Paruko Mitubari

"*When I grow up, I wanna be a cyclist. No, I want to be a biker girl. I want to be as cool as possible, to breathe in the fresh air of my new, fun home.*"

**Paruko Mitubari** (Pinogunian: **三針春子**, **みつばり はるこ**; Bujanski: **Паруко Мітубарі**) is a young woman from Pinoguni.

## Nicknames

* Chav
* Chavvie
* Paru, Pako
* Paro (she likes that name more, because it sounds more "heroic" and "boyish")
* Vrooms
	+ In Bujanski, this is Vizhomja.
	+ A more insulting and irritating form of this nickname that she *really* dislikes is "Vrumka".
* Cycles
* Kolossja ("Miss Wheels")
* Wheels
* Mrs. Normal
* Normie
* Mrs. Average
* Greens
* Damarochka
	+ From one word in her native language that she uses frequently, "黙れ" (dama-re), which means "shut up!"
	+ Translated in Bujanski as "Molchatka", meaning "Miss Shut Up".

## Appearance

Paruko usually wears a dark green blouse with either a skirt or trousers. When she works in the laboratory, she wears a white lab coat.

Her hairstyle tends to vary according to her current mood: sometimes she cuts her hair short, sometimes she leaves it long, and sometimes she ties her hair in a ponytail.

## History

Paruko's mother and father were from the capital city of Subaremija, having been assigned to Bujan to study more and collaborate in research projects about alien technology. Her Mitubari family was from the northerly town of Niwabetu, a fishing town. When she was an eight-year-old girl, she learned cussing from watching angry hooligans down the street from her car along the way home from school.

This was how she ended up at the junior sections of the Royal Institution of Ancient Technology after Standard Six, later than Radumo and her classmates - but it allowed her to enjoy the fun of being a child, from sleepovers to trips to the cinema and arcades.

She pitied Radumo as she noticed that the latter was very unhappy at how her friends bullied her for not being too obsessed with schoolwork, and decided to be her best friend. Both girls went together as a duo on trips to their favourite places in the city.

At one incident, Paruko and Radumo were kicked out of a formal girl's club because both of them were involved in cycling races, which were considered "un-ladylike". Both of them laughed off the scolding and went on to join a cycling club - it was ultimately Paruko who introduced her pink friend to the world of bicycles and race tracks, as a relief from her academic pressure.

Both girls and Tavatagus stopped a Voidgate from leaking a dimensional storm, saving their homeworld from possible destruction. For that, the three youths and their associates were given a choice on a set of big rewards. Paruko chose to keep a bit of the prize money and a place at Djaripol's branch, so she can follow her best friend Radumo in their new life. That was how she met Paxoti, Radumo's mischievous and vulgar new friend.

On the next year, Paruko and Paxoti trained Radumo to fight back and defend herself, as her pink friend and her were assigned to a dangerous arctic base.

## Personality

Paruko likes to learn about new things, but she also likes to help her friends. She is also outgoing and headstrong.

### Interests

Paruko likes reading books and cycling with her siblings. She admires cyclists and emulates biker gangs.

Sometimes she gets into fistfights with other tomboys, which may be why Paxoti likes her.

Her dream is to be a motorcycle racer, and perhaps to win one of Bujan's racing championships - in the one that is more well-known among women bikers. She does not care if she might be surrounded by stocky, angry blonde contestants swearing at her, for she looks forward for the thrill of the ride and the fame it will bring.

She is a fan of action movies, especially those involving racing cars, "drifts", and urban sceneries from across the globe.

### Dislikes

"*The hell is this?* A####l b###t, *this fairy outfit is garbage! I will bash the face of whoever who puts me into this filth! Get back here!*"

Paruko hates hair dye, excessive femininity, and fashion. She wants to look as average as possible.

She does not like noisy people or excessive displays, such as Paxoti cheering during her favourite movie or at a sports match.

Paruko HATES "magical girls", a sort of cartoon where young girls dress up in schoolwear or skirts to shoot beams and dance with their magic wands. She thinks those are extremely annoying, which fuels her tomboyish hobbies to avoid being associated with them. Thankfully for her, they are no longer popular in modern Pinoguni, as most people there are being influenced by Ardeschen and Bujanski pop culture. If she happened to get dressed in a magical girl uniform, she will become extremely angry, yelling in various curses in Bujanski.

She also hates "school girl" tropes due to them being too repetitive, boring, and dismissive.

## Relationships

She is the eldest child of her family, and she has a younger sister and brother.

She and Radumo are colleagues who studied in the same class, but she is more relaxed. She and Radumo were friends since their childhood, when she tried to support her when she was sad and afraid. Sometimes, she invites Radumo to look at cherry trees or dance with her, only to be very upset when Radumo just stares at the flowers, and then trying to whack her back to her senses. Both women also like cycling and racing, which caused both of them to get kicked out of a ladies' club and to join a cycling club afterwards.

She and Paxoti gets along because of their boyish interests, such as sports and boxing. However, she does not like Paxoti's rude behaviour, and Paxoti dislikes her tolerance of feminine things. Still, both women sometimes spar, do fistfights, and go to the gym, with Paxoti usually beating her due to the former being stronger than a normal human.

Her other friends include Kojuki, Matuko, Amaja, and Tidöse, foreign exchange students from her homeland. Kojuki likes gardening, Matuko likes motorcycling, Amaja likes algebra and v-logs, and Tidöse likes hairdressing. Sometimes Paruko and Matuko challenge each other in cycling races, whether in real life or within arcade machines.

In 1958 AT, two years after she moved to Djaripol, Paruko fell in love with a handsome young lad of Pinogunian descent who also moved there. Like her, he was also a fan of motorcycles and biking, who works in a mechanic's store.

## Gallery

### Canon

Every month, Paruko follows her friends to pay respects to the kingdom's gods.Paruko once accepted Paxo's offer to watch her favourite movie, "Violence at Orkisk". Too bad this gruesome monstrosity offered absolutely no artistic value, nothing but a dull splatterfest.Paruko and Radumo in the Royal Palace. They are dressed in princesses' robes, befitting proper people. Needless to say, Paruko hates such an extravagant outfit.Paruko sometimes cusses, especially when her bicycle is broken. "Сказочный долбоёб...""When I grow up, I want to be a motorcycle champion."Paruko wanted to make sure Radumo will not die from the coming raids in their assignment. So she and Paxoti trained her to fight and defend herself, like a soldier. In the arctic base, the two students can use the boxes as barricades to avoid Wannaenid shots.Fanart by @Pixie\_GurlzParuko and Radumo like to race on bicycles.In Pinogunian school uniform. But Paruko dislikes it for making her look too immature.In her adulthood, Paruko had mastered many tricks, allowing her to soar across distances with her bicycle.
### Non-canon

Paruko thinks that being a rusalka (mermaid) is rather weird. No one around her ever had any fish tails for legs!There are five outfits Paruko HATES very much: magical girl, kimono, schoolgirl, punk, and diva. They look childish or "abnormal", making her look less like a typical everyperson down the street. Which makes her extremely furious.
## Trivia

* Paruko was perhaps inspired by anime protagonists and Hanako the ghost. The author made her more tomboyish (as in liking cycling and bikers) because he wanted her to be less "stereotypical".
	+ If she were "stereotypical", Paruko might be a shy, subservient maiden who always wears a kimono; who overworks herself; or some anime schoolgirl. The author just thinks it is boring.
	+ So the author instead made her an outgoing and fun-loving tomboy biker who just finds her own way in life. She wears typical Bujanski clothing, a wardrobe of Victorian (formal, everyday), 1950's (casual), and some modern London-style attire (very casual, when she hangs around with her buddies); ultimately depending on where she is right now.
	+ Aside from not being too feminine, she may be the opposite of Radumo in the sense that she *hates* overworking and some of her school subjects, more than the latter. But her parents, knowing that she may study better at her own pace, let her be. After reading about what Radumo and her brother suffered under, they used that as an explanation on why they let their kids have more freedom, so they can achieve more when they are happier.
	+ Instead of being a scientist like her parents (as Radumo is), she wants to be a motorcycle racer.
		- To be fair, Bujan has a women's motorcycle race championship, mostly attended by urban ladies and girls. Sometimes Paruko dreams of winning a gold medal from one of its races. Most likely, she just loves the adrenaline from cruising on a motorcycle.
* Her name means "child of spring" (春子, haru-ko).
	+ In proper Japanese, her name would be "Mitsubari Haruko" (三針春子). "Mitsubari" is her family's name, so it should be first in proper native order.
* Paruko is Buddhist, the same religion as Altansarnai, but of a different form. Nonetheless, she also follows her friends to pray at Rodnover and Hindu temples when invited.
* The author sometimes imagines that Paruko (and other Pinogunian characters) would also speak in a British accent, similar to the Bujanski and the Heronoi, because the society of the three countries tend to lean towards "formality".
* The author also wanted Paruko to be the most "normal" or "average" of her trio, a moderate degree between Radumo's princess lifestyle and Paxoti's vulgar mentality.
* Her friends sometimes called her a "Prydaineg chav" because of her outfits and her love of motorcycles.
* Pajato's family is of partial Misibase descent, so sometimes she says a few old, obscure words in her dialect.
	+ Usually modern Pinogunians are sometimes mocked as unskilled and uncreative by the local Pinogunian workshop guilds. Paruko was more respectful, making friends and learning to fix bikes and carve wood. Her skills helped her in her work as an engineer, and she even thanked some of her friends from that community for teaching her those skills.
	+ As an immigrant to Bujan, she and her parents were also taught the Namirian language, the speech of the native Pinogunians of Bujan. Her father and mother became translators between the people from her country and in Bujan, as both forms of the same language became so different due to millennia of Wonao influence.
* Paruko's favourite word is "dolbojob", a strong curse word in Bujanski that means "you stupid fool". She cusses a lot, like Paxoti, having learned to cuss at the age of 8 from watching hooligans at the street on the way home from school.
	+ Another word she utters a lot is "kurwa", from the Baniorelese language. A third curse word she often uses, especially when upset, is "akhojel".

* Paruko sometimes slips some words in her native language while speaking in Bujanski, and vice versa when speaking in Pinogunian.