| Cheron Du Pell | ||
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| Gallery | Quotes | Relationship | ||
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| Kana | シユロン・ド・べル | |
| Romaji | shiyuron・do・beru | |
| Physical Appearance | ||
| Monster Species | Heavyweight Centaur | |
| Gender |  Female
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| Hair | Gray white | |
| Height | 212 cm (6'95")[1] | |
| B-W-H | B117(K)-W68-H??[1] | |
| Monster Profile | ||
| Occupation | *Farmer *Black Lily Employee *Knight (formerly) | |
| Media Debut | ||
| Manga | Chapter 70 | |
Cheron Du Pell () is a Heavyweight Centauride who has asked Centorea Shianus to help her with her farming work on her farm. She was formerly a legendary knight of the noble Pell family of Centaurs. She makes her debut in Chapter 70.
Appearance[]
Cheron in full armor.
Cheron is a dark-skinned centauride with with light hair, horse ears, large breasts and a lower horse-half body. Her hair is tied in a messy ponytail. As a Heavyweight Centaur, Cheron has a very muscular physique, and is taller than regular Centaurs such as Centorea Shianus.
Her usual clothing consists of overalls specifically designed for a Centaur's lower body, but is tied up instead of being worn on the upper body and a pair of worker's gloves. Her chest is covered by a black tank top that is a few sizes too small, causing her underboobs to be visible. As seen in a scene during the picnic in Chapter 70, Cheron does not wear horseshoes, unlike the other Centaur characters in the series.
During the Centaur race in the bonus comic Centaur Girls Hot to Trot, Cheron wore a black sports outfit consisting of a short, sleeveless top that left her belly uncovered and a black lower part that was specially made for a Centaur's horse-like lower body as well as a pair of striped wristbands. Her sports top seems to be even skimpier than her usual outfit as even more of her cleavage is exposed besides her underboobs, although this was only visible in a short scene and not clearly visible, as Cheron wore armor that covered her entire upper body during the race afterwards.
Personality[]
Cheron when angered.
As a stereotypical Heavyweight Centaur, Cheron has a very easy-going and amicable personality, despite her past as a legendary warrior. Due to her heavy accent and way of speaking, people such as Centorea initially see Cheron as a bit simple-minded. However, underneath that Cheron is surprisingly wise and intelligent, giving Centorea valuable advice and even drafting a very crafty plan for liminals to make a large amount of money off of simple farm work which is considered unique for her subspecies.
Cheron is very forward-looking and strategic, as she also takes into account that, apart from farm work, there are other activities where the special traits of liminals can be put to good use, something that the Japanese government often neglects, as mentioned several times in the series. Cheron always thinks about the needs of others in her planning, as she emphasizes that her planned business will not only be one where the Liminals can do work that they are good at, but it is also a way in which Liminals can be proud in what they can do.
As Cheron explains to Centorea, she sees her time as a knight as more of a glorious past and believes that the traditional image of the knight in modern times is not the same as it used to be, as jousting duels are now merely a sport in which it no longer matters how strong the participants are. But Cheron firmly believes that through her new work as a farmer she has found a way to help other liminals and show them a new way to use their abilities. She compares this new way of life to the duty of a traditional knight, namely to help others, only now in normal everyday life, and no longer in a battle.
Regardless, despite her usual easy-going and amicable personality, Cheron is still a very capable warrior when angered; when a group of Bikers started stealing her crops and vandalizing her work, Cheron furiously assaulted them and wrecked their motorcycles without hesitation, greatly impressing Centorea.
Although Cheron sees her time as a knight as more of a glorious past, she can still get very excited about competitions as they remind her of the time when she played jousting matches. However, as can be seen in the bonus comic "Centaur Girls Hot to Trot", this excitement can lead to Cheron overlooking the essentials in certain competitions, such as when she went to the Kobold Stadium racetrack in full plate armour like at a knight's tournament, even though the heavy armour slowed her down massively during the race. Cheron didn't seem to care that she ended up in last place, because she thinks that speed doesn'tu matter in fights and weight makes the winner, although this shows that Cheron may not have fully understood that a race cannot be compared to a jousting duel.
Also as mentioned in the secrets of the centaur girls, she hates eating raw vegetables.
Skills and Traits[]
Personal Skills:[]
- Martial Arts Training: As a former knight, Cheron is able to defend her farm with her farming tools from bikers trying to steal from and damage it.
- Fantastic Farmer: Cheron proves to be an expert at farming various types of produce.
- Speed: According to the bonus comics of Volume 17, Cheron can run much faster than a Heavyweight Centaur should actually be able to, although wearing armour slows her down massively.
- Entrepreneurship: Cheron has a business-like mindset which enables her to come up with plans for making lots of money.
Physical Traits[]
- Heavyweight Centaur Physiology:
- Strength: As a Heavyweight Centaur, and due to her size and muscles, Cheron is physically extremely strong, surpassing even Cerea's strength, who was in awe by it. When angered, Cheron effortlessly beat up several bikers attempting to steal her crops and hurl piles of solid earth towards them which even wrecked their motorcycles.[2]
- Stamina: Cheron possesses great stamina, allowing her to use her great strength for prolonged tasks, such as plowing an entire field by herself.[2]
- Large Breasts: Female Centaurs have large breasts for feeding their young, which are larger than human babies and require more nutrition.
- Taste Buds: As herbivores, centaurs generally have twice as many taste buds as omnivores (e.g. humans), while omnivores have over twenty times as many taste buds as carnivores (e.g. Lamia).
- Body temperature: Centaurs have a standard body temperature of 38 degrees.
- Centaur Ears: A Centaur's ears are capable of reflecting the centaur's mood as they are able to move much in the same way as a horse's ears.
- Sense of Smell: As Centorea reveals in Chapter 71, because of their equine biology, Centaurs have a sense of smell that is 1000 times greater than that of a human.
Possessions[]
- Farming Equipment: Cheron uses various types of farming equipment on her farm which most were custom-made for centaurs and a few of them can be used as improvised weapons.
- According to the secrets of the Centaur Girls, Cheron's hoe and shovel were actually reforged from her mithril spear.
- Armour: As seen in the bonus comic "Centaur Girls Hot to Trot", Cheron still has her armour from her time as a knight, which is specially made for the horse-like lower body of a Centaur.
History[]
Cheron was born as a member of the noble Heavyweight Centaur family Du Pell and was originally a knight. She soon gained a famous reputation as one of the greatest knights in the Du Pell family, not least because she was unsurpassed in spear tournaments. She played 831 matches, all of which she won. Also Centorea heard tales of Cheron's fame during this time, although the both would not meet in person until much later.
However, by the time of the manga series and the introduction of the Cultural Exchange Between Species Bill, Cheron is now a farmer in Japan who owned a patch of land to grow her crops as well as being employed by Mr. President and regards her former career as a knight as just a glorious past. With jousting is now merely a sport in moderns days, Cheron no longer consider this as a knight duty and as a farmer she has found her own way of living in harmony.[2]
Plot[]
Enlisting Centorea's Aid[]
Cheron develops an ingenious plan through which many other Liminals can earn a lot of money simply by doing farm work, while also using their individual abilities. However, since the project was still in its infancy at the time of Chapter 70, and Cheron needed help with the farm work, she sent a request to Centorea to help her. Centorea agreed, although she was unaware that farm work was involved, as Cheron apparently hadn't clearly mentioned that in her request. Also, Centorea wasn't immediately aware of Cheron's identity since Cheron didn't mention her last name either.
Centorea feels humiliated by farm work.
At Cheron's farm, Centorea helped her with the work, but she isn't very happy about it, considering farm work below the dignity of a knight. In particular, when Cheron asks Centorea to till a field with a plow, Centorea is outraged by this, feeling that Cheron is using her like a simple farm horse. While the two till two large fields, Centorea soon becomes exhausted from the unaccustomed exertion, although Cheron, due to her easy-going nature, takes no notice.
After the work in the fields is done, Kimihito, who came with Centorea, prepares a small picnic for the two Centaurides. Cheron praises Kimihito's homemade carrot cakes, which flatters him greatly. When Cheron tells Centorea that they will till one more field after that, Centorea, exhausted and still hurting her honor as a knight, asks why Cheron is doing all the farm work by hand in the first place instead of using a tractor or other farm machines.
A picnic for three.
Cheron then explains that using a tractor just wouldn't be profitable, especially in a city like Tokyo, while Liminals can cover those long distances with no problem. Also, using old-style farm tools is actually a smart strategy from Cheron, as the various Liminals can use their abilities like physical strength effectively. And they make money doing it too. Cheron adds that for now she's just getting by on the money she's receiving from the Japanese government, but in the future she wants to make an honest profit from these farms. Also, Cheron feels there needs to be more ways to use the special traits of Liminals.
After this speech, Kimihito and Centorea are deeply impressed by how many aspects Cheron takes into account through the use of simple farm work. Centorea thinks to herself that she first thought that Cheron was just a bit of an airhead, but now she needs the reconsider her opinion of the older Centauride. At that moment, Centorea thinks suddenly that she has heard the name Cheron before, but she doesn't have time to think about it when Cheron tells her that they are going back to the fields.[2]
Trouble at the Farm[]
However, as the two Centaurides make their way back to the fields, Centorea suddenly hears loud noises and shortly thereafter she discovers a biker gang invading Cheron's fields and starting to steal vegetables. Outraged by this behaviour, Centorea calls out to Cheron that she will deal with the thieves while in the meantime Cheron can calls the police. However, when Centorea turns to Cheron, she stops abruptly, as she sees the Heavyweight Centauride suddenly undergo a drastic change. Her previous calm, carefree expression is suddenly replaced by an angry coldness, causing Centorea to back down uncertainly.
Cheron confront the thieves.
Cheron stands threateningly in front of the thieves and asks them icily what they are doing in her fields. The biker thieves flinch at the sight of Cheron and try to talk their way out, but Cheron doesn't hesitate. First she uses her shovel to fling a large amount of dirt and stones at them. With injuries to their faces, the biker thieves try to flee in horror, but Cheron unceremoniously levers a large rock out of the ground with her shovel and thrown it onto the thieves' bikes and destroys them, leaving the thieves with no way to escape quickly.
Cheron now angrily prepares to punish the thieves once and for all and threatens to ask them if they have anything else to say. Intimidated, the thieves try to talk their way out of it with the rather weak excuse that they thought the tomatoes and the other vegetables in the fields would grow wild in nature, but this excuse, in which so laboriously grown vegetables are equated with wild plants, only enrages Cheron even more, and she beats up the biker gang with hoof kicks until they pass out.
Centorea freezes in disbelief for a moment when, seeing Cheron's fighting style, she finally realizes where she heard her name from before; Cheron Du Pell, member of the noble family of Pell, a family of great warriors. Perplexed, Centorea asks why a great knight of house Pell works on a farm, but Cheron tells her that her time as a knight is now merely past glory. Cheron says that even a knight has to learn to live in harmony over time and nowadays jousting is merely a sport, which Cheron thinks, this cannot be said to be a knights duty. She further explains that she has now found her own path and a way to share her way of "living" with others through farm work.[2]
Being Idolized by a Fan[]
Inspired by Cheron's words, Centorea devotes herself to the life of a farmer for a while.
Centorea is deeply impressed by these words and realizes how very different Cheron is from herself as she thinks even as a knight about all Liminal species. Ashamed, Centorea remembers how she completely looked down on farm work before and admits that she still has so much to learn even now. Full of enthusiasm and to do penance, she asks Cheron to help with the farm work again in order to fulfil her duty as a farmer. Cheron grateful accept the offer. The next morning, Kimihito is surprised by Centorea's sudden enthusiasm for farming, to which Cheron tells him that she thinks Centorea had a bit too big change of heart and now thinks she is a farmer.[2]
The Race of the Centaur Girls[]
Some time later, in the bonus Comic Centaur Girls Hot to Trot, Mr President was angrily confronted by Ms Smith after learning that he has made Nico an offer to work for him and sold the scraped powder of her horn to his company, although the sale of Liminal body parts is forbidden by law. Ms Smith sees this as a personal blow to herself, as Nico is actually one of the Liminals under her care as her coordinator under the Extraspecies Exchange Bill, although Mr President counters that Nico came to his company of her own free will. To resolve her ongoing dispute with Mr President, Ms Smith announces that she will have a "Centaur game" with him.
Cheron together with Meamil and Nighdrem in Mr President's team.
A short time later, Ms Smith gathers the six Centaur girls (and for some reason, Centorea too) in the Kobold Stadium and announces what she has come up with for the "Centaur Games": Two teams of three centaur girls each are to compete against each other in a race. Since Cheron was one of the girls who worked for the Black Lily Laboratory, she was one of the girls in Mr President's team, together with Nighdrem and Meamil, while in Ms Smith's team are the three Centaur girls who are under her care (Alusia, Pegasania, Nico). The race was scheduled to take place on the stadium's thousand-meter course and the team with the first racer to finish would win it.
Ms Smith stated that if Mr President's team wins, she will never interfere in his business again, but if her team wins, the Prez must promise never again to make an offer to work for his company to one of the Liminal Girls under Smith's care. In addition, the winner of the race was allowed to request any wish to Smith or the Prez, although Cheron didn't seem to be that interested in that price. Mr President relied heavily on Cheron for the race, as she was unusually fast for her size, and also Polt, who oversaw the race as a commentator, considered Cheron to be one of the three favourites in the race, along with the fast Alusia and Pegasania with her flying ability.
Before the race, Centorea noticed that Cheron seemed to be a bit upset about it. When she confronts the older centaur about it, Cheron apologizes and explains that this whole competition she just got all riled up like she did when she was still playing jousting matches. Centorea notes that this will simply be a race today, although Cheron replies that she will still give it her all. She then suddenly starts to put on full-body armour, although Centorea emphatically repeats that this will only be a race and not a jousting match, and worries if the heavy armor will slow down Cheron.
Cheron in full plate armor during the race.
After Pegasania and Alusia are eliminated from the race (the latter due to sabotage by Meamil and Nighdrem), Mr President initially bets on Cheron to win the race for his team. However, Cheron's decision to wear a full plate armor in the race turns out to be a serious mistake, as Centorea had already feared, as Cheron makes slow progress and lags far behind the other participants. When Polt sees Cheron in armor, she even questions whether no one has told Cheron that this is a race, although Cheron, unimpressed by these comments, only counters that "speed would doesn't matter in a battle" and that instead "weight would make the winner". But these words do not change Cheron's defeat.
Cheron holds the unconscious Nico while Polt interviews Centorea.
In the end, however, none of the six Centaur Girls emerged as the winner, as Centorea who, for some reasons, was involved in the race as a seventh participants and did not belong to a team, won the race instead (and without anyone noticing). During this, Cheron can be seen holding Nico when the Unicorn woman faints in shock when it first seemed that she had won the race hard-fought, only to have to accept the rather bitter defeat that Centorea had won instead. As her prize, Centorea made it a condition to Ms Smith and Mr President that they should never again hold something like this race to settle their differences.[3]
Zoological Classification[]
- Main article: Centaur
Heavyweight Centaurs (重量種 Jūryō-shu?) are the most muscular of the Centaur subspecies. They are so powerful that they can move around unimpeded even while wearing heavy armor. However, since they rarely have opportunities to wear armor in modern times, they apply their strength to farming and agriculture. They are the largest and most muscular of the centaurs, and their legs are far thicker than those of other centaur subspecies. However, most are gentle, good-natured, yet absent-minded and they are often dim-witted.
Trivia[]
- Like many characters, her name is a pun on her species. "Cheron" comes from the Percheron horse, a breed of work horses.
- Its also a possible reference to "Chiron", the mythological centaur from Greek Mythology.
- Her last name Du Pell basically means of the skin in French as Du basically means of the and Pell derives from the Middle English Old French word for skin, pel.
- In the official English translation of Volume 17, Cheron's surname is "du Per", although in the German version of the manga her surname is "Du Pell", just like in the fan-translation.
- Cheron and Rem (the latter only in the official translation of Chapter 69) are the only ones of the Centaur girl in the Centorea Arc whose full name was revealed in their debut chapters, the surnames of the other Centaur girls are not revealed until the secret pages of Volume 17.
- Cheron's spear tournament results are as follows: out of 831 matches; 831 wins, 0 losses.[1]
- Her favourite hoe and shovel have been forged from the steel of her old mithril spears.[1]
- In real life, "mithril" is actually a fictional metal from "The Lord of the Rings" universe by J.R.R. Tolkien, best known for its rarity and unusual resilience. Outside of the universe, this can simply be considered as a reverence for Okayado, but within the universe of the manga series, this would imply that mithril actually exists in the Monster Musume franchise.
- Her deepest secret is that she hates eating raw vegetables.[1]
- Cheron is the first centaur character introduced in volume 17 who's not an exchange student, followed by Meamil.
- Although this was not addressed in Chapter 70, Cheron's attack on the bikers can technically be considered as a violation of the Cultural Exchange Beetween Species Bill, as this law prohibits humans and liminals from harming each other.
- In Monster Musume Fantastic Life, her name is Shuron instead.
- As revealed in Centaur Girls Hot to Trot, Cheron is one of the Liminal girls who works for the Black Lily Innovations Research Laboratory.
- In slight contradiction to this revelation, however, Cheron states in Chapter 70 that she receives financial aid from the government through the sale of her home-grown vegetables. Considering that Cheron plans to build an urban farming initiative in the future, it is more likely that she doesn't work directly for Mr President, but has entered into a business partnership with him in order to be able to build her own business with his financial support.
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