Ripple (LD Stories)

Ripple is a Woodsprite who originally appeared in the cartoon show of Season 7 - he is a one-shot character in only one episode called, "The Smurfling's Unsmurfy Friend". Please click here for his official page

According to Numbuh 404's accounts, he is still the energetic prankster he was before, but after his encounter with the Smurfs he learned to think before pranking (to an extent).

Role in the Story
He is one of two main protagonists in the upcoming fanfiction, "Tripped Up" with a female named Karma being the other. When they meet, he boasts about being "Ripple the Remarkable" because he's never met anyone able to prank him. Not too surprising to him, she intends to be the first laying claim to be an expert prankster - unfortunately, when she attempts her signature "Gotcha Gag" on him later, it backfires from his quick thinking: he sees her hiding and sneaks up behind her. Then he impersonates a bear roaring which gives her such a fright that she ends up running into a shrub. He laughs at her misfortune and tells her to put a little more effort into it next time. As he leaves, he hears her say that she refuses to give up.

Quite some time goes by with her constantly trying to prank him, the ideas backfire on her instead, and he laughs until one day: as he's strolling through a flower patch in the afternoon he spots a closed Buttercup and picks it, thinking fondly of Karma for a moment. He remembers it being her favorite flower and smiles. Recognizing the feeling accompanying the thought, he briskly leaves the patch in search of a pond. With any luck, some water will snap him out of it - a solo prank master is who he is, he reminds himself, and a female would only get in the way of that.

Along the way, he stops to let a mother duck and her ducklings cross the path he's on - then he spots Karma sitting at the edge of a pond abundant with fish and water plants. He takes a few feet forward, stumbles, falls, and hears her laugh abruptly; he looks back and sees - to his dismay - a rope. Instantly he realizes he has ust fallen for her "Gotcha Gag" and prozen his own prediction right. As he stands up and brushes off the dirt, he curses himself for letting a soft spot grow within him. Then he approaches the edge where Karma is sitting and pushes her into the pond as payback.

Since then he noticed that she is starting to ease up on him - and her pranks - until he grows tired of their mutual friendship-rivalry. He is tortured by the constant thought of her after they've known one another for half a year, so he purposely falls for some of her pranks, hoping she will become bored and leave him alone. He discovers that she recognizes his plan and - to his astonishment - stops pranking him, but never disappears from his life. Eventually he is fed up with their "game" and gives in to his feelings (despite hating the taste of defeat).

One day he walks straight up to her and comes right out with a bouquet of flowers dispersing from his hat, telling her that he has developed a certain fondess for her. At first she doesn't seem to comprehend the phrase, and for several days he sees no sign of her anywhere. This troubles him - he wonders if she has truly left or if she may even remotely like him back.

Then he is taken by surprise when she tackles him to the ground and happily announces that she loves him; at first he questions the sincerity of her words. He pushes her off of him so he can sit up, and then she leans in, giving him a very simple - yet meaningful - first kiss. It triggers an emotional response he's never felt before: love. Immediately he is hers and vice versa.

Appearance
Ripple wears a purple hat that matches his cape and shoes, a lavender long-sleeve shirt under a semi-turtleneck lime green tunic, lavender leggings, and has a small rope-like tie around his waist. His long hair is chestnut brown, he has two long, thin antennae, and pale skin. He is also taller than the Smurfs and his girlfriend, and has standard black eyes.

He is most likely voiced by the same person who was Hefty in the original cartoon show because their tones have similar inflections.