Sayuki Waldo

Overview

Sayuki “Sing Kang” Waldo is the notorious first wife of Widdle Frunkut, grandmother of Queen Mayuri, and a recurring villain and historical relic of the Waldoverse.

Physical Description

In her youth, Sayuki was considered a beautiful woman of mixed German and Japanese ancestry, with pale skin, a generous bust, large expressive eyes, and stylish jet-black hair. She was said to strongly resemble her granddaughter, Queen Mayuri. Her early style leaned toward sundresses, make-up, and other feminine outfits, and she reportedly continued dressing like a schoolgirl well into her twenties.

By her late twenties, her appearance and tastes began to shift. The bright dresses were replaced with frumpy black pullovers, jackets, trousers, sunglasses, and a beret. In her early thirties her physical condition changed as well: she became gaunt and skinny for several years before later putting on a great deal of weight, eventually becoming a short, stout figure often compared to a “diseased toad.”

Today, in her eighties, she still dresses the same, though now wheelchair-bound and quadriplegic, resembling a wizened old toad more than ever.

Personality

In her early years, Sayuki was generally seen as quiet, polite, and eccentric in a mostly harmless way. She didn’t speak much English at first, which Waldo found convenient, and she carried a sweet, kawaii-like air about her. She dressed in schoolgirl outfits far longer than anyone thought reasonable and seemed perfectly content cooking, cleaning, and doting on Widdle Frunkut.

By her late twenties, however, prolonged exposure to 1960s American culture (and, depending on who you ask, the influence of Master Devlin), combined with the rising fame of her husband’s band, pushed her into a full-blown avant-garde phase. She became pretentious, insufferably self-serious, and convinced that every half-formed idea she produced was a profound critique of society. Conversations with her devolved into rambling lectures on post-modernism, identity, and whatever book she had skimmed that week.

As she continued to age—and her looks declined while Waldo inconveniently didn’t—Sayuki grew increasingly bitter and determined to make him as miserable as she felt. This eventually drove Waldo to abandon her. In old age, armed with accumulated wealth and a small army of skunkbreed minions, Sayuki escalated from difficult spouse to outright villain.

History

Little is known about Sayuki's childhood. She was born to a Japanese mother and Christian German father in Nagasaki in 1940, and was present not far away when the bomb fell in 1945.

Reports of when, where, and how exactly she met Waldo are conflicting, but what does seem consistent is that they met in the early 1960s during the time Waldo and the Master were in a band called The Boglins, of which Sayuki became a groupie, following them to America on their tour. Initially, Master Devlin encouraged the relationship, hoping it would help Waldo settle down and become more manageable. Eventually they wed on the road, and she became a permanent fixture in the group.

Before long, Waldo began to resent being tied down and resented the band's fame, and began a campaign of sabotage, including blowing all their money and stranding the band in Alabama while running a diner during civil-rights-era tensions. The sabotage accelerated in the late 1960s in San Francisco, when Sayuki had finally learned English and began to change for the worse, trying to alter Waldo's image to match her own adopted look.

Refusing to get a divorce, Waldo instead took fellow band member Skunk V and fled to the Far East where “the action” was. Doing wetwork for the CIA in Laos, Waldo was in his element, but the carnage they participated in started to warp Skunk V's mind. Eventually Waldo went off-book and became a god to some jungle-dwelling Cambodian locals, and Master Devlin was sent to retrieve him.

Bringing him back to America, they settled in 1970s New York City. Waldo enjoyed the grime and crime of the streets, but unfortunately he was forced to live in a Council-funded apartment in Greenwich Village with Sayuki. He amused himself for a time doing some work for the mob and pitting the various families against each other; however, his home life, tied down to the “old toad,” made him horribly depressed. When it became too much for him, he snapped and beat her to within an inch of her life. Unbeknownst to Waldo, Skunk V—suffering from PTSD—had become enamoured with Sayuki and turned on him, shooting Waldo in the back.

Upon his recovery, and realising they couldn’t protect her from Waldo, Devlin took Waldo to Miami, where he started a cocaine empire in the early 1980s, creating a new wF persona: “Cuban Waldo.”

Sayuki wasn’t seen or heard from again for decades. At some point she apparently had at least one child, as when we met Waldo's third wife, Mayuri Shiina, in 2022, it was revealed by the Editor that she is Sayuki's granddaughter.

Eventually Sayuki returned with her partner Skunk V—now named Otto—and was determined to make a nuisance of herself, claiming she was entitled to alimony and trying to undermine her granddaughter's marriage by claiming it was illegitimate. When the Waldo cottage exploded she was presumed dead, but soon after she reappeared and had Master Devlin kidnapped and left alone in an empty mansion with a bomb. Thankfully Harris Travers and his associates arrived in time to save him.

Some time later, she and her goons crashed the wedding of Mayuri and Travers, taking the guests hostage and attempting to blow them up. During the chaos, Skunk V attempted to detonate the bomb, but Stanbot 1.0 seized him, stuffed him into its internal compartment, and ran outside the church before the device could be triggered, sacrificing itself and killing Skunk V in the resulting explosion. Taking advantage of the distraction, Master Devlin then punched Sayuki in the face, causing her to fall and strike her head on a pew, leaving her paralysed from the neck down.

She would later reappear during the Nilbog Crisis as a minor warlord, accompanied by a new skunkbreed servant known as Skunk VII.

Currently she can be found on telly as one of the cast members of The Real Housewives of Waverly Hills.

Abilities and Skills

For a wizened old crone, she is surprisingly hard to kill.

Sayuki is skilled at playing the shakuhachi, and it somehow magically plays whenever she enters a scene, even now as a quadriplegic.

Notable Relationships

• Widdle Frunkut: Sayuki's first husband, nemesis, and the former husband of her granddaughter, Mayuri Shiina.


• Queen Mayuri: Sayuki's granddaughter.


• Skunk V (Otto): Sayuki's lover, former member of The Boglins and associate of Widdle Frunkut; an insane Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD and the fifth iteration of “The Skunk” line of Goblin Brand lackeys.


• Gary: Sayuki's muscle. A tall, heavy Japanese man and former sumo wrestler.