Pullum Purna

Pullum Purna (プルム・プルナ) is a playable character in Arika's Street Fighter EX series.

Appearance
In Street Fighter EX, Pullum sports a blue arabian vest with gold designs under a white burst lace bra and long white evening gloves. She also sports a sky blue semi-transparent harem pants and golden steel-toed pumps. She has a hairstyle similar to Ibuki's and wears a gold necklace with a red round pendant at the center.

In her alternate appearance, her arabian vest and her bra are replaced with a pink top, her harlem pants are purple.

In Street Fighter EX 2, Pullum's outfit has minor changes: her vest is replaced with a purple arabian jacket and her pants are violet.

In Street Fighter V, her gloves have gold bracelets in each sides and she no longer wears a necklace on her neck.

Street Fighter EX
The daughter of a wealthy Saudi Arabian man, Pullum seeks revenge for her grandfather against Shadaloo after he was found in a hypnotic state, having read a book with the word "Shadaloo" on the cover. She vows revenge, and hires Darun Mister as a bodyguard, teaming with her friend Blair Dame and going traveling.

Street Fighter V
Pullum is a wayward young lady who is brimming with curiosity and loves new things. She's searching for her Arab father, Barba Purna (バルバ・プルナ), who is working at Shadaloo's base, and travels the world to find him. She often causes trouble for her bodyguard Darun. She's also a member of the Worldwide Young Ladies Club.

Gameplay
Having a distinct fighting style (while still sharing references to other Capcom characters), Pullum is still manœuvered as a standard "Quarter-circle" character. Her moves do follow the Quarter-circle pattern, unlike some others who follow the charge pattern.

She uses mainly her legs to attack, which might make one think she was an Arika-made mix of Elena and Dee Jay. She's the only character on the first opus of the EX series with the ability to double-jump.

Movelist

 * Alacer Wrist (forward + Mid Punch) (also imputable in mid-air) - Pullum jumps towards opponent, clenching her wrists in a skull hit.
 * Dance Wind (down + Mid Punch) (Air Throw, only imputable in air, against an airborne opponent) - Pullum catches the opponent by legs and twirls it around while laughing.
 * Drill Purrus (down, down-forward, forward + Kick) (also imputable in mid-air) - a self-projectile attack similar to Dhalsim's  Drill Kicks.
 * Ten-El Kick (down, down-backward, back + Kick) - a reverse sobat thrown from mid air.
 * Purim Kick (forward, down, down-forward + Kick) - a sommersault Kick like Guile's Flash Kick.
 * Res Arcana ((down, down-forward, forward)*2 + Kick)  - Super Combo : Three reversed Purim Kicks instantly followed by a regular Purim Kick.
 * Præc Larum ((down, down-backward, back)*2 + Kick) - Super Combo : Pullum twirls herself like a ballerina, her right leg pointed on the opponent's face for multiple hits. Somehow similar to Ryu's Shinku Tatsumaki.
 * Kind Wind ((down, down-forward, forward)*2 + Punch) - (only imputable in air) Super Combo : Pullum generates a ball of air Energy, which does damage if enemy hits it.
 * Gradus Par ((down, down-forward, forward)*2 + All three Punches)  - Hyper Combo : Pullum entices her opponent to dance along with her. They both twirl, twirl and twirl, somehow occasioning the opponent damage.

Trivia

 * Like a few other characters in the series, her name has been oddly romanised, likely because it has made the journey from Arabic to Japanese phonetic spellings and finally to English. In Arabic "Pullum Purna" is written as برم برنا, which translates to "Birim Borna" — and is doubly suitable in her case as "birim/birm" means "twirl" (as in to twirl around) and "Borna" is a given name meaning "youthful" (though it's usually a boy's name).
 * Rouge, from Capcom's Power Stone series, shares some similar traits to Pullum in terms of design and fighting style.
 * Pullum shares similar character traits to two Street Fighter characters, Dee Jay and Elena.
 * Pullum and Dee Jay are both dark-skinned (Dee Jay is Caribbean while Pullum is Arabian) fighters who fight using dance moves and they both use musical instruments (Dee Jay is often seen with maraccas, while Pullum uses a tambourine).
 * Pullum and Elena are both dark-skinned females who use dance moves in their respective fighting styles.
 * Luca, from Capcom's Star Gladiator games, has almost the same concept models from Pullum.