Erika

**Erika** (エリカ, *Erika*), is both a fictional character and tritagonist from the *Sonic Pokémon* series created by Yuji Naka and Ken Sugimori. She is the Gym Leader of Celadon City's Gym in the Kanto region and a member of the Resistance who serves as the commander of the Kanto Gym Leaders who are unaffiliated with Team Rocket.

Erika also works as a perfume maker. She dresses in elegant furisode kimonos and seems to represent traditional Japanese beauty. As the Gym Leader, Erika holds the Rainbow Badge for the trainers that defeat her, and mainly uses Grass-type Pokémon.

"*My name is Erika. Nice to meet you.*"

—Erika.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice actor:* Leah Applebaum (English), Kyoko Hikami (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Jolana Smyckova (Czech), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Martina Dunker (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Gloria Nunez (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Leticia Quinto (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Mariana Ortiz (Iberian Spanish), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

### Appearance

#### Anime

Erika has royal blue hair, which is styled into a short bob in a full fringe, while wearing her red headband. Her eyes are dark green colored. In her casual look, Erika wears a casual outfit as her primary appearance is a sea green short sleeved dress with an off-white design resembles a feminine symbol and red flats. She also has a small pink bow at the right side of her dress.

As her initial appearance as a manager of the perfume shop in Celadon City, Erika wears a traditional kimono dress and her royal blue short bob hair is covered in a long black wig and is styled in a traditional Japanese bun with gold ornaments. Erika wears a blue Japanese jacket with a salmon pink traditional kimono dress, white tabi and a traditional Japanese geta.

#### Game

Erika has shiny black, short hair and her bangs are cut. She has silver or ashen black eyes, and pale skin. In the games her kimono and hairband are red and yellow. Her shoes are fully brown.

* Hair Color: Royal Blue (Anime), Black (Game & Manga)
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Dark Green (Anime), Silver/Ashen Black (Game & Manga)
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Personality

Erika, like her style, suggests displays of a modest, elegant and somewhat shy attitude towards other trainers. She shows no ill-will about being defeated and cares deeply towards her Pokémon. Outside of battle she is perhaps rather lazy as she can be seen sleeping inside her gym.

Erika can be calm, but is not afraid to unleash her ire on those who, in any way, speak about her perfume in a negative manner, even using her status as a Indigo League Gym Leader to bar them access to the Celadon Gym to battle her for the Rainbow Badge if they disrespect her perfume but gives because according to the rules of gym battles, the gym leader cannot bar a trainer from a battle due to personal difference.

Erika has a kind personality, as she teams up with the rest of the Gym Leaders to combat against rising threats, such as Team Rocket. She has also shown herself to be cruel, particularly against a unique Eevee whom Red had rescued; however this was just a facade to test Red and Ash's allegiance.

## Relationships

### Friends & Allies

* Resistance
	+ Thomas Jones
	+ Misty
	+ Elite Four
* Ash Ketchum
* Tracey Sketchit
* May
* Max
* Dawn
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Tails the Fox
* Christopher Thorndyke
* Nurse Joy
* Officer Jenny

### Neutral

* Lieutenant Surge
* Sabrina
* Koga

### Enemies

* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman
	+ Decoe
	+ Bocoe
	+ Jack Robotnik
* Team Rocket
	+ Jessie
	+ James
	+ Jake
	+ Meowth

## Pokémon

### On hand

* Oddish → Gloom → Vileplume
* Bellsprout → Weepinbell → Victreebel
* Exeggcute → Exeggutor
* Tangela → Tangrowth
* Eevee → Leafeon
* Skiploom → Jumpluff

### Travel with

This section shows the Pokémon that Erika currently travels with, but has not caught.

### In training

This section is for the Pokémon that Erika still owns but are in the care of another Trainer. Some can be called upon at any time if needed.

### Status unknown

This section is for Erika's Pokémon whose current whereabouts are unknown.

### At Celedon Gym

Pokémon that Erika resides at her gym are the following:

* Oddish (multiple)
* Gloom (multiple)
* Bellsprout (multiple)
* Weepinbell (multiple)
* Exeggcute (multiple)
* Tangela (multiple)
* Hoppip (multiple)
* Skiploom (multiple)
* Paras (multiple)

### At Home

Pokémon that Erika resides at her house are the following:

### Released

This section is for the Pokémon that Erika formally released back into the wild.

## Traded away=

This section is for the Pokémon that Erika traded away.

### Returned

This section is for the Pokémon that Erika gave back to another Trainer who were originally its trainer.

### Given Away

This section is for the Pokémon that Brock gave to another Trainer to keep for themselves.

### Befriended/Unofficial

This section is for the Pokémon that Erika had bonded with over the course of several episodes but never officially caught.

### Temporary

This section is for the Pokémon that Erika temporarily used. Many of which were rented and belong to another Trainer.

## External links

* Erika *Azurilland Wiki*
* Erika *Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia*
* Erika *Heroes Wiki*
* Erika *Pokémon Wikia*
* Erika *Pokémon Let's Play Wikia*