, their relationship with the Powerpuffs is obviously a stand-in for their aforementioned dynamic with the Munks, but is moreso just so they have their own dedicated group of close friends, which is very much the case for the girls too. In essence, they are meant to take the place of Robin Snyder from the original series, just split in three parts so all each trio has someone in the opposite group to attach to (or argue with in Buttercup and Brittany's case).
* Their inclusion is also partially based off of how the 80's series was featured on several networks in the 90's, including Nickelodeon (which also aired the 2015 reboot), Cartoon Network (which also aired the three feature-length movies based off of the show in their Cartoon Theater), and even Fox Kids for a short time when the block started up.

All three Chipettes' designs are based on how they were presented in the Chipmunk Adventure, though they've been slightly reworked to include the tails and stripes of fur on their faces they had in the 2015 series, as a way to make them look a little more chipmunk-y.

The girls' inclusion in the main adventure of Season 3 is based off of their role in the Chipmunk Adventure as well, what with them going all around the world and such, with the ideas for a couple of the locations (or at least type of locations) that the main cast goes to in the season being based off of the locales seen in the film. Plus, it helps make way for some good character develpoment.

BTW, for those not in the know, the "orphans from Austrailia" backstory is **not** from a fanfiction or whatever. That is their legitimate backstory in the 1980's series.