Ringo Andou

~ the intelligent apple-side up ~

A curious, but quirky and down-to-earth redhead, **Ringo Andou** is one of the notable citizens of Suzuran, Japan. She is known as member of the Physics Club, an is the daughter of the Andou Family, the founders of AndouFresh.

**ORIGINAL CANON INFO ABOUT HER:** https://puyonexus.com/wiki/Ringo\_Ando

## Bio and Info

### Role(s) in the DEKAverse

Being one of the top students of Higure University, Ringo is pretty smart for an average human at her age. She is much down-to-earth than the earlier two mages, yet somewhat curious, and a bit weird insanely, but is also a pretty good singer.

In spite of other things, she's also known to enjoy maho shojo since her childhood.

She lives in Suzuran, an exclusive city in Japan, in which her family, specifically her grandparents as well, owns the Andou Family Fresh Produce—alternatively named AndouFresh, a fresh produce business, **mainly based on apples**, hence her name.

### Backstory

Nothing abnormal was happening since her early life, as she was going standard and normal as a child. Her mother was a fresh product seller, and her father is a stargazer. She lived with them alongside with her grandmother, who is very good at telling stories; therefore, many personal years have passed much in an average way...

As a kid in an elementary, she simply saw something sparkle in the night sky… hoping if anything could be alright. Inconsistent, it takes place here, in offer of the “birth” of a mysterious space creature.

She attended Higure University, as she met her childhood friend Maguro. She was told to be in the Physics Club, as she responded “yes” to it, which seemed better in her life.

After meeting a bunch of friends exclusively, she realized of expecting a mysterious morphing figure, after noticing a sparkle in the sky years ago, going by the name of Ecolo. However, she told him to be kept a secret to be friends with him until shit goes harder...

### Abilities

Even though she isn’t a(n) (elemental) mage like the first 2 protagonists, **she mainly focuses on electric based magic,** as most of her spells are of this via mathematical terms**,** generating Fleming's right-hand rule at most of those.

Her signature(?) spell, Permutation, could be similar to Bayoen, which is also related to flowers, but not much information of that spell has been added up. For Integral, she uses her book to whack her opponent.

Besides her “magic”, she also has **a higher IQ** and **advanced vision (20/4)**, as mentioned in general.

### General debuts

Taking role as the third main protagonist of the franchise, Ringo makes her first debut in 7, which was released in 2009; that was after many concepts and the Project Ringo teasers specifically.

Like the respectful franchise’s other SEGA-era characters, she never made debuts in the COMPILE era due to the similar reasons.

## Appearance / Design

She is a green-eyed redhead with light skin, her hair resulting in a longer length; she even has two ahoge (nihon), one long and one short, resembling the stem and leaf.

For her main hairstyle, her hair is donned into 2 lower pigtail curls, resembling curly apple peels.

Specifically, she’s known to have red, yellow, and / or green in her appearance, which represent the main colors of apples.

### Main attire

#### Major casual

Retaining her green expressive Puyo hairclip, alongside with an extra silver hairclip, Ringo dons a white collared shirt, a red skirt, and pale blue thigh-high socks, the latter two parts detailed with white strips.

Over them is a greenish-grey hooded cardigan with a yellow diamond pattern and pale blue accents, and red high-tops with white heels, given a little yellow detail. Her shirt even has a purple ribbon tied to it.

As some inspection, her skirt and collared shirt are a bit oversized compared to her height in depiction.

#### Minor casual (Touch basis)

Retaining her collared shirt and ribbon, alongside with her hair accessories and skirt, she instead wears a sleeveless dark gray vest, short pale blue socks, and buttoned boots that match her vest.

She also includes a white arm band with a red trim, which is mostly worn on her right wrist, alongside with a brown pouch surrounded by its red strap around the waist.

## Relationships

### Main franchise relationships

#### Andou Family

Although the Andous are mostly known for their fresh produce company, some of her relatives partially focus on astrology likewise.

##### Saburo Andou

The father of Ringo and third son of her grandparents; he is known for stargazing as his hobby.

##### Kotone Andou (Au Hayashi)†

The mother of Ringo; she was known for being a fresh produce seller. As of suffering from upcoming heart failure later on in her 40's, she took retirement instantly before she slowly died of a stroke. Resulting this, Kotone's brother took her role as a seller for their fresh produce store.

##### Masaru Hayashi

Kotone's brother and Ringo's uncle, known to take current role as a fresh produce seller.

#### Amitie Taiyo

A wonderful beginner sorceress born and raised from the heavens. They eventually got along as much eventually after a friendly meet-up in Suzuran.

#### Arle Nadja

Tomboyish mage in blue. They first met when Arle taught Ringo to get rid of Puyo via the Owanimo spell.

#### Maguro Sasaki

Mentioned as the most skilled student in Higure U with a handsome streak in his eyes. The fishmonger’s son and the quirky redhead met and became friends since childhood.

#### Eliza Kankitsurui, Hotaru Uchiyama, and Marigold Honoka

A swift runner, a “lazy” flautist, and a shy florist; Ringo’s friendly newcomers of Suzuran and Higure U.

## Notes / Trivia

* To some or most Puyo Puyo fans, **Ringo is actually based on food**; due to the colors, her hairstyle, and even the signature apple she mostly carries, **she is mainly based on apples**.
	+ Instantly, she could be based out of the Gala type.
	+ That might also mean that **Maguro is based on tuna**.
* Based out of her Deka form, her design is based out of her Tet1 debut.
	+ However, in concepts of 7, **Ringo was planned to be a magical girl**, which happened in the release finally. That idea was scrapped off since 20th Anniversary.
* Ringo, in concept, **was supposed to have two blue and yellow magical girl companions**, but was scrapped away during 7’s release as Maguro and Risukuma, realizing that there’s already enough female characters to play as in the game.
	+ The scrapped companions were reintroduced as separate characters in the creator's fan-lore, including DEKA. But there is also another one that's unique and that is Eliza.
* Compared with her OG counterpart, she no longer has phasmophobia—a fear of ghosts, apart from the twins Yu and Rei.

## Gallery

* Digital media
* Traditional media
* Disowned / Outdated / Concept media

Ringo performing Sine(Alt. variant)(Pi Day / 3.14)

She and Eliza butt-bumping

(traditional) Instant full-body doodle of Ringo(digital)