Rulue

**Rulue** (ルルー, *Rurū*) is Arle's rival and is a powerful martial artist. She's madly in love with Satan, which means she'll pretty much do anything he says. Most of those orders involve hassling Arle, which Rulue has no problem with given that she's jealous of Arle's magical powers. Her servant is a huge minotaur, despite having substantial amount of physical ability to defend herself.

## Description

### Appearance

Generally, Rulue is an adult with long blue hair that reaches to her waist and turquoise eyes. A recurring feature of Rulue is she wears jewelry, commonly a necklace, bracelets, and anklets, that go through design changes between games. Starting with *Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary*, she would also start wearing earrings, choker, and belt. The attire she wears varies between games, but in older games she commonly wore a type of strapless dress held together by a yellow sash around her waist that emphasizes white colors. *Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary* and *Puyo Puyo 7* would have a variant of the design that separates the top and bottom giving the impression of a long skirt and midriff, while from *Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary* onward she instead wears what appears to be a mini dress and a long vest/jacket strapped on top of it. In earlier games she lacked any footwear, but from *Puyo Puyo~n* onwards she would start wearing sandals.

### Personality

True to her self-proclaimed title of Fighting Queen, she tries to have a sense of finesse yet assertion towards others, often trying to assert herself while trying to keep a calm dignified tone. However she also tends to be selfish with her goals, which often causes her to lose her temper when things don't go her way. For example she tends to get jealous if anyone tries to "take" Satan from her, and will start getting agitated if her appearance or title is ignored or mocked. This sometimes causes her to preform antagonistic acts, for example in *Madou Monogatari III* Rulue making Minotaur drive Arle into the forest because of her being upset that Satan wants Arle. Although normally capable herself, she prefers others like Minotaur to do her dirty work. She's also somewhat of a poser, not being afraid to show off her body towards others.

## Trivia

* Rulue is replaced by Scratch in *Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine* and Meta Knight in *Kirby's Avalanche*.
* Rulue is the only character from the first *Puyo Puyo* that lacks a vocal phrase. This may be related to the fact that she is not battled in the PC-98 version of *Madou Monogatari 123*.
* Rulue is one of three characters to switch voice actors between the Saturn and N64 versions of *Sun*. The others are Skeleton-T and Incubus.
* According to the manual in *Puyo Puyo DA!*, her favorite food is beef, which bothers Minotauros.
	+ This fact is later referenced again in *Puyo Puyo!! Quest* in an official Rulue-themed spoof of the main menu for April Fools 2017, where the Single-player Quest menu button is changed to read "Eat Beef and Train" (ぎゅうにくをたべてとっくん, ***"Eat Beef and Train"***).
* Rulue is the only character besides Schezo or Klug to have a unique henshin animation in *Puyo Puyo 7*; her second mini/chibi animation is different from it's counterpart in normal and deka. Rulue is also the only one of two characters whom didn't have an outfit change for the game, the other being Lemres. Her chibi outfit, was also recycled from *Rulue's Spring Break*.
* Raffina in *Puyo Puyo Fever* draws many parallels to Rulue, most prominently in both being rivals to the main character and excelling in physical techniques rather than magical abilities.
	+ The two become friends in later media including *20th Anniversary* and select Drama CD scenarios.
* Alternate Voice notes:
	+ In *Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary*, she sounds drowsy.
	+ In *Puyo Puyo Tetris* (both Japanese and English versions), the nuances on her lines become weaker and she sounds quiet.
	+ In *Puyo Puyo Chronicle*, she has overall soft voice.
	+ In *Puyo Puyo Tetris 2*, her voice becomes significantly deeper that almost sounds like male. She shares this motif with Ally.
		- In the English version, most of her alternate voice clips are reused from the original *Puyo Puyo Tetris*, and her new voice clips retain the same tone.
* The intro of *Madou Monogatari: ARS* associates each of its three main characters with a type of flower. Rulue's flower is the rose. This association could later be seen in places such as her cutscene in *Puyo Puyo Tsu Ketteiban, and* Puyo Puyo!! Quest's *Gorgeous Rulue card.*