Raffina Archambeau

~ The strong and elegant martial artist ~

Snobbish, and prim and proper, **Raffina Archambeau** is known as the black belt of Primp Magic School. She’s also a frenemy and / or one-side rival to Amitie.

**ORIGINAL CANON INFO ABOUT HER:** https://puyonexus.com/wiki/Raffina

## Bio and Info

### Role(s) in the DEKAverse

Despite being a French martial artist, Raffina is mostly known for her **snobbism and beauty**. However, in offer of her magic, she uses her pouch which includes some sort of magic stone in there, the pouch referring itself as a "magic amplifier".

However, she’s also light-hearted and somewhat friendly to her classmates, mainly Amitie and / or Sig. She might also be a bit of a fearful coward in some moments.

Raffina lives in the Tenmei Prefecture in Primp alongside with her classmate friends; her home is of a mansion, belonging to the Archambeau residence.

### Backstory

Nothing much has ever happened to Raffina, as she was living a normal life since her infantry. Born / raised somewhere in France, her parents are of wealthy mages, known for their part-time greed. However, Raffina prefers anything else over magic, in which she attended a martial art / shotokan school as a kid and later graduated, suggested by her grandparents, who were great fighters until retirement.

Later on, her parents wanted her to attend a magic school in Primp. In which she wasn’t sure of that option, her mother and father realized that it might get her to try new things and fit in with them more. Raffina disagreed to them, but because of their “abusive” behavior, she was forced to without a single chance out of her.

Deciding not what to do now, she’s been failing at magic in a way that original mages use theirs, not because of how weak her magic is at a point, but it’s also because her parents didn’t know or tell her what magic is about. As a result, she would be telling her parents as of the reason, but because of how THEY treated her, she wouldn’t usually stand a chance. As some pleas added, she was later given a magic stone, and was clarified as a newbie magic user with alterations. Raffina was surprised of this, and is pretty glad that she’ll stay away from her parents’ nerves at that point and in some time around. However, she's able to cast it via **physical combat**.

Therefore, after almost every classmate she encountered, she met Amitie and later on Sig, being self-proclaimed as a rival, but more of a friend to them. In addition, her parents felt guilty and sorry for treating Raffina once she arrives back home later on.

### Abilities

Predicted as a “altered newbie mage” (notably by Ms. Accord), Raffina consists of martial arts mixed in with her magic use due to the stone in her pouch. **As her magic is based in weather, her spells consist of this, only their titles are referred in French**; *the signature Ciel Arc is an example, in which she roundhouse kicks her opponent, depicting a rainbow.*

### General debuts

Alongside with WakuWaku's Amitie, she makes her first appearance in Puyo Puyo Fever (PP5 / PPF1) in the fall of 2003 as HaraHara protagonist, marking as one of the deuteragonists in the SEGA era.

She had never made her debut in the 1990s because COMPILE didn’t own her, but has in the early SEGA era, due to COMPILE’s given rights to SEGA and Sonic Team.

## Appearance / Design

Raffina has light skin, pinkish-lavender hair, and blue eyes, her hair resulting in a knee-length. She even wears makeup, with her mascara and (optionally) blush being visible at that point.

For accessory, she mainly carries her yellow purse via its white strap, and on the left side of her head is complete with the Tenmei emblem pin as a hair clip.

### Main attire

#### First variant | Tangerine Seifuku

Raffina, however, has clothing related to a school seifuku at that point, resulting as a sleeveless crop top school vest and a miniskirt, and zipper boots, all given an orange and white color scheme. She even wears white detached sleeves with yellow+orange detail, dark colored fingerless gloves, white thigh highs, a white crop top collared shirt underneath, and purple ribbons on her boots and vest for a finishing touch.

For her hairstyle in this one, she ties her hair into a big bun by a big white hairband / scrunchie. She even wears blue iridescent diamond earrings as part of her accessories.

#### Second Variant | ver. Marine Blue

Retaining her collared shirt and hair clip, She now wears a sky blue sweater / hoodie—so loose that it reveals her bare shoulders, a dark blue skirt, and matching knee-high boots with white folds and soles, which they're over her pale gray thigh highs. Despite the purple ribbon / tie being plain, it's instead bicolor design consisting of a white chevron trim with a yellow gem-like embroider on it.

As of her attire having yellow accents, like on her sleeves and skirt, she now has her hair up as a ponytail instead of a bun, included with her sky blue headband.

## Relationships

### Main franchise relationships

#### Amitie Taiyo

Daughter of the goddess and beginner sorceress. Even though Raffina is considered a rival one side, Amitie depicts her as a fellow friend, and she wouldn’t care less about it.

#### Sig Hyacinth

The cyan colored half-demon; they don't usually interact much, but Raffina has respect in him as well.

## Trivia

* **She is bilingual**, as she speaks both English and French. **Trilingual** if you're aiming for the original Japanese language variant of the franchise.
* Canonically, Her current damage cut-in depict consists of Raffina **getting her ass LITERALLY kicked, or preferably knocked-out**. That state stayed here since 15th Anniversary.
* Raffina’s seiyuu, Noriko Namiki, also voices Lidelle, and additionally Onion Pixy.
	+ However, in the original Japanese language variant of the franchise, **Raffina ends most of her sentences with “ですわ” (“*desu wa*”)**, prior to her personality and behavior.
		- Eventually, back in the early SEGA era, in its English language variant, **her (later disowned?) catchphrase was “Oh, la-ti-da!”**, notably (voiced) in Fever 1.
* She is also referred as *Raffine* (most likely in the English language variant) specifically, despite her name being derived from “refined”.
* Raffina's Marine Blue attire is somewhat a basis on PuyoQue's Midsummer Raffina, probably due to its color scheme.

## Gallery

* Digital media
* Traditional media
* Disowned / Outdated / Concept media

ver. Marine Blue

Such reflexes Raffina has...

(digital)(digital) Colored concept doodle featuring Lidelle(digital)(traditional) 2nd main outfit concept