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Character Name: Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum
Series: Adventure Time
Timeline: 5x42 “James”
Canon Resource Link: badaboom
Character History: A very long time ago, a tiny glob of gum separated from the mothergum. This tiny glob would eventually grow up to become Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum. But first, she had to find her brother, Neddy, whose exit from the mothergum had not been nearly as graceful. She followed him, marveling at all the sights and sounds of this new world. Her brother was much more scared of everything, but when he found the roots of a certain tree, it made him happy. It also worked out well for Bonnibel, as that tree would become the site of her new kingdom and the juice her brother provided would be what sustained them. She missed the comfort of being surrounded by the other entities in the mothergum, so she immediately started work on founding her kingdom, creating people made of candy to populate it.
A lot of her past remains a mystery, but we know that she has been alive for centuries. At some point she met Marceline, the Vampire Queen, and they dated for a while before breaking up, likely because Bubblegum couldn’t separate herself from her work and became overwhelmed enough that she pushed Marceline away and stopped talking to her. She met one of Finn’s past lives, a woman named Shoko, who Bubblegum befriended. She helped Bubblegum finish her massive Gumball Guardians that watch over the Candy Kingdom. Unfortunately, Shoko was working for a gang that wanted to steal Bubblegum’s amulet. Though Bubblegum’s kindness tempts Shoko to give up her mission, especially when Bubblegum presents her with a mechanical arm to replace the one she’s missing, she does go through with it, swiping the amulet while Bubblegum is sleeping. Unfortunately, the Gumball Guardians catch her and send her into a vat of toxic waste. She also created the Earl of Lemongrab, though he was something of a failed experiment. At one point, to replace the incompetent Banana Guard, she built an elite robot fighting force, but when she found them too ruthless and loving of violence, she destroyed them.
Approximately 13 years before canon begins, she found the young Flame Princess running free after her father tried to abandon her. Bubblegum’s main worry was that Flame Princess was endangering the Candy Kingdom, so she approached in a flameproof suit and brought the child back to the Flame Kingdom, demanding the Flame King keep her under control, or Bubblegum will. They agree that she’ll be kept in a giant lantern where she can’t usurp the Flame King but also can’t threaten Bubblegum’s kingdom. Bubblegum can be ruthless when it comes to protecting her people, and though she certainly feels guilt for the people who get hurt, it doesn’t stop her from doing what needs to be done.
Eventually, she met Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, as well as her close friend Lady Rainicorn. Her kingdom grew. She became a truly powerful force in the Land of Ooo. With the her scientific expertise and the help of her allies, she keeps her kingdom safe and prosperous.
Of course, despite her brilliance, she can’t prepare for everything. And her science experiments do not always go as planned. Like when she tried an experiment to bring one of her subjects back from the dead and accidentally started a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, she had Finn and Jake to protect and distract her subjects while she worked out a cure. She rewarded Finn’s consistent heroism by telling him about a tome of heroes: the Enchiridion, and sending him on a heroic quest to find it. After Finn saves her from the Ice King yet again, she throws him a party but has to deal with a walking heart guy named Ricardio who she thinks is charming and Finn thinks is creepy. She thinks Finn is just jealous, but it turns out that Ricardio is actually the Ice King’s heart, separated from the Ice King’s chest during a failed experiment to try and control Bubblegum’s heart, and he is, indeed, creepy. Finn and Jake fight Ricardio and the Ice King manages to place him back within his chest. Later, she tells Finn he shouldn’t be jealous, but keeps teasing him rather than actually act like she might have any real feelings for him. She takes Finn and Jake to a mountain and instructs them to put up warning signs around a dungeon and tells him not to go in it, but as often happens when you give a 12 year old boy an important mission, he completely ignores her and goes into the dungeon to have an adventure instead. Luckily for them, she shows up just in the knick of time to save them from the massive hoard of demons they unleashed. But they don’t really learn their lesson. She sends them on a secret mission to capture the Ice King but doesn’t give many details. She deposits the Ice King in the dungeon, but before she can tell Finn and Jake what it is the Ice King did, she’s called away. She tells them to guard him. However, Finn and Jake let him go and put themselves in jail when they realize that the Ice King didn’t do anything for once. Princess Bubblegum is annoyed, and shows them what happened. The Ice King had accidentally caused this disease, and only his sad howls can cure it. When she asked nicely, he thought she was hitting on him, so she decided to take them by force. Finn refuses to help her by force, but does end up tricking the Ice King and saving her people anyway.
Unfortunately, Bubblegum has not learned her lesson about trusting preteens, and she entrusts Finn and Jake with the very important and very coveted Royal Tarts for Ooo’s Annual Back-rubbing Ceremony. Instead of following the very safe Royal Tart path, Finn and Jake come up with a convoluted plan that ultimately fails miserably and they lose all the tarts. Fortunately, they’d failed enough that it comes back around as a success since they gave the real tarts to their decoy on the safe path rather than the poisoned trap tarts. So ultimately, everything is fine. Finn gives her a spaghetti dinner and asks for a piece of her hair. He needs it to save Jake from a witch, but when it doesn’t help, he ends up keeping it. Finn’s hero brain is so fascinating to Bubblegum that she asks him to make a speech at her science barbecue, but he gets intimidated by the prospect and instead, tries to make himself more intelligent with magic glasses, creates a black hole, and it takes Bubblegum removing his glasses for him to figure out how to fix it. She’s horrified at how her barbecue is ruined, but it turns out everyone enjoyed it, and that Finn made the plan that included Bubblegum removing the glasses and him winning her heart while he was super intelligent. She kisses his cheek, which causes him to faint. Once again she foolishly gives Finn and Jake responsibility and has them watch her Princess Plant while she goes to the Science Conference in Veggie Village. The boys accidentally kill her plant, but they venture into the underworld to bring it back. The science conference is something of a bust since none of the other participants can talk. Finn decides he wants Princess Bubblegum to be his date to a Couples Only Movie Night, which she says sounds romantic but that she can’t go because she has to practice for the Whistling Choir Death Match Championship. Jake encourages Finn to try and woo her, and to make her jealous with Marceline’s help. Marceline agrees, but offers Finn her own advice. Between the two of them, he fails terribly and gets thrown out. (Also this is all way more awkward when you realize Marceline is Bubblegum’s ex. I’m just saying.)
Princess Bubblegum practices meditating with Finn and Jake and gets a vision of a dark figure. It causes her to panic, and she says she must check on something. She also decides to trust Finn and Jake with the secret, and gives them stones like the one in her tiara to protect them. Hidden in a secret room in the tallest tree is an ancient, evil sorcerer called the Lich who could destroy their minds if they weren’t wearing the gems. For once, something isn’t Finn and Jake’s fault, as it’s a snail that had come in with them that gets possessed by the Lich and frees him from the resin. The Lich escapes, and Bubblegum takes Finn and Jake to another secret room. She gives Finn the Gauntlet of the Hero Billy which defeated the Lich once before, telling him he must use it to smite the Lich before he reaches his well of power. She also gives him a sweater because she cares about him and the Lich’s lair can be cold. They hug, but before they can leave, the Ice King butts in and asks Finn and Jake for their blessing in marrying Bubblegum. When they continuously refuse, he kidnaps Bubblegum and flies back to show the boys, just as they are about to smite the Lich. The Lich destroys the gauntlet and Finn’s protective gem cracks, but when the Lich tries to get him to walk into the Well of Power by asking if he’s cold, Finn screams that he has a sweater on. He realizes that it’s imbued with “the power of liking someone a lot” since Bubblegum made it and uses it to defeat the Lich. Finn defeats him, and the Ice King decides to set Bubblegum free…. by dropping her into the boiling well.
They rush Bubblegum back to the Candy Kingdom and manage to stabilize her, but she’s different. She’s paler than normal, and the Ice King keeps trying to say he saw something strange about her, but no one wants to listen. Finn tries to confess his feelings for her, but she just says they should talk about it later. She acts increasingly strange, setting things on fire and mixing chemicals in her bathtub until she finally turns into a monster. Finally, the Ice King manages to tell them that she was possessed by the Lich. This time, it takes the Ice King’s help to defeat her but she smashes into pieces after he freezes her. Doctor Ice Cream, Nurse Pound Cake, and Doctor Princess work together to save her but they don’t have enough gum to bring her back completely. When she comes back to life… she is 13. Just like Finn. She calls him a hero and hugs him.
Bubblegum enjoys being 13, since she never really got to have much of a childhood. She goes on a date with Finn, but it’s interrupted by the Earl of Lemongrab, who has the right to rule the kingdom now that Bubblegum is too young. She tries to work with Finn to prank him out of the Kingdom, and though they have a lot of fun doing it… it doesn’t work. Finally, Bubblegum realizes that the only way to get rid of him is for her to turn 18 again, which she could have done at any time, but she hadn’t wanted to do. She really liked being a kid again, but as always, her people come first, and though Finn is clearly saddened by her decision, he also accepts it. The candy people donate their own flesh to give her more biomass, with Finn’s saliva acting as a binding agent. Bubblegum expresses regret again that she can’t say young, and she and Finn share a whopping love hug… and their first real kiss to catalyze the reaction. She fires the Earl, but when Finn asks if they can hug again she points out that that was five years ago, since for her, she’s now 18 again and not 13.
When a Door Lord appears and steals special objects from Finn, Jake, Bubblegum, and Marceline, the four come together to try and sing the door open and get their stuff back. Marceline sings a song about her bitterness over how she’s just Bubblegum’s problem, and the door starts to react to it, but when she notices everyone staring, she gets distracted and starts covering up her feelings. They break for noodles when the sun goes down, and they all start having a good time together. Bubblegum tries to use science to make the perfect song but it fails due to what she calls “miscalculations.” Marceline tells her she’s not as perfect as she thinks. Bubblegum tells her she never said Marceline had to be perfect and Marceline spits on her. They all start to walk away, then Finn admits he lost a piece of Bubblegum’s hair and starts to sing about how he’s not sure what his best friends think of him. He realizes that the door only responds to the truth, and the others join in as he sings about how they’re his best friends in the world. The door opens and they reclaim their things. It turns out Bubblegum’s special item was a shirt from Marceline’s band that Marceline had given to her, and that she sleeps in it. Marceline, it turns out, hadn’t lost anything, and had just wanted to hang out with them. Bubblegum accidentally sets off a zombie infestation again, but gets bitten before she can make the cure. She throws her notes to Finn and tells him to use Science, and it takes him until the very last second to realize that Science is the name of her rat, who manages to cure everyone. Things remain awkward between her and Finn, who is a really good friend, but also definitely in love with her and definitely too young for her, and she pushes him away when he gets too weird about it. This causes Jake to go venture forth to find him another girlfriend… the very Flame Princess that Bubblegum got locked away so many years ago.
Her brush with the Lich and nearly dying leaves Bubblegum all too aware of her own mortality, so she does what anyone would do and clones an immortal replacement: the sphinx Goliad. Goliad was made with science and some of her DNA, and she stays up for 83 hours straight trying to teach her how to be a good ruler. Finn and Jake volunteer to watch Goliad so that Bubblegum can rest, but it pretty quickly goes wrong. Goliad learns that being the stronger, more powerful person is the way to be in control. Bubblegum tries to explain why that’s wrong, but Goliad disagrees and states that because she is the strongest and most powerful, she should be in control. Bubblegum sets Finn and Jake on distracting Goliad while she clones a second candy sphinx, this one with some of Finn’s DNA. The new sphinx, Stormo, has Finn’s heroic qualities, and sacrifices himself, locking himself in battle with Goliad for eternity to keep her in check.
A rogue cookie takes a bunch of candy people hostage, vowing not to release them unless Bubblegum gives him her crown. She tries to negotiate, but eventually has to send in Jake and Finn to try and free them stealthily. Jake swaps sides when he learns that the reason the cookie wants the crown is because he wanted to be a princess when he was very young and Bubblegum laughed at him. Jake feels sympathetic and tries to help him escape, but the Banana Guard eventually catch up to them and Princess Cookie is put in a mental hospital. Later, Jake brings him a crown from the Grass Kingdom, while Bubblegum and Finn watch. Despite all the trouble Princess Cookie caused, Bubblegum still wants him to be happy. Just… in a way that doesn’t hurt anyone.
Bubblegum is distressed when she learns that Finn is dating Flame Princess, but when she tries to explain why, Finn leaves and Jake misses most of it, and just assumes she’s jealous. She tries to talk to Finn about it, talking about how sometimes you might want to be with someone but not be able to, and Finn gets angry, yelling at her for how he was in love with her and she didn’t return his feelings and now he wants to move on and she’s trying to build him up again. Bubblegum is mostly confused, especially when she picks up one of his scraps of paper with the poetry on it. She goes to find Jake, who also yells at her for toying with Finn’s emotions and she finally gets the message across that no, it’s that the Flame Princess’ Elemental Matrix can’t handle that much emotion and if they kiss, Flame Princess will burn through the planet and destroy it from the inside. Jake and Bubblegum rush to where Finn and Flame Princess are on their date, but they’re too late. Finn and Flame Princess kiss and she starts to burn through the earth. Finn jumps in after her, tying one of Jake’s arms around him, but it pulls Jake down on top of the hole, cutting off oxygen. Bubblegum sees this as a good thing since after 24.8 seconds Flame Princess will go out, but Jake’s worried about Finn. Finn manages to stabilize Flame Princess and Jake pulls them back out. Finn and Flame Princess both kiss a rock symbolically, and Bubblegum sighs a little, whispering “Oh, Finn,” which causes Jake to point out that yes, maybe she is a little jealous.
Finn and Jake go missing and Bubblegum and Lady Rainicorn have to team-up to find them. Bubblegum uses gadgets she’s created and her own intelligence to fight Ricardio, who it turns out is the one that kidnapped them. She also realizes Lady Rainicorn is pregnant. When the Earl of Lemongrab starts acting creepy and accuses Bubblegum of being the one who made him, his Glob, and basically to blame for all his actions. She tries to find a way to help him, but unfortunately, her attempts at making him a better ruler just don’t jive with his essential lemonness. Finally, she realizes the only one who can tolerate Lemongrab is himself, so she clones him a brother. Lemongrab (both of them) find this acceptable. Finn breaks into Bubblegum’s lab and asks for the jewel in her crown, but she refuses. She accidentally cuts his cheek when he tries to take it by force, which is upsetting to both of them. He runs off with the jewel, and Bubblegum follows, shouting out a warning that Billy, who had sent him to retrieve all these jewels, is not actually the legendary hero but in fact the very evil Lich that had possessed her way back when. But they’re too late, and Finn accidentally opens a wormhole while trying to stop the Lich from doing that. Jake tries to grab him at Bubblegum’s request, to stop the Lich from achieving his evil plan, but he’s sucked into the portal after him, and when Finn tries to stop him he’s only pulled in as well.
Finn and Jake reappear moments later after going on a grand adventure that only Jake remembers. The Earls of Lemongrab blame Princess Bubblegum for their lack of food, despite her sending them enough to last a lifetime, and when Finn and Jake investigate, they find out that they’ve been turning all their food into lemon people with the formula Bubblegum accidentally left when she created the second Lemongrab. They manage to get the giant lemon person to feel emotions and turn back into candy, and Bubblegum erases the formula from their minds so they can no longer do that. Ice King makes a glitch that threatens to erase everyone in Ooo except him and Bubblegum, since he claims she promised she’d date him if he were the last person on Earth. Bubblegum points out that no, she’s still here, and starts kissing her own hand. She also pushes the Ice King down and stomps on his head to try and get the antivirus from him, but it turns out he didn’t make one. She gets mad and starts beating his computer up with a bat until Finn and Jake come back from having saved the day yet again. Bubblegum holds a potluck and the Ice King tries to ruin it because he’s mad he wasn’t invited, but it turns out he just didn’t read his mail and was invited after all.
Peppermint Butler decides Bubblegum has been working too hard and gives one of her many suitors, a man named Braco who claims to be so in love with her it hurts, leave to court her. Bubblegum is extremely uninterested and points out that he doesn’t know her at all but is simply infatuated with her because of his imaginary projected relationship with her. Bubblegum does agree to meet him that night, but for research purposes. She sends Finn and Jake on a quest to find a soul stone, but Braco hijacks it in hopes that completing it will make her love him. Finn warns him that this will go nowhere. Turns out Bubblegum solved the soul problem without him and no longer needs it. Peppermint Butler uses dark magic to make Braco a horrible monster but also a love magnet. Bubblegum, however, loves all her subjects and is mostly unaffected. She reveals that what she’s been working on is a robot version of herself that Braco can date so that she can be left in peace.
Starchy refuses to use Bubblegum’s science cure since he wants to be cured by magic, which annoys Bubblegum. She claims magic is just science presented with mystic hoodoo, even pretending to do magic by wiggling her fingers, which Starchy finds very convincing until she says she was faking and he’s offended. She decides they’ll go to Wizard City disguised as wizards even though all non-wizards will be killed if they go there. She hurts the Ice King until he gives her the password and also says it so that the wall vanishes so they can get through. When Finn is impressed by the magic, she claims it’s simply “a vocal registry rigged to a vibration modulator” and not magic at all. They buy a potion, but Bubblegum demands to know what’s in it and how it works, refusing to buy that it’s just magic. This gets them arrested for being not wizards. The Grand Master Wizard agrees to let them go if she admits that wizards rule, but Bubblegum’s pride will not allow her to do that so they all go to wizard jail. Bubblegum gets into a prison fight with Abracadaniel but refuses to kill him, and she releases the cold spell which turns out was actually not a cure, just something to make the air cooler, and they escape. She has Abracadaniel pretend to do magic while she injects Starchy with her scientific cure.
Marceline shows up, asking if Bubblegum wants to hang out, but Bubblegum can tell that actually she pretty clearly wants Bubblegum’s help. Marceline says she needs to track down Maja the Sky Witch but won’t say why, only that it’s really, really, really important to her. Bubblegum agrees, and uses her scientific expertise to get herself and Marceline through Maja’s defenses. She learns that what Marceline needs is her toy, Hambo, that’s extremely important to her and though initially she’s annoyed, she does agree to keep helping. While Marceline engages Maja’s familiar in combat, Bubblegum searches her stuff and finds a receipt proving that Maja obtained Hambo completely legally. Ash, Marcy’s ex, had sold it to her, and as ruler of the Candy Kingdom, Bubblegum must honor that. However, she does find a way to get Hambo back: by trading the shirt Marceline gave her for the toy. Maja needs sentimental objects for her spells, and that shirt holds a motherload of it. Marceline’s reunited with her toy, and Bubblegum loses the shirt she loves, but it makes Marceline happy. That makes it worth it.
Bubblegum and Finn go to a dinner at Lemongrab’s but it quickly turns out that Lemongrab is as crazy as ever, and now a horrible tyrant. Finn tries to make it a date, even suggesting they prank Lemongrab like they did when she was 13, and she agrees, but it turns out she’s actually manipulating him to put into action a better plan, which makes Finn realize that she’s just not as interested in having fun as he is, possibly due to age difference. Bubblegum conducts a series of tests on Flame Princess, but when she leaves Cinnamon Bun in charge, CB admits that Bubblegum put Flame Princess in baby jail and the two escape to the Fire Kingdom. Bubblegum and Finn try to enter the Fire Kingdom but the guards stop them until they tell the truth about why they’re there, at which point they let them in. Flame Princess is now king of the Fire Kingdom, and she demands complete honesty, and Cinnamon Bun refuses to go back to the Candy Kingdom. Jake learns about his past life and returns Bubblegum’s amulet to her. She sends Finn and Jake and Marceline on a mission to retrieve the Spoon of Prosperity, but they end up trapped before they can get out. Bubblegum rescues them, and a red starved Marceline feeds from her, but the Spoon of Prosperity restores her, causing her to proclaim that peeps will never starve in her eternal empire. A reptile temporarily replaces Princess Bubblegum, but Finn and Jake defeat the fake one before Princess Bubblegum has a chance to warn them.
Finn and Jake go to the desert with Bubblegum and her new assistant, a candy person named James, to collect samples and find out if the area can be colonized, but the area they’re exploring turns out to be filled with goo monsters. They all rush back to the ship, but the goo monsters trap them in there. Finn makes a bunch of plans, but they all seem to fail in mysterious ways which leads him and Jake to suspect James is a saboteur. Finally, Finn plans to sacrifice himself, distracting the monsters so the rest of them can run for it, but Bubblegum knocks out Finn and Jake and has James do it instead. When Finn wakes up, she explains that she was the one sabotaging his escape attempts because she knew they wouldn’t work, and that James had to be the one to die because she could clone him, while she couldn’t clone Finn.
Abilities/Special Powers: Well she’s… made of candy. I looked at construct rules and elemental rules and I think elemental makes more sense partially because constructs are definitely more powerful than she is. Mostly she’s been shown to be virtually indestructible. Like she fell into a pit of lava and they fixed her up with candy. She got broken apart into little pieces and though they couldn’t find all of her, they still managed to find enough to reassemble her except younger. She also managed to then change her age by adding more candy except in a more sciencey way than that.
As far as her abilities, well, most of them can be described as SCIENCE!! She holds the secrets to creating life out of candy, though she’ll be forgetting that on account of I don’t even want to think about the roleplay mechanics of that. She’s also a great mechanic and chemist and has at least dabbled in every other science. She is, after all, hella old. She’s a decent ruler, if a bit controlling, and reasonably good at diplomacy. And she can sing.
Third-Person Sample: “What the lump?” Bubblegum straightened and looked around. While she couldn’t completely rule out the possibility that she’d somehow stepped into a part of her kingdom she’d never seen before, this didn’t feel like Ooo. It’s hard to explain exactly what it is that’s off… though when she checks the readings on her pocket katharometer, she finds the air composition is different from anything she’s ever seen, and her magnetometer is just going entirely whack. She smacks it, then tucks it back into her pocket. So much for that.
“Finn? Jake?” She tries to raise them on her holo-pendant. No luck. “Ugh, stupid thing. What use is a communication device if it won’t transmit messages across dimensions?” She frowns and taps her chin. Clearly, her next step is to try to boost the signal, or find a different way to communicate with them. And that means walking. That means figuring out where she is and what technology she has to work with. But she’s freaking Princess Bubblegum. If anyone can invent it, she can.
The mansion looks promising, if only for being the clearest landmark around. She starts towards it, wondering what sort of strange people could inhabit this dimension. They’re probably pretty strange, since it’s a whole other world compared to Bubblegum’s own. She’s not too worried. She’s seen all kinds of crazy things. She’s prepared for anything.
Anything, that is, except the beings she does find. “Oh my glob!” She grabs the person in front of her, a human, male, by the looks of it, and stares. “You’re a human! A real, live human! Oh, I can’t believe this! I’ll have to tell Finn!”
The person gives her a disturbed look and runs away. But it’s no matter. This is still amazing. She has to learn more.
First-Person Sample: Greetings, Citizens of Wonderland! [Bubblegum is sitting in her room, looking grave, but not particularly anxious. She’s certain she’ll be able to think her way out of here, even if the time bubble means that Finn and Jake can’t come rescue her as usual, but for now, it’s time to do her princessy addressing people thing.]
I am Princess Bubblegum of the Candy Kingdom. I have been taken to this land against my will, which I understand is common here. [She slams her fist on the table in front of her, leaning forward.]
I will not stand for it. And I will tell this supposed “Queen” [She rolls her eyes, making quote marks with her fingers] to her face if given half the chance. Honestly I’m insulted. This is some sort of interdimensional nexus, right? With magic? [She rolls her eyes, wiggling her fingers. Magic. Phah. It’s just science with extra special effects.] Come on. Who are you trying to impress? Sure, the sheer level of power that must go into powering this place seems pretty sweet, but come on. I could easily build a place like this with the right equipment and a decent power source. Though the transportation process was surprisingly smooth. I need to figure out how that part was done….
[She looks momentarily thoughtful. A project for another day. She straightens, smiling sweetly, and adds:]
Anyway, it’s nice to see so many humans around. I thought you were all but extinct. Then again, the anomalous nature of time and space might account for that. In which case… whoops. I hope you’re all from well before the Mushroom Wars.
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krmvgivv), Beatrice (eatyourdirt), and Carol Danvers (airforceful)Character Name: Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum
Series: Adventure Time
Timeline: 5x42 “James”
Canon Resource Link: badaboom
Character History: A very long time ago, a tiny glob of gum separated from the mothergum. This tiny glob would eventually grow up to become Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum. But first, she had to find her brother, Neddy, whose exit from the mothergum had not been nearly as graceful. She followed him, marveling at all the sights and sounds of this new world. Her brother was much more scared of everything, but when he found the roots of a certain tree, it made him happy. It also worked out well for Bonnibel, as that tree would become the site of her new kingdom and the juice her brother provided would be what sustained them. She missed the comfort of being surrounded by the other entities in the mothergum, so she immediately started work on founding her kingdom, creating people made of candy to populate it.
A lot of her past remains a mystery, but we know that she has been alive for centuries. At some point she met Marceline, the Vampire Queen, and they dated for a while before breaking up, likely because Bubblegum couldn’t separate herself from her work and became overwhelmed enough that she pushed Marceline away and stopped talking to her. She met one of Finn’s past lives, a woman named Shoko, who Bubblegum befriended. She helped Bubblegum finish her massive Gumball Guardians that watch over the Candy Kingdom. Unfortunately, Shoko was working for a gang that wanted to steal Bubblegum’s amulet. Though Bubblegum’s kindness tempts Shoko to give up her mission, especially when Bubblegum presents her with a mechanical arm to replace the one she’s missing, she does go through with it, swiping the amulet while Bubblegum is sleeping. Unfortunately, the Gumball Guardians catch her and send her into a vat of toxic waste. She also created the Earl of Lemongrab, though he was something of a failed experiment. At one point, to replace the incompetent Banana Guard, she built an elite robot fighting force, but when she found them too ruthless and loving of violence, she destroyed them.
Approximately 13 years before canon begins, she found the young Flame Princess running free after her father tried to abandon her. Bubblegum’s main worry was that Flame Princess was endangering the Candy Kingdom, so she approached in a flameproof suit and brought the child back to the Flame Kingdom, demanding the Flame King keep her under control, or Bubblegum will. They agree that she’ll be kept in a giant lantern where she can’t usurp the Flame King but also can’t threaten Bubblegum’s kingdom. Bubblegum can be ruthless when it comes to protecting her people, and though she certainly feels guilt for the people who get hurt, it doesn’t stop her from doing what needs to be done.
Eventually, she met Finn the Human and Jake the Dog, as well as her close friend Lady Rainicorn. Her kingdom grew. She became a truly powerful force in the Land of Ooo. With the her scientific expertise and the help of her allies, she keeps her kingdom safe and prosperous.
Of course, despite her brilliance, she can’t prepare for everything. And her science experiments do not always go as planned. Like when she tried an experiment to bring one of her subjects back from the dead and accidentally started a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, she had Finn and Jake to protect and distract her subjects while she worked out a cure. She rewarded Finn’s consistent heroism by telling him about a tome of heroes: the Enchiridion, and sending him on a heroic quest to find it. After Finn saves her from the Ice King yet again, she throws him a party but has to deal with a walking heart guy named Ricardio who she thinks is charming and Finn thinks is creepy. She thinks Finn is just jealous, but it turns out that Ricardio is actually the Ice King’s heart, separated from the Ice King’s chest during a failed experiment to try and control Bubblegum’s heart, and he is, indeed, creepy. Finn and Jake fight Ricardio and the Ice King manages to place him back within his chest. Later, she tells Finn he shouldn’t be jealous, but keeps teasing him rather than actually act like she might have any real feelings for him. She takes Finn and Jake to a mountain and instructs them to put up warning signs around a dungeon and tells him not to go in it, but as often happens when you give a 12 year old boy an important mission, he completely ignores her and goes into the dungeon to have an adventure instead. Luckily for them, she shows up just in the knick of time to save them from the massive hoard of demons they unleashed. But they don’t really learn their lesson. She sends them on a secret mission to capture the Ice King but doesn’t give many details. She deposits the Ice King in the dungeon, but before she can tell Finn and Jake what it is the Ice King did, she’s called away. She tells them to guard him. However, Finn and Jake let him go and put themselves in jail when they realize that the Ice King didn’t do anything for once. Princess Bubblegum is annoyed, and shows them what happened. The Ice King had accidentally caused this disease, and only his sad howls can cure it. When she asked nicely, he thought she was hitting on him, so she decided to take them by force. Finn refuses to help her by force, but does end up tricking the Ice King and saving her people anyway.
Unfortunately, Bubblegum has not learned her lesson about trusting preteens, and she entrusts Finn and Jake with the very important and very coveted Royal Tarts for Ooo’s Annual Back-rubbing Ceremony. Instead of following the very safe Royal Tart path, Finn and Jake come up with a convoluted plan that ultimately fails miserably and they lose all the tarts. Fortunately, they’d failed enough that it comes back around as a success since they gave the real tarts to their decoy on the safe path rather than the poisoned trap tarts. So ultimately, everything is fine. Finn gives her a spaghetti dinner and asks for a piece of her hair. He needs it to save Jake from a witch, but when it doesn’t help, he ends up keeping it. Finn’s hero brain is so fascinating to Bubblegum that she asks him to make a speech at her science barbecue, but he gets intimidated by the prospect and instead, tries to make himself more intelligent with magic glasses, creates a black hole, and it takes Bubblegum removing his glasses for him to figure out how to fix it. She’s horrified at how her barbecue is ruined, but it turns out everyone enjoyed it, and that Finn made the plan that included Bubblegum removing the glasses and him winning her heart while he was super intelligent. She kisses his cheek, which causes him to faint. Once again she foolishly gives Finn and Jake responsibility and has them watch her Princess Plant while she goes to the Science Conference in Veggie Village. The boys accidentally kill her plant, but they venture into the underworld to bring it back. The science conference is something of a bust since none of the other participants can talk. Finn decides he wants Princess Bubblegum to be his date to a Couples Only Movie Night, which she says sounds romantic but that she can’t go because she has to practice for the Whistling Choir Death Match Championship. Jake encourages Finn to try and woo her, and to make her jealous with Marceline’s help. Marceline agrees, but offers Finn her own advice. Between the two of them, he fails terribly and gets thrown out. (Also this is all way more awkward when you realize Marceline is Bubblegum’s ex. I’m just saying.)
Princess Bubblegum practices meditating with Finn and Jake and gets a vision of a dark figure. It causes her to panic, and she says she must check on something. She also decides to trust Finn and Jake with the secret, and gives them stones like the one in her tiara to protect them. Hidden in a secret room in the tallest tree is an ancient, evil sorcerer called the Lich who could destroy their minds if they weren’t wearing the gems. For once, something isn’t Finn and Jake’s fault, as it’s a snail that had come in with them that gets possessed by the Lich and frees him from the resin. The Lich escapes, and Bubblegum takes Finn and Jake to another secret room. She gives Finn the Gauntlet of the Hero Billy which defeated the Lich once before, telling him he must use it to smite the Lich before he reaches his well of power. She also gives him a sweater because she cares about him and the Lich’s lair can be cold. They hug, but before they can leave, the Ice King butts in and asks Finn and Jake for their blessing in marrying Bubblegum. When they continuously refuse, he kidnaps Bubblegum and flies back to show the boys, just as they are about to smite the Lich. The Lich destroys the gauntlet and Finn’s protective gem cracks, but when the Lich tries to get him to walk into the Well of Power by asking if he’s cold, Finn screams that he has a sweater on. He realizes that it’s imbued with “the power of liking someone a lot” since Bubblegum made it and uses it to defeat the Lich. Finn defeats him, and the Ice King decides to set Bubblegum free…. by dropping her into the boiling well.
They rush Bubblegum back to the Candy Kingdom and manage to stabilize her, but she’s different. She’s paler than normal, and the Ice King keeps trying to say he saw something strange about her, but no one wants to listen. Finn tries to confess his feelings for her, but she just says they should talk about it later. She acts increasingly strange, setting things on fire and mixing chemicals in her bathtub until she finally turns into a monster. Finally, the Ice King manages to tell them that she was possessed by the Lich. This time, it takes the Ice King’s help to defeat her but she smashes into pieces after he freezes her. Doctor Ice Cream, Nurse Pound Cake, and Doctor Princess work together to save her but they don’t have enough gum to bring her back completely. When she comes back to life… she is 13. Just like Finn. She calls him a hero and hugs him.
Bubblegum enjoys being 13, since she never really got to have much of a childhood. She goes on a date with Finn, but it’s interrupted by the Earl of Lemongrab, who has the right to rule the kingdom now that Bubblegum is too young. She tries to work with Finn to prank him out of the Kingdom, and though they have a lot of fun doing it… it doesn’t work. Finally, Bubblegum realizes that the only way to get rid of him is for her to turn 18 again, which she could have done at any time, but she hadn’t wanted to do. She really liked being a kid again, but as always, her people come first, and though Finn is clearly saddened by her decision, he also accepts it. The candy people donate their own flesh to give her more biomass, with Finn’s saliva acting as a binding agent. Bubblegum expresses regret again that she can’t say young, and she and Finn share a whopping love hug… and their first real kiss to catalyze the reaction. She fires the Earl, but when Finn asks if they can hug again she points out that that was five years ago, since for her, she’s now 18 again and not 13.
When a Door Lord appears and steals special objects from Finn, Jake, Bubblegum, and Marceline, the four come together to try and sing the door open and get their stuff back. Marceline sings a song about her bitterness over how she’s just Bubblegum’s problem, and the door starts to react to it, but when she notices everyone staring, she gets distracted and starts covering up her feelings. They break for noodles when the sun goes down, and they all start having a good time together. Bubblegum tries to use science to make the perfect song but it fails due to what she calls “miscalculations.” Marceline tells her she’s not as perfect as she thinks. Bubblegum tells her she never said Marceline had to be perfect and Marceline spits on her. They all start to walk away, then Finn admits he lost a piece of Bubblegum’s hair and starts to sing about how he’s not sure what his best friends think of him. He realizes that the door only responds to the truth, and the others join in as he sings about how they’re his best friends in the world. The door opens and they reclaim their things. It turns out Bubblegum’s special item was a shirt from Marceline’s band that Marceline had given to her, and that she sleeps in it. Marceline, it turns out, hadn’t lost anything, and had just wanted to hang out with them. Bubblegum accidentally sets off a zombie infestation again, but gets bitten before she can make the cure. She throws her notes to Finn and tells him to use Science, and it takes him until the very last second to realize that Science is the name of her rat, who manages to cure everyone. Things remain awkward between her and Finn, who is a really good friend, but also definitely in love with her and definitely too young for her, and she pushes him away when he gets too weird about it. This causes Jake to go venture forth to find him another girlfriend… the very Flame Princess that Bubblegum got locked away so many years ago.
Her brush with the Lich and nearly dying leaves Bubblegum all too aware of her own mortality, so she does what anyone would do and clones an immortal replacement: the sphinx Goliad. Goliad was made with science and some of her DNA, and she stays up for 83 hours straight trying to teach her how to be a good ruler. Finn and Jake volunteer to watch Goliad so that Bubblegum can rest, but it pretty quickly goes wrong. Goliad learns that being the stronger, more powerful person is the way to be in control. Bubblegum tries to explain why that’s wrong, but Goliad disagrees and states that because she is the strongest and most powerful, she should be in control. Bubblegum sets Finn and Jake on distracting Goliad while she clones a second candy sphinx, this one with some of Finn’s DNA. The new sphinx, Stormo, has Finn’s heroic qualities, and sacrifices himself, locking himself in battle with Goliad for eternity to keep her in check.
A rogue cookie takes a bunch of candy people hostage, vowing not to release them unless Bubblegum gives him her crown. She tries to negotiate, but eventually has to send in Jake and Finn to try and free them stealthily. Jake swaps sides when he learns that the reason the cookie wants the crown is because he wanted to be a princess when he was very young and Bubblegum laughed at him. Jake feels sympathetic and tries to help him escape, but the Banana Guard eventually catch up to them and Princess Cookie is put in a mental hospital. Later, Jake brings him a crown from the Grass Kingdom, while Bubblegum and Finn watch. Despite all the trouble Princess Cookie caused, Bubblegum still wants him to be happy. Just… in a way that doesn’t hurt anyone.
Bubblegum is distressed when she learns that Finn is dating Flame Princess, but when she tries to explain why, Finn leaves and Jake misses most of it, and just assumes she’s jealous. She tries to talk to Finn about it, talking about how sometimes you might want to be with someone but not be able to, and Finn gets angry, yelling at her for how he was in love with her and she didn’t return his feelings and now he wants to move on and she’s trying to build him up again. Bubblegum is mostly confused, especially when she picks up one of his scraps of paper with the poetry on it. She goes to find Jake, who also yells at her for toying with Finn’s emotions and she finally gets the message across that no, it’s that the Flame Princess’ Elemental Matrix can’t handle that much emotion and if they kiss, Flame Princess will burn through the planet and destroy it from the inside. Jake and Bubblegum rush to where Finn and Flame Princess are on their date, but they’re too late. Finn and Flame Princess kiss and she starts to burn through the earth. Finn jumps in after her, tying one of Jake’s arms around him, but it pulls Jake down on top of the hole, cutting off oxygen. Bubblegum sees this as a good thing since after 24.8 seconds Flame Princess will go out, but Jake’s worried about Finn. Finn manages to stabilize Flame Princess and Jake pulls them back out. Finn and Flame Princess both kiss a rock symbolically, and Bubblegum sighs a little, whispering “Oh, Finn,” which causes Jake to point out that yes, maybe she is a little jealous.
Finn and Jake go missing and Bubblegum and Lady Rainicorn have to team-up to find them. Bubblegum uses gadgets she’s created and her own intelligence to fight Ricardio, who it turns out is the one that kidnapped them. She also realizes Lady Rainicorn is pregnant. When the Earl of Lemongrab starts acting creepy and accuses Bubblegum of being the one who made him, his Glob, and basically to blame for all his actions. She tries to find a way to help him, but unfortunately, her attempts at making him a better ruler just don’t jive with his essential lemonness. Finally, she realizes the only one who can tolerate Lemongrab is himself, so she clones him a brother. Lemongrab (both of them) find this acceptable. Finn breaks into Bubblegum’s lab and asks for the jewel in her crown, but she refuses. She accidentally cuts his cheek when he tries to take it by force, which is upsetting to both of them. He runs off with the jewel, and Bubblegum follows, shouting out a warning that Billy, who had sent him to retrieve all these jewels, is not actually the legendary hero but in fact the very evil Lich that had possessed her way back when. But they’re too late, and Finn accidentally opens a wormhole while trying to stop the Lich from doing that. Jake tries to grab him at Bubblegum’s request, to stop the Lich from achieving his evil plan, but he’s sucked into the portal after him, and when Finn tries to stop him he’s only pulled in as well.
Finn and Jake reappear moments later after going on a grand adventure that only Jake remembers. The Earls of Lemongrab blame Princess Bubblegum for their lack of food, despite her sending them enough to last a lifetime, and when Finn and Jake investigate, they find out that they’ve been turning all their food into lemon people with the formula Bubblegum accidentally left when she created the second Lemongrab. They manage to get the giant lemon person to feel emotions and turn back into candy, and Bubblegum erases the formula from their minds so they can no longer do that. Ice King makes a glitch that threatens to erase everyone in Ooo except him and Bubblegum, since he claims she promised she’d date him if he were the last person on Earth. Bubblegum points out that no, she’s still here, and starts kissing her own hand. She also pushes the Ice King down and stomps on his head to try and get the antivirus from him, but it turns out he didn’t make one. She gets mad and starts beating his computer up with a bat until Finn and Jake come back from having saved the day yet again. Bubblegum holds a potluck and the Ice King tries to ruin it because he’s mad he wasn’t invited, but it turns out he just didn’t read his mail and was invited after all.
Peppermint Butler decides Bubblegum has been working too hard and gives one of her many suitors, a man named Braco who claims to be so in love with her it hurts, leave to court her. Bubblegum is extremely uninterested and points out that he doesn’t know her at all but is simply infatuated with her because of his imaginary projected relationship with her. Bubblegum does agree to meet him that night, but for research purposes. She sends Finn and Jake on a quest to find a soul stone, but Braco hijacks it in hopes that completing it will make her love him. Finn warns him that this will go nowhere. Turns out Bubblegum solved the soul problem without him and no longer needs it. Peppermint Butler uses dark magic to make Braco a horrible monster but also a love magnet. Bubblegum, however, loves all her subjects and is mostly unaffected. She reveals that what she’s been working on is a robot version of herself that Braco can date so that she can be left in peace.
Starchy refuses to use Bubblegum’s science cure since he wants to be cured by magic, which annoys Bubblegum. She claims magic is just science presented with mystic hoodoo, even pretending to do magic by wiggling her fingers, which Starchy finds very convincing until she says she was faking and he’s offended. She decides they’ll go to Wizard City disguised as wizards even though all non-wizards will be killed if they go there. She hurts the Ice King until he gives her the password and also says it so that the wall vanishes so they can get through. When Finn is impressed by the magic, she claims it’s simply “a vocal registry rigged to a vibration modulator” and not magic at all. They buy a potion, but Bubblegum demands to know what’s in it and how it works, refusing to buy that it’s just magic. This gets them arrested for being not wizards. The Grand Master Wizard agrees to let them go if she admits that wizards rule, but Bubblegum’s pride will not allow her to do that so they all go to wizard jail. Bubblegum gets into a prison fight with Abracadaniel but refuses to kill him, and she releases the cold spell which turns out was actually not a cure, just something to make the air cooler, and they escape. She has Abracadaniel pretend to do magic while she injects Starchy with her scientific cure.
Marceline shows up, asking if Bubblegum wants to hang out, but Bubblegum can tell that actually she pretty clearly wants Bubblegum’s help. Marceline says she needs to track down Maja the Sky Witch but won’t say why, only that it’s really, really, really important to her. Bubblegum agrees, and uses her scientific expertise to get herself and Marceline through Maja’s defenses. She learns that what Marceline needs is her toy, Hambo, that’s extremely important to her and though initially she’s annoyed, she does agree to keep helping. While Marceline engages Maja’s familiar in combat, Bubblegum searches her stuff and finds a receipt proving that Maja obtained Hambo completely legally. Ash, Marcy’s ex, had sold it to her, and as ruler of the Candy Kingdom, Bubblegum must honor that. However, she does find a way to get Hambo back: by trading the shirt Marceline gave her for the toy. Maja needs sentimental objects for her spells, and that shirt holds a motherload of it. Marceline’s reunited with her toy, and Bubblegum loses the shirt she loves, but it makes Marceline happy. That makes it worth it.
Bubblegum and Finn go to a dinner at Lemongrab’s but it quickly turns out that Lemongrab is as crazy as ever, and now a horrible tyrant. Finn tries to make it a date, even suggesting they prank Lemongrab like they did when she was 13, and she agrees, but it turns out she’s actually manipulating him to put into action a better plan, which makes Finn realize that she’s just not as interested in having fun as he is, possibly due to age difference. Bubblegum conducts a series of tests on Flame Princess, but when she leaves Cinnamon Bun in charge, CB admits that Bubblegum put Flame Princess in baby jail and the two escape to the Fire Kingdom. Bubblegum and Finn try to enter the Fire Kingdom but the guards stop them until they tell the truth about why they’re there, at which point they let them in. Flame Princess is now king of the Fire Kingdom, and she demands complete honesty, and Cinnamon Bun refuses to go back to the Candy Kingdom. Jake learns about his past life and returns Bubblegum’s amulet to her. She sends Finn and Jake and Marceline on a mission to retrieve the Spoon of Prosperity, but they end up trapped before they can get out. Bubblegum rescues them, and a red starved Marceline feeds from her, but the Spoon of Prosperity restores her, causing her to proclaim that peeps will never starve in her eternal empire. A reptile temporarily replaces Princess Bubblegum, but Finn and Jake defeat the fake one before Princess Bubblegum has a chance to warn them.
Finn and Jake go to the desert with Bubblegum and her new assistant, a candy person named James, to collect samples and find out if the area can be colonized, but the area they’re exploring turns out to be filled with goo monsters. They all rush back to the ship, but the goo monsters trap them in there. Finn makes a bunch of plans, but they all seem to fail in mysterious ways which leads him and Jake to suspect James is a saboteur. Finally, Finn plans to sacrifice himself, distracting the monsters so the rest of them can run for it, but Bubblegum knocks out Finn and Jake and has James do it instead. When Finn wakes up, she explains that she was the one sabotaging his escape attempts because she knew they wouldn’t work, and that James had to be the one to die because she could clone him, while she couldn’t clone Finn.
Abilities/Special Powers: Well she’s… made of candy. I looked at construct rules and elemental rules and I think elemental makes more sense partially because constructs are definitely more powerful than she is. Mostly she’s been shown to be virtually indestructible. Like she fell into a pit of lava and they fixed her up with candy. She got broken apart into little pieces and though they couldn’t find all of her, they still managed to find enough to reassemble her except younger. She also managed to then change her age by adding more candy except in a more sciencey way than that.
As far as her abilities, well, most of them can be described as SCIENCE!! She holds the secrets to creating life out of candy, though she’ll be forgetting that on account of I don’t even want to think about the roleplay mechanics of that. She’s also a great mechanic and chemist and has at least dabbled in every other science. She is, after all, hella old. She’s a decent ruler, if a bit controlling, and reasonably good at diplomacy. And she can sing.
Third-Person Sample: “What the lump?” Bubblegum straightened and looked around. While she couldn’t completely rule out the possibility that she’d somehow stepped into a part of her kingdom she’d never seen before, this didn’t feel like Ooo. It’s hard to explain exactly what it is that’s off… though when she checks the readings on her pocket katharometer, she finds the air composition is different from anything she’s ever seen, and her magnetometer is just going entirely whack. She smacks it, then tucks it back into her pocket. So much for that.
“Finn? Jake?” She tries to raise them on her holo-pendant. No luck. “Ugh, stupid thing. What use is a communication device if it won’t transmit messages across dimensions?” She frowns and taps her chin. Clearly, her next step is to try to boost the signal, or find a different way to communicate with them. And that means walking. That means figuring out where she is and what technology she has to work with. But she’s freaking Princess Bubblegum. If anyone can invent it, she can.
The mansion looks promising, if only for being the clearest landmark around. She starts towards it, wondering what sort of strange people could inhabit this dimension. They’re probably pretty strange, since it’s a whole other world compared to Bubblegum’s own. She’s not too worried. She’s seen all kinds of crazy things. She’s prepared for anything.
Anything, that is, except the beings she does find. “Oh my glob!” She grabs the person in front of her, a human, male, by the looks of it, and stares. “You’re a human! A real, live human! Oh, I can’t believe this! I’ll have to tell Finn!”
The person gives her a disturbed look and runs away. But it’s no matter. This is still amazing. She has to learn more.
First-Person Sample: Greetings, Citizens of Wonderland! [Bubblegum is sitting in her room, looking grave, but not particularly anxious. She’s certain she’ll be able to think her way out of here, even if the time bubble means that Finn and Jake can’t come rescue her as usual, but for now, it’s time to do her princessy addressing people thing.]
I am Princess Bubblegum of the Candy Kingdom. I have been taken to this land against my will, which I understand is common here. [She slams her fist on the table in front of her, leaning forward.]
I will not stand for it. And I will tell this supposed “Queen” [She rolls her eyes, making quote marks with her fingers] to her face if given half the chance. Honestly I’m insulted. This is some sort of interdimensional nexus, right? With magic? [She rolls her eyes, wiggling her fingers. Magic. Phah. It’s just science with extra special effects.] Come on. Who are you trying to impress? Sure, the sheer level of power that must go into powering this place seems pretty sweet, but come on. I could easily build a place like this with the right equipment and a decent power source. Though the transportation process was surprisingly smooth. I need to figure out how that part was done….
[She looks momentarily thoughtful. A project for another day. She straightens, smiling sweetly, and adds:]
Anyway, it’s nice to see so many humans around. I thought you were all but extinct. Then again, the anomalous nature of time and space might account for that. In which case… whoops. I hope you’re all from well before the Mushroom Wars.