Puro resting in Classic Edition
Some walking animations in Classic Edition
Puro's sad sprite in Classic Edition
Puro brushing his tail in Classic Edition
Surprised Puro
Puro's sad sprite in Special Edition
Startled Puro in Special Edition
Puro sweeping the library floor with a broom in Special Edition
Puro waggling his ears in Special Edition (1)
Puro waggling his ears in Special Edition (2)
Puro peeking out from behind a door in Special Edition
Puro rubbing the back of his head
Relieved Puro in special edition
Puro reading a book in his home in Special edition
Puro swimming in Special Edition
Puro tries to use a camera Pt. 1.
Puro tries to use a camera Pt. 2.
Puro tries to use a camera Pt. 3
Puro tries to use a camera Pt. 4.
Puro pointing to a direction in a painting
Puro's expectation of how the Human would be
Puro's expectation of the human defeating a latex beast.
Puro (In his drawing) about to transfur the human.
Puro (in the drawing) after transfurring the human.
Puro's drawing of himself
Puro chasing a white latex creature with the intent of eating it
Colin’s drawing of Puro and him
Puro eating Light Latex
Puro sitting on a pillow with Colin
Puro hugging Colin
Puro saving Colin from a Light Latex
Puro in the vents
Puro sitting with Colin in Classic edition
Puro carrying Colin
upset puro in Classic edition
Puro feeling a bit awkward in Classic Edition
All of Puro's Special Edition portraits
Puro looking at Colin, drenched in water
Puro watching Colin walk past him
A sad Puro with his paw pressed against a window
Puro crying (no trust ending)
Sad puro (no trust ending)
Puro about to leave (no trust ending)
Puro helping Colin walk past the sand
Puro swoop
Puro roll
Puro took the book out of his body
Tired Puro
Ending House Puro Doll
Puro
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Puro (普羅 Pǔluó) is the deuteragonist in both the main game and it's Special Edition counterpart. He is a non-hostile Dark Latex creature, capable of speech. He guides and attempts to protect the protagonist throughout the game, and plays an important role in many of the game's Endings
Appearance
Puro is a Dark Latex creature with dense, soft 'fur', and a body similar to that of an anthropomorphic wolf. His face is adorned with a white mask -- as with most Dark Latex creatures -- with white pupils visible through the eyeholes. In contrast to other dark latex creatures, he is somewhat taller than them and also has a larger tail.
Some endings cause his appearance to change, such as the betrayal ending encountered when playing the game on Easy mode. In this ending, his body takes on a more muscly appearance, and his pupils change to a shade of blue, similar to (though lighter than) that of the protagonist's. Another example of this can be seen during the Too Late ending, in which Puro is killed by Dr. K. The result of this is that his mask appears to have been cracked, and his body has lost all structure, leaving only a puddle of black latex to remain.
Personality
Standard Edition
Unlike the rest of his species -- whose behavior is more instinctual and animal-like -- Puro exhibits a notably higher sapience than most of the creatures that Colin will encounter. Puro is portrayed as a curious and compassionate being; he can be found reading a book in the Library when the player first encounters him, and the piles of books strewn about the library imply that he has been studying for a long time.
Although seeming wary of humans, he also shows fascination towards them, and (outside of Easy mode) even develops a close friendship towards the player as the game progresses. Being a dark latex creature, he is also naturally seen as an enemy by Light Latex creatures.
Puro cannot swim, his body's density is too great, but since he doesn't need to breathe underwater since it's of little concern besides getting his tail wet. When entering water he gets very heavy to where if he sank it would be hard to come back up, as in the Aquatic Area, the protagonist can see him swimming torso-down across the walkable path once, which can be responded to by Colin by either saying that he doesn't mind or compliments it, calling it "Cute".
A low relationship with Puro sees the Betrayal ending playing out. After reaching the end of the Aquatic Area, he'll give up hope of escaping the building alive, as without a host body, he doesn't have long to live before regeneration destroys his newfound sapience. He devastatedly reveals he always doubted Colin could survive with the world outside, especially due to the fact the world outside is nothing but ruins.
Hoping to spare his friend and himself from dying ignoble and lonely deaths, he opts himself to "transfur" Colin personally, trapping him in a hallway with no escape. The latter has been running from barely sentient monsters, and should know how utterly screwed he is at this point. The worst possible outcome is Puro fully assimilating Colin into himself. The second worst has him instead turn the latter into a blue-eyed version of himself, referring to him as an extension of his being under his control. Only the power of friendship and playing on Normal mode can avert this.
Special Edition
This article will only cover the demo currently available on Steam.
He once read a very long-winded book on psychology to understand human relationships better. His notes for a time became nonsensical to Colin, in fact it messed him up so bad, he vowed to never read it again. Puro's a bookworm, so it must've been an horrendous publication. He also had very little knowledge of technology, as he calls a camera as an "automatic painting tool".
Puro seems to be slightly more instinctual in the Special Edition. During a cutscene where the human is searching for a key card among some books, he approaches the protagonist from behind, talking to himself quietly, resisting the urge to transfur the human. When the latter turns around, Puro mentions the scent of the human's hindquarters — telling him that his pants smell strangely familiar. This is in reference to the fact that the apparel is made of benign latex, which can be activated by Doctor K's lasers.
Puro is found sweeping the library after the second Kade's chase. Puro greets the human once again, surprised that he did not see him come in, only to get more surprised when the human told about the dire situation he's in a moment ago. Dr. K then begins pressuring Puro over the library speakers to transfur the human, by exposing his true plan & forces him to transfur Colin. Puro refuses, confessing that he did plan to assimilate the protagonist in the beginning, but now only wants to accompany him. Puro asks the human if he trusts him, to which the latter is only able to affirm. Puro is surprised and excited by this response.
In this version, Puro also peeks over the human constantly when they're separated, and even warns him to watch out every so often, afraid of any harm that may happen upon him.
After the human returns to the library after finding out that latex is blocking the door Puro will say that he intended to save him so he could earn his trust, but there was not much danger and he did not want to be a burden on his human friend.
Lore
Heralded as a failed experiment in the initial trials of the "Genetic Project", Puro recounts itself as a pup when he experienced The Riot; an uprising of the patients who underwent genetic transfurmation in order to prevent their pending extermination at the hands of the humans in the facility.
However, it seems like either he forgets it, or he doesn't remember it, as he mentioned it when the human is trying to seek the ventilation map with him, and that he only knows it when Dragon King told about it.
Upon their escape and consequent takeover of the facility, Puro gradually fell out of the primordial desires of his peers' hunger to transfur other humans and instead found himself scouring the library with a newfound sense of curiosity and awareness in humankind. He's a lone wolf who abandoned his fellow wolf monsters in favor of exploring the compound and learning about humans. His species will not forgive this nor allow him to return even if he were to one day lose his sentience. Over the years he set out to learn to read, write, talk, and even draw as he studied in isolation.
Knowing that there was still one human left in the facility (which is Colin), he initially waited outside of the locked room in which the human wakes up in for a long period of time, but that he eventually lost hope that the human would emerge. In a last ditch effort, he decided to leave hints scattered across the facility, with the intentions of aiding the protagonist until he could reach him safely, with the end goal being that he thought that he could lure the human into the library with the various hints he left in the form of the notes he wrote, as well as teaching Dragon King how to communicate, so that he could deliver his message to the human & let him pass Dragon Cave, in the case that the human ever woke up and began to explore the building.
He hopes that the human would be able to successfully make it to the library in which Puro would be waiting to transfur him, with the intention of this being so that he could become strong enough to escape the facility on his own; however, by the time the protagonist arrives, he is secretly disappointed with the human's body (although this is revealed to the player further on in the game) and instead whimsically hopes to see the outside world with the human instead and is willing to help him in any way possible. In the present, he can be seen as having a "home" in the ventilation system where he lives off of rainwater and fruit (confirmed to be oranges in Special Edition) grown from the bonzai tree in the library.
Puro, being a dark-latex, can only survive on his own while inside the lab building. Otherwise, like the other transfurs, he needs a human host to extend his lifespan.
In the basic Stay ending, Colin & Puro partways, with each other lost contact. It is presumed either that Puro died from crystallization without a host.
In the Easy Mode Betrayal ending, he caves in to his desire to survive and forcibly makes Colin his host.
In the Can't Decide ending, Doctor K instead provided an artificial host (which is a bio-bot), allowing him to live without having to consume his human friend, extending his life expectancy.
Other Special Edition traits
There are two props that Puro provides at the start of the game. Both of these are completely optional to use but using them will make the game easier. As the Special Edition is incomplete, it is unknown whether using these will lead to a better or worse ending. It can be inferred that it is good, as Puro seems happy to hear that the props were used. Otherwise, Puro will mention that all his efforts are 'superfluous' in the No Trust ending, possibly from not using them both.
The first prop is a cardboard cutout of a black latex creature. It is used by pulling on a string in the Ming Cat's room, labeled with a yellow paper. It will scare the cat, allowing the protagonist to move forward a bit without being chased. This is also useful for reading the papers on the walls.
The other prop is a black latex costume. This will allow the human to pass through a room of the black latex territory without having to sneak. Using this will trick the black latex into thinking the human is one of them, despite being poorly sewn up. Dr. K will attempt to call him out using a broadcast, but the latex creatures will remain fooled.
Trivia
- Aside from the dark latex cubs, Puro is the only dark latex monster that won't immediately assimilate the human upon first sight.
- Though, Puro mentions to the human not to fall on his body or else he would face consequences. This is because that while all latex creatures are driven by impulse and instinct on a cellular-level to swallow up any human on sight, Puro mostly resists this. But if accidentally bumped into, Puro might transfurs Colin involuntarily & instantly.
- However, despite this, during the gameplay the human can touch him just fine.
- As some of his drawings suggest, Puro had a hypothetical scenario where the sealed human would be muscular and powerful, so he could assimilate them and get stronger, prior to meeting the protagonist.
- After checking those drawings, Puro mentions to Colin that he is "so mortified, [he] could die".
- Dr.K explains that Puro had once go to the Greenhouse Area to try the oranges grown there. But just after one bite, he left the place & never touched the oranges grown there again.
- Puro also mentions this when the protagonist interacts with him near the end of Greenhouse Area.
- If one looks closely at Puro after being transfurred near the end of the game, he can be seen crying.
- By interacting with a hatch in the vents while the snow leopard is chasing the Human in the ventilation area, Puro can be seen inside telling the former to ignore him and run, though by the time he says this the protagonist is already at risk of being absorbed by his attacker.
- Despite being an ordinary dark-latex wolf, he displays characteristics of both genders. His mask is shaped like a female dark-latex wolf's and he possesses the fluffy tail and hair fur that females do, but he has no visible mammaries and claims to be male.
- Though for some reason, many people think that this gives him an eerie resemblances of SCP-1471-A, mainly for Puro's 'fur' color & mask.
- After assimilating Colin to be his new little brother in one of the Special Edition bad endings, Puro becomes a doting older brother figure for the non-verbal Colin, giving him words of encouragement when drawing pictures, and feeding him canned food in his den.
- In Special's Edition 'No Trust' ending he resigns himself to failure, for not being able to imitate or befriend humans before looking to return to his kind. Puro only aborts it when he comes across the white latex-transfurred Colin in the vents.
- The word "puro" translates to "Pure/To Purify." in many different languages. It is also the Japanese word for "professional". It could also be a corruption of kuro, the Japanese word for the color black.
- In the Chinese localization, Puro's messages contain many typos (e.g. 图书馆 for Túshū guǎn, becoming 图书管, losing the capitalization and becoming túshū guǎn).
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Puro Plushie
Puro holding a Black Goo from World of Goo 2
Puro when Colin is transfurred in front of him by the snake
Puro confused at the transfurred Colin
Puro being hugged by a transfurred Colin after he stepped in a male latex puddle in the library
Puro being flirted (?) with by Colin after they are transfurred by a female latex puddle in the library
Puro is holding Transfurred Colin and protect him away from Fennec Fox
Puro assimilating/transfurring Colin in the Betrayal Ending
Puro fully assimilating Colin
Puro transfurring Colin into another part of himself
Puro after fully assimilating Colin
"Purlin", a fusion of Colin and Puro (Seen before fully assimilating as well.)
Puro sitting with a transfurred Colin
Puro hugging Colin
Puro hugging a transfurred Colin after helping him regain parts of his memory
Puro leaving the aquatic area after assimilating Colin
"Purlin" leaving his den after fusing with Colin
Puro Appears in Mini Transform Game
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