Leafos

Leafos is the first face you meet upon arriving at your new garden. She is eager to help you get started, and continues to be a semi-reliable source of information throughout the game.

Leafos
Leafos
Leafos would like to help you become a great gardener. Leafos will help by giving you some basic tools, and explaining how to use them.
Role	Player Guide
Relationships	Jardiniero (Father) Mother (Mother) Dastardos (Brother) Storkos (Sister) Seedos (Brother) Miss Petula (Dislikes)
Voiced by	Louise O'Connor

Leafos is the eldest daughter of Jardiniero, formerly the best gardener on Piñata Island and the previous owner of the garden seen in the original Viva Piñata. She is eager to see you restore the garden to it's former glory, and is more than willing to help you on every step of the way.

Leafos is also the author of the Journal, the in-game guide to everything you discover in your garden.

Biography

Lore

Young Leafos, as seen in the Storybook

Leafos was the second child born to Jardiniero and Mother, born while her mother was on shore leave. Mother would leave again soon after, leaving Leafos with her father and elder brother, Stardos.

She grew to adore her father's garden. So much she would bring flowers inside, and later would attempt to do the same with a Moozipan. This incident sparked Jardiniero to gift her paper and pencils, telling her to draw what she saw in the garden to bring into her room. Leafos loved the idea, and quickly filled all the space in her room. Jardiniero would then get the idea to bind the drawings into a book, creating the Journal.

After some time her parents would leave in the hunt for a Dragonache, entrusting the care of the garden to Stardos and Leafos. This unfortunately would quickly go awry. After Stardos disappeared, Ruffians would attack the garden. Unable to do anything to stop them, Leafos would hide in the safety of the family home, leaving her the only one left to tell her father the grim news upon his return.

None of her siblings ever returned home, all finding their own paths away from the now derelict garden. Leafos would remain living with her father, staring sadly at the remains of the garden. Eventually, they would decide to sell the land. The player purchases the garden, and the game begins.

Gameplay

Leafos acts as a guide to the player throughout the game. At the beginning of Viva Piñata, she gives the player the tutorial, teaching the basics of residing piñatas, growing plants, and romancing. She also gifts you the tools needed to work in your garden, although they are in rough shape.

In Trouble in Paradise, the tutorial is much more indirect, with Leafos taking a backseat. Regardless, she is still there to help the player get on their feet.

After the tutorial, Leafos is often the one to inform you about different things going on in your garden. Whether it's a level up, fights, or an introduction to a new character or piñata, Leafos is usually the one to let you know what's up via the alert system. In Trouble in Paradise, she will also give the player an idea of what they have unlocked after leveling up.

Every day from around 10am-7pm, she will visit your garden. She will wander around, seeming to simply be observing your progress and interacting with your piñatas. You can talk to her while she is visiting, providing you with dialogue ranging from advice, to information about the other residents, to world building or references to the games development or other Rare titles. Be careful though, as not all of Leafos' advice is accurate, and she will sometimes mislead the player, whether intentionally or not. If it starts raining, Leafos may head home early.

More mischievous gardeners may decide to mess with Leafos, by hitting her with your shovel or watering her with the watering can. Doing this will cause Leafos to become angry with you though, and if you push her patience enough times, she will take the offending tool away from you for about 30 seconds.

Mini-Games

In Trouble in Paradise, two mini-games were added where you can compete against any character in-game. These are The Great Piñata Paperchase, and The P Factor.

Leafos can be your opponent in either game, where the piñata she uses is randomized.

In The P Factor, she can instead be a judge. As a judge, Leafos will prefer low level or low value piñatas, such as Whirlms or Bunnycombs. She shares this criteria with Nana Urf, and has opposite tastes to Gretchen Fetchum and Professor Pester.

Leafos Gossip

Note: This list is only for Gossip quotes where Leafos talks about herself. For the full list, see here.

• "If I'd been a boy when I was born, Dad was going to call me Justin (Classic)/Dedos (TIP). Our names are all so weird. They're the kind of names that you would see in a computer game or cartoon or something."
• "I've got two brothers and a sister you know. I was always the brains of the family."
• "One of the best games I ever played was Grabbed by the Ghoulies."
• "The journal has lots of information about how to do everything! It contains all the things I've discovered while living here on the Islands."
• "I don't think you talk to me as much as you should. I have lots of good advice you know."

Quotes

For a full list of Leafos' quotes, see here.

Trivia

• According to Leafos, she would have been called Dedos if she had been a boy. This is a reference to an earlier version of the character.
• Leafos is not fond of turnip stew.
• She does not seem to get along with Miss Petula, ironically complaining about how she is always gossiping.
• She seems to enjoy video games, as she talks about them a few times. She also directly mentions previous Rare game, Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
• The Journal entry for the Pink Flutterscotch suggests that Leafos may be interested in girls.
• Despite having green eyes in-game, her artwork depicts her with blue eyes.

Gallery

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  Leafos' in-game icon

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  Concept art for Leafos

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  Official render of Leafos, holding a shovel