Aroa Nieves (Manga)

"*I am the Pretty Heroine standing for the sanctity of time. I am Sailor Chronos! The clock of time will banish you into the hourglass's sand.*"
— Sailor Chronos's Introduction
**Aroa Nieves**
 (アロア ネイブス, *Aroa Neibusu*?) is a supporting character in Pretty Guardians of Olympus and a member of the Primordial Sailor Senshi. She is also known as **Sailor Chronos**
 (セーラークロノス, *Sērā Kuronosu*?), the guardian of time itself and the flow of time.

## Appearance

### Civilian

Aroa is a slender woman with dark skin in a similar tone to Sailor Pluto. She has long, waist length black hair that is held in a braid. She has almond shaped eyes in a dark gray color. Aroa is often described as extremely gorgeous by those around her.

### Sailor Guardian

* Sailor Chronos
* Super Sailor Chronos
* Eternal Sailor Chronos
* Nobility
* Legends
 While Sailor Chronos is stated to be depicted in various different ways by scholars and ancient peoples, only two of her depictions are shown. In both, she has a far shorter braid that now only reaches her sternum and is purple. In the first depiction, she wears simple golden armor with a dark purple sailor collar, bronze v-shaped tiara, and violet back bow. The second depiction has her in her first form's attire but with gray sandals, a cape extension to her collar, arrow shaped crimson earrings, and no gloves. The colors of her uniform are very different than her final coloration.

## Information

Not too long after the creation of this universe by Nyx and Chronos's conception by Nyx, Chronos fathered Aroa. Chronos gave a portion of his power to Sailor Chronos to better let her do her job as the protector of time. For years, Aroa protected the space-time gate alone until one fateful day when she left it briefly unattended to see the solar system as it grew. She subsequently, somewhere along the line, had a child whom would grow to be an ancestor of Sailor Saturn and much later on had Sailor Pluto.

Eventually, she and Queen Serenity tasked Sailor Pluto with protecting the space-time gate and Sailor Chronos went into the very heart of the space-time continuum in order to protect it and there she created the space time keys which she gifted to her daughter and thus put up the taboo against time travel. She was unaware of the destruction of Silver Millennium until she went to visit humanity.

Throughout history, Aroa would appear as a thought projection to watch the eras move and to solve some boredom of waiting in the space-time continuum's heart (although time never moves there). She would occasionally assist in protecting the planet from disaster hence why she was seen as a mythological figure. Sailor Chronos had to flee back to her abode once Eos began to spread false legends around in fear of her being persecuted.

In the 30th century, Sailor Chronos left the heart of the space-time continuum and met the princess of Crystal Olympus whom she quickly befriended. Sailor Chronos gave Elle a special key that would allow for her to go directly to the heart of the space-time continuum and in turn be able to travel through time without having to face Sailor Pluto. Elle used this key to go back to the 20th century to save her kingdom.

### Underworld Arc

Sailor Chronos is briefly shown in a book the guardians were reading to figure out any motives Melione had. However, she is only seen in one of her legend appearances and not stated by name. She appears next to two guardians assumed to be Sailor Erebus and Sailor Aether.

## Sailor Chronos

Aroa can transform into Sailor Chronos by calling out her transformation phrase as long as she has her transformation item with her.

### Phrases

* **Chronos Divine Power, Make Up**
* **Chronos Crystal Power, Make Up**
* **Chronos Crystal Eternal Power, Make Up**

### Items

* **Chronos Crystal Heart**
* **Chronos Crystal Star**

## Nomenclature & Etymology

### Etymology

**Aroa:** Aroa is a Basque and Spanish name that derives from Aro which means time, era, or age.

**Nieves:** A Spanish last name meaning snow.

## Trivia

* Aroa shares her birthday with Hotaru Tomoe, her descendant.
	+ January 6th happens to be the festival of Aion/Aeon, the greek god of time that is used interchangeably with Chronos.
	+ One of Aion's many Roman equivalents happens to be Saturn hence why Hotaru is Aroa's descendant.
* In order to explain why Setsuna has time based powers, Aroa was made her ancestor (and mother before her rebirth).
* Aroa knows all languages in existence, including the dead or forgotten ones.
* Aroa's shown legend forms were actually of her prototype design before it was changed. The armor was never intended to be part of her design, however, and was only an artistic touch.
* Unlike the other primordial Sailor Guardians and Sailor Guardians of legend, Sailor Chronos never used a vessel.