Light of Hope

> Have faith, Katrina-senpai. (...) Let's have faith in the creatures of this world we both love. Don't worry. It'll be alright! After all, **don't forget that the Light of Hope resides within everycreature's heart as well.**
>
> - Elizabeth to Katrina, "Freeing the Most Powerful Puella Magi," and which is also quoted by Katrina in "Magicae Amicitie et Harmoniae"

The **Light of Hope** (**希望の光** *Kibou no Hikari*) is one of the sentient cosmic forces featured in *Magicae Amicitie et Harmoniae*. It is the exact opposite to Chaos.

## Overview

The Light of Hope is a special type of magic naturally present in the hearts and minds of all sentient beings along with Chaos, including humans, creatures, and Pokémon. It is also a sentient cosmic force and has a mind and will of its own, though like other sentient cosmic forces and like the Shinju-sama, it is implied to sometimes think in ways that humans and creatures can't comprehend. It tends to be triggered by extremely strong desires and emotions, especially positive ones. When it is triggered, it tends to cause the creature's chest (or the equivalent) to glow brightly. Unlike Chaos, which gets stronger with negative emotions, the Light of Hope gets stronger with positive emotions. Sometime between *Rosie Magica* and *Allison Magica*, it disappeared along with other magic, but is restored once magic and friendship are brought back.

Every time a new generation of Magis is recruited, it chooses a select few to be its wielder, although in the rewritten timeline, all its chosen individuals (other than Cynthia who doesn't exist and Nova who becomes a human separate from it) have the power. Known individuals it has chosen include Ella Weber, Sparkle Hope, Elfreda Thornbush (who later got dismissed from her "post"), Yachiyo Nanami, Nova Starscope (though this is because she *is* the Light of Hope), Elizabeth Storybook and her future daughter Natalie, Syrami, Tsukiko and Honoko Hayashibara, and Cynthia Moonpath.

In *Lillie Magica*, Necrozma seeks the Light of Hope in a desperate attempt to restore its light. In the equivalent of "Filling the Light with Darkness!", it drains it from people and Pokémon around Alola, leaving them lazy, dull, and unmotivated, but this only affects adults/adult Pokémon and Nova, and it later also fuses with Solgaleo and Lunala to try and drain theirs to restore its light.

## Abilities

The Light of Hope can do/create whatever the heck it wants and can talk to Mikos, though it tends to only perform miracles in very desperate situations or when a Miko has a good reason for asking it to do something - although it is fully capable of denying their request. It has been shown restoring the entire ruined landscape of Kalos after being ravaged by the war and returning the souls of all the fallen Pokémon, creating a child out of thin air for Victoria and Arcturus, creating a Carbink egg out of thin air for Mira, healing those who are brainwashed, turning a robot permanently into a human, cleansing Harmony Gems and restoring the Magis' strength, allowing May, her Squirtle, Nova, Garnet, and Meowth to travel back in time when the first one picked up Edna's pendant, reviving Rosie, Melody, Gemma, and Diamant after some effort, and allowing Messiahs to transform.

In its "raw" unwielded form, it tends to activate from very strong emotions or in desperate situations, and is *much* stronger than when "filtered." When filtered through its chosen wielder, it can be used for more concentrated and direct applications, although overexherting themselves using it can cause its wielder to become very exhausted or even sange. It is also known to grant special Trump Cards in times of need. Though everycreature, including humans, Pokémon, and creatures, possesses the Light of Hope in their heart and mind, only a select few individuals and Nova can actually use its power.

While it prefers not to be used so, its wielder *can* also use it for combat to a limited extent, as shown when Natalie shoots glowing *spheres* of the LoH to break through Callius Nightbringer's armor in order to reach Jim. In this instance, she makes it so that the blasts only destroy his armor and don't damage Jim himself. There can also be more than one wielder active at a time as shown in the rewritten timeline.

As shown with Melody and Nicole, as well as Nova (the disguised form of a small amount of it from Katrina), the LoH's effects or creations will remain even if it and/or its wielder are no longer of this world.

The Light of Hope is also capable of taking a physical disguise in order to manifest in the physical world and interact with life forms other than Mikos. This is shown with Nova, and is also shown in the equivalent to GoH's "The Multiversal Crisis!" where as a result of the Magis' and civilians' prayers, it takes the form of a little girl resembling Chibi-Chibi who in turn summons Arceus order to cut the Red Chain. As shown in the latter case, it can be in more than one disguise at once. In the rewritten timeline, however, because of Melody's wish, Nova becomes a full human and a separate entity from the Light of Hope as shown in the series finale, but with her memories of being it intact. However, due to this only being shown in the very last chapter of the series and the story ending, it is unknown whether Nova can still *use* it when transformed (but not untransformed and with absurd levels of power that she had to restrain as was the case before becoming human) similar to the other chosen wielders despite no longer *being* it.

### Its known chosen users

* Ella Weber (Cherry Magica)
* Sparkle Hope (Nina Magica)
* Elfreda Thornbush (Aurea Magica; later retracted)
* Yachiyo Nanami (Iroha Magica)
* Elizabeth Storybook (present-day arcs)
* Nova Starscope (present-day arcs; itself in disguise)
* Natalie Storybook (Rosie Magica)
* Syrami (Amber Magica)
* Tsukiko and Honoko Hayashibara (after reforming; Amber Magica)
* Cynthia Moonpath (Katy Magica; Serenity Moonbow instead in the witch-free timeline)

## Trivia

* It is based on the force of the same name from *Sailor Moon,* although unlike SM, it can talk to Mikos. Its abilities, however, and the fact that it can cause exhaustion, sanging, and even result in fainting or a coma when used directly by an individual rather than when acting on its own, were based on the Silver Crystal - which obviously does not exist in the series - from the same series.
* Near the end of the present-day arcs, it is revealed that Nova herself is in fact Katrina's Light of Hope that left her body on its own before being brainwashed and it disguised itself as a human girl, so Queen Vera wouldn't get her hands on it. Sadly, once Katrina is freed, Nova also disappears from existence as she returns to her rightful place in her heart. Luckily, in the rewritten timeline, Melody wishes for her to be brought back to life and to be a separate person who is fully human.
* Despite physically existing in the form of Nova, the LoH also still exists like normal in everycreature. This is most likely due to her being a small amount from one person (yet said small amount is a part of the whole force). She also has a physical body as part of her disguise, though she doesn't have a soul.
	+ This is most likely due to this being something that Creatures simply cannot comprehend. According to the creators, attempting to make sense of the Divinity, the Shinju, or sentient cosmic forces will result a Creature losing their mind.
* Elfreda is the only non-Chosen One to be the Light of Hope's wielder, though she eventually loses this ability due to overexerting herself freeing her father.father.
* Whenever the Light of Hope activates in somecreature, its color depends on their theme color (or in the case of normal humans/Pokémon/creatures, gold, as shown in the equivalent of "Securing the Future") - for example, when Ella Weber first transforms, her chest shines pale blue, while Victoria's and Arcturus's chests glow purple and cyan when Melody is created.
* Melody's birth certificate, once birth certificates are invented and she is retroactively issued one, still lists Victoria and Arcturus as her parents due to her still having their genes like normal. This is since listing "Light of Hope" as her parent on the birth certificate would be weird.
* In the rewritten timeline, the Light of Hope didn't create Melody since her mother, Brandon, and Aurora never died and her father is much nicer since he was involuntarily possessed instead of losing his sanity, thus meaning she was born normally. As a result, however, she is not as powerful as she was in the original timeline, though she still represents the Elements of Magic and Careness.
	+ In either timeline, she also somehow earns her Stage 5 for helping send her Light of Hope along with the other Magis, Pokémon, Kyubey, and the people and Pokémon of Alola to restore light to Necrozma. It is unknown why she gets it in this instance since all the other Magis were doing the same thing.

* When speaking to Mikos, it has the same voice actress as Nova. However, its voice actress is uncredited in the end credits until the reveal in order to hide this and the fact that the latter is a portion of the former in disguise.
* The LoH was *not* the one to give newborn Gemma's already-dead body life, despite what many made-up fans thought at first. It was instead the MoF that did at Melody's request. In the rewritten timeline, however, this intervention never occured since she was never stillborn.