Mugwort

Mugwort オウ・リュウキ Ou Ryuuki
Artwork for Magical Starsign by Shinichi Kameoka
Other Name(s)	Lt. Mugwort
Starsign	Wood
Gender	Male
Occupation(s)	Police deputy
Affiliation(s)	Space Police

"Fine. I'll take your money. Keep your precious ratlings. All of this pathetic sniveling makes me want to hurl."

―Mugwort

Mugwort, also known as Lt. Mugwort, is a character in Magical Starsign. He is a deputy Space Police officer acting as a one-day stand-in for chief Abalon Demar.

Profile

Mugwort is opportunistic and frequently taking risks to get his way. He earned his job as a stand-in chief by undertaking the risky task of massaging the chief's shoulders for three hours. Despite obtaining such an important position, he values his own gains over his duties, as shown when Cresson successfully bribed him with Brioche's two million bira.

Mugwort is a slender reptilian humanoid with green skin, long tail, pointy ears, a violet afro, and goggles. For clothing, he wears a yellow scarf, and red striped pants resembling the pants worn by zaouli dancers, along with three-toed platformers, and jewel bracelets. He also carries around a smoking pipe.

Gameplay

	No. Name Starsign Lv. HP MP 195 Mugwort Wood 15 4500 0
Pow IQ Def Spr Agi P.Rst M.Rst 18 12 13 15 17 100% 100%
Location Honey Mint
EXP Bira Drop 60 2500 ― (―%)
Skills & Magic Front ― ― ― ― ― ― Back ― ― ― ― ― ―

Descriptions

Descriptions
Magical Vacation: Itsutsu no Hoshi ga Narabu Toki	ベナ・リカシィ宇宙警察署の署長代理。　署長のかたもみ３時間でようやく手にした　１日だけの署長代理。 TrTranslation: A deputy police chief of the Bena Rikashyi Space Police department. After rubbing the police chief's shoulders for three hours, he got to be deputy chief for just one day.
Magical Starsign	Although he's a deputy police chief in Bena Rikashi, he got this one-day job because he didn't mind massaging the chief's shoulders. It's not a glamorous job.
Magical Starsign	Ce sous-chef de la police de Bena Rikashi a obtenu ce poste en or juste en massant les épaules de son supérieur. Il n'a aucun amour-propre.
Magical Starsign	Der stellvertretende Polizeichef vonAmarant hat seinen Posten nur darumbekommen, weil es ihn nicht stört, denChef zu massieren. Nicht sehr glamourös.
Magical Starsign	Vice capo della polizia di Bena Rikashi, è un gran leccapiedi con i superiori. Il suo lavoro non è gran cosa.
Magical Starsign	Aunque tiene un cargo en la central de Bena Rikashi, consiguió este trabajillo masajeándole la espalda al jefe. Lo que hacen algunos por ascender...
Magical Vacation: Itsutsu no Hoshi ga Narabu Toki - Mahō Wakusei Kansoku Nyūmonsho	宇宙警察の警部補で、現在は所長代理。部下からはあまり信頼されてないようだ。 TrTranslation: A lieutenant officer of the Space Police, currently the deputy chief. He doesn't seem to be trusted by his subordinates very much.

Biography

Magical Starsign

At some point, Mugwort convinced Space Police chief Abalon Demar to give him his role for one day, but only after rubbing his shoulders for three hours.

On their journey to save Miss Madeleine, the party consisting of the protagonist, Lassi, and Mokka (and Pico if Gren was visited beforehand) arrived in Bena Rikashi. They consulted every officer in the Space Police HQ, until they arrived at the chief's office. Unfortunately, the receptionist explained their chief was unavailable, suggesting they talk to his stand-in Mugwort instead. Finding Mugwort in the restroom, they retrieved a roll of toilet paper and followed him into the chief's office afterwards, alerting him of the magician-abducting astro pirates. Mugwort exclaimed their predicament did not concern the Space Police, to which Lassi resolved to save Madeleine without the officers' assistance.

After Chai fled Bena Rikashi with secret police documents, the party chased him down to Honey Mint, where he was taken in by Brioche and his father Cresson. They analyzed the documents and found Madeleine's name on a list of magicians arrested by Biek Fowler, when suddenly, Mugwort flew in with Brie Pourri. As Pourri flew Chai back to the city, Mugwort engaged in battle with the party and lost. Believing that the battle constituted assaulting an officer, Mugwort threatened to have the party arrested, until Cresson offered his son's piggy bank of two million bira as compensation. Mugwort reluctantly accepted the offer and flew off, to Brioche's dismay.

Trivia

• In the Japanese version, there is a putty in Shishkebab Cave named Mugwort (マグワート), but their name was changed to Artemisia in the English localization.
• While Mugwort's fate after his defeat is unknown, it can be assumed that he ditched his job after taking 1,975,000 bira out of the two million from Brioche's piggy bank. This is indicated by his absence in the chief's office upon re-entering it, with the opened piggy bank left behind containing only 25,000 bira.

Nomenclature

His name comes from mugwort, a family of edible herbs.

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	オウ・リュウキ Ou Ryuuki	Ou Ryuuki, from 胡瓜魚 kyuuriuo (smelt)
English	Mugwort Lt.Lieutenant Mugwort
French	Lieutenant Rôti	Lieutenant Roast
German	Lt. Krötenei	Lt. Krötenei, from Kröteneier (frog eggs)
Italian	Tenente Tazza	Lieutenant Cup
Spanish	Teniente Mugi	Lieutenant Mugi, possibly from 麦 mugi ("wheat" in Japanese)

See also

• Dance machine