my partner properly introduced me to Pikmin because I’ve never actually played the games so naturally I went “let’s scribble up a little gal about it”

I’d need to do more research on the canon (because he literally blows through the games so fast he skips parts of the story on accident, thanks honey ksjdfg) but the general idea I have for her is that she was part of a group of explorers-in-training and went on what was basically a field trip, and she got separated. After a week of being lost they presumed her dead and left her on this alien planet, and when her rations eventually ran out she ate a strange mushroom out of desperation. The mushroom ended up saving her life by forming a kind of symbiosis with her, eliminating her need to eat and allowing her to breathe in the foreign atmosphere, and now *bill wurtz voice* that’s just where she lives.

I was gonna give her a proper name later, so I called her Cilia as a placeholder, but now I’m starting to like that one. No idea what I’m gonna do with her, but yeah. OC? Self insert? Who knows. Maybe I’ll think of something after we start the third game kdjfhg