Mei Tarano

Tarano Mei ￼is one of the five main characters of Pretty Cure Season Touch! Mei's alter ego is Cure Daisy.￼
== Bio ==
=== Appearance ===
As a civilian, Mei has blue eyes and long brown hair tied in pigtails. The end of her hair is shaped like a tulip bud. Mei can be seen in the winter/spring time wearing a pink shirt with a cream and green waistcoat and a white skirt with pink socks and brown boots. Also, Mei wears a long-sleeved cream dress with pink details she wears a pair of white tights and pink shoes. 
In the summer Mei changes her hairstyle to a low ponytail held by a green ribbon. She wears a red and white t-shirt with white stripes and hearts and a white puffy skirt with brown sandals. 
Mei wears the Moegino-Jyogakuin uniform which consists of a cream shirt underneath a pink pinafore with a green belt, white frilly ankle socks and red socks during winter time. Mei wears a red and yellow coat with her uniform. 
During the night time, Mei wears a classic pajama set with a yellow top and pants with green details, Mei also wears her hair out as well. 
As Amulet Daisy Mei's hair grows longer and turns pink it ties up into pigtails decorated on the top of her head by a dandelion hat and her hair decorates with flowers and vines. Daisy wears a green stem top with a matching choker both decorated by bells she wears white puffy sleeves with her top a dandelion skirt with petals, green gloves decorate with yellow ribbons. Finally, her shoes remain stem like the lace act like vines and the shoes are accompanied by bells.
When she was a little girl around the age of 4 she had little brown pigtails tied with green bows and wears a pale pink dress and old styled brown mary janes
In the movie Season Touch: Dawn of a New World, Mei wears a pink pleated dress with white details with matching tights and pink mary janes. she also styles her hair in her usual pigtails tied by white ribbons.
In her Silhouette form, Amulet Daisy has a light pink gown over her a sharp pale pink petal outfit with a multi-colored bow in the middle. Her hair is bigger and longer with angel wings at the side.
As Angel Harmony, Daisy maintains her long pink hair which is kept down however decorated by a flower tiara she wears a long angelic white dress with a petal design then underneath she wears a spiky pale pink petal skirt she wears a long and a short arm warmers along with matching shoes decorated by a pink ribbon. Angel Harmony also has beautiful angel wings.
==Background==
Mei and her family grew up in the countryside. Her parents were often away on business and Himari's parents would often look after them when Kouki, Mei's grandfather passed away. She and Satsuki were moved into the city so that their paternal grandparents could look after them.
Mei led a simple life with her sister and her parents would visit on special occasions.
As a child, Mei often read a fairy tale book called "The Kind King" it tells the story of a King who gave land and money to people who lived in the kingdom he ruled, however, he kept giving money and land without thinking of the consequences and the king lost everything and people became greedy then they blamed the king. Mei says that the Kind King was her first love because no matter what she loved the King's kindness which she saw in Naoki she says she fell in love with him because he lost things for his kindness.
==Personality==
Mei is a clumsy, kind and scatterbrained girl who loves nature dearly and is shown to be excellent with animals. Mei's favourite animals are chicks as shown throughout the series. Mei is shown to be naive and can trust people rather quickly, however, Satsuki said: "No matter what, Mei can always find the good in people". Mei has frequent confrontations with Thunder, however, fell in love with his disguised human form soon though he reciprocates those feelings. Mei reveals that her favourite flower is a daisy because in flower language a daisy brings the message of purity and innocence, two things highlighted in Mei's overall personality, she is shown to know flower language and can say it off by heart furthermore. Mei cares a lot about flowers and plants and her home is covered by a lot of them, however, Mei picks a flower to represent each of her teammates: Hanabi is a Poinsettia (which means heart with a burning passion), Momiji is a Peony (Radiant confidence), Yukino is represented by Verbena (Family happiness).
==Relationships==
Momiji Kano - Mei looks up to Momiji as a role model initially seeing her as a very high-class lady and was surprised at how much she can eat but also how approachable she is. Momiji is a lot stricter on Hanabi than Mei is and Mei is often the one calming the pair of them down, Momiji and Mei maintain a very peaceful friendship often discussing gardening with Momiji.
Hanabi Uchiage - Mei first meets Hanabi when she goes to Mr Yamada's sweet store where Hanabi is a frequent customer and Mei lends Hanabi money. When Mei discovers Hanabi is a Guardian she tries to become friends with Hanabi, however, struggles at first after Hanabi realizes about how working with Mei instead of by herself from then on the two become good friends. Mei values her as a true friend, which helped Hanabi find her resolve to fight.
Yukino Matou - Mei respects Yukino and thinks of her as a responsible, clever and gentle girl. She was thus extremely happy when Yukino became a Guardian. Mei helped Yukino come out of her shell but Yukino always at the start referred to Mei as "Tarano-san" eventually Mei said that if she called her Tarano-san again then Yukino would have to buy her gummy bears from Mr.Yamada's store. They become good friends and Mei often comes over to help Yukino for inspiration with her drawings.
Mocchi - Mocchi is Mei's partner and is very compatible with Mei as the two are generous and kind to all living things Mei looks after Mocchi and comforts her whenever there is something wrong Mei holds Mocchi very dear to her and is devastated if anything happened to her. Mocchi lives with Mei and her sister and goes everywhere with Mei.
Satsuki Tarano - Satsuki is Mei's 19-year-old sister who is a college student and a lazy one at that Mei often comes home to find Satsuki leaving the living room and her bedroom in a mess and is often found sleeping on the coffee table. Satsuki tries to be a good big sister to Mei, however, fails in anything she attempts to do however the two sisters love one another and hold a good bond.
Thunder - Mei first encountered him as an enemy many times but after a while, in the story, Thunder disguises himself in his true human form and goes by Naoki. He does this in an attempt to stop Mei being a Guardian by making her fall in love with him. However it is a success and Mei falls for the gentle 16-year-old boy, however, he also falls for her yet when she discovers he is Thunder, she is heart-broken. It is not until the final battle that she realizes that he has pure and honest feelings for her then afterward he meets Mei in his human form Naoki. He confesses his feelings and they kiss in the final episode. In the epilogue which takes place 15 years later ,Mei & Naoki get married and have a daughter who is four years old called Chiaki Momomiya.
Chanami Fujioka - Chinami is Mei's maternal grandmother who lives in the countryside her main appearance is in Chapter 26 when Mei during summer vacation visits her with her friends in the countryside and was surprised to find how much Chinami is capable of working growing a whole field of vegetables. Although Mei & Satsuki worry their grandmother is lonely, Chinami reassures them that she is happy here because this place holds precious memories for her with her late husband, daughter and grandchildren. Chinami is the ideal grandmother: friendly, soft-spoken, a good cook, and a bit mischievous. Much like her granddaughter, Chinami has a strong and hopeful heart and embraces the world around her. Chinami also occasionally visits Mei & Satsuki
==Cure Daisy==
"The Spring flower sprouting in the morning light, Cure Daisy!"
" Haru no hana wa Omamori, Deijī, asa no hikarinonakade hatsuga! "
"朝の光の中で発芽春の花、お守り、デイジー"
Amulet Daisy is Mei's alter ego she is the warrior of Spring and the leader of the Guardians. Whilst in this form Daisy has the power to utilize the earth and flowers which are her main attacks also Amulet Daisy's hat has special abilities which enable Amulet Daisy to fly or saves her when she is falling.
In this form Daisy's main attacks are 
===Angel Harmony===
"The Miraculous flower that blooms throughout the universe, Angel Harmony!"
"Kiseki no hana sono uchū zentai ni saku, Enjeru Hāmonī!"
"奇跡の花その宇宙全体に咲く、エンジェルハーモニー！"
Angel Harmony (エンジェルハーモニー Enjeru Hamoni) is the ultimate form of Amulet Daisy achieved using the power of the Miracle Seeds. This materializes the Infinity Angel ring, transforming her into this form. As Angel Harmony, the design of the dress is more angelic in design with feather-like details and a pair of wings on the back. Mei's personality also changes to be slightly calmer. This form was seen during the movie.
===Transformation Sequence===
====Amulet Daisy====
Mei's right hand appears first with her ring glowing and Mei's hair is untied already then Mei shouts out the transformation phrase "Alter mode, Switch On!" Then vines are released from the ring and then Mei spins and falls back and her hair becomes longer and changes to pink then the vines wrap around her body then her gloves appear then she touches her chest and her top appears and she twirls which form the petals on her skirt then the vines wrap around her legs making her shoes form and then grabs a leaf which forms her choker and she pats her chest and her ribbon appears afterwards her hat appears and her hair forms together and then she finally opens her eyes which have gained a sparkle. After transforming, Amulet Daisy flies down from the sky, landing on her feet. She introduces herself and declares her battle cry, before striking a final pose.
====Angel Harmony====
Mei in her civilian flies to the sky and she shines brightly. Then her dress turns into light and her accessories, arm protectors and shoes vanish. Her hair becomes longer and is pink, the Infinity Angel ring appears and lands on her finger, she puts the ring in the air and the light comes out. First, her left arm protector gets produced, and it continues with her emblem and her clothes. Her right arm protector gets produced, following by the shoes and her skirt. The petal skirt appears, and her accessories come out following with the giant angel wings in her back. She flies and her emblem shines brightly. Finally, she creates a flower field before she strikes her final pose.
==Epilogue==
It takes place fifteen years later with a 4-year-old girl running in a flower field with her mother and father behind her the man and the woman are revealed to be Mei & Naoki and the little girl running is their daughter who they called Chiaki. They are all on a picnic and are soon met by everyone else and their children and everyone is seen enjoying the picnic and Mei is narrating saying: 
"It's hard to believe ten years ago we didn't know each other...and yet... we're all one big family...no...we're one big happy family! I hope everyone's smiles will always be protected...Right, Lady Earthlight?"
It also shows that Mei had written a book about the Guardians containing photos of everyone but also pictures drawn by Yukino of them in their Guardian forms. Mei said she had written the book especially for her daughter, Chiaki as a special picture book just for her. It is also revealed that Mei has a job researching flowers and is a horticulturist.
==Etymology==
Tarano (タラノ) is a type of plant called Tara No Me
Mei '(芽依) Mei has a variety of meanings however the kanji used for Mei's name means "sprout, reliant" a reference to Daisy's powers and also Mei's love of plants.
==Trivia==
*Mei's birthday 4th February in Japan is considered the day when Spring starts hence Mei being the Guardian of Spring, also making her an Aquarius
*Despite Mei being the leader of the Guardians she is actually one of the youngest she is the 3rd oldest the youngest being Hanabi and the oldest Momiji.
*Mei is the only Guardian who isn't in love with a human as her love interest is a servant of Typhoon, Thunder
*Mei's favourite animals are chicks.
*Mei suffers from Coulrophobia (Phobia of clowns), Spectrophobia (Phobia of Ghosts) and Acrophobia (Phobia of heights).
*Some fans think that Mei's personality, pigtails and uniform is similar to Tamako Kitashirakawa.
*Mei's favorite colorus are green and pink.
*All members of Mei's family including Naoki and Chiaki their names end in "I".
*In Mei's profile, she says she isn't very good at sports however she likes to play Croquet.
*Mei owns a pink mobile phone with a chick decoration on it.
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