Bryce Forrest

**Bryce Forrest** (Japanese: **千艸林** *Chigusa Hayashi*) is one of the main characters of Arc 1 of *Magicae Amicitie et Harmoniae*, Cherry Magica. He is a calm, collected, and honest 13 year-old boy from Federal Hoenn.

## Bio

### Appearance

**Bryce** is a young boy with chin-length light blonde hair (which becomes sparkly, slightly longer, and gains a fade of brighter yellow after getting Stage 3), and dark green eyes. His Harmony Mark is a brown seed cracking with a green sprout growing out it it and with a yellow star below the seed. As a civilian, he wears a yellow cloth-like garment (which in official art is a bit straighter and less frilly than the girls) with a ribbon tied around the waist. As an adult in the series finale, however, he is seen wearing (WIP).

He has had multiple versions of his outfit as a **magical boy**. In each version, his eyes turn dark brown and his hair turns brighter golden-yellow and becomes slightly longer (becoming neck-length). He has transparent golden-colored dragonfly-like fairy wings on his back, his Harmony Gem (shaped like a seed) is located on his belly, and his Elemaximum Gauge is located on his left thigh, resembling the location of Fuu's Mankai Gauge in YuYuYu.

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* After getting Stage 3, his outfit gains some changes, (???)

In his **Elemaximum** form, (???)

In his **Stage 5** form, (???)

In his **Rainbow Power** form, (???)

When achieving **Harmony Mark Magic**, (???)

### Personality

Bryce is normally cool, calm, and collected, and is usually able to come up with solutions to problems and can usually keep his head in stressful situations. He can easily tell when someone is lying and can usually see right through somecreature faking being happy, yet is terrible at lying himself and tends to lack a verbal filter (sometimes unintentionally offending others even though what he said may very well be true).

### Relationships

* **Eric Nightfall**: His close friend. While Bryce himself is initially oblivious to it, Eric seems to have an unrequited crush on him. The latter eventually confesses his feelings to him, however.

### Etymology

* His Japanese surname **Chigusa** means "thousand plants/herbs/weeds," while his Japanese name **Hayashi** means "forest."

## Magical Abilities

As a magical boy, Bryce possesses enhanced physical abilities such as speed, strength, agility, invulnerability to physical damage, and the ability to fly. His magic aura is golden-yellow in color.

Bryce mainly has the power to manipulate plants. (WIP)

## Magical Warrior

Bryce is the Warrior of Crops and Abundance. He is a Plant Elemental who represents the Element of Honesty, and his theme color is yellow. His known weapons so far are a vine summoner, a machete, and a crossbow.

### Attacks

* **Explosive Abundance** - Bryce's first purification finisher. It borrows power from Gohanko.
* **Vine Toss** - One of his sub-attacks.
* **Grain Rain** - One of his sub-attacks.

## Forms of Address

 Cherry Lovedream | Yuuna-san (友奈さん)
 Valerie Harper | Kotone-san (琴音さん)
 Michelle Brooks | Mizuki-chan (みゆきちゃん)
 Akari Berliz | Shō-san (ショウさん)

## Taking care of

### Dream Pixies

* **Gohanko** - A yellow mouse-like Dream Pixie (who does *not* look like a Pikachu). She is Bryce's first Dream Pixie, and grants him a vine summoner.
* **Fielden** - A green grasshopper-like Dream Pixie. He is Bryce's second Dream Pixie and grants him a machete.
* **Sapling** - An orange deer-like Dream Pixie. She is Bryce's third Dream Pixie and grants him a crossbow.
* **Buckthorn** - A woodpecker-like Dream Pixie. He is Bryce's fourth Dream Pixie and grants him the ability to fire energy-sapping Leech Seed-like seeds.

### Pokémon

* **Thor** - A Roselia that Bryce befriends after becoming a magical boy in "Budding."

## Trivia

*For this character's tropes, see here.*

* His family runs a farm.
* Bryce has the largest wings out of the Harmonic 9, though Jasper's (initially only when transformed and then permanently after molting) are a close second.
* Oddly, despite coincidentally having the same theme color and harvest/farming theme, similarly to Amber Witchhazel (though the two characters are not related), he is not an Earth Elemental. This is due to Bryce's powers focusing on plants in general while Amber's powers focus on soil, wood, fungi, limited control over foods, and other things associated with autumn. He is also similar to Applejack from the present-day, as both are Plant Elementals who represent the harvest and the Elements of Harmony.
* In the series finale, he is confirmed to work as a Pokémon geneticist.
* Although Gohanko resembles a yellow mouse, she does not look like a Pikachu.
* Similar to how Bailey has a male Bellossom named Derek, Bryce takes care of a male Roselia named Thor, despite both species usually being stereotyped as feminine.
* It is unknown where he keeps the Treecko statue he got. However, he did donate it (offscreen) to the Memorial of Magis after Cherry's death and the team's subsequent disbandment, where it can still be seen among the items and murals whenever the Memorial of Magis is shown. In the far future, however, the Taisha burned the statue since it depicts a Pokémon.