Sucré LePerdu

Sucré LePerdu, or Sucre, is a character in Broccoli Soup. She is a mermaid who lives in one of the snowglobe worlds with her mother.

## Appearance and Personality

Sucre is a young axolotl-based mermaid with blue skin, about Broccoli's height. She has a square face with wide, pointy eyes and round darkened cheeks. Her "hair" is formed by extremities similar to axolotl gills, and her fingers are webbed. She is able to transform in water such that her legs become a tail in water; her tail is marked with a wavy pattern of dark red. Her skin, even in humanoid form, is marked with an irregular pattern of dark blue. In the Everything Store, she wears a police hat with a black rim, a blue sweater depicting a bean, and shorts. When playing in her fort, she wears a princess costume. In her home dimension, she is seen wearing a dark tank top with shorts or a black two-piece swimsuit with a skirt that accounts for her tail.

Sucre is an energetic girl who loves comic books, candy, stuffed toys, and drawing. She is silly and eager, but extremely lonely after being left alone at the Everything Store for years. She has given up on finding her mother, and blames Siren the Cornflake Bear for her predicament, but forgives it when she reunites with her mother. She has a crush on the Space Princess from her comic books. She is Broccoli's good friend. She is amused by Waffles's "evil", saying his behavior is normal for cats, and upon meeting Student, she seems mildly afraid of her.

## Attributes & Abilities

Sucre lived alone in the Everything Store for years, and "knows the aisles like the back of her hand". She's able to guide Broccoli and Waffles through the infinite expanse of the store to find the ingredients they need. She has a greater resilience for eating excessive sugar than Broccoli.

In water, she transforms out of her humanoid form, her legs fusing into a mermaid tail. In this form, she can breathe and speak underwater. She cannot understand Doris's language, which Broccoli and Waffles sometimes unknowingly use to speak to each other.

Sucre has a flashlight and a conch shell that she can use to contact Broccoli, even across dimensions.

## Biography/History

When Sucre was a child, she visited the Everything Store with her mother. Her mother told her to "stay in the cart", but she was enthralled by the Cornflake Bears and listened to their song for hours. When she came to herself, her mother was gone. She searched for her mother, but was never able to find her or the front of the store.

Since then, every day at 6pm, the intercom has called for Sucre to come to the front of the store; Sucre ignores it, believing it's a recording and her mother is long gone. In her years in the Everything Store, Sucre has made herself a home fort full of toys and candy, where she returns each day at 6pm. Her toys include Patricia, Desiree, Bo, and Siren. At 11pm each night, she systematically tortures Siren by slowly burning it with a lighter, blaming it for her abandonment. She keeps a tally on the wall of how long she's been alone, which is at least 103 days.

Sucre met Broccoli and Waffles in aisle x62j#7 of the Everything Store, questioning whether they are real. She befriends Broccoli and helps them find the red bean they need to make mochi. When they pass through the aisle of the "Sirens" (i.e. Cornflake Bears), she handcuffs Broccoli to the shopping cart, lest they get lost like she did. When they find the red bean, Sucre steals the sugar from Broccoli to make them stay longer. The two go to Sucre's house and have a slumber party, eating candy, dressing in costumes, playing pretend, reading comic books, painting each other's faces, and so on. At 11pm, Sucre performs her nightly torture session on Siren, and Broccoli gets scared and leaves using the Stick — after seeing this, Sucre questions her sanity and breaks down into tears, missing her mother. When Broccoli returns, Sucre explains her past, pausing to define "mom" as "a lady who loves you very much"; Broccoli then encourages her not to give up looking for her mom, and Sucre returns the stolen sugar. With Broccoli's plan, the pair successfully reach the front of the store, where Sucre's mother has been waiting all these years. After the two share a tearful reunion, Sucre grabs the half-burned Siren and hugs it, saying "I forgive you". Sucre & Siren leave the store together with her mother.

After Sucre returns home, she begins going to therapy, and is shown playing with Siren. She and Broccoli stay in contact via their pair of conch shells.

One day, she catches Broccoli swimming in the ocean in her home dimension. She grabs Broccoli's foot and drags them down to share an excited reunion, and the two return to the surface. Sucre resists talking about how she's been, and deflects Broccoli's anxiety by insisting that they have a sleepover. Broccoli agrees, and Sucre leads them towards her home.

## Quotes

> "ARE YOU REAL?" — Sucre's first line
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> "CLIMB ABOARD! On this board! I am so lonely!" — Sucre
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> "Yall picked the right gal. I know these aisles like the back of my hand. YOU'LL FIND THE BEANS OVER ON AISLE XJS1#3, next to the uranium, and the cardboard cutouts of Frank Sinatra. It'll be mighty TREACHEROUS!" — Sucre
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> "Next isle is the Sirens. Not many can resist their song! Good thing I tied you down! Not everyone is... so lucky." — Sucre
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> "OH! I HAVE FRIENDS THAT ARE SQUISHY LIKE YOU! WANNA MEET 'EM?" — Sucre, before introducing Broccoli to her stuffed animals
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> "I DIDN'T MEAN TO - I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T... WE WERE JUST SUPPOSED TO BUY SOME BLUE ONIONS, WE - WE WERE GONNA MAKE A SOUP. She told me 'Stay in the cart' Sucré. 'I'll be a hot second'. But then I saw HIM." — Sucre, explaining how she got lost
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> "You're a teensy little hunter! *With a natural curiosity.* You're just doing what's in your nature! And if you're just doing what's in your nature... are you *really Evil*?" — Sucre, when Waffles referred to himself as evil
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## Gallery

Little Sucre in her mermaid form.Little Sucre in humanoid form, playing with Siren.Sucre "punishing" Siren.Sucre in her home dimension, speaking to Broccoli via the conch shell.Sucre finally reuniting with her mom.Present-day Sucre in her mermaid form.
## Trivia

* Sucré (pronounced "soo-cray") means sugar or sweet in French; Sucre steals sugar from Broccoli, and loves to eat candy. LePerdu means The Lost; this could represent the lost sugar in addition to Sucre as a lost child.
* There is an error in E20 where Sucre wears the wrong outfit for one panel, at the onset of Broccoli's sugar crash.
* According to Secret Pie, Sucre is warm-blooded, unlike earthly axolotls.
* Sucre stated that her deepest fear is wearing a stupid hat.
* 'Siren' refers to mermaids or other monstrous sea-women who tempt travelers with an alluring song, then kill them or take them captive. Sucre herself is a mermaid, but she named the Cornflake Bear 'Siren' because of the way it tempted and doomed her.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 E23 Sucre Alone
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 E19 The Everything Store
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 E20 Siren
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 E36 I Met U Day
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 E65 Did You Eat Today?
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 E25 A Lady Who Loves You Very Much