Popoi (EntityTopic, 7)
From Compile Worlds
Popoi is a demonic black cat that is also a puppet. He first appeared in Puyo Puyo Fever, under the ownership of Ms. Accord. The two were quickly revealed to be in cahoots to violate their fellow students 2/2AmitieRaffine with a flying cane. Needless to say, this plan almost failed, and were it not for the convenience of a giant mallet pulled from hammerspace, Popoi's sinister allegations would have surely been exposed. In the subsequent games, Popoi plays dumb by pretending to be Accord's sarcastic alter ego, lashing out in blunt, cruel words. However, Zoh Daimaoh and Akuma revealed the stupidity behind it all and tried to ruin the dynamic duo once again. Popoi once again narrowly avoided being exposed by turning himself into a projectile weapon of mass destruction.
In Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, he appears not only as Accord's dastardly sidekick, but also runs a shop (which has it's own special yellow button). In the shop, he sells various Puyo skins, characters 4/4Red AmitieWhite FeliBlack Sig Satan Strange KlugHuman Ekoro, alternate voice acting, and even useless advice! Despite the fact that Accord is a boss character in the game, Popoi doesn't seem to commit any sort of evil shenanigans.
No one, even us at Kumizone, knows exactly whether Popoi the Demon and Popoi the Puppet are one and the same, or are two different entities. One might ask "who cares?", but this relationship serves as the second biggest plot hole SEGA's created and danced around to date, the first being Shadow the Hedgehog, of course. Nevertheless, the exact nature of Popoi has been speculated.
Popoi has also made small appearances in the on going Subete PuyoPuyo role play, as documented below.
Appearance in Subete PuyoPuyo
Despite being nearly omnipresent the entire time, Popoi has become one of the main antagonists of Subete PuyoPuyo. Many of his evil deeds have affected a member of the ADMA in someway or another, and thus it is their personal goal to off him, though it is fairly difficult to do so since his appearances are so sparse. He is shown to have a sarcastic wit, demonstrated when he insisted to Mikki that he was a Pool filter. He is also capable of heavy dark magic, and though the extent of this power is not clear, he could use it to black mail or even force Accord to do things against her will. The Satan Arc also revealed that Popoi is fluent in Italian and has a taste for Norwegian Black Metal, claiming he has "the finest" taste in music because of it (though this in itself is questionable).
Popoi first appeared in the Satan Arc, for a brief appearance under Accord's ownership. He and Accord frantically tried to pretend there was nothing suspicious about their relationship, though in the end made it more awkward. Popoi then vanished as mysteriously as he appeared, no one suspecting the plan he had in store.
Popoi then was semi featured as a prominent villain of the Accord Arc, where it was revealed at the very end that he had orchestrated the entire ordeal, possibly to kill Accord herself. Popoi made his only in person appearance in the entire arc, and his second appearance to date, in Episode 7, where he reveals he and Accord used TaruTaru to learn the secret location of Draco's Hut, the temporary and crowded HQ of the ADMA at the time. Popoi attempted to enact a survival game show called Jump to Conclusions, but failed due to the stubbornness of the ADMA. Eventually Popoi's sharp tongue lashing annoyed Witch enough to shoot a lightning bolt off at him, but he seemed seldom fazed. During the confusion and chaos, Sig exploded in an emotional rage, giving Popoi and Accord the perfect cover for their escape, taking the still caged TaruTaru with them. Later Accord confessed Popoi was pawning her the entire time as she burned to death. In light of her unfortunate circumstances, the ADMA renamed themselves and swore to avenge Accord by killing Popoi. He hasn't appeared or been mentioned since. With his whereabouts unknown, and the rise and fall of the vile Ekoro (psych!), he vanished into obscurity.
Both times Popoi appeared, he was played by Son-X, informally known in the chat logs as Yellow Puyo. He has expressed explicitly he will not reprise the role for the inevitable Popoi Arc, or any future cameo appearences.
