Ringo Ando

## Voices

Ringo Ando is the main protagonist of Puyo Puyo 7 and the main protagonist (Puyo Puyo side only) of Puyo Puyo Tetris and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 along with a few other characters. She exists in yet another different universe to Arle and Amitie, and is taught how to play Puyo by Arle when her school is flooded with Puyo. Ringo is more down-to-earth than Arle and Amitie, is quite an intellectual person, but her curiosity does make her question many things, including, but not limited to the quirks of the game of Puyo Puyo. She is not above being weird herself, being known to spontaneously sing in the moment with improvised lyrics. She resides in the town of Suzuran and her home is located in Ando Family Fresh Produce, a family business at the town's shopping district. She is incredibly afraid of ghosts, reason being that they're "unscientific beings.", or simply not real. But the real reason why is because of her listening to her grandmother's ghost stories.

## Appearance

Ringo throughout all appearances is a young girl with green eyes and red hair with two ponytail curls. Her hair is decorated with a green Puyo clip on her right bang, which on occasion changes expressions. Her appearance changes between games, but her most common attire is a yellow sweater vest and a white shirt decorated with a short tie, red skirt with white rims, a red and green wristband, blue thigh high socks, and red and white boots or high-tops. In Puyo Puyo 7, she had the school blazer instead of the vest; and in Puyo Puyo Tetris, she wore a gray sweater with a yellow diamond trim and loose white socks, but Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 has Ringo's normal look. She also has a Space Channel 5-inspired singer costume that leaves her belly exposed.

## Personality

Ringo is the most logical headed of all the characters, trying to think of solutions to problems and likewise tends to be curious about learning and experimenting. Once even in *Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary*, she questions why Puyo pop when you connect 4. Because she's the one that normally points out the holes in logic, she tends to get angry or terrified when she quickly realizes things aren't right, or don't have a scientific explaination. Again, this goes as far as even questioning the very nature of the *Puyo Puyo* series itself, like why characters resolve everything with a Puyo Puyo match. Her smarts even occasionally causes a quirk where she replaces certain words with math terminology. However she can have a cheery disposition otherwise, even occasionally singing blissfully.

In her childhood days, she developed an immense fear of ghosts from listening to her grandmother's ghost stories. To her, she believes they're too unscientific to understand, further amplifying her fear of them. (She is also afraid of Yu and Rei, because they are indeed ghosts.) The mere presence of them is enough to make her scream in terror.

A running gag is her "shock" expressions. Whenever something particularly baffling or horrifying happens, Ringo will express it with blank white eyes, a wide open mouth, her ponytail curls straightening out, and a rougher outline than normal. She will also throw her arms away and may jump back.