Characters in Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland

This is a list of all the characters who appear in Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland.

Main Characters

Tingle

see main article, Tingle

• • Tingle is the main protagonist of the game. In the beginning he is named by the player, though he is soon after renamed by Uncle Rupee. He's not much of a fighter, but he's able to cook up recipes, map important locations, and hire bodyguards for protection.

Uncle Rupee

see main article, Uncle Rupee

• • Uncle Rupee is a mysterious old man who convinces Tingle to collect Rupees so he can enter into Rupeeland. Throughout the game, he changes into more elaborate costumes as Tingle collects rupees. At the end of the game, he turns on Tingle and the two battle on the surface of the moon.

Pinkle

see main article, Pinkle

• • Pinkle is the daughter of the Great Fairy. She was captured by Uncle Rupee and transformed into a human so she would work in a small room in the Auros Ruins working on a terminal to guide Uncle Rupee's servants in finding more Rupees.

Barkle

• • Barkle is a little dog that Tingle first encounters on Cape Treasure. After Tingle sells the dog a few bones, Barkle takes off on his own. Later when Tingle first meets the Stalfos pirates, Barkle scares off the pirates (who are afraid of dogs chewing on their bones) and somehow makes it to their hideout. His presence has the pirates all in an uproar and only Tingle was able to 'scare him away'. Later Barkle found his way back to the Hometown Prairie. He made his own stop at the Western Pool and was given a Tingle outfit. He then settled in Tingle's house where he would find Rupees for Tingle whenever he was given enough bones.

Port Town Characters

The Guard

• • The Guard is a loyal soldier who guards the entrance of Port Town from intruders. However like most citizens of the town, he has a bit of a greedy streak in him and won't let Tingle in unless he pays a fee of 5 Rupees to get in. Later when his wife becomes ill, he purchases medicine from Tingle. He afterwards begins selling jars to Tingle until his wife is suddenly plagued by ghosts.

He catches a ride to the Icy Plain to find the source of the ghosts. He is at first too afraid to go in, so Tingle has to push him all the way to the graveyard. He then soldiers on to face the ghost, but her power is so great that she kills him in one bolt. To bring him back to life, Tingle has Chiko's deceased grandmother disguise herself as the Guard's wife and she convinces him to return to life. The guard's fury becomes so great that the ghost is unable to scratch him. The ghost then admits she was jealous of the guard's affections for his wife, so she releases her. Afterwards the Guard returns to his post, but not before giving Tingle ample reward for his help.

Bella

• • Bella owns a cafe near the entrance of Port Town. She doesn't negotiate with Tingle until he appeases her with 36 Rupees, but afterwards she starts to buy ingredients from him. Once Tingle encounters the Journalist, Bella will sell the Simple Juice recipe so Tingle can revive him. Because of the Journalist's frequent explorations, Tingle inevitably has to buy two other juice recipes from her.

The Journalist

• • The Journalist is an eccentric writer who enjoys drinking juice as Bella's cafe in Port Town. He often likes to travel abroad, though the traveling tends to prove too much for him and he'll end up passed out in the middle of nowhere. TIngle finds him in this state in the game three different times and has to provide him with Bella's special juice recipes to revive him. He'll then reward Tingle before heading back to town. An odd quirk is that he always speaks in first person as his own narrator.

The Jeweler

• • The Jeweler is a wealthy merchant who buys precious stones and other valuables. He'll only talk to Tingle once paid 27 Rupees, but afterwards will gladly do business with him. When his daughter goes wandering off into Lon Lon Meadow, he becomes worried for her safety. But when Tingle finds her and brings her back to town, the Jeweler provides Tingle with a large reward before returning to business.

The Jeweler's Wife

• • The Jeweler's Wife is a very environmentally concerned person, especially in regard to particular triangles that end up buried which are very bad for the environment. In order to encourage these items be picked up, she runs a scratch-off contest where people can win Rupees in exchange for giving her the triangles.

The Chef

• • The Chef owns his own restaurant in town, though he's not quite that successful. He won't do business with Tingle until he is paid 10 Rupees, but afterwards he'll buy certain ingredients. Later his wife gets frustrated with his lack of skill and begins selling Tingle his large cooking pots. The Chef doubts Tingle's skill and challenges him to make some of his recipe specialties. When Tingle succeeds in cooking these recipes, the Chef eagerly buys them to resell in his own restaurant. He has two children, Dave and "Big Bro".

The Waitress

• • The wife of the Chef, she is frustrated with his inability to appease the customer. Fed up with him, she appears twice to sell off his large cooking pots to Tingle. She sells the first for 500 and then later the largest one for 1500 Rupees.

The Armorer

• • A lover of weapons, the Armorer will buy whatever weapon is offered to him. He won't do business with Tingle unless he pays 15 Rupees, but afterwards he becomes one of the first vendors to buy one of Tingle's recipes. He also knows a lot about the Oinkers and Stalfos Pirates. Later Tingle finds his long lost daughter, Aba, who had been raised by Junglo in the Deku Forest. The Armorer travels to the forest to meet her. The two tend to fight and argue a lot, but they seem to be generally attached to one another.

Chiko's Mother

• • Chiko's Mother is the seamstress of the town. After Tingle finds Chiko's doll, she rewards Tingle for his efforts and will afterwards buy fabrics or clothing from him. She also helps to repair a robe for a Salona after it is torn. When Tingle awakens the fairy in Port Town, she rewards Tingle since the fairy tells Chiko to behave. She has a mother buried in the Snow Fields and was supposed to pour "Endless Love", a type of perfume on her grave, but never quite got around to making the trip.

Map-Seller

• • The Map-Seller is an old lady whose husband passed away before they could map the world. She is unable to do it herself, but when she meets up with Tingle, she provides him with a map of Hometown Prairie and agrees to pay him for every landmark he adds to a map. She continues to do this for other maps that Tingle acquires. Whenever Tingle would complete a map, she would buy the entire map back and then start selling it in her shop for a marked up price. After she sells every single map, she gives Tingle the Master Pen. She then passes away, with her ghost telling Tingle that she's doing to go visit her husband.

Old Gent

• • Although not from Port Town originally, he arrives in Port Town after Tingle helps to recover all the lost pieces from the airship when he and the rich boy crash in the Snow Fields. He is actually the servant of the rich boy and is with him on vacation to handle his finances. After arriving in Port Town, he pays Tingle to collect all of the toys the rich boy accidentally dropped out of the airship while they were flying.

Children of Port Town

Chiko

• • Chiko is the daughter of the local seamstress. She's in love with fairies and always carries around a fairy doll with her. She first meets Tingle after losing her toy in the Hometown Prairie, but when Tingle finds it for her, she leads him to the dungeon underneath the Hero's Statue. Later she witnesses Tingle revive the fairy in Port Town. After the fairy greets her and gives her a message to behave, she passes on her Fairy Doll to Tingle, but remarks that the fairy wasn't as powerful as she expected.

Missy

• • Missy is the daughter of the Jeweler. She has a keen interest in medicine and devises her own medicine recipe, the Tinglene, which she passes on to Tingle with explicit instructions that it not be used for profit. She later gets lost in Lon Lon Meadows after losing her glasses, but Tingle is able to find her and bring her back home. She later talks about her idol, the medic from the exploration teams, as well as talking about the shaman from Mount Desma.

Dave

• • Dave is the son of the Chef and his girth shows it. He likes to pretend he's a Oinker and wears a fake Oinker snout on his face. He absolutely loves Sweet Potatoes though. He ends up trading his Oinker snout for a Sweet Potato, which allowed Tingle to enter Oinker hideouts. Dave is always keeping tabs on his sibling, Big Bro, and seems to realize that his brother is just a bit odd.

Big Bro

• • Big Bro is the other son of the chef and presumably the older brother of Dave (despite being much smaller). He's a rather quiet kid who tends to mumble to himself bout unusual things. At different points in the game, he takes off to different spots on the First Continent to bury jars with secret messages inside. However Tingle interrupts him on each dig and in a burst of embarrassment, he gives Tingle the jars and takes off back to Port Town.

Aba

• • Aba is the daughter of the Armorer. Her mother couldn't stand his obsession with weapons, so she left him with their child. They got lost in Deku Forest and Aba was found by Junglo after her mother had already died. Jungle raised Aba as his own daughter, but never told her that she was adopted. Aba would often leave the forest and met Tingle in the Hometown Prairies where she gave him combat advice. Later she overhears Jungle telling Tingle about her origin. Tingle finds her real father, the Armorer, and the two reunite. Although angry at first at Jungle, she forgives him before she returns to Port Town. She and her father fight alot, but they seem to like eachother.

Rich Kid

• • The Rich Kid hails from lands unknown and isn't actually from Port Town. He and his servant, the Old Gent, accidentally crashed into the Snow Fields. Although the boy thought it mad for a great vacation, the Old Gent secretly paid Tingle to look for all the ship parts to their airship. Later they travel to Port Town, but the rich kid drops three of his toys while taking in the sights on the way there. In town he tries to impress the local kids with his wealth, but discovers that the kids just like to play and aren't concerned about money.