Spring Sprite

The Spring Sprite is a character from Disney's Fantasia 2000. She appears in the Firebird Suite or L'oiseau de feu sequence, inspired by the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens, as the main protagonist.
==Personality==
The Spring Sprite is a benevolent force of life and creation. She loves the forest and its creatures, and is happy to bring spring every year. When she was awakened by her friend, the Elk, she felt very grateful of him as he gave him a embracing hug. As a force of creation, she has a creative and artistic side, seen when she forms a flower, has a second thought, and then turns it into a dazzling sight, and revitalizes a barren tree with gorgeous blossoms.
The Sprite displayed a distinct sense of curiosity, as she was puzzled as to why she could not make flora grow on a mountainside, and studied, only to unintentionally unleash her polar opposite, the Firebird, a living primal force of destruction, and horrified by the destruction that followed.
Once the disaster ceased, she was crippled with grief at the loss of so much life, and guilt-ridden for causing it by awakening the Firebird. The Elk, however was able to cheer her up and give her hope when she saw her tears began to heal the land, and rejoiced when she was able to restore the forest.
All in all, the Spring Sprite is truly a loving being of creation and life, and found strength and hope in realizing that no matter how much is lost to Destruction, Creation is limitless, as is the constant renewal of Life.
==Powers and Abilities==
The Spring Sprite has all sorts of abilities all mammals and human beings can do. For examples, when in the water, she can swim just like fish and mermaids. When in the air, she can fly afloat just like birds. Like human beings, she can walk or run. Like squirrels, she can climb up walls and trees. However, she has different abilities of magic. While spreading her curtain connected to her arms and hips, she can make layers of flora and grass grow. She can grow plants like flowers, trees, and lots of others. Depending on her surroundings she changes colors. Her tears can heal the the forest that was burned to ashes. Having to restore the forest, she makes huge showers of rain from her curtain. And she can communicate with insects. huge and long twigs of leaves can mostly grow on her hair.
==Physical Appearance==
The Sprite is an attractive young woman-like creature. In her most common form, she has light green skin and long bushy hair, that flows down her back to the ground, of the same color. Her eyes have the color that stands between yellow and light orange, and above them are thick black eyebrows. She is slender. Sometimes, between her hips and arms is a kind of curtain made of leather, that she uses to make flight easier, but she can remove it if she want. Her size varies, but she usually the size of a young girl. Considering she is a nature spirit, she has no clothing and walks around naked.
Depending on her surroundings, she can take on various forms and colors; in water form, she is blue, in ice form, she is brighter blue, in rain form, she is light blue, in nature form, which is her most commonly used form, she is green, in the end of the sequence, she is yellowish green; even brighter, and in ash form, she is dark gray. When in ash form, if smoke is around, she is light brown, and when fire is around, she is blood red, after the forest was burnt and destroyed, she is cool gray.
==Weakness==
*Fire: Like other humans, the sprite fears fire, magma and lava, and would flee from the Firebird.
==Role in the Firebird Suite==
The Sprite first appears in the sequence where snowmelt drips down in a hidden pool. In the form of a Water Sprite, she merges from the pool to meet the Elk and he leads her out of the hidden alcove and she gets to work, her body turning green and melting the snow away for the coming of the Spring season, covering the forest in fresh foliage. Going up a nearby mountain though, her abilities aren't following her up the slope. Curious as to what's going on, she looks inside the massive crater of the mountain at a small volcanic stone. Touching the stone, it awakens the Firebird, who rises from the ash, smoke and magma to attack the Sprite and destroy the forest. Running for dear life from the flames and lava flows, the Firebird eventually chases her up a tree where the monster rises up for one final attack. Cutting to the aftermath where the landscape has turned grey and ash-covered, the Elk finds a burnt out and grey Sprite, in Ash form. The Elk helps her up and gives her a ride on his antlers as the Sprite cries from the destruction she unleashed. Soon she realizes her tears are healing the land and takes back to the sky in a Rain form, bringing a healing shower down upon the valley. Continuing her work, she bring the plant life back to the forest, restoring the trees and finally covering the volcano in a fresh layer of grass, her confidence fully restored. She then later, magically disappeared in a flash, after bursting out a joyous laughter.
==Relationships==
===Allies===
The Elk is the only who can seem to awaken her from slumber after the winter has come to an end.
A loyal friend, this creature accompanies and protects the sprite as much as he can, guiding her to the trees that need her attention the most.
Like most of the Disney princesses who show kindness to animals, the Sprite can always count on her insect and animal friends to help her through tough times while she brings the life of spring to the forest. She communicates with butterflies, dragonflies, honey bees, ladybugs, mosquitoes, beetles, birds, fish and frogs.
===Enemies===
While not exactly an enemy of the sprite, she is fearful of coming near him again after what happened, knowing very well that he's able to destroy her home in a heartbeat. Because of that, she won't go closer to it than the outer wall of Mt. Saint Helens since she's afraid of disturbing it again and making the previous events repeat themselves.
==Trivia==
*The original ending of the sequence had the Sprite taking on a Sun form and shining over the valley.
*The Spring Sprite behaves in ways similar to animals by the various ways she moves. Sometimes she soars like a bird, floats like a fish or mermaid, climbs like a squirrel, and runs upright like a human, and even moves in a flowing motion akin to water.
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