Tulip

**Tulip** is the last queen of Flora and Gloriosa's mother. She is the main antagonist of Vortex's Squad.

She was exiled from Vespa because of the new queen's grudge against her, so she and her daughter Gloriosa escaped to the Earth as a way of being far from the queen and the 7 guardians. However, she leaves her daughter alone, so she only remembers her by her name.

She reappears helping Maxie and Team Magma recover Courtney and get the 7 geodes.

## Trivia

* Although most of the human characters from Pokémon are adapted as earthlings, Tulip is the only one that is adapted to Vespa, although she is not a Vespaman, but a Florian, although she is probably a cross between an earthling and a Florian, due to Because she says that Spain is her father's home and this is obvious since the city (Alfornada) where Tulip lives is based on Cordoba/Teruel, as well as the region (Paldea) where she lives is based on Spain.
* Tulip is similar to Eclipsa since she left her daughter when she was just a children, the same story of Gloriosa is similar to that of Meteora.
	+ Although Vespa's royal family based on the Butterfly family, Tulip and Gloriosa are not relatives of them because as such they belong to the civilization of Flora.
* Tulip and Gloriosa are the only ones in possessing the ability Geode control naturally. Although they have not seen them use.
* Tulip could be similar to Toffee since she murdered the mother of the queen of Vespa, in the same way as Toffee murderer to Comet (Moon's mother). Both are written with T. Both helped villains, Maxie for Tulip and Ludo for Toffee (although he in the end betrayed him).
* Her alliance with Maxie and Team Magma is very similar to Dr. Eggman's alliance with Bowser and his henchmen in Super Mario Bros. Z, since both benefit them with advanced technology.
* Originally, her dress was similar to Eclipsa's but light red, replacing the crescent moon on her chest with a red tulip. While her head was similar to Dr. Vega's, her hairstyle is also similar to Dr. Vega's hair in the past, reflecting the fact that she is a scientist.
* Like Dr. Vega who knows a lot about the Mu civilization, she knows a lot about the Flora civilization.
* Tulip has the same eye color and hair color as her daughter Gloriosa, it is unknown if her mother (Gloriosa's grandmother) also had it.
* Her goal of restoring Flora and ruling all of Vespa is based on Dr. Vega's goal of restoring the Mu continent and ruling all of Earth.
* Unlike Eclipsa, Tulip's intentions were never good to Eclipsa's, despite Eclipsa calling herself the "queen of darkness". As such, Tulip intended to overthrow the royal family and murdered Melissa's mother, which is why she exiled her from Vespa, as well as Tulip having genocidal thoughts like Eclipsa's mother, Solaria. Although it is unknown if she also wanted to kill all the Vespamans as in the case of the monsters for Solaria, she also helps a villainous team from Earth, which would already be a betrayal of her ancestors. Though like Eclipsa, Tulip married a monster and left her daughter alone for a long time, Eclipsa didn't do that out of evil either.
* Tulip's story would be similar to Dr. Vega's story, as such her home kingdom was devastated by the war against the Vespamans (similar to what happened in the Tanabata Kingdom), who already had the upper hand against the Florians by replicating the Flora's technology, so Tulip could not resist them and after being defeated, she was exiled from her home dimension, escaping from it in the process with her daughter. She went to live on Earth, so she thought to study a career as a scientist and become a scientist (something that Vega also did), although it is unknown if Tullip left Gloriosa alone for wanting to be a scientist.
* A month after Tulip was drawn, a character with the same name was revealed for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet in November. Long before that there was the drawing and long before that, she had an article in a Pokémon fanon, and as such she was called "Maxie's assistant". It is possible this is just a coincidence, as Tulip does not share any physical traits with said character (although initially the creator wanted Tulip to have purple hair and brown eyes).
	+ It is possible that this ends up scrapping the design made a month earlier in favor of the new Pokémon character. Even so, her story and similarities with Eclipsa and Dr. Vega will continue to be maintained from the perspective of the new character.