Mellow

Mellow flatters Nyarai at Club Nighthawk

Mellow is a wiener dog who acts as a secondary character of Furry Fight Chronicles thanks to being one of Muko's friends and one of her few fans. Having had a crush on Muko since they first met, Mellow took Muko to see a furry fighting match between Fenny and Roora, indirectly starting the events of the comic when Muko becomes inspired to become a Combagal upon seeing the match.

## Background

Not much is known about Mellow, but he seems to have been a fan of furry fighting for a while. He has collected furry fighting merchandise and went to matches before. At one point, he met Donkizari, who gave him her autograph.

One day, while working at his job at a supermarket, Mellow met Muko and fell in love with her at first sight. After making a fool of himself a few times, Mellow asked Muko to come with him to a furry fighting match featuring Fenny and Roora, kickstarting the events of the series.

## Personality

Contrary to his name, Mellow is high-strung, pessimistic, shy, and neurotic. However, Mellow can show loyalty, passion, and selflessness when the situation demands it.

As a fan of furry fighting, Mellow shows excitement in the matches, being able to explain one for Muko so that she could enjoy it. He knows a lot about the sport, even getting a signature from Donkizari herself. His furry fighting collection is one of his most treasured possessions, even crying when he was forced to sold it to get enough money to enter Club Nighthawk.

Regarding women, Mellow is clueless and socially awkward. He gets nervous around Muko because of his crush on her and tends to have panic attacks every time he seemingly loses a chance with her. He stammers a lot and needs to buy his courage and confidence before asking Muko out on a friendly date by taking her to watch the match between Fenny and Roora. When visiting Club Nighthawk, Mellow was very nervous because of the attractive hostesses, walking awkwardly behind Shun Gonfano as the sumiguza took him to Nyarai.

Mellow tends to behave more confidently around males, as he gladly shared his story with Muko to Harry. He later attended the Masato Match with him, forming a friendship thanks to their mutual admiration for Muko. Even as he attended the Cookie Crumble Match, Mellow rooted for Muko by providing her information about Team Resurrector, showing happines when Muko managed to defeat Nyarai despite the weakness that he provided being a fake one that Nyarai created to trick him into revelaing his role as a spy.

Mellow is capable of achieving many things if he has an objective, even making personal sacrifices in the process. To meet Nyarai at Club Nighthawk, Mellow took many jobs and even sold his beloved furry fighting collection just to have a chance to talk with her. Upon earning Nyarai's respect, Mellow resolved to get a date with her despite her spending most of her time bullying and threatening him.

## Appearance

Mellow is a scrawny wiener dog. He has a rectangular face that makes Nyarai call him square-face until he earns enough of her respect to have her call him by his name. He has droopy ears that fall down his face. He also has brown fur and a black nose.

Mellow tends to wear a plain shirt with an apron when working at the supermarket. When going out, Mellow uses a jacket.

## Abilities

### Furry Fighting Fan Skills

While Mellow is an average citizen, he has a lot of knowledge about furry fighting. He collected memorabilia from different Combagals, even earning an autograph from Donkizari. Thanks to seeing lots of matches, Mellow can provide commentary as a match progresses. He knows about Cookie's role in Trilamity Day and knows about the Cyclone Crushers, even identifying Jowdie by her full name when he met her at Club Nighthawk.

### Spying

Mellow has some talent as a spy, as he infiltrated Club Nighthawk and managed to get some information from Nyarai about Team Resurrector. That being said, his spy skills are very limited, as Nyarai knew that he was a spy all along and gave him false information in an effort to test his loyalty

## History

### Act 1

#### Part 1

##### Taking Muko To A Match

Mellow sits besides Muko when she's watching her first furry fighting match. Mellow acts as a source of exposition to Muko, explaining how a furry fight develops every time something important happens in the match between Fenny and Roora.

#### Part 2

##### Meeting Muko's Fan

After the match ended, Muko bought a lot of souvenirs, forcing Mellow to pay for them. Despite the huge amount of money that Mellow spent, he succeeded in getting Muko's phone number, but he didn't see her in a while. Even though he got Muko's number, Mellow couldn't bring himself to call her out of shyness, believing that she was not into dogs.

One day, Mellow meets Harry, questioning why he's wearing a shirt with Muko's face on it. Mellow assumes that Harry is a pervert, until Harry tells him that Muko is a Combagal, surprising Mellow. Harry asks Mellow how he knows Muko, causing Mellow to share his story with Muko to Harry, boasting how he got her number even though he didn't call her and she didn't visit him.

When Harry checks a Spotter article about Muko, Mellow reads it and is horrified at Muko fighting bikers and looking like a pervert. He calls Muko and asks her about what happened. When Muko tells him about Cookie, Mellow recognizes her as the manager who got Freydar to retire. He tries to warn Muko about Cookie, but Muko hangs up on him to focus on her video game training.

##### Going To The Masato Match

At the day of Muko's debut, Harry and Mellow go to the Masato Match to cheer for Muko. As the main fight starts, a nervous Muko recovers her courage upon seeing Mellow and Harry cheering for her. Mellow recognizes Shun Gonfano and the Cyclone Crushers, getting surprised because it's rare for the whole team to go to a match. He's horrified when Nyarai beats up Muko. He then watches as Nyarai becomes the new Masato Champion upon defeating Adelgund.

#### Part 3

##### Dating Nyarai

Weeks after the Masato Match, Mellow is surprised when he reads a furry fighting magazine and finds an article showing that Muko is returning to furry fighting with Kalita as her partner. At some point later, Mellow started taking jobs as a babysitter, construction worker, and many more to get enough money to enter Club Nighthawk. Realizing that he didn't have enough money to enter, Mellow tearfully sold his furry fighting collection to earn the necessary cash.

Upon entering Club Nighthawk, Mellow awkwardly follows Shun Gonfano to meet Nyarai. Upon seeing the cheetah, Mellow awkwardly points out that he expected Nyarai to have more clients on account of being the new Masato Champion. Nyarai asks him if he thinks she's unpopular, causing Mellow to apologize. Amused by his reaction, Nyarai asks Mellow to sit beside her, demanding he buys her some champagne as well.

As Shun leaves, Nyarai tells Mellow that she remembers him from the Masato Match, recognizing him and Harry as the only two fans who cheered for Muko at the Masato Match. She then asks Mellow why he's visiting her despite being a fan of Muko, making Mellow feel like he's going to die. Mellow admits that he used to have a crush on Muko, but he gave up on her after reading a Spotter article telling her relationship with Matroshka. Believing that Muko was only in love with cats, he shifted his feelings to Nyarai, calling her victory against Adelgund the best fight he saw and comparing her to Freydar.

While amused and flattered by his life, Nyarai tells Mellow that she doesn't believe him. Before Nyarai can ask another question, Jowdie Moohoshi arrives, placing her breasts on top of Mellow's face as she brings the champagne. Mellow is surprised by Jowdie's appearance, calling her by full name when she opens the champagne and sits with him. Nyarai gets annoyed at Jowdie for her interruption, only for Jowdie to clarify to Mellow that Nyarai being the new Masato Champion won't solve the discrimination against Wilds and that assaulting her clients will only decrease her popularity.

Wanting to take control of the situation, Nyarai shows Mellow a Spotter article on her phone. Upon looking at Nyarai's phone, Mellow points out how tacky it looks, causing Jowdie to giggle and point out that she bought the phone for Nyarai as a gift since Nyarai is too cheap to buy it. Irritated, Nyarai yells at Mellow to read the article, causing him to do so to avoid facing her wrath.

Mellow reacts with horror upon seeing Miho Barkowitz making another article disparaging Muko by painting Kalita in a bad light. Noticing that Mellow is not laughing at Muko's misfortune, she demands to know why Mellow is reacting badly to the article. Jowdie lightly scolds Nyarai for ruining the ambience, so she decides to bring up a new topic. She points out the fact that cat paw pads smell like popcorn and voices her belief that Nyarai's paws are the same. She then suggests that Mellow should smell Nyarai's feet to prove if the fact is true, causing Mellow to spit out his drink.

Seeing an opportunity to humiliate Mellow, Nyarai points at her feet and demands Mellow to kneel and ask for the right. Upon seeing Nyarai glaring at him, Mellow gets on his knees and asks Nyarai to let him smell her feet. Nyarai holds a foot above Mellow's face, demanding that he smelled it. To **Mellow's** surprise, Nyarai's paw pads smell like popcorn, which he loudly states to Nyarai and Jowdie. Mellow's answer amuses Nyarai and Jowdie, causing the former to call him by name. Realizing that he got in Nyarai's good graces, Mellow swears to win her heart to go on a date with her.

#### Part 4

##### Meeting Team Starkiller

On the day of the Cookie Crumble Match, Mellow personally visited the dressing room of Team Starkiller. Upon entering, Muko pretended to not know Mellow, much to his heartbreak. However, he was reassured when she admit that he was her friend and that she was joking. He then makes Cookie happy when he acknowledges her as Fortune Cookie and tells her that she is taller than expected and he gets distracted by Kalita's beauty. Muko asks Mellow what is he doing here, at which point Mellow tells her that he must reveal something about Freydar's Combagals.

As it turned out, Mellow decided to spy on Nyarai to get information about Freydar's Combagals. He found out that Nyarai was one of the Combagals selected by Freydar during one of their dates. During that time, he also learned that Nyarai had ticklish feet, a weakness that he shared with Team Starkiller, bur refused to elaborate on how he discovered it. After sharing everything that he knew about them, he returned to his seat.

##### Watching the Cookie Crumble Match

Mellow spends the first minutes of the match watching how Muko and Kalita take turns fighting Nyarai. He realizes that Muko heeded his advice when she starts tickling Nyarai's feet. To his horror, Nyarai's ticklish feet were a weakness that she made up, having always known that Mellow was a spy. After escaping from Muko's tickling, she threatens a horrified Mellow with a beating once she wins the match.

Despite Mellow's information being wrong, Muko refuses to let his hard work go to waste, ultimately figuring out Nyarai's weakness. Mellow is amazed when Muko tags in again and starts dodging Nyarai's kicks with her agility. He's delighted when Muko starts choking Nyarai and is overjoyed when he sees that the audience is cheering Muko, no longer hating her as they celebrate her incoming victory against Nyarai.

After Nyarai is defeated, Mellow is horrified to see that the next opponent of Team Starkiller was Sephario, as he and the audience know how much she outclasses Muko and Kalita together. His suspicions are proven right when Sephario defeats Muko and is handling Kalita a beating despite the vixen's best efforts to fight back. Mellow is shocked when Shun enters the ring and manages to get the audience on Sephario's side by singing Concatta's national anthem. Ultimately, Mellow is left disappointed when Sephario defeats Kalita, resulting in the defeat of Team Starkiller.

## Trivia

* Mellow acts as the first source of exposition in the comic by explaining the match of Fenny and Roora to Muko so that she can better understand and enjoy furry fighting.
* Originally, Chapter 43 had an additional scene that explains how Mellow found out about Team Resurrector. He became Nyarai's most loyal customer to get information about Freydar's Combagals, learning a lot about the cheetah's ambitions in the process. For some reason, this scene was cut.
* Despite his friendship with Muko, Mellow never attended Muko's goodbye party, probably out of guilt that his advice failed to provide Team Starkiller the victroy that they needed to stay in Botaun.