Zine Characters
Our books have many characters in them, some major, some minor. (Sorry, I know this is not a music lesson) Here're the major ones and their information!
Desserts
Name: Sponge (formally Spongecake)
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: October 18
Zodiac: Libra
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Wind
First Appearance: P.M. 1st Book
Sponge is a lot like her BFF Dome (more about her later): kind, sensitive, and with a massive phobia of being onstage! She not only has great leadership skills, which is how she became leader of the Happy Nuts (in the books), she is also the well-known author of the Pac-man series.
Name: Dome
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: June 29
Zodiac: Cancer (but that doesn't mean she actually has cancer)
Element (zodiac): Water
Element (comic): Ice & Water
First Appearance: P.M. 13th Book
Dome is kind, sensitive, and a little bit shy. Her best hobby was writing in her diary, but ever since she started the Dessert Detectives series, she likes working on her books more now. She is also the author of the Elements, the Fruits and helped Lemon, Lime, Berry and Bubblegum the jellies with their first Jelly Adventures book. She also loves playing golf.
Name: Pudding
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: August 16
Zodiac: Leo
Element (both): Fire
First Appearance: P.M. 13th Book
Pudding has a fiery temper, and excellent at sports. She is also chatty and impulsive, unlike her best friend Dome. Although she is not an author, she and her duplicates got famous because Pistachio (that's me), used them for her 4th grade English Project, Fascinating Fungi. A picture of them is now in the 2013-14 Anthology of Creative Writing, page 119.
Name: Skyla
Creator: Almond
Gender: Female
Birthday: April 21
Zodiac: Taurus
Element (zodiac): Earth
Element (comic): Snow
First Appearance: Elements 1st Book
Skyla is sometimes over enthusiastic, like most Taiwanese people! Although she doesn't live there any more, and lives with Pistachio and Almond, Taiwan is her birthplace. (Almond made her during a Taiwan study tour) So, April 21 is her real birthday! Her zodiac doesn't fit her well though, as she is more of an Aquarius-Piesces person, which means she likes to live her dreams and is a unique and original character.
Name: Slice
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: January 14
Zodiac: Capricorn
Element (zodiac): Earth
First Appearance: P.M. 13th Book
Slice was the leader of the Gossip Girls, the enemy club of the Happy Nuts in the books, but Lichee took over by being bossier. She tried hard to make the Happy Nuts look bad, especially the Dessert Detectives, who are all the girl Nuts. The bad things she did before were: kicking Sponge when she (Sponge) was new in the class, but backfired; stealing Dome's diary, but backfired; bribing readers of the Pac-man series away using candy, but backfired; tricking her classmates into paying money for her, and lying that it went to a charity (this was based on a real-life story), but like all her other attempts to make a fool out of the Nuts, backfired! You could say this 虛榮者 is a total failure!
Name: Gumball
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Male
Birthday: May 21 (this is close enough to his real b-day!)
Zodiac: Gemini
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Acid
First Appearance: Elements 1st Book
Gumball is a fan of the Pac-man series and the Dessert Detectives series. Of course, that includes all the people involved in the stories! So Dome decided to invite Sponge as the illustrator, Mushy and Pudding as the advisors and Roo as the editor to create a brand new series, the Elements! And this time, Gumball is one of the main characters in the comics, with the role of potion-maker in the zines.
Name: Gummy
Creator: One of the Happy Nuts' classmates, with the initials JS (that's what he'll be called in the rest of the Character page)
Gender: Male
Birthday: I have no idea. Ask JS
Zodiac: I dunno
Element (zodiac): If there's no birthday or zodiac, how am I supposed to know his element?!
Element (comic): Rain, Thunder and Lightning
First Appearance: Elements 1st Book
Gummy is one of the main characters in JS's series Super Mushrooms, along with Mushy and some other mushrooms; Pudding is there too. In this series the mushrooms are all named after the Avengers (but I seriously do not know anything about them), and Gummy took the name Gum-Flash. You may mix up Gummy and Mushy by looking at the comics, but Gummy is not a fungus in the Elements. In fact, he is a gummy mushroom. You might also mix up him and Gumball, but Gumball is made of bubblegum, not just gummies. Hope that's clear enough...
Name: Spiral
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Male
Birthday: April 22
Zodiac: Taurus
Element (zodiac): Earth
Element (comic): Whip and Lasso
First Appearance: Elements 2nd Book
Spiral was born one day after his sister Skyla, but not in real life of course! He was mentioned in the 1st Elements book, but where he really starts talking is in the 2nd one. He isn't as main a character as Sponge, Dome, Pudding, Gumball, Gummy and Skyla, but every reader will remember how he attacked one of Tutti's jelly beans: by shooting an arrow at their backside!
Name: Puddie
Creator: Almond and Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: November 9 (the year before Puddyn and Puddina were born)
Zodiac: Scorpio
Element (zodiac): Water
Element (comics): Nature/Growth
First Appearance: Elements 3rd Book
Puddie is based on Almond as the oldest of the Pudd triplets, with the same cute nature, a pair of sweet round eyes and a greeny-yellow headband, like her co-creator. Almond requested Puddie to have the Nature power-up, and though at first Pistachio refused, but gave in.
Name: Puddyn
Creator: Almond and Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: April 15
Zodiac: Aries
Element (zodiac): Fire
Element (comics): Bubbles
First Appearance: Elements 3rd Book
Puddyn is based on Pistachio as another Pudd triplet. Since Pistachio is the author and illustrator in real life, she chose oval eyes for Puddyn, to make her look sharp and special. The Bubbles power-up was Acorn's idea at first, but since she invented the Mind power she chose that for her Pudd instead.
Name: Puddina
Creator: Almond and Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: Unknown
Zodiac: Unknown
Element (zodiac): Unknown
Element (comic): Mind
First Appearance: Elements 3rd Book
Puddina is based on Acorn as the youngest Pudd triplet. She has a high IQ, just like her co-creator! The real-life Puddina, who lives with Almond, has triangular eyes, but as Pistachio tried to do so in the comics Acorn refused. Instead, she now has round eyes, like her elder sister Puddie.
Name: Chiffon
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: June 11
Zodiac: Gemini
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Shadow
First Appearance: Elements 4th Book
(Following under construction)
Fungi
Name: Mushy
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Male
Birthday: November 31
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Element (zodiac): Fire
Element (comic): Helicopter/propeller
First Appearance: P.M. 1st Book
Mushy is popular, but with very messy handwriting! (At least, you would know if you read the Dessert Detectives Book 2) He's the first male character to appear, other than Peter the pacman, who didn't have a name back in the first book, and also the most popular in the series. He's a kind mushroom with a large family, and also star in the Super Mushrooms series, where he took an Iron-man costume (that is not a series made by the Happy Nuts, it is made by JS. You should know if you read the Gummy part), and author of the Fun-Guy Fungi books, a series by Acorn. He sometimes illustrates them himself too! And, just another note, he had a crush on Dome, and now they'e married! (For more info on their marriage, go to thehappynuts.weebly.com again) Their daughter is called Sundae, who is also Mushy's cousin Stoo's stem.
Name: Roo
Creator: Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: February 11 (the year after Mushy was born)
Zodiac: Aquarius
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Earth
First Appearance: P.M. 19th Book, F.G.F 1st Book
Roo, as judged by Almond, is one of the cutest hair-curlers Pistachio owns. She is Mushy's younger sister, and always wears a little red flower. In the comics, she is white, but in real life she's yellow like any other hair-curler. She had an interview with Almond before, see thehappynuts.weebly.com, and you can see from there that she takes things quite seriously. She is also the part-time illustrator of the Fun-Guy Fungi series.
Name: Toady
Creator: Acorn
Gender: Male
Birthday: July 30
Zodiac: Leo
Element (zodiac): Fire
First Appearance: P.M. 19th Book, F.G.F. 1st Book
Toady is Mushy and Roo's elder cousin by a few months, and sister of the heroic Stoo. He got glasses in the Fun-Guy Fungi series, and at first got teased by Mossy and Lichenee (in the Pac-man and Dessert Detective books Mossina and Lichee), but it cased a craze in the whole class. Now he still wears glasses in the books, but they're in different shapes in different series! He is an open-minded toadstool, who is always trying to make friends.
Name: Stoo
Creator: Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: March 12 (the year after Toady and Mushy were born)
Zodiac: Pisces (pronounced PIE-seas, not PIS-cis)
Element (zodiac): Water
First Appearance: P.M. 19th Book, F.G.F 1st Book
Stoo is Toady's sister, Mushy and Roo's cousin too. The youngest of the Fun-Guy Fungi stars, she is pure, yet willing to back up her friends any day. The real-life hair-curler Stoo sacrificed herself to give Mushy and his mate Dome a daughter, Sundae. So that was how Chiffon was born: Stoo without a stem! Almond still calls Chiffon Stoo nowadays. Chiffon doesn't mind that much. Dear visitor, you can call Chiffon Stoo too, if you find her!
Name: Lichee
Creator: Acorn (actual name: Lichenee)
Re-namer: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: September 12
Zodiac: Virgo
Element (zodiac): Earth
First Appearance: Unknown
Lichee was a new girl, but after she joined the Gossip Girls Purp realized Lichee could do some evil stuff for club, and take revenge on the Dessert Detectives! The G.G.'s leader Slice found out no-one could beat Lichee in the club at being gossipy, so she stepped down form being the boss and let Lichee take her place. So far, Lichee led the Gossip Girls into a war of pets with the Happy Nuts, made fun of Mushy and the D.D. when Dome came to the Fungi class to find her teammate, put oil on Sponge's racing track on Sports Day, and refused to practice for the Christmas performance since her choice of the song didn't win. But all her plans backfired, just like Slice's! She lost the pet race, Mushy stood up for Dome, Sponge won thanks to sliding on the running track and she had to dress up as a pear tree for the 12 Days of Christmas song!
Pac-men
Name: Pacy
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: March 20
Zodiac: Pisces
Element (zodiac): Water
First Appearance: P.M. 1st Book
Desserts
Name: Sponge (formally Spongecake)
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: October 18
Zodiac: Libra
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Wind
First Appearance: P.M. 1st Book
Sponge is a lot like her BFF Dome (more about her later): kind, sensitive, and with a massive phobia of being onstage! She not only has great leadership skills, which is how she became leader of the Happy Nuts (in the books), she is also the well-known author of the Pac-man series.
Name: Dome
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: June 29
Zodiac: Cancer (but that doesn't mean she actually has cancer)
Element (zodiac): Water
Element (comic): Ice & Water
First Appearance: P.M. 13th Book
Dome is kind, sensitive, and a little bit shy. Her best hobby was writing in her diary, but ever since she started the Dessert Detectives series, she likes working on her books more now. She is also the author of the Elements, the Fruits and helped Lemon, Lime, Berry and Bubblegum the jellies with their first Jelly Adventures book. She also loves playing golf.
Name: Pudding
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: August 16
Zodiac: Leo
Element (both): Fire
First Appearance: P.M. 13th Book
Pudding has a fiery temper, and excellent at sports. She is also chatty and impulsive, unlike her best friend Dome. Although she is not an author, she and her duplicates got famous because Pistachio (that's me), used them for her 4th grade English Project, Fascinating Fungi. A picture of them is now in the 2013-14 Anthology of Creative Writing, page 119.
Name: Skyla
Creator: Almond
Gender: Female
Birthday: April 21
Zodiac: Taurus
Element (zodiac): Earth
Element (comic): Snow
First Appearance: Elements 1st Book
Skyla is sometimes over enthusiastic, like most Taiwanese people! Although she doesn't live there any more, and lives with Pistachio and Almond, Taiwan is her birthplace. (Almond made her during a Taiwan study tour) So, April 21 is her real birthday! Her zodiac doesn't fit her well though, as she is more of an Aquarius-Piesces person, which means she likes to live her dreams and is a unique and original character.
Name: Slice
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: January 14
Zodiac: Capricorn
Element (zodiac): Earth
First Appearance: P.M. 13th Book
Slice was the leader of the Gossip Girls, the enemy club of the Happy Nuts in the books, but Lichee took over by being bossier. She tried hard to make the Happy Nuts look bad, especially the Dessert Detectives, who are all the girl Nuts. The bad things she did before were: kicking Sponge when she (Sponge) was new in the class, but backfired; stealing Dome's diary, but backfired; bribing readers of the Pac-man series away using candy, but backfired; tricking her classmates into paying money for her, and lying that it went to a charity (this was based on a real-life story), but like all her other attempts to make a fool out of the Nuts, backfired! You could say this 虛榮者 is a total failure!
Name: Gumball
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Male
Birthday: May 21 (this is close enough to his real b-day!)
Zodiac: Gemini
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Acid
First Appearance: Elements 1st Book
Gumball is a fan of the Pac-man series and the Dessert Detectives series. Of course, that includes all the people involved in the stories! So Dome decided to invite Sponge as the illustrator, Mushy and Pudding as the advisors and Roo as the editor to create a brand new series, the Elements! And this time, Gumball is one of the main characters in the comics, with the role of potion-maker in the zines.
Name: Gummy
Creator: One of the Happy Nuts' classmates, with the initials JS (that's what he'll be called in the rest of the Character page)
Gender: Male
Birthday: I have no idea. Ask JS
Zodiac: I dunno
Element (zodiac): If there's no birthday or zodiac, how am I supposed to know his element?!
Element (comic): Rain, Thunder and Lightning
First Appearance: Elements 1st Book
Gummy is one of the main characters in JS's series Super Mushrooms, along with Mushy and some other mushrooms; Pudding is there too. In this series the mushrooms are all named after the Avengers (but I seriously do not know anything about them), and Gummy took the name Gum-Flash. You may mix up Gummy and Mushy by looking at the comics, but Gummy is not a fungus in the Elements. In fact, he is a gummy mushroom. You might also mix up him and Gumball, but Gumball is made of bubblegum, not just gummies. Hope that's clear enough...
Name: Spiral
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Male
Birthday: April 22
Zodiac: Taurus
Element (zodiac): Earth
Element (comic): Whip and Lasso
First Appearance: Elements 2nd Book
Spiral was born one day after his sister Skyla, but not in real life of course! He was mentioned in the 1st Elements book, but where he really starts talking is in the 2nd one. He isn't as main a character as Sponge, Dome, Pudding, Gumball, Gummy and Skyla, but every reader will remember how he attacked one of Tutti's jelly beans: by shooting an arrow at their backside!
Name: Puddie
Creator: Almond and Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: November 9 (the year before Puddyn and Puddina were born)
Zodiac: Scorpio
Element (zodiac): Water
Element (comics): Nature/Growth
First Appearance: Elements 3rd Book
Puddie is based on Almond as the oldest of the Pudd triplets, with the same cute nature, a pair of sweet round eyes and a greeny-yellow headband, like her co-creator. Almond requested Puddie to have the Nature power-up, and though at first Pistachio refused, but gave in.
Name: Puddyn
Creator: Almond and Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: April 15
Zodiac: Aries
Element (zodiac): Fire
Element (comics): Bubbles
First Appearance: Elements 3rd Book
Puddyn is based on Pistachio as another Pudd triplet. Since Pistachio is the author and illustrator in real life, she chose oval eyes for Puddyn, to make her look sharp and special. The Bubbles power-up was Acorn's idea at first, but since she invented the Mind power she chose that for her Pudd instead.
Name: Puddina
Creator: Almond and Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: Unknown
Zodiac: Unknown
Element (zodiac): Unknown
Element (comic): Mind
First Appearance: Elements 3rd Book
Puddina is based on Acorn as the youngest Pudd triplet. She has a high IQ, just like her co-creator! The real-life Puddina, who lives with Almond, has triangular eyes, but as Pistachio tried to do so in the comics Acorn refused. Instead, she now has round eyes, like her elder sister Puddie.
Name: Chiffon
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: June 11
Zodiac: Gemini
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Shadow
First Appearance: Elements 4th Book
(Following under construction)
Fungi
Name: Mushy
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Male
Birthday: November 31
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Element (zodiac): Fire
Element (comic): Helicopter/propeller
First Appearance: P.M. 1st Book
Mushy is popular, but with very messy handwriting! (At least, you would know if you read the Dessert Detectives Book 2) He's the first male character to appear, other than Peter the pacman, who didn't have a name back in the first book, and also the most popular in the series. He's a kind mushroom with a large family, and also star in the Super Mushrooms series, where he took an Iron-man costume (that is not a series made by the Happy Nuts, it is made by JS. You should know if you read the Gummy part), and author of the Fun-Guy Fungi books, a series by Acorn. He sometimes illustrates them himself too! And, just another note, he had a crush on Dome, and now they'e married! (For more info on their marriage, go to thehappynuts.weebly.com again) Their daughter is called Sundae, who is also Mushy's cousin Stoo's stem.
Name: Roo
Creator: Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: February 11 (the year after Mushy was born)
Zodiac: Aquarius
Element (zodiac): Air
Element (comic): Earth
First Appearance: P.M. 19th Book, F.G.F 1st Book
Roo, as judged by Almond, is one of the cutest hair-curlers Pistachio owns. She is Mushy's younger sister, and always wears a little red flower. In the comics, she is white, but in real life she's yellow like any other hair-curler. She had an interview with Almond before, see thehappynuts.weebly.com, and you can see from there that she takes things quite seriously. She is also the part-time illustrator of the Fun-Guy Fungi series.
Name: Toady
Creator: Acorn
Gender: Male
Birthday: July 30
Zodiac: Leo
Element (zodiac): Fire
First Appearance: P.M. 19th Book, F.G.F. 1st Book
Toady is Mushy and Roo's elder cousin by a few months, and sister of the heroic Stoo. He got glasses in the Fun-Guy Fungi series, and at first got teased by Mossy and Lichenee (in the Pac-man and Dessert Detective books Mossina and Lichee), but it cased a craze in the whole class. Now he still wears glasses in the books, but they're in different shapes in different series! He is an open-minded toadstool, who is always trying to make friends.
Name: Stoo
Creator: Acorn
Gender: Female
Birthday: March 12 (the year after Toady and Mushy were born)
Zodiac: Pisces (pronounced PIE-seas, not PIS-cis)
Element (zodiac): Water
First Appearance: P.M. 19th Book, F.G.F 1st Book
Stoo is Toady's sister, Mushy and Roo's cousin too. The youngest of the Fun-Guy Fungi stars, she is pure, yet willing to back up her friends any day. The real-life hair-curler Stoo sacrificed herself to give Mushy and his mate Dome a daughter, Sundae. So that was how Chiffon was born: Stoo without a stem! Almond still calls Chiffon Stoo nowadays. Chiffon doesn't mind that much. Dear visitor, you can call Chiffon Stoo too, if you find her!
Name: Lichee
Creator: Acorn (actual name: Lichenee)
Re-namer: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: September 12
Zodiac: Virgo
Element (zodiac): Earth
First Appearance: Unknown
Lichee was a new girl, but after she joined the Gossip Girls Purp realized Lichee could do some evil stuff for club, and take revenge on the Dessert Detectives! The G.G.'s leader Slice found out no-one could beat Lichee in the club at being gossipy, so she stepped down form being the boss and let Lichee take her place. So far, Lichee led the Gossip Girls into a war of pets with the Happy Nuts, made fun of Mushy and the D.D. when Dome came to the Fungi class to find her teammate, put oil on Sponge's racing track on Sports Day, and refused to practice for the Christmas performance since her choice of the song didn't win. But all her plans backfired, just like Slice's! She lost the pet race, Mushy stood up for Dome, Sponge won thanks to sliding on the running track and she had to dress up as a pear tree for the 12 Days of Christmas song!
Pac-men
Name: Pacy
Creator: Pistachio
Gender: Female
Birthday: March 20
Zodiac: Pisces
Element (zodiac): Water
First Appearance: P.M. 1st Book