Pomu Rainpuff

**Pomu Rainpuff** is a fairy (a Forest Fairy) who is best known for being the first Queen of the fairies and later on, after her infection, the bringer of Pomufication, the conversion of all life into clones of Pomu. She is a main protagonist in arc 2, a main antagonist in arc 3, and a supporting antagonist in arcs 8-13 in Nijime in Story Reality and is one of the first Nijisanji-EN livers to debut in Stream Reality.

## Etymology

It is unknown where Pomu's first name is derived. Some have speculated that it derives from "palm" or "palm leaf", but Pomu is not a palm tree animo. Rather, she is a forest flower animo, IE a Forest Fairy.

Pomu's last name Rainpuff marks her as a member of the Rainpuff Clan of fairies, which incidentally was started by her first incarnation. This name derives from her puffed up personality as well as her love of rain, as rain is what gives life to the forest and all of its flowers, and thus all fairies!

## Appearance and Personality

*"Biiig Pomu energy!"*

Pomu is a forest fairy who resembles most of her kind. In flower form, she is the embodiment of a green forest flower with a lifespan of around 25 years. She is relatively small in her fairy form, but has a human form that she can take on which looks a lot more like a human and lacks any out-of-the-place features. In both forms, Pomu has long blonde hair and a green bow tied onto her hair. In her fairy form, she wears a traditional forest fairy garb which resembles a dress from the medieval period, which is mainly green in color (white at the top). She also has elven ears which are pointed and two sets of green, translucent wings resembling dragonfly wings. Pomu often likes to dress herself with various flowers and butterfly wings.

Pomu's personality is one of the most obscure and fluid personalities out of all the main characters. At the beginning of her arc, Pomu is a bright light who only seeks the safekeeping of her people, the Forest Fairies. She looks how she acts, very dainty and full of an optimistic energy. However, she undergoes a transformation after being infected by the Ethyrium, causing her darker tendencies to bubble to the surface. In this state, Pomu is a cruel and manipulative Eldritch abomination who acts nice and cute on the surface but in reality has been corrupted beyond human imagination, and seeks to spread this corruption as far as is possible.

In her second incarnation, Pomu is much more balanced, but the darkness still remaining inside of her causes her to undergo rapid changes in personality. As like her first personality, she is cheerful and very passionate about everything she gets into. She seeks to be a playful spirit who uplifts others and is very hardworking and dedicated. She does play pranks and antics, but they are often done for nice reasons and for good fun. However, occasionally, her dark side shows itself with her playfully remarking about doing cruel and destructive things, and of course in her mission to continue Pomufication. She also has some form of multiple split personalities created as a schism in her consciousness by the conflict between the light and darkness at the pit of her soul.

## History

*"A fairy who lived in a lush forest. Supple like a flower in the breeze, cheerful and optimistic."*

### Story Reality

#### Part 1

Along with the rest of the forest fairies and animos in general, Pomu was manifested into existence and born in 1020 in Fairy Forest when Reimu wished for their existence within the heart of the Ethyrium. Pomu was generated fully adult and already recognized by the forest fairies as their Fairy Queen, as if they had an entire history before their spontaneous generation.

Soon after being born, the Forest Fairies faced their first conflict when loggers from the Magus Kingdom began cutting down their forest, both in an effort to gather timber, but also due to their disdain for the animos that called the forest home. The Ethyria Friends were notified of this problem and came in to assist the fairies, eventually allowing for a deal to be struck between the loggers and forest animos. In the process, the friends gained the trust of the forest fairies. Pomu and her fairies would continue to provide them assistance as needed whenever the Ethyria Friends visited the forest again. Pomu also consented to her fairies being enrolled in the Animo Education Center so long as they could have outdoor classes in the forest.

Pomu and the forest fairies take on a major role in the Ethyrian War when they receive the light side of the Ethyrium to become key members of the Lazulight faction, representing the element of Earth. During the battle, Pomu shows her fierceness, loyalty, and determination against their foes. However, she is reluctant to fight the non-forest flower animos, who have united under Rosemi, as they are her kin. As such, she works with the four friends to try to restore balance to the Ethyrium as much as she is able to so she can end the fight before she is forced to directly battle herself against them.

The two factions Lazulight and OBSYDIA formed as the formerly balanced Ethyrium has started to split into its dark and light components like oil mixed with water, and only the Heart’s Melody can restore the balance. The Heart’s Melody is a prophesized power that allows the user to directly channel the energies of the Universal Celestial itself. It is in fact the Heart's Melody and its connection to the Ethyrium that allowed the animos to be brought to life, giving Pomu appreciation towards the four friends.

At the end of Arc 2, it is revealed that an infusion of light is required to restore balance to the Ethyrium. When the four friends are about to sacrifice themselves to seal the Ethyrium, Pomu instead steps in, her sense of duty first and foremost, and is able to use her power, and her connection to the four via the fact she was created by them, to seal it and restore balance to it instead of the friends. It was thought that Pomu had died in the process. However, because Pomu did not have the Heart's Melody, she was corrupted instead and became the embodiment of Pomufication.

Pomu, in her Eldritch corrupted form, becomes the main antagonist of Arc 3. In this arc, Pomufication begins to take place, with Pomu using the Ethyrium to transform people into copies of herself like a virus. In the process, the light and soul of the people are devoured into the Ethyrium, leaving them as soulless Pomu husks that jump around and say "I'm Pomu" all day, and all participate in Pomu's hive mind with Pomu being its queen and commander.

Pomu, unable to transform the friends, her greatest threat, into Pomus, sets out from her safe place in the Ethyrium to try and find a way to gain enough power (which she calls PP Energy) to do the transformation. This leaves her vulnerable, which is exploited by the friends when hunting her down. Just before she is about to transform them, her plan succeeding, the friends utilize the Delete Spell to delete the form of Pomu from the Ethyrium, also instantly reverting all the Pomufied people back to normal again. In the process, Pomu is deleted and purged from the Ethyrium.

#### Between Parts and Human Life

Following the events of Part 1, fairies had mostly relocated to Neverland in Heaven. However, as people begun to believe less and less in fairies, the power of the land diminished, and God repurposed Neverland to fit more human souls rather than animo souls. As such, all fairies were exiled back to Earth and into Fairy Forest, their ancestral home. Many fairies did not give up hope and sought ways of returning, even including starting a search for the very same Heart's Melody that brought them to life.

At this time, Pomu's parents were one of these hopeful yet exiled fairies. After arriving back on Earth, Pomu's essence, which had been trapped on Earth since her deletion, was able to reintegrate into a full and proper soul and bodily form. This occurred when Pomu's parents gave birth to their daughter. While Pomu did not retain her memories of her first incarnation due to Soul Amnesia, she retained the basic instincts of the darkness that was calling out to her from within, including the desire to induce Pomufication and finish what she started. At the same time, she learned the value of hope from her parents.

A lot had changed on Earth since fairies were last there, including the Global Witch Hunt that resulted in magical beings being shunned from human society. Since then, a Veil was enforced over the magical world to prevent the magical beings from being seen by humans and attacked. Fairies were forced to be subjected to this Veil, and unless they were deep within the forest, they had to adapt. Thankfully, their time spent in Heaven infused them with the ability to shapeshift, and so they could adopt human form and live amongst humans. At the time of Pomu's birth, her parents were already integrated into human society, working like all other humans do.

Pomu grew up as a normal human within this environment as well as Virtual Neverland, an online fairy community, and even eventually had to become a 9-5 OL, an office lady, in order to make ends meet. While Pomu would primarily live still within Fairy Forest, she would often live within the city she worked as well. While the darkness inside Pomu struggled to break free, she had developed many techniques to suppress it, the light side of her often winning out against the dark side. Still, Pomu was often overexerted due to the combination of hard human work and suppressing the darkness.

#### Part 3

At the start of Part 3, Pomu reaches a breaking point and becomes too exhausted to continue, the darkness breaking free somewhat. Quitting her job, Pomu sets her sights on a new goal: she will try to rebuild the belief in fairies and restore the fairies. That way, she can regain power, hopefully enough power to infuse the souls of the denizens of Earth with heavenly energies controlled by her. That way, they can have shapeshifting abilities induced and Pomu can use them to finish Pomufication!

Throughout all the Part 3 arcs, Pomu tries to ally with the various villains, but she almost always fails. In Arc 8, she tries to manipulate Reimu so that she can eventually lead the fairy army against her. That way, she can gain the respect of the humans for saving them from the demons, and also would gain access to Iluna's resources which could assist her in her efforts. However, she fails quickly when her fairy army does little against the demons and is defeated quickly.

In Arc 9, the fairies support Enna’s motion to create a new heavenly realm, and Pomu moves all the fairies into Enna’s heavenly realm intending to turn it into the new Neverland. However, Enna uses the fairies to make “Pomu leaf”, a food item, causing all the fairies to flee en masse back to Earth and to kick Pomu out of their ranks. The fairies return in Arc 11 when Pomu brings them alien technology, the Transfigurator, and they attempt to use it to regain their magical powers, but they lose their power again when the aliens leave at the end of the arc thanks to a failed attempt by Pomu to use their technology to convert the aliens into Pomus.

Pomu and the fairies play a much more important role in Arc 12 when they introduce themselves to humanity, but their help in the war against Selen is overshadowed by the contributions of the dragons and the fact that Pomu sided with Selen, and humanity once again ignores them. In the final arc, the Iluna Six finally pay attention to Pomu and meet her for the first time when Elira captures her and they explain the nature of the Heart’s Melody. They later use her Pomufication idea to create a way for spiritual energy to be transferred efficiently, which ultimately allows for Kyo’s sacrifice.

At the end of the show, the fairies have settled in the former underworld where the closer connection with the Earth Avatar, amplified by Petra, allows them to regain their magic, and they rename the reserve “New Neverland”. Pomu tries one last time to take over the world, but she is frozen by Petra and her ice block becomes a monument at the center of New Neverland.

### Stream Reality

Everything up to what happens at the start of Part 3 above also occurs in Stream Reality.

At the beginning of 2021, Pomu, who was living her human life at the time, was trapped by Nijisanji in a time bubble and a RWP was spliced into her consciousness, creating the liver known as Pomu. After preparation, she ended up debuting on May 2021 in the wave Lazulight, comprised of her former ally commanders from the Ethyrian War that she had forgotten about until debut due to her Soul Amnesia. Along with her fellow genmates, Pomu inherited a piece of the Virtual Moon, which she named Area PP1.

Before splicing, Pomu's RWP watched "Virtual-San is watching", which is what got her interested in Nijisanji in the first place. She also applied to many entertainment related jobs but was rejected, so Nijisanji was one of her last shots. Thankfully, she was chosen the day after her audition and was spliced to embody Pomu, making Pomu the Pomu we know now! In Stream Reality, Pomu herself had a similar experience in trying out for an idol group, but she got in, although due to a lack of confidence she turned it down. After her dad passed, she realized she wouldn't miss another opportunity, which is why she was so eager to join Nijisanji after being spliced.

After the splicing, Pomu's darkness, which bubbled out of control in Story Reality, was once again suppressed since now Pomu had two good sides of her to fight against the one bad side. Instead of seeking vile means to gain more power, she instead turned to the internet, and did a lot of research on the internet looking for ways to restore belief in fairies, becoming a very "cultured fairy" in the process. She discovered VTubers and eventually aspired to start streaming herself due to the influence of the RWP inside her with the prime desire to stream.

Her combined consciousness rationalized the desire to stream as a way to spread belief in fairies to become stronger. Still, while more suppressed, the darkness still exists within, and her end goal, while rationalized with streaming, is still to carry out Pomufication, leading to many supposed "inside jokes" with her fans like getting them to say "I'm Pomu", which is a tactic to make them subservient to them so they can be more easily Pomufied when Pomu gains her powers back.

Not long after her debut, Pomu was in Fairy Forest in her fairy form, frolicking around as was part of her routine. While she was doing this, she chanced to be near Rosemi, who was inspired by her and wanted to learn more about her. In the process, Rosemi herself was led towards becoming a VTuber, and ended up becoming Pomu's intern!

In December 2021 of the Stream Reality, Pomu finally quit her job as an OL to devote more of her time to streaming (and, of course, world domination!)

In the stream reality, Pomu's fan name is Pomudachis, which she considers due to them lending their power of belief to her to be, in part, Pomus themselves, making it easier to Pomufy them. Her membership has two layers and starts with "Pomufication Step 1", then "Pomie Party" after her plans for world domination via Pomufication and her belief that regardless of membership, all her fans are Pomudachis.

## Powers and Abilities

As a Forest Fairy, Pomu has access to many powers inherent to forest fairies, and received a massive boost after her infusion with the Ethyrium. Her power does fluctuate drastically depending on the amount of PP Energy she has at any given moment, with it ranging from so low that a normal human could swat her away to being large enough to convert an entire planet's worth of sentient beings into Pomus and subsume their souls into her hive mind.

### Abilities

Shapeshifting: In her second incarnation, as part of her Heaven-infused fairy nature, Pomu has the ability to shapeshift. She can grow extra limbs (which she jokingly states are extra Pomus holding out their arms behind her back) and also can transform into a human. Her arms are also capable of bending and wiggling much more than that of a normal human. She also has large control over her wings and can do many things with them.

Flight: As a fairy, Pomu is capable of flying. She can even maintain her wings when in human form and is still able to fly due to a combination of being able to use shapeshifting to temporarily reduce her bone density and also to amplify her wing muscles, and even to rapidly reform and deform key muscles so her wings beat extremely fast.

Fairy Magic: Pomu has traditional fairy magic, which allows her to grow and tend to forest flowers and other forest flora. After all, she is herself a forest plant!

PP Energy: The more followers of Pomu there are, the more PP energy she has in a corruption of the traditional fairy Belief Power system (outlined below). PP energy is essentially the amount of Internal Power that Pomu has access to and the more followers she has, the larger of a pool of power she can tap into. This energy is contained within the Ethyrium, and later darkness from the Ethyrium's taint, that has seeped into Pomu's soul. The more energy she feeds it, the more control over material forms on Earth she has, just like normal usage of the Ethyrium, and thus the more people she can turn into Pomus!

Pomu Hive Mind: As part of Pomufication, when Pomu is in control over a large amount of people converted into Pomus, she gains all their cognitive abilities and intellect by forming a hive mind with all of them. Pomu can use this to do large calculations and strategizing which vastly amplifies her typical memory and intellect beyond ordinary levels. However, she only has access to this power when she has already successfully Pomufied people.

### Weaknesses

Fairy Belief Power: Like all fairies, Pomu derives her power (and her PP energy as well) from the power of belief thanks to the special way her race was generated by the Ethyrium. If not enough people believe in fairies, their power level diminishes, and if not enough people are true followers of Pomu, her PP energy diminishes. As such, Pomu needs to make sure there is enough belief in fairies and in her in the world in order to become the "strongest fairy" as she intends.

Fairy Size: When in her fairy form, Pomu is very small and is often susceptible to being stuck and contained within glass jars. When within a jar, she generally cannot escape without help as her powers are not based in physical strength. Furthermore, in tough glass jars, Pomu is unable to transform into a human to escape without her human form being temporarily crushed as it begins to grow within the jar before the jar ultimately shatters, and all this could potentially cause massive damage to her.

## Trivia

Pomu loves to say "I'm Pomu!" and encourages all her fans to do the same. Her tagline is "Big PP Energy" in reference to the energy she needs in order to induce Pomufication.

Pomu can speak English, Fairy-Go (the native language of the fairies), and a little bit of Japanese.

Pomu likes unagi, sunny days (since she is a flower who thrives off the sun after all), otaku goods, riding trains (her ending scene for a while was her riding a train), corn soup, and onsen. She also, of course, likes anime, games (like RPGs and visual novels), and music (such as Idol music). She also likes Halloween and cats (and her own cat, Pomusuke).

Pomu is a cat person and likes cats as pets, although she has lost at least one cat before. She refers to Pomusuke as "stinky boy" due to his stinky personality and in Stream Reality, Pomusuke plays a role as sort of an icon or running theme on the channel.

Pomu dislikes litter (after being traumatized when her fairy form got stuck in a plastic bag once) and spicy foods (because they make her wings burn). She also hates durians, mushrooms, and avocados, and moments that make you go "eegh".

She mainly lives in the closest major human city to Fairy Forest and often returns to Fairy Forest (where her Fairy Form home is in a tree). However, she has stated she once lived in Japan for a while (where she also attended high school), with the implication being that Fairy Forest is not in Japan. She has been in multiple apartments within the human city and has had an apartment where she had to stream in the closet where it would get stuffy. As a result, she often also streamed outside in Fairy Forest wherever she could get internet there.

Pomu does not often wear panties, and in her fairy form, she has stated her thighs can crush a blueberry, which would make her fairly strong for her size.

Pomu, perhaps due to her fairy nature, has sensitive skin and a weak stomach, and low tolerance of alcohol and carbonated drinks.

In the neighborhood in the human city where she was growing up, she had a rival who went out at the same early time she did to go running. This child was named "Rival-kun".

When Pomu was younger, her family went on a trip to a desert to a native tribe, where there was a sign saying to not touch the sand. Her mother disobeyed and touched the sand, and soon after Pomu began becoming blind. She was later cured by eating bitter native medicine. It is unclear if the sand was actually cursed or if this was all a coincidence; if the former Pomu could have encountered a mage in spite of the Veil.

Pomu has a schism in her consciousness due to the darkness within her, leading her to develop alternate personalities. Pomu often roleplays as these other personalities on her streams depending on what the stream is about. She has even created entire stories for them (including one named Pomura Inpuff, her name but shifted by two letters), but the canonicity of these stories outside of Pomu's imagination is very much in question.

## Gallery

POMU in her fairy formPomu's new outfitPomu mascot to represent those who have been PomufiedPomu's flower formPomusuke, Pomu's Cat!