Poor Piper... everybody says she's stupid. She can't help it if she doesn't understand. She just doesn't understand that a busy intersection is not a good place to play. She doesn't understand that playing "76 Trombones" at four in the morning is not a good idea, no matter how much she wants to hear it. She doesn't understand why no one else wants to eat 14 hotdogs, spin around in circles and see how long it takes them to get sick. Or that biting people on the leg is not a good way to get their attention, or that licking a stranger's ice cream is not allowed, or... Well, maybe everybody is right. Piper Kimagure is a dumb, overly-hyper, loud, annoying brat. Perhaps as a four year old this all wouldn't seem so bad, but Piper is seventeen and still doesn't understand that the people on the TV aren't actually IN the TV. She's basically a good kid, since she is constantly cheerful and laughs at everything. She may throw temper-tantrums in public places, but usually it's just for show, and she's back to proving that she can jump more times than you in no time. Her only use to the others is her lightning whip. She spent three years in a magic-based school, and the only thing she learned was how to use a lightning whip. Unfortunately, she usually forgets to bring the whip with her.
Piper's father happens to be the Head Chairman of the Bounty Hunter's Association - in other words, the big bad guy to our SunDowner crew. Her family is very well off, but, at home, it was usually just Piper and her sister Ardyn by themselves, since Dad was usually at work. They both went to different schools and don't get along well at all. After Piper finished at her school, she has nothing to do - who would hire someone like her? The answer to that is Yfandes. In order to prove herself to her father, she managed to talk Yfandes into hiring her to slow down the SunDowner crew. Well, it didn't go as planned, and now Piper is terrified to return home to face her father. Poor thing indeed.

Piper: (pie-pur) Piper was named so long ago, it was hard to trace it! The name came from the Pink Floyd album Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I liked the name Piper, and thought it would be good for the character. I'm sure the album was named after the book, but don't quote me on that. It, of course, means "pipe player."

Lenn: (len) Pronounced the same as the name Lynn, and I consider it to be a variation of it. At the time I gave her this middle name (she middle name-less for ages), I was reading a book with a character named Len in it, but the character was an old man. I liked it anyway, and gave it to her, with the extra 'n' added later. Lynn means 'pretty,' so I say 'len' means pretty, too.

Kimagure: (kee-mah-goo-ray) Before she was in SunDowner - before she was in much of ANYTHING - Piper's last name was Richards. Why? I don't know. It was probably the first name that popped into my head. When I revamped her to use her for the Syndicate sim, I was fairly new to anime, and I decided to be cool and give her a Japanese name. I chose Kimagure, meaning "whimsical, capricious." Suits her, I guess.

Piper first popped out of nowhere in 1992 or thereabouts, making her the oldest of all my characters, SunDowner or otherwise. She was originally quite the little Mary Sue, and a lot more like Britan, except without the explosive temper. She *always* had the red hair and blue eyes tho, and gained the sunglasses somewhere along the way, too. For years she was my X-Men character - but I'll not go into that. After I got into anime, Piper was revamped as a character for a possible comic. She got her one and only rename - Kei - but she did get her hair buns and big bangs then. She also became a bit more airheaded, but still not quite the idiot we know today. When I needed a character for a sim, I decided to use her. I re-renamed her Piper, and for the first time she became honest-to-goodness stupid. Ash and I created Ardyn at the same time for the same sim, and not too long after that I tried another comic concerning the two of them. It was while I was trying to do the 2nd page of said comic when I came up with the idea for SunDowner, and the project was abandoned.
Well, not quite... Piper and Ardyn's story from that first comic became part of SunDowner, and Piper joined the cast in Issue 4.
One thing I get asked often is if Piper has any intelligence up there whatsoever. Well, perhaps she does, perhaps she doesn't. We may find out one day.

She sleeps in the glasses.

She has no figure to speak of, she's a little stick.

Her dog's name is Indiana (Indy), and she's a Jack Russell Terrier.

Knows very little magic other than the lightning whip.

Collects stuffed animals.

Thanks to tOon for colouring the Piper profile pic!!

Piper, SunDowner, and related characters copyright Kellilla Yarwood 1997-2003.
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