Raffina

Raffina
Raffina, as she appears in Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop.
Name
Kana	ラフィーナ
Romanization	Rafīna
IPA	/ˌrəˈfiːnə/ (Ra-FEE-na)
Other Names	Raffine Ragamuffin (by Sig) Raffoona (by Sig) 拉菲娜 (Lāfēinà) 라피나 (Rapina) Раффина (Raffina)
Personal Info
Gender	Female
Birthday	July 25 (Leo)
Blood type	A
Age	Junior high school age
Notable Appearances
First appearance	Puyo Puyo Fever
Latest appearance	Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop
Voice Actor(s)
Japanese	Noriko Namiki
English	Unconfirmed Brett Walter (Puyo Puyo Fever) Erica Lindbeck (Puyo Puyo Tetris onwards)
Puyo Puyo!! Quest information

Raffina (romanized as Raffine prior to the English version of Puyo Puyo Tetris) a citizen of Primp Town. She is also the rival of Amitie, although their rivalry was never established, and can be assumed to be one-sided. She is not very good at magic, but she can use her pouch as a kind of "magic amplifier" to convert and integrate martial arts into magical attacks, a fact she tries to keep as a secret from everybody.

Biography

Personal History

She hails from a prestigious family of mages and is the youngest of three daughters. Her aptitude for magic is low for unknown reasons, which has led to her developing an insecurity about her weak magical abilities. This is apparently why she would act so harsh to Amitie at first, as she was frustrated seeing Amitie sometimes use great magical power without much effort. The pouch she wears is a magic amplifier that gathers magic from its surroundings and amplifies the stored magic by using her physical attacks as a catalyst. However, this makes her unable to cast magic if she is not moving.

Appearance

Raffina is a teenage girl with long pink hair that curls in four huge bangs in the back, with a hair decoration that resembles a stylized wing and turquoise earrings. Throughout the series she has minor design changes, but consistently she wears orange and yellow attire loosely based on typical school uniform. She wears a long sleeve shirt with a white shirt underneath tied with a purple bow, an orange skirt, a pouch tied with a white belt, long socks with orange and yellow stripes, and a pair of orange shoes with purple bow laces. Underneath her skirt is a pair of orange shorts.

In Puyo Puyo Fever, her shoes are pointed upwards, but later games would change these to more standard shoes.

Between Puyo Puyo Fever and Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary, her sleeves would have orange and yellow stripes similar to her socks, but starting with Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary it's instead a solid orange with a yellow rim.

Personality

Raffina has a rather snobbish personality that compliments her rich upbringing. She presents herself as being a prim and proper young lady that's above her peers, isn't afraid to belittle those she considers beneath her, and is seeking out someone to be her prince. She is also very self-confident, sometimes to the point of being egotistical. Despite this, it's implied her confidence is something of a facade, hiding away insecurities about her below-average magic power.

Abilities

Raffina is a martial artist, similar to Rulue. Unlike her, however, Raffina's punches and kicks serve as her method of casting magic, something the latter conspicuously lacks. All of her spells and some shouts such as Allumage (ignition), Fort (strong), are in French. Similarly to Amitie and Arle, her spells are elemental in nature, mostly involving weather. In her debut game Puyo Puyo Fever her spells consisted of Étincelle (spark), Grêle (hail), Avalanche (avalanche) and Feu d'Arti, short for Feu d'Artifice (firework), culminating in Ciel Arc (rainbow). As of Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo Tetris and Puyo Puyo Chronicle, her spells were replaced with Neige (snow), Flamme (flame) and Décharge (discharge). The spells Feu d'Arti and Ciel Arc carry over as well however most of her spells from Puyo Puyo Fever did not. In the English version of Puyo Puyo Tetris, her spells are instead rendered in English; however, in the English releases of Puyo Puyo Fever, she continues to cast in French. She has also used Averse (shower), Orage (thunderstorm) and Rage Soleil (rage sun).

Raffina's overall magic power, however, is below average. To compensate, she carries a pouch that amplifies her magic to more suitable levels. It is unknown how weak her magic is without her pouch.

Relationships

Accord

Accord has taken on different viewpoints on Raffina across different games. In the English localization of Puyo Puyo Fever, Accord expresses dislike toward Raffina after knocking her unconscious; this was not present in the original text.

In Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Accord is rather impressed by Raffina's training efforts outside of school. She says she is an interesting and gifted girl, what with her strength and confidence, although she does acknowledge her occasional brashness.

Likewise, Raffina appears to greatly admire Accord and is eager to show off her abilities to her, as observed in her story in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary when she wishes to show off a new, perfected technique to Ms. Accord.

Amitie

Raffina has a one-sided (on her part) rivalry with her classmate, Amitie. She is often condescending towards Amitie due to her obliviousness to the finer things in life and general obliviousness. However, she does consider Amitie to be a fairly competent rival in Puyo Puyo battles. While Amitie does not reciprocate the rivalry, she does admire Raffina's determination greatly.

Klug

Raffina tends to butt heads with Klug because of their prideful dispositions, they will often get into arguments at even the slightest disagreement. She perceives him as an obnoxious goody two-shoes and has even been shown to curse in his presence in the English localization of Puyo Puyo Fever.

She also does not appear to consider him much of a friend either (if at all), as observed in Puyo Puyo Fever 2 when she makes next to no effort to help rescue Klug while he is under the influence of Possessed Klug, as she instead chooses to take the Stone of Moon for herself and deliver it to Lemres.

Rulue

Raffina is speculated to be the Primp Town counterpart of Rulue, as both are key rivals of the main protagonists and both favor utilizing martial arts over magic. In Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, the two are even seen becoming friends as they bond over their training and their similar prim and proper personalities. Their friendship is further elaborated in the fourth edition of Puyo Puyo Drama CD.

History

Puyo Puyo Fever

Raffina is the protagonist in the Hara Hara Course. Like Amitie, she sets out to find Accord's flying cane.

She first appears as the initial opponent of the Waku Waku Course, and her defeat there precedes the whole of her story. Across her story, she fights (and defeats) Onion Pixie, Klug, Ocean Prince, Tarutaru, Yu, Hohow Bird, Accord herself, and either Popoi or Carbuncle.

Puyo Puyo Fever 2

Like Amitie and Sig, Raffina has three courses in the story mode.

The only time she is fought against is in the RunRun course as Amitie, in which she is the first opponent.

In the WakuWaku Course, Raffina is asked by Otomo to look for the missing prince. On the way, she imagines the prince being a handsome man turned into a fish form. She found Ocean Prince with Lemres towards the end, and made the prince return to his human form against his will.

Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary

Raffina is a participant in the tournament in Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary and upon winning in her route, she wishes to become more beautiful. After making the wish, there are no obvious changes in her appearance, so Accord explains that the medal must think she is already beautiful enough. After Raffina happily leaves, Popoi tells Accord that she should just admit to Raffina that the medal wouldn't be able to grant such an abstract wish.

Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary

Raffina's story in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary focuses on her searching for Accord so she can show off a special technique that she had just finished perfecting.

Puyo Puyo!! Quest

For this character's stats in Puyo Puyo!! Quest, see PPQ:Raffina.

Raffina is available as a yellow card in this game. She is in the same series with Amitie, Sig, Lidelle and Klug, having similarly distributed skills and stats. For the Sakura Festival event from April 1, 2014, Raffina receives a redesigned alt named Sakura Raffina, donning an orange, traditional Japanese-styled outfit with cherry blossom petal motifs.

Puyo Puyo!! Quest Arcade

Raffina was available as a playable character in this game as an Attack Type character.

Puyo Puyo Tetris

Raffina plays a similar role to Feli and Rulue in this game. She is affected by the impending merging of the Puyo Puyo and Tetris worlds, causing her to act kooky. She Swap battles Amitie in an attempt to halt her and the Tetra crew's attempts to fix the merging of the worlds. After her defeat, she flees to Primp Town with the other two of the 'tainted' trio. Raffina runs into Sig, being interrupted by Amitie shortly after. Another "Swap" defeat at Amitie's hands, returns her to her normal self.

Puyo Puyo Chronicle

Raffina is encountered during the main story in Retty, where she is trying to resolve the strange phenomena to get the chance to soak in Retty's special hot springs.

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2

Raffina is first encountered during Amitie's segment in Chapter 3. Raffina is one of the victims of Marle's influence on Primp, and forces Lidelle to have Puyo battles with her non-stop. When Amitie arrives at the Primp Magic School, she is able to free her from Marle's corruption, where she apologizes to Lidelle for making her uncomfortable. Raffina ends up accompanying Amitie afterwards. Raffina soon after challenges Sig when he reveals that his left hand has been acting "loud" after his encounter with Marle.

Raffina is later on involved with helping Marle regain her memories by having a battle of beauty with Rulue.

Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop

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Raffina appears as a side story character in Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop as part of the game's starting playable roster. She first appears in Amitie's story, where Amitie told her that they were all trapped in the Dream World.

Her episode focused on her dream to have passionate battles with all sorts of people, leading to Meena using her powers to influence various other characters to feel attracted to Raffina and ask to battle with her.

Trivia

• Her own name is derived from the French word raffiné, meaning "refined".
  • In the English release of Puyo Puyo Fever, Raffina was spelled as "Raffine". This was updated in Puyo Puyo Tetris to better reflect the original pronunciation.
  • The name "Raffina" is a very rare surname with recorded bearers in the 1940 US census. Curiously, "Raffine" seems to be relatively more common than "Raffina", despite still being rare.

Alternate Voices

• In Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, she turns into a scared voice like Ocean Prince in Puyo Puyo Chronicle.
• In Puyo Puyo Tetris, she has a drowsy voice like Rulue in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Ecolo in Puyo Puyo Chronicle and Arle in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
  • In the English version, like Arle, she speaks in what seems to be a more serious tone.
• In Puyo Puyo Chronicle, she has an overall soft voice.
• In Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, her voice becomes childlike, reminiscent of her Mini Puyo Fever voice from Puyo Puyo 7, but with a softer tone. She shares this motif with her fellow magic school students Amitie, Sig, Klug, and Lidelle. Also, all "Sa" lines (except Spell 3) are changed to "Cha" lines.
  • In the English version, most of her alternate voice clips are reused from the original Puyo Puyo Tetris, and her new voice clips retain the same tone.

Appearances

Puyo Puyo

• Puyo Puyo Fever
• Puyo Puyo Fever 2
• Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary
• Puyo Puyo 7
• Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary
• Puyo Puyo!! Quest
• Puyo Puyo Tetris
• Puyo Puyo Chronicle
• Puyo Puyo Champions
• Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
• Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop

Spin-offs

• Puyo Puyo Fever Habanero
• Puyo Puyo!! Quest Arcade
• Puyo Puyo!! Touch

Character profiles

See the respective PPQ-namespace card pages of Raffina for the character's in-game description in Puyo Puyo!! Quest.

Game	Description
	"The rich girl in school. Although not gifted with magic, she trains hard every day!"
	"A student of Primp Magic School. Trains hard every day, seeking victory and beauty. Her confidence comes from diligence."
	"A proud student at Primp Magic School. More skilled at martial arts than with magic." (Character Select) "A very powerful, even more confident lady!" (Adventure Mode Intro)

Character specific mechanics

Puyo Puyo/Tetris

Game	Mode

Dropset

Pieces																Total
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16					Puyo
																11	3	1	1	39

Quartet

Pieces																Total
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16						Puyo
																3	4	2	4	3	64

Fusion

Puyo Pieces						Tetrimino
1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	SP
								or or

Ice Blocks Nuisance Pattern

Pieces

Chants

Due to the large number of chants for Raffina, the full list is moved to a separate page. See Raffina/Chants.

Gallery

Due to the large number of images for Raffina, the gallery is moved to a separate page. See Raffina/Gallery.