Peco

Peco ペコロス Pekorosu (Pecoros)
Portrait
Sprite
Type												Playable Character
Home												Dump
Occupation												Wanderer
Height												120 cm (3'11")
Weight												66.6 kg (146.8 lbs)
Personal Action												Headbutt
Weapon												Claws
Voice actor												Yukiko Matsuura
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"pefuuuuuu"

— Peco, sleeping

"Not true, Myria... It just means that Life is no longer content to live in the little cage you have made for it..."

— Peco to Myria

"Peco is a little onion-like creature that was created from an experiment at the Plant. Although he doesn't seem to have strong ties with humans, he is very in-touch with nature, especially the Yggdrasil tree. He learns a unique set of breath attacks and has the ability to regenerate a small amount of HP every turn. Peco excels in HP and defense, however he doesn't have much in the way of agility and intelligence. But with some good master management, Peco can easily become a great character to have in your team."

— Bio

Peco is a playable character in Breath of Fire III. He is thought to be a member of the Grassmen Tribe, and is a voice of the ancient Tree of Wisdom, Yggdrasil.

Appearance and Personality

Peco is a small, onion-like mutant with yellow hair and red, pointy feet. His body is partly covered by a thin outer green layer. His eyes are red and something similar to a sprout is sticking out from the top of his head.

Peco is unable to speak due to what seems to be low intelligence (he humorously has the lowest Intelligence stat of all playable characters), and is only capable of creating incomprehensible noises. However, he seems to be able to understand what a person is saying, and is able to grasp the mood and seriousness of a situation. When spoken to, Ryu implies what he is trying to express by looking at his reaction.

Peco serves as the comic relief of the game due to his manners and habit of running into comical situations.

Story

"Myria... Life in your world has been protected from the desert, and death...but that's not the same as living..."

— Peco to Myria

Peco is birthed from the charred remains of the mutant fought in the Dump as a "gift" to Ryu and friends. The team names him, and he joins the party. The party is now able to speak to Yggdrasil through Peco, and gain him as a Master.

The team arrives at Genmel and register for the Contest of Champions. However, Balio and Sunder will only let the team go free as long as they hold a hostage, one of which is Momo or Peco. After the contest is won, Garr suspiciously claims the team as his "prize", and the party is reunited with the held teammate.

After the timeskip, the party picks up Peco from Yggdrasil's grove and he helps them enter the Plant by knocking rocks down from a cliff onto a couple of greenhouses, relieving the gas chamber from chrysm gas, allowing the team to progress further inside. Around and inside the facility, several Peco-like creatures are found.

The team is eventually in need of locating Shaly Seeds to use in the mixture needed to create the perfect Shishu to feed a spoiled mayor. Peco acquires these seeds by running headfirst into the tree in which these seeds grow upon, located in Maekyss Gorge.

In Ryu's Dream, Ryu finds himself lost in a maze where projections of his friends show their doubts and uncertainty of their parts in the adventure. He stumbles upon Peco at the heart of the world, and he surprises Ryu by speaking to him, encouraging him that the path he's walking is the right one. After evading the mirages Teepo has laid out for him, Teepo is shocked that Ryu counts Yggdrasil amongst his companions, which he implies is the reason Ryu was able to journey so far through his mind.

Defeating Teepo, the team progress through the station and finally encounters Myria, the final goal of their travels. The party is shown to be vastly inferior in strength to the goddess, as she easily dispatches each of them by vanishing the group one by one, leaving only Ryu and Peco, the latter of which she senses no presence of threat from. This shows to be her mistake, as the power of Yggdrasil channels through him, bringing back the people she removed. Realizing his identity, she expresses a feeling of anxiety at his words, and treats his power as equal to hers as she puts the fate of the world in Ryu's hands. Peco and the rest of the party spurs him to follow his destiny and believe in his comrades, and together they bring down the demon formed in front of them, setting the world free from its bounds.

Through Peco, Yggdrasil exerts his influence and life begins returning to the barren Desert of Death.

In Battle

Peco is a peculiar character to employ in battle. As his entrance into the party is his 'birth', he begins the game at level 1, whereas his party members are usually around level 15 or higher at his joining. This can be a good thing however, as his low level can make it easier for players to gain some hard-to-earn spells from masters like Deis and Ladon, who yield their best abilities only after gaining ten or fifteen levels while under their respective wings. In actual combat, Peco can be quite useful. While he is somewhat lacking in magical clout, his physical abilities can make up for that detriment. From his first appearance, his HP values are egregiously high and continue to skyrocket from there, easily breaking 100 HP in a few levels. This, along with a Defense that is primarily unparalleled, and a constant HP regeneration while in battle makes him very tough for enemies to kill. Add his naturally high offensive status to the mix and you find yourself with a classic tank (even if he is an onion). Peco seems to have a very high Reprisal chance for a multitude of different abilities (minus spells) in battle as well, making him the best choice for the front line of an Offensive formation as he can use abilities such as "Steal" and still have a chance to do damage on the same turn.

Abilities

Abilities
Level	Ability	Type	Description	AP Cost
10	Dream Breath	Assist	Induce sleep in all targets	3
17	Venom Breath	Assist	Poison all targets	3
20	Rejuvenate	Heal	Heal medium wounds on one target	7
21	Purify	Heal	Cures poison	4
30	Ice Breath	Attack	Frost: damage altered by HP	4
31	Fire Breath	Attack	Flame: damage altered by HP	4

Stats

Stats
Lvl	HP	AP	Pwr	Def	Agl	Int
1	40	8	18	14	3	4
2	43	9	21	14	3	4
3	47	10	22	15	4	4
4	51	13	25	17	5	4
5	65	19	31	22	5	7
6	67	21	33	23	7	7
7	73	21	35	23	7	7
8	87	26	42	29	8	12
9	92	28	44	31	8	12
10	98	32	47	34	8	12
11	103	32	51	34	9	12
12	106	34	53	37	9	12
13	121	39	60	43	9	18
14	124	40	61	45	9	18
15	129	43	64	45	12	18
16	134	46	67	48	12	18
17	148	52	74	54	12	20
18	163	59	80	59	14	22
19	169	59	82	61	14	22
20	173	62	85	64	14	22
21	180	66	86	64	14	22
22	194	73	93	70	15	26
23	198	75	96	72	15	26
24	204	75	98	75	17	26
25	211	78	102	77	17	26
26	216	80	109	81	19	26
27	231	86	112	88	19	31
28	236	88	113	91	19	31
29	243	90	114	92	19	31
30	258	97	121	99	20	34
31	264	100	125	101	22	34
32	268	100	128	103	22	34
33	274	102	130	107	22	34
34	279	102	134	107	23	34
35	294	110	141	113	23	37
36	302	110	144	113	23	37
37	309	113	146	115	24	37
38	315	114	148	118	24	37
39	329	120	155	122	25	41
40	333	122	156	122	25	41
41	339	124	158	122	27	41
42	343	124	161	125	27	41
43	358	130	168	130	28	45
44	358	131	171	132	28	45
45	363	132	171	132	28	45
46	367	135	172	134	28	45
47	380	141	178	139	28	48
48	383	143	181	140	29	48
49	386	143	183	142	29	48
50	386	145	184	142	29	48
51	388	146	184	143	29	48
52	398	151	189	148	29	50
53	399	151	189	150	29	50
54	401	151	189	151	29	50
55	404	152	191	151	30	50
56	404	154	194	153	30	50
57	413	159	199	157	30	53
58	413	159	201	157	31	53
59	416	159	202	159	31	53
60	417	159	202	161	31	53
61	417	159	203	161	31	53
62	419	159	204	161	32	53
63	423	163	210	166	32	55
64	423	163	210	167	32	55
65	424	163	211	167	32	55
66	424	165	211	167	33	55
67	424	165	212	168	33	55
68	425	166	212	168	33	55
69	429	171	216	172	33	56
70	429	172	216	172	33	56
71	431	172	218	173	33	56
72	431	173	218	175	33	56
73	431	173	219	175	34	56
74	435	177	222	179	34	57
75	435	179	222	180	34	57
76	436	179	224	180	34	57
77	438	180	224	182	34	57
78	438	180	226	182	35	57
79	440	181	226	183	35	57
80	440	181	227	183	35	57
81	441	183	227	183	36	57
82	441	183	228	186	36	57
83	444	183	229	186	37	57
84	444	183	229	188	37	57
85	444	185	229	188	37	57
86	446	185	230	188	37	57
87	446	187	230	189	38	57
88	447	187	232	189	38	57
89	448	188	232	189	39	57
90	451	188	232	190	39	57
91	451	189	234	190	39	57
92	451	190	234	192	40	57
93	452	190	234	192	40	57
94	454	190	234	193	40	57
95	454	191	235	195	40	57
96	454	191	236	195	41	57
97	457	191	237	195	41	57
98	457	191	237	195	41	57
99	458	193	237	196	41	57

Trivia

• When Peco attacks he takes the shape of the Mutant.
• Peco's design is reminiscent to Spar's "Seedling" Fusion form.

Gallery

5 artwork 7 sprites