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You'd think being a princess means I get to be in charge! But instead, EVERYONE ELSE bosses ME around over every little thing I do!

Umbrella Renoir (JP: アンブレラ・ルノワール Anburera Runowāru) is a downloadable playable character in Skullgirls 2nd Encore.

She is the younger of the two Canopy Kingdom princesses, her older sister being Parasoul. Their mother, the Queen Nancy, was the Skullgirl seven years ago.

Development

Umbrella was originally one of the mascots[2] that former Skullgirls creative director, Alex Ahad, made and used for his old personal website "PuG's PuB" since at least October 2001.[3] She was also nicknamed as Umbrella-chan[2] and appeared in a comic along with other Ahad's original characters.[4]

An old live journal by Alex Ahad stated that Umbrella had "raw magical talent, psychic powers, spirit of Aesil."[5]

Umbrella was the first possible DLC character to be revealed in the Keep Skullgirls Growing Indiegogo campaign, at $20,000. She was initially supposed to be a part of the launch cast alongside Squigly, but was moved to be a first-round DLC character because the team needed villains for the story. It has been stated that she is one of the characters who would need to be made playable for the canon Skullgirls storyline to be revealed.[6]

She was announced as a Skullgirls 2nd Encore DLC character on May 6th, 2021.

Umbrella poster key art SG2E

Umbrella's poster art

Name

Hungern, the name of Umbrella's living umbrella, is the German word for "starve" and the Swedish word for "famine". This fits with the theme of the Renoir family's Living Weapons being named after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Design

Umbrella's design was inspired by the U.S. salt-producing company, Morton Salt. Its products feature a young girl in a yellow raincoat wielding an umbrella in the rain. As such, she has matching boots and a yellow hat. According to Hidden Variable developer Sairus Delaney, Umbrella’s pink hair color is a nod to her being a Skullgirl as far as they know. It is likely a muted version of the red hair color of her father. Her eyes are portrayed as dark pink.

Abilities

Hungern is described as being "[is] actually a bit different" from the other Renoir umbrellas.[7]

It is likely that the Renoirs had avoided using Hungern unless, like in Umbrella's case, it is absolutely necessary. Without Hungern siphoning off her life force, she may already have turned fully Skullgirl. As a side effect of Hungern's power drain, Umbrella's physical development might have been affected.[7]

It is confirmed that Umbrella has innate necromancy power due to her Skullgirl blood, and in the past has (perhaos unknowingly) used it to revive a corpse by being near.[7]

Backstory

Hungern is a Living Weapon, implied to have existed back in Eliza and Samson's time, with Samson calling him an insatiable devourer of people, armies, civilizations and everything in-between. At some point he fell into the hands of the Renoirs. He's in Umbrella's possession ostensibly for her protection, but in truth, she has him because his ability to siphon life energy just by being near him is supposed to be suppressing her dormant Skullgirl power, which she inherited from her mother while she was going through a slow transformation.

Umbrella has so much power that she can use Hungern without any ill effects whatsoever, a feat so shocking that Samson claims that he's never encountered a "monster" like her before. Due to Umbrella seeing Hungern as her best friend, Hungern is protective of her.

Story Mode description

Through drawings, Umbrella presents herself as the princess of a whole country, lamenting that everyone around her bosses her around, including her older sister Parasoul, who has been working hard to make the kingdom a better place since their mother's death. Despite this, Umbrella expresses that the cool thing about being a princess is having the talking umbrella Hungern as her best friend and she proceeds to tell how they were able to defeat the Skullgirl.

At the Boardwalk, Parasoul explains to Umbrella that Hungern is her responsibility, that she has to make sure it doesn't eat anyone and is only used for self-defense. Although Umbrella proposes to feed Hungern garbage, Parasoul doesn't allow it and suggests that they focus on the Boardwalk attractions. Umbrella says that he wishes her sister had taken them to jail to see the gigan lady from TV, but Parasoul thinks they should spend their time doing something fun and not gawking at society's miscreants. A call interrupts the conversation to inform Parasoul that the Skullgirl is in New Meridian. Although Umbrella is excited to accompany her sister, Parasoul tells her to stay at the ice cream stand waiting for the Egrets to pick her up in her absence.

As Parasoul leaves, Filia bumps into Umbrella, causing Hungern to become angry. Samson wants ice cream, but Filia tells him that they have to find Carol and the Skullgirl. Umbrella notices that there is "a monster" in Filia's head and expresses that it would be fun if Hungern lived in hers to eat gallons of ice cream in one bite. Samson is shocked when he recognizes Hungern's name, telling Filia that it is more dangerous than she can imagine and that they must stop it before it eats "that kid and half of New Meridian". Filia tries to refuse to confront Umbrella, but is forced to fight her after Samson's warnings.

Having been defeated by Umbrella, Samson is surprised that she is still alive after being close to Hungern for too long, as he states that the weapon eats life energy very fast. Filia speaks up for Samson, telling Umbrella that he's sorry and that he won't do anything bad again.

Role

Skullgirls 2nd Encore Story Mode

Parasoul's story

Fukua's story

Robo-Fortune's story

Skullgirls Mobile Origin Stories

No Shelter

Personality

She is somewhat of a carefree, albeit spoiled child. Despite her fights with her sister, she does genuinely care for her.

Hungern prefers spicy food, but really it would eat anything.[7]

Fighting style

An Umbrella alpha teaser trailer revealed Hungern to have a long tongue like grab that can counter zoners like Peacock, making her intangible until she spits out Peacock. The move also bounces the foe off the wall allowing for follow ups. She also has float like Parasoul but her being inexperienced, falls over and causes her to be on the ground. She has a flashkick move where she attacks the opponent multiple times and slams them down leading into follows ups if guessed correctly.

The key factor for Umbrella's fighting style is the Hunger Meter. There are four states that affect the properties of Umbrella's attacks: Satiated (The default form), Ravenous (Her moves come out faster), Overstuffed (Her moves hit harder at the cost of speed), and Starving (Her moves become slower, but not powerful like Overstuffed). With the meter decreasing as time passes by, Umbrella must pay attention to Hunger's state to avoid getting into troubling situations. The Hunger Meter can be filled by doing attacks where Hungern eats the opponent; the less meter Umbrella has, the more actions Hungern can perform during some of them. Hungern can also spit out small bubbles that can be a distraction and big bubbles that not only create puddles when popped, but also allows Umbrella to jump higher or further.

A small attention to detail in one of Umbrella's intros is when she feeds Hungern ice cream and the hunger meter rises in a small proportion.

Color palettes

If color palette 30 is used together with the Skullgirl Umbrella voice pack, most of Umbrella attacks will spew skeleton parts, e.g. her taunt and Under the Weather super (similar to Valentine's time-out). A Skeleton will spawn in front of a defeated Umbrella for crying with her, etc.

  1. "Salty" - Default colors
  2. Original colors
  3. Santa Claus / Christmas Tree
  4. Original colors
  5. Original colors
  6. "Candy Crusher" - Original colors
  7. Parasoul / Krieg
  8. "Puddle Pirate" - May / Mr. Dolphin (Guilty Gear series)
  9. "Wild Child" - Beowulf / Grendel
  10. Princess Peach and her parasol (Super Mario series)
  11. "Tidal Traveler" - Moana / Heihei (Moana)
  12. Ash Ketchum / Pikachu (Pokémon series)
  13. Princess Tiana in blue dress / Prince Naveen in frog form (The Princess and the Frog)
  14. Hat Kid / Umbrella (A Hat in Time)
  15. Original colors
  16. "Space Case" - Gaz Membrane / GIR in disguise (Invader Zim)
  17. "Rose-Tinted" - Amy Rose / Piko Piko Hammer (Sonic the Hedgehog series)
  18. Kiyoko (Akira)
  19. "Fresh Heir" - Original colors
  20. Original colors
  21. Original colors
  22. Chihiro Ogino / Haku in dragon form (Spirited Away)
  23. Neff / Octeyes (Altered Beast)
  24. Pink Ostrich (Battle Circuit)
  25. "Wunderkind" - Lucca / Robo (Chrono series)
  26. Roll / Rush (Mega Man original series)
  27. Original colors
  28. "Raining Champ" - Iris (BW1) / Axew (Pokémon Black and White)
  29. "Eager Deceiver" - Neopolitan / Hush (RWBY series)
  30. "Death Wish" - Marie
  31. "Psykid" - Anya Forger / Bond Forger (SPY x FAMILY)

Skullgirls Mobile exclusive palettes

Official profiles

Skullgirls website

The youngest princess of the Canopy Kingdom, Umbrella is rarely seen outside the halls of the royal palace in Canopolis. She has grown up sheltered, with her only true friend being a family heirloom: the Living Weapon Hungern. Together, they fight evil and kick butt in the name of justice, just like Umbrella’s big sister: Parasoul! Or at least they would if Parasoul would let them out of the palace!

The rise of a new Skullgirl may just give Umbrella the adventure she wants. But, when she finds out the truths about herself and her family, will she wish she had stayed home?

Keep Skullgirls Growing Indiegogo campaign

The younger princess of the Canopy Kingdom, Umbrella is drawn into the current conflict by a familiar presence. She has grown up sheltered from the full circumstances surrounding her mother's death. What effect will the truth have on her?

Playstyle Speculation

Umbrella’s living weapon, Hungern, has an insatiable appetite. Choose between using Hungern to end special moves for extra advantages throughout the match, or let his hunger build up for more damage later.

Hungern takes on the shapes of various nightmarish mouths as it tries to consume the enemy, ranging from horse heads to anemones. Expect lots of teeth! Some of its attacks may have a bit of a Takashi Murakami vibe to them.

Gameplay Inspiration

Trailer

Skullgirls_2nd_Encore_-_Umbrella_Trailer

Skullgirls 2nd Encore - Umbrella Trailer

Trivia

  • During the Indiegogo campaign, the art team consistently drew a very disgruntled Umbrella in pictures about DLC. This is a reference to the fact she was snubbed as a first-round DLC character by Big Band.
    • Her long wait to be playable is alluded to when selecting her where she annoyingly states "Took you long enough to pick me".
  • In one of the concept art images of Umbrella's moveset she is seen saying "Is Umbrella gonna have to choke a bitch?" this is a reference to Wayne Brady's line from The Chappelle Show.
    • This is also referenced in one of her voicelines, albeit worded differently.
  • Umbrella is seen dancing with Adam in the background of the Glass Canopy stage.
  • In a drawing stream, one of her moves looks like [1]Venom's Venom Fang.
  • Umbrella's level 1 Blockbuster Retina Reflector references Urien and his super move Aegis Reflector from the Street Fighter games.
  • Umbrella's hurt animations show Hungern taking the attack, similar to Rachel Alucard from BlazBlue. Him falling down just shows her getting tired since Hungern is the one taking all the attacks.

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Umbrella « Skullgirls 2nd Encore. Autumn Games. Retrieved on 2022 April 8.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Nu tu Yu. PuG's PuB. tenkuu.net. Archived from the original on 2001-10-23. Retrieved on 2021 December 5.
  3. PuG's PuB; yes this would that which you refer to.. PuG's PuB. tenkuu.net. Archived from the original on 2001-10-23. Retrieved on 2021 December 5.
  4. Pug's Pub -001. PuG's PuB. tenkuu.net. Archived from the original on 2001-10-23. Retrieved on 2021 December 5.
  5. https://o-8.livejournal.com/73428.html
  6. https://twitter.com/Skullgirls/status/518893188421926913
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chrono_Tata (2021-06-09). The Canon Info Thread - What We Know. Skullheart. XenForo. Retrieved on 2021 July 9.

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