Susie

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• The Bubblegum Spider (title)

• Susie (universal nickname)

• Kiddo (Alex)

• M'lady (Paul)

• Stephanie Pastel (younger sister)

• Ander Pastel (uncle)

• Vale Pastel (aunt; deceased)

• Tobirth Pastel (grandfather; deceased)

• Lilith Pastel (grandmother; deceased)

• Agnew Pastel (great grandfather; deceased)

• Grim Susie (past-life; deceased)

• Fashion Designer

> *"Introducing a Princess as pretty as a flower! With elegant kicks that are as deadly as a thorn! WE... ARE SUSIE!! Let the show commence!"*
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> - Susie

Princess Susan A. Pastel, or better known as Susie, is the pink haired fashion designer. She is part of the Pastel Royal Family, being the oldest daughter of Prince Alex and Princess Tiff Pastel and being the older sister of Stephanie Pastel. She is also the niece of the King of the Western Land of Justice, King Ander Pastel, the cousin of Huella Pastel and finally, she is the living reincarnation of Grim Susie that was foretold by Grim herself before her death at the hands of Frewil. She is a Year 11 student at Alexander High and she also works part time as both a tailor and a hairdresser at her mother's boutique. She specialises in her Webs and Aranea Draco abilities. While also making use of Grim to fight alongside her.

## **Appearance**

Unlike her past-life, Susie is notably short. This is mainly because she has dwarfism. Despite this, she has a perfectly healthy body that takes after her mother. Like all aranea dracos, she has 4 eyes, pure white skin, fangs that stick out of her mouth, dragon scales on her stomach (that's normally covered up by her jumper) and retractable wings. Due to her hair being pink, her blood is pink thanks to her aranea draco traits.

The features she shares with her past-life, Grim Susie, is green coloured eyes and pastel pink coloured hair. Her hairstyle is similar to Grim Susie's too; having long strands on each side that point upwards. The rest however, is notably different to Grim's. It's more spiky like her father's hair. She got her hair colour from her mother and her eye colour came from her father; which is a coincidence seeing as Grim has these colours. She also notably has sharp claws; another trait given by her mother.

She mainly aims to look very pretty in appearance and goes for a more unique pastel goth aesthetic; similar to her past life. Due to her love of makeup, she wears a lot of makeup on her face. Notably violet lipstick, thick eyeliner, blush and dark eyeshadow. For attire, she notably wears a handmade hot pink jumper with black accents on the collar and on the bottom, which also features two inverted crosses near the shoulders and two messy stripes near the chest and stomach. This was given and made by her mother and she never stopped wearing it since. She also wears a black flower hair piece resembling a African Violet Flower but coloured black on her head, black fingerless gloves, baggy violet shorts, grey tights and black roller skate boots.

Her casual attire is also her normal attire written above but she sometimes wears a black jacket over it. The jacket features a hot pink upside-down cross symbol alongside the caption "Cute but Deadly" on the back and the sleeves are also coloured the same shade of pink.

When ascended to her Linked Form, her size dramatically increases to Grim's height; that being 4'10". Her clothes don't increase with her so her jumper looks very short on her; exposing her stomach like a crop top. Also as a result, she looks very attractive in this form compared to normal.

## **Personality**

Susie Pastel is a generous, formal and hard-working individual. She notably gets extremely mad when people insult her appearance. This is where she shows her Grim side, since Grim herself became a representation of her true inner self, which kind of explains why she goes into a burst of rage. This is usually a side of Susie she chooses to reject but she learnt to accept who she really is.

Susie starts to show more of her quirky beauty obsessed traits like being a perfectionist, overly dramatic and always caring for how she looks. She tends to be dramatic over a lot of things, which explains her constant posing when trying to intimidate a opponent. Plus, she gets dramatic when something bad happens and needs constant approval from those around her to feel more secure. Her main hobby is knitting clothes and brushing her hair either when she’s in a comfortable position or when her hair gets messy.

She shares a weakness with her past-life and that is being too picky. She prefers to fight using her legs instead of her hands and will never make use of her hands in combat besides zipping around using her webs in general. She is also very picky when it comes to food. Always wanting a well-prepared meal. Her other flaw tends to be her **haematophobia** . She gets scared seeing blood; mainly her own blood or the blood of someone she cares about.

## **Abilities**

NOTE: Most abilities shown here are meant to coincide with Grim. Due to her and Susie being spiritually connected and fighting alongside each other. Her page can be found here.

**Style: Inner Beast User**

### **Deadly Kicks**

Despite being short-stacked, she is very deadly in terms of kicking in combat. She mainly kicks and never uses her hands for punches or slashes. This is because she will quote "get her hands dirty." As a result, her fighting style involves her never using her hands throughout the entirety of combat. This tends to be her weakness if only she wasn't backed up by Grim or when she uses her webs.

### **Acrobatics**

Susie is a exceptionally good at being acrobatic. She can do cartwheels, backflips, splits, handstands, pretty much anything involving acrobatics. This is mainly because she learnt to do these at school and due to her short height, this makes her very agile in combat. She also shows signs of ballerina and ice skating moves too, which is mostly reflected through her constant poses and use of her roller skates. Combined with her strong kicks and arsenal of webs, her fighting style resembles that of a offensive and elegant acrobatic stage performance.

### **Aranea Draco Traits**

> *Main Article: Aranea Dracos*
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Due to being a Aranea Draco, she has a lot in her arsenal.

* **Web Generation:** Being a Aranea Draco, she can use webs to her advantage. She fires them from her hands and uses it for her webs, for launching herself forwards like a slingshot and for zipping around. She can also trap people using her webs.
* **Wing Manifestation:** Being a female aranea draco, she can gain access to her wings. She only really uses them for gliding after she slingshots herself with her wings to go in for a kick attack on her opponents or to just to move herself around. When ascended, she uses them for actual flying.
* **Fire Breath:** She can breathe fire pretty effectively. Not as good as her father but it gets the job done. Like with all aranea dracos, her flames are made of arcane energy.

### **Inner Beast**

Due to being connected to her spiritually and quite literally, Susie can use Grim's abilities like having Superhuman Strength, using Violet Dash, using Arcane Spheres and having Mediumship. However, using the Arcane Spheres drains Grim's mana like normal. So yes, she can use Grim's powerful Arcane Spheres but at the cost of a huge amount of mana.

### **Materialized Guardian**

Besides using her own abilities for herself, Susie can literally summon the ghost of Grim to fight alongside her. The downside is that Susie herself cannot use Grim's abilities when she is summoned due to them being weakened. Which can make Susie weaker but in exchange for a helping hand. Grim does most of the punches for Susie, negating that one weakness and due to Grim having more experience with her abilities, she can do a lot of things better than Susie. Due to being a semi-ghost, Susie seems to be the only one who can see Grim, however Mampires like Teapot can see her much better due to Susie's mediumship being weakened when Grim is summoned. If Grim ever gets hit, Susie gets hit too. Which is possible, even if the opponent cannot see her.

### **Ascension:** **Linked Form**

Susie's Ascension. She resonates her energy with Grim to transform. She notably gets bigger; being Grim's literal height. Once transformed, Susie uses her wings more and even uses her fists to fight. Negating her many weaknesses. However, she is much slower in this form.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Susie was born at the Aranea Draco Kingdom a few months after Alex and Tiff got married. She was named after Grim Susie, which is a coincidence seeing as she is her literal reincarnation. Susie lived a happy life with her wealthy family, with her sister, Stephanie Pastel, being born a year later and they both loved each other as siblings. Susie also made her first friend with the Royal Scientist Kako Terrifang's daughter, Helga Terrifang. The two became very close to the point of being the bestest of friends. One day, Susie says to Helga that she wishes to marry her in the future; not knowing the meaning of marriage back then.

During this time, Susie discovers she can see ghosts while other non-mampires can't. She is unaware of how she can do this but it's thanks to this that she gets to interact with her late grandfather, Tobirth Pastel. She can even see him in her family photo. Tobirth gave Susie a lot of advice growing up due to her parents being busy with missions given by her uncle.

Becoming much older, Susie attended the Alexander High School where she reunited with Helga. During her time there, she discovers Grim Susie talking to her. It wasn't until Grim appears and talks to her reincarnated self. It's there where she reveals to Susie that she is factually Grim's reincarnation and that her abilities are shared with her. The both of them befriend each other and Susie gives Grim Susie the nickname "Grim"; due to both of them factually being referred to as "Susie".

During this time, Susie works part time at her mother's boutique alongside her younger sister. Even during summer vacation.

## **Relationships**

### **Alex and Tiff Pastel**

Alex and Tiff are Susie's loving parents. She sadly doesn't interact with them much due to them being busy with missions given by her uncle; resulting in her being babysat by Paul Williams, Ander's butler. Up until she becomes a teenager who can take care of herself and her younger sister. She takes a lot from her mother with her obsession over beauty and she sometimes says "Aight" like her father.

### **Stephanie Pastel**

Stephanie is Susie's beloved younger sister. During times when Alex and TIff are out, she babysits her sister and she gets help from her when it came to the boutique. Susie sometimes gets jealous that her literal younger sister is taller than her but she still loves her. Susie is older than her by 1 year.

### **King Ander Pastel**

Susie has a decent relationship with her uncle. However, she questions his choices like making Helga's mother, Kako, take care of the concealed Frewil; which resulted in his freedom and making Kako his vessel. Due to being a aranea draco and being part of his family, Ander cares for Susie's safety.

### **Paul Williams**

Susie has a nice relationship with the royal butler himself. Alongside Ander, Paul babysat Susie and Stephanie when they were young during times when Alex and Tiff went out on a mission. As a teenager, Susie respects Paul for taking care of her and Stephanie.

### **Tobirth Pastel**

Susie never got to meet her grandfather due to being dead but when she discovered her mediumship powers, she's able to talk to him. The ghost of Tobirth was always Susie's word of advice and he would always tell her stories. She still talks to him nowadays.

### **Helga Terrifang**

Helga is Susie's closest friend and she would later become her lover during high school years. This was mainly because of what Susie said about marrying her despite not knowing the meaning of marriage back then. Susie cares for Helga a lot. She wants to help her get her mother back from Frewil and she was the first person Helga confesses to about her melancholy thoughts on the matter; since she's been hiding it towards others. Susie and Helga never really kissed each other until Helga confesses her melancholy thoughts to her in a attempt to cheer her up.

### **Kakolyn Terrifang**

Susie is well acquainted with the royal scientist. Mainly because she's very close friends with her daughter. And like her daughter, Susie vows to save her from Frewil.

### **Grim Susie**

Being her past life, Grim is a important figure to Susie. She doesn't really like how rude she can be and she questions why she is the reincarnation of her. But despite that, Grim acts like Susie's guardian in terms of defending her.

### **Teapot**

Susie meets Teapot when she was saved by her during a confrontation with Evelyn. She becomes friends with her later on and she even introduces Helga to her. Susie thinks Teapot is a great person who can cheer people up and it's thanks to her that she thinks Mampires aren't all that bad. Susie is unaware that she is logically a part of her family; preferably her second cousin-in-law. The only time she would get this confirmation is when Huella returns.

### **Evelyn**

Susie meets the gluttonous warlock during her way back home at the start of Summer Vacation. She later becomes aware that her grandfather was killed by her which leads to her meeting Evelyn again and this time, to fight her. Susie thinks that her endless desire to devour her victims is disgusting and she was willing to set her grandfather free from his unfinished business with the gluttonous cyberimp.

### **Frewil**

Susie first meets Frewil when she was with Teapot and Helga. It's there where Susie discovers that he copied her abilities; as well as Teapot's. Susie despises Frewil a lot. Mainly because of him using Kako as his vessel and the countless sins he has done.

## **Trivia**

* Susie, funnily enough, was formerly named after Creepy Susie from the book “Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children” made by Angus Oblong; as well as the animated series “The Oblongs”. This is suiting since Susie is a goth girl, mainly a pastel goth. Besides that, it’s more of a cute name for her. However, her name has a major meaning. Susie is merely a nickname for her. Her actual name is Susan and this namesake relates to the name “Shoshana” which is of Hebrew origin meaning “lily”, “rose” or just flowers in general. Which suits; seeing as, besides spiders, Susie is involved with flowers a lot. Similar to the dragon gods.
	+ In canon, she’s named after Grim Susie due to Tiff being a fan of her. Susan is factually a variant of Grim Susie’s actual name “Susannah” so this suits greatly.
	+ Her last name Pastel, is after the type of colours that Aranea Dracos bare with their hair and blood. Like with the namesakes for some aranea dracos, It also serves as a colour pun.
	+ Her middle name, Amethyst, refers to her birthstone.
* Susie was originally designed during one of Con Air's holidays before he even started college. So, she is factually one of the EARLIEST original character he ever made. She originally had a body similarly to Arachne from Greek mythology with how she’s usually portrayed; having a normal body but her lower body has a spider appearance. This was changed because it was hard for Con Air to draw that entire body.
	+ She later got a more human-like body but her eyes were different. Alongside some other Aranea Dracos, her eyes were originally just ovals; resembling cartoon eyes. This was changed to give her and the other Aranea Dracos more personality. She also originally wore normal black boots, blue shorts and lacked the flower on her head.
	+ There has been several issues and errors where Con Air would not make Susie's height the intended way during his traditional art days. Usually she is canonically 3'07" in her normal form. Even during development, she was at least 3 foot, with her inches changing a lot. There are traditional art pieces that depict her looking around Tangerine's height and this is most commonly seen in her early sketch (See Gallery Below). This was until Con Air decided to base her short stature off of Yordles from League of Legends. Preferably Poppy.
* Her likes consists of:
	+ Strawberries
	+ Donuts
	+ Shopping
	+ Everything Tidy
	+ Beauty
	+ Different aesthetics (mainly gothic)
	+ Makeup
	+ Braiding Hair
	+ Posing
* Her dislikes consists of:
	+ The unknown
	+ Dirt
	+ Getting Wet
	+ Her short stature
	+ People insulting her appearance (mainly her hair)
	+ Grim being rude
	+ Seeing her own blood or blood of those she cares about
* Her spider aesthetic was inspired by Muffet from the game Undertale. The way she speaks and expresses herself sometimes is like how Muffet speaks too.
* She was always intended to be a pastel goth. Starting when she was given her last name during development. In fact, besides being a colour reference, the name pastel came from pastel goths. It was until her recent change where she was designed to aim more for a rather unique pastel goth aesthetic. Unique because she is a innocent yet dramatic person and pastel goths typically wear things that might make them seem harsh, such as spike accessories or offensive text on their shirts. The only thing Susie has that might seem this way is the inverted crosses on her shoulders but this is typically the aesthetic icon for goths in general. Con Air made her into a pastel goth due to him loving the aesthetic.
* It's somewhat obvious that Susie takes a lot from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. With how Grim acts like a stand to her and how she poses dramatically to intimidate her opponents. Well believe or not, these two traits are not just to make a JoJo reference.
	+ Grim being called Susie's "true inner self" is based on the concept used in the game Persona 4. With how each of the main character's personas represent their true inner selves. There were plans for Susie to not accept her true self at first and Grim would turn into a nightmarish version of Susie herself. But this was changed due to it seeming very similar to Persona 4 with the shadow selves.
	+ As for her posing, it's based on spiders, preferably tarantulas, going into a defensive stance used as a warning for their potential predators. Compared to her father who uses more of his draconic side, Susie acts and feels more like a spider. Being rather small, using her webs a lot and doing the after-mentioned posing as a defensive stance. Hence her title "The Bubblegum spider".
* In her chibi example render, her pose is referencing the famous pose of Jonathan Joestar from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
* As time progressed, her hair started to resemble that of famous actress Marilyn Monroe's hair but more spikey due to genetics given by her father. In fact, some of the poses she does references her.
* According to her father, she would of had the name "Steven" if she were to be born as a boy. Alex even states that he wished he had a son but is completely happy with having two daughters.
* If she were to have a way to transform into her ascension, Con Air imagines her transforming into it like in most Magical Girl Anime. The prime examples being Sailor Moon and Powerpuff Girls Z.

## **Gallery**

Susie's Default RenderSusie's Chibi Example RenderSusie's Early SketchSusie's Early Ascension SketchSusie's Early RenderSusie's Character Select RenderSusie's Versus RenderSusie's Reference SheetSusie featured in the Pastel/Purge family tree