Phlannel Boxingday Name Phlannel Boxingday Sex Male Species Humanoid Occupation Monster hunter Introduced in Lemonhope Part 2" Voiced by Creed Bratton

Phlannel Boxingday is a monster hunter in Ooo, who rides around on a cloud in the sky.

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Personality

Phlannel Boxingday helps Lemonhope after he runs away and is shipwrecked in the desert. Phlannel Boxingday is far less demanding of Lemonhope than Princess Bubblegum.

Phlannel asks Lemonhope what he wants to do, guiding him toward his decisions rather than making them for him. Even in their first encounter, Phlannel asks Lemonhope if he wants to hang with him in his cloud trawler to recover, not forcing the decision on him. However, Phlannel does tell Lemonhope that he will have to deal with the consequences of his decisions, as even in his ideal scenario as a monster hunter with Boxingday, Lemonhope will still be a prisoner of his own mind due to the nightmares he gets as a result of refusing to help the people of the Lemongrab Earldom when they helped him escape.

Boxingday advertises himself as a monster hunter and adventurer, collecting loot from fallen foes, and displays a good perception of how different monsters react to Lemonhope's music. He notices the scorpions run away from Lemonhope after playing Finn's flute. Boxingday encourages Lemonhope to use his musical skills to help him escape from the monster.

Despite his relationship with Lemonhope, Boxingday refuses to help Lemonhope beyond dropping him off at the earldom boundary.

Biography

When Lemonhope leaves the shipwreck in search of water, he takes note of a mysterious lone cloud above his head. After Lemonhope collapses, Phlannel Boxingday arrives on the vehicularized cloud, which he calls a cloud trawler, and hydrates him, asking him if he wants to have some help and live with him until he recovers enough to support himself.

When Lemonhope boards the trawler, Phlannel flies it into the sky, where they are attacked by the same birds that destroyed the pirate ship. Phlannel encourages Lemonhope to play his musical instruments to distract one of the birds. Initially, Lemonhope's flute agitates the bird, causing it to call its pack. Then Phlannel tells Lemonhope to play the harp, and this satisfies the bird enough so that it follows the trawler and does not notice when Phlannel directs the bird into a pillar of rock.

Upon Lemonhope's desperate request, Phlannel drives the vehicle to the fallen bird. It spouts gold and crowns, possibly taken from the pirate vessel. Phlannel Boxingday announces that he is a Monster Hunter who takes the loot from the monsters he takes down and offers Lemonhope an apprenticeship. Lemonhope calls this a "dream come true" and joins Phlannel.

Some time later, Lemonhope wakes up from a nightmare, which Phlannel says is the "third time this week." Phlannel gives Lemonhope advice, telling him that even though he is free to not deal with the Lemongrab Earldom, a debt is not easily forgotten, and Lemonhope will be a prisoner of his own mind until he repays it.

Lemonhope decides to intervene with the earldom and wants Phlannel Boxingday to help, but Boxingday says that he is bound by very tight treaties and cannot intervene with Lemongrab politics. Boxingday drops Lemonhope off at the Lemongrab Earldom boundary.

Trivia

Phlannel Boxingday bears a number of similarities to Princess Bubblegum: His initials (PB), number of letters in his first name (8), number of letters in his last name (9), and number of syllables in each word (2, 3), are all identical to Princess Bubblegum's. He uses similar slang to Princess Bubblegum. He speaks some German phrases. He has an understanding of zanoits suggesting scientific knowledge. His pink skin and humanoid shape is very similar to the bubblegum people. He rubs Lemonhope's head and calls him "dude" just in the exact same fashion Princess Bubblegum did in the previous episode before going in the field trip. He talks about pacts and treaties that prevent him from crossing Lemongrab territory, much like Princess Bubblegum. He then makes a comparison between keeping the treaty and disposing a broken science instrument.

If Phlannel Boxingday is indeed Princess Bubblegum, her disguise is very reminiscent to that of Davey (Finn's alter-ego), in both the moustache shape and tone of voice.

The speech where he says that no one is actually free, or "still a prisioner, in deinen kopf" is similar to the philosophical concept of bad faith by the Existentialist philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

Phlannel understands and respects the choices of others, as shown when he meets with Lemonhope, never pushing him to make a decision one way or another. Instead he helps guide others to find their own path.