Cologne (MUOF)

## Personality

After disowning Shampoo Cologne has become overzealous in her task of upholding village law. Nit-picking and pushing everyone to the breaking point. She maintains a particular disdain for Shampoo which seems to extend to Akane as well. Despite this, at times, she does appear to soften when dealing with others.

## Biography

After Soon Li's defeat at the hands of Soun Tendo, Cologne advised Soon Li on the situation. While she said Soon Li was ultimately free to do as she pleased, she did encourage her to at least give the relationship a try.

After Soon Li married Soun, Cologne learned that Shampoo was persistently defeated by many of the children of the village. This ultimately lead to Cologne taking Shampoo to Jusenkyo to train, but after Mousse accidentally knocked Shampoo into one of the spring, Cologne became particularly infuriated with the situation. This would come to a head later than night when discussing the situation with Shampoo's parents where Shampoo blurted out that she questioning even being a warrior. This apparently was the last straw for Cologne who immediately disowned Shampoo from the family.

While Soon Li did latter, on learning of the situation from Shampoo, approach Cologne to attempt to have her undo the choice, Cologne remained stubborn on the issue.

Little is known of the intervening time. It is known that Cologne was asked to take Perfume as a student and accepted, and has been training the young Amazon harshly ever since. It is also known that Cologne is viewed by at least Perfume as having become erratic and excessively demanding around the village although with no real details. Curiously she also acquired one of the bracelets of friendship, something it was noted the Cologne of the unaltered time line did not have. Her exact motivations in acquiring such, however, remain unknown.

Upon arriving in Nerima in search of Perfume, Cologne quickly resumed her role as the Amazon's teacher while imposing herself into the business of the Nekohanten. Despite Shampoo's clear improvements, Cologne has given no signs in accepting her, and has remained antagonistic to not only her, but Akane as well.

After Shampoo was trapped in her cursed form by the Bakeneko, the Tendos learned that Cologne was in possession of the second bracelet of friendship, Mousse having the first. They attempted to ask Cologne for it, but she refused to part with it, prompting Akane to deliver a blood challenge to her for the bracelet to which Cologne accepted. Akane managed to narrowly defeat Cologne, although most observers who knew Cologne believe she was not fighting to her fullest. Unexpectedly, afterwards, she would advise that the bracelets could only be used for their curse splitting function by true friends, making Akane the only real candidate.

Later, Cologne would get herself involved in the situation between Perfume and Ukyo. Ukyo had earlier defeated Perfume and Perfume had claimed her as her 'husband'. Cologne, on confronting Ukyo, would easily recognize her true sex but still go along with the claim, and used the cat's tongue pressure point technique on Ukyo to prevent her from cooking. After training with Mousse and Perfume's help, Ukyo mastered the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken and used it to recover the Phoenix pill to cure herself from Cologne.

Cologne would then encounter Natsume and Kurumi, seeing in them strong potential, offering to instruct them. Natsume would later accept the offer and the pair trained with Cologne in order to defeat Akane and Shampoo and lay claim to the Tendo dojo. Cologne would instruct them in a number of techniques that managed to allow the pair to match their opponents, although ultimately they would be defeated.

The Cologne of this world was mostly not involved with the events of the worlds cross over, but her normal time line counterpart did make a few conclusions on her actions as told to her by Akane and Shampoo. In particular she noted that Cologne appears to be attempting to prompt a fight, possibly to have Shampoo take the position of Matriarch from her, or to give her an excuse to kill Shampoo. Either way she advised caution. The other Cologne refused to merge with her counterpart.

## Ability

Cologne has access to all her typical technique but has also shown access to a few ones not normally seen. First is an energy barrier technique which can be used to block all manner of attack. Next is the Kankaho, a technique she taught to Natsume and Kurumi which combines Ki and Mana in a potentially explosive mix. Lastly she has shown mastery of a form alteration which allows her to store or release energy. This takes the appearance of, when storing energy, of her aged form, while she will return to a youthful form when releasing. Her true age of appearance is apparently in between the two extremes.