Mousse (MUOF)

## Appearance

Instead of his usual Chinese robes Mousse wears a white jacket with matching pants, minus the glasses since he got corrective surgery while in America.

## Biography

Mousse has been in love with Shampoo since they were both three. He bumped into her after losing his glasses and she helped him find them. the two became fast friends, she even protected him from bullies. He didn’t become fascinated with her until he found out who she was; the fact that the Shampoo actually liked him caused him to immediately propose.

Shampoo didn’t understand due to his wording and agreed, only to decline the next day. He assumed that it was her parent’s idea and began his relentless pursuit alienating her.
For this reason he desperately tried to help her when her inability to defeat Akane started affecting her skill. It wasn’t an Amazon male's place to interfere with women so he just stood by and watched as she was teased and humiliated.

Sadly he ended up knocking her into the Maonīchuan causing her to be disowned. Consumed with guilt he started watching her from a distance, before staying away from her completely as she and Akane got closer.

After Shampoo's departure with the Tendos, Mousse directed his frustrations at who he most associated with what happened to her, Perfume, tricking and humiliating her. There were already rumors about Perfume’s inability to handle pain, so he decided to prove them in the worse way possible.

He pretended to be Perfume’s friend only to lure her Jusenkyo he threatened to drop her into a spring if she didn’t reveal her weakness to the various children he had invited to watch. Then pushed her in anyway revealing it was a virgin spring. However, this did little to deal with his guilt and he would end up departing the village in search of a cure for Shampoo which would take him far and wide.

Over the course of his travels he had corrective surgery for his eyes and eventually would come upon one of the bracelets of friendship along with scrolls that described its magic. Taking this as the cure he was looking for he would finally track Shampoo down in Nerima, offering to use the bracelet to transfer Shampoo's curse to himself, but Shampoo refused.

Initially Mousse was ecstatic thinking that Shampoo was worried about him only to become furious upon learning about her engagement to Ranma. Shampoo got Mousse to see that she saw him as nothing more then a friend, but assured him that she forgave him along time ago.

Mousse stayed at the Nekohanten for a little while, but a combination of his and Perfume’s antagonistic relationship and seeing how happy Shampoo was with Ranma made things difficult. Akane eventually offered him a job at Ucchan’s though he quickly realized that it was an attempt to set him up with Perfume.

It wasn’t hard to figure out that Ukyo was really a girl and the two hit it off relatively quickly as they had a lot in common. Specifically the fact that they were both getting over someone (though he did wonder what was so attractive about Ranma that so many women fell in love with him.

When Shampoo disappeared and no one could get ahold of the Tendo’s Mousse went to the temple she las delivered to. There he witnessed Kodachi and Azusa making plans with Maomolin to trap Shampoo in her cursed form and force her to be his wife.

He retrieved Dr. Tofu to revive Ranma and Akane so that he could free her from her curse. Sadly due to Kodachi and Azusa’s interference they weren’t able to get the two together in time. Luckily upon seeing Mousse’s falcon bracelet Perfume told them that Cologne had a similar dragon one allowing them to split the curse between Akane and Shampoo.

Later, Cologne would get herself involved in the situation between Perfume and Ukyo. She used the cat's tongue pressure point technique on Ukyo preventing her from cooking causing Mousse to take over restaurant duties as she trained to master the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken. As Ranma and Shampoo were dealing with Happosai Mousse also helped her train along with Perfume. He helped her come up with a variation of the technique by applying the principles of her art. She in turn helps him get over his feeling for Shampoo as well as his hatred of Ranma for taking her.

Mousse started to develop feelings for Ukyo, but was never able to make his move given all the distractions. Just when he finally built up the courage to ask her out on a date, she had agreed to go on a date with Perfume. Fortunately she asked him to go with them as a chaperone.
As Perfume and Ukyo went of to talk after winning some dangerous games, Mousse came across Ryoga on his date with Akane and reminded both him and himself to be confident, optimistic. He returned just in time to hear Ukyo explain to Perfume that she wasn’t a lesbian and chickened out. Something he was quick to berate himself for when they returned to the restaurant.

After Ukyo asked teach her some of his Hidden Weaponry technique he finally decided to just go for it. After getting over her shock Ukyo wasn’t averse to seeing how things developed which was all Mousse could ask for.

Much to Mousse’s surprise Shampoo asked him to be her protector for Ranma during their wedding. Ukyo had been asked to be his speaker, so to get their mind off of things they decided to go on a date.

Akane later came over to try and set Mousse up with her sister as Nabiki had already tried to set him up with Perfume causing him to tell her why she hated him. Not to mention he was dating Ukyo he declined only for Ukyo to agree for him.

When he asked her about it all she told him was that she had her reasons so he just resigned himself to the date. Since neither wanted this they decided to just get the date over with quickly. They first went out to eat. It became less awkward when Nabiki told him she didn’t hate him for what he did to Perfume.

Afterwards they went for a walk. Nabiki noticed Ukyo following them and when she pointed her out to Mousse they invited her to join them. Perfume was there as well saving Ukyo from explaining what she was doing, by claiming they were on a date.

This freaked Mousse out causing old fears that he had thought were now settled to come rushing back to him. Nabiki knowing something was up and wanting to figure it out suggested a double date.

Nabiki brought Mousse out of his wallowing by pointing out to him Ukyo giving Perfume the cold shoulder. Mousse admitted to her that the two were dating and they figured that she was trying to see how he would react.

Nabiki started expressing her disgust at Perfume fawning over someone who obvious wasn’t interested, as well as her anger at Ukyo for refusing to be firm and leading her on. This and seeing Perfume try to get upwind to Ukyo caused him to realize what was going on.

Ignoring Ukyo suddenly declaring her love for him he arranged for Nabiki and Perfume to accidentally fall off of a slope. Perfume was trying to seduce Ukyo using a variation of formula 612. After taking her to the hospital and the perfume wore off Ukyo admitted she just wanted to see how Mousse would act on a date though she still called him out for his accident even if it did work out in the end.

When the family woke up to find Shampoo and Akane gone and Perfume fallen into some kind of deep hibernation. After determining that later was ok they set about searching for the former. Unfortunately a few hours later Genma, Soun, Nabiki, Kasumi, Ryoga, Natsumi, and Kurumi ended up passing out, and the only ones left awake were Soon Li, Ukyo, Tofu, Ranma, Nodoka and Mousse.

When Shampoo and Akane reappeared in their room along with the Original Ranma, after finding the Bracelets of Friendship in their room Mousse Bracelets theorized that he was from another dimension. As that was their best guest they let the three rest so that they could figure things out. When the original Ranma woke up what remained of the conscious occupants of the Tendo home gathered together in the common room.
Knowing that there was no point in lying with Soon Li there the Original Ranma explained how he tried to rescue the Original Akane and Shampoo only to ended transporting these ones to his universe and how he believed they in fact were the originals. Throughout his explanation Mousse and his counterpart looked ready to rip the dimensionally displaced boy apart.

Nodoka was quick to calm things down before they could escalate Soon Li also put her two cents in. While she didn’t believe that Akane and Shampoo were from his world, she pointed out that he at least believed it before he could argue. That didn’t explain why he was there. Ranma explained the explosion of light he saw and Mousse theorized that the overuse of the bracelets caused them to malfunction. With nothing else to do Nadoka felt it was best to wait for the others to wake to see if they had been merged with their counterpart. Though reluctant Mousse agreed to go back to the restaurant to wait at Ukyo’s insistence.