Mule Love

Mule Love (뮬 러브, Myool Reobeu; "Mule Love") is a Ranker and an Administrator on the 20th Floor. He is drawn rather roughly, with a very comical appearance. He was born into the Mule Family and also belongs to the Chicken Love Club. He became a Wonsulsa after passing certain Tests at the Research Association.

Appearance and Personality
Mule Love is a short child-like Ranker with large blue eyes. He is always seen sporting a baseball cap with a long jacket and blue bottoms; his cap and jacket share the same blue chequered design and his overall attire has a blue-coloured theme. Love is drawn more cartoon-like than other characters.

Love appears to be a very proud and defiant person and will even go as far as to bend the rules to suit his own whims. However, despite his occasional outbursts that match his young appearance, he is generally mature enough to understand situations and accept his mistakes.

Tower of God: Part 2 - The Return of the Prince
When he first appears, everyone snickers and thinks him adorable. Despite his deceptively cute appearance, he scores 13,200,000 on the Shinsoo measuring machine after only lightly hitting it. He tells everyone that the machine will measure their Shinsoo strengthening ability. This test, The World's Strongest Regular Test, will determine the passing eight. When Prince beat Yihwa in the test, Yihwa asks for a retry since her first attempt was hindered by her tripping. Love denies her request. He gets surprised when Viole does the test, recognizing the ability Viole used as "Floral Butterfly Piercing Technique", a trademark of FUG. Everyone is surprised when he announces that Viole will pick the remaining seven members. Prince then asks what the test was for, to which Love says it was to pick first place. At Prince's protests, he says, "Shut up. I do what I want". When Viole states that he doesn't wish to pick teammates, he is surprised. After Viole gives his reasons, Loves says he understands Viole's concerns but regardless of the person, the test cannot be changed. He also says that a few of the other Regulars would be willing to make a deal with the devil to pass. When Viole refuses to answer, Love proposes a game with him in order to settle the matter.



After letting the Regulars out to rest, he talks to Augusgus about eliminating the FUG member, but is reprimanded and told not to harm Viole. It seems that all they are to do, is to uphold the fairness of the Tower's rules and refrain from taking sides in any political issues.



However, he has defied his superior's warnings. After everyone went to sleep, Love secretly initiated a surprise test while challenging Viole to "a game" in the Bath area. And one of the rules in the game allows Love to interfere with Viole's attempts to catch the "connector" and he's allowed to kill the FUG member "by mistake". He fought with Viole, and was surprised by his control over Shinsoo, but was able to prevent him from catching the remote on all three throws. On the second throw he explains that his agenda against FUG was because of his parents' murders. On the third, impressed with Viole's skill, he attempts to persuade Viole into using his powers for good. Wangnan interrupts their fight and steals the connector, distracting Love with a chilli pepper bomb. Love is angered that Wangnan would sacrifice everyone for his desire for revenge. He beats Wangnan up but is unable to stop the connector from being tossed to Viole. He does not appear to stop them from going after the other Regulars afterwards.

After the test is concluded, Love is reprimanded by his superior Augusgus for illegally conducting a test. It is revealed that news of a Slayer candidate beating a Ranker has spread throughout the Tower. Augusgus doesn't accept Love's offer of resignation, but makes him buy him fried chicken as an apology. Later on Love confesses to the Regulars that the test wasn't official and tells them that it replaces their final test, letting them move on to the next Floor. Love buys them lunch, where Wangnan and Miseng demand tangsooyuk.

Powers and Abilities
Being a Ranker, Love is well equipped with various abilities.

Body Reinforcement (신체 강화, sinche gang'hwa): Love can strengthen his body immensely with Shinsoo; he effortlessly scores 13,200,000 on the Shinsoo King Challenge, which is almost 100 times stronger than Viole's Floral Butterfly Piercing Technique.
 * Upshoot (압쑤다(UPshoot!!), apssooda): A quick and powerful uppercut using white and blue Shinsoo. It remains unknown whether it uses Wonsul or not.
 * Straight Ball (직구, jiggu): A reverse lunge punch strengthened by Shinsoo. It also remains unknown whether it uses Wonsul or not.

Wonsul (원술): Love can use his Shinsoo in a perfectly circular motion, making it more powerful while retaining the same Myun and Su.
 * Blue Oar (청루(青櫓), cheong loo): Love can create large blue bubbles of Shinsoo to ride on allowing him to move around very quickly.
 * Slider (슬라이더(SLIDER!!), seullaideo): Love can seemingly "slide" under or through Shinsoo attacks. Producing an afterimage of himself moving.
 * Pitch Changeup (구질 변화, gujil byeonhwa): Arguably his most powerful attack and in his opinion the most difficult technique he used during the fight with Viole. It is a devastating close-range blast using red and black Shinsoo spinning around one's hand. It was strong enough to knock down Viole easily.
 * Cut Fast Ball (컷 패스트볼, keos paseuteubal): It seems this technique is used to shoot Pitch Changeup's black and red Shinsoo as a big wave at long-range, as this name is seen after Love used Pitch Changeup on Viole, but not after Viole used the copied Pitch Changeup. The only difference is that in the latter case, the Shinsoo is just floating around Viole's hand, whereas Love shot it.
 * Beam Cannon (광포(光抛), kwangpo, lit. "Light Throw"): Love focuses Shinsoo in the palms of his hands and then releases it in a white beam. A circle of the same colour is created around the ray so it seems this attack is Wonsul technique.

Inventory:
 * Mule Gloves (뮬 글러브, myool geulleobeu): An Armor Inventory shaped like two huge gloves. It's capable of increasing Shinsoo resistance and is passed down in Mule Family.

Special Contracts:
 * Mule Family Contract: "Iron Man Contract" (뮬 가문 계약: "철인 계약", myool gabon gyeyag: cheol'in gyeoyag): It's a contract with a Guardian of 20th Floor which basically enables stamina regeneration on this specific Floor. Contracts of this kind can be acquired by a Ranker of a Special Family through a special test.
 * 20th Floor Test Director (20F 시험감독관, siheomgamdughwan): On the 20th Floor, Love's Shinsoo resistance and control is increased.

Notes and Trivia

 * Love belongs to the "Spicy" (양념, Spicy and Seasoned) side in the Chicken Love Club, and has a tag on his left arm that shows it. He refuses to go over to the "Fried" side when Augusgus invites him.
 * An ironic fact about Love, despite hating FUG, he managed to power up Viole, a FUG Slayer candidate, since Viole copied his techniques.
 * Love is based on Korean baseball player Ryu Hyunjin. Likewise, his game is based on baseball, and so are his battle techniques.
 * SIU wrote on his blog that if not copyright, he would put "Fly Superboard" in the background for the scene when both Love and Viole use Blue Oar at the same time.
 * Love initially mistook Jyu Viole Grace for a girl until his superior referred to him with a male pronoun, after which Love looked up the records and realised his mistake caused Viole to room with Yeon.

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