Piku

**Piku**, also known as "**The Beast**", is the protagonist of the story mode of *Pikuniku*. They is also one of two protagonists (alongside Niku) of the co-op mode.

## General

Piku is a red bean creature with two black eyes and two relatively long legs. They can walk, jump, and swim, as well as retract their legs into their body to quickly roll on land or sink in water. Piku can also kick, which is more often useful for moving objects around than for attacking other characters. Piku's legs are extendable, seen in their ability to grapple on hooks.

Piku can alter their appearance, and sometimes abilities, by wearing various hats, such as the X-Ray Glasses, Pencil Hat, and Flower Hat. These hats are received from other characters either as gifts or through purchase. Some hats grant abilities that are necessary to complete the game, while others are simply for fun. There's a quest to give Piku some arms, in case you thought they were missing something.

## Personality

Piku is, overall, a kind and helpful character. Over the course of the game, They help anyone they encounter who is in need of help, usually for no reward. When they make a mistake, they set out to fix it. Other characters feel comfortable trusting Piku even after only a few minutes of meeting them.

As Piku is a player-controlled character, the player can make them behave rudely if so desired. This includes kicking other characters, annoying them, or destroying Sam the Slime's potteries, which saddens the slime. This does not have any ultimate effect on character interactions, however. The most notable instance of Piku being rude in the story is when they kick the spider across the chasm near the mountain village, and even then, this is done not out of malice, but to help fix the village's bridge.

Piku is on bad terms with Mr. Sunshine and his robots, as Piku helps the The Rebels foil Mr. Sunshine's plans. After Piku defeats Mr. Sunshine, they are on good terms with the robots, who no longer have to obey their boss. Piku is also disliked by the store owner in the valley, who has a grudge against them simply for not truly being a beast, thus ruining the store owner's plans of selling beast-themed merchandise.

## Story

Before the events of the game, Piku had been sleeping in a cave near the valley, for an unknown period of time. The nearby villagers were aware that some sort of creature inhabited the cave, but believed it to be a dangerous beast. Upon waking up, Piku meets the Ghost, who greets them and guides them out of the cave after teaching them how to kick things and use mushrooms to bounce.

Piku ventures to the nearby village, accidentally breaking the bridge along the way. Once they arrive, the villagers react with fear at the sight of "The Beast". They capture Piku in a cage, placed in the center of town, where they quickly realize they are not much of a threat at all, and let them go, as long as they fix the broken bridge. When Piku goes over to the broken bridge, a spider is found in the tree. Piku kicks the spider at the other part of the broken bridge and the spider's web fixed the bridge. The spider is unhappy at being kicked and said "DON'T DO THAT EVER AGAIN!". Piku walks past the fixed bridge, back to the village. A villager comes up and thanks you for fixing it. After, Piku is told the painter is having trouble and to visit them. When Piku goes to the painter's house, the painter is exhausted and said they weren't a good painter, because the scarecrow's face was supposed to scare the birds but the birds aren't fazed by it. As well as this, the painter lost their pencil and asks Piku to find it in the basement. After stacking a box and clicking the button to get another on top, they jump up and get the pencil top. After going back and putting it on their head, Piku can now draw a new scarecrow, which, as long as it isn't empty, will scare birds. They then travel to a Forest village, and are requested to beat the robot out of the village. (to be continued please fix the spelling{fixed, reworded and made more detailed by SkolusPiku[more minor mistakes fixed, added arms, added forest village bit]})