Aurea Juniper/Tropes

Tropes that apply to Aurea Juniper, written as if it were a TV Tropes page.

## Characterization and background

* **The Heroine**: The protagonist of the second season.
* **Brainy Brunette**: She has brown hair untransformed and is an intelligent professor.
* **Ditzy Genius**: She's bright, but not always focused. This sometimes stirs up some problems.
* **Generation Xerox**: Apparently she is very similar to her father in terms of looks, personality, and general work.
* **Genki Girl**: She is very energetic and acts on something she has decided *immediately*.
* **Hot Scientist**: Being a female scientist and a Burst Guardian, she, often in the second season but toned down in the fourth season onwards, may get herself all messed up due to background males flirting with her.
* **All-Loving Heroine**: Aurea normally cares for everyone and is willing to help even random strangers, especially as a Professor.
* **Deadpan Snarker**: Downplayed. She only snarks when somebody acts stupid, though not as much as *the* holder of the snarking throne.
* **Good is Not Soft**: Aurea cares for and is nice to everyone... unless you're a villain, that is.
* **Jerk With a Heart of Gold**: Sure, this magic Professor can get extremely angry at her fellow heroes for screwing up and flips out at minor insults, but she does care for her friends and has a good heart.
* **The Reliable One**: This Professor is always there when her friends need her.
* **Hair-Trigger Temper**: Up to Eleven when she gets insulted.
* **Character Tics**: Seems to be, much to Nicole's embarrassment, fond of that weird salute that her game counterpart is also prone to doing.
* **Kid Hero All Grown Up**: She continues to transform and fight evil into adulthood, despite also having a job as a professor. As a result, she is exempt from paying taxes.
* **Unexpected Berserk**: Happens in "What Lies Beyond Truth and Ideals!"...although it also reveals that she appearently got the Blood Rage curse. Said curse ends up leaving a huge strain on her body and mind, resulting in her having to get patched up some time after Nanette, Hilda and Nina are freed.

## Appearance

* **'80s Hair**: It thumbs its nose at gravity. When viewed from the right angle, it looks like soft-serve ice cream. This is not seen often in the second season due to her hair usually being down at that time.
* **Animal Motifs**: Minccino, and later Cinccino, as she has an affinity for cute Pokémon like them, and her Burst Guardian design is based on the line.
* **Color Motifs**: Despite her having a Minccino/Cinccino-themed transformed outfit, she is primarily associated with the color green and wears a lot of it.
* **Creepy Doll**: Her witch form is a foot-tall, floating Cinccino puppet with googly eyes, so yes, she qualifies.

## Abilities

* **Light 'Em Up**: Half of Aurea's powers revolve around light.
* **The Ace**: One of the strongest Guardians.
* **Always Someone Better**: As strong as she is, Katrina's powers are stronger than hers.
* **Star Power**: Shown in many of her attacks.
* **Cosmic Motifs**: Is called "The Burst Guardian of Light" and uses stars to attack.
* **Puppeteer Parasite**: As Cincila, she can attach herself to someone's hand and can't be removed unless she so chooses. When she does so, she can completely control the person whose hand she is attached to. However, as a Logical Weakness, she can only control one person at a time.

## Relationships

* **Heterosexual Life-Partners**: With Fennel, as they used to be college buddies; and her goddaughters Nanette and Marina (and later Nicole), as Liam died a day after Nanette’s birth due to a traffic accident while the Daisies were moving regions.
* **Signature Mon**: A Minccino she found in Pinwheel Forest and named Cina.
* **Straight Man**: To Fennel and the other Guardians. She is *not* a representative of the Element of Laughter, however.
* **Wacky Parent, Serious Child**: Not to an extreme, but she's definitely a lot less odd than her father, and seems exasperated by some of his behavior.
* **Honorary Aunt**: Nanette often refers to her as her aunt ("Auntie Aurea"). Justified, since she's her godmother.