Lime Chiffon is one of Strawberry Shortcake's friends, and is a graceful girl. She is either a ballerina with a love of dance or a fashionista with a love of books.
General Information
1980s
The character made her debut during the third special, Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade. Lime is the bubbly, airy ballerina whose every movement is filled with elegance and smoothness, even if she gets in the way for some reason. With high energy and a light mood, Lime can often be found with her pet, Parfait Parrot.
Berry in the Big City
After a nearly 30 year-long absence from the franchise, Lime Chiffon returns as a part of the main cast in the 2021 series. She is now an intelligent Afro-Latina girl with a love of fashion and books. Lime Chiffon co-owns and runs the LemonLime Time juice cart alongside her best friend and business partner, Lemon Meringue, at the Berryworks in Big Apple City. Her second best friend is Bread Pudding, who is just as much a fashionista as she is. Her dads are the historian Dr. Lime Pops and famous fashion designer Fluffy Chiffon, both of whom were a big influence on her current interests in fashion and learning.
Personality
1980's
A girl with a "flighty" personality, it can be pretty hard to hold onto Lime's attention for long. She doesn't seem to pay attention too much, so often has to be called to or pulled out of the way. But then she'll simply dance away without a care. It has been implied that Parfait may actually be smarter than her.
2021
"Lime Chiffon is the most stylish and booksmart friend around! Together with pet friend, Parfait the parrot they know a lot about a lot, sharing a love for fashion and books." - From the Berry in the Big City website
Lime is a sweet and friendly girl. She is the brainy, intelligent, and bookish one of the group. Just like Blueberry she loves mysteries and is eager to solve any. She randomly owns Sherlock Holmes-style hats and claims she knows everything about solving a mystery because she reads a lot of Apricot Christie books. (Apricot Christie is a pun on one of the most well-known mystery authors in the world, Agatha Christie.) She is often a know-it-all but means well. She also gets annoyed or tired easily and she's usually no-nonsense. She's close to Lemon Meringue.
Lime is not just a bookworm, she's also very into fashion. She likes exciting and extravagant new styles, as well as fancy but classic and simple styles. She strongly believes that you cannot go out to a nice restaurant without being dressed in the proper dress code. This influence is probably from her dads.
Lime also tends to be loud and gets manic in small bursts when she is excited about something. Other times she is usually more serious and composed. Lime also has a tendency to panic when placed in a stressful situation to the point of being unable to function.
Appearance
1980s
Lime Chiffon is a cute green-themed girl with fair skin and small green eyes. She has grass green hair styled in a flared-out bob cut, worn with a two-layer, white and pink hat resembling a cake with a pastel pink scallop-lined bottom piece. On the center of the cake is a green string ribbon. Lime wears a mint-green dress with white frilly sleeves and ribbon lining the bottom with a daisy every few inches. Her stockings are the basic green and white stripe, and she wears a dull pair of ballet flats. She is usually seen in pretty, flamboyant poses.
1991
This brief revived version of Lime looks the same as before but got an outfit update. She has pink and light pink striped leggings, a leotard with a pink T-shirt under it, a thin tutu, and lost her hat. Like many other girls, she replaced her hat with a bow. Hers is pink and large with flowy material, and she tied it on like a headband. In the center, there is a swirl dollop of Meringue.
2021
Lime is now a chubby Afro-Latina girl with tannish-brown skin, green eyes, baby-fat cheeks, square glasses, and emerald earrings. She has brown and lime green-streaked hair in pigtails and lime-shaped hair-ties. Lime wears a lime green overall skirt with a lime emblem on it over a sky blue T-shirt and pastel blue leggings, and lime green riding boots. Her skirt is stylized to look like a lime wedge.
In summer episodes, Lime wears a sleeveless jumpsuit with knee-length legs, and a lime green and pastel green vertical stripe pattern all across, a sky-blue sash belt tied in a bow, and close-toed sandals.
In winter episodes, Lime wears her normal clothes, with a large green winter coat that covers her body down to her knees, sky-blue mittens, and a pastel green scarf with a lime wedge pattern.
Pet
1980s
Lime's pet is a parrot named Parfait. He has a pink beak and talons, with green and pink feathers. His eyes are surrounded by pink plumage that forms a shape akin to flower petals. He can speak, and was voiced by Jeannie Elias.
Berry in the Big City
Lime's pet in this series is Parfait once again. He appears to be a different species of parrot, with a less fluffy appearance. He has normal orange for his beak and talons. His plumage is now dark green with light green accents, and a blue tip at his tail. His eyes are lime green and the surrounding plumage is stylized to look like square glasses, matching his owner. Parfait wears a small green vest with a dark green outline. Just like his previous incarnation, Parfait can speak and is voiced by Tabitha St. Germain. He regularly communicates with his owner by talking. Parfait can use his wings like hands, even able to hold things like tacos in them without difficulty.
Trivia
General
- Lime Chiffon is one of the few characters in the franchise to retain their original pet across all of their media appearances. The only other notable characters with this distinction are Strawberry Shortcake with Custard, Apricot with Hopsalot, and Almond Tea/Tea Blossom with Marza Panda.
1980s
- She likes to dance.
- Lime Chiffon is one of three ballerina/dancer characters, along with the 1980s Banana Candy (then called "Banana Twirl") and 2009's Plum Pudding.
Berry in the Big City
- The costume that Lime Chiffon wears for the party during the events of Scaryoke seems to be based on the fact that she was a ballerina in the 1980s.
- She is the member of the main cast (aside from Bread Pudding, who is a new addition) to have the least amount of prior iterations. Strawberry Shortcake, Orange Blossom, Lemon Meringue, Blueberry Muffin, Huckleberry Pie, Raspberry Tart, and Sour Grapes all appeared in every previous major series, while Lime Chiffon only appeared in the 1980s series and the short-lived 1991 line. This also gives Lime the longest amount of time between incarnations with a 30-year long gap.
- She is one of the few Latina characters in the franchise, with the only other notable examples previously being Tamale the Mole and Cafe Ole from the original 1980s series. She is the first to specifically be Afro-Latina.
- In "Berry Bounty Banquet", it revealed that she has two dads.
- She refers to them respectively as Dad (Fluffy Chiffon) and Pops[1]/Papa[2] (Dr. Lime Pops).
- Out of all the new characters, Lime is the least changed from her 2017 concept design, originally having round glasses and brown shoes.
- Lime Chiffon and Strawberry Shortcake both have the highest number of songs out of the Berry Besties, with two songs each focusing primarily on them. Orange Blossom and Blueberry Muffin are second with one song each, and everyberry else either sung only in group songs or in a duet with Strawberry.
- In "Any Way You Slice It", Lime Chiffon's original 1980s outfit can be seen during the song. This makes Lime the third Strawberry Shortcake character in Berry in the Big City to have her original 1980s outfit appear, with the previous two being Strawberry Shortcake and Blueberry Muffin.
- In the “Tap Lime Through Time” YouTube Short showing Lime Chiffon wearing the outfits of her previous incarnations, she wears her retro outfit from LemonLime Back in Time and her 1991 outfit. This was due to Lime only having three total incarnations in the entire franchise, necessitating this “cheat” so that Lime could have four outfit changes. The short also disproved the assumption that Lime Light was a new incarnation of Lime Chiffon, as Chiffon doesn’t wear Light’s outfit in the short.
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